The Sended's

Chapter 56: The Grand Battleplan

"You seem to be sleeping well my son, because you know that someone is protecting you. I've never slept well, I'm a little jealous of you,"

"My husband" My wife came to me

I was in my son's room after last night finally got a long sleep after two months, now the day has started again and I have a job to do

"God! Our son is sleeping" I told him

"Sorry for that, I just wanted to ask if you had a meeting with the King this morning?" Huh uh?

"No, why are you asking that?"

"Then this letter....? Is there any deceiver who dares to use the name of the King?" Where there is

I turned around and saw a letter with a golden seal with the King's stamp in my wife's hand, seeing that it was a real letter.

But as I recall the King said to prepare to conquer this island and tell him if the preparations were over, then why did he send a letter? I should have sent him the letter when the preparations were done

I opened the unsealed letter again because my wife had opened it first, and read the contents of the letter

It was written immediately and important in the sentence he wrote, it means that I have to quickly go to the palace because there may be a change of plan from him.

"I have to leave immediately, please prepare the horse carriage, I will wear my uniform first,"

"Okay, but what really happened?" Ask my wife

"I do not know, nor is it written in the letter, but when the King says it is urgent and important, I must obey his command well,"

"I see, I'll call the coachman and his chariot,"

When I arrived at the palace, there was already a voice of debate from outside here. Meeting rooms are usually located inside, but that is especially for high-ranking officials such as ministers and generals like me

There was a room near the entrance of the palace for meetings open to all officials, and unlike usual this time there were many who came

"Sir Paul," said Mr. Richard who came with someone beside him

"Mr Richard," I said back

Here is still outside the palace, we decided to enter when the King has come, because there will be nothing to listen to if entering now, there is only a commotion there

"Did you introduce this to my protege, Thomas," oh?

"It's nice to meet you, Sir Paul," he said, asking me to shake hands

"As well as me, you're the one chosen directly by Mr. Richard so there's no way you're mediocre right?" I said as I grabbed his hand

He could not respond to that and could only smile

"Haha! But the journey is certainly still very far, especially heavier because we will soon conquer the entire island," said Mr. Richard

While we were talking, the King came out with the bodyguards and a few other important people, we bowed our respects to him

"They said the trade minister and the general were a bad couple, but not in this country" he said

"Baginda," greet the two of us after looking down

"Let's go in, there's something important to talk about,"

We all went in together.

Inside there were already many people like I said, they were instantly silent when they saw us entering this room. They rose and bowed their heads for a moment and stood until the King sat down

I was on the right side of the King, Mr. Richard was on his left side, some other ministers were sitting in rows with us, while the rest were provided with seats in front of the King facing here like in the courtroom

"Thank you for responding to the letter I sent by being here at this time" the King said

"It's an honor for us, your majesty" replied one of the officials at the front

"My reason for calling you here is because there's a message from our spies, saying that Ruby's gathering her troops at the border,"

"What?!"

Everyone in this room was shocked, and I was no exception

"Why are they gathering there? Do they want to attack us?!"

"They may think we're going to attack them, but we're still prepared,"

"Shut up! I want to hear your opinion,"

The King made the right decision, because if it was not made silent maybe a debate would occur

"We must attack first!"

"We're still getting ready for the fool! If it attacked now, then the result would not be maximal!"

The split appeared as expected, in which case it was not something bad. Just like mere dissent, a King needs such a thing

A moment of silence crept into this room, when all eyes were on the King who was thinking hard to make his decision

"I want to hear the opinion of our General, Sir Paul,"

Now all that attention is turning towards me

"I will do your orders whatever it is, but if asked to choose then I suggest giving a little more time to prepare,"

The King thought back because our opinion was still different, then his decision....

"The last thing I want is for us to fight outside the walls of this city. So Sir Paul, I hope you finish your preparations today and tomorrow you're leaving for the border soon,"

"Understand, your King,"

Uwah.... I hope they don't make a book with me as the main character, just look at this book that tells the journey of Kyouka's life

Starting from the children of the Afiel tribe who later became slaves, liberating their people and ending up becoming Queen or as this book says, Warrior Quenn

Though he was not a fighter, he was indeed now quite proficient at using spears but still hesitated to take the life of someone with such abilities.

It's been two months, by the way? Time passed so quickly as I grew older, maybe it was relativity or what Einstein mentioned, but maybe it wasn't, I didn't really understand, just ask Maou

During these two months my academy managed to recruit around 70 new students, they were all still in the training stage of course because it was only two months, but their development was as I expected

The most prominent is Gilles, although the son of a messenger boy but he can learn everything quickly and well too, fast and good is a necessary thing for a military leader especially in making decisions on the battlefield

"Admiral!" He called....

"I don't think the name admiral is right for me, Gilles. You can just call me Rune or Miss Rune,"

You see, I'm not just leading a fleet.... I haven't found a nickname that suits me

"Then what's up?"

"Ready! I'm here to report from the shipyard" he said

I received the board he was carrying, there was a paper attached there

My order ship has already awakened ten, but none of the special orders are among those completed. It's only been two months.... I expect in one year they can finish one, then in the next two years

"Miss Rune?"

"It looks like we've reached the minimum if we want to make an invasion of Edelfield,"

Ten ships if one of them could roughly transport up to a hundred personnel, then I could bring a thousand soldiers to land on the Edelfield coast, but let's not do that. I'll be in a hurry....

Except.... Something big happened that forced me to hurry

"Yumu!" Damn my head hurts to hear Kyouka's cry through magic

"Hey don't shout here, your voice is very clear even though you try to whisper," You see, this magic directly sends a sound into my brain

"I'm sorry, but you have to hear this" he continued

Edelfield started his movement, probably provoked by the presence of our troops at the border, they sent a large number of troops there as well

Maou and Kyouka will soon be heading there to deliver new types of artillery to better arm our troops, but without my presence Ruby will almost certainly lose. If Maou and Kyouka don't use magic and their abilities....

"It looks like our schedule is going to be accelerated, I need to get to the front line right now" I told Gilles

"Eh? What's going on, miss?"

"Edelfield, they've come with 12,000 men to conquer the entire island, while we only have 5,000 there" I explained as I walked out of the academy, Gilles following me

"We'll win, but if we make a move then I'd like to get to their capital" I reached the academy's gate and stopped there

"In ten days, I'll be back here with a thousand Ruby soldiers, please tell the shipbuilder down there to prepare all the ships that were made that day,"

"Are we going to war that day, miss?" Ask him

"you guys? No. gabe.... You guys haven't even attended navigation classes, I'll ask ordinary sailors for an invasion later" I replied

"But miss, haven't we been practicing all this time? Shouldn't you give us training in the field directly?" Oh, there's a complaint from Gilles like that

Hehe, it has been a long time since anyone dared to make complaints and complaints to me, even though I did not forbid it.... Why would ya?

"Listen this is fine Gilles, the ship for the lander or Landing Craft is very much different than a battleship or Battleship. You are sailors trained to work in Battleship, the first in your profession. So I want when the time comes, you do your job perfectly, but this time it's not your job, do you understand?"

"I understand, miss...."

Also called Landing Craft... They are more like to Transport Ship, can be used for other purposes as well

Ugh, enough bases, I have a battle to win