Heshima actually had not wanted to go this far, but there was no helping it. The situation was too urgent. He had to boost the Barbarian army's will to fight and, at the very least, achieve a breakthrough within these ten days.
It had already been two days since Shikele's detachment had been wiped out. At the normal marching speed, it would take six or seven days to reach Blue Lake Bay from the Barbarian Main Camp.
Of course, Heshima considered that the Barbarians' marching speed. The Barbarians had a large number of warhorses and relatively little baggage, so they could indeed march somewhat faster. If it were the Southern nobles' army, it would probably take another day or two.
But Heshima estimated that even so, the army that had defeated the Barbarian detachment would reach this fortress in six days at the latest. Once those reinforcements arrived, the Barbarians would have even less hope of breaching the fortress before them.
Unfortunately, Heshima did not know that railways existed in this world. He knew even less that the Two Rivers Legion could use a large number of horses when fighting along its own lines, giving it a marching speed no slower than the Barbarians'. His greatest enemy, Marquis Victor, had already brought the first batch of reinforcements to the rear of the fortress—faster even than those defeated Barbarian troops.
If Heshima had known this, he might have reassessed the enemy before him. He might even have abandoned the siege, discarded the army, and fled back to the grasslands with only his elite troops. That was precisely why Victor had hidden his army behind the fortress.
In Heshima's view, the enemy reinforcements would certainly not sit idle. Once they arrived, they would definitely find a way to loudly publicize their victory