231 – Before the Fall of the Elaine Empire (2)
“From a human point of view, the second dirtiest strategy after massacre is alienation, really. No, how is this kind of personality possible without losing a single one of my soldiers?”
After saying that, I laughed like crazy.
If someone sees me laughing like this, they might think I’m crazy, but I can’t help but laugh just thinking about the stupid things they did.
Of course, from the point of view of being victimized, the stomach would be twisted so much that it would feel twisted 100 times from the top to the captain.
Isn’t the alien book used to break the opponent’s outfit?
In normal times, if I do this, I’m a bad guy, but in a war, if I admit that the victim is a bad guy, then as a commander leading an army, I’ve really done a good deed.
I have some time to spare now, so I opened the report sent by the spy who infiltrated the Elain Empire once again.
[Progress of the internal division plan of the Elaine Empire]
It’s a title made up of only a few letters, but it’s a beautiful text indeed.
**
Meeting room of the Elaine Imperial Palace.
Adolf de Elaine, the emperor of the Elaine Empire, is now in the worst predicament in the history of the Empire.
If this has happened, even if we join hands to come up with countermeasures and prepare to overcome this predicament, it won’t be enough…
The aristocrats under me can’t stop fighting for leadership even after being driven to this point.
Damn it, please, at times like this, where does it get worse if we stick together?
“Now that this has happened, there is no answer other than to send reinforcements from the United Kingdom of Brittanya! Don’t you know?”
“Who doesn’t know that? Count Alas, come up with an alternative! An alternative!!”
“His Highness the Duke is out of his head, so please devise a wise strategy that will make us all understand! If you can’t do that, let’s have a conversation!”
In normal times, no Count could treat the Duke of Brussels that way unless the Duke was guilty of treason.
Because in that case I would have applied the offense of disrespect to the duke and slit the head of Count Alas.
And that’s the right attitude and conduct as a right monarch…
But… Both I and the Regent are now nothing more than defeats that killed more than 50,000 troops…
As long as you don’t openly claim treason, threatening like that is the only limit… Can’t do anything
Damn it, it’s all because of the damn Kreutel traitor.
No, if you are a noble, if a king like me gives you the dukedom, you’ll just be struck down and accused of being a traitor and die quietly, or if you feel that I, the emperor, doubt you or hold you in check, you’ll lie flat on the ground and walk!
The damn bastard was content with an obscure title like a marquis, and even when he was given a rank like second-in-command under the Duke of Orléans, he didn’t protest at all.
So now that this has happened, I told the Orléans to kill the Marquis at the time if possible, and if things don’t go well, he should at least gnaw his power so that he can’t shake his momentum…
Didn’t the stupid Creutel human scum, who couldn’t grasp the atmosphere, defeat the 80,000 army led by Marquis Simon of France with only 25,000?
Even with such a feat, the two counties of France and the territory of the worms who violated orders on the battlefield…. What a dirty, evil bastard… How dare you block my way as the emperor and now choke my throat?
In the end, I couldn’t bear this pitiful behavior and shouted.
“Stop! What the hell are you two doing in the meeting hall of the sacred imperial palace?”
After saying that, the two of them lowered their heads with expressions that didn’t make them feel sorry.
“I was so excited. I’m sorry, Your Majesty.”
“Forgive me. Worrying about the future of the empire… “
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Why are the Duke of Brussels and the Earl of Alas fighting each other and instigating trouble when it is not enough to unite around me, the emperor? I’m sorry
No, it has to be.
The duke has already lost his authority, and I, the emperor, had no opinion other than requesting an expeditionary force from Britannia and waiting for them.
And the guidance that gave the nobles time to come to an agreement and come up with countermeasures… One month and fortnight.
I tried to take the lead with everyone agreeing, but in the end I had no choice but to take the initiative myself…
“It is not something I do not know about the hearts of the kings. But this time it seems they both went too far. Also, I think everyone already knows, but… “
I slammed down on the desk the document requesting surrender made by the Creutel traitors, which had been distributed throughout the castle, with a bang.
“The damned traitor sits spreading these documents to divide us. Isn’t it really amazing? No, aside from saying that all surrendered soldiers will be returned to their hometowns. Those who cooperate the most in dropping the castle will be given a county? Sounds funny.”
After saying this, I felt humbled in my position as the emperor, but to be honest, there was no way I would be given the county just because I cooperated in destroying the allies until reinforcements from Brittanya arrived.
That’s also true, if you look at the current situation, Kreutel-kun is winning perfectly, so the self-proclaimed nobles of the kingdom and the pretender, the bastard, will try to take all the land that will be a non-worker.
If I were that goddamned traitor Kreutel, I would try to end things at the level of granting old titles and small territories to those who cooperate in opening the castle. The county to freeze to death…
That selfish son of a b*tch wouldn’t do that, would he?
Aristocrats seemed to think there was some truth in my words, and burst into laughter.
“I would have believed it if it was a barony, but a county… Who would believe that?”
“Count Jacques is right. Among the great nobles here, there is no way that a dog like that would listen to nonsense that even a dog would not believe.”
“It’s more realistic that pagans go to heaven!”
I clapped a couple of claps to get their attention, then went on.
“However, serf soldiers may be fooled by such nonsense. So, don’t let them be fooled by such bullsh*t… Thoroughly, we must instill fear of the traitor. Tell me that this is all a lie and that if I surrender, the vengeful Kreutel will rip me limb from limb.”
The Creutel traitor has never had a needless massacre.
However, the ignorant serfs have only heard about it through rumors, so they can’t be sure.
In such a situation, if the Count and I constantly repeat, ‘If you surrender to Kreutel, you will be brutally murdered’, the fear of being brutally murdered among the serfs will slowly spread to confidence through no doubt.
“Also, according to what I just received from the Duke of Marlborough of the United Kingdom of Brittany, two months… No, they say that within two months at the latest, 60,000 reinforcements will come to the Elain Empire.”
Those who had lost all hope at the meeting did not know how to survive, but how they could regain their territory.
Looked at me with expectant eyes.
“Therefore, the allies are giving up fighting in the plains as of the current time and are preparing for a defensive battle. What do you think? Then, when reinforcements arrive, they will attack Kreutel’s army from inside and outside and regain the territory with momentum.”
If that happens… Some counties will be given to the United Kingdom of Brittany, but…
If you tell me about it now, it’ll just make the bubble burst, so there’s no need for me to tell you.
“As expected, you are the emperor! What an amazing operation!”
“It will take a month for the Creutels to come here to the imperial palace, so if we hold out well for a month until the Britannia reinforcements arrive, it will be worth it.”
“Even if they have cannons and guns, they won’t be able to overcome Elysium’s massive triple wall. Nor will they ever think of digging tunnels like they did when they captured Fort Falcon. I have already done it.”
The strategy I have in mind is pretty good, but… At this point, someone should come out against it… No one has a dissenting opinion…
I felt a sudden sense of incongruity.
Could it be that I’m being beaten by that guy Kreutel again?
But I soon dispelled that thought. It must be because I was too sensitive and thought too sensitively.
Because this is the only way for me, the current emperor, and other nobles to live. So there will be no one against it.
**
After re-reading the letter from the intelligence unit, I started laughing maniacally again.
“Just because his name was Adolf, I never thought he was an idiot like Hitler… Are you crazy to go into the castle instead of the bunker in that situation when there is nothing else you can think of as an alternative?”
Then, I began to read the names of the insiders who provided information to the intelligence unit, one by one.
“Earl Jacques, Earl Farriers, Earl Delon, Baron Waldo, Viscount Fellne, Courtier Omar….”
Only 20 nobles with titles, plus at least 500 active snitches including knights and soldiers.
From the time I said I would lock myself in, it’s normal to feel something strange…
Perhaps it’s because he’s a really crazy guy, so his status is different.
No, even if you already felt it, did you have no choice but to make such a stupid choice?
Did he justify himself because he was cornered… As a former history student, I wonder what kind of psychology that crazy man made such a choice.
And I think this war will end very comfortably for me.