Chapter 269 – Chapter 26 – Wildfire
As Klaus and Yulia’s troops stirred up the rear, the kingdom literally turned into chaos.
The eastern forces shattered enemy soldiers wherever they went and thoroughly trampled on supply bases.
Could it be that they are aiming for powerful nobles located in the rear?
If not, is it to attack the castle and take the king and the royal family as hostages?
As various situations were discussed, the troops of the kingdom, which had been deployed to some extent in the rear, were at a loss as to where to go and how to respond.
Originally, I thought I would attack the estates or castles of influential nobles and capture them as prisoners.
If it wasn’t for that, I thought I’d be aiming for a city with a lot of people and plenty of supplies to loot.
The troops of the eastern part showed unpredictable movements and stabbed in all directions.
“This is a trap. Klaus is a commoner. He only wants one thing. He wants to tyrannize the kingdom so that it can no longer wage war!”
“That is correct. We must immediately mobilize all forces and pursue them. Even if we don’t fight, at least we have to make sure they don’t attack our supply lines!”
Still, those who knew how to see the war situation worked hard to make their point.
Most of them were middle-class nobles who had built up some level of power, and had at least some combat experience, even if they had made minor contributions in the Continental War.
However, most of their claims were not accepted.
The demands of stupid things to protect rank, rank, and authority that always appear in critical moments.
Right now, most of them were from aristocratic families, so the problem was even bigger.
In addition to that, ‘You must protect the castle and protect the king. What if taking out the soldiers is what Klaus, that traitor is really after?” Part caught him off guard.
“Klaus is a clever guy. He knows that when he gets the king he’s war and all is over. By launching an attack in this way, we are trying to distract our soldiers in all directions and hit the capital in the meantime. Don’t be fooled! He must hold fast!”
“What a foolish idea! Even at this moment when we waste time among ourselves, supply units will be attacked from everywhere, and the people of the kingdom will be watching our incompetence!”
“Soon, reinforcements from the fairy side and warriors from the beast-man side will enter the kingdom. Just tell me to hold on until then. Where is a war where no sacrifices are made!”
The nobles, who were sane with those words, had to beat their chests because they felt like their stomachs would explode.
Of course there is no war where no sacrifice is made, the problem is that you do not pay the sacrifice.
Does the ability to conduct war really increase just because the king is thoroughly protected?
The kingdom is a kingdom in name only, but in fact, the nobles are in control, so why come now to have a king?
Waging war is what this whole country must do.
In this way, resistance is no longer possible if the commoners abandon all expectations of the kingdom.
Even now, who are the soldiers guarding the fortress from the front, they are all commoners.
Nobles are in command, but without the commoners, it is just a commander without soldiers.
Their house is on fire and their families are in danger, but will they focus on the fight right in front of them?
If you close your eyes, you will wake up in the morning worrying about your family and your family after staying up all night.
‘I never expected to be attacked from the rear like this.’
The rear of the kingdom is the empire, and right above it are the fairies and beastmen.
When war clouds rolled in, the two races immediately said they would send reinforcements, and when the demons from the east attacked, news came that they too had prepared an army and marched.
In other words, within a week from now, reinforcements from the fairy side and warriors from the beast side will come into the kingdom.
Those who put their hopes on that one said, don’t just step out and be defeated, just stay calm and expect them to catch Klaus and the demon king.
Listening to those words, those who were sane had to hit the ground and wail.
This land is not the territory of fairies or beastmen, but the territory of the kingdom, the land of the kingdom.
They have to be the first to move forward and show themselves to step forward, whether they are defeated or die.
That’s how you have to stabilize the people of the kingdom who are trembling in the nightmare of the continental war.
One knew and the other was doing something unknown, so it felt like my stomach was about to burst.
Even if you want to move the troops, too few, even if you move carelessly, it’s a war, so it’s treason.
In a situation where there was nothing to unite, the kingdom was thoroughly divided and divided again.
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“They are so stupid.”
Klaus takes time to take a break and take care of the horses.
The cavalrymen were hidden in a secret place known in advance, and while avoiding the enemy’s spying, they accurately cut off the supply route and intercepted the supply corps that were going to the front.
“In war, the next best decision today is more important than the best decision tomorrow.”
“… Those words really touched my heart.”
With all other soldiers and subordinates behind, Yulia was alone with Klaus.
So I went back to my usual tone and muttered that while taking his words to heart.
Making the next best decision today is more important than making the best decision tomorrow.
“Now we have to slowly change our strategy.”
“There must still be a lot left in the supply corps, right?”
“Now, the time has come for reinforcements from the fairy side and warriors from the beast person side to come.”
Although he already knows everything, the fairy side reinforcements and the beast side warriors boasted a level so powerful that it would not be enough to call them Jokers.
There is even a record of being robbed once of being drunk on victory.
Kingdoms and empires were not a big problem, but fairies and beastmen were a headache.
It’s a little ambiguous to call it a crisis, but in any case, if you dare to say it, you can call it a crisis.
“They did a lot of damage by aiming for the period when they were ready for battle and passing through the empire to the kingdom, but anyway, our corps are not suitable for regular battles or large-scale rotation.”
“Yes. Formation is the most important thing in rotation, but that is impossible.”
As Yulia had said, the corps currently led by herself and Klaus had no choice but to say that it was too much to carry out a large-scale rotation.
A situation where almost all of them were made up of cavalry for extreme mobility.
Of course, it was natural that there were few infantry to prepare a solid formation.
“But it’s a little, no, very, very disappointing to end it like this.”
“Yes. So, from now on, we must use others, not our own strength.”
“… Are you saying there are still numbers prepared?”
At Yulia’s question, Klaus smiled and pointed to two places.
One was a land near the north of the kingdom, and the other was a territory not far from the capital.
“After a while, a large-scale rebellion will break out in the territory of the human kingdom called Chagar.”
“A rebellion?”
“Yeah. The instigator was Romus Chagar, who had been arguing for some time that ‘nobles should abandon their chosen people or superiority and work together with other commoners in the kingdom to promote it.'”
“… Wait. I just heard the name, and it sounds like an aristocrat, not a commoner…”
“You’re right. He is the son of the Chagar family. Over there, he grew up without anything to envy.”
“Why would such a person suddenly rebel? Even shouting equality between nobles and commoners?”
Of course, Yulia, who was well aware of the stupidity of nobles in the human kingdom, was inevitably taken aback.
While fighting right up to this point, there were only a handful of truly aristocratic nobles.
A knight from an aristocratic family called Crem, who tried to harm Klaus even to the point of death.
It could be said that several others did not tarnish the name of the nobility.
“He is a son of an aristocrat with a little strange ideology. Even at the academy, they tried to teach me with such a strange idea. It was absurd, but it wasn’t useless at all, I gave it a little instruction and sent it back. Even if it’s ambiguous to see those guys as allies later, the role of bugs that harass the enemy is also staggering.”
In fact, Romus Chagar does a pretty big job.
Just at the time when reinforcements from the fairies and beasts arrive, take your comrades and commoners who support you, and say, let’s overthrow the rotten kingdom and create a world for commoners.
Of course, he is considered a traitor and is cleanly ground by the union of the two races, the beastman and the fairy.
It was only natural that an army trained professionally to crush the enemy could not lose against those who had just gathered here and there.
‘He only had grandiose ambitions, but he could have been seen as a guy who didn’t do anything right… Funny enough, his death and failure just added fuel to the flames I kindled.’
A nobleman from the north of the kingdom stood up for the commoners who were oppressed every time, and the nobleman was killed by a fairy and a beast man who were instigated by other nobles.
If they live like this, they really won’t be able to live anymore.
Fairies and beastmen who come to help and harm the people of the kingdom, and idiots called nobles who don’t care what damage they suffer.
It may be better to lean on others than to trust them.
To the king of the East, who faced his limits and came into the kingdom just in time to cause all sorts of chaos.
And to the hero of the past continental war who follows the king.
“Anyway, Romus Chagar will rise and fall on its own. It’s good that it helps again. And the remaining one…”
The place Klaus pointed to was a little far from the center of the kingdom.
It was a vast territory, and it was also the only resting place for commoners to live well.
“This will be the Marquis of Kienmeyer.”
“If it’s the Marquis of Kienmeyer… Aren’t you a human aristocrat who played an active part in the last continental war?”
“You’re right. Among the great nobles, he is the only one who has won multiple victories.”
“I remember. Reports had come in before that he was one of the figures to be wary of on the Kingdom side during strategy meetings. But the Marquis of Kienmeyer is another important part?”
At Yulia’s question, Klaus smiled and nodded his head.
There is literally chaos going on all over the place, and yet Darnell Kienmeyer remains silent.
Although he has diverted more than half of his men to the front, he still has privates with him.
Unlike other aristocrats who are stupid enough, they also have eyes to see the war situation, so it was normal to try to set up a defense line in an appropriate place and maintain a supply line, rather than simply defending my castle and territory.
But he is not moving from his territory.
I hope that the man, like other nobles, will just be sorted out by the fairies and beastmen.
Is it because he wants to protect his territory without damage?
‘No, you’re welcome. That friend is now awake. He insists on keeping his people on a sinking ship and everything will be fish food.’
Did he have hope as he looked at preparations for war? Give up. No matter how valiant a soldier may be, if the person who commands it is a coward, in the end it will only become a cowardly army.
The Marquis Darnell Kienmeyer who realized that, the man who realized that living as a member of the kingdom was no longer for his people.
He would fall on his knees and swear allegiance to the new monarch.
