Chapter 218: The Power of the Empire (3) (2/2)
“They’ve left behind a inning to retreat, sir”
“Kuh… Jake!”
“Yes, Your Excellency?”
“Take all the Ghosts and charge Crush the enefried hurried to attack the enemy This wasn’t the time to worry about battle for with the rest of the Ghosts, launched an attack on the rear of the Imperial Army They smashed into the enemy with pure destruction The soldiers that had been left in the rear to ensure the rest of the Imperial Are and collapsed But…
“Fuhrer The enemy’s left behind their rear and retreated”
“”
Siegfried looked grave at the ed to consume about 5,000 troops in the rear, it didn’t affect the overall flow of the war In the end, the eneed to retreat safely with their e as they raed all over the frontlines
“Do we even need to continue fighting?”
Siegfried muttered despondently If they continued as it was, it would be the Empire ould be victorious The enefried could feel the faint ray of hope he had fading away
When they couldn’t break through the Ifried returned to the ive the serious?”
“It’s too dangerous, Your Excellency”
“I don’t agree with it, Your Excellency”
They were all profried, but none of the to accept his proposal In their eyes, what Siegfried had decided was too difficult
“I know that the chances of succeeding are slim, but there’s no other way”
Despite opposition frofried was resolute
“We will start carrying out the operation immediately Have all preparations cofried’s instructions The very next day, orders were issued but it was difficult for the Republican Army, no, the entire Republic, to understand
“Sage, the Republic is retreating”
“Retreating… How far have they retreated?”
“I’m not sure, sir However, I heard that they’re not just sinificantly retreating, sir”
“”
Antras reravely silent
“What will you do? If you’re looking for accoht now?”
It was just as Duke Sebastian said from the side Typically, when the enemy retreats, you advance with your forces If you looked at war in terround, then this was standard However…
“I’m a bit reluctant Let’s wait and see first”
Antras decided to wait for now His sixth sense, which had helped hier; it was telling hiht now His intuition was proven right a few days later when the ht them infornificantly, sir”
“What is their exact location?”
“They retreated to the northern border of the fordom, sir They’re currently camped in the border fortress they built when they were previously there, sir”
“Ha… So they’ve given up half their land and retreated?”
They had never seen such a drastic retreat But this wasn’t all the inforht
“And… In the process of retreating, the enemy evacuated all their citizens, sir”
“Of course they did”
“And they also burnt their cities, sir”
“That is also expected”
“And… They also destroyed all their water supply facilities and their roads, and even the ses They burnt down all the fields that hadn’t been harvested yet and even set the forest on fire, sir”
“”
Duke Sebastian was speechless
“Then, what’s left?”
“Nothing, sir It’s said that they’ve even destroyed Tedom, sir”
“Those crazy bastards”
Duke Sebastian shook his head
It was common sense to destroy all the infrastructure as you retreated so that the enemy could not use it But this went beyond that How could they destroy not only the water supply facilities, the roads, and the cities, but also the ses and even burn the forests?
“Are they not thinking about after the war?”
Antra solereed with hi the scorched earth policy…”
Antras was shocked at Siegfried’s boldness If Antras, someone who had experienced all the hardshi+ps, felt like this, then it was no wonder the commanders were so shocked aThe Imperial officers were all fed up with the Republic’s insanity