Garudeina Oukoku Koukoku Ki

Well done, Lord Stanford.

"What, you can't imitate this as an ally or neglect?"

Upon entering the Commander's Office, there were already seated about ten officers at the beginning of Rasheed, those who would be Rasheed's Tabernacles, who stood up and thanked Georg at the same time as he entered the room.

"No need to worry about it. There's no time for a moment right now, so let's get down to business."

When Georg says so as he answers, he again drops his eyes on the map on the table about his seat. It depicts the surrounding terrain centered around the Sankzi Castle Fortress, on which a convex pawn color-coded into three colors, perhaps the most numerous black would be the army of Dinanto, white delivered within the Castle Fortress would be the Imperial Army, and the least numerous red would be the soldiers of Gardina, placed inside the great forest in the west.

"We shall now begin with the sharing of information, based on the news we received earlier from those of the Gardina Kingsguard Soldiers. The Dinanto army totals from 25,000, precisely 6,000 or 7,000. This one against is Imperial Army 8,000, Gardina Army 400. Roughly a third of the soldiers are different. May I take this?

Everyone on the spot nods at the words spinning by one of the tabernacles, and takes it and utters the words again.

"Then I'll go on. The Dinants are continuing northward well and will probably be here tomorrow. Therefore, the Gardina army has already been rearranged outside the castle to prepare for an ambush. This is Lord Stanford."

"Well, I'll take care of it."

"And the Imperial Army, which remains in this fortress, says General Basnell,"

"Well, there's nothing wrong with that now."

"And now as the first line of reinforcements here, we have news from the Imperial Capital that General Raskar Basnell is on his way with 5,000 soldiers. Approximately two weeks before arrival"

"... Bassnell?

Georg accidentally reacted to the familiar family name.

"It's in some two men. I haven't given you the title yet, but as a knight, as a general, I have worked harder than the masonry of a child, so help me more than the hand of a cat."

"As far as it goes, no, I'm sorry I blocked the conversation. Go on."

"Yes, reinforcements are forming up to the third line, and the second line is sending 8,000, and the third line is sending another 8,000, a total of 21,000, as soon as the formation is finished."

"Hmm... I'm talking about Your Majesty, from the first to the third, you will depart the Empire City almost immediately with your hair. Is the arrival of the third party a month or so?

"Yes, that's how the news is coming"

"Then send a horse to join the Second Battalion in the First Battalion before heading this way. With 5,000 soldiers, there may be damage that cannot be ignored depending on the enemy's movements."

"Because you think the enemy will completely besiege this castle fortress?

"That's not true. Though there are many soldiers, it will be the limit to surround the three sides with skill. Where we have besieged all sides, we fear that if each of them thins, they will be easily defeated when we open and strike out our gates. Unless you are an extra fool, it would be awesome to imitate each side less than this one."

"Then why don't we pull inside more than we can afford?

"You're not an enemy who can't anticipate it."

It was Georg who uttered that word. He perceived Rasheed's worries, albeit somewhat in the current.

"Whatever. I didn't just invite reinforcements into the fortress. There's no art. In the first place, there's a reason why we don't detect that many reinforcements moving with our enemies. Perhaps if reinforcements were to be forthcoming, that would be the leap forward to attack. There is also a good chance that some of our enemies will be headed that way to stop it if the first battle is to approach us through only 5,000, and if this is suppressed in the meantime, reinforcements may be destroyed in addition to being sandwiched. Therefore, if you wait for the second line to rendezvous with it, and it will be 13,000, the enemy will have to divide the corresponding soldiers for stopping, and you will have to leave the soldiers to suppress this one, so yes, you can do that. If you want to destroy reinforcements, you need to roll out at least 15,000. Ten thousand for stopping and a few thousand for positive motion would be enough, but that's where I slowed my legs down, and if I drop this place, it's also called hard labor."

To Rasheed's words, Georg nodded.

Assuming 5,000 soldiers went this way directly, if the enemy split 10,000 on you.

The reinforcements will be stranded in retreat. Still, there are more than 15,000 soldiers left here, and there's no reason to send reinforcements from the fortress. Perhaps this 5,000 soldier should be regarded as an emergency.

We can send them out after we've assembled our troops, but in the meantime, in the unlikely event that a castle fortress falls, we don't know how much force we'll need to get it back. Therefore, send some soldiers to the stone, even to the extent of water, and wait for the next reinforcement near the fortress, in case of any anomaly in the fortress, launch a decisive attack to break it, etc.?

There's no chance he's stepping on me just in case.

If I wanted to, I could air transport that reinforcement in its entirety, but he wasn't going to tell his enemies that he was still here, a dragnil, and he wasn't going to do it.

"Then let the first party know as such. In addition, soldiers in the fortress are currently being given rest by all but some of the sentries and others. When it comes to scouts, we've heard from Stanford that we're going to put the Kingsguard soldiers back in formation once, so we're going to organize them on a few horsebacks and hit them."

Kingsguard is a valuable air force. Georg therefore tells them in advance that he will "withdraw everything to the line before the war begins". I'm not underestimating the scourge. But when you focus too much on it and it becomes a battle, there's no point in saying the maximum power is not an exaggeration and the Kingsguard has to be useless.

"The Kingsguard, who is currently fighting the enemy, also returns to the line as soon as it is finished and asks him to take a break in turn. We can't ignore the magical attack from the sky by the Kingsguard that underlies our surprise attack."

"Regardless, I understand. But Dragonut and I have very little record of engagement, so we don't know there are any such restrictions."

Rasheed's limitations are the duration of Dragonewt's flight and the fatal loss of physical ability due to the lack of magic he visits after flying to the limit.

"Oh, that said, if we don't even do something that runs out of magic, we don't delay humans first, even in land wars. To date, the ultimate reason humans have stopped actively selling fights would be mighty magic, but even without it they are strong. Don't worry about it."

"I don't have to worry. Not so much dragnill, but they can also measure the strength of a number of anecdotes."

"Fine, then. If our role is already clear and there is no significant difference between the content of the previous military discussions, it is time for me to return to the line. The place is the place, so we can hold out until I get there."

Georg and other Gardina soldiers lurk for an ambush inside the Great Forest west of the fortress. This was chosen because the enemy's scourge was hard to come by and he could hide himself, but it goes without saying that Georg was the only option.

Georg frequently leaves Gardina these days, but still didn't see the demons coming back around the city. This is because the demon perceives the magical aftermath of Georg, what can be described as remnants, and recognizes it as a territory of Dragnil, but Georg doesn't know that much either. That said, it is because of that fact that this time, I decided to send this troop out.

And in view of those facts, I decided that even if I set up a formation inside the Great Forest of Gardina, there would be only a few weak demons in the outskirts of the forest that could not measure my difference in power, and I moved it into action.

"So is that. We will now return to each unit and rest well. Lord Stanford, please be careful."

When Rasheed says so and rises from his seat for a meeting, the Tabernacles imitate it. And Georg rose accordingly, and similarly gave the meeting, then exchanged a word or two of greetings and left the spot.

Finally, a war is approaching.

When Georg was conducting military discussions inside the castle, outside the castle, Jill and his men

They were preparing to reposition their troops.

"Dear Jill, I'm done loading up the food. We will now proceed to transport."

"Yeah, please. How are the soldiers?

"Everybody, I just wanted to say that morale is high, but I still can't wipe the tension and anxiety among those who will be the first in action. We are currently following up with each Squadron Leader and his deputies..."

"Yes... there will be no choice... it is painful, but I may leave the rest to Your Excellency's encouragement..."

"Ha... unless it's impudent. If you don't count on your Excellency forever, I don't know if I can inspire one of my men..."

"That's what I have no choice. Your Excellency is the backbone that shapes our hope, the Gardina of today. Comparing us to such a person would be an error in itself."

"But believe us, my lord, and I can't imitate that you have thus deposited your soldiers against their expectations."

"Whatever. But it will be a battlefield when we should live up to that expectation. This battle, Your Excellency said, will not come to your own hands. In other words, it will be our duty to ensure that His Excellency does not cause things to go out on the battlefield. Try not to forget it."

"Whatever. What, this time in the experienced 1st and 2nd squadrons, there are the Kingsguards. If you make it through the first war, you'll be excited about your responsibilities."

"Yeah, I hope so."

Jill took a small sigh as she looked at the back of her men leaving the scene after giving Jill an abbreviated salute.

< I wonder how many people get excited in the first line... >

With that in mind.

< Even we did not have an appetite for a while after the first battle, and our sword-wielding arms became heavier. The feeling of slashing people couldn't get out of my hands. Still, I now stand here as the one who forms the core of the army because I had time to embrace that feeling >

But recruits who are on this scene right now could probably end up fighting for a few days, or weeks. With that in mind, how can I be optimistic?

< Well, we were all made up of people from Dinanto, so we never hesitated to slaughter humans. But some are from the Empire, not necessarily this time >

Dinant's fierce oppression of subhumans. Children were raised as livestock, adults were used by humans frightened of violence every day, and by the time they were even thirty years old, they were destined to be killed, a subdivision of the dinant. On the other hand, they will not be protected, nor will they be kept like cattle, nor will they be killed while they live by the law. Regardless, there would have been less unreasonable violence than there was no law to protect. But there is a definite difference between them and those in the diner. A sub of a dinant who lives with a fate to be born and killed, and an imperial sub who lives with less but freedom in its hands.

Between the two, there will be a trench that can never be filled. To man, to hatred.

That said, no one from the Empire will say that they don't want to kill humans, etc., because they only collect applicants.

The first Guard was made up of those chosen by Georg himself. However, the current Regular Army, and the Guard, have assessed their strength and intelligence from among the applicants and have enlisted them from their top to their prescribed numbers in turn. Many of the applicants are still from Dinant, but there are still few elves that are physically significantly inferior to male beasts. As for Dwarves, they are not as many as they used to be, and Georg's intention is to have them work as craftsmen as possible, so they are not actively employed either.

< But your Excellency also said he wanted to organize a corps of engineers and leave its spindle to the Dwarves, as well as a long-range high-fired unit dominated by a magic attack from a distance organized in an elf... when will that happen >

In Gardina, where beasts still make up an overwhelming majority, a dwarf with excellent magical elves and crafts is no way to get a non-production job.

It's even warm to say, "My lord, I have more time to look into it."

For the sake of Gardina, he literally travels east and west, also going to inspect the internal problems himself to think of countermeasures, settle the proposals that go up in Parliament, and, at the end of the day, act, judge and respond to everything from diplomacy to the formation of the army, to the education of children, to the giving of ideas for processed goods. Then we will not fail to respond sincerely and with tolerance, without showing dissatisfaction or fatigue in front of the inhabitants.

Perhaps there is no such thing as a busy and respected ruler in man, Jill thinks.

But that's why we can do everything we can for you, admire you, kill your enemies... kill humans.

Unconsciously grip the pattern of two swords lowered to your hips. With this hand, with this sword, she told herself time and again that she was going to protect Georg, as if she were a fierce warrior.

Undefeated... Our, Gardina's, Master Georg's fate depends on this battle... It is unacceptable to be powerless while even giving him the title of staff member etc.

If Georg finds out, he'll say, "A little more shoulder strength."

In fact, I can hang those words from Georg back in formation, but that's only a few moments later.