“Is that an old strategy from 700 years ago?”

“I guess the Republican bastards can be romantic.”

“Hahahaha… I agree.”

While the officers were all laughing around him, Count Boris frowned at them.

“How can you be laughing right now?”

They realized that they shouldn’t be laughing and quieted down at Count Bori’s chilly response.

He continued to frown at them as he spoke.

“The enemy is dragging things out to buy time until the rest of their army comes. And just as they wanted, our speed has significantly slowed down. In other words, isn’t it taking us over a week to travel what should have only taken us a day?”

Only then did the officers realize that something was wrong.

“While we have won the three battles, the enemy has kept most of their troops even as they continued to fight. It means that we haven’t achieved as much as we thought we did.”

“Then Count Boris, what will we do from here on out?”

“If the enemy’s purpose is to buy some time, then we can’t play around anymore. From now on, even if we lose our troops, we have to continue to pursue the enemy and ignore the damages to our army.”

“Yes, sir. We understand.”

After giving orders to his officers, Count Boris thought to himself.

‘Siegfried… He’s not as easy as I thought he’d be. But I’ll show him that I'm far better than he is.’

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