Chapter 89

Aegir POV

The springtime training exercise that continued for several weeks is reaching its end, and I can start to see fatigue and boredom form even on the faces of those in the lords armies, who were previously showing off their movements like some majestic decoration .

Nevertheless, your army formation is strange . Regardless of how vast our territories are, to have over half of your entire army consist of cavalry, you wont be able to form a half-decent composition .

In the middle of the exercise, Erich would come over to me whenever he could . I understand that the other squads are miserable to watch, but there are other new nobles who will be used as the core of the army who also have private armies too . Compared to them, Erich is clearly beside me at a way higher ratio . I wanted to flirt with Celia, Irijina and the others too .

Is there a reason why you divided your army into infantry and cavalry for the training?

As expected, just by looking at the contents of the training, he noticed that instead of working on the cooperation between infantry and cavalry, Im using them separately .

If you have the cavalry and infantry advance together, it would kill the marching speed . Its inevitable for an attack on an encampment, but you can use the mobility of the cavalry to your advantage during a night raid .

Thats how it is .

Leopolt whispers in my ear, and I only added a last word in the explanation to Erich . Erich makes a resigned face .

If a normal cavalry unit is used to supplement the army, a well-trained longspear unit can completely stop it, so that composition wont work . However, bow cavalry are extremely effective against longspears, so if they are used in conjunction with regular cavalry, even a pure cavalry unit is enough to topple the enemys defences .

But if I explain this to him, hell ask more questions, so I didnt say anything . Irijina is holding her crotch and waiting for Erich to leave anyways . It looks like the enormous amount of semen I shot in her earlier is leaking out .

Any formation is fine . Just do training that would make them last in actual combatjust spare me from the names like holy light or gale or whatever .

Erich looks like hes had enough . A small grin appears on my face, but I immediately change my expression to a serious one . At last, the pure white juices ran down Irijinas thighs . Its quite the amount, if I do say so myself .

What Im about to say from this point on is to be shared only amongst those present here .

Celia hastily gets her notepad out .

I dont think I need to explain but it wont be long before Treia and our nation go to war with each other .

I stay silent while nodding . Its really something that doesnt require explaining .

Treia seems to be abandoning its defenses on the former Arkland territory . The nobles and big merchants are also migrating and returning back to their home country one after the other . The work on restoring the castle walls of Arkland, the former capital city, has also been halted .

Are they giving up the occupied territory and devoting their attention to their homeland?

Its certain that they can stabilize their domestic affairs and security if their scope is smaller .

No, the relentless pressure from the heavy tax and rebellion from the past still persists . Rather than abandoning their rule, they are making a strategic judgement, preparing for situations against our country .

Was there a castle in the northern area of Treias home country?

Umu, there was a line of fortresses in the northern city that protected them from Arkland, but recently it appears that line of fortresses is undergoing repair and reinforcement .

Fumu, so that means that theyve completely gone into a passive state .

Theres also the fact that theyre conscripting soldiers and reinforcing their army, but in regards to that, our nations pace of reinforcement is faster but that fortress is a heavily armored building which has been continuously fortified for close to 100 years . If it has been modified in such a way that it can work together alongside the other castles, then even if we have a large army, we wont be able to take it down in a short period of time .

Is there a need to obediently and naively pass through the western highway?

No matter what kind of fortress it is, its not going to extend infinitely . The only part it defends should be the main highway in the west and the plains area and it shouldnt stretch to the eastern region .

Well the thing is, we cant do that either . The only decently maintained highway is in the west, so if we go to the east, we would have to take a long detour, not to mention its the wilderness so it would take considerably more time . If there arent any large cities along the way, we wont be able to supply provisions to the army either .

Right now, the central army has expanded to a size of close to 70 000 . Just providing food to the army requires us to hold down quite a large city, and unless we use a maintained highway, it would be near impossible to transport supplies from Goldonias mainland . With that said, its not a wise idea to split our forces and make a detour