High School Soldier
Tactics 'eat'

The rebel leader, Ofra, still had the desire to conquer one by one the Arevelk Kingdom territory with the help of the Alliance. His desire to fight alongside the Alliance had not been exhausted, which was combined by the cunning nature he clearly possessed. Even if he only managed to take control of a few villages and small towns that were not strategic, it would only increase his ambition of doing the same.

If he were to seize the fertile territory that was near the desert plateau of the Arevelk Kingdom, he would undoubtedly gain ultimate access to the Girinhi Fortress. Then, the influence of the rebel forces will expand and the Alliance will keep its promise, sending relief forces to destroy the Arevelk military.

In addition, the rebels have also known that in Girinhi Fortress there are only a handful of other world troops and new recruits Arevelk troops. The opportunity they will take after controlling the area near the highland desert.

As Ofra was planning his next move in the tent set up, he and some of his commanders suddenly realized there was activity from the troops outside the camp.

“What's up?” Ofra mutters

Shortly after he asked what was going on, suddenly.

“Woooooo! Attack and destroy themaaaa!”

A deafening sound echoed throughout the camp. It was the sound of the Rebel Squeezing Forces cheering excitedly.

“Wah, wow! I don't think they dare launch the first attack!” the corner of Ofra's mouth was lifted, sneering at the small army in front of him.

He fully hoped that Arevelk would be daunted after learning that the rebels had cooperated with the Alliance which already had the equivalent power of otherworldly forces.

However, he was currently still fighting within the Arevelk region, and the nearby fortress of the Alliance was at a distance of dozens of days traveling by horse. And if Ofra the commander once again managed to defeat ‘nya’ himself, then he would be even more arrogant.

“Alright, we will finish it quickly, as before!” ofra said confidently, then stood up to observe the enemy he was about to destroy.

But Ofra's arrogant face disappeared as the wind blew.

Ofra's army camp is near the desert, surrounded by valleys and short hills. Moderate force winds are common here, and cause small dust storms that do not interfere with activity.

“What-what the hell are they?!” Ofra surprised.

Judging from the banner they were carrying, the cavalry soldiers actually came from Arevelk and Yekirnovo. They came to crush the rebels, and joined the battle. That's good, it's all Ofra's plan. He thought that mastering multiple territories would be even better, and his influence in the Alliance in the future would be even greater.

The dust was soaring, the number of troops in each unit was over fifty. That means, Ofra saw the enemy bring a large army of the same number as his troops. Such a large army would cause fierce and long battles, then cause the soldiers to be exhausted.

However, Ofra wanted to repeat his previous success. Although all of the soldiers who had held their respective weapons seemed daunted, Ofra ordered them to form a defensive formation.

“What do they think about sending only horsemen? Is Sigiz not able to think because of his age?” Ofra scoffing.

Fighting on a horse requires a long training. At least two to eight years if one wanted to reach to the highest level of horse riding skill. And as far as Ofra was concerned, in every battle, Arevelk never sent an army of horsemen exceeding 60,000. Currently, the troops he had numbered 70,000, a combined army of horsemen and infantrymen. He thought this fight would be balanced.

Still, even if a country had the best horsemen, they still had weaknesses that the infantry did not have. In addition, fighting on horseback requires great skill, if there is anxiety or loss of vigilance just a little, the horseman warrior will be thrown off his mount, and the, then killed by the enemy or trampled by his own horse. Fighting with enemies while riding horses is a game of luck.

The dust storm that resulted from the rapid pace of thousands of horses belonging to the Arevelk forces grew larger, and made the rebel forces more daunted. The sound of screaming soldiers grew louder, accompanied by the sound of explosions several times, then uprooted some soldiers. Some of the rebel soldiers lost their spirits after the enemy mysteriously killed their comrades.

The troops who launched the surprise attack drew arrows on the hillside, aiming at the thousands of rebel soldiers who had formed a formation. Their high ground was very profitable, and the enemy was unaware of any archers being placed on the hill around their camp.

The rain of arrows and artillery magic accompanied the heavy and light cavalry troops who swung spears and swords filled with passion to protect family and country. The Rebel Squeezer Army raged with vigor, and fought without losing balance and vigilance.

The Rebel Extinguishing Force utilized the skills of their commanders, as if practicing for years just to create this tactic.

All the horses dragging down the tree trunk and the leaves created a great dust storm resulting from the galloping of the horse's steps and the friction of the tree trunk and sand, thus exaggerating their numbers were only 2,000 horsemen and archers, while the longbowmen hidden in the nearby hills made them impossible to reach by the infantry or cavalry who wanted to climb the hill. If the enemy does that, they just have to show the enemy with arrows again. Even enemy archers simply waste their ammunition, and cannot fire precisely.

Even so, the rebel forces were unaware of the small number of their enemies, and assumed they were fighting against an army of hundreds of thousands.

Ofra considers this battle a nightmare.

“This is not... possible!” Ofra looked at both of her cheeks, trying to make herself realize that this was reality.

He was in the middle of a battle. As commander, Ofra did not want himself to lose his mind now.

Then, then he realized something.

“Quiet! You all calm down! There are fewer enemies than us. If we stay calm, we can beat them!” Ofra screaming.

He shouted so loudly, and made the entire army move to the frontline in panic.

There is a phrase Ofra heard from a young Indonesian soldier who said “A soldier who can remain calm in the midst of a brutal battle is a lunatic”. Indeed, no warrior can truly remain calm in the middle of a fight, there are only warriors who try not to lose their vigilance and suppress fear while fighting. Staying calm on the battlefield is difficult.

Ofra still remembered the face of the young warrior. Although he was not a general of the Indonesian army, but the soldier had the aura of a general who had gone through thousands of battles, and killed many enemy soldiers who tried to rob his nation of self-esteem. The soldier was one of the people he avoided the most if he met, after rumors of the dying Hero of Anger at the soldier's hands spread.

However, Ofra felt the enemy commander was capable enough to make his small army chaotic. Once he ordered his troops to re-form the formation, they were ordered to retreat. They withdraw suddenly and in an orderly manner, without the slightest doubt or confusion even though they are in the midst of a favorable situation.

After preparing to counterattack, the rebel soldiers looked disappointed with the retreat of Arevelk's forces.

“Don't let them pass!”

“Pursue them!”

“Drop them from their horses!”

Along with their cries, the rebel army tried to catch up, but of course the enemy was entirely horsemen. In addition, the next rain of wave arrows occurred again, along with a series of explosions that caused some soldiers to fall down with hollow bodies. Although the arrow is able to penetrate the thin armor of the Arevelk infantry, but the weapon that causes the hollow body is only owned by Indonesian, Russian, and North Korean forces.

After attacking them and killing many soldiers, the Rebel Extinguisher Force had escaped without a single soldier dying.

But for the rebel forces, this is just the beginning of a nightmare.

**

“That tactic really worked. The small amount of us is able to humiliate those traitors!” Lux said excitedly after arriving in Tohora City, and prepared herself for the next battle.

Lux, Edera, and the other Demihumans, Hevaz who were not included in the battle, praised Nio's skill in making simple tactics, but had a tremendous impact on the enemy. However, Nio had one weakness that the troops he led did not have and achieved this victory.

“Don't be shy about not being able to ride a horse, Nio. The most important thing is what's inside your head.” Lux tried to comfort Nio, and both of her hands gently caressed Nio's bionic hand and real hand.

Nio did not expect that he was fighting while being hugged by a girl. Although he managed to kill some of the rebel soldiers and win the battle, he would only be an easy target for the enemy if he did not shoot from the horse that Lux was riding.

“Riding horses is definitely much harder than learning to ride an armored vehicle,” Nio complained, responded with a small laugh of Lux and the girls.

On the other hand, the commanders who were fighting under the command of Lux and Nio, they did not expect that the young man would be able to make this tactic in such a short period of time.

“First that exploding stick, then this amazing tactic.. Mr. Nio is really like the previous hero who was reborn,” Edera greeting makes Nio seem to want to ask something.

“So you've met heroes before? Don't tell me you live long like Queen Sigiz.”

Sigiz who had just arrived was somewhat surprised by Nio's remark that offended his age that didn't match his appearance.

‘’Do not overdo it, Mr. Nio. The average age of demihumans and humans is the same. I only heard the story of the previous hero from my parents.”

Nio nodded in confidence, then got off the horse he was riding with Lux.

“To be honest, I felt very upset when I did not allow me and His Majesty Hevaz to fight. But, seeing that you were able to achieve victory with just a small army, the God of War did not wrongly designate you as ‘people foretold’.”

“Well, any soldier who sees if the enemy-held terrain is desert, surely they think the same tactics as I thought. After all, I only imitated the tactics of past knights whom I admired.”

“It could be that now the abilities of all the best past knights in your world are within you now, my lord,”, Hevaz said.

“Woy! Why are you guys so ordinary when I use other people's tactics! It's a copyright issue know!” but Nio was actually annoyed at the praise he received.

The additional cavalry Lux ordered Nio's 500 men and horses. They were ready to become an additional force to defeat the rebels, and make Arevelk stable again.

Arevelk's forces were almost destroyed during the first battle against the rebels. However, with the genius tactician among them, the suppression of the rebels is believed to bear sweet fruit.

As Nio and the group of troops who had just returned from the battle entered Tohora City, the citizens of the city stared with confidence at their soldiers, who were still looking at their soldiers, and a green-clothed warrior without the metal armor protecting him was the center of attention.

The troops then gathered in the city center.

“What will we do before moving on for the next battle, Mr Nio?” one of his subordinate commanders asked excitedly.

A supreme commander was indeed responsible for the lives of the entire army, however, with Nio's tactics, Lux and his army were able to return with the same amount as when departing. The girls had really looked at Nio like he was not a strong knight from another world. They both hoped to meet Nio sooner, during times of peace, then become the main wife or mistress of a genius warrior.

Although in this place there was their supreme commander, but the commanders considered Nio more worthy to build a strategy, then the task of building the army spirit was given to Lux.

“Alright, try all the soldiers in a state of fullness and pleasure,” said Nio with a calm face with a smile full of confidence.

The eyes of the entire commander and the girls widened, unable to believe that the order Nio gave instead ordered a larger relief force.

“In these crucial moments why do you ask them to eat, Mr Nio?” Hevaz doesn't even know Nio's head.

Nio with a reassuring face began to explain, “I'm sure, at this time the enemy is still in a tired state, and may have lost his spirit. But, right now I see the soldiers who returned safely still have energy. Eat when the enemy is hungry and tired, then attack them when we are full and excited, it is a tactic outside of the battle that is very important.”

“That means?” ask Sigiz.

“That is, after eating, we set up camp in a favorable location, and wait for the enemy to come from their journey. We will eat, rest, and wait for our exhausted enemies, then eat again as much as possible when the enemy is starving in the middle of the journey. It is a way to take advantage of pleasure, is not food one form of pleasure?”

Nio spoke as if he was the creator of the tactic, which in fact he was simply repeating the war manual Sun Tzu had drawn up. Nio felt the tactics of the figure would be useful in this otherworldly battle, he had to respect Sun Tzu for the war tactics he wrote.

After all, Nio's words were perfectly suited to the current situation of the Rebel Extinguishing Force.

“They come from far away, then the enemy is tired because it continues to move without eating,” Nio said again. “There is no way they can fight with full power when hungry. So, let's eat!” Nio said in a half-joking tone, although he was very serious in proposing the tactic.

“I understand. It's very much like you, Mr. Nio even though we just met you not too long ago.it's like an ancient ploy from your world, and it seems so powerful!” Huvu suddenly interrupted, and seemed to express his admiration for the sincere Nio.

“So after eating, we should set up camp somewhere favorable for us, then eat again, right?” sela Ebal's. Then he asked again, “Aren't the troops going to run out of time?”

“I get it! After eating, the warrior will have a lot of power, so I don't think it's okay to take a detour a bit further. After all, it can also drain more rebel soldiers,” one of the commanders of the Rebel Extinguishing Force replied seriously.

“Really! isn't it not in vain that you volunteered to be the commander of the Rebel Extinguishing Force?” ask Nio.

“True, although I had previously doubted your leadership, I finally benefited from being part of this squad. The science of your world is indeed extraordinary, Mr. Nio.”

On the other hand, Nio did not consider such a tactic would be useful to counter the forces from powerful countries with excellent transportation, like the developed countries in his world.

The entire soldier who was in a state of spirit after fighting in the previous fight, looked towards Nio with great admiration. But Nio himself did not realize it.

He had indeed only made use of the tactics written by famous figures in his world, so this was purely not his hard work. On the other hand, Nio felt that there must be a handful of parties who did not like his involvement in the war to crush these rebels.

“Mr Nio, after this war, you should call me with ‘Sigiz’, I do not forgive you for calling me with the prefix ‘Ratu’ or something.”

“Eh, why? Don't talk weird at times like this, Rat-“

Nio stopped his speech as he sensed that Sigiz would unleash incredible magic power if he called her ‘Queen Sigiz’ again.

“There will be many gifts waiting for you after the fight,” Sigiz's soft voice tickles all of Nio's senses, Sigiz's voice is so soft and seductive. Then, Nio saw that the girls seemed to show mysterious movements that made him suspicious.

The girls have decided, that Nio can do whatever he likes towards them.

Being the commander of the squad was a tough task, and deserved a fair pay and made Nio excited again to plunge into the middle of the next fight.

**

Sun Tzu was also a Chinese general, military strategist, and philosopher who lived during the Spring and Autumn Period of Ancient China. Sun Tzu is best known as the author of The Art of War, a military strategy that has been widely influential in Western and Eastern philosophy.