Crown Prince Hubert brought in many magic tools that generated soil, he quickly created a small pile of soil on the bridge that spanned Coltrezis territory and Farlitz. The pile of soil soon became so large that it collapsed the bridge.
The magic tools used to create the soil were normally used in construction. They were naturally not meant to be used in this way as their consumption efficiency of magic stones was really poor.
However, the situation was different after the royal capital defense battle, when nearly 2,000 Dark Knight magic stones and almost the same number of Bicorn magic stones were recovered, this was even after the adventurers hired had collected a lot of them as part of their rewards.
So, there was a clear oversupply of magic stones.
For this reason, Crown Prince Hubert was not stingy in consuming magic stones by using this absurd strategy.
At the same time, they also built another makeshift fort near the bridge to store military supplies, using a human wave tactic that mobilized almost all the soldiers. The fort would also act as a base to monitor the bridge.
Incidentally, all the magic stones brought to the Adventurers’ Guild by the adventurers who got magic stones as a reward for participating in the royal capital defense battle were bought back by the state from the guild.
This was because there was a possibility that if the guild ran out of gold and silver coins due to having to buy up large quantities of magic stones from adventures at once, the guild would be unable to pay the rewards for other jobs such as collecting medicinal herbs. It may also negatively affect the prices of magic stones.
At the same time, the state was hiring many adventurers through the Adventurers’ Guild to deal with the demons causing trouble on the supply lines during this military mission, and the Adventurers’ Guild was also actively cooperating with the state.
As it was a public request, the kingdom was able to mobilize many adventurers and successfully secure personnel to deal with demons causing trouble on the supply lines.Furthermore, the fact that a large amount of compensation money from the Church was being used for these budgets was only known to the upper echelons of the Bain kingdom army.
Because High Priest Leppe’s actions of joining forces with the Demon Army against the Hero’s sister Lily was a major incident that could have tarnished the Church’s honor and authority among the people, the Church had no choice but to jump at the compromise proposed by the royal family in exchange for not making the matter public.
As a part of the deal, the kingdom also announced that, [High Priest Leppe’s crime was only an act of rebellion against the royal family after being “manipulated” by the Demon Army, and thus, the country had deemed his guilt to be much lesser than that of inciting a rebellion. However, since it was still a severe offense, appropriate punishment had already been dealt with to the High Priest Leppe].
As a part of arrangement the church not only had to provide funds for the recovery of the damage caused by the attack on the royal capital by the demon army, Bain kingdom was also able to secure the funds used in the invasion of Coltrezis House’s territory, which was an amount equivalent to half a year’s budget for a small country.
The fact that the bridge had been destroyed also caused chaos on the Farlitz side. Of course, people could climb over the pile of soil created by magic tools. However, it would be impossible for horses or carriages to do so because the heavy objects would sink into the dirt.
(T/N: Said bridge in question seemed to be a stone bridge.)
Furthermore, even if people could climb over the pile of soil, they would inevitably leave footprints on it, so it would still be impossible for Farlitz to send reinforcements to Coltrezis House without being detected.
However, if they skipped the bridge and crossed the river forcefully instead, the move itself would be seen as an act of aggression by a country to another country.
King Farlitz would not do such a foolish thing because his primary goal was to use Coltrezis House to increase his own country’s profits. He did not have any goodwill toward Coltrezis House.
From Crown Prince Hubert’s point of view, he could only assume that Farlitz’ side was not prepared enough to deal with the Bain kingdom.
…
To cut off the supply lines of the kingdom’s army in north, the Farlitz army, which had secretly entered Coltrezis territory and was hiding as an ambush on the border between Coltrezis territory and Bain kingdom territory, had completely lost contact with both their home country and the Coltrezis House’s army.
(At present)
For the Farlitz army, the only way to return to their own country was to fight the main force of the Bain kingdom, but the forces they had didn’t have that much fighting power to begin with. Moreover, they also didn’t have the way to cross the river now that the bridge had collapsed.
Even if they wanted to cut off the Bain kingdom army’s supply lines in the north as originally planned, they lacked the information they needed because they were unable to coordinate with the Coltrezis army.
Moreover, if they tried to contact Coltrezis House carelessly, the kingdom army may find out their location. That would be a worse case scenario for them.
Unknown to both Coltrezis House and Farlitz army, with the presence of the Count Vogler’s army in the west of Coltrezis territory, the supply lines of the Bain kingdom’s army not only existed in the north of Coltrezis, but also, albeit not that thoroughly, extended to the west.
When Coltrezis House and Farlitz army first made their strategy, they were unaware that the Kingdom army’s supplies were also being supplied from the west, not only from the north.
Their original plan was for reinforcements from Farlitz to deal with the Kingdom army’s supply line in the north, forcing the Bain kingdom to stop in its tracks.
At the same time, the Bain kingdom’s army was also taking various measures to cut off the enemy’s supply lines and information network.
…
“I hope everything is okay.” (Lauterbach)
“I wonder…” (Ermesinde)
“Please, don’t worry, my lady.” (Priestess)
Just as Lauterbach was about to respond, a calm but completely unemotional voice interrupted. The Marchioness smiled.
“Oh, it’s you, Priestess. Is it true that there is no problem?” (Ermesinde)
“Of course. There is no mistake in the oracle that the King will come from the Coltrezis family. Please do not worry…” (Priestess)
Ermesinde responded with a simple “I see” and a gentle expression to the strangely flat voice of the woman.
On the other hand, Lauterbach, the commander of the Coltrezis knights, did not seem so optimistic, and opened his mouth to confirm.
“Wasn’t the Oracle saying that the child of the second princess Laura would be the one attaining a high position? Is there really no problem in our current situation?” (Lauterbach)
“Of course. As long as Prince Hubertus were to die in this war, I think you can imagine that the results were to be expected.” (Priestess)
“Hmm…” (Lauterbach)
Lauterbach had heard that there was a prophecy that a King would be born from the house of Coltrezis, but he did not hear that the Bain kingdom would be destroyed. It was not an impossible scenario for Laura to survive even if the Kingdom did fall, so there was no point in refuting the Priestess.
Unable to shake off his anxiety, Lauterbach nodded and changed the subject to the plan of operations for the future.
In this world, the most common way to fight was to gather your forces on the battlefield and engage in a direct battle. The leaders of the Coltrezis’s army and the reinforcements from Farlitz had drawn up their strategy without doubting that the kingdom’s army would come charging towards them head-on.
In contrast, Hubert, the Bain kingdom’s supreme commander, was developing a multipronged strategy by coordinating multiple armies, treating the entire Marquisate as a board. The kingdom’s basic plan was to avoid the need for a futile decisive battle, and if a decisive battle were to take place, it would be after the outcome had already been decided.
Unaware of this, the Coltrezis leadership decided to gather manpower from the southern town of Fusuhan and villages across the region in preparation for a decisive battle, and decided to wait and see how things would play out for now.
Before the Coltrezis side realized the error in their strategic thinking, the war situation had reached the next stage.
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