I, the Villain, Want to Save Myself, But the Yandere Heroines Disagree
Chapter 119 - Unexpected

“Hey, brother, did you hear? That private unit of the Duke directly crushed the enemy, who were ten times their number, head-on. They even took back the North city wall.” In Romulus City, in a certain garrison barracks, a soldier was gossiping with a few soldiers who were on rotation duty nearby.

“Really?” another soldier asked in surprise. “As expected of the Duke! But isn’t this trump card a bit late? If he had used it earlier, maybe we wouldn’t have lost so many brothers.”

“Heh, that’s what I’m here to tell you,” the first soldier said this. He first looked around, confirming that no one was approaching. Then, he pulled the few people around closer, and spoke in a very low voice, “That unit of the Duke’s doesn’t seem... clean...”

“Huh? What do you mean?” one of them asked in confusion.

“Yeah, what do you mean it’s not clean? You’re not going to say that unit of the Duke’s isn’t human, are you?”

“You’re just saying nonsense. I’ve heard this kind of gossip countless times since I was a child. Are you going to say that unit is a group of living dead next?”

“Oh, it’s not like that,” the soldier spreading the gossip quickly shook his head, then said seriously, “I have a distant cousin who works in the army’s logistics. Do you know? This unit actually doesn’t need food or supplies. They don’t need to eat. All they need is to have their weapons replaced every day.”

“That’s normal. They are the Duke’s private unit. It’s fine for them to have private logistics channels.”

“Then why are their weapons supplied by official logistics?”

“Hiss... Now that you mention it, it does seem a bit strange. But what if the Duke can only privately supply food?”

“I also guessed you would say that. I questioned my cousin about that at the time too. And guess what?”

“What happened?”

“My cousin used the excuse of delivering weapons to go to that unit’s garrison. Besides the commander and guards of that unit, everyone else was lying in the military tents like puppets, sleeping. Not a single person was active. And even when they were resting, they didn’t take off their armor! That’s plate armor! It’s inconvenient even for going to the toilet. Isn’t that strange?!”

“If you put it that way, it is indeed strange...”

Hearing the other party say this, the other few people also nodded.

Just at this moment, an angry shout sounded from behind them.

“What are you all doing here?” an officer walked up to this group of soldiers.

“Reporting, sir. We were not derelict. We were just a little bored while on guard duty, so we called the brothers over to chat,” the soldier who had spoken first stood out and began to explain for the others.

The officer heard this and glared at the few of them.

“What if the enemy had attacked at that moment?”

“How is that possible? With the Duke’s invincible army in front, how could we possibly see the enemy?”

“So you were just neglecting your duties like this?”

“Reporting, sir, we were not. We were also properly standing guard. See? There are no unauthorized personnel who have mixed into the military camp right now!”

“That’s just your luck! Now, quickly get back to your original posts!”

At the officer’s command, the other soldiers quickly scattered and returned to their positions.

“As for you,” the officer looked at the soldier who had talked back to him, he pointed to the wall in the distance.

“Face the wall and contemplate your actions for three hours. If you move during this time, stand again! I will find someone to replace your post.”

“Yes,” the soldier heard the officer say this and quickly agreed.

He had already been prepared to be confined or beaten. He didn’t expect this officer to just make him stand facing the wall for three hours as punishment.

And he didn’t even have to stand guard. The officer would even find someone else to cover his shift.

He was originally supposed to stand guard for eight hours. With this, he would be free after standing for three hours.

He was actually quite a good person.

The soldier thought this, happily stood in the corner, and began counting sheep.

When the officer returned to the commander of the city defense force, which was Giovanni’s residence, to report the situation, he did not report this incident either. He just said that he had dealt with a few restless soldiers.

Since the disappearance of a mysterious soldier that day, the commander of the mysterious unit had immediately reported to Giovanni. Giovanni then ordered all military officers to seal off information about the mysterious unit. Soldiers were not allowed to discuss information about the soldiers of the mysterious unit in private, nor were ordinary soldiers allowed to approach them.

In a situation like the one that just happened, if the officer had heard it and reported it to Giovanni, that soldier’s fate could only be the dungeon or the death penalty, and his cousin would also be implicated.

However, this officer did not do so. Perhaps he also had his own plans.

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“Retreat about ninety miles and await reinforcements.” In the military camp outside Romulus City, Scaloni looked at the handwritten letter sent by Orson and frowned.

The content of the letter was very simple, just as Scaloni read it.

A distance of about ninety miles. It would take the army at least three days to cover that distance, let alone an organized retreat.

Giving up the positions they had painstakingly established and the siege equipment they had set up, and yielding all the land, this was somewhat difficult to accept.

But this was, after all, an order issued by the overall commander Orson, and it was his first military order. It was not easy to refuse.

However, both rationally and emotionally, he did not believe that his current action of retreating was correct.

Helpless, he could only convene a meeting of front-line officers again and make Orson’s order public.

The Antica Duchy naturally agreed, and the Orleans Duchy also received instructions from Duke Henry to closely follow Antica’s decisions.

Furthermore, some conservative generals in the army also believed that a slight retreat was the correct move. Scaloni could only agree to the order. Subsequently, he ordered the army to retreat.

However, he kept his own unit in the rear.

Firstly, having his own unit in the rear and personally commanding the retreating force could prevent collapse due to confusion during the retreat.

Secondly, if the enemy were to pursue, he could also counterattack on the spot, annihilate the enemy’s pursuing force, and earn some military honors for himself.

And so, on the third day of the retreat, when the army had retreated nearly sixty miles, Scaloni received a letter from the scouts. The enemy’s army had pursued them, with a force of about eight thousand.

Scaloni immediately ordered his thirty thousand troops to set up camp on the spot and wait for the enemy at their leisure, intending to completely annihilate this pursuing force of the enemy.

But when the tireless Napoli army charged into Scaloni’s formation, everything changed.

Scaloni’s plan was completely disrupted...