Chapter 171: Engineering Soldiers
I unleashed my sperm into Rosé three times.
By the time I poured my last load into her, she had no more words of resistance, and she just endured the vibrations.
I said to her, “Ha ……. That was good.”
It was refreshing, as if he had left all the heat that had risen on the battlefield in her vagina her.
As I picked up to put on the pants I had taken off, one of the military officers held out a towel to me.
I was still staining my lower body with splattered semen from repeated piston movements after ejaculation.
After carefully wiping off my inner thighs, I put the towel on Rose's ass her.I put the towel on Rose's buttocks to prevent other men from seeing her secret place her.
After putting on my pants and straightening my clothes, I looked at the military officer.
I looked at the military officer and said, “This is Rosé, you can take it down now.
Shall I take you up to the …… Mansion?”
I could tell from the tone of his voice that he was not very enthusiastic.
It is not uncommon for aristocrats to become infatuated and obsessed with the women they like. The actuality of the fact that the particulars of the particulars is that the particulars are not really a lot of.
I am told not to touch the daughters of other lords, partly because I am wary of so-called demonic women, in addition to the troublesome diplomatic relations that would ensue.
There are countless stories of pathetic aristocratic men who are infatuated with the princesses of other domains and end up at the mercy of them and, by extension, other families.
Since it is not easy to hang a princess whose family is backed by a noble family, it is extremely troublesome to deal with a princess who begins to act in the dark.
However, there is no need to worry so much about Rosé.
The Quardenzes and the Spierzeiks are each other's worst enemies, so diplomatic considerations can be kept to a minimum.
Confining Rosé to a place isolated from the outside world requires no concern on anyone's part. And there is not much that Lohse, who cannot cooperate with the Spierzeiks, can do.
Furthermore, it is generally said that aristocrats who are sexually active and fond of women have a low risk of eccentricity. Extremely dependent on one woman.
It is for this reason that I was allowed to hold her.
If Rose had been a knight who served in the service of a noble family in a delicate position to the extent that he was blackmailed by the Spierzeig family and reluctantly sent out reinforcements, at least I would not have been able to embrace her immediately.
I'm not sure I would have been able to hold him. Treat him as one of your prisoners of war, and be polite.
I say, “I'm not hot enough to give you to the mansion, but I want to hold you again, so just make sure you keep yourself safe…….
The reality that the risk of infatuation is low, knights and warriors are concerned. The most important thing to remember is that you should not show any pretense of getting carried away with the rosé.
They would have been very nervous if I had suddenly started having sex alone with the female knight of the Spierzeig family. Considering this, the rape play …… Was probably a good thing to reassure them.
And above all, they wanted to try the act of ordering their male subordinates to hold down a woman and enjoy it for themselves. Over the same sex.
Ha! I will be watching you very closely, sir.
The military officer replied briskly and shouted outside the curtain.
It seems that he is arranging for a female servant to take care of Rosé. I'm glad to see that my intentions were conveyed accurately.
I'll seal her again. It will last longer.
Thank you.
I turned up the towel a little, put my hands on Rose's hips her, and poured all the magic I could into her to seal her magic her.
The actual magic seal is useful, but it is hard to know when the seal is going to be broken. One day, all of a sudden, she will be able to use magic.
This is difficult to visualize, but if I were to use an analogy, I would say that it is similar to having one's entire body wrapped in a rubber balloon.Even if one tries to release magic power out of the body in order to use magic , the magic seal that surrounds the body only expands and does not go out to the outside world.
The balloon expands and expands by intentionally emitting magic power or by the natural release of magic power.
However, just as you can tell when a balloon is about to burst when it is full, you can at least tell when the seal is about to collapse by carefully checking the condition of the magical seal.
Since only those with magical power can check the condition of the magical seal, the hands of the followers are needed to monitor it as well.
If the …… Magic seal is broken and the captive escapes or takes a servant hostage, the worst that can happen is that the captive is killed. Of course, you must watch carefully so that this does not happen. Permit the use of restraints.”
I am sorry to make them go through all this trouble for the sake of my sexual desire, so I will be a little more careful.
If I say this, the military officers will be able to violate her and restrain her without hesitation in the event that Rosé's magical seal is broken and she goes berserk. It's much better than if the servants of Quardenze are harmed or flee because they think, “We can't let the young master's favored daughter get hurt.”
Ha! We will be very careful not to let them escape or harm themselves.”
Suicide is very difficult for a follower who has been sealed with a magical seal.
The reason is that the magic seal is a technique that prevents the release of magic power, and does not reduce the magic power itself to zero. Also requires a certain amount of power.
The quickest way to commit suicide is to unleash magic on oneself, but this is not possible in a state of magical sealing.
The only way for Rose to kill herself would be to cut her stomach, neck, or wrists with a concealed blade or something. Someone would discover him and heal him before he passed out and died.
If he had a chance to die, it would be when he fought against me. Well, no knight would kill himself at once when his master's avenger is in front of him.
Considering this, the decisiveness of a female priestess named Diana of the Zethusian High Priestess Society, who immediately committed suicide so that her existence would not be detrimental to the organization to which she belonged, is tremendous. I feel such a snarky belief that only the shadows are straight, even though they are eerily shaped objects that are twisted here and there.
Oh, I'll leave it to you.”
I left Rosé in the hands of the military officers and decided to return to the tent where the main camp was located.
I left the camp tent, which had been the site of the rape, and looked up at the sky to see the moon rising high into the night. Perhaps it was because my eyes were dazzled by the stars, but when I turned my gaze back to the ground, the darkness around me seemed even darker.
It had been quite a busy day since the morning, with horses being ridden, enemy troops being broken through, a single horsefight with the mainlander, and a female knight being raped. He was mentally exhausted, and I could tell that sleep was closing in on him.
When I entered the tent of the main camp, the military officers inside began to move in a hurry. The battlefield seemed to have settled down, and the number of military officers was much larger than before.
A man who had been given command of the Quardenze forces stationed in Nambonan City arrives immediately with several executive-class military officers at his back, as if he had been forewarned beforehand.He is the son of the knight Gatoren and the next head of the Gatoren family.
He was in his thirties or forties, and his hardworking body was muscular, and his broad shoulders made him look very large. His thick neck, reminiscent of a giant tree, and the backs of his rugged hands with floating blood vessels strongly appealed to his masculinity.
Waka-sama.”
The commanding officer and the other senior military officers all put one foot on the ground and bowed to me in a mysterious manner.
I was the only one standing up in the silent tent, and I thought about what I would say to them.
You have done a good job in your duty of defense.
Without their skill, we would not have been able to unilaterally overrun Spierzeig's army to this extent.
When the senior military officers were afraid and stooped even lower, I allowed them to stand up on the grounds that we were still in the middle of the battlefield.
'In the west, your grandfather is fighting. Continue to prepare reinforcements for us.'
Ha.”
They are currently building up reinforcement units in parallel with the disposal of the remnants. However, since the soldiers are tired from the collision with Spierzeig's army, they cannot depart immediately this evening.
Since there are several main ancestral forces waiting for them at the frontline base, the reinforcement force needs to be of a certain size, and since the number of local soldiers is likely to be decreasing, there is no room for a forced breakthrough by the Wilk forces like this.
If they force their way into the area and are destroyed, the reinforcements will be meaningless.
After a few brief exchanges about future plans, the commander made a recommendation.
After a brief exchange of views, the commanding officer advised, “…… We are already in a situation where we can handle the battlefield on our own, so I would like you to take a break. You must be tired today , so I sent a messenger to the city earlier to boil water.
Those who work for the Kuordenze family know how much I like to take a bath. I have often said that I don't feel like a day is complete without a bath after a day of exercise, so they must have been thinking of me.
Indeed, even though it was winter, I was sweating, my feet were steaming in my boots, and my body felt dusty from the sand and dust. I would like to take a long bath before going to bed.
As I was to be the general of the reinforcements, it would not look good if I was tired, so resting here was also a necessary act to be fully prepared.
I'm going to take a rest today. I'm going to take a rest today. If you see anything unusual at ……, Please report it immediately.”
Upon hearing my reply, the commander selects a few military officers to escort me. Apparently prepared in advance, the military officers were armed not for war but for escort.
When I was about to leave the tent with my escort, the commander shouted with pleasure at my back, “I would like to express my sincere appreciation to for your kindness today.
Today, …… Was truly a brilliant performance.”
All of the horses that were riding at the time of Wilk's charge were stunned, except for one.
The one horse that didn't faint was the one I used to ride in New Nellie City. If the horse was accustomed to the reinforcement magic, it would have been able to withstand it because there would be little recoil when it was struck down.
However, just because he did not faint did not mean that he was not affected.
On the way back to the city, I looked around and saw Spierzeig's soldiers gathered here and there.
The contrast between the Quardenze soldiers standing with their spears in their hands and the Spiaseik soldiers sitting with their legs outstretched seemed to indicate victory or defeat.
Flames and lights created by magic occasionally floated in and out of the darkness, as if the remnants were being dealt with in the distance.
When a unit led by a military officer magically created a bonfire, a group of what appeared to be enemy soldiers moved away from it.
“Are there still troops resisting?
I muttered to myself, and a military officer walking next to me picked up on my words.
No, those are probably just a bunch of mutineers running away in a frenzy,” He said. The military officers were almost all killed, and the engineers surrendered. There are no more troops that can offer any resistance.
“Well, the construction workers have……
Although the nobles of the Eluo continent maintain their own armies and institutions, they also have many things in common.
One of them was the existence of soldiers known as the “Army of engineers.
Haha, about 5,000 engineering soldiers have descended upon us. We need to figure out how to handle them, because they are quite numerous.”
There are three main reasons why nobles have armies. They are to control the people, to resist the invasion of other families, and to protect the land from the demonic beasts that are the enemies of mankind.
When the demonic beasts fly out of the field, they go around defiling the land, so humans need to rush to the field quickly to deal with them. For this reason, road maintenance has been actively practiced on the continent of Eluo since ancient times.
It is the pride of the nobility, the guardians of the land, to maintain roads and be prepared to deal with magical beasts no matter where they appear in their territory.
If they left the roads unimproved to make it difficult for other families to attack, they would say, “Nobles who cannot even maintain the roads are not qualified to be rulers. We will protect the land from demonic beasts.” In the vicinity a cause for a war of aggression.
For this reason, the ruling class of the Eluo continent is not concerned about road maintenance. If the roads are in disrepair, they will be underestimated, which will lead not only to demonic beasts but also to a diplomatic crisis.
For this reason, even the most financially strapped aristocrat family will work desperately to maintain the roads in order to protect their reputation. The result is a series of beautifully maintained roads next to a desolate and inactive city, like the roads in the countryside that produced a great politician in prehistoric Japan.
It is said that the beginning of the engineering corps can be found in these road maintenance workers.
Even if we simply speak of road maintenance, the content of construction work covers a wide range of areas. From laying out roads, to flood control, to building bridges over rivers if there are any, to cutting through large forests to make roads, to building tunnels through mountains, and so on.
It is clear that the work is faster and of better quality if workers are hired to do the work, rather than having to gather temporary manpower each time. Nobles who could afford to do so would hire workers on a regular basis.
They could move around without having to be called on every time and, of course, the lords found it easier to use a group of workers who were accustomed to organized behavior. They had a certain degree of loyalty compared to the rural soldiers who were brought in as conscripts.
It may have been inevitable that the workers would change their status to that of standing army or engineering soldiers as time went on.
The majority of aristocrats, regardless of the ratio, mix conscripts and mercenaries with construction workers to make up their armies, and the Quardenze and Spierzeig families are no different in this respect.
Whenever the ancestral army is mobilized, it is always accompanied by a bodyguard. In general, the noblemen are flanked by their escorting retinue, and the engineering soldiers are placed around them.
Five thousand. The Spierzeiks must have a hard time.
Among the commoners, the local militiamen are the most changeable, but the construction workers are the most difficult to change.
In addition to their skills as soldiers, the construction techniques for which they are originally intended are not something that can be easily discarded. The high quality of construction soldiers can be said to be an indicator of the scientific and technological capabilities of the noble family.
For example, there is a saying on the Eluo continent, “Know a castle by its bridges. This saying is based on the fact that one can tell the strength of the engineering staff by looking at the bridges, and can even imagine how strong the castle's defenses are.
At least wear decent clothes. It is used like this: “You know a castle by its bridges. It means that if you don't keep up appearances, people will think you are a bad person from the inside out.
The Quardenze family, located at a strategic point of transportation, is financially rich through trade. Recently, in addition to these, there is also a profit from the pioneering association of which I am the president.
The number of construction workers held by the Kuordenze family is approximately 30,000, and even if you add the construction workers held by each of the knight families under their control, the number may not reach 40,000, which is a delicate figure.
The Spiaseik family, whose territory covers the rich land of the Vojstra Plain, probably has a larger number of engineers than the Kuordentse family.
Even if the Spiaseiks had 40,000 construction workers, 5,000 is not a small number.
How many prisoners of war do you think there will be in all?
'The hunt for miscellaneous soldiers is ongoing, but I think we can eventually take about 30,000 prisoners.
For Spierzeig's soldiers, who had planned to attack a city without a master, the loss of their master, Verret, and antagonizing their master, Wilk, was probably an unexpected event.
The Spiaseik army, which had lost control of its command structure, was instantly crushed, and it is said that it was overflowing with soldiers who surrendered, seeking forgiveness.
Although there were some who desperately fled, the Quardenze army, which had more soldiers and a better knowledge of the land, quickly blocked their escape route.
This morning, a message arrived at Newnery Castle, saying that Spiasek's army, numbering about 38,000 men, was approaching Nambonan City.
As a result of a surprise attack by the mainland army, we have captured about 80% of the enemy soldiers……. If I sent such a report, they would think it was a joke.
That's quite a large number.”
'For better or worse, it's a big number.
My head, which was beginning to blur with sleep, seemed to be thinking that this could only be a good thing for the Quardenze family, but I wondered where the bad elements were.
I had been so relaxed since I decided to return to the city that I gradually lost my train of thought, so I gave up on thinking and asked the military officer for an answer.
I asked the military officer, abandoning my thoughts, “Is there something wrong with me?
'To say there is something wrong is a misnomer, but it is a number that cannot be determined by on-the-spot judgment. What do you think …… Young master should be done with the Spierzeig soldiers' prisoners? “
The tone of the military officer was light, suggesting that he was asking as part of a chat.
I bit back a yawn, slowed my horse a little, and thought about the answer to that question.
The first thing that came to my mind was the idea of selling him into slavery, but I guess that would be a no-no.
My grandfather often gave captured soldiers to slavers, but he never sold that many in a single sale. At least, I had never heard that he traded in units of a thousand or ten thousand thousand.
If I were to suddenly try to hand over 30,000 slaves to some slaver out there, they would either refuse to buy them or they would be beaten down tremendously. The slave market charts would be Niagara Falls.
Since it is expensive and time-consuming to preserve living human beings, it is also difficult to spare them to the extent that the market price does not collapse.
'At most, there would only be a few hundred people that could be sold to the slavers.
If the number is small, they can be sold to slavers, and if not, they can be used to build a fortification of a frontline base.
But still, 30,000 is too many. Just thinking about the amount of food that would be consumed was enough to give me a headache. On the other hand, I think it would be a waste to give away for free what I have taken the trouble to acquire. Is it my poor nature?
“Killing everyone is another……
Wouldn't you be inclined to do so?”
The military officer was right. Killing unarmed people who have already surrendered is not a wake-up call, no matter how accustomed they are to the values of the nobility.
Of course, the Quardenze soldiers who will be carrying it out will also feel it somewhat. The Quardenze and Spierzeig are commoners who speak the same language, even though they have different lords.
And above all, considering the future, the idea of massacre seems to have a large disadvantage.
The majority of the soldiers are citizens of Spiaseik. We don't want them to be devastated when Quardenze takes over.
Killing all 30,000 here would simply make these numbers disappear, and would also lead to the destruction of the lives of families waiting for their return in rural villages and cities.
Small villages may collapse, and even if they don't, life may become difficult and peddling may become popular.
In the village of Tico, for example, villagers were lured by the recruitment of mercenaries from the city of Nambonan, and as a result, many of them were defeated by the Quardentse allied forces and did not return, and they said that life in the The village had deteriorated greatly.
The Quardenze family's offensive will be further strengthened by their defeat of Verret this time. It would be a shame to lose the goodwill of the Spiaseik territory that we are about to carve out. As the saying goes, “A raccoon that never gets caught is a raccoon that never gets caught,” But if you are going to invade anyway, the fewer impoverished villages you have, the better.
Besides, it would be irksome to collect grudges and add to the centipede's legacy.
If the Kuordenze family is resented by the people of Spierzeig, it will make it that much harder to hunt the remnants and counter guerrillas after the reign.
Wives and mothers whose husbands and sons were massacred would be willing to help guerrilla fighters who resist the Kuordenze family behind the scenes in order to take revenge.
In the first place, there is a strong possibility that the invasion of Nambonan by the Spierzeig family is being led by the remnants of such a knightly family.
But reducing the number of soldiers will surely weaken the Spiaseik family. For the sake of our future march, I think there is a sample room for consideration to reduce the 30,000 troops here.
It is typical of a military officer in the field to think first of the enemy in front of him, rather than of the territory he has yet to acquire.
However, nobles and knights must decide their actions with an eye on the future of their territories.
Muu……”
After passing the crumbling walls of the city of Nambonan and entering the city, I was still thinking about the treatment of the prisoners of war.
It was dark at night and I was surrounded by military officers, so the citizens wandering the streets didn't seem to notice that I was walking.
Even if they had seen me, I would have been fully armed and wearing my grandmother's relic. Mmmm! Wasn't that armor designed by the previous generation head of the Quardenze family, Quardenze Kasia-sama! There is no way that a mere military officer or knight could have worn that. …… So, that man over there must be Wilk, the eldest son of the Kuordenze family!” Unless you are a commoner with an aristocratic mania for ……, You should not be able to tell them apart.
As we reach the main street, I resume the conversation.
'……, Perhaps it would be better to release the prisoners.
May I ask why?”
Despite the fact that I suddenly continued, the military officer responded immediately.
'Because it is necessary to make the result of this battle known in the territory of Spierzeig.
I spun the words as I organized my thoughts in my head.
The knights and military officers serving the Spiaseik family were all killed by the Quardenze family, and their legitimate son, Verret, was easily defeated in single combat. Blink of an eye.”
The horror stories they tell of their up-close experience of my murderous intent will spread like an epidemic.
In the future, some may flee the draft for fear of fighting with the Quardenze army, and mercenaries will be even harder to gather than they are now.
'Yes, it might be a good idea to start a victory feast in front of the captives. Let's show them that the Quardenze family has plenty of food and money to spare. Am sure the lords are even more exhausted than they are.”
I have overheard several stories about the Spiaseiks suffering from heavy taxes. He showed them the wealth of the Quardenze territory right in front of their eyes. What will they really think?
Let them understand that they have been defeated not only in battle but also in wealth by the Kuordentse.
Some of them will think that their lives will be easier if they are under the control of the Kuordenze. Conveniently, this is the city of Nambonan.
What do you mean?
I rode my horse all day to protect the city of Nambonan.
The fall of Nambonan was unacceptable for strategic reasons.
The people will think. Even if the Spierzeiks are defeated and annexed, the commoners themselves will be saved, as in Nambonan, and if the Quardenzes, who can afford it, become lords, the taxes on the village will be reduced. ……
In fact, there has been no massacre of civilians in Nambonan, and on the surface, the city continues to operate peacefully.
Nambonan City is a sample. The soldiers of Spiaseik will see it as an example of how a change of lord can have little effect on the lives of the common people.
If that idea becomes contagious, so will we. The morale of the soldiers will be lowered, and it will be easier to bring down the city.
An army made up of soldiers who think that the Spiaseiks would be better off if they lost would easily be able to break through.
The people are not moved by loyalty like knights. “The people will not be moved by loyalty like knights, but they will be moved if you show them simple and easy-to-understand advantages.
It is not the people of Spierzeig that I am liberating, but the potential Quardenze people, the bombs. Soldiers who have low morale and cut corners in battle …… This is no longer a passive agent.
And it grows in number the more momentum the Quordentse army gains.
While holding them as prisoners of war, we can develop a stealth marketing campaign using citizens who are breathing down our necks. Since I became a Quordenze, I've won the lottery, I've got a girlfriend, and I'm happy as a clam!” I'm so happy!
I see…….How about the engineers?”
Of the 30,000 POWs, 5,000 are engineers.
Speaking of the engineering soldiers, they surrendered very easily.
Generally speaking, unlike the conscripts, the engineers were more loyal.
Then, a military officer who was advancing in front of us turned around and answered our question.
He said, “I talked to him a little, and he told me that he hasn't been paid well recently. As Roomon said, I think their finances are in a tight spot.
The military officer who said this was a rear light of the Gatoren family, which is famous for its mania for brothels.
He had once entrusted Roomon with navigating him to a brothel, and apparently they had become good friends at that time and had something to talk about.
Learight, who had heard from Roomon about the Spierzeig family's financial projections, apparently went around asking the surrendered engineering soldiers what the actual situation was like.He is a man who is light on his feet.
He was a man who was quick on his feet. “Are the Spierzeiks so strapped for cash that they can't afford to pay the engineers?”
According to Rearight, there were some who negotiated with the Quardenze family to work for them.
There is no shortage of highly specialized technicians and skilled craftsmen. Rather than enslaving them and forcing them to work, it would be better to hire them properly and they would do a better job. Their employment was open to full consideration.
You say, “……5000? Maybe we don't need to rush to a conclusion. It would cost a little more in food, but we could use them to build the walls of Nambonan City.
Fortunately, the military is stationed in Nambonan City, so there are plenty of guards to watch over the city.
It is also a good idea to use them to solidify the defense line in and around Nambonan City, especially in the southern mountainous areas, in order to respond to a surprise attack like this one.
If they were taken to a frontline base, it would be easier for them to escape because of the proximity to Spierzeig territory, so it would be safer to have them work in the vicinity of Nambonan City.
And we should pull out the available personnel.
If you let them work, you will naturally find out who is capable.
Since we are going to this trouble, let's take the best of the construction workers that the Spierzeik family has carefully nurtured.
Young man, do you think that you will open up the civilian soldiers and keep the construction workers?
Yes, but we are not releasing them for free. Of course, we will take a ransom.
The young man said, “Yes, but I'm not going to let them go for free.
…… I'm afraid that would be difficult. The Spierzeiks will cut off their subjects.”
In the case of commoner prisoners of war, the ransom may be determined roughly by looking at the number of people and negotiating the delivery of the prisoners, just like selling meat by weight.
The nobles basically do not value the lives of commoners, so if the price is too high, they will not be able to sell. In this case, the number of soldiers would be 25,000 if we exclude the engineering soldiers, so the price would be quite high if we multiplied it by the number of soldiers.
Although it will depend on the pricing here, it is somewhat predictable that the financially strapped Spierzeik family will refuse, or even if they do buy it, they will narrow the range by dividing it by age or whether or not the person is missing a limb .
Wouldn't it be easier to negotiate if we put Verrett's body on the property together?”
That is where the tying-up business comes in.
They would package Verrett's body and the 25,000 commoners as inseparable.
'Wouldn't that be a waste of ……? Better to keep it on hand …….'
No need.
I'm not the kind of person who loves the head of a vanquished enemy and hangs it in my room.
In any case, it is not Verret's head that my father and grandfather want.
What my father and grandfather hate more than anything else is the previous head of the Spierzeig family, who is said to have killed my uncle, and his son, the current head of the family.
The current head of the family may have some feelings toward his son, but I don't think my father and grandfather would be pleased with the humiliation of Verrett's corpse.
The grandfather, in particular, has shown a disastrous hatred for the previous head of the family, but he does not seem to have much interest in the other members of the family.
Perhaps, though, they will let me dispose of Verrett's body as I please.
But……”
I dismiss the lamentations of the military officers who are possessed by the “Wasteful ghost,” And instruct them to clean up Veretto's body.
Rather than handing over a shabby corpse, it would make the recipient feel happier to hand over a clean, properly made-up corpse,…..
Well, if they refuse to negotiate, so be it. The Spierzeiks can advertise that they are too weak to even negotiate for their son's body.
Considering the reputation of the surrounding nobles, I rather feel that the damage to the Spiaseik family would be greater if negotiations broke down.
Since we have the Nambonan merchants, who travel all over the continent, we have an overwhelming advantage in publicity activities. We can spread bad publicity throughout the continent.
Moreover, we will have a hard time recruiting soldiers in the future since we have left more than 20,000 of our own people to die. And I suspect that the local engineering corps will also start preparing to flee in the night.”
And I would add my explanation about the negotiations.
If you are considering the feelings of the people, it is better to negotiate first to take back only the people of the territory.
If the negotiations are successful, the people of Spierzeig might be grateful.
Of course, the Spierzeiks would not be able to afford such a deal. As a result, the lords would be cut off.
After the negotiations broke down, they once again offered to sell a set of vellets, this time to the lords.
If this negotiation is successful, the lords will return home alive, but no gratitude to the Spierzeig family will be generated.
The lord didn't want us commoners, he wanted the bodies of his own children, didn't he? If he really intended to save us, why did he refuse to negotiate in the first place? You only paid what you had to because it was a set sale, right? You didn't want us, did you?” There is absolutely no room for rebuttal to opinions such as …….
As a result, the Spierzeik family ends up garnering hatred rather than gratitude, despite having paid the ransom for their lords.
No matter how it turns out, it will be a delicious story, and the price should be raised to the limit of what the Spiaseik family can afford.
I would ask for a quote from RoomOn, just to be sure. As an ex-merchant, they are likely to offer me a very high price, aiming at the very limit of what they can afford.
I'm going to ask them to give me a quote. I'd like to wait for your father's decision.
A message has already been sent to New Nellie Castle regarding the war situation in Nambonan City.
But it will be a long time before we see his reply, as he will be away on a reinforcement mission to help his grandfather, I will keep thinking about the treatment of prisoners of war, because my father might ask me about it.
'Even so, the Spierzeig family will probably suffer a major setback because of this incident. Won't it also hasten the prediction that it will take 10 years to capture Raishleif Castle?”
When I mentioned this, I felt a change in the atmosphere in an instant.
The military officers moved their heads awkwardly to look at me, and then checked to see if there were any people around.
What's wrong?”
By the look on their faces, they knew that I had made some kind of mistake.
I waited for the next words from the military officers, wondering what in the world was wrong with what I had just said.
I waited for the next words from the military officers, wondering what was wrong with what I had just said.
I remembered who had told me that story.
I had a feeling that I heard it from a military officer of the Kuordenze family, but when I thought about it, I realized that I was remembering it wrong.
I thought I had heard it from a military officer of the Quardenze family, but on second thought, that was not the case.
I see.
The military officers, perhaps realizing that the “Other family” I was referring to was a family outside of the Kuordenze territory, looked blatantly relieved.
Then, the military officer took a breath and muttered a small piece of advice rather than a sermon.
Young Master. You must never talk about that in front of the Master.
What is that story?
He further lowered his voice, despite the fact that the only people around him were military officers.
He then added, “It's a projection of how many more years it will take to bring down the Spierzeiks.
I didn't know why he was so concerned about mere war predictions.
Two more outs and Koshien! The first thing that comes to mind is a flag-like jinx from a baseball comic book that makes it impossible to get an out when you say, “Two more outs and you're in the Koshien!
Is the forecast wrong?”
As I asked back, I had a feeling that was not the case. If my prediction was wrong, the military officers would correct me correctly.
While the military officers were at a loss for a reply, Rialight asked permission to speak.
'What predictions did you hear, young master?
'The one that with the current momentum of the Quardenze family, it would take ten years to capture Raishleif Castle and about five years in addition to that to bring down the city of Othelloria.
The source of the information was Viscount Galiana. He had overheard the brainy military officers of the Galliana family talking about such a plan.
Since Othellia City is the stronghold of the Spiaseik family, the fall of the city would mean the downfall of the Spiaseik family.
I vaguely remember thinking, “I hope that by the time I become the head of the family, the enemies will have been destroyed and we can live in peace.
When I was wondering if this prediction was correct, Realite seemed to have noticed my question and opened his mouth.
The prediction is accurate, but wrong.
'…… What's that?'
It seemed like a riddle, but Realite's face was serious.
This is a problem you must consider, young master. If you can get a correct understanding, I think you will naturally discover the reason why we cannot speak of it.
Looking at the pained expressions on the faces of the military officers, it was clear that we could not force them to listen to us.
I understand. So this is also a study.”
While many of the military officers were relieved, only Rialight smiled faintly.The way he laughed resembled his grandfather, the knight Gatoren, a little.
I heard he was a wandering son of the …… Gatoren family, but as I thought, blood is no contest.
The story of the young squire of the Gatoren family, who was disgusted with his strict house and set out on a journey of self-discovery, was well known there among those associated with the Quordenze family.
Gatoren Rialright had recently returned to the Quordenze territory, but had spent many years wandering in the southern part of the continent before that.
One might wonder how a member of the Gatoren family, a model of knighthood, could be allowed to go wandering, but on the continent of Eluo, it tends to be relatively acceptable for powerful young men to go on the road.
This is due to the historical fact that Mr. Zeth, the founder of the Zeth Church, traveled throughout the continent in his youth. Even today, when the Zethu Church has distanced itself from the Zethu Church, the vague value that “Travel is good ” Still remains among the nobility.
In fact, my grandmother Cassia once left the Quardenze family to travel because of the sense of entrapment that surrounded her.
However, it was not welcome for the main ancestor, let alone a princess, to travel around so freely.
Even though she was allowed to do so due to the circumstances of the time, my grandmother was still a maverick princess.
One of the reasons why Lupetta and other cousin commoners are rather wandering from place to place is probably due to the underlying values that make them willing to travel.
The Learites were also low in the Gatoren family's order of succession, so I think it was easier for them to be allowed to wander around out there.
If it were possible, I'd like to go on a breeding tour of the continent, too.
Blood?
Yeah, your father and grandfather were both very educated.
I had just met his father, the commander, and his only praise, for the Wilk's charge was his last word, I think he was trying not to make a fool of me, since I had been flattered so much by the military commanders.
I could see what the commander was thinking while we were talking, and I was able to toughen up my heart, which was beginning to get carried away.
No, no, no.
Whether embarrassed or not, or perhaps not wanting to be put away by his house style, his Realite began to talk about his travels in the southern part of the continent as if to make an excuse.
The Free City Cluster is the collective name for the independent noble families that govern the land without belonging to the Levios Kingdom, the Zinkaen Empire, or the Zethusian Holy High Society.
The Free City Cluster is spread around the southern part of the continent, and its noble families, large and small, exist in such a way that it would be a bit of a stretch to put them to the test.
There are no noble families with large fiefdoms like the Quardenzes or the Spiaseiks, and the largest are really small, at most the Galiana fiefdoms.
The term “Free city cluster” Is also a derisive term for those who only have influence at the city level.
The free cities in the southern part of the continent, the territories of independent noble families, were very prosperous during the heyday of the Zethusian High Priory.
However, because of their location, they were directly affected by the upheavals that occurred in the Holy See and were caught in the mire of civil war.
In the case of the Vojstra region, the Spiaseik family emerged as the sole ruler, but the southern part of the continent did not integrate at all. Rather, the uprisings of the Holy High Society sparked a series of internal divisions among the aristocratic families, and the fiefdoms were only becoming smaller and smaller.
As a result, however, it can be said that they succeeded in surviving by becoming small fiefdoms.
The uprisings of the Seiko-koukai had dragged the continent into chaos and spawned numerous mature demonic beasts, but the smaller territory allowed them to protect at least the minimum amount of land they needed to protect. Of course, the land that could not be protected was overrun by magical beasts.
Even today, there are many areas in the southern part of the continent that are still heavily contaminated by demonic beasts, but the territories are protected to the extent that the independent noble families of the Free City Cluster are able to survive. ..
The number of noble families in the Free City Cluster is unnecessarily large.
There are not so many wars in which the nobles seriously chip away at each other's territory, but it is said that battles in which the nobles lightly clash their armies are quite common.
Rialites are said to have taken advantage of the privilege of being a squire and have worked as mercenaries for a number of noble families.
The Free Cities are crowded with small noble families, and their rise and fall cycles are said to be rapid.
While walking through the noble families as an ancestor mercenary, Rearight has seen many of them fall due to the decisions of the new head of the family, and has learned firsthand the importance of educating the next potential head of the family.
Since he is a ……, I suspect that his real-life experiences have more influence on him than the blood of the Gatoren family.”
I had only known him as a whorehouse enthusiast who went on a journey of self-discovery, but I felt that he had many deep life experiences as well.
Come to think of it, I saw the Gatoren family flag on the front line when I started my assault …… Was that led by a rear light?”
Just before the assault on Nambonan City, there was a force of mainly citizen soldiers with unusually high morale.
Apparently having an idea, Rearight quickly admitted that he had been assigned to head the unit.
It seems you made good use of the citizens you drafted,” He said. The knights praised your skill. They said you moved as well as if you were leading an army of engineers.
While fighting as a mercenary in the Free Cities, Rearight was also sometimes given command of a unit.
When I asked him if his experience in this area had come in handy, he answered in the affirmative.
There were few noble families in the Free City Cluster that had their own engineering corps, and the commoner conscripts were almost always the mainstay of the army.
Not many aristocratic families in the free cities can afford to hire a construction corps, which is equivalent to a standing army, although it is not very much to ask.
In the first place, since the territory is not that large, there is also the fact that they do not need that many people to maintain the roads. Basically, they draft the territory's citizens.
If any part of a territory is attacked, it will be easily destroyed if the people cannot be immediately converted into soldiers. Every noble family has a small territory.
Because of the small size of their territories, it is not unusual for the enemy's main ancestral army to attack their strongholds in one fell swoop. For this reason, the nobles, knights, and military officers of the Free City Cluster are said to be skilled in the art of quickly turning ordinary citizens into soldiers. Perhaps that is where Realite must have acquired the know-how on how to move citizen soldiers.
It was not just a journey of self-discovery, but he must have had a meaningful time because he came back with some fruits of his labor.
He must have had a meaningful time, because he came back with fruits, not just the knowledge of how to find himself,” He said. That's brilliant.
I feel uncomfortable receiving compliments from you, young master, as if I am taking credit for your work. I am sure that I led the troops, but I was not the one who actually raised the morale of the citizens.
Rearight's face hardens as if to deny the praise.
Thinking that the commander and others had been too clever in stirring the pot, I asked him who was worthy of the praise.
“It's Miss Anna.
Anna?
When the Nambonan garrison learned that Spiasek's army was approaching, they immediately called for troops in the surrounding villages and towns.
However, due to the early advance of the Shpiazeik army, there was not enough time, and the fact that there were no nobles in the Kuordentse army, many commoners were afraid to fight against the nobles and avoided being drafted, so they could not be recruited as expected. In this area, Realite seems to think that the remnants of the knight family, who had been manipulated by the Spierzeig family, may have spread bad rumors in coordination with the march.
As a result, the conscripts did not gather as many as expected, and a hard battle was expected, he said.
A decision was made by the senior military officers to evacuate Anna, Kohary, Raveh, and all my women to the interior.
But it was Anna who stood up there.
Anna called on the citizens to protect the city in the square in front of the council chamber.
It was Anna's opinion that of the citizens of Nambonan, that they would rather join the Kuordentse army on their own volition to protect their hometowns than be forcibly recruited into the Kuordentse army.
At first, the citizens of Nambonan were unsure if I would really come to defend the city of Nambonan, which until recently had been their enemy. In the past, the city of Nambonan had a history of being abandoned and isolated by the lord nobility. She was worried that she might be abandoned this time as well.
Anna tried her best to convince the citizens that the mayor would definitely come.
She was not intimidated by the Spiaseiks, the great aristocratic family in the center of the continent, but endured the strong aristocratic murderous she felt from afar, and her intent appeal that the mayor would surely come was said to have been worthy of the “Spirit of Nambonan” For the citizens.
Thus, the citizens of Nambonan, who had an unusually strong patriotic, not to say patriotic, feeling for the city, showed unusual morale, and the realites took advantage of it to hit Spierzeig's army.
Anna didn't evacuate?
'If Miss Anna is alone, the old woman of the Evermill family, who is escorting her, can let her go as much as she wants. She may be old, but she is still a follower.
They were planning to quickly let Anna go before the situation worsened if they could no longer cover her with their morale, but I appeared before that happened and confirmed their victory, so she is still in the city.
I don't know where she is, so I can't ask her, but for now, I'll give her instructions to find me by morning. She is probably still in a state of excitement right now, but I am sure she will be anxious once she calms down.
Although she had no choice, not a few Nambonan citizens died in the war at her own instigation, and a grown man should follow Anna so that she will not suffer when faced with that reality.
Lost lives can never return, so we must make a new life …… And make a constructive and geeky proposal.
As the mayor's mansion comes into view, I look up at the night sky.
Surely it will be clear tomorrow. As early as tomorrow, reinforcements may be ready to leave.
