The Old Knight of a Frontier District

1

Two days after the emissary from the Marquis Vodores had returned, a new instruction came from the military commander.

Around the end of June, the Sinkai and Goriola Joint Army left the Imperial Capital, instructing them to prepare so that the troops assembled at Rhodvan Castle can leave at the same place.

That's all it says.

but as pinched in official documents, it contained a piece of paper that read "Sinkai horseback riding thousand two hundred".

According to Arflaburn, it seems to be the military commander's own handwriting.

Arfraburn ordered Düsselburn to pay attention to ensuring that the inhabitants gathered for this reason were not upset and to invest in the care of livestock and fields anyway.

We are finally able to gather a little over three hundred inhabitants in the city of Castle Rhodvan, where around six hundred people originally lived, with the exception of children.

Craftsmen are overwhelmingly short, but agriculture is a priority first.

And the three men were sent to the Tsunami of Himaya, which crossed Auva, to buy and collect dried oil and fish, and to tell them that they should purchase more from this side of the river.

Four more men were sent to Gainelia to buy wheat, salt and liquor.

And they sent their men to the cities and villages of Goriola, which were relatively close by, to buy and collect food.

Then the knights began to assemble from all over.

but the way it gathers is said to be a little odd.

Bad gathering of knights who are in an east-bound position within the Goriola Empire and should therefore be assembled at Rhode Van Castle.

The wealthy and powerful, and therefore the soldiers, do not appear.

"Hmm.

You'll see how it goes.

You can't fight your life, but you don't want to damage it in a stupid battle. "

is arflaburn's review.

Conversely, the Imperial Capital is supposed to be closer, but they say there are knights who have gathered here on purpose.

What we have in common with them is that they are knights who have ringed their brave names.

"If you join the main unit, all you have to do is move as you are commanded.

The one with the guts can't help wanting to come here. "

With that said, Arflaburn had a strange light in his eyes.

Plus, the knights who couldn't have come came.

Its representative is Gassara Eudiel, the "General of the North Expedition".

To the north of the Goriola Empire is a country called Torus and a country called Ducki.

These two countries are eating and destroying the rich Goriola Empire, and they are always at war.

Of these, it is Gassara who is dispatched to prevent ducks.

I'm not supposed to be able to leave my place unless a replacement general is dispatched, but I'm here now.

Besides, the elite one hundred and fifty horsemen and three hundred infantry are coming later.

I relinquished my mission.

I was in Arfraburn, wondering if it was okay.

"It's okay, it's okay.

The Odosto brothers are desperate to prevent it.

I've been drinking a lot of boiled water before, so I need you to do your best next time.

Whoa, ha, ha, ha. "

And I was responding.

Bardo didn't know what it was about, but Gassara herself asked me about it later.

The Odosto family, autonomous lords of northern Goriola, surrendered to King Goriola three generations ago.

But in a house of neither alarm nor liking, at one point he conspires with the chiefs of the tribes of the ducks to devour the neighboring territories, and at another time begs for the dispatch of the Imperial Army to restrain the ducks.

Especially since I became a current lord.

The lords are three brothers, each of whom guards an important castle, but they refuse to pay taxes if they are lazy enough to dictate, and they feed their troops and fatten my belly.

And Goliola, fighting the two armies of the ducks, they are looking high.

In the fold of the Border Race Martial Association earlier, the King gave an order to the Odosto family to assume the responsibility of defending against the ducks on behalf of General Gassala for a while.

The three Odost brothers replied to the order.

Believing this, Gassara gave the soldiers of the army a sequential vacation, but even when Gassara at the heart leaves, the Odosto army does not show up.

They deliberately delayed the departure in order to match the continued winning streak of Gassara to the painful eye and weaken its voice.

Besides, I also suspect that he has circulated information to the duck side that there are fewer soldiers.

General Gassara, who intercepted the Dhaki army with the oligarchs, managed to push the enemy back, but was to become a full creation and rush to the Border Race Martial Association.

Originally appeared to be an order made in the spirit of allowing weary bodies and minds to rest in a series of wars, but in fact the opposite was true.

This time, Gassara greatly hit a tribe that had stayed on the front lines of the Ducki army jointly with the Odost army.

When he made the promise to give the fort he had taken away, the Odost brothers joyfully joined the war and joined their own soldiers in the fort he had just taken away.

Perhaps the chief of that tribe and the Odost brothers had something like a covenant, but an outfit betrayed by greed.

So Gassara showed a summons order from the king, and he just pulled up his army.

There was a proviso in the summons order that the army on defense for service would be excluded, but I kept it to myself.

It is clear that the Angry Duck army will come at us, and if we are plucked out of the fort, the home of the Odost brothers is in danger.

The Odost brothers don't want to intercept this on their own if they want to protect their property.

It depends on such things.

Bardo didn't know the names of most of the knights gathered, but all of the opponents knew Bardo's name.

In the end, Bardo decided to drink with them for days.

Count Gassara Eudiel.

"General Rigid Hair" Count Wangogue Manaeta.

both are majors with a hundred knights in size and several times their infantry under their command.

As I said, I divided my distribution into several detachments and tried to get far and slowly here.

to make the burden on food here a little lighter.

This consideration greatly delighted Düsselburn, as nearly a thousand people combined all the two subordinates to the infantry.

Also,

Viscount Ostosa Crimina.

Viscount Zenas Horatio.

Baron Walvard Storha.

They were local lords, bringing knights of about twenty to forty horsebacks and several times their infantry.

In addition,

Sir Killy Khalifalus, a former Kingsguard martial arts teacher.

Sir Eckel Asto, former captain of the Knights of Defense of the Imperial Capital.

Sir Banzren Daier.

Sir Sindh Escali.

They are well-known samurai throughout the country.

Killy, Eckel and Sindh have greeted each other with a happy look on their faces when they saw Cars.

These three men resided in the Imperial Capital and came to Lord Van Castle with a soft-faced look on their faces that they were about to be integrated into the main unit.

With the lightness of his squire, he will have rushed through long distances at the speed he should have.

2.

"Ugh, ha, ha.

Was Lord Bardo there after all?

Somehow I felt like I could see you.

Let's have a nice drink tonight. "

This is the dialogue of the most open-minded northern expedition general, Gassara Eudiel.

Watching you laugh luxuriously makes me feel like I have nothing to worry about here right now but booze and food.

The knights gather one after the other, but only the explanation of the information was given, and nothing military-like was done at all.

As always, Düsselburn is committed to encouraging residents and caring for livestock and fields.

The knights and graduates who came were driven out to repair the walls and cut out fuel, all the while asking to work instead of food.

Stones piled outside were also returned to the arena.

Bardo also helped with the pain in his back as he put up with it.

The knights of Parzam would have been angry that such a job was not for the knights to do.

Goliola's knights may have different temperaments, or perhaps those who happened to gather here were special.

The liquor and food gathered grew more and more consumed by the arrival, and the two youngest brothers were constantly running around.

Bardo wondered if it would be all right, but it would be good if the Knights of Goriola didn't complain.

I decided to keep up with their fashion here or enjoy the booze.

General Wangogue Manaeta was no less an alcoholic than General Gassara, who drank a terrible amount of alcohol.

He didn't seem to pay much attention to the quality of alcohol most of all, and even had to hang out and drink it up.

"Kahaha.

Though I never really took the shit of the incarnation of the god of war, Mada-Veli, etc.

Lord Bardo.

Your martial arts and character are just as authentic.

Just keep drinking together and you'll have strength in the bottom of your belly.

He deserves the name of Marshal of the Union (Wazid Entrante).

Come on, come on.

Drink first. "

On the thirtieth day of May, a letter of instruction was received from the military commander.

Separate units assembled at Rhodvan Castle departed on July 1st to take control of Fort Corpos and attack the city of Mithra based there, and let the King's Capital see an uprising.

It's a good aim.

Fort Corpos has a size and a robust structure, which may be called a castle, but it has few defensive forces.

You don't think you can attack me, so with a big army, I can drop it easily.

And if you drop Fort Corpos, Mithra is naked.

The city of Mithra has developed remarkably recently.

You get mundane food and loot.

If we pretend to wander further from Mithra to the King's capital, the Parzam side must be prepared simultaneously in a completely different direction: the Obas side and the Mithra side.

In other words, the defense to one side is halved.

"Hmm.

I can see the commander's heart. "

And Arflaburn said.

"Seems like a seemingly ruthless order, but I haven't told anyone to take command of Mithra control, how many to leave at Rhode Van Castle, and who to leave again.

Nor is there a deadline set for dropping Fort Corpos, nor is there any instruction on how to attack.

In short, you're increasing the breadth of what you can do depending on this interpretation. "

That night, the first military conference was held.

Whenever a song match is played, it is in the room.

It brings together only twenty standing knights.

"I think that stormy attack by General Lugurgoa Geskas will shine if you choose the terrain"

It was Killy who made the statement.

"That's not windy, it's powerful in itself.

If it's wind, it'll hit the ground, bounce back, and float this body, but that's not it. "

"You can just stay there, you mean"

And it was Arflaburn who asked back.

"Yes, Uncle Tilgheri.

But I can't stand it unless I'm the equivalent of a proud man.

People who get blown away are in the way, so they end up being a few elites. "

"Hmm.

In other words, where there are slopes on both sides?

Is there a place like that? "

and Arflaburn turned around and asked.

The knight is one of the knights attached to the daughter-in-law of the Duke of Argoride, Princess Marelia, when he is married to Arflaburn, a man named Cheat Arno.

I don't think I'm participating in a military conference about to invade my homeland. With calm, I answered Arflaburn's question.

"That's exactly the path you have to take when you head from Seion to Fort Obas.

It's called the Padai Valley.

From Saion to the king's capital of Parzam there is a route through the city of Ride and through Fort Obas.

I don't think the invading army is going to Fort Obas because it's a long way from going through the city of Ride and it's not for the big army to go through.

So we will definitely go through the Padi Valley.

The line has to be thinner to get through here.

However, the slopes of the valley are smooth at the bottom, but the upper side is badly cut.

It's a cliff where even monkeys slip off.

Besides, the other side of the cliff is a hell of a bad road, so you can't get close to it in the military like you ambushed it. "

Gassara pinched her mouth.

"Huh.

I can't help but get close.

What's going on in front of it? "

"Yes.

It's grass.

It's a plain with little to no blocking if we get any closer to Seion than that, so if we get closer in the big army, we'll be discovered from quite a distance.

And further west, there are rocky mountains, but this one won't pass. "

"But then it's the same where I went a few.

They will eventually be discovered.

Then we'll have to penetrate with all our might and clear the way to the General of Appetite. "

It was General Wangogue who disputed the words.

"Gassara.

Then General Appetite will use the Goriola army as a shield.

We are going to storm His Majesty the King. "

Then the knights of Goliola fought this for a while.

Bardo was sitting on an unexpected seat and listening to the argument in silence.

I was listening, but I couldn't understand what it was about.

Isn't this a military council to attack Parzam by the royal decree in the first place?

Arflaburn said when he invited Bardo here, he wanted to behave correctly as a knight.

Yet Arflaburn is still the knight of the Goriola Empire, and his options are largely limited.

A knight who does not have loyalty to the Lord cannot be called a knight.

Not least in the Goriola Empire, the King's authority is extremely strong.

I hear it may be called sacred and inviolable.

If you turn away, you will destroy the people.

I wonder what the hell this debate is about.

Arflaburn is not the only one.

Bardo didn't understand what position everyone was in.

"You can't settle anything.

I can't help it.

Let me tell you what the general thinks. "

and arflaburn said, everyone saw Baldo better.

What? What?

You think he's the general?

About what?

Thank you. I thought you were going to sit in a strange position, but I thought it was a place that respected the elderly, so to speak.

How can you possibly assume command of this legion?

Come on, upset, Bardo said.

There is no way that the Knight of Goliola is under my command to invade the land of Parzam.

Then Arflaburn stood up and said with his right cobweb on his left chest.

"I apologize for this, my (di) entrante.

I should have made it clear.

We do not consider this battle, the battle of Goriola invading Parzam.

We also raised our hand in the military alliance, and that hand has not yet been lowered.

Then Parzam is no more than an ally and an ally.

Let him who slashes suddenly from his back on his side have the honor of a knight.

The enemy is the General of Appetite and the Sinkai Army.

We fight in the honor of the knight, and we stand to build the faith of the Goriola Empire.

Besides, when I visited Parzam as a reinforcement, I touched on one end of the country's reality.

Unlike my country, Parzam will not have dropped the country just because he dropped the King's Capital.

In Parzam, a city is set up by the leading dignitaries at a frightening density, which extends to the south.

Even with twelve thousand troops, you won't be able to control all of them.

It is entirely impossible to govern as a conqueror for long periods of time.

But if you don't drop all those cities, you won't be conquering Parzam.

I mean, Goliola can't annex Parzam.

If so, what you get as a result of deception with a large army is revenge for washing blood with blood.

Forever in the future, our country will continue to fight Parzam and will be exhausted.

We must not let our country take such a path.

Even if we fight each other.

Wazid entrante valdo roen.

Please guide us. "

And the other knights rose up, and put their right hands upon their left breasts, and drowned their heads upon Baldo.

Bardo was struck as if a huge chunk of rock had been dropped into his brain.

Fight in honor of the knight.

It's easy to say.

But in this case, it is a battle against the life of your Lord the King.

There's no way I can do that.

To Baldo, who was feeling numb by surprise, Arflaburn went on to say more.

"With all due awe, His Majesty the King could be manipulating his heart.

And the elders and the great nobles.

Whoever enters a large black carriage, his heart is manipulated.

It's hard to believe, but from all the different information I've come to believe that's true.

Fortunately, however, it is only a small fraction of the barbarians that hit the brain marrow of this country that got into the big black carriage.

It seems to have entered the black carriage almost according to sequence, which means that nobles of lower rank than the Marquis Vodores are not manipulated.

That means the Goriola Main Army field commanders leaving from the Imperial Capital are normal and should be after that opportunity to somehow stop this stupid war.

That seems to be why the military commander is giving this one discretion.

Also, the elders and leading lords who were outside the Imperial Capital have turned away from the scourge of the black carriage.

All you have to do is give it some inspiration.

That way they'll move, too. "

But maybe not.

These men are slaughtered, dressed in rebel stigma, and the clan may all be caught in the sight of killing.

That would be more likely to happen.

And yet, do you mean to discuss the Sinkai army?

Is it something you can be prepared for that far?

What can I have, words like what Arfraburn has just spoken?

I wonder if they're fooling me because I wanted to stop by.

Even the thought came to mind.

The next thing that has come to mind in Baldo's chest is the enthusiasm that it may be deceived.

As much as I doubt the truth of this word, I thought it would be better to die of deception.

At the same time as the thoughts were set, the thoughts that had been confused were refreshingly retraced.

With his stomach set, Bardo sat everyone down by hand and silenced.

When it comes to what the winning conditions of this battle are, it is still about defeating the General of Appetite.

I'll figure out a way to fight with all the troops gathered here.

No, you can't.

I don't see any form of victory in the battle between the army and the army.

Besides, I want the soldiers who are just following orders to take a path that is a little less dangerous.

I still have to take it to a pair of mass duels.

To do this, we need to suddenly show up near General Appetite and apply for a duel.

Where is that possible?

Also, too many people would not be considered duels.

How many make a duel?

Having obtained the answer, Bardo opened his eyes and uttered the words.