Chapter 284 – 284. Prince Canin’s Loyalists Do Not Bow Their Heads (5)
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“I tried so hard to stop it, but in the end, the second expeditionary force was dispatched…”
“Ah…”
Viscount Uwevol laments.
He felt intense anxiety about the fact that he had lost contact with the Imperial Expeditionary Force for over a month.
He knows
Having directly witnessed the uncommon sight unfolding right in front of her nose, she realized how terrible the fighting skills of the saintess and her companions were.
How many people can they kill at once if they give up proving their innocence and want to slaughter.
“Haa… I think I misjudged, Your Excellency…”
“Severing the alliance with them and agreeing to dispatch the Imperial Army?”
“Yes…”
Viscount Uwevol’s reply resembled a sigh terribly.
And more than that, it contained a deep fatigue.
“What. Wasn’t I more active in the decision to put pressure on them and make them submissive? They are too dangerous. When you’re in a position like this, you’re always alert to the mighty force that can’t be controlled.”
“That’s right… But I thought that if we dispatched that amount of troops, we would be able to put enough pressure on them… But I never thought that they would crush them with force.”
The Marquis of Caymouth nods his head.
His face was also unmatched.
“Honestly, if we cooperated with Regal and sent an army of that size, I thought they would come out to negotiate with us. We’re better than Regal. Isn’t that common sense? A madman with only 200,000 troops. Can you come up with the idea of 9 people fighting?”
“That’s right… It was a complete misjudgment and failure, but looking back, I and His Excellency both made decisions based on common sense.”
“You’re right. It was quite a painful overspending, but shouldn’t we be satisfied with knowing their level and prepare for the next one? We can’t just sit still and not be immersed in it forever.”
“…”
Viscount Uwevol is silent.
It was a sound void that felt like another name for discomfort.
“Why? Any other opinions?”
“Dismissal.”
Viscount Uwevol’s voice is low.
There was a deep fear in his voice.
The Marquis of Caymus also feels anxiety and fear.
“Are there any guarantees that the limits of their abilities are this much?”
“…!”
The Marquis of Caymus is startled.
His complexion turns pale.
“Your Excellency. Wouldn’t your Excellency want to implicitly conclude that their limit would be this far?”
“Heh, heh…”
“Only when they surrender and surrender the white flag can we be sure that that was their limit?”
The Marquis of Caymouth nodded heavily.
“You’re right. My wish, born of fear, seems to have fueled my confirmation bias.”
“It is true that I was definitely shocked after I went to the North the other day. I tried to be calm because of that, and I was afraid of underestimating them, so I went ahead with the plan assuming 5 times the strength they showed. Even so, the news of victory If so, what do you think we should be estimating about their potential combat performance?”
“…”
“Yes. Some of them may have been damaged, or they may have been destroyed with the Expeditionary Force. If they were destroyed, it would be really lucky, but it is highly likely that some of them were hit is meaningless. Isn’t there a saint?”
“Yes.”
“As long as they didn’t die, a monstrous saint who can unconditionally heal any wound is with them. It’s not a shallow relationship, nor was it a kidnapping situation. It seemed like a very sticky relationship. Wouldn’t it be reasonable to assume that there was no harm to them?”
“…”
The Marquis of Caymus keeps silent.
From the futility of rebuttals, I realize that I fully agree with Viscount Uweboll’s opinion.
“I assumed more than 5 times the ability they showed, but still failed. And in a situation where I don’t know how much damage they have suffered, I don’t have the confidence to put more than that. In fact, they shot a power difference close to 20,000 times with them I pressed it, but is there any chance of killing them just because it creates a power difference of 30,000 times? Under common sense situations, this level of power difference is a match and a nabal, and it is a difference that can crush them unconditionally. That’s why I was the second expeditionary force It was against the formation.”
Ha…
The Marquis of Caymus let out a long sigh.
He scratches his head with both of his hands and lowers his head.
Expressing the absence of face with the whole body.
“You’re right. I understand. But the aristocracy, no, the Regal bastards, insisted too strongly that they were convinced of the existence of a large rebel base in the north. Honestly, there is no evidence, but the Imperial Army Just because the expeditionary force including the missing is missing, wouldn’t those with common sense think that there are numerous rebels lurking there?”
“Damn it…”
“It was poison that we concealed the existence of a small number of hermits in the north, namely the saintess and her companions. ?Then, if I were to ask why the expeditionary force went missing and why they covered it up even though they knew about it, what would they answer?”
“…”
“It is true that Regal was completely defeated by a number of battles. I don’t know how he was sure, but Regal must have intuition that the numerous expeditionary forces would be defeated, even before the war started, that they would be annihilated, not even annihilated. I don’t know how he got it, but just by predicting it first and moving, it proves once again that his intelligence is far superior to ours.”
“Yes. I have no choice but to engrave it well deep in my bone marrow, enough to make my bones tingle.”
Hurl.
Click.
They sigh for a while and drink tea.
The water brewed from the tea leaves is too bitter, even though it is clear that they did not use cheap products.
I wanted to drink alcohol at least in my heart, but I always refrained from drinking too much because I didn’t know when an emergency would break out.
Even if I did drink, I rarely drank more than one sip.
In fact, their lives were hard enough to the point where it’s hard to know when they got drunk to their heart’s content.
The body, the mind, and the circumstances surrounding them.
“I don’t think there will be any specific answer, but why don’t you just go in and take a break today? If you have trouble falling asleep, I’ll give you a bottle of my good whiskey.”
“Your frustration is so bad, I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep well if I drink too much. If I drink alcohol, I’d stick my cock in the ass of a goat. Why don’t you torture me instead? Why do you torture me with words?”
“…That, then, that beneath me, even if it’s Kininbie,”
“It’s not my taste. And even though you can’t treat a superior subordinate with performance, making him spread his crotch with authority is honestly disqualifying as a superior, sir.”
“…”
Giving all of their loyalty to the imperial family, even after giving up all that comfort, was their only value, so they couldn’t provide a proper reason for that.
Since it was a one-sided argument that lost ground, there is no awkwardness in calling their value an ideology.
They lived a life controlled by ideology, but they never gave up that attitude of life because they felt full of it.
No, you can’t.
If it was of a nature that could be logically persuaded, it would never have been given the name of an ideology.
“Well, but, I can’t bring prostitutes to the safe house, so what should I do with this…”
“I should at least masturbate, is there anything else I can do?”
“Eh… What is masturbation, masturbation?”
“Then, do you call it daughter-in-law? Can I make you look a little more cultured and call it crowning?”
“…Isn’t that what you mean?”
“Even though I appear to be a prostitute, I do not enjoy intercourse with any woman, sir. Unless life is in danger.”
“Okay. Take care of yourself.”
“Yes, I understand.”
Dalgrak.
Click.
They arrange the tea cups.
Rest is enough.
“For now, what size did you decide to organize the 2nd Expeditionary Force?”
“Um… They decided to mobilize only 250,000 imperial troops. They declared that it was a national crisis in which the rebels were in full swing, and they said it was an unusual plan to bring in the reserve.”
“… Aside from the public security vacuum, it seems that the elites are determined to drive all the elites to the north.”
“Perhaps it’s Regal’s ploy to weaken the Imperial Army. Whatever the purpose, if the Imperial Army suffers a power vacuum of this magnitude, the Regal will now have the most powerful military force in the Empire. That alone will benefit the Regal. The amount will be enormous. Even if you don’t directly rebel against the imperial family, there is no way to stop the Regal even with a simple demonstration of force using private soldiers.”
“Haa… It’s embarrassing… Even if recruits are forcibly conscripted, there is a limit to the number of recruits that can be recruited, and how much time and capital it will take to train them into powerful soldiers…”
“That alone would be an effective means of destroying the imperial power. This game is a game that has no choice but to lose.
“…”
Assuming that the additional 250,000 imperial troops to be formed would all perish in the northern unexplored lands, they continued their discussions.
Fortunately, it rules out the possibility that some of them may survive, expose their true nature and expose Regal’s conspiracy.
“How many enlisted soldiers did the noble faction decide to send out?”
“To put it all together, it seems to be a little over 100,000. Regal said they would take half of them. And they declared that they would take care of supplies from the rear again. …”
“Hmm… It smells. It seems that it is intended to take on the role of a cleaner to dispose of the survivors of the Imperial Army who have fled.”
“I agree.”
It was because he was sure that even if there were those who survived from the saintess’ party, the enlisted soldiers would try to kill them.
“For what reason did Regal leave the battlefield, have you heard anything about it?”
“Something. He has been afflicted with an endemic disease in the northern outback, and has been recuperating at a nearby villa. He is suspected of having a powerful contagious disease. “
“In the words of a polite apology, I think Regal may have announced that he would bear a large part of the cost of the war himself, isn’t it, Your Excellency?”
“That’s correct. Because he left the battlefield, he abandoned his responsibilities as a commander and expressed his intention to take responsibility for wasting the soldiers he led in vain.”
“It seems that Regal has also practically acknowledged that the 1st Expeditionary Force was annihilated?”
“If you’ve been out of touch for this long, wouldn’t it be hard for him to say anything else?”
Hehe. I’m sorry that he didn’t admit that he killed him with his own hands.”
“Won, man, true.”
Their faces were grim.
It seemed like they were chatting lightly, but it was because they had to watch the imperial army, which is the actual force of the imperial family and one of the most important groups that create the empire’s authority, disintegrate right in front of their eyes.
Even though the Imperial Army was neither their own nor their commander, they shed bloody tears in their hearts at the reality of having to stare blankly at the fact that the Imperial Army would collapse.
Even now, the authority of the imperial family was insufficient to be called a strong centralized system.
Compared to the development of roads and communications, the empire had an overly vast territory.
There is no way to maintain the name of an empire without ceding fiefdoms to vassals.
However, the strongest deterrent that prevented such vassals from crying out for independence was the Imperial Army.
If the imperial army is completely destroyed, the lords who claimed to be vassals will rise up all over the empire, and eventually claim the establishment of an independent country.
In order to prevent them from becoming independent, the imperial family would have no choice but to yield their interests to them instead of threatening them with force based on the imperial army.
Thus, if the imperial army collapses, the authority of the imperial family also collapses.
“This time, we must not allow an all-out war to unfold. After such disastrous results, we cannot allow the Imperials to simply cry out for revenge and launch an expedition to the north.”
“That’s how it should be. It seems necessary to tell the truth to at least the Imperial Army Headquarters.”
“Yes. Even if you negotiate with them and make many concessions, you cannot let all the Imperial forces evaporate in vain.”
The Marquis of Caymouth grabs his head.
Viscount Uwevol quietly turned his gaze away from him.
“Huh… I thought that the saints were not behind the rebels, and that they would cooperate until the end when they tried to uncover the truth…”
“Yes… If that was the case, we would have been able to stop the imperial army from advancing to the north.”
“After Your Highness was abducted, it is clear that we were also insane…
“…”
It was the regret and sigh that the Marquis of Caymus often repeated.
It was Viscount Uweboll who decided to betray the saintess and the others and finally cut ties with them.
However, it was definitely the Marquis of Caymus who constantly sounded out his opinion about it.
They are too dangerous, they are disloyal to the Empire, they will abandon the Empire any time a threat to their safety arises.
Such a story was constantly repeated by the Marquis of Caymus.
In reality, the saintess and the party even expressed such intentions, and in the situation where they formed a weak alliance rather than a military-vassal relationship, Viscount Uweboll had no choice but to be shaken.
In the end, the two betrayed the saintess and the others, and the result was so painful that they constantly regret it.
“It’s already in the past, so it can’t be helped, Your Excellency.”
“Heh heh. That’s true, but…”
The Marquis of Caymus raises his head.
Look up at the ceiling
The lighting magic tool illuminates the room with weak light.
It wasn’t very bright.
Like their future.
“When a man is blinded by gain or paralyzed by fear, he always draws far from correct conclusions.”
“That’s right.”
“I’ve used it all along to induce many people to make the wrong choice. No, I forced them. But, for you and me, isn’t it as natural as breathing for those who set foot on this floor?”
“…”
Viscount Uweboll nodded.
He also sent political opponents to the abyss with similar actions, so it was easy to sympathize with his words.
“Now I have become a victim of such things, and I can only think that I will continue to do so. Perhaps it is time to retire now…”
His eyes are wet
Blaming himself for his aging brain that can only make wrong decisions, the Marquis of Caymus weeps silently.
To be loyal to the imperial family, it is not enough to always work hard.
If it doesn’t produce results, if it puts pressure on the imperial family and the imperial family, it’s just another form of disloyalty.
He thought so and gritted his molars.
The moment he was about to say a word of determination,
“Not yet, sir.”
Viscount Uwebol takes the lead.
The Marquis of Caymus turns away with a tear-stained face.
Look at him
“Don’t lower your head, don’t shrug your shoulders, don’t stoop.”
“…”
“Your Excellency still has value. The value that will be completed by death.”
“…”
“How about living and committing some disloyalty caused by incompetence? With one scheduled death anyway, wouldn’t it be possible to make up for the disloyalty you’ve committed in one shot?”
“So, is that so? With this one life, can you make up for it enough?”
“Yes. Trust me. If you regret that your brain has already hardened, don’t roll your head at all. Just leave it all to me. I’ll take care of everything. With a head that rolls thousands of times better than your Excellency, I’ll do everything, even yours. No, actually, isn’t it already?”
Viscount Uwe Boll smiled softly at him.
A slight distortion remained, but it was a very good-looking, no, trustworthy smile.
“Sure…”
They were determined not to bow their heads like that in the future.
Until the day I die, I firmly resolved to face death with a stiff head held high.
