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Savinelli, who is heading to Cancho with 30,000 soldiers, is now heart pounding.

He was educated as a bureaucrat when he was young and wanted to become a knight.

However, he soon realized the reality because he did not have the skills to fight at the forefront of the battlefield.

That’s because his family has been exceptionally talented in administration for generations, but as a family of knights, they have no achievements at all.

Additionally, his family laughed at him for wanting to become a knight.

So, although he quickly gave up and gave up his dream of becoming a knight, he is fully satisfied with participating in the war like this.

“Count. We will soon arrive at Kancho.”

Savinelli nods at Bernstein’s words.

“Then let’s surround it as planned.”

Savinelli struggles to hide his excitement because his thoughts and plans are adopted by Nicaea and he achieves a great victory.

“Are you really going to do that?”

However, when Bernstein frowned and said that he did not like Savinelli’s plan, Sabinelli laughed inwardly.

‘Tsk, tsk, I guess I’m not trustworthy.’

However, it is not easy for Savinelli to openly ignore Bernstein, who actually commands the soldiers.

Ioannes appointed Savinelli as commander, but he had too little war experience.

Savinelli can also plan and prepare, but Bernstein has an overwhelming advantage in terms of experience in optimally deploying and directing troops according to the plan.

“Don’t worry. General Bernstein. If I fail, I will take full responsibility.”

Bernstein is internally delighted at Savinelli’s words and tries to hide his laughter.

“When you say that, my heart feels lighter.”

Now Savinelli wants to show off his abilities by taking over Cancho as soon as possible.

Therefore, Bernstein is worried that he might make a mistake and spark fire on himself for not serving him properly.

Sabinelli, the favorite of Ioannes at Nicaea.

From the past, when there was a problem with diplomacy, Ioanes always spoke alone with Alexander, who was in charge of Nicaea’s diplomacy.

Wisely, he met with the Minister of Military Affairs when there was a problem with the military, and the Minister of the Interior when there was a problem with security, and asked for advice.

But things changed a bit after he met Savinelli.

It is natural to meet a minister when something happens, but everyone who serves the Nicaean royal family knows that Sabinelli is always present and asks for advice from him.

Aside from members of the royal family, the person who receives Ioannes’ absolute support is Sabinelli.

If something goes wrong, you can’t help but fear that you might be falsely accused.

“Then, please build the supply warehouse as planned.”

Bernstein nods loudly at Savinelli’s words.

***

Looking at the flag of the Count of Lazio, Cancho’s general falls into trouble.

“Has Savinelli, Count of Lazio, no war experience?”

Seeing Savinelli proudly come as commander, Cancho’s general feels deeply insulted and looks at the enemy camp, lost in thought.

Among the forts that currently form the first defense line, Cancho is arguably the most important.

Kancho is responsible for supplying supplies to the fortresses of the first defense line.

If this area is breached, the first defense line fortresses will inevitably fall into the hands of the enemy.

Of course, the enemies were not fools and expected them to come to Kancho like this.

but.

‘Ioanes… this guy! How dare you send me a novice like that?’

When sieging a fortress or castle, a multi-layered siege net is formed.

The standard approach is to block them from coming out and cut off their supply and kill them, but Kancho’s supplies are plentiful, so there is no need to surrender.

But if you look at Savinelli’s formation now.

The enemy’s siege net itself seems too thin.

There are a lot of gaps in the middle, and I don’t know who created the siege net, but I think it’s too clumsy.

Kancho’s general watches the enemy’s movements until the moment the sun sets.

I watch closely as quite a few wagons head towards the camp near the siege.

And the general’s eyes fill with astonishment as he sees the boxes and sacks coming off the carriage.

The general’s eyes widen as if they are about to roll down.

‘no. What are the enemies doing now?!’

Seeing such a large number of wagons, it certainly looks like they were intended to store war supplies.

But the reason the general was surprised was not because of too many wagons or too many war materials.

A warehouse of supplies built close to the siege.

As a general who knows well that materials are the same as life in war, I sympathize with Ioanes at this moment.

‘Wow, they say he’s a genius. He said he was wise, but it was completely false. ‘Looking at me like this, I feel stupid and foolish.’

The general seemed puzzled by the reckless arrangement, but his expression soon changed to one of realization.

The enemy commander Sabinelli’s family is an excellent administrative family, but has no military achievements whatsoever.

Moreover, thinking that it was his first battle, he looked at his adjutant next to him and gave orders in an excited voice.

“Adjutant. Prepare your knights. The troops are dispatched tonight.”

“Yes!, I will follow your orders.”

***

The moon rose faintly.

Is it because there are a lot of clouds?

When the night feels darker than usual.

The general is holding a briefing at the Knights Templar building in Cancho.

“Now! The enemy foolishly built a supply warehouse near the defense line. In other words, if you just burn that area, the enemies will have no choice but to retreat.”

On the map, the general points to the location of the supply depot he saw a moment ago.

“I saw it a little while ago and they attack this place between Siege Net 1 and Siege Net 2 and use the scroll to burn down all the warehouses. Perhaps then the enemies will try to form a siege.”

And it points to the last name.

“Then, as a signal that the supply depot is burning, we will send archers, crossbowmen, and spearmen, so we can break through the enemies together and escape. Do you have any questions?”

-doesn’t exist!

“Go out of the fortress as quietly as possible, approach the enemy’s siege, and then quickly pick up your target and escape. I wish you all good luck.”

With those words, the briefing ends and the knights begin to prepare for battle.

“Sigh… I wonder why those bastards from Nicea came all the way here and are so damned.”

“What is this guy doing at night.”

“Let these bastards fly to the supply warehouse and get scolded.”

As the knights grumbled and prepared, they soon mounted their horses, and soon the thick gate of the fortress opened.

-Kkiikik~!

The knights think that the creepy sound of rusty chains turning can be heard more clearly today.

The door opens and the knights slowly and secretly head forward.

Because it is night, it is obvious that the sound of running will be loud, so the drivers are not impatient and drive their horses slowly.

A bonfire visible in the distance.

I expect that the knights, who sensed that there were not many spearmen guarding the bonfire, would complete the operation easier than expected.

Seeing the soldier leisurely carrying his spear over his shoulder and yawning as if he was sleepy, the knights begin to charge.

– Rattling! Rattling!

Watching the knights advance with their horses’ hooves pounding the ground…

“I… am the enemy! Sound the alarm! It’s the enemy! Ouch!”

The long spear pierces the embarrassed soldier.

Knights run in an orderly but fast manner towards the location seen on the map.

-ding! It’s the enemy! The enemy is attacking! Everyone protect the supply base!

Lightly armed knights to strike secretly and quickly.

Wearing chain armor rather than the plate armor they usually wear, they quickly dispatch approaching soldiers on horseback and run toward their goal.

The camp can be seen as you climb up the low slope.

Let’s go in and kill the camp’s guard by stabbing him with a spear…

It’s quiet everywhere.

“This… is this?”

“Leader? Something is strange.”

The knights who see the dark and empty camp feel afraid.

Because their sense is that this situation is not normal.

That moment…

-pop!

When a fireball flew from somewhere and set the camp on fire…

-Quaang!

The knight commander shouts out as he sees the camp exploding as if the wood is exploding in all directions or the camp is on fire and the surrounding area becomes as bright as day.

“Everyone! Everyone retreat! It’s an enemy trap! Everyone retreat!”

He said that and tried to go down the hill, but…

There, numerous spearmen can be seen surrounding the camp.

“Damn it! Somehow it worked out well.”

The knights, holding the reins with all their might, run down the hill.

The knights, who came down faster thanks to the strength of the slope, fall into despair as they see the spearmen in front of them and the crossbowmen spread out behind them.

Soon, as they saw the bolt (crossbow arrow) flying much faster than the arrow leaving the bowstring, they felt that death was approaching them…

-Phew! Phew!

-Cheolpudeok…

-Hey!

-Ugh!

After being hit by thousands of bolts, the knights and horses begin to fall.

When the spearman saw the knights falling from their horses and lying on the ground in pain, he held his spear long and slowly walked towards the knights and stabbed them with his spear.

The blood of knights soaks the ground.

***

Just before dawn.

When a mysterious blue light covers the whole world.

As Savinelli looks out at the battlefield and waits for news, each minute feels like a year.

“Your Excellency the Count! It’s a complete success! They slaughtered the enemy knights and the soldiers who came to support them.”

Savinelli tries to smile at the news, pretending that he knew about it.

“That’s a good thing. I’m glad it worked out well.”

Savinelli’s orders are simple.

Decorate it like a supply warehouse and fill it with boxes filled with oil and rocks.

‘If you foolishly make your supply close to the enemy’s position, the enemy will want to attack you.’

If it were really a supply depot, it could inflict a huge blow to the Nicaean army.

And I thought that if they were going to attack, they would attack on the first day.

That was probably the time when Nicea was most tired.

But this is all Savinelli’s prediction.

So it was unclear whether they would move like that, but he half-believed that the enemy would follow his plan.

Well… even if I’m wrong, Savinelli has nothing to lose.

Even if something goes wrong, only the soldier who couldn’t sleep that day will die.

“So, how many died?”

Bernstein laughs loudly at Savinelli’s words.

“All 400 knights were killed and approximately 3,000 infantry were killed or captured.”

For a Kancho of barely over 10,000, the loss of 3,000 men and 400 knights must have been quite painful.

When the thought reaches that point, Savinelli laughs out loud.

“Haha! It’s a great victory. A lot of the enemy’s momentum would probably have been lost. Tell the soldiers that they will rest well until tomorrow morning and that the siege will begin in the afternoon.”

Bernstein nods at those words.

“Yes! I obey orders.”

‘The first battle is satisfactory. ruler! I will capture the fortress in one fell swoop.’