Volume 4 Chapter 11 - Losing the chance of cooperating (1/2)

The kingdom’s north was naturally different from the south. Banta City was in spring, but Lorren City that was less than two hundred kilometers from the northern border was still in the chill of winter.

However, his highness Eric was filled with flames right now. Not only did it easily surpass the chill in the air, it even surpassed spring and burned with the heat of summer.

It was time to perform his merit!

Looking at the thirty thousand northern army soldiers full of vigor and well equipped outside the city, his highness Eric had never been as confident as he was right now.

He even felt that with the thirty thousand northern army soldiers, he could not only attack the gate of the Sack Kingdom, he could even reach their capital and make the entire Sack Kingdom fall under him.

At that time, with this unparalleled military merit, who would be qualified to compete with him for the throne?

However, his common sense told him that this wasn’t realistic.

The thirty thousand northern army troops seemed like they were stronger, it was all because of the various goods the large nobles of the kingdom sent him. The logistics problem that always puzzled the northern army was solved, so the northern army’s mentality changed and it seemed like their battle efficiency increased.

But even like this, it was impossible to rout the entire Sack Kingdom with the thirty thousand northern army troops.

While conducting strategy meetings with Duke Stagg, Duke Stagg had explicitly warned his highness Eric that he can’t expect to defeat the Sack Kingdom.

Even the Lampuri Kingdom of several hundred years ago couldn’t do this, it was impossible to achieve even with the powerful support he had now.

The reason for launching this war was to give his highness Eric military merits that would increase his chips when it came to competing for the throne.

So Eric’s goals were clear this time, it was to defeat the Sack Kingdom’s army several times and take some advantages from the Sack Kingdom. It wasn’t to go too deeply into the Sack Kingdom.

As long as he had the merit of defeating the Sack Kingdom, it would be a very powerful chip.

If he really wanted to completely defeat the Sack Kingdom, that was asking for trouble.

Thinking of Duke Stagg’s urgings, his highness Eric couldn’t help knitting his brows and giving a soft snort.

“We couldn’t defeat the Sack Kingdom before because you nobles weren’t willing to contribute your strength. After I take the throne, I will definitely take the kingdom in my hand. When I mobilize the entire strength of the kingdom at that time, I don’t believe I can’t defeat the Sack Kingdom!”

Of course, his highness Eric only dared to think of this, he never mentioned it before.

It was only because of the support of the large nobles led by Duke Stagg that he could have the advantage when it came to competing for the throne.

Otherwise, with his own strength and not to mention that he didn’t have any military merits, it would be hard to even maintain his five thousand private guards.

Thinking of his five thousand private guards, his highness Eric looked past the northern army and fell onto another group before his brows knit even deeper.

This formation was crooked and compared to the uniform one of the northern army, it was like their formations were drawn without using a ruler.

The soldiers of this formation were very lazy and they were very dispirited. Compared to the northern army soldiers that were filled with vigor, these soldiers were completely lacking.

In these few months, his highness Eric had spent most of his time in military camps, so he was no longer someone who understood nothing about military matters.

The current him could see with one look that if his five thousand private guards were to face an equal number of northern army soldiers, he was certain that his five thousand private guards would collapse without being able to resist at all.

But he couldn’t do anything about this. Although his father had announced that he was one of the successors and had the right to a private guard of five thousand, his power was limited and it was impossible for him to raise these many guards.

The five thousand people were given to him from the private armies of the nobles, so he could imagine their quality.

His highness Eric didn’t believe in these five thousand people, so naturally he didn’t put importance on them.

Of course, he hoped that he could train five thousand trusted subordinates in the future because that would be his own strength.

But his own strength was just too weak right now. The main reason was that he didn’t have money, so he couldn’t consider this.

Thinking of this, his highness Eric couldn’t help feeling jealous and envious of Seveni.

According to his reports, Seveni had also finished recruiting her five thousand guards.

Compared to his five thousand guards that had no battle strength at all, one part of Seveni’s five thousand guards was picked from the elites of the private forces of the nobles supporting her, so their battle strength was completely different from his subordinates.

The other portion were people recruited by Seveni.

With Seveni’s good reputation in the kingdom and adding in the good treatment of her guards, the guards she recruited were all elites and had good battle strength.