The Adventure of the Boy With a Mind of a Middle-aged Man

Kai Rhodas was up the only mountain road in the Ladore Mountains, along with a Salman soldier regiment entrusted to escort the supply troops.

The mountain roads we're climbing now are surrounded by rugged cliffs on both sides, and no matter how hard we try, there are only about seven or eight adult boys lined up side-by-side.

An expeditionary army of kingdoms that snakes its narrow mountain path like a serpent.

(I wonder what the hell I'm doing...)

Originally, Kai is not suitable for military personnel. The only reason I joined the army was because the army was the only one who could make enough money to send my grandparents.

Instead, at an early age, I dreamed of becoming the best cook in the kingdom and making it easier for my grandparents who raised me.

"Hey, don't blur, just walk!!"

He is kicked in by one of Martha's side who is riding and relaxed and rolls to the ground. With both wrists tied. Naturally, he can't even take a proper reception, and falls more and more onto the hard mountain road ground.

"I know. You're an ugly traitor! If you return to your home country, you will be awaiting a public execution."

I know. Just because a civilian made a cowardly statement is a mad army subject to punishment. Naturally, Kai will be cut off.

Until about seven years ago, the Army of the Kingdom of Amulzess was a little more. At least enough to find hope in the future. That has changed clearly since the interracial man, dubbed that brave man, was summoned.

No, isn't that right, too? In fact, the brave just summed up the will of this country.

In the end, the roots of the madness originally spread through the kingdom of Amulzez.

Over the past decade, the plague that has struck the world - the blistering disease - has caused the kingdom to suffer enormous deaths, a marked decline in productivity and poverty. In addition, the lawlessness of kingdom aristocracy caused intense anger and anxiety to swirl among the people.

The Royal Government turned the threshold of public dissatisfaction with its spreading tragedy to other countries.

As a result, wealth and people are gained and many of the King's people are spared from hunger and dissatisfaction, while at the same time inevitable inequalities and discrimination arise.

"Get up, quick!

After Martha's men beat him a few times with a sword pattern, he tries to wake up, but something moves onto the cliff on his right hand just in the direction of progress into view. A strong chill appeared as if he had stroked his back with an ice-cold.

"I have a bad feeling. Back off now!

I gave Martha and the others instructions.

"Ah!? You're still such a cliche."

Martha's overhead cliff, which raised her hysterical voice, bounced as she raised her blue muscles on her forehead, and the ceiling sounded up and fell.

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When I opened my lid, it was just hell in the world.

Large rocks scattered across the road and underlying kingdom soldiers. Groaning and crying heard from all over.

So much so that the Royal Army, which had built a long line of snakes that seemed to roll, was literally devastated as if they had been trampled by giants.

"Ugh..."

With her horse falling, turning bright blue and her lips shaking with a mess, Martha is lowering her hips to the ground in tears.

Looks like you're safe. Apparently, each other, only bad luck is strong.

"Cut this!

Point the rope on both wrists.

"So, but..."

"Quick!"

Martha clasped her neck in dismay, pulling the dagger out of her hips and cutting Kai's rope.

"Let's go!

"Where... to?

"First, find the Commander!

This rockfall at this time of the march. Kai doesn't congratulate him enough to just accidentally clean up this phenomenon. Definitely an enemy tactic.

And if Kai is in their shoes, it's time for a massive sweep. There may be a Raddle assault immediately.

"What about my men?

Martha sobbing into Kai.

He seems a lot more like a fellow-minded guy than he looks. But now such sentiments are just out of the way.

"They're all dead. If you don't want any more soldiers to die in vain, run!

Encourage Martha to run.

The Royal Army will lose this battle before it's completely skinless. And then how smoothly we communicate the will of all armies to the Ladle side to surrender.

The quick thing is to have Wimp, the Commander of the Expeditionary Army, declare his surrender, but the elimination of the Commander-in-Chief of the Army is a stone to victory. By now, they should be on their way to Wimp's murder, citing total force. Survival will be desperate.

Without trying to stand up, he grabs and lifts Martha's chest barn, squatting and trembling on the ground.

"Listen, you and I are the generals who have the authority to end this barren and brutal war! If we don't move, the Royal Army will kill us all. Of course, you and me!

He's the kind of guy who devises and executes such devilish methods. It's no use expecting anything like a person's conscience from them.

Don't! Don't! Don't! Don't!

A number of bursting sounds heard from the direction of the fort at the top of the mountain. Again.

The exit route has already been prevented by a huge boulder. No matter which way you run, you're the one who gets killed. Then I'll scratch your feet.

"Let's go!

Throw Martha to the ground and run out toward the sound.

"Staff Sgt. Kai!

Several remaining soldiers noticed Kai and the others and rushed over. In everyone's eyes, the colour of despair wandered without exception.

"All right! Drop your weapons now and raise the white flag! That way they probably won't kill you."

Kai is lying about this. To be honest, it's half the time.

But I can only hope for mercy as a Ladle person to get through this death place.

"Are you sure? Without the commander's permission, if the country knew..."

Martha behind him raises a tongue of unusual questions in a voice that is about to disappear.

"You saw this tragedy, didn't you? It is no longer possible to escape. The best we can do is to be Radle's prisoner. And if we become prisoners, at least the two of us will never be able to return to our country again. It's useless to think about it."

"Damn......"

"That's the general's responsibility."

I squat (groan) with my head, and I cry out, Martha.

Martha enlisted in the Royal Army a year and a half ago. In the first place, is it cruel to hold such recruits accountable?

exhale loudly,

"Lord Martha Salman, you are the highest rank now. Therefore, you have command."

I declare so.

"Yes, I don't like it..."

Shake your neck left or right, even as you make your face squeak with tears.

"I know. I want you to transfer your command to me now."

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Martha nodded silently and repeatedly.

"Now I am the commander of the Royal Army Expeditionary Force.

Then I command you as commander. Lord Martha Salman, you tried to turn your back on your responsibilities on the battlefield. An unforgivable sin. Therefore, temporarily strip your rank. Along with the general soldiers, take prisoner!

Now Martha will survive if she's lucky too.

(Damn, this is the one that drove the blue hungry ghost on the battlefield with such an unprepared ass...)

Break the white garment of your jacket into a rolling spear nearby and run towards the shooting when you bracket it first.

Kai arrived on the battlefield. No, when it comes to the battlefield, it's too unilateral. This is a place of genocide.

Fire erupts from the tip of a thin iron rod in the hands of the radar soldiers, and a thunderous roar sounds. And with all that noise, my countrymen fall flabby.

Though several soldiers were hurt, they were forming a circle and pointing their sword tips at the Raddles. Some of them were swordsman captains who were brave and admired.

"Hey!

Kai's cry was also empty,

"You devils!!"

The soldier captain screamed and shook up his sword and walked away, but made his face bounce bright red like a pomegranate.

"Hiya!!"

Soldiers gluing and screaming all over their bodies. Some of them are squatting on the ground and crawling.

The tip of the iron cylinder of the Raddles turns to the soldiers who have lost their will.

When Kai inhaled his lungs, he raised a white flag,

"I am Kai Rhodas, Interim Commander of the Expeditionary Army, and our Kingdom Expeditionary Army surrenders unconditionally to the Raddle Army. Drop all military weapons and surrender immediately!

Turn up the loud voice.

In view of what the Kingdom has done to Raddle, it may well be expected that the Raddle side will not allow the surrender.

In short, this is a kind of bet. But in view of their strategy this time, I don't even think of it as a bad bet.

After manipulating the information and closing the path of temporary retreat to the Royal Army, seal the Royal Army into a kind of confined space: a narrow-width mountain path. Stone drop from overhead on it. sweep operations after that.

The measures used in themselves are the annihilation of the siege using natural terrain, which in a sense can be considered classic as a tactic. I have no idea how to drop a rock, but everything else is just a consortium of measures that everyone would likely come up with if they were strategists.

It saves waste from its collection of mediocre measures and elevates it to a level that can be described as the art of war. This kind of efficiency-like thinking is why the enemy is the most horrible.

At the same time, these measures are impossible for an disorderly army. Exactly, absolute control like one organism is essential.

And sweep battles cost their own troops less. What I would like to avoid is a military jurist's creed. In particular, I do not even think that the commander of the Raddle Army would tolerate unproductive acts such as the pursuit of enemies who have abandoned their weapons and surrendered unconditionally.

The soldiers, who received an exemption from Kai called an order, threw their weapons one after the other and crouched in as they raised their hands.

Advice, the hand of attack that stops perfectly. Of course, that strange weapon remains fixed here.

"Don't imitate at random when you're a civilian!!"

A small, fat, middle-aged officer at the center of the circle has a freshly hysterical voice.

Only common soldiers of civilian subjects have recruit education in the Royal Army. Young officers of noble origin like Martha are not even taught what they most need to be prepared for as soldiers, and ascend to and pack into senior officers.

Thus, for decades, incompetence is mass-produced that cannot even grasp this state of affairs when living in the military.

"What are you doing! That's where the barbarians are! Hurry up and cut!

Nobody tries to get up, only tremble.

Naturally. Depending on how they feel, it's a killer situation. If a commander understands this situation at all, he can't possibly be so rambling.

"Well, I can't take orders from my superior. You know what?"

Bad. The air's changed.

"Stop -"

With a sword in his right hand before Kai spins the word of restraint, he still snaps the neck of a squatting royal soldier.

In a scattered blood splash, the soldiers scream simultaneously and retreat to roll to the side of Kai.

"What the hell do you understand what you've done?

A middle-aged officer who turns his right palm without answering Kai's question and begins chanting.

Apparently, that's it. I'm sorry to scratch you so incompetently any longer.

Assuming the rank kills an officer of the upper nobility. Never again can Kai tread on the land of the kingdom.

But if we don't do it here, it will kill as many as 7,000 soldiers. That's all we have to avoid.

When you grip the pattern of your right hand hard and try to kick the ground, something passes along the left side of Kai, along with the wind-cut sound of Shh.

"Huh?

Arrows that stab deep between the eyebrows of middle-aged officers. And a middle-aged officer slowly falling on his back on the ground.

"My name is Martha Salman, and my rank is Senior Officer. As a result of Commander Wimp's death in battle, I have command of the army. It was all transferred to Kai Rhodas in advance. Everyone, follow him and surrender immediately!

There was even something to raise my voice of relief, something to cry out.

But it's still early. They don't always accept it.

If Radl continues to attack, he needs to become a lord and let one soldier escape.

"Kai...... I did it"

Martha's face was bright blue and bloody, and her arms holding that bow were trembling in small pieces.

"No, well done. That sound is slowly disappearing."

I can see that the explosion noise from afar is gradually decreasing. At least, the time limit for the total extermination of the Royal Army seems to have been extended.

Long enough to feel forever. Due to too much nervousness, the skin wear is soothing and disgusting due to the sweat it blew out.

A strange hairstyle young man who also mowed up his mistletoe showed up -.

"We accept unconditional surrender and only halt the attack for 30 minutes. In the meantime, I want every soldier to know that through your mouth."

"Accepted"

Confirming that Martha next door nods, Kai runs out even as he raises the white flag.

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The remaining prisoners are instructed to enter the huge building of the fort. In the building, it was a space with a minimum of household goods. Probably some kind of training facility.

"Kai, you were right. I know that our foolishness so far is not forgiven. But let me dare apologize. I'm so sorry."

Martha's been bowing her head.

"No, it was our mistake at the time we created that situation."

Originally, it should be for education to bring senior new American officers like Martha and the others to the scene. Decline it for nothing, and Kai and the others have enough responsibility at the point of neglect.

"... what will happen to us now?

"I don't know. Whoever set up this operation is terribly calm. It's great to be a prisoner just to treat you cold. I still have hope."

That said, in view of what we have done to the Laddle people so far, hope is limitless.

"Will it ever be"

Martha twirls from head to blanket as she lies down with Goron on the given futon. I guess I'm crying from where I'm shaking my whole body.

Is that a grief for the loss of your men and companions, or a mourning for a future unhappy future?

Still, such a young man is trying to move forward. I can't afford to look like an old Kai.

So...

"I'm fine. Everything's gonna be fine!

I proclaimed that as forcefully as possible.