The Conqueror from a Dying Kingdom: Volume 7 [Parts 1 to 8] by Fudeorca

Author:Fudeorca
Language: eng
Format: epub

Looking down on the battlefield from White Sunset, I could see that the second order was no longer functional. The two wings of the Ho army had formed a semicircle around the second order to envelop them.

The enemy soldiers furthest back were trying to escape via the main highway, while a few others were taking refuge. Try as they might, it looked like our plainrunner cavalry would soon have them trapped. The enemy was effectively surrounded.

Battlefield theories dictated that a commander had to position their troops in a way to prevent this sort of encirclement. The reason their commander hadn’t was because the entire force was too nervous to move as an orderly unit.

The second order’s basic strategy was to defend the royal capital and, if they failed in that aim, take up defensive positions on Royal Castle Island. The royal guard had used this same strategy for generations, and it had played out multiple times in the Shiyaltan royal family’s history whenever Sibiak was under attack.

Royal Castle Island was originally designed as a place where people could take refuge while waiting for reinforcements. It was never designed to be defended for years at a time. The island was in the center of the city, and it held several commercial facilities and offices. Unlike a fortress in some remote location, it wasn’t well-equipped with as many storehouses as space would allow. Instead, the island had a few small buildings tucked away behind the castle, which stored just enough provisions to provide some peace of mind. And since it was a river island, any underground areas were too damp for storing food.

The first and second order combined had eighteen thousand soldiers, and witch families would have to be fed as well, which meant that their supplies might not even last a month. This was why the royal family and the witches had chosen to take the fight to the capital’s edge by placing their defenses in the city’s commercial districts during every single internal conflict. In a way, it was beneficial if they lost a lot of soldiers before any attempt to move their forces to Royal Castle Island.

The witches couldn’t be certain of their defeat until they’d attempted a battle, so they certainly weren’t going to simply hand over the royal capital—their base of operations and main source of revenue—without any resistance. Their strategy was ruined, however, because Royal Castle Island had fallen before anything else had.

The Ho family’s flag flew on the castle’s spire as clouds of black smoke rose from the bridges to the island. With nowhere to run in the event of defeat, the only three choices the soldiers had were to fight to the death, raise their hands in surrender, or throw down their weapons and flee. Few were willing to fight to the death.

As our forces enveloped them tightly, the enemy had started to huddle closer and closer, with nowhere to run.

I descended slowly, heading for the main body of our forces.

“Your Excellency! I’ve been waiting for you.

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