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The Extra Strategist’s Royal Road Chapter 59 Part 2

The Extra Strategist’s Royal Road Chapter 59 – Part 2

The attacks so far were a kind of reconnaissance.

‘These bastards knew about Dorofei’s existence from the beginning.’

It means they were also desperately operating their intelligence network.

Fortunately, I wasn’t too late, as I was able to intervene just before the enemy cavalry could kidnap Dorofei.

“Hup!”

Kwakwakwak! A swift triple strike piercing the knee, heart, and head in order.

“Kuhek…!?”

The enemy soldier died without even knowing what had happened, falling from his horse.

After that, I grabbed the spear in reverse and flung it with a whoosh! piercing the chest of a cavalryman who was trying to kidnap a female cadet.

“Ah, Ars…? How did you…”

Dorofei looked up at me blankly, sitting on the ground.

“Yumir, Eo. Clean up the surroundings.”

“Yes, young master.”

“Aye!”

Yumir and Eo began to ruthlessly dispatch the remaining cavalry.

I stood guard in front of Dorofei, watching the situation.

The number of cavalry that attacked this place was 100. If it had been on flat ground, it would have been impossible to deal with 200 infantry, but since it was mountainous terrain, we were able to effectively clear them out.

However, it seems the enemy was quite serious about this operation as well.

“Urah!”

Crack! A giant man smashes an infantryman’s shield with a single blow from his mace-like iron flail.

“Hurry up and finish them! We don’t have much time!”

“Captain! Big trouble! Strange guys suddenly barged in!”

“Huh?”

The giant man looked around and soon spotted me guarding Dorofei.

“Tch, seems like a fly has flown in. I’ll handle this myself. Hyah!”

Thud! Thud! The giant man charges towards me.

‘He looks quite strong.’

I retrieved the spear I had thrown and was about to face him, but ting! Before that, Eo and Yumir made their move first.

Ting! An arrow aimed at the horse’s head and two throwing daggers aimed at the giant’s head.

The two, who had worked together on household chores, showed a fantastic timing of combined attack.

“What…!?”

Even the giant man couldn’t help but be shocked when attacks carrying aura suddenly came from two directions.

He himself noticed it and tried to respond, but the horse didn’t.

The horse, with its head pierced, died instantly and fell forward.

“Ugh!”

Because the giant had to block the daggers thrown by Yumir, he couldn’t properly brace for the fall and lost his balance.

He slid in front of me, in the direction the horse had been running.

“You came rolling right to me…! Haah!”

Stab! Stab! Stab! I took this chance to thrust my spear.

They say it’s manner not to attack when the opponent is rolling on the ground or transforming… But that’s a rule that’s obviously not followed on an actual battlefield.

“Damn it!”

The guy hurriedly blocked the spear tip with his forearm, defending his vital points, but it was futile.

‘Ilya-style secret technique, Snake Movement!’

The spear curved like a snake, avoiding the opponent’s forearm and penetrating.

I tried to pierce his head in one go, but the opponent’s reaction speed was not to be underestimated.

Stab! The spear tip pierces through his right collarbone.

“Guk!”

It was a sufficiently fatal wound, but he grabbed the spear shaft with his left hand and tried to counterattack.

But I wasn’t careless enough to let go of the advantage I had gained.

Shing! I immediately drew the sword on my back with my left hand and slash! Cut from his left collarbone to his heart.

“Ugh…hack!”

With fatal wounds, he glares up at me with wide eyes.

“How could I…?”

“I don’t know who you are, but think of it as bad luck. Or blame yourself for being careless.”

Chop! I finished cutting off his neck and shouted to the soldiers.

“Now’s the time! Clear out the remaining forces!”

When the giant man died, the enemies noticeably began to fall into confusion.

“The Captain has fallen…? Is it true!?”

“Wh-wh-what’s going on!”

These guys were more confused than necessary.

Anyway, taking advantage of their confusion, we were able to drive out the remaining forces and resolve the situation.

The Calliper army, having repelled the large-scale raid of the enemy cavalry, began to tally the damages.

I was also tending to the casualties in our unit when suddenly such news was heard.

“They say Calehan Calloway is dead!”

“Really!? That demon’s right-hand man?”

The military camp was buzzing, as if there was some good news.

“Who on earth killed that monster?”

“Whoever killed him, a special promotion is guaranteed.”

Special promotion. I don’t know who it is, but they must be very happy.

As I was thinking of it as someone else’s business, an officer came running to me, out of breath.

“Ars EIaine! Come to the highest tent immediately!”

Is he going to talk about protecting Dorofei?

Thinking that, I headed to the highest tent, where all the core military officers were gathered, looking at me as if in disbelief.

“Is it true?”

It was the martial faction officer who had argued with me last time.

“Did you really kill Calehan Calloway?”

“Who is Calehan?”

“…?”

“…?”

“…Huh?”

Dunan sighs, saying he understands how things went, and says, “Ars Elaine. I heard you suddenly left the front lines to guard the supply tent in the rear. Why was that?”

“I think you know better, General.”

“Don’t answer a question with a question.”

“It was to protect Dorofei Grimwood. If the enemy was thinking of kidnapping someone, he would have been the best prey. I did it myself because I thought you wouldn’t do it.”

“Well, fine. But… Didn’t you see this person in the process?”

With that, Dunan showed a corpse.

It was the giant man I had killed.

“…Don’t tell me…”

“That’s right. There’s an eyewitness testimony that you killed this man. Calehan Calloway. Explain the circumstances.”

I couldn’t reveal the existence of Eo and Yumir here, so I decided to give a vague explanation.

“The moment he charged at me, his horse tripped over a tree root and he fell. I easily dispatched him as he rolled towards me. That’s all.”

“Calehan Calloway died because of a fall from his horse? The man called a legend among highway robbers?”

“Have you heard the saying that even monkeys fall from trees? Besides, isn’t this mountainous terrain difficult for horses to run?”

“Ha…! Well. Anyway, the fact that you took down the enemy commander’s head is true….” Dunan continued, saying he was dumbfounded. “This is probably the first time for a cadet. Ars Elaine. You’re getting a five-rank special promotion. From now on, you’ll have the position to lead an infantry battalion.”

“…”

“Originally, I planned to promote you to seven ranks, but because you left the formation and went to the rear without the army’s orders, I changed it to five ranks.”

It was a ‘so what?’ kind of mindset.

For me, who had experience commanding 60,000, an infantry battalion of only 2-3 thousand was nothing.

However, this wasn’t simply the end of the story.

Because of this special promotion, I suddenly became Ferge’s superior officer.

Moreover, being an infantry battalion commander meant I could attend 2nd-tier military meetings, if not 1st-tier ones.

Therefore, I had to attend the military meeting that followed immediately.

* * *

The topic of this military meeting was, as I had expected, about the attack.

An officer who appeared to be an intelligence officer points to the map and says, “We’ve confirmed six enemy formations. The scale of each unit seems to be around 6,000 to 10,000.”

The enemy had split their main force.

That’s why their main force hadn’t been easily caught by our intelligence network.

“Six main forces…”

Dunan contemplated for a while and then looked at General Gaitz.

Gaitz speaks, “Yes, it’s as you think, General. When the main force is divided into several parts, inefficiency inevitably occurs.”

We didn’t keep our main force together for no reason.

When an army is split into several parts, there’s a major drawback of reduced command effectiveness due to delayed communication between units.

“Even when an army is divided into two, there tends to be confusion in the command system. Let alone splitting it into six parts. The enemy will surely have difficulty coordinating properly.”

“You mean we can defeat them individually.”

“That’s right.”

Dunan expresses his intention to attack in the direction of defeating the enemy individually.

It seemed he had become impatient due to the appearance of over 100 missing persons in this large-scale raid.

I went to rescue Dorofei out of concern for that, but it doesn’t seem to have been very meaningful.

‘They said there were cadets among the missing… Is that what he’s worried about?’

If he had accepted my frank advice earlier and evacuated all the cadets, they wouldn’t have been kidnapped.

I decided to speak up, knowing it wouldn’t work.

“If they’ve split their main force after specifying a certain situation in advance, it’s a different story.”

“…What do you mean?”

“I mean, if they’ve predetermined how to move in case our Calliper Army attacks, the enemy will respond nimbly. Multiple split formations… In other words, it means it’s favorable for forming an encirclement when necessary.”

Gaitz refuted my words. “That’s an exaggeration. Even if the enemy comes at us like that, we’re not likely to be easily surrounded, and an enemy that has divided their army into several parts doesn’t have the strength to overcome our army which has concentrated its power. That’s why dividing an army into several parts is dangerous.”

“That’s exactly why the part that sounds plausible in theory is dangerous. Because the enemy is unlikely to be unaware of such a simple thing.”

“Or they might not know. According to intelligence, the core strength of the enemy army is the band of thieves led by Klaus Forkner. How would mere thieves know proper military tactics? They’re just running wild as they please. Look at this recent cavalry surprise attack. What did the enemy gain while losing about 3,000 cavalry? See? The enemy is ignorant of military tactics.”

“Isn’t it a huge tactical achievement to make us attack like this now? Why don’t you understand that?”

As my opinion and Gaitz’s clashed sharply, Dunan began to gather opinions from the officers.

The officers, as if they had been waiting, raised their hands in support of Gaitz’s opinion.

‘This is a mess. This won’t be overturned even if I reveal that I’m Wade.’

While Dunan was a stern figure who evaluated people fairly based on merit regardless of status, he was also very stubborn.

This was one of those times. This result came about because he had already inwardly decided to attack.

On the surface, he said he was gathering opinions from various officers, but from the beginning, the officers knew Dunan’s tendencies and only said things that matched those tendencies.

This was because Dunan held too tight a grip on the military command structure.

With all his staff being mere yes-men, there was no meaning in gathering opinions.

‘This isn’t a situation where I can do anything. For now, I can only observe the given situation and respond as best as I can.’

With that, the military meeting ended, and the Calliper Army decided to attack.

They began preparations for a large-scale deployment.


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The Extra Strategist’s Royal Road

The Extra Strategist’s Royal Road

Score 9.2
Status: Completed Type: Author: Released: 2022 Native Language: Korean
I ended up possessing Ars Elaine, a supporting character in the game. Struggling to prevent my death, I pave my way.

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