Leo was laughing in his heart as he looked at the camp in front of him illuminated by the moonlight.
This invasion shapes the fate of the Kingdom of Rockwell.
Reinforcements from the sudden emergence of the Reid kingdom were a presence that rocked the very basis of the operational plan.
If we can get rid of them by ambushing them, then merit will be highly appreciated.
This was an "if you move as planned, you can win" situation. It couldn't have happened before.
It was Marshal Ford and Charlene who considered Operation Fartil Kingdom Invasion.
If it succeeds, it will be their handle.
- So what does defeating unexpected reinforcements mean?
That's obvious.
You can be a hero who saved the plight of the Kingdom of Rockwell.
That means I can take over after Marshal Ford, whose retirement is prominent in this war, and appeal to become a new Marshal.
Leo was promoted to general by Marshal Ford, accumulating merit from a single hunter.
It is an honor to succeed the Marshal who pulled me up so far.
Of course, by the time I was a hunter, my growing appetite for birth, which I didn't have, had a huge impact.
This ambush was a huge opportunity to roll in before Leo.
(Especially tasty that a young man named Randolph is a general)
Leo has been digging into the Marquis Welrod family since he killed Jude.
That's why I know.
- That there will never be another chance like this one.
As Foreign Secretary, Morgan visited the condolences of his predecessor Simon.
So you shouldn't be leading the soldiers of the Marquis of Wellrod.
Because he has a role as minister.
That means Randolph, acting as Lord, should have led the soldiers in the territory.
Randolph is the most mediocre man according to the laws of the three generations of the Marquis of Welrod.
Moreover, there are places where we do not rely as successors, such as sowing the seeds of home disturbances.
He's so strange how he got his army moving in such a short period of time.
Various black rumors stick around. I was worried about my son Isaac, but he's still underage.
In five more years, he would have been on guard, but there can be no one in the military who hasn't even become a student.
- A bonus game where you can easily take over the Marquis people and make a big deal out of them.
That was Leo's perception.
The thought turns to certainty when one sees soldiers of the Marquis Welrod family guarding their surroundings.
(Though you are tempted, the number of soldiers on watch is low)
Troops in formation on the hills, many shadows floating in the light and at night.
But the troops of the Marquis Wellrod family, which are lined up under the hill, were just standing guard by the way with potpourries.
Given the size of the troops, they are few by the time they are unusual.
Besides, he hasn't even built a wooden fence or anything that surrounds the position.
The vigilance was too sweet.
"I'll do a lookout first. Make sure I shot the bow, and then shoot you, too."
Leo whispers an order to his men.
Only the former hunter squeezes his bow to release the arrow first.
That's when additional soldiers arrived.
Shit, a replacement soldier.
It's hard to kill them all at once.
If we had to discuss exactly who we were going to target, we would have risked shooting and leaking our targets.
Leo slowly loosened his pull of the bow.
(Just go)
Leo's wish came true.
As desired, all the soldiers (...) left the scene.
Then we go into the tent a little further away.
Probably the bedroom assigned to them.
(What... are you okay? This army...)
It was Leo about to strike me, but I'm unexpectedly worried about what's going on with the discipline of the Marquis Welrod family.
The discipline of soldiers is too loose.
It's usually impossible for a watch to skip away from the property.
(You're not going to be able to brag about picking up Randolph...)
Apparently, he's more of a man than a rumor.
I guess the soldiers are even licking me.
Nobody will admit it's a handicap to take away a man who has no value but such a family affair.
Leo's motivation is rapidly shredded.
"Well, it's easier to break in. Let's go."
When Leo gives the order, he gets himself out of the wheat field and quietly approaches the camp.
None of the soldiers even spoke at this time.
It's amateurs who storm with screams in a night raid.
Until the battle begins, it is the iron rule that sneaks in quietly.
If the soldiers were less skilled, some would come out shouting at the pressure of the battlefield, but Leo had been training the soldiers to be aware of covert operations from day to day.
Because I understand how to fight unexpected opponents, like night raids and ambushes, is required of me.
Approaching the camp will not defeat the fire.
He's caught me off guard.
It would be a shame to be noticed by the sound of knocking down a burning fire.
On some intrusion, Leo gives the soldiers instructions to "do it".
Leo's soldiers strike at once at the soldiers sleeping in the tent.
- However, I noticed that there was an abnormality.
"My lord!"
"Loud voice"
"No, but...... No one!
"Oh my God!
Leo looked in the tent with his own eyes.
Instead of looking like a soldier, a completely empty state without a single blanket.
Obviously, it's weird.
"Shit, this is a trap!
A single fire arrow was fired over Leo when he realized he had been lured.
I guess that was the signal.
Arrows are released like rain from archers who were hiding at a distance.
"Pull it down while you knock it down!
Leave the lights behind and you'll be a good archer.
It was a vendetta that I left behind to make no noise.
The soldiers tried to extinguish the temper, but the rush caused some to burn into the tent and create new sources of light.
So you noticed, a soldier from the Marquis of Wellrod fires an arrow into a tent close to the field to set it on fire.
- Those whose arrows stab and scream, those whose fires burn and their throats burn and their voices whisper.
The ambush unit was at the extreme of chaos.
There's a chase.
"Ka-ha, ka-ha!
Now it was a pursuit by infantry.
It strikes from behind the Leos trying to escape.
(I know you hated talking to each other, but it's too late)
- I saw the wrong time to put it in.
That makes room for Leo's heart.
If we get inside the field, they won't be chasing anyone who doesn't like to fight each other.
Withdrawal is easy.
- That was supposed to happen.
But a scream comes from the soldiers who headed to the field.
"Enemy! We have enemies!
Ambush also emerged from inside the field.
I guess I even applied charcoal.
He was a black soldier, even spears and armor.
(Well, the fire arrows earlier were also a signal to them!
He would have predicted the invasion route and ambushed it far away so as not to engage Leo and the others.
- Read that you will retreat through the fields and lay down the soldiers blocking the escape route beforehand.
Leo is convinced that Randolph didn't do it.
Because as far as rumors go, I'm not the type to preface others' thoughts.
There is only one person who carries out such work.
(Isaac Welrod! He was here too!
Sometimes I was just a kid and assumed I hadn't come to the battlefield.
(Isaac traps people, and he is an extremely evil outrageous man who sets his sights on heights in a safe zone. Couldn't have come to a fun playground called Battlefield...)
Leo believed too much in the situation in front of him.
- Confusion by reinforcements who emerged in the midst of a battle over the fate of the nation.
- A greed that you might be able to put up a handle and point to higher heights.
They were blunting my judgment.
"It's the street, pull back through the street to the main formation!
Leo gives orders to the soldiers to the right and left.
It is only in the midst of confusion that soldiers are given clear instructions to move.
That was the right thing to do as a commander.
"Guh."
It was also a wrong act at the same time.
By issuing the order, I informed him that there was a commander here.
By the hand of a soldier who noticed Leo, he is stabbed with a spear in his leg.
"Miscellaneous!
Leo immediately slashes the soldier.
But it's fatal that you've injured your leg.
I can't run anymore.
"Come on, Admiral, your neck is here! Anyone who wants some help, call me!
Here Leo decides to be ready.
We have to take more responsibility for that than we failed the operation.
Now that I was unable to escape from injuring my leg, I was going to take responsibility for returning one more soldier.
Of course, I'm not just going to die.
I was going to take one or more of the soldiers I was going to kill.
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"Ka-ha, ka-ha!
Isaac was hearing Randolph screaming from the top of the hill.
With the elves, he was left to leave a message at the Earl of Lancaster.
Isaac is not the only one watching the battle.
The elves were also gathered to see the battle of man.
Isaac speaks to Count Lancaster, who stands next door.
"You're doing well"
"Oh, I'm so glad Lord Mathias didn't say, 'There are more enemies than I thought and they pushed me off'."
Count Lancaster's body was trembling.
This is due to fear and joy.
- Fear of Isaac because everything went according to the reading.
- The pleasure of bouncing Marshal Ford's troops back.
These two things were mixed together, making it an inexplicable excitement.
"So from a high point of view, you can see that the moonlight is quite a reflection on swords and armor."
Shortly before Leo launched the attack, the soldiers dispersed because they saw the light reflecting from inside the field.
I kept a defective soldier on guard as a punishment, but if I didn't have to kill him, I'd never go over it.
Just when you would have thought, "The Marquis Welrod soldiers are unmotivated," you could have pulled them off.
"In dark times without electricity, moonlight is hard to fool either," Isaac was reminded.
"What are you talking about? Aren't you the one who told the soldiers who stayed down in the field to apply charcoal? You knew the light would reflect, right?
"No, it was a big difference between knowing in knowledge and actually seeing it. And if you hadn't seen it consciously that you might have enemies, you wouldn't have noticed."
Isaac had suggested using the burning cushion when he gave him a large amount of cooking smoke during the day and painting the iron part black.
But that was what I suggested for camouflage: "It's night, so if you paint it black, it'll be hard to see through nearby."
This idea of camouflage was a mask of common sense: "Stand out on the battlefield, and then put up a handle on it".
Initially they thought, "Don't do anything weird," but now they were receiving around that it was an idea that pursued rationality.
In the past life it was a range of errors such as the brightness of the moonlight with city lights, and in this world the habit of sleeping early at night, so I don't take my sword outside the mansion after dark.
Isaac learned here the importance of light in a world without electricity.
"After this, we're going to chase them with stone rubble against enemies fleeing the streets, aren't we?
"That's the way it's supposed to be."
Isaac still had ambushes ready for the remaining escape routes.
Enemies fleeing the streets are to be thrown fist-sized stones picked up in the river plains.
Sling and the like require training, so most soldiers are hand-throwers.
Exactly, with a hand throw, you can't kill it unless it's so well hit.
But this ambush is not meant to kill.
Rather, it was intended not to kill.
You'd better get back to your position wounded by enemy soldiers.
As a commander, I can't abandon the wounded, so I have to assign personnel to intervene.
If you kill him, it's over there, but if he leaves wounded, he can cut off his opponent's power as many times as he leaves.
I had to do something I could do just to fight the mighty enemy.
"Mr. Claude. It's what's happening to all the elves, and if I calm down a little bit, can I ask for a cure?
Isaac speaks to Claude, who, like any other elf, was watching the fight.
"Oh, I think I'll be fine"
"Please. I can help, because I want to help."
To Isaac's words, Claude felt human complexity.
It was Isaac who created the tragedy under his eyes.
Yet he wants the wounded soldier to be treated without regard to his enemy allies.
When I'm near Isaac, I don't know what a human is.
"And then I hope Matt and Tommy get home safe,"
- Cruelty and kindness.
Humans hold both of them together, but Isaac in particular seems remarkable.
Now he's showing kindness to the elves, but he said, "Isn't it time to show cruelty to the elves one day, too?" Given that, Claude trembled with chills.
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Firehands rise from the direction where the Marquis Welrod position is located.
It's night, so even from Marshal Ford's position, I can often see it getting brighter.
The soldiers on watch were also reassured that "you won".
Some time after the firehand went up, two men rushed over to the position.
One is a knight in brand new armor and feels somewhere novel.
The other was a man who emitted atmospheres such as a mercenary in a war in leather armor.
- This is the first line of boys and their escorts.
That was the impression the soldiers received.
They are both dirty with blood and mud.
Returning to the battlefield was obvious.
"Please wait. What does it look like at a time like this?
No one has left at this time, so there is a possibility of enemies, but if you have a rude tone and you were on your side, it would be a big deal.
First, the captain speaks without disrespect.
The knight answered his question better.
"Night raids fail. The enemy is coming this way in pursuit of his allies"
"Oh my God! But isn't the firehand up?
"I think that was burned to bring our figure to life. It was not burned by night raids. We've been told to inform the Marshal."
"Oh no..."
I thought I won, but it's just a defeat.
Not just the captain, but the soldiers look anxious.
"We inform His Excellency the Marshal. You're in the tent with that marshal's flag standing, aren't you?
"That's right. Let me show my men."
A mercenary of the escort tried to move on with the conversation pointing to a large flag floating in the dark night.
The captain offers to guide his men, as this information must be immediately communicated to Marshal Ford.
"No, as long as we know the general location, we'll be fine. If your hands are free, prepare water for the soldiers who are retreating."
"Okay."
"Well, let's get to the report."
A mercenary prompted the knight to act and rushed to those with the tent of Marshal Ford.
Two knights stood guard around the tent where it seems there is Marshal Ford.
A small number for a marshal's escort, but this would be due to the psychological alarm that "we're on the offensive side".
"People get more alert if they think they're on the side to protect, but they get alert when they think they're on the side to attack"
Mathias - Nolan actually - was right.
Marshal Ford is also alarmed by what he thinks is "the side he ambushes".
Another day, security could have been tightened if the decision on the operation had been slow.
"Tommy, say you're a preaching order from the front and get close. In the meantime, I'm gonna go around behind them."
"Okay."
Before approaching the tent, the two broke up and Tommy approached by himself.
Being alone in the enemy formation is meticulous.
But it inspires courage and rushes over.
"This is a message to His Excellency the Marshal. Thank you for your time."
Tommy calls out to one of the knights.
The knights said, "What can I do for you at this hour?" Surprised, "he sees Tommy's armor dirty with blood and mud, and understands," Is he on his way to the night raid? "
"Wait a minute."
One of the knights goes into the tent to get permission.
At that time, a light was seen from the entrance to the tent.
Maybe Marshal Ford is awake to find out the consequences of the night raid.
"Huh..."
While he was distracted inside the tent, Matt, who snuck behind the other knight, slits the knight's throat with a knife.
Tommy admires Matt for the speed with which he behaves and the strength of his willingness not to make an overview.
Matt lifts the body of the knight he killed and places it gently next to the tent.
Just then, a knight walked inside came out.
"Go inside and report. Where is he?"
Matt blocked his mouth and slit his throat this one as he was distracted by his disappearing colleague.
Lift it up and place it next to the tent, just like earlier.
I don't drag it because I don't make any extra noise.
Tommy glances at Matt and nods.
All you have to do is tail Marshal Ford.
First Tommy enters the tent, then Matt continues.
Inside the tent was an old man and a middle-aged woman.
Tommy said, "You got a woman on the battlefield?" I thought so, but I remembered that Marshal Ford's men had Charlene headed by the Four Heavens King.
I think she must be.
"Ho, I'll report you."
The opponent is an enemy.
But we're not supposed to see each other, big guy.
Sometimes he was after his life, and Tommy couldn't hide the tension.
"The ambush failed. Everything seems to have been read by the Reid Royal Army."
"Right. After all, wasn't that the commander over there just..."
Marshal Ford looks remorseful.
At the time Leo failed, he could no longer afford to attack Sonicroft.
All we have to do is fight to buy time until the main unit drops Askis, the king's capital.
"So, how's Leo doing?
Charlene asks how Leo is doing.
"There were signs that the Royal Lead Army was going to attack this way as the momentum prevented the ambush. Your Eminence is doing delayed tactics and buying you time."
"Right. Then we have to get this one ready."
Charlene regrets not giving Marshal Ford advice in case he thinks about it when he says, "We'll see Leo's results before we act."
Time bound maneuvers and unexpected reinforcements prevented her from staying calm either.
The impact is coming out now.
"So how far is the Reid Royal Army?
"Right here."
In line with Tommy's reply, the two pull out their swords.
Matt snapped Marshal Ford's neck and Tommy pierced Charlene's chest.
This is what I decided beforehand: "Marshal Ford has to be sure, so Matt will be in charge".
- At this point, the first contemporary Nolan thought, "If you assassinate a strong guy, I can win the war" operation succeeded.
The assassin was originally to be distracted among the enemies returning to the position, but this time he took a method of letting him in using the means of transmission.
All we have to do is go home safely.
Here Matt looks for items that could be evidence of an assassination.
"Let's take this home"
What I found was a marshal's wand.
A golden and innocent wand about fifty cm long and decorated.
This would make it obvious that "I killed and took Marshal Ford".
You can't run away with it in your hand, so put it in your back.
"Tommy, are you okay?
- The first time I killed a man was an assassination of a dignitary who broke into enemy lines.
Matt cares about Tommy, who trembles in his first incredible experience.
"It's okay. I want to go home to my wife alive, and I still have to work for Master Isaac. Let's go home."
As a trophy, Tommy also missed the map that was spread out on his desk.
It was from the decision that Isaac must have been useful because of all the writing.
The two leave the tent and start rushing out to get out of position.
"Which way are you two going there?
A soldier on the lookout I met earlier spoke to the two of them.
They suspect me of just ignoring it and running away.
I just want to get away quickly, but stop once.
"I've finished my report, so I'm going to my people. Our people are over there."
"I see. Is that so?... be careful."
- Rendezvous with your colleagues in retreat.
The soldier on the lookout, that's what he received.
I dropped them off without holding them off.
Marshal Ford and his men were bleeding back, but they didn't even care because they were dirty with blood and mud from the start.
"Those two, that's nice"
"Oh, I want to be able to live like that."
In such a dark night, it wouldn't do much to merge just the two of them.
It's just a kind of self-satisfaction thing.
However, the desire to help his companions was pleasant because of the blue smell.
Mercenaries escorting knights are pretty good too.
When I said I was going back to the battlefield, there was no sign of fear, and it was just as good as a pin with a single core in my spine.
Soldiers respect the strong and fearless because they are on the battlefield.
I just spoke lightly, but the two figures were grasping the hearts and minds of the Rockwell Royal Army soldiers.
Now, the words Tommy said are not lies.
It just meant that there were Knights and Soldiers of the Fartil Royal Army nearby who would show us the way.
He joined them away from the position and returned to Isaac, careful not to encounter any ambush troops in retreat.