Hakai No Miko Volume 1 Chapter 60 (1/2)
The first person to notice the encampment at the northern mountain foot was a uard That coer and er forced his horse to gallop with a skillful rein handling and got close to Darius' chariot
“Your Excellency! We have confirmed military forces believed to be the rebels at the ive us your orders!”
“Oh…”
Darius' er's report sounded as if he was a Darius' order, one of the soldiers on the chariot heads to the back and hits the large dru sound that seems to cause one's bowels to shake reverberates steadily, the co officers all over the punitive force shout their instructions to stop the soldiers' march
Even so, it took a while until all of the 7,000 soldiers of the punitive force ca that time new information also flows in to Darius
“An encampment has been built at the mountain's foot! We have spotted zoan within! There's no mistake, it's the rebels!”
Those words also reached the ears of Marius as close to the chariot with Darius on it Marius can't conceal his surprise that the situation is developing in the completely saht
Standing up fro sound, Darius stares at the enehtly visible through the gaps between the flags and spears held up by the soldiers
“I see That one, eh…?”
Darius swung his right army widely to the side
“Notify the entire army! Today's march will stop here! Start to prepare your caers all at once spur their horses forward to propagate theDarius' words
“Kado, adult coreen tuft attached to his helht his horse close to the chariot upon Darius' yell
“Yes! At your service, Your Excellency!”
“Choose a few strong-hearted fellows fro the cavalry and send them out as scouts towards the ene the enes I don't think that they will coainst a surprise attack by the zoan”
“At your will!”
Without even shi+fting his eyes towards Regiallops away on his horse, Darius fixedly gazes at the enemy camp
His eyes shone with excitehts of a festival celebrating the harvest
“So you are saying that you will fight iving to u called out to Gara at the condition of the punitive forces with his hands shading his eyes
“How is it? Does it look like they will attack?”
While continuing to stare at the enemy camp, Garam curtly answers,
“Shut up If you want to know, look yourself”
“It can't be helped Thanks to a certain sou responds to Garahtly
”You reap what you sow” Gara his way between the two in the middle of their sarcastic banter, said,
“If possible, it would also be a big help if you could explain the situation to h Souht, but fro but sesa at all
In contrast to that, the zoan, who lived in the plains, generally have excellent eyes It's said that there are hu in the distant upper skies even during dayti the African tribes, who live the lives of hunters in vast plains It's probably the sarinning Zurgu, who is standing next to Souly starts to talk
“They have stopped walking All of theons, I think They take down sos and things si to rest over there?”
Zurgu says as if feeling let down
“The soldiers are probably exhausted fro he read in military history records in the past
Inbig ht against the camp of an enemy who just arrived at the battlefield At the time Souma said to his military ive the other side a chance to launch such an attack, he was told following,
“They would have walked all day long while carrying heavy equip them to be completely exhausted There's absolutely no way that they would be able to fight if they weren't allowed to rest for a few days”
Indeed, I can agree with that Putting aside the co on chariots or ue of the footsoldiers, ere forced to walk a long hile carrying heavy equipea cas due to their exhaustion
Once he explains that to the others, the very hot-blooded Jahangil immediately latches onto it
“Will we assault that place then?”
However, Garam denies that
“I think it would be best to desist fro so They have likely prepared for at least this much”
“In that case, the battle will be tomorrow and the days after?”
Souil, whose tail slumps down disheartedly
“I think that's correct — But, the other side can't help but to also take it slowly I don't kno le day, but at earliest it will be too at it, I believe the battle will take place within a few days”
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In a single, big tent located in the centre of the punitive forces' caers and commissioned officers entrusted with units had assehtly waves his hand as if saying “Start!” Once he did, a soldier, ent to scout the area around the eneive you my report! The encampment has been built so that the ht of le nod, Darius asks,
“What kind of defense measures does the enca out a , piled up that soil to form an embankment and set up a fence”
Darius was disappointed due to that reply
“For so made by dwarves, it doesn't seem to be that sturdy, does it?”
When he attacked a dwarven village within the mountains around here in the past, he was forced to suffer a thoroughly bitter experience by the fortress built to cover several acres on the e of the dwarves at that tiht as well be called naked
However, for so that was established in a short tiht be expected of dwarves Besides, that doesn't mean that there aren't any skilfully hidden traps to make one believe that it's easy to attack
“How about the enemy numbers?”
“Ha! The total number of enemies was around 1,500”
Upon this reply, Darius considered it strange
analysing from the information he obtained in advance, he estie of 1,000 ~ 1,500 According to the scout's report, a number close to the limit of what Darius had estimated has entered that encampment
However, in that case there will be almost no troops to be used in an ambush
“… There won't be an ambush?”
That's i that they can take on the punitive force with its 7,000 soldiers in an encampment of that level?
Were there some reinforcements we didn't hear of? There were zoan forces who adopted a wait-and-see stance in the plains Did they finallythey had such forces, it's difficult to iine that they would move at this time to advance on our punitive force They would probably decide on their actions after observing the tide of battle against our punitive force
Just what the hell is the rebel leader thinking then?
Darius broods for a bit while stroking his beard
Just at that moment, the report that a soldier, as sent to scout out Bolnis, had returned The soldier, as iive his report by Darius after a swift greeting
“The gates of Bolnis have been left open I have checked to the best of my abilities, but I couldn't see any zoan or slaves”
The coathered in the tent looked at each other due to that report
“Just what is this about?”
“Aren't they prettyus Please take the city back?”
“Did they abandon the city after pillaging it?”
“However, it doesn't look like that has happened”
According to their assumptions, they expected that they would liberate the city of Bolnis used as shi+eld by the slaves, who caused a revolt
And yet, for the city that ought to be liberated to have been left alone defenseless is a situation they haven't even iined They would have been still able to coed and burned down But, since there were no traces of rampant destruction visible in the city, their bewilderment was only natural
“Didn't you enter the city once you couldn't see the ene him to scout if it ends with “I couldn't see the ene tone, the soldier straightens his back and replies,
“Ha! I thought the saet close to the city, I discovered soerous to get close carelessly, I decided to pull back”
“So suspicious?”
“Yes I'm not completely sure as I saw it from a far distance, but—,” he takes a short break at this point and then said, “— I think it's a mountain of firewood”
A small stir takes places within the tent
“Firewood? Alike this…?”
A certain line was dropped a the puzzled commissioned officers
“Maybe, they plan to use fire in some manner…?”
Due to that, the other cohtly surprised voices of “Ah” and “Oh”
“I see! Hasn't it been said that they killed the subjugation unit by engulfing theuess they are planning to reduce us to ash together with the city, using the sa us for fools! Do they really believe that they can use the same kind of method many times over!?”
“However, with this we can't attack even though the city has become empty”
“Yes, yes”
Suddenly there was a loud laughter while the coh the vicious plan of the enemy, voiced out their irritation and scorn towards the rebels
“Your Excellency Darius?”
“Excellency, what hed out loud was Darius