"They really hit them hard..."
Looking at the battle report in his hands, Chris sighed in admiration. These players certainly held grudges. They had suffered a setback yesterday and retaliated today, exploiting the Raitelia knights' recklessness with a devious baited trap.
Chris welcomed such actions because they effectively depleted the enemy's fighting strength. He had therefore ordered the players' resurrection costs temporarily waived and told the quartermaster to put the City-Breaker Guns up for sale.
In Chris's view, baited traps would only work for a while. Once those light cavalrymen escaped back to camp, the Raitelia knights would surely devise countermeasures, leaving the players unable to rely on tricks.
Eventually, the fighting would return to head-on clashes. That was when the City-Breaker Guns, capable of blowing both horse and rider to pieces with one shot, would prove useful.
As long as he could trade equipment for enemy lives, Chris would never lose out.
Meanwhile, thanks to the players fighting wave after wave without regard for casualties, Chris had finally established how many Retalian Army troops were currently in Tavitsky Province.
To discuss their numbers, he first had to consider the information Connie had gathered from prisoners about that country's political system and ancient military organization.
Unlike the Bohemian Empire, the former Kingdom of Bagnia that had learned from it, or the Minicia Kingdom with its own distinctive features, the Retalia Empire had an entirely different military system.
The Retalia Empire was a vast plain known to the world as the Land of Galloping Horses. Its rise and fall, glory and disgrace, all rested on pounding hooves. Its social structure and military system bore the deep imprint of ancient feudal knighthood, making it the purest and most stubborn bastion of chivalry on the Greek Continent.
The knightly manors scattered across its