After I listened to their story, I sighed. Then, Neurath continues, Well, if the enemy begins to aggressively attack the Great Temple, then our army will probably begin to take an offensive stance.
You ant to say that our enemy wont be able to just turn a blind eye to our army?
Yes sir. After all, the nobles in the frontline arent cowards, so the army commanding officers have the desire to fight. Theres even an incident where a noble needed to be surpressed because he was too eager to fight.
As expected the entire army all thought that we cannot let Finnoi fall to the enemys hand, Schunzel added.
Listening to their story makes my head hurt. Doesnt this an that the only common goal of our army on the frontline is to prevent our enemy from moving freely?
This army is amazingly chaotic. The fact that this army lasted this long despite the fact this army was hastily gathered together was quite sothing.
It seems like the Dukes plan is now half-complete. The problem now is just how long we can keep the situation in a stalemate.
Pardon?
Neurath and Schunzel looked at in confusion. Ah, right, I skipped too many steps. Unlike them, Id been stuck in this place for the last 2 days so I had plenty of ti to think. Or rather, I was forced to just think because I had nothing to do.
Ill explain it step-by-step. First, you both rember the state of Valeritz, right?
Yes.
I will never forget it.
Yes. Every living being including the citizens of Valeritz was devoured. That ans, unlike the Dreaxs n, the reptilian demons need to eat.
The enemies need to eat but because they are currently surrounded by our army, they cant go hunting for food.
Coupled with that, I doubt that there are any herbivores among our enemies who can live just by eating random grasses. Technically, the enemies can also eat the soldiers of the kingdoms army to survive but no one will let themselves be eaten without putting up a fight.
This ans that our enemies also suffered the problem of not having enough food. Maybe the reason they ate all of the kingdoms n on the frontline was simply because they were hungry.
So that ans this stalemate also hurts our enemies provisions.
But the problem is Finnoi. Since its the Great Temple, they probably stocked so ergency provisions but how long will it last?
Moreover, since its a temple, there will be many priests who are not accustod to war so theres a possibility that if the siege lasted too long then these priests will shout sothing like Hurry up and save us! and that might compel the kingdom army to do so reckless and dangerous stuff.
The plan to drive our enemies to death with hunger is fine but as you know our army also has a lot of people.
In the frontlines, there are many nobles who are too eager to fight. Other than having muscle brains or being motivated because they are following the Pri Ministers ergency dispatch order, they are probably eager because our enemies aim is Finnoi.
The relationship between the temple and the royal family isnt bad but that doesnt an that there are no conflicts at all. Im sure that one of the reasons why the kingdom and the nobles decided to help Finnoi is to make the temple owe them a favor. After all, if theres a plague outbreak in the future, you need to rely on the temples Holy Magic.
Theres actually another reason that I can think of but since its still just a guess, I wont ntion it here.
Our enemies might have hunted for so food on their way to Finnoi but they have probably eaten all that food by now.
After all, they are an army with enough appetite to leave Valeritz in that kind of state so Ive no doubt that on their way to Finnoi they have eaten every living thing they ca across.
By the way, before I t up with the main army, I had also checked the state of Denham Village and, sure enough, I found that every living thing in that village had been eaten.
As for whether the demons might eat each other, I dont know. In the eyes of humans, both the wandering demons and the demons of the demon army are the sa but I dont know if, in reality, they are different and have internal conflicts among themselves just like the humans have conflicts between different countries and different nobility classes even though they are all the sa human.
In any case, our army is an army gathered hastily so obviously we dont have enough ti to gather enough supplies. Adding to that we cant hunt demons for food and the closest town that normally will be able to provide additional supply, Valeritz, is already destroyed.
It wont be funny if our army ended up being the one that starved because of our own strategy. I bet His Majesty and His Highness are currently really busy.
His Highness too?
His Highness didnt co to the frontline this ti. Thats proof that hes really busy right now.
After all, usually, the Kings job is only to give orders. The ones who probably took care of the military supply, diplomacy, and confirming the safety of the territories of nobles that lost all its soldiers are probably His Highness and the ministers of the Ministry of War. I doubt they can afford to leave the capital now.
Rather, the fact that the army can last this long even with the lack of supplies is really amazing. As expected, maybe His Highness is a genius?
Diplomacy?
Finnoi isnt only the Great Temple of our kingdom.
Finnoi is like the Vatican in my previous life. Pilgrims from other countries also ca to Finnoi. Slowly but surely the information about the current state of Finnoi will reach other countries. His Highness and the Ministry of Foreign Affair are currently probably working their butt off to keep this information from leaking.
Co to think of it, how co Alea Village remains that small, considering the number of pilgrims it receives every year? Im suspicious about where that shitty chief spent the money that ca from the pilgrims.
Once other countries learn the current state of Finnoi, they will probably show intention to send their army to help. But as you know, the current situation of our army is pretty bad.
In this world, most of the ti, its customary for an army to offer food and other supplies to the reinforcents. In other words, if other countries send their army to help Finnoi, its our army that needs to offer our food and supplies to them. However, our army is already facing a lack of food and supplies.
Sharing the already lacking supplies and food with others might cause our army to collapse and since this is a battle involving religion, it will be impossible for His Highness to keep refusing the reinforcent offers from other countries that used we also want to protect the sacred place of our religion! excuse.
And more than anything else, this is the chance for other countries to make the Bain Kingdom owe them a favor. Use us when they can, make us owe favor when possible, and be our enemy when its advantageous, thats just how diplomacy is. In diplomacy, no matter how good or bad the personal relationship between the leaders of 2 countries is, their national interest cos first.
Even Pax Romana was only possible because at that ti the stability of Ro brought the most advantage to its surrounding countries.
(T/N: Pax Romana is roughly 200 years of peace without any war that was achieved by Ro in 27 BC. sen.wikipedia/wiki/Pax_Romana)
In my opinion, we have at most 20 days to end this war. If only theres a way to settle this war within that ti
When I said that, one of the palace guards burst out in laughter. Huh? Why?
After the two guards noticed my confused gaze, they took off their helts and their face made Neurath and Schunzel frozen in place. They are both very familiar faces to the three of us.
Now you understand why I said the Viscounts view is unlike a teenager, right, Duke?
Well, Im not an actual teenager.
Yes. I now understand how he was able to make our army victorious in the battle of Hildea Plain.
Grand Duke Seyfart and Duke Grunding, why are you both here dressed as prison guards!?
T/N: What will you do if your superior disguised themselves to observe you? If it was I will probably run away XD better than being given additional troubleso work!
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