The Porter Is Not Interested in the Hero Party

146 – Downfall (10)

He who controls information controls the battlefield. More information becomes the basis for various tactics, and those who know this do not show useless movements.

The Kayberes whom Stauffen knew was a person who did not do anything useless. Stauffen felt strange when he saw the troops returning the next morning, as if announcing the failure of the operation. Wouldn’t the morale of the Stauffen army rise naturally if she showed the failure of her operation so openly?

“Why? Why did the unit come back again? What were you aiming for in the first place?”

If Staufen’s troops did not move, Cayberes did not have to hold that camp. Even if they returned to the castle without stopping the camp in the first place, Stauffen could not advance. From the moment Kayberes vacated that camp, she had two options.

One returns immediately the next morning to show that his scheme has failed and raises Stauffen’s morale, and the second shows that he immediately returns to the castle and then openly rests in the castle.

Stauffen cannot give up this defensive stronghold. It was because the moment they got out, the overwhelming cost-effective power exchange turned into a hand-to-hand combat. Caybereth would know that, but instead of going back to the castle to replenish supplies and rest, she chose to return to the camp where the wires were pulled forward.

Stauffen, out of resentment, removed the limbs he might choose.

“Why did you come back, Kiberes? If it were me, I would have waited one more day. If it were me, I would have provoked and even played wind music, telling me to come out of that castle quickly. Was I that complacent?”

The morale of the soldiers would hit rock bottom as there would be no gain from an ambush operation all night long. However, Kiberes dared to return to this camp even at the cost of it.

Stauffen again began to doubt at this point. She broke the premise that she did this because she looked down on herself, and began exploring other intentions.

“Why? Why did you do this? Why? those soldiers. Why did you move those soldiers at night? You would have known that I wouldn’t come out one day anyway. Then why did you use your strength to spread such a ridiculous deception right in front of my nose?”

Soldiers moving at night. The loud sound of horses hooves and the brightly lit barracks.

The pieces of the puzzle are scattered, but I couldn’t figure out what the prototype was. It was full of pitch-black puzzle pieces that didn’t depict the surrounding scene at all, and I didn’t even know where to start.

“what? What the hell is going on? What is it?”

Stauffen struggled to expand the scope of the imagination. He was thinking about all the situations he had overlooked. When a hero comes to us who is said to be fighting on the upper front, when Caybereth learns murder magic and prepares to kill us. In case of troop movement by detour.

Stauffen blinked and looked at the battlefield of Caybereth again.

It felt like my head had been pierced with a thud.

He snatched the spyglass from the scout and looked at the soldiers.

They didn’t look like soldiers who stayed up all night to maneuver. They were more active than the overnight soldiers they thought they were. Stauffen turned the telescope around to check again. The commanding officer next to Kiberes was nowhere to be seen.

puzzle.

Staufen grabbed a puzzle that took shape in the shadows. A picture was connected to the puzzle that could start it all.

The very premise that he set up such a strategy to bring himself out is wrong.

This was just an excuse to move the troops to fake a diversionary maneuver. It was just a deliberately false strategy to prevent their interference during troop movement.

While he is holding his feet here, deceived by the letter, some of Cibereth’s troops have taken a detour and are occupying the high ground ahead of Stauffen.

Stauffen turned his head. The supply base here was quite far, over the hills. Even if I tried to look at it with the naked eye, I couldn’t see it, and even if I went up from now on, I couldn’t go faster than them.

Stauffen asked himself as he wiped the sweat from his forehead.

“how?”

Stauffen looked at Kiberes and asked again.

“How could you do such a reckless thing? Although in decline, the troops on the southern front still have strength. There’s no way we can block them all just because a mere defender unit goes!”

There was no way Kayberes would answer his voice. His question was so delicate, and his voice trembled like a coward. At that time, Cayberes was just trimming his nails and asking the scout questions.

“It is a very relaxing time. What is Stauffen doing?”

“I’m sitting and wrapping my hair.”

She straightened up and sat down before trimming her nails. Then he said while stroking the weapon on his waist.

“Certainly, Stauffen is a gifted man. They seem to have noticed just the fact that I’m back here. I guess I was too complacent at the thought of having to surround him.”

“Are you in trouble?”

“no. It didn’t matter. The upper wire must have already been smashed, as the hero boasted. Troops on the southern front are gradually receiving orders to return from the rear. Even if Stauffen found out the identity of this operation, nothing would change. I will only die in a more miserable mood.”

“What if they come to rescue you?”

“If I had thought of saving him in an emergency, I wouldn’t have sent him to the front. He must have thought he could make a comeback here, but from the moment he came here, Stauffen’s fate was sealed. He is the most troublesome commander when he returns to the unit. A type like Stauffen is more powerful the more information it has and the more troops it can lead. Just by preventing him from returning to the southern front, we can weaken the southern front’s strength.”

The soldier nodded and clenched his fist. Kiberes knew that feeling. Every time the moment came to win victory over the demons, the villagers and soldiers trembled or shed tears like that.

Kiberes asked.

“Are you happy?”

“Yes! Commander! I am very happy!”

“yes. Get ready to take his head. I’m curious how far he’s figured it out, so I’ll have to ask him myself.”

Kayberes picked up his sword. In the scenery through the telescope, Stauffen was still covering his head and distorting his face.

*****

Stauffen took the whole situation together and rethought it.

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No matter how many times I thought about it, every analysis pointed to a hopeless situation.

“…The only conclusion is that the upper front has been defeated. Because of that, the demon castle was surrounded, and the supply route of the southern front must have been cut off. Because of this, the order to retreat must have been issued from the rear front.”

Stauffen stroked his chin and thought again.

This analysis was terribly disappointing.

Even though the situation was so bad, it was all the more so in that there had been no contact with him until now. The demons had a way to communicate with the commanders. However, no contact came.

Whether it was contact with an arrow, at least a bird raised by the demons, or a dispatch, he should have sent it to himself in any situation. If the situation of the rear troops is serious, the first thing to prepare for retreat is yourself.

Because the devil who will be the target of attack before anyone else is the former commander and frontline commander himself.

“…..Did you abandon me? Even though they are openly making a detour in our land, they are in such a hurry to return that they can’t do anything about it, but I didn’t hear from them?”

Stauffen’s face trembled. He kneaded his horn and trembled with rage. He gritted his teeth and looked at the hill. The sharp spear blade did not belong to the demons. When he saw the shiny weapon reflected in the light, he shouted with more rage.

“Betray me! How much I, I have devoted myself to the demons until now! I’ve only been defeated a few times! You mean you’re going to use me here as a discard card! We should have gathered here and stopped them! It’s not about abandoning me and using me as bait! You should have come and saved me! I, how much loyalty I have given! Can you treat me like this!”

[How can you betray!]

[You will not die gracefully!]

Stauffen, who was screaming, blinked. I shut my mouth and looked around, but I didn’t hear anything. The adjutants and soldiers were only putting on puzzled faces when they saw Stauffen’s sudden anger.

[How could you betray us!]

“hahahaha… … . under… … !”

Stauffen began to laugh. He sat back down and began to nod while laughing maniacally.

“Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!”

The soldiers were sneaking away, and the adjutant looked down at Staufen with eyes full of anxiety and fear.

“Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!”

A tear fell from Stauffen’s eyes as he laughed wildly.