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Chapter 128 - Early Detection

 

 

 

"Ars, I'm seeing smoke coming from the northeast watchtower."

 

"Seriously? Baito-nii, gather the cavalry. Let's go."

 

　It had been a while since Vargas and Dad had brought in the new recruits.

 

　While I was renovating the walls of the Einrad fortress and training the recruits how to use the catapults, my brother called out to me.

 

　Apparently, a signal was coming from one of the watchtowers that had been built to monitor the movements of the Uruk family.

 

　Like my father had said, I thought that the Uruks would not attack us if they saw this fortification that had changed the shape of Einrad Hill so much.

 

　However, it seems that I was wrong.

 

　Baito-nii and I mounted our Valkyries and rode them to the northeast.

 

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"Over there. We can see Uruk's army from there."

 

"All right. Thanks for leading the way."

 

　The watchtowers would raise a smoke signal to let us know that something was wrong in the distance.

 

　So, the movements of the Uruks that were reported via several watchtowers seemed to be still in their early stages.

 

　It seems that they had discovered an army that was on its way to us and informed us of it.

 

　The progress of an army takes much longer than expected.

 

　It takes time just to move a large group of people together, but they also have to carry food and other supplies along with them.

 

　The larger the size of the army, the slower the marching speed becomes, especially since both the Fontana and the Uruk families knew about that and didn't dare to build roads to help the other side.

 

　Depending on the location, they may only be able to go about 15 kilometers in a day.

 

　That's why we were able to detect the movements of such a slow-moving Uruk army early, and also because we have a quick method of transportation called Valkyries.

 

　We were able to see with our own eyes the Uruk army that was actually advancing at a position farther away from the defensive point, Fort Einrad.

 

"I'm glad the watchtower helped, but this is tough."

 

"That's a lot of soldiers. The Uruks have already gathered that many? Hey, Ars. How many are we talking about?"

 

"I don't know exactly, but from a quick look at ......, I'd say at least 3,000, maybe more like 5,000, nii-san."

 

"What do we do? Should we launch an attack?"

 

"No, Barca's cavalry is only about 200 cavalrymen, even if you include the Valkyries with horns, it's still too few. Launching an attack is absurd."

 

"Then, are we going back to Einrad like this? But even if we add up all the new recruits located there, we're still outnumbered. What are you planning to do?"

 

"Hmmm... let's see....."

 

　The soldiers who had been stationed at the watchtower led us to a position where we could see the entire Uruk army.

 

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　There, after checking the number of opponents, my brother and I were left wondering what we should do now.

 

　This was because the number of opponents was much larger than we had expected.

 

　Since we were looking through binoculars from a distance on the plains, we couldn't tell the exact number.

 

　However, there were a huge number of people moving around.

 

　They were not walking in a neat line, and it was difficult to count the number of people.

 

　The difference in numbers was quite wide, but I managed to estimate their numbers.

 

　But no matter how I looked at it, the number exceeded that of the Barcan Calvary.

 

　I didn't bring everyone from Barcania with the Barca surname, because there was a new city that I had built and I could not leave it unprotected.

 

　Therefore, I had brought about 200 people with the surname of cavalrymen to ride Valkyries.

 

　When I came to Einrad Hill with Carlos, I had recruited more young men who had come to Barcania to stave off hunger, so there were about 200 of us.

 

　And this time, with Carlos' permission, I've gathered a new number of men from Barcania, Fontana City, and the villages near Einrad Hill, making a total of less than 1,000 men under my command at Einrad Fort.

 

　Will this number be enough to oppose the House of Uruk?

 

　If they have 3,000, they will attack us with three times as many as we have, but we might still have a good chance, considering that we are only defending inside our fortress and not particularly fighting.

 

　However, we've never been in a battle of attrition before, and we're full of new recruits, so I don't know if we can handle them properly.

 

　Still, if 5,000 or so is their strength, it would be five times our strength. (TLN: Remember how Ars was saying that he estimated the number of soldiers and that the number varied largely... well, the number he estimated was in a range of 3 ~ 5k enemy soldiers.)

 

　If that's the case, it might be pretty tough.

 

　In fact, weren't Carlos and his men attacking the city to the north right now?

 

　The Uruk family seems to be putting a lot of effort into this, as they're sending out additional troops to retake Einrad while a battle is being fought there as well.

 

　The other party is probably desperate.

 

"In the meantime, we need to report this to Carlos-sama and Einrad Fort in the north. Send out a messenger."

 

"Right. I'll send some people."

 

"Nii-san, send someone to the north who knows the area. I'll write them a note to come to our assistance."

 

"Do we really need help?"

 

"Of course we need help. I've been ordered to defend Fort Einrad, which means that if we're going to fight the enemy at this point, the worst we can hope for is a siege. You can't do that without help from the outside."

 

"So you're just going to let them go on without doing anything about it, Ars?"

 

 

"...... No, that's no fun. We'll at least give them a blow."

 

"That's what I'm talking about! So, what are we going to do? Are we going to ride up to them and shoot at them with magic, like we usually do?"

 

"No, there are too many of them to do that. If they intercept us with their bows and arrows, there is a possibility that we will be harmed even if we are riding mounts."

 

"What do we do then?"

 

"What then? A night attack. We'll attack at night after it gets dark. If we're successful, we might even be able to make them turn back.

 

　Thus, we, the Barca Cavalry, began to prepare for a night attack against the Uruk family's army of several thousand men.

 

 

 

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