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The enemy army was currently ignoring the fortifications ahead and running blindly towards the friendly army’s main base.

The reason we were able to do this was because the enemy knew of a side road that we did not know about.

What the enemy is targeting is the family of their lord, Duke Setia. The intention is to hold the duke’s family hostage and negotiate an advantageous negotiation.

I’m not just talking about family affection. There is a high possibility that the wife of a powerful person also comes from a powerful family. If a wife is taken away, he will be criticized by his wife’s family, and if a child is taken away, he will have no heirs. The family is destroyed.

That’s why family is a good negotiating tool. This is only from the enemy’s point of view.

The current situation, in terms of the game, is a situation where the enemy team’s jungler ignores the team fight and enters the backdoor. From the allies’ point of view, this is a situation that cannot be ignored.

However, I am too weak to stop the enemy from using the backdoor. So what should you do?

“What kind of strategy is there?”

“If successful, this is an operation that will lead the Mayer family to fame.”

“If there is such a plan, let me know in advance… ”

“With great notoriety.”

evil reputation. Only after hearing those words did I know what she was thinking.

I muttered quietly.

“Clear field tactics.”

Clear field tactics. A tactic to prevent food or supplies from reaching the enemy by looting private houses in advance that the enemy could possibly plunder.

To be honest, it’s not that I didn’t know. I was just thinking about it. Even if you are not 100% resourceful, this is a method that anyone would have thought of if they had learned the art of war. However, there is a reason why it cannot be used readily.

With this, you can definitely defeat your enemies. The enemy has crossed the mountain, and even if they have passed the troops through the side road from across the mountain to here, it is difficult to pass over the supplies. If it was a small road that we didn’t know about, it would have been difficult for a supply wagon to follow even if a person could cross it. If local supply is cut off, the enemy will dry up and die due to lack of supplies.

However, if the operation is successful, the Mayer family will gain great notoriety. Of course. If we loot the civilians’ supplies first, what will the civilians eat? They will starve to death.

Our soldiers kill our civilians before they are killed by the enemy. It is such a cruel tactic. What is clear field tactics?

“Nothing else than that?”

“As far as I know.”

“Do we really have to do that?”

“You know there is another way, right?”

Attached to Krusenstein…

If you get to Kruzenstein, it will be over without using the clear field tactic. Instead, he will bear the stigma of having betrayed his master.

There are three methods I can use.

Either we become traitors by providing food to Krusenstein’s detachment, or we first plunder the food they were supposed to procure locally. Or, do nothing. If you give food, you will have the stigma of betrayal, and if you take it away, you will have the stigma of massacre of civilians. But the really worst part is…

“Stigma of not doing anything despite being the successor to a family of schemers.”

It’s better to be criticized for being a bad guy. Rather than being criticized for being an incompetent person.

“Either way, it’s a stigma… haha… ”

It’s my first battle since coming to this world, so wouldn’t it be okay to decorate it extravagantly? How can this world be like this from the first battle?

The stigma of being a traitor and the stigma of being a massacre. The stigma of being incompetent and having done nothing despite being a renowned tactician. Of the three stigmas, which one is best?

After thinking about it for a while, I came up with an answer.

Let’s do “. I can’t help it.”

“Yes.”

The conversation that followed was simple. We chose the stigma of being massacred.

—–

“Do it quickly! You have to keep the boat afloat to make a living today!”

“Okay, Chief, stop watching~”

“It’s not because you do things haphazardly!”

In one part of Renoa Village, the village chief was visiting the villagers. The villagers looked dissatisfied, but they did not express any complaints because they knew that things would not work without the village chief. Meanwhile.

“Hey, chief. I heard that the village next door was looted by the enemy… ”

“What is that?”

“Shouldn’t we evacuate too? If the village next door gets hit, you never know when we might get hit too.”

“If you evacuate, what will you eat for a living?”

“… ”

“This person. There are 40 households in the village. Is there a village that will accept these 40 families if they evacuate? What is the job? What is the proof that you will not be attacked by thieves while fleeing?”

“That’s it… ”

The man lowered his head. The village chief was right.

“People like us would be like flies if war broke out. No matter what you do, when you die, you die, and when you live, you live. All we can do is pray to God. Let our lord win.”

“Ah… ”

“But don’t worry too much. We also pay taxes to the lord. What are taxes for? It’s a protection tax that protects you if you pay. Our lords also have power and swords, so there is no need to be pessimistic… ”

Buuuu.

The sound of a horn coming from somewhere.

A young man shouted as he ran from the top of the hill.

“Army!!! The military!!!”

Screams echoed from all directions. People started going to their homes and taking care of valuable items and family members.

“You have to run away! We have to run away, Chief!”

“Wait! What is the military flag?”

“Owl! It’s an owl!”

The village chief’s face brightened at those words.

“No need to run away! This is the army of the Mayer family that rules this region! Reinforcements! Reinforcements!”

“What? Reinforcements?”

“Everyone come back! Reinforcements!”

People breathed a sigh of relief. I thought they were enemies, but they turned out to be allies. Now that our army has arrived, we are no longer afraid of the enemy army. In the worst case scenario, all you had to do was run away while the army fought. but…

“Here! here! Stop! Young lord! I am the chief of this village!”

Even when the village chief went out and waved, the knights on horseback did not stop. Instead, he increased his speed…

-hissing

He pulled out his sword from his horse and cut down the village chief.

“What the fuck! The village chief is dead! Everyone run away! It’s an attack!”

“Reinforcement?”

“I don’t know, fuck!”

That day, dozens of villages burned.

It was not by the hands of the enemy, but by the hands of our allies.

—–

Our troops killed peasants at random and burned villages. It was a cruel act, but there was a reason it had to be done.

The reason was, paradoxically, that farmers were also humans. Farmers also need to eat to survive. And they know that if they are deprived of food, they will eventually starve to death.

Therefore, if there was a rumor that food was being taken away, they would try to resist us, and in that case, there was a high possibility that there would be a delay until the enemy arrived due to fighting with the resisting farmers. Rather, they killed them as quickly as possible and even burned the village so that they could not hide food in the basement of their house.

It was truly the actions of a crazy massacre, and I had no intention of denying that, but there was a reason.

They sent soldiers to burn the village and kill those who resisted, but I knew. The fact is that this is a massacre of civilians. Something like this has happened several times in history, and the monarch or army that did something like this had to bear the stigma of being a massacre for the rest of their lives.

“I chose the trash between the incompetent and the trash.”

I muttered self-deprecatingly. And Lucille, who was listening next to him, said:

“I just made a better choice.”

“Yes. Although civilians may have died, the enemy’s supply will be completely cut off due to this, and when the enemy retreats, the lord’s family will also be safe. With this, the status of the Mayer family will rise by one level.”

With notoriety. I swallowed those words.

“He did evil deeds, but he saved his family. Our family and your master’s family.”

“Yes.”

The first outing was written. Because he aimed the tip of his sword at his allies, not his enemies.

—–

-Booo

The gates opened with the sound of a trumpet. Georg Maier, the head of the Maier family, i.e. my father, returned with soldiers.

As we expected, the army at the front was nothing more than a decoy, and it seemed that they were bitten as soon as they learned that the detachment had failed. The war was over in the blink of an eye. The Krusenstein family and the Setia family fought more than 10 times, but this seems to have been the shortest war.

I breathed a sigh of relief. The massacre of civilians was painful, but it was better than the destruction of the Setia family. Above all, this will increase the reputation of the Mayer family.

In front of the castle gate, my younger brother and I bowed our heads. My father got off the horse. And then…

-Tuk.

He put his hand on my shoulder.

“Well done. Son.”

“Yes.”

No further conversation was necessary. My father understood my choice and didn’t say more.

Military meeting of the day.

“11th Krusenstein-Setia War ended easily with the Krusenstein family giving up. But there is no way there is no 12th car.”

“Yes.”

“First of all, in order to prevent the same situation, we will need to figure out the side road they came from. I will send spies to the south.”

“Yes, father.”

“And, it looks like the lord will reward you for this incident.”

A prize? I didn’t think it was that good of a job.

“Franz. Climb the castle soon. It is the master’s order.”

Deungseong refers to climbing the lord’s residence. That means climbing to Torgenberg Castle, the Setia family’s residence.

The ascension is a rare event. There is a high possibility that the lord will give you a really big reward if he asks you to climb the mountain.

“Yes.”

I lowered my head and decided to prepare for the big event that would happen soon.

—–

Deungseong refers to climbing up to the capital of a region.

At the lord’s call, a subject ascends the castle. It’s a pretty big event for a hillbilly like me. It was a big event that could change my future life.

All my tutors have left, leaving only my etiquette teacher. If the etiquette was wrong when ascending to the duke’s castle, it could tarnish the face of the family, so I focused on learning etiquette.

And the long-awaited D-Day.

I headed to Torgenberg with my entourage.