1389 City of Pleasure, Part 224 - Battle of Tarram ③ -

"Alfi, the pigs outside have moved out!

"Yeah, I know."

"... you're kind of settling in for a long time. Do you have a must-win strategy? I think it's a pretty desperate situation."

"I'm more than half sure. I just need to do the next thing just in case. The Temple Knights and Jaeger face, and I want you to contact Lilliam to gather the vigilante in one piece. Ask Tasha for confirmation. I want to know where the enemy commander will be."

"That's... that's a breakthrough, isn't it?

"Exactly, I'll throw away all defenses except the escape route. Prepare, hurry."

"Copy that!

Lisa ran out on orders from Alphilis. Alphilis was asking what was going on outside with a harsh look on his face. I have already released the Tenma Knight over my head. They would contact us with a familiar enemy formation, but we had an approximate imagination.

The enemy commander is probably one to several. Being helpless against night raids, it is clear that there is no tactical knowledge and no horizontal collaboration as an army. It was also possible to destroy each one, but I wanted to avoid imitating the few people who could move freely and the bee's nest in a situation where reinforcements were not expected.

The worst battle in the besieged phase was a simultaneous assault, but even a simultaneous assault requires a commander. Equals, for example, an assault in which the commander does not issue a decree, and crushes it with a few things. I was wondering what kind of decree would be issued against a formation broad enough to besiege Tarram, but Alphilis had a point.

"(Well, you mean the limit of patience. Oak's patience and self-control they say you won't even know the face of your own child in battle. Then whatever you do, the limits of patience come. With the bait called taram in front of them, they put up with it for three days. Looks like you're looking at the water before it floods out of the glass. You'll be able to play with a few things, and they won't retreat after a few more. I was wondering what you were waiting for, but whoever thought of this strategy is a big deal.

Probably signaled sunset or sunrise as a commander, but the explosion just now must be stimulating enough. It is likely enough that the end of the war will be opened in the wake of this. Assuming some reinforcements are on their way from the outside, there will be no news until dusk. If you're in a situation where you can't work together, think about the possibility of a peer-to-peer meeting, and you'll storm in the day. You better think of no more reinforcements from the outside.

You just have to do something with the power of your hand) "

"(It would be a tragic battle)"

The shadow whispered in Alphilis, but Alphilis also thinks he's right about that point. My own army is a little over 2,000, and my opponents are 40,000 or 50,000. I might have been able to destroy each and every one of them if they would have stormed me at will, but if they stormed me at the same time, there would no longer be the art of resisting. If it's like a pebble before the tsunami, you have to at least drill a hole in one point. If it's possible, take over the enemy general.

Even that makes it difficult if the enemy general had only cemented himself around him.

"(At least if this is the castle. There are still fights.)"

"Alfie, the enemy's moving in unison!

Tasha hurries down from above. Again, Alphilis heard the report at a border somewhat similar to giving up.

"At the same time, maybe?

"Yeah, pretty much at the same time. I'm gonna push you like a fury. We don't have a quarter of an hour to reach the city."

"Conversely, what about the enemy forces that haven't moved at all?

"Outside the siege net, there are some groups like that in the northwest. I don't know, three grand."

"Is the enemy general there? Tasha, signal everyone to assemble at the nearest gate to the northwest. We'll storm as soon as we get over 500. I need directions from the sky."

"Ugh, that's dangerous. Can't you just run away? I'll cover you if you're on the run."

"Speaking of which, even Tarram had a new debt or something..."

"Hey, how do you know! I get it. You can go, you can go!

Tasha returns to the sky with dissatisfaction that it was hired by a hell of a captain. I was also cutting my way northwest, thinking that her presence, which in a heavy atmosphere would strike a light mouth, was valuable.

In the middle, the shadow speaks again.

"(Okay?

"What?

"(Do it with Zems the Brave. As a person, distrust cannot be plucked, but as a force of war, I would be sure. I assume you're asking where the inn is? You're not asking for help?

"Um... I'll stop. Unless, of course, he offers us strength."

"(Why?

Alphilis often thought about it and replied like he was in trouble.

"... because you care?

"(Hey, seriously answer that)"

"No, I'm serious. Well, I like your face, but... you don't want to ask for help? I want to be equal, like."

"(I'm not sure. I recommend retreat. I'll just tell him that)"

"I know, something I'm not sure about either. I think I should get away with it, too, but this is a bet. I wonder if we can get more out of Tarrum than we thought."

"(You don't always win bets, do you?

"Above and beyond."

While Alphilis rode his horse to the northwest walls, there was ground in Tarram. At that time, all the people who knew magic felt it.

"(Alfi, this is)"

"... Yeah, you finally made a move. The ruler of Tarram. I've been waiting for this."

Alphilis and the shadow were feeling. The magic runs through this taram. And that there is a wall of light around the tarram.

It was no mistake that Irmatal felt that the magical technique he noticed resembled the defensive junction strewn over Arnelia.

Continued