Read I Was Reincarnated as a Poor Farmer in a Different World, so I Decided to Make Bricks to Build a Castle

367 - - postwar analysis

Back

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

"The Allied Forces are just a bunch of crows, aren't they?"

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

"Good work, Mr. Ars. You did an excellent job on the defense.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

"No, the best way to describe it would be to say that they destroyed themselves. The Memento family's high-level magic [tornado] was troublesome, but in the end we managed. But I think the victory was largely due to luck, Rion.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

"Indeed, that upper level magic was very troublesome. And the magic of the other noble families was also a formidable opponent. But I feel sorry for them... I think they were the wrong opponents before the defense network Master Ars had prepared.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

"Well, I think it worked pretty well myself. The combination of the Carmathian defensive wall and the transfer stone definitely worked against the hordes. It's a good thing."

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　The royal house of Dorén sent a royal decree to send a strike force against Fontana.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　The army of the various nobles came together as an allied force, and numbered more than 250,000 men.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　As one might expect, the odds were against them.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　Our maximum number of troops was 40,000, but we had to be prepared not only for the eastern route of the allied army, but also for the western route.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　In effect, we would have to fight a quarter of a million men with a little more than 20,000.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　There was no way to win in a proper fight.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　So I chose to fight a defensive battle.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　It would be best if we could win the battle by going out there and fighting against the allied forces, but if that is impossible, we have no choice but to defend ourselves.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　Normally, this defensive battle would not be a good way to fight.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　At any rate, there will be no reinforcements for Fontana, which is going to be independent as a kingdom.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　Without reinforcements, the defense will eventually end up being crushed.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　However, there was only one point where Fontana could find a chance to win.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　It had to do with the location of the Kingdom of Fontana.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　Fontana is the northernmost land surrounded by forests.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　To the east is the Uruk region, which borders the Daisetsuzan Mountains, and to the west is the Arbalest region with its marshlands.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　This means that when you are on the defensive, you can only pay attention to the south.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　After all, you are surrounded by nature, so you don't have to worry about attacks from there.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　And now, to further reinforce this only advantage, he has decided to move to the south.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　They built a wall in the former Carmathian territory, a little further south than they had faced Memento's army before.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　And not just any wall.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　They built a long, long, horizontal defensive wall that was the equivalent of the Great Wall of China or Hadrian's Wall.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　It was a gamble of sorts.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　Even if you build a wall for defense, what will happen if you are attacked while you are still building it?

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　The other side would probably break through the defenses, and the wall would be used by the Allied Forces to expose them to further attacks.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　In such a case, there would be no way to win no matter how hard we try.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　But we won the bet.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　They succeeded in building the "Carmathian Wall of Defense" in the former Carmathian territory and blocked the road leading to Fontana from there.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　However, even with the magic of Barca's "wall building," time was tight.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　I believe that the reason why they succeeded was because of the Doren royal family's failure to put their face first.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　The royal family of Dorren issued a royal decree and prepared an allied army to defeat Fontana.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　But they made a bad move there.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　Or maybe it was the old way, but the royal family had the allied forces gather at the capital and then go to Fontana.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　Even the capital and Fontana are geographically distant from each other.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　A large army moves even slower.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　It took several months after the royal order was issued to actually reach the border of Fontana.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　If it had not been for this, the outcome of the battle against the allied forces might have been different.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　That time frame saved Fontana and me.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　The defensive wall of Carmas was completed just in time.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　Basically, we built a physical wall on the border using [wall construction] that is 10 meters high.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　The wall is then divided into evenly spaced watchtowers and forts to guard the borders.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　A Reed family member is assigned to each of them, so if anything is discovered, they are immediately contacted by [telepathic communication] so that they can deal with it as soon as possible.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　But even more useful than that were the transfer stones.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　I had built transfer stones in several forts on the defensive wall of Carmath so that each of the forts could be moved in an instant by the head of the fortress.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　The allied forces that took their time to arrive would attack the forts they had set their sights on, and the best of the leaders would be able to see them and come to their rescue at once.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　Not only that, but in an instant, the leader could move from one fort under attack to another, and from that other fort to reinforcements.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　In the battles I've experienced so far, I've felt that the higher level magic used by the head of the class is basically specialized for attacks.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　Therefore, it is not necessary to have a leader class to stay in the fortress and lead the defense, but I decided to have a leader class in the rangers who attack the siege side from the outside.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　From the opponent's point of view, it would seem that one day there would be a leader-class in the attacking fortress, and another day there would be a leader-class in the attacking army.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　Perhaps, you felt as if you were dealing with more headmen than the actual number of headmen here.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　And the final decisive factor was the bombing of the food depot by airships.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　Actually, this was not my plan.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　I had shown it once to Memento's army, and I thought it would not work a second time.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　But Kyle advised me against it.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　We should use airships.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　Kyle had seen the Allied movements from the fort under attack and thought...

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　The other coalition forces did not seem to be working well with each other.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　And it was true.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　It was decided that the coalition forces, which consisted of several noble armies, were to defeat Fontana, and that Memento's army was in overall command of the coalition.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　However, they did not share information to the extent that they could go into the minutest details.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　In other words, the entire Allied Forces did not share the information about the previous airship attacks that Memento's forces had suffered.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　In fact, Memento's army had taken measures to prevent their food stores from being burned, but most of the noblemen's army did not seem to have thought that their food would be burned from the sky.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　Even when I checked with binoculars, I did not feel that they were at all alarmed.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　Therefore, I accepted Kyle's advice and decided to attack the allied forces with the exact same strategy.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　And it worked.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　I shot down burning ice from the sky with my ice flame sword and burned the food.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　With that, the Allied forces practically stopped functioning.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　They did not retreat immediately, as one would expect, but a short time later, when they could no longer secure enough food to feed a large army, the Allied forces retreated.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　Of course, there was no way to pass up such a delicious opportunity.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　As usual, they made a night attack on the Valkyries, but the Allied forces counterattacked in the dark night and attacked the other noblemen's army.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　As a result, it seems that they lost a lot of men in the friendly fire.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　Thus, the Kingdom of Fontana succeeded in showing its power by successfully defeating the defeat army led by the royal family of Dorren, which opposed independence.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

　This battle, however, set the situation in the region, which had been full of conflicts, in motion even more drastically.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Back

Table of Contents

Next

Back

Table of Contents

Next