The Demon King Seems to Conquer the World

Dimitri Daz and Myaro gathered in a conference room near the top floor of the royal castle.

The other one is a small woman with glasses named Melissa Riock from the Republic of Albio.

There is a freckle floating on my face, and I have long hair with habits and thick braids behind me.

"Here's a picture of Melheim."

When she took the paper out of the large cylinder, it was placed on a wall with a cork board on one side.

This room was originally one of the guest rooms with a view, and there was a thin textile with a pattern on it as wallpaper, but I stripped it all and removed the furniture. To use it as a conference room for operations.

"Hmmm..."

Below the Vatican river, Merhem is a medium-sized port city.

The city of Vaticanus is close to the sea, but it's not as though the metropolitan area borders it. Land transport is also available because the roads are crossed, but river water transport is prevalent because rivers with very gentle currents pass through to the sea. In terms of being a little inland and using river water transport, it may be a little bit similar to the structure of Shibuyaku.

In other words, the city of Merhem at the mouth of the river is the gateway to the sea of Vaticanus.

The painter's handwritten drawing of Melheim seemed to be a lesson in superior technique, although the lines were a little too fine to be seen.

“It's a pretty faithful painting drawn two years ago. Currently, Melham is in a state of partial destruction due to the continuous bombardment carried out by our country, but please pay attention to this."

Melissa pointed round at the drawing with a long stick.

It's like a pier with square bars stretching out from the city into the ocean.

“The piers depicted here are very wide and solidly constructed of stone, which is still not completely destroyed. If we land from the river and attack the Vatican, we will inevitably be assaulting Merhem and seizing and using the port. The Ere river that runs through the Vatican is not a large river, and although it is regularly dredged, it is not deep enough for a large ship to enter, so it is impractical to travel backwards and hit the Vatican directly.”

At that point, Melissa took the stick off the paper and shut up.

How many defensive units are there?

Dimitri speaks.

"Yes, the garrison is a thousand men, and the barracks have been rebuilt to resist air raids." Therefore, I think it is difficult to completely disable it by air raids alone. "

The air raid-resistant remodeling made the field planks, which are the basement of the roof, thick and sticky, so that they would not be torn by the heavy dropped bombs that the eagle could carry.

It was thickly lacquered, and there was a roofing material on it. The weight of the bomb won't break it, and even if it burns, the fire will be extinguished in time.

Well, there's still a limit to what a heavy bomb can do, but with a normal building, you can break through the roof with one bomb and burn it all, so it's very troublesome to have to spend five or ten shots to burn it. It is costly and imposes a heavy burden.

“Melheam's defense also presupposes working with Vatican's garrison, so if we find a landing unit, we'll be in touch quickly, and the Vatican's upright knights will rush in. In addition, since the city gate has a mechanism that prevents it from being closed by destroying it, it is difficult to close the city gate and prevent reinforcements from entering the city.”

There was a countermeasure to the assault from the sea.

The worst of the worst is that the city at the tip of Vatican's nose will be taken by the enemy and used in the opposite way, so it must have been taken care of for a long time.

"Well, that's impossible." Even if we get all the ships together, it's a little tough to hit Vaticanus directly. "

With the amount of ships available, we can only carry 4,000 people at a time in a landing operation, even if we do our best.

The problem is that it takes time to get to and from the piston. There are always about 20,000 soldiers near the Vatican, so we need to fight 20,000 for the first day with 4,000 men. This is a tough fight. Even if I could make the round trip in one day, it would only be eight thousand people.

Reinforcements are coming from both the enemy and other regions, and I know that it will be troublesome when these numbers are gathered, so I will come to attack with determination.

"With the Tyrellme invasion, it would be worth trying if the Vatican was so weak." The risk is too high as it stands. "

"I think so too. A voyage of more than a month would be quite burdensome for our soldiers, even if we got a base on Enuguila. Most soldiers have never been on a boat."

Indeed, it would be a terrible order to go to war after spitting for a month from Shivjak.

I want to give you at least about a week of medical treatment.

“We're doing the same analysis. There are a few more remote candidate countries... Basically, the Papal Kingdom has long been aware of the Dragon Empire as a virtual enemy nation with a powerful navy. So there is no blunt resistance to sea incursions, and there are no areas that are completely defenseless, even on the far edge of the Vatican. In the past, the coastal defense system has stopped working because of corruption and status trafficking, but our piracy has also eliminated it.”

To put it bluntly, dozens of robberies have led to the seizure of malfunctions in the alarm system.

Such an early warning system is the same as a lookout number for a fort, and it loosens after a long period of peaceful times. But if they hit me too many times, I'd be sharp.

Well, let's put Operation Vaticanus on hold and move on to the Tyrrellme war agenda.

Miró said.

"Yes, you do."

Well then, Melissa, thank you for your explanation.

"Yes, please see this map"

Melissa put a new map on the wall.

"The border in the middle is based on our information two months ago, but it has changed dramatically in the daily struggle, so please consider it for reference. King Alfred's sphere of influence is much larger, but the southern part of King Angelica's sphere of influence is a high-value zone that produces iron ore and coal, so you may think that the momentum is largely reversed.”

What is the Third Independent Territory there?

Dimitri asked.

“Yes, let me explain a little first. Before the outbreak of the Civil War, the empire of the god Tyrellme was a country with very strong powers. There were nine powerful lords called the Imperial Electors, and they had a large territory in the country in the form of an independent nation with the privilege of choosing an emperor. They had an opportunistic attitude to the civil war, but this harsh civil war did not allow for such ambiguity. In between the two forces, one is crushed and two are crushed, and only the three reigning lords present in the mountains remain. What remained was the mountainous area, which made it easy to defend, and the three of them, who had been closely cooperating since the outbreak of the civil war, were well defended. It's a neutral country."

I see. Thank you.

Dimitri lowered her head lightly.

No, no, no.

Melissa said in a panic.

She is an elite analyst sent by the intelligence department to collect and analyze information from overseas in the Republic of Albio, so she is a talented person but not a great person.

Dimitri is one of the great ones, so it's only natural to be sorry if she gets that attitude.

"... well, as far as I'm concerned, I can cook on either side."

“Yes, the problem is how to cook.”

Miró said as he looked at the map.

Angelica can get in through the ocean, and Alfred's sphere of influence is wide open on our side, with few soldiers reported.

Well, Tyrellme has been doing that for a long time, and we have only the lowest number of soldiers along the border, and the same number of soldiers. We are somehow stunned by the army's retreat to contain a large area behind us, but this isn't going to be a massive force either.

When the front line moves in front of you, we move our troops a little. If something goes wrong and you break in here, the fragile front will be easily broken through, and if you don't control it, you will be deeply broken in. Well, after all, it didn't happen, and when the battle over there was over and a new boundary was formed, they spied out and checked the number of garrison troops in our village, and if it was thirty, they would put about thirty there as well. Repeatedly, regular army clashes have never happened since we recaptured Kirchner.

It's like a good silent gentleman's agreement, but this is not such a fine story.

Just because there was already an opponent who was fighting with each other, we just turned our backs to each other and said that we didn't want another opponent.

I knocked the opponent out first, and now that I've recovered from the wounds, I'll turn to them as far as I can. There is no reproach on your conscience for hitting you on the back.

The question is how to hit him. In the first place, the two forces are incomparably tired, and they can be crushed from the west and east. However, there is also the question of what to do after the destruction, and it can be a troublesome war if the countries that are backing down intervene.

"By the way, is there a tendency in the domestic public sentiment to want to win?"

"King Angelica is overwhelmingly more popular, so I'm sure that's what you want." She will only plunder within reason, and her enemies will not punish her for any reason. King Alfred is purely fearful of slaughtering the people who turned to Angelica's side. ”

Well, that would be it.

That doesn't necessarily lead to fear of weakness. Some are the strengths of rulers who rule with fear.

Well, it would be different to talk about a real tyrant who imposes an unusual tax rate and laughs and watches his people die of starvation, but the fact that he has continued the war without properly bankrupting the country so far does not mean that he does not have such a foolish way of governing.

“That said, it doesn't matter which one governs first. The same is true of the heavy taxes imposed on the people as they survive and the fierce burning of the war. Overall, I think the biggest frustration is that you can either end the war or not. In that sense, it may be a convenient situation for the Shiyalta Kingdom. If you're going to end the war and get your days back peacefully, it might be less repulsive in this country than it is in the two of you.”

I don't know about that, but the fact that the first situation is extremely bad certainly doesn't produce any bad effects.

If we govern peacefully, the amplitude will swing upwards, so people should be satisfied accordingly.

In the first place, I was the one who framed the civil war in question.

"Well, let's start thinking about it a little tomorrow." It's about time the sun went down today, so let's get it over with. "

That's right.

"Dimitri, do you have anything?"

No, I don't think so.

Melissa initially spoke of looting in the Albio Republic and other things outside of Dimitri's jurisdiction, so she would have been tired of talking about things that had nothing to do with her.

I stood in my chair, turned around to Melissa's desk,

Thank you very much, Melissa.

and shook hands.

"No, no, it's okay."

"If you don't have any problems, you can leave the paper stretched." I will use it tomorrow. This is a conference room that the security has built in a tight compartment so that you can leave the classifieds behind. "

There is another conference room in the first place, and you have scattered materials from the New Continent. If you have a conference in a conference room on the New Continent, you have a big problem when you forget something, so you have to pay a lot of attention to the withdrawal every time. So I set up a conference room in a place where I didn't have to evacuate.

"Is that so?" Now, I'll just take the briefcase with me. ”

Yeah.

I opened the door and walked out into the hallway.

Then,

Oh, no, ahhhhhh...

The girl's screams were heard in the distance. The door of this room is made of heavy rattan. It must have been soundproofed and could not be heard until now.