The Demon King Seems to Conquer the World

"I don't know if it's a good thing to ask, but why are you traveling like this? Are you worried about your travel expenses?

And I finally asked.

I only know the name of the Toga family, too, but I can't imagine how much anything inside the house has to be that far.

Even if something happens, if you can hold some gold eye conditioning from the house and sell it, or if you can't do it, rely on relatives, you should be able to build about the cost of travel.

"As you can imagine, I am the knight of this country."

Gino said, holding iron skewers cooked in borough cloth, frequently flipping meat.

"Among other things, you can say defectors. And now, this nearby inn is full of refugees. Not enough food, either."

Is the story of the offensive beginning to spread in Kirchna's country, with more refugees around here?

But what does it have to do with being a defected person and the fact that there are very few refugees?

Sure, there's plenty of lodging here, and there's a lot of people in the small village, so it's going to be hard to secure food around here at the start of the winter and with a lot of stockpiles.

The food I bought was pretty expensive, too.

"My entry into the inn means taking away one bunk of evacuees and one piece of food. Even though I've fallen out of the army, I'm a knight's end, too. I'm on this journey, trying to at least avoid bothering people who are forced to evacuate because of our knighthood"

Oh, my God.

That's... No, it's a fine mind.

"Wonderful."

"Really?"

I guess I can't be honest with you.

Gino smiled like trouble.

"No, it's great. It's not something I can do."

"No......"

"But how did you come to that idea? It's not like you don't have a mouth for battle. That's the mouth that made you hate the battlefield?

If you think of the country, or the people, if you are a knight, I still think it would be your best contribution to get out on the battlefield.

I'm not a scumbag thinking deserters are scumbags or anything, but even though I have so many splendid aspirations, turning my back on the battlefield and running off to the Kingdom of Siyalta still had a bit of a sticky part to it.

"I was so neglected by the knights that they removed me. Besides, I don't have a Knight's degree, but I don't have a territory."

Eh.

"Speaking of the Toga family, I thought it was one of the generals."

"Oh, you knew that"

"Sort of."

"Yeah, sure, the Toga family is one of the generals. No, by now, I should say it was."

"What do you mean?

"Because the war that preceded me almost took my territory. Besides, the people of the realm have spilled out. So there are no inhabitants to rule over. Nominally, we have the territory of the Toga family, but, well, it's like there isn't."

I see.

No, what about that?

Even though we have lost ground, it is nominally the territory of the Toga family, so if we take it back, we can claim ownership again...

No, you can't.

We also need to move the army to take it back, and that costs enormous.

Anyway, if the army of the Toga family stays put, I guess not, so they can't give it back for free.

The territory of the Toga family will be divided in other generals or will be taken over by the royal family.

It's not so hard for the royal family to confiscate the territory if you give reasons such as, you can't leave it to the people who couldn't protect the territory.

Still, I think it depends on hard work...... but if you look at the big picture, it's obvious that Shans are disadvantageous, so you can say that hard work is unlikely to bear fruit and is unlimited waste......

"I'm sorry about the shallow school, but did the Toga family make Northeast a territory?"

"Right... I was ruling the area"

It still seems so.

The northeastern part of the kingdom of Kirchna is almost already occupied.

Occupation does not mean that the Krah have already settled.

But it's completely scorched, so it's not like the people will be able to run their original lives on the way back.

The weakness of the KLA offensive lies in the fact that the offensive is not sustained but transient because it is a coalition of nations.

After a single crusade, you might be out in a counter-attack and your territory would be taken back.

So they thoroughly burn the land that may be taken back.

Before burning, we allow an unlimited amount of looting, so only about a trampled and vandalized field remains on the rest of the land.

By temporarily devaluing the land, it loses its flavor due to reoccupation.

It is not a loss because they are not willing to use Shan's dwelling tools as they are.

For them, scorched soil also leads to 'purification of dirty land'.

In other words, it is the same thing that does not exist as a general because after being done with it, the territory has been ruled in an obvious and effective manner. I guess that's what happened.

"Well, you're not in the Toga family..."

"For once, do you mean the Lord? It doesn't make any sense anymore."

Was it the main one?

So, for once, does that mean you're the same as Luke, the Duke?

"Excuse me for this. May I call you Lord Gino?"

"No, because I have returned my title. I'm not even a rider anymore."

I see.

A knight knight would mean the lowest possible knight status in a knight.

Unlike the Knights Degree, if as a knight you are somewhere in the Knights of the House, it is always the title Knights that is given the lowest limit.

It's almost an honorary title, like flying if you blow it, and not even that means being unemployed as a knight.

"Hmm... well, let me talk to you without worrying"

"Yes, I'd love to"

That's easier for me, too.

"But even if you went down to the field, what happened to the Knights of the Toga family?

Has it literally been wiped out?

"We are dissolved. In the end, we lost a lot of people at the Southern Games, and we couldn't even take back the old soil... I had anxiety as a force of war."

A southern match would mean a field battle in the vicinity of the Great Fortress of Verdant.

After the battle, the defeated army took precedence over the Great Fortress of Verdant from a relatively healthy unit of combat.

I don't know, maybe some Knights of the Toga family were among them.

So the Toga family couldn't cope, as the army that invaded the north should have bypassed the Great Fortress of Verdant. It is also conceivable that

Other generals are invading the territory of the Wow Toga family, we have to help them. In the wind, I'll rush to scale to defend you. I guess I didn't do something like that.

Fellowship between generals is something that only exerts as much when speaking ill of witches as it does when speaking of witches, which is inexorably low.

If they take away the majority of their territory, knights will not be able to gather their soldiers.

The average soldier is mostly a man of a non-aristocratic civilian population, so if most of the inhabitants have fled in the first place, people won't even come together to rebuild the army.

You can also create an army just for knights, but that's not enough, so it's horrible or irrelevant.

All enemies coming in are high value goals, so the enemies are just happy.

Dismissed would unfortunately mean that there was no choice.

"So the other knights of the Toga family asked another knighthood for a servant?"

"It will. I didn't earn enough to take care of them at the earliest… some people told me that I didn't need a salary or anything, but I kept them away."

Gino said in a voice that made me feel sad.

Such, having knights who admire themselves would be just as genuine or above all delightful for those in the house.

Keeping it away myself was a chest ache story.

"I see. I wish you'd hired me as a Kingsguard or something."

There won't be exactly a general who employs the Lord of other generals, but there shouldn't be a problem with incorporating every Knights around the Kingsguard.

Well, I'm sure it's a lot of hassle and confusion to the military organization, so I guess I didn't.

Disbanding the Knights and having them find a place to get back to work in each seems like a choice.

"Well...... I and others are incompetent men who couldn't even defend their own territory. Of course you don't want to hire me."

"I don't think so."

"Really?"

I don't know the truth, though.

I don't know if there's any military talent in this public discourse.

Maybe just being gentle is the incompetent man in the handle.

"What is your opinion of this war?

I decided to ask.

"What kind of opinion?

"Win or lose, something like that"

Yeah, that's a big mess while I'm at it.

"I'm pessimistic"

Pessimistic.

You have the same opinion as Lyao Rube.

"Why?

"The enemy will probably have twice as many artillery cannons as last time."

A cannon is written in Shan as a firearm.

Fire arrows... can only be good as artillery, but they refer to primitive musket guns used by the Klu.

"I don't know if you know of an iron gun, but it's extraordinarily troublesome compared to a mechanical bow"

A mechanical bow is a crossbow.

This one, too, has been used long before artillery.

"Not so much"

"Yes, the actual number of casualties isn't so great, but if you can unilaterally call us from a distance, you can really pull the hips of the military. Especially that loud noise..."

"I guess that's right"

I also knew that the reason the cannon was powerful in the field was in its sound.

A front mounted sliding chamber gun is not so much a threat as a firepower because of the time it takes to load it.

Of course the bullet is highly powerful, and it doesn't make a difference that it is an excellent weapon, but there are difficulties in terms of continuous firing, and sometimes the bow is stronger in relation to range and continuity.

Still, people feel more threatened than they actually are when they see the loud sound of gunpowder blowing up and the smoke standing up.

It's the same as the roar of a beast, and no matter how many times you say, "If you make a hedge and make a hedge, you can't lose every beast, so don't be afraid," but if you see a beast in front of you that makes a crazy roar and intimidates you, the vast majority of humans will lose their hips saying, "Even so, scary is scary."

Unlike beasts, some humans actually die, so they're worse off.

He shouted out, "You'll kill a few people in the shooting, but don't be afraid. There is a terrific roar and the allies fall flabby, but not so much, actually. It's a shame," coaching soldiers would not be convincing.

Even the artillery squad, which can be easily crushed if penetrated, appears in reality unable to do so.

"But you still look young, but have you ever been on the battlefield?

Gino is youthful, but it's an addition to the young making cheats of the Shans, so he's probably around 25 now.

Uncle Gowk died. The war was ten years ago, so it doesn't make sense.

Do you ever go on the battlefield in Kirchna even if you're under twenty?

"Yeah. My father was wounded in a war ten years ago, he fell asleep, and he disappeared five years ago. Since then, I have moved my own soldiers and fought several times to reclaim the old dirt I lost in the north. But, shamefully, the battle wasn't as fruitful as it sounded."

"I see, is that what you mean"

They haven't had a fight at all in the last decade.

Gino worked hard in local warfare.

I guess I lost my money while I was trying to figure it out.

The money to hire soldiers to move must have come from disposing of the property in the house.

"In fact, what tactics do you think are effective against artillery?

"It's a moat and an ambush."

And the answer came right back.

"What's a moat?

"We're going to build an impromptu moat in this camp. Dig the dirt."

After all, he's talking about something like a trench.

"The trouble with the artillery is that the shield can't get through. Unlike an arrow, in a wooden shield that is easy to carry, etc., it gets pierced. If you put a thick iron plate on it, you can play it, but it's not realistic to put it on the front of the whole army."

I guess so.

Because of the heavy weight, even just slow infantry walks would be snail fast, and iron is expensive, so the cost is too rusty.

Some hands make the wooden shield even thicker, make something like a wall lined up with round-tails, and fight to push it out, but that would also be impractical.

It would be possible if everyone was an army like a monstrous, double-headed collection with the power of a gorilla, but it's not.

"So dig the dirt and go into the hole. The weakness of the cannon is where the balls only fly in a straight line."

"But I didn't go into a hole. I can't be attacked. And..."

"Is it a siege"

Said ahead of time.

"Yes."

If you're less maneuverable, you'll be surrounded.

The situation of siege in the field is arguably the worst in tactical terms.

I will be lonely, the soldiers will remember fear and be confused, and the generals will be confused.

In addition to that, simply, if encircled, it is larger to be encircled on the outside, and smaller to be taken on the inside.

I mean, the inside can't take the front of the fight wide.

On the battlefield, that's a pretty big difference, and if this one has more and more sophisticated soldiers, this one can fight for five thousand men in the front, but this one can only fight for three thousand. That happens.

If I tell you, there's no way I don't know what it's like to be destroyed in a situation while being summed up in a single point.

And among the factors that make that siege, the most typical is the difference in mobility.

If there's a five-fold or tenfold difference in my speed of movement, I'm set to be surrounded.

"I'll make it up to you there with cakedri. The only thing that works for artillery is a cakedri attack."

"Hmm."

Soldiers who use cavalry to siege, or to stop the siege, are also fundamental to ancient and present tactics.

"But you can't use this method of warfare if you're going to attack it here. Because you can't use a moat if your opponent pulls you off. I wish I had some examples of actual use earlier."

On the battlefield where Gino fought, it was a battle to take back the old realm, so I guess it was while exceptionally attacking.

"You suggested it"

"Yes, but I'm done just being smoked. I can't help it."

That would be so.

It's strange to say colleagues, but the Togas are among their peers who can be called losers, even if they are not responsible for the person in question.

Unfortunately, if the young man in charge there makes a bizarre offer on the occasion of the meeting, he ends up smiling because it's about the hard-headed people.

"But that sounds reasonable."

"Really?

With my endorsement, Gino looked a little happy.

"But in the army where the Knights came together, it wasn't possible to suggest it. Only mediocre measures will be taken."

If there's only one top, I can do it.

As long as I can convince him to do that, he'll do anything.

The success of persuasion may itself be a miraculous possibility, but the possibilities remain both in the raven and in the corner.

But the army of Kirchena is a coalition made by the generals, even though the same is true of Siyarta.

Even if someone puts their head up, that's like a chairmanship, not having authoritarian command.

If there are five or six tops, getting them all in favor of bizarre proposals, etc., is just a dream story.

If anyone agrees, the argument just follows a parallel line when someone who is against it says, "No, no, I disagree with that," etc.

This will no longer be feasible in reality, as it is not good to convince someone in good faith to agree.

Mixed with competence, incompetence, and mediocrity, we can all be convinced that mediocre measures are all we can do.

"I knew that, too. But to me..."

I guess even if I knew I couldn't, I couldn't possibly not suggest it.

Is the result of this journey?

"Right. There are things in the world that you know are stupid imitations, but you can't."

"Yes."

"As a result, there were some encounters like this"

I took the bread out of the bag and broke it in two with a knife.

Hand it over.

Gino's meat at hand had been cooked too much already.

"I'll have it."

When Gino pinched the meat in the bread quickly, he pulled out the iron skewers and cheeked them up funny.

And chew with a mog.

It looks delicious.

"If you need me, I'll write you a letter of introduction to the Howe family so that the clerk can do it."

"Huh!? Ugh...... gehoggyho"

Gino fell apart.

"It is up to our Lord to decide whether or not your clerk will make it, but he will at least see you."

Let's not talk about me being our son.

"That's... I don't even wish. How thankful."

"Right. Then let's say I write when I'm done eating"

At the end of the meal, I wrote him a brief reference.

The next day I danced in the sky again, taking his drop-off in the woods.