The Demon King Seems to Conquer the World

Episode 218: Departure of the Ambush

In the office, Dimitri Daz was here to report.

"Four thousand of our soldiers have assembled."

In front of my desk, I stand viscid and salute.

The soldier closest to the king's capital was Dimitri's army.

The Daz family territory of Dimitri is on the Noza family border, but there are currently large numbers of refugees sent there.

The basic policy was for the army to be placed near the royal heavens and the refugees to be fed in the distance, so the Daz family's army was deploying near the border to train the Second Army guys.

Training and reorganization came to an end, and this is how we rushed north.

"Thank you for your hard work. There was nothing on the road."

"It was going well. without getting crowded."

That's because you're kicking ass.

Since the main streets of Karakumo to Sibyak will no longer be well transported when traffic is delayed, civilians have also been banned from use for two weeks, while adjusting to ensure that large troop movements do not overlap on the same day.

Civilians try to move backflow with the flow of soldiers from Karakumo to Sibyak, because forgiving it will plunge them into havoc.

"There were reports today that the Rube family successfully ambushed. They've done a lot of damage."

"That's good"

"But the enemy barely moved into ambush, and they're rushing to march. The Rube family lost a thousand out of five, so they should have killed at least two or three thousand people in battle."

Normally, with so many massive blows, some restructuring will be necessary, as well as morale.

Serious injuries occur to the same extent as the number of killings, and arrangements must also be made to evacuate them.

Naturally, the seriously wounded cannot return to battle for a while.

For example, because there's no way a human being with his leg pierced with a spear can be in the line just because he's bandaged the next day.

I was knocking on my desk with a pen.

Distressing.

"I sewed between the interruptions of the enemy forces, went down with an eagle and checked, and said the body was just off the side of the road for what had fallen on the road, and the body had been eaten by a wolf"

If we're going that far, the seriously injured may be dumping them on the spot.

Normally, that's not what we do in the military.

Injury is everyday for the military, because the soldiers have a real sense of who we are tomorrow.

Sewn in thread and wrapped in a dirty bandage, evacuated and laid in a cluttered bed.

That's much better than being left on the battlefield.

Being evacuated means being returned to the safety zone.

As a result of bravely fighting and being wounded, they leave their enemies on battlefields where they may not know when they will come, they can't do it.

Naturally, you'll want to escape.

Well, since this is the depths of the Shan Nation, there will be circumstances where you can't escape if you want to.

"You seem to be in quite a hurry…"

"The enemy is already pretty close to the king's capital. Can you make it?"

As I expected, Kotsuraha is surrounded by detached armies.

The Rube family army ambushed it at a point considerably further south than Kotsuraha.

"I'll make it."

"Keep Commander in touch with Soim's Independent Cavalry. He knows the trends best."

"Yeah. I'll lead the troops, so I'll be fine"

What?

"Yourself."

"Yeah, because it's my forged army"

Well, that's true.

"Fine, though. But don't die. You're a shame to crush here."

"Got it. I won't die."

That's what Dimitri said and saluted.

"Then go. I hope so."

"Ha!"

When I returned it, I turned my heel back and left the office.

"Yuri?

I heard Myalo.

"Oh, I'm here"

"Are you looking at it again?"

"Yeah."

I stood on the lookout deck at the Royal Castle spire, holding a telescope and looking again at the terrain I had already meticulously memorized.

The wilderness stretches north of the Wang capital.

The pasture south of Wangdu is a cut through the forest, but the north is not, and it feels like it hasn't grown any trees or anything from the beginning, so it's thin and fading.

The grass, which grows as mossy as it relies on topsoil, is generally low and thin, and has no depressing feeling at all like the pastures of the south.

Maybe there's some kind of geological change across the river that flows through the center of Wang Du.

I'm not too familiar with geology, so I wasn't sure.

"Hey, hey."

Myalo also came up to a circular lookout table about a meter in radius.

"Within a week, there will be a whole army lined up here."

That's what I said, looking in the same direction as me.

"Oh, 63,000 troops. Most of them are miscellaneous."

The number of cannons is only about one thousand and three hundred.

Some weapons, such as flame bottles, are not in the possession of the enemy, but from the whole point of view, I would say that the only way to do so is to sweat them into a poverty-stricken zone.

"Thanks to Mr. Dimitri's armies, the stockpile has been reduced by three days."

"Right."

There is not so much food left in Wang Du.

If an army of 63,000 troops combine to respond to recruitment, there is only about a month's worth of food to support that food.

That would mean three days less thanks to Dimitri's take out.

Since food needs to be distributed sparingly for action, it will be disposed of by burning and so on for what was not used.

You can't take extra baggage with you when you retreat, because even if you leave it behind, it will be used by the enemy.

Well, what we suffer from with food is the same thing with our enemies.

Eagles out of the eastern edge of the Howe family, and ships are crushing from one end to the other on the ocean.

"How do enemies form and how do they move? Do you have an imagination?

"No way."

You can't even tell what the guy you haven't even met thinks.

Not if you're an opponent who's fought many times before.

The opponent could be a Dollar asshole, or a Myalo brainchild.

"As much as I'd like to ask you."

"To me?

Myalo is decent.

"You're better at playing chess."

Of course, he also conducts on-board exercises at the Cavalry.

Myalo was a pretty good one.

"Uh-huh... The enemy must be in a hurry to win… pretend to escape, fish for the main unit, siege with cavalry, etc."

"Maybe it's an iron plate."

There's no advantage to attacking from here, so it's hard not to attack if you're caught.

However, if you string up the history of war, there are a number of examples where you have attacked even in such situations.

If they tease me of fine food, I won't necessarily eat it like a fish that gets caught.

Even the generals who attacked them by means of measures didn't attack them to get caught and lose.

I was definitely trying to win at the time of judgment, and they caught me chasing profits trying to grab a chance to win.

"I might ask for a number and push it from the front. Unlike chess, it doesn't mean you have the same fighting power."

"I'm glad you did."

I don't know.

The enemy will be aware that their own soldiers are inferior to this one in health.

It would be a disadvantage if it became a flesh-bomb battle.

Conversely, it would be the quality and quantity of firearms, and the number of people, that clearly outweigh them.

Then you might want to take the shootout as the main theme and decide once it collapses and then put in the cavalry.

Well, it's hard to grasp intent unless one of your opponents is on the line.

"Stay alert, it'll help if you insult me."

Myalo said with both arms on the railing of the viewing stand.

I'm relaxing somewhere to see if I don't have the job I'm grabbing later.

"That's not true. I feel the will of iron from their march...... They're desperate."

Whatever you fought at Hot River, you've already tormented them with starvation and blows.

or so I've come to a point where I can't turn back anymore.

You won't be alarmed.

"It's over 100,000 soldiers, so hey. The cost of getting here is too much..."

"You'd be spending enough money to laugh. Equipment, expeditions, and salaries... well, the cost of the ship would be an unexpected expense"

If you turn back, it's the same money you dumped in the ocean.

I can't say that I won't pay for the expedition because I won't come back and I didn't fight.

If we get in this far, there will be starvation and death on the way out. There will also be sick and dead.

Of course, this one is going after us, so the damage is even greater.

There's no way I can turn back.

"If this one wins, it's a big special medal. They won't be able to recover for a while."

"If you win."

This army is only 60,000 and 3000.

The other guy... well, it depends on how much Dimitri does, but there will be about 90,000.

I have also used most of the flame bottles, and there is not much left.

I don't care what you think.

"Yuri-kun's army, so I don't think you can beat it."

"I don't know. It might look like a mortal general."

If it's a battle in action, we might have a series of dumb-like extractions.

That's the scariest part.

"Heh heh, if you're a general, you've made a showdown around the Hot Bridge."

Well, is that right?

In fact, if the roles were reversed around Kien, he would have made the showdown near the Hot Bridge or north of Mittal.

Thanks to not fighting on the Hot Bridge, I was able to extend my training respite for about a month.

Sweat shed in training saves blood lost in action.

The effect is enormous.

"Yuri-kun is capable and good at fighting. I assure you."

It makes me happy.

"Even if I win, it's not my game. I couldn't have done anything without Myalo."

"... What, are you telling me? There's nothing to praise."

"It's true. Evacuation flows, food investigations and distribution. You're the one who supervised it."

Without it, there would never have been a system in which this country, where the Queen had been assassinated, royalty disrupted and the extreme of chaos, would have fought again.

I'm not saying we couldn't get the army together, but the majority of that army should have been the same pompous trick as before.

If I was the one who put Keri on by force, it was Myalo who brought order in affairs.

The feat is immeasurable.

"If it weren't for you, it would have been hard to bring the troops all over the place together at the same time."

Inland troops are allowed to leave early and coastal troops are transported by boat.

It's easy to say, but it can't be done without elaborate clerical processing.

Well, the barn of good things that I hauled has gotten gushaggy with gelo, so it takes half a day to clean up and leave the port late or whatever the fine incident is, but still the delay will be able to absorb in a preliminary period of a week.

All of that scheduling was done by Myalo.

So no soldier is starving, nor are the people starving to death, even though it was such a refugee move.

"If we have 63,000 soldiers here, that's your move."

I can assure you that with confidence.

"Heh, I'm glad. If you say so..."

Myalo certainly seemed happy.

I don't know what you said, but I guess this kind of work is still fun and proud.

"Oh, that's Dimitri's army, isn't it?"

"Hmm?"

When I looked at the lower boundary, I saw a group going down the main street north of Wang Du.

Definitely would be Dimitri.

From above, four thousand people seem surprisingly few.