Santairiku Eiyuuki

Jebe arrives in the city of Teripol, eight days later, that is, thirty-fifth day from the crossing of the desert.

Stefan summoned two of Nia and Jebe.

"What is it? General Stefan."

When Nia asked, Stefan widened the map.

"Now here is the position of reinforcements led by Lord Macinissa, the chief of the Cheyenne clan, and… here is the position of the enemy's army coming from the city of Cerda"

Stefan pointed to the pin and indicated the position.

That's all the two of them understood what Stefan was trying to say.

"I mean... if you stay put, your enemies will arrive in the city of Teripol before your allied reinforcements, so stop, okay?

"Excellent. That's what I'm talking about, General Jebe"

Stefan nodded loudly.

"That's why I want General Nia and General Jebe to lead an independent guerrilla force and somehow delay the march of the enemy by about two days"

"Yes, sir."

The two nodded.

"I'll basically leave the planning to you."

"Well, that's surprising."

Jebe opened his eyes to Nia's words.

I thought a highly asserted nearer would claim to be higher.

"That's rude... you know more about enemies, don't you? So it should be easy to set up an operation against the enemy as well. It's my reasonable decision."

The more Nia's words, Jebe nodded.

(I hear you had a secret marriage with His Majesty the Emperor, but is that what made your personality a little rounded up)

Although, either way, the bad character hasn't healed that far.

And Jebe thought in his heart.

"I understand your point very well. But... I'd personally like to ask you to plan the operation"

"... may I ask why?

"Because the enemy knows me well, too."

"Sure, so is that"

It is only logical that the enemy also understands Jebe, as Jebe well understands the enemy.

I mean, they could scratch the back in some cases.

"Let's do this, then. Basically, I'm the one who sets up the operation. You need advice."

"I got it."

Jebe nodded.

On that day, the Teripol City Liberation Army, led by Carmine, was pushing through the woods.

"This is a report from a vanguard unit. There's an obstacle ahead."

"Obstacles?

Carmine frowned.

"What kind of obstacle? Doesn't that seem like we can dodge it?

"Yes. The obstacle..."

According to the report, a fence installed to block the entire road.

Beyond it is the big rock.

Further beyond, there is a trench of about three metres, where last night's rain accumulates water.

And the road between about fifty meters from the ditch has been dug back in pavement and filled with holes.

It was.

"And the..."

"Do you still have it?

"No, there was a bill like this and hair on it..."

Carmine forcefully took the paper .

The paper had a picture of a pretty girl.

She is a peach-haired girl with a tulle hash and a hat marked 'Safety First'.

I have a cute, heart-shaped tail coming out of my butt.

Such a girl bows her head over here, closing one eye and tying her tongue out.

Next to the girl's face is a small, Cheldean word for "tehepero".

And at the bottom of the paper it said this in Cheldean.

"Here, under construction. Oh dear, we are bothering you. by Lemurian Imperial Army"

Carmine smiled.

"Ha! I can only forgive such a cute girl if she says so...... is that why!!

Carmine, furious, slammed the paper to the ground.

And stomp with shoes.

"There's no way...... remove the obstacle and allow it to pass through the road!... How long will it take?

"If you give me about four hours, I'll tell you it's possible..."

"Fix it in three hours!

And Carmine punches her tongue.

"Really troublesome..."

If there is an obstacle on the road, that will stop the march.

And... once the army stops, it takes time to make a move.

It's a queue made of a lot of people.

Regardless, 5000 people formed a line to march... etc., but it is progressing in some division...

Still, once I can stop my leg, it can be a bit of a hassle.

(But it shouldn't be easy to create obstacles or destroy roads...)

If it is easy to stop enemies, everyone adopts the same tactics.

Not many do, because destroying and repairing takes the same amount of time.

repairs, but nothing needs to be rebuilt.

The fence should be destroyed and removed, and the hole should be properly blocked.

The pavement stripped roads do not need to be purposefully re-paved either, and it is enough to easily re-cement the soil.

(Is this really all you got?

And Carmine thinks...

"General!! It's an enemy attack!! The rear-end unit and a cargo convoy in the middle row have been attacked by the enemy!

"What!!

"You're doing well"

"Well, I barely killed the enemy."

"I'm stuck, that's all right."

Nia and Jebe, who ambushed their enemies, were fleeing through the woods.

Just because horses are not available in the woods, it is a walking trip.

Horses are available ahead of us through the woods, and we plan to get on that horse before we leave.

"Now we can put it on for three hours and hold it off for two"

Nia smiled.

The purpose of Nia and Jebe is to stop the enemy, not to defeat the enemy by ambush.

The damage to the two troops is zero, as they appropriately fired an arrow and fled immediately before the enemy counterattack arrived.

Although only a dozen enemy soldiers have died.

"There are three more obstacles on the road. Each time the enemy will be alert to ambushes. It should be too late."

"How dare you, you thought about it. But... now we can stop the day."

Place an obstacle on the road to obstruct the march of the enemy.

A surprise attack is launched on the enemy to disrupt the march by confusing them.

These two are inherently completely different acts of obstruction...

By doing it at the same time, you make the enemy connect these two.

From now on, checking the obstacle, the enemy will have to be alert to surprise attacks.

"If we can stop for a day, it will be enough. I sent a messenger to Lord Macinissa to hurry... and worst of all, we can handle it without him."

"So is that. I don't think it's worth it enough to force you to stop."

Nia and Jebe avoided the risk and immediately retreated to the city of Teripol.

It was on the thirty-eighth day from the crossing of the desert that reinforcements led by Macinissa arrived in the city of Teripol.

Macinissa and her soldiers received a great welcome from the Lemurian army.

"The first thing you see, Lord Macinissa. I'm Stefan, who's supposed to be in command of the Lemurian Army, Teripol City Defense. Afterwards, hello."

Stefan reached for Machinisa.

Macinissa also holds Stefan's hand and both shake hands firmly.

"Different languages and cultures, same Messianism, Orthodox followers. Let's work together and fight the heretics. By the way... do you have maritime control here?

"Whatever. Worst of all, if you're about to fall, you just have to run off to sea. At that time… let us promise to give priority to the soldiers of the Balbal tribe. Instead…"

"Okay. Then I will follow your instructions."

If the city of Terripol falls, give top priority to the Barbal people and save their lives.

Subject to that, Machinisa promised to follow Stefan's instructions.

Thus the caged castle army of the city of Terripol temporarily unified the chain of command.

Meanwhile, it was the thirty-ninth day after that that that the Liberation Army of Teripol, led by Carmine, coming from the Cerda defense forces, arrived in the city of Teripol, plus the Liberation Army of Teripol, coming from the Teriportanian defense forces, on the fortieth day.

The former was originally 5000, the latter 3000.

It was scheduled to total 8000.

But in reality, the force was even more swollen.

Terripol defense forces, for example, were originally scheduled to mobilize up to 7000, but by the end of the mobilization, they would be engaged with the Lemurian army, at which time their strength was 50000… that is, there was a mobilisation leak of 2000.

Likewise, it should be 7000 for the Teriportanian defense forces, but only 50000 could be mobilized.

The two armies were mobilizing such leaky troops, as well as fugitives in the Battle of Teripol, and new forces such as the Red Wolves on the road.

For this reason, in addition to the original 5000 troops, the Teripol Liberation Army, which came from the former side of the city of Cerda, combined 3000 troops of the Red Wolves, 1300 deserters in the Battle of Teripol, and 86000 leaks in the mobilization of the Teripol defense forces.

Coming from the latter side, the Teriportanian Liberation Army, in addition to its original 3000 troops, added 5000 mobilization leaks.

Total 136,000.

A further 1,400 soldiers had been mobilized on the road, and their total strength had reached 1,500,000.

"I was prepared because I was told I should be prepared for 10000... is that about 10000 (...)?

"No... I'm more serious about the Royal Chelda Army than I thought, and I'm surprised too. Yeah, sorry."

Stefan bowed his head regarding the fact that he had more enemies than he had assumed.

Nia shakes her head to the side.

"No... I'm not blaming you for anything. Well, it won't be much different from 1000 or 150000. We've only tripled the number of soldiers."

I could never say that Nia's expression was optimistic.

Double and triple may not change much over words, but it is a very big difference over numbers.

"One thing bothers me.... Are the enemies ready to feed?

Jebe said, lurking his eyebrows.

There is an image of the latter having more difficulty with food, etc., on the side of the siege and on the side of the cage because of the existence of something called food blame, but in fact the opposite is true.

In reality, the siege side is more likely to lack food first.

There are two reasons.

First of all, on the side of caging and siege, because the latter is an overwhelming majority if the number of soldiers is higher, it is the latter that lacks food first.

Secondly, the side of the cage castle thoroughly gathers food from the cities and villages around the castle at the stage it decides to cage, so as to prepare…

The siege side has already been scratched and gathered food on the side of the cage castle, forcing a long battle in a land where there is not one wheat left.

Most……

These also depend on the number of non-combatants in that city or castle, that is, the number of inhabitants and the capability of both sides of the barracks.

In other words, if the capability of the barracks on the side of the siege is extraordinarily good, a food attack will be established.

And in this case, that is, in the Lemurian army that cages and in the Cerda army that sieges...

The former is overwhelmingly more affordable for food.

The Lemurian army is scratching food from the surrounding villages before the enemy arrives, and since the right to control the sea has previously been held by Lemuria, we can transport as much food by sea.

In the case of the Cerda army, on the other hand, it is necessary to carry food from afar by road, since the food around the city of Teripol has already been taken by the Lemurian army.

"Well...... the Teriportania region is a barn zone in the Kingdom of Cerda, so can we do something about it?

"Mmmm...... well, sure"

This Battle of Cage Castle, or Siege Battle, is slightly different from the normal one.

Because usually the cage side is more in the form of its own territory, while the siege side is more intrusive into enemy territory.

But this time, the opposite is true, that is, the side of the cage is intruding into enemy territory, and the side of the siege has the odd structure of being in its own territory.

The capability of the barracks on the side of the siege, which is supposed to be in enemy territory, is significantly reduced...

In this case, the siege is on our own territory.

"Perhaps it is because we have some reckoning that we have prepared this number of soldiers. … If we are going to make the longest showdown, I mean, if we can afford food, we will never muster such a large army"

I didn't muster a large army because I could afford food.

Conversely, Stefan guessed that it was because he couldn't afford it that he collected the great army.

In other words, the Cerda army, which considered that the battle would be disadvantageous if prolonged, dared to muster large armies to hold a short-term showdown in order to drop the city of Teripol before food ran out.

That's the theory.

Did you find this persuasive, Oscar, Nia and Jebe, and Macinissa, who was listening in silence, nodded.

Screw you...

The Second Terripol Siege Battle was about to begin, which would dictate the victory or loss of the Lemuria Cerda War.