The Last Fight Of A Dying Kingdom (4)

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- - Lunan Remnants POV - -

"Visigoth's guys are behind us again! It looks like they're totally after us. They won't even look at the other castles. They're so stubborn. They don't seem to be interested in taking over the rest of Lunan's territory, do they?" <Givens >

Givens exclaimed with a disgusted look on his face.

"They're really tricky." <Yusen >

Next to him, Yusen nodded.

"The Visigoth Supreme Commander has been beaten to a pulp by me, thus far. He probably thinks he'll suffer badly if he doesn't put me away quickly." <Julius >

I felt the same way as Givens and Yusen.

It would have been a little easier to fight if they had just looked down on me and let their guard down, but they were moving cautiously, as if they were outnumbered, despite having an overwhelmingly superior force.

The iron cavalry did a little damage, but it was not fatal.

"If they don't let their guard down, we'll just use that against them." <Julius >

Protect the kingdom of Lunan and live as a noble.

If that were the case, it might not be that difficult to use all of Lunan's troops to stop Visigoth's attack at the northern Lunan barrier and Lunan Castle.

But then, I'd still be just another noble being used by that king and Duke Ronen.

That's why I'm going to allow the destruction of Lunan with the help these others.

In order to gain independence later, I have to take the hard road like this.

Only by overcoming this difficulty will my power be legitimate.

Even if I tried to protect Aquitania when Lunan was destroyed and other countries were targeting the land, it wouldn't do any good because it was full of enemies and geographically open on all sides.

"We'll settle this at Aquitania as planned!" <Julius >

I pointed to the open fields of Aquitania, this was where we were going to launch our misdirection.

And so we hurried to the scene of the showdown.

Currently, I have a total of around 33,000 troops.

Depending on the perspective, that may not seem like a lot of troops.

But in war, it's important to decide on a location and prepare for battle, and we had already retreated a day's distance ahead of Visigoth's army.

Even if we hadn't, we would have marched faster than them, but I slowed down on purpose.

"Sir!" <Bente >

As we were slowly making our way to Aquitania Bente, who had remained in the territory, came running and shouted.

"Huh-hah....Oh my god, my lord!!!" <Bente >

When he was right in front of me, he jumped down from his horse and reported to me.

"Bente? You're supposed to be in the castle, why are you here?" <Julius >

I had no idea why the guy who was supposed to be guarding Haddin and Aquitania Castle would come this far...

Yusen, Givens, Yuri, Voltaire, Elheat and others behind me looked quite surprised.

Zeff doesn't seem particularly interested, but that's how he is.

"It's the Visigoth army. The Visigoth army has invaded. They're advancing toward us now!" <Bente >

"The Visigoth army?" <Julius >

"Yes, my lord!" <Bente >

Bente nodded widely at my question.

Yusen, who was shocked, asked him.

"Visigoth army is supposed to be behind us...No way, another army Bente, is that right?" <Yusen >

"That's what I'm saying!" <Bente >

Bente nodded vigorously.

"Based on their course, I'm guessing their target isn't Castle Aquitania. They're heading this way, where my lord is!" <Bente >

Everyone, except for me, was stunned when they heard Bente news.

If Bente's words were true, we would be facing the Visigoth army from the front and back, while being outnumber 5-1.

"Damn! I knew...I should have run away from the beginning..." <Count Voltaire>

When Voltaire inadvertently spat out such words, he quickly covered his mouth with his hands and shrank back.

"So what? We're going to fight them eventually." <Elheat >

Elheat said nonchalantly as he held his spear.

I had expected this from the beginning.

That's why I deliberately slowed down our march.

We were going to be pinned down from the front and the back, and the entire force of the Visigoth Kingdom would be revealed to us.

For this purpose, I moved the Doro Trading Company.

In order to obtain reliable intelligence, I spent a great deal of money blackmailing the nobles of Visigoth.

The targets of the threats were the nobles who were illegally buying slaves.

The information obtained through them was the total number of troops that Visigoth had mobilized in this war and that number was about 300,000.

However, only 150,000 made it across the border to Lunan.

Where did the rest of the 150,000 go?

According to intelligence reports, the King himself led 100,000 troops to occupy other countries, which historically should have been the Herald Kingdom.

Then, what about the remaining 50,000?

Were they a reserve force?

Where are those troops hiding?

Now, that question has been answered.

That's why I was right to slow down our retreat.

The reason for deliberately getting caught in a pincer attack is simple, to destroy the entire Visigoth army.

That's why I was waiting for them to gather in one place like this.