Chapter 7 – Orcs and 400 Madmen Day 1
The skirmishers are back!
Where did the Demon King’s army build their camp? Is it really the top? Or is it just a tactic to deceive us? For the first time in this war, he hurriedly called in the scouts who brought the information of the enemies that made him agonize.
However
‘Isn’t it too normal?’
He was fine with no hair loss. No, it’s a lie to the tip of a hair, to be precise, everyone who went out on reconnaissance came back alive with limbs intact, except for a few scratches, as if they had fallen down while walking.
‘Is this possible?’
If you encounter an enemy during reconnaissance, it is common for someone to come back dead or seriously injured, but everyone who went out for reconnaissance was completely fine except for being soaked in fatigue.
Besides, the information the skirmishers brought was spectacle.
“You mean there was really no one at the bottom of the mountain?”
“Yes! That’s right! I searched all the mountains and roads around this area, but there was no one at the bottom of the mountain, but I saw them moving around the top of the mountain! I can give my all and tell you!”
At the words of the scouts, Silveria, who had squeaked a mark on a roughly drawn map of the surrounding features placed on the table, asked again.
“Who is their commander? Have you seen it?”
“I don’t know that, but they are red bears? I heard people chatting with each other while using the word.”
“A red bear?”
Is it a bear-related monster?
I don’t know the truth, but maybe it’s someone who leads them? As the concerns deepened, one of the skirmishers hesitated and seemed hesitant to speak, then boldly raised his hand and opened his mouth.
“There was something odd about it.”
“Strange thing? What is it?”
“That… I don’t know if I’m alone in my thoughts, but…”
“Speak quickly!”
Silveria, who calmed down the hesitant soldier by glaring at the staff member who insisted, turned her eyes to look at the soldier. Bowed down and said.
“They all had different compositions.”
“Different composition? What do you mean by that?”
“That… It’s hard to explain, but to give you a simple example, I couldn’t see more than two of the same guys.”
“What?”
Everyone’s gaze asked what kind of bullshit he was talking about, but the soldier who had just lowered his head to avoid Sylveria’s gaze continued to say something because he couldn’t see these gazes.
“I’m not good at words, so I’m not good at explaining, but if there are goblins, there are only goblins, and if there are orcs, there are only orcs, aren’t they? But all of them were of different races.”
What is it like? The staff and knights looked at the soldier who was giving useless information with pitiful eyes, asking if he had brought it as information, but unlike most of the first-timers, only Silveria and her subordinates looked at the soldier with something strange. .
“Raise your head”
“Yes, old!”
“Really? Are they really all different races?”
The situation was the same as before, but this time the soldier, who had been blushing before, turned blue this time at the stare so cold that even the northern wind and frost made him cry.
“Oh, yes! If what I saw is right! Hey, it’s real! I’m sure!”
Everyone’s face seemed to be asking what to do, but I could feel it as much as Sylveria and herself.
Weird.
I don’t know about the others who are like blue kids, but I was able to recognize it from the experience engraved on my body because I had directly faced them with a spear knife on the northwestern front.
This is obviously strange.
‘The Demon King’s Army doesn’t operate hybrid units like that.’
Not exactly
Because mixing them together doesn’t make the most important unity in the army. They are no different from beasts, so when people of the same race gather together, a bond is formed naturally because they are of the same race, except for some races.
However, the problem is that as much as the bond for the same race is strong, the pride for one’s own race is too strong, so if other races are placed in one space, they often fight and fight until there are no races other than themselves in the space.
That’s why we don’t operate hybrid units that mix different races.
As an example, looking back at the battle with the demon lords that Sylveria herself had cut down, as the soldier said earlier, if there were only goblins or orcs on a battlefield, only orcs would appear, but I had never seen more than two species on one battlefield.
Even the Demon King’s army, which dominates everything by force, does not operate a hybrid unit because it does not serve as a leader.
But now it’s a hybrid unit?
I want to ask more
Having said that, I doubt it as well.
When I told the skirmishers to step back, the soldier who had just been trembling just passed out and was dragged out of the barracks in the hands of his fellow skirmishers.
And, as soon as the barracks door was closed, the staff and knights started to get excited. Excited like children out on an outing, they immediately started talking to Sylveria one by one.
“As expected, those fools have climbed up the mountain and settled down! It seems that there was something he picked up somewhere, so he went up thinking that he would be able to look down on us from a high place!”
“What were they thinking? Just besiege them alive and let them wither!”
“If our army blocks the road, even if the monsters send reinforcements, we can stop them!!”
“What are you doing with the delay! Hurry up and give me orders!”
Have you overestimated your enemies? Silveria fell silent as she watched the staff and knights fret over each other. There must be something.
Dangerous.
It’s not like someone said it to you. It is not something based on strategy and tactics. It was Sylveria’s own intuition that had been established by experiencing numerous battlefields. According to the tactic, seizing the side road as it is and cutting off the supply line of the Demon King’s army stationed on the mountain is obviously the best tactic, but somehow I didn’t want to.
Ominous so ominous
He is now called the ‘Hero’, but he has never forgotten that he is a soldier and a commander. Giving orders to someone can save that person, but on the contrary, it can also lead to death. That’s why you have to be careful. You must not ignore this feeling, this ominous feeling that stabs your own instincts!
Conflict continued.
“Come on, give me an order!”
“It seems there is no need to delay. Sir Sylveria!”
“Even if they came down the mountain, they would be stumbling around without food and unable to drink a sip of water because they were in a high place, but they seem to be too cautious.”
It’s so ominous, but that doesn’t mean there’s no other option.
They came out to occupy this place, and the enemy entered the unfavorable terrain on their own.
My own intuition is telling me that it is ominous, but for what that intuition says, they were in a very advantageous situation.
Besides, even if their intuition was right, there is nothing they can do about it.
Will you lose sight of reality by relying only on your senses?
So Sylveria tried to ignore the sharp warnings that were still poking at her, and gave her orders to her men, who only looked at her.
“All troops! As of this time, seize the side road and block it! Don’t let one rat escape!”
“””Ancient!”””
Yes, even if the Demon Lords use their heads anyway, as always, he will cut off their heads and return as a hero, celebrating his victory.
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“Leader! Are they roaming around under us like ants?”
“How long do I have to stay like this?”
“Let’s just go down!”
Bastards who had no patience started whining at me again today. But whether you do or not, bark. I have no intention of listening to you.
In the first place, I’m doing this to lose, but why am I going down and fighting with you guys?
She snorted and rolled on the floor.
They look at me with dissatisfied eyes, but what are they going to do?
Those who are dissatisfied with me because they know that I can’t do it in a powerless way, but they can’t bear to step forward. It is engraved on the body. The memory of that time when I was beaten every day. That’s why I’m dissatisfied with every word I say, but I follow it.
Now, if we sit around like this, our children will get tired and won’t be able to fight, and if the humans have even a little notice, they’ll know we’re tired and come up and sweep us out, right?
Then I sneak away!
Perfect!
The perfect plan for my campaign, thinking that no one would be able to stop this great trick, I rolled on the floor as if showing off to them.
“Whoa… Whoa… Seeing so many people… “
“My mouth is drooling, Woo Hwi-hwi”
Will you be tired?
Are you going to do that right now?
Instead of getting tired of seeing the humans besieging us from the bottom of the mountain for some reason, I felt a bit ominous looking at our kids, who seemed even more excited, but I ignored it.
In the first place
Those guys look like they’re 10 times our number, but how can we stop them if they make up their minds and start coming up here!
Wasn’t it written in the old tactical book that when siege, you have to bring 3 times the number of defenders of the castle. But this is not a castle, and even they are 10 times our number!
This is absolutely unbeatable. It’s a fight you can’t help but lose.
Right now, even the crooks under me are excited to fight against humans, but stay like this for a few days.
… Won’t you?
