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"Oh. That's great. It seems that the bows of the Balkan mercenaries reach farther than those of the Orientals, that they do.

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　Banagher looks at the military exercises unfolding below him and says, "I'm not sure I can do this.

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　The others who were listening to the conversation were saying similar things to each other as well.

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　At first, both sides began the battle with an exchange of bows and arrows.

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　Arrows were being fired from a long distance.

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　However, there was a difference in the arrows fired from both camps.

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　There is a clear enough difference that the observers here can tell even if they do not know anything about actual battles.

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　It is the distance of the arrows.

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　It seems that the arrows fired by the Barka mercenaries reach farther than the arrows fired by the other team.

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"The Barka Mercenaries train with a variety of weapons. Some of them are swords and some of them are arrows. It must be the effect of this training.

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"Training, that it is. But the skill of bow and arrow can only be improved by a great deal of training, that it should be. Of course they train in the Orient, that they do. But even so, we cannot match the skill of the Gulagarias. That is why I have developed the magic bow Orient, so that it can be used immediately, that I have.

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"Yes, that's right. It is true that it takes time to become proficient with a bow. But the training of the Barka mercenaries has a way of speeding up that progress. By the way, I believe that the men there are now as skilled with bows as the renowned archers of the Gulagarians.

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"What?　Is it true, that it is, Mister Alphonse? The Glugaria are a group of archers who train from an early age with bows made of soft magic wood, that they are. It is inconceivable that they could be as good as them, that they could be.

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"It's true. However, we are not using a bow made of soft magic wood, and we have just started training, so we may be a little inferior to the real archers.

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　While watching the military exercises, provide commentary as appropriate.

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　Or perhaps it would be better to call it an advertisement.

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　When I told them that the men in the Barka mercenaries were as good with bows as the Grougary soldiers, they, besides Banagher, were amazed at what they heard.

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　Most of them are as incredulous as Banagher, but you can see that they are not the same as the bowmen of the Orientals.

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　All of the mercenaries have access to my magic, so they have learned how to use the bow by watching me use the movements of the meteors.

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　Even with only a short time of training, they have become quite skilled.

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　Though they are not as good as the archers of Grougalia.

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　They have been using bows since they were very young.

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　Not only their skills, but also their bodies are suited to handle bows.

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　On the other hand, the new mercenaries who have just started to copy the movements from last year can mimic the superficial movements, but their muscular strength is still insufficient.

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　He may be getting tired gradually, and the distance of the bow is also decreasing little by little.

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　However, that is not a problem.

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　The purpose of the attack with the bow was only for checking.

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　The infantrymen who continued to run under the arrows that were flying in a mountainous line came into close contact with the respective vanguard units.

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　The next step was to engage in hand-to-hand combat.

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"......The Barca mercenaries are pushing harder. Rather, the Orientals look as if they were bounced off at the moment of collision."

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"It's probably a difference in organizational strength. The Barka mercenaries work in groups of five. The first group of mercenaries was made up of large mercenaries who clashed with each other with shields over their heads. On the other hand, the Orientals attacked each other individually with weapons. As a result, their attacks were blocked by the shields and they were bounced away.

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　The Barka mercenaries clashed as each of the five men held a larger shield.

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　It might seem as if a single huge shield was approaching.

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　The Orientals attacked such a place by slamming wooden swords as hard as they could.

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　Of course, it had no effect, and they were bounced off by the shield.

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　The clash of the vanguard units also shows that the Barka mercenaries have the advantage.

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"But the battle line has stiffened in spite of the magnitude of the initial clash. I thought the Barka Mercenaries were going to break through at once. ......"

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"Oliva is right. If the footing has stopped, wouldn't the Orientals, with their greater numbers, have the advantage?"

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"I don't know about that. Look at this. Look at how well the Barka mercenaries work together.

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　As Oliva pointed out, after the clash, both armies stopped moving.

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　However, this was to be expected.

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　The Barka mercenaries were outnumbered by their opponents, but they did not rush into them.

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　Rather, they seemed to have adopted a strategy to stop the movements of the opponents and gradually reduce their numbers.

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　Occasionally, a woman's voice is heard from the training area.

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　Probably, Laura is trying her best to raise her voice.

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　Various sounds can be heard accompanying the voice.

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　And after the sounds, the mercenaries were moving in tandem.

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　Pushing and pulling, they were attacking to reduce the number of their opponents, while fighting their opponents' power, but without fail.

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　They seem to be attacking with spears and swords many times from between the groups that are using large shields.

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"Mm-hmm. When did the number of the Orientals decrease?"

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"Yes, sir. I think the wounded are gradually coming out. The wounded are starting to fall back. From the looks of things, I think the situation is about to change.

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　Apparently, things are going according to plan.

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　We are gradually reducing the number of our opponents and weakening them without overreacting.

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　It must be Ai, who is assisting Laura, who is directing the team.

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　I, who was watching from the outside, also had a strange feeling.

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　From a distance, it looked as if the soldiers from both sides were pushing each other as if they were struggling against each other, but the result was obvious.

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　The result was obvious. There was a clear difference in the number of retreating soldiers.

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　The Orientals, who had a larger number of soldiers to begin with, had more soldiers drop out of the battlefield.

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　This result may of course be due to the fact that the mercenaries' skills of sword and spear were also improved by the practice.

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　However, it did not seem as if the battlefield was moved by such individual skills.

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　It really seemed that before long, a clear difference in numbers had emerged.

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　This seemed to be especially true for Banagher and others who were observing the event here.

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　However, it was only so far that the number of participants was modest.

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　I heard a louder voice than before from Laura, who was in the main camp, saying, "Go.

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　And with that, the Barka mercenaries made a big move.

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　Instead of moving forward and backward in accordance with the movements of their opponents, they began to advance at a furious pace, as if they were trying to corner the retreating Orientals.

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"...... total collapse, isn't it? The Orient army has been completely defeated, that it has.

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That's it. It's a done deal.

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　The results that followed were beyond reproach by all accounts.

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　The Orientals, reduced in numbers and beginning to fall back, were unable to mount any resistance to the onslaught that followed, and were overrun.

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　In no time at all, the Orientals were reduced to rout, and despite the fact that this was a military exercise, the soldiers of the Orientals were desperately trying to escape.

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　In contrast, the Barka mercenaries were able to move in a coherent manner throughout the exercise, even as they were being hunted down.

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　When I signal the end of the exercise, the mercenaries, who had been scattered over a wide area, all line up at once.

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　Great.

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　The difference in contrast to the Orientals, who are no longer a shadow of their former selves.

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　Thus, the first military exercise held in the Orient ended with a complete victory for the Barka mercenaries.

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