Chapter 603 Luring in the enemy (1)
The next morning, we set off from Vayne City.
As if to show his support, Duke Yuletide even came to the city gates himself to see us off.
From the head of the army, I could see him above the gates when I turned back to look at the city. Seeing me look back, Duke Yuletide even gave me a nod as if he was showing his support.
I just gave a nod back in response, but...
Neither of us were sincere in our nods.
Both of us clearly didn't want to see the other side succeed, so we were only doing this to put on a show.
Once we left Vayne City, we headed further west to the border.
Even though the enemy sent people into our kingdom's territory to raid, those were nothing more than small groups. The main forces would still be on the border since they wouldn't risk being wrapped around.
After all, if they didn't take care of the forces of the nobles that hid in their territory, then they wouldn't be able to ensure that there were no enemy forces behind them.
Once they went deep into the enemy territory, it would be likely that they would get surrounded by the enemy if they left enemies behind them. So there wasn't a single sane general who would do something like this.
The main forces were the ones that we had to deal with.
Before we reached the border though, we suddenly stopped and set up camp.
After setting up camp, the first thing that we did was check the supplies that the duke gave us.
"As expected."
That was the only thing that I could say when we stopped and took a closer look at the supplies that were given to us.
The supplies seemed like they were normal on the outside, they even seemed like they were very fresh supplies that had been provided to us. But when one took off the fresh coating and looked underneath, they would find...
There were items that were close to breaking and goods that were close to rotting. Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m
They all looked like they clearly didn't believe me, but I refused to explain any further.
This was all because I couldn't tell them what the surprise was.
Even if I did, it was unlikely that they would have believed me, which was why I couldn't say a thing.
They looked at the determined look on my face for a while before finally giving up.
That was the prestige that I had built over the course of my time with this army.
They knew that I must have some kind of secret plan that I wasn't telling them and they were looking forward to seeing what my secret plan was. After all, the last secret plan had caused a slaughter that killed over a hundred thousand people.
After a long time, General Killock finally said, "Alright, what are our orders?"
I gave a nod and said with a smile, "It's very simple..."
...
The next day.
A small group set off from the camp.
This group was a group that was led by me while General Killock watched over the main camp of our army.
This group was supposed to be a scouting group that was to determine the location of the enemy.
I was going because I needed to personally see how the enemies were spread out, so I could make sure that there were no mistakes in my plan.
But as we left, there were certain people that noticed us leaving.
When we were a bit away from the camp, Shadow Five suddenly told me in a whisper, "There are people following you."
I gave a simple nod, but I didn't stop as I kept moving forward with this group.
