The Cooking Princess - Chapter 90

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The Princess Who Cooks

Episode 90

Despite receiving bewildered looks from the knights, Shuel steadily unfolded the tactical map and said:

“Well then, it’s about time for the pirates to start wondering if there’s a spy among them, so let’s add some fuel to the fire.”

To the sailors who were complete novices when it came to military affairs and strategy, Shuel looked almost like a god, so how must he have appeared to the knights who were experts?

One of the sailors held back from clapping despite himself and asked Shuel as calmly as possible:

“How do you plan to disguise it as if there’s a spy? Your Highness.”

At his question, Shuel grinned.

“I’ll show you through action.”

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Late at night, a large number of pirates clashed with a small number of regular army soldiers on White Bridge.

The number of regular army soldiers was smaller than expected. They seemed to have unluckily encountered numerous sailors while on patrol.

The regular army, which had resisted for a while, eventually retreated quickly when the tide of battle turned in favor of the pirates.

“Retreat! Life is most important!”

The pirates cheered, thinking that unlike before, the regular army bastards seemed to value their own lives.

“Fi-finally!”

They had somehow managed to defeat those damned regular army soldiers.

After the previous commander died and whoever was sent as replacement, the new commander who came to Chato Domain was unknown by name but could truly be called a master strategist.

Celebrating the brief victory they had barely obtained from such a master strategist, they moved into the position where the regular army had been just moments before.

And they fell into confusion upon seeing the map that the regular army had been carrying just moments before.

“What is this…?”

Because that map had the route the pirates would take next marked in detail.

The pirates’ information had been leaked!

There was no room for doubt.

There was no room for suspicion from the beginning.

“It didn’t make sense anyway. Did they think it made sense to predict with 100% accuracy and defeat us one by one?”

In reality, though Shuel didn’t know, originally only a small number of pirates were supposed to come to this place.

Since it was a small number but the formation position changed a few hours ago, bringing several more sailors, it seemed even more certain that there was a spy.

The spy had leaked information to the regular army that a small number of pirates would come to this White Bridge, and the regular army who trusted that information completely had suffered a setback.

“They came with just the necessary number and ended up retreating.”

And unfortunately for these pirates, they had something called factions.

They immediately began to be wary of opposing factions and started pointing swords at each other.

“Vile and demonic bastard. There’s no such thing as loyalty. You must be the traitor!”

They couldn’t even remember who drew their sword first.

At some point, they were all drawing swords and fighting.

As the rough sailors scattered and began fighting among their respective factions, the situation became uncontrollable.

“Aaaaaahhh! You enemy!”

“These bastards, to think they’d betray us!”

Thus the pirate crew split into two branches and began fighting like madmen.

Some clever sailors thought of the possibility that this was an enemy trap, but they couldn’t calmly convey this to their allies.

To survive against allies who had lost their reason, they too had to swing their swords without distinguishing friend from foe.

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Shuel looked toward the border between pirates and regular army and said calmly:

“It’s simple. We deliberately send a small elite force to places that overlap with their daily routes.”

He kindly added an explanation for Chloe:

“If we put fabricated materials in the barracks beforehand, they won’t even suspect anything.”

After finishing his words, Shuel commanded the knight standing right next to him in a dignified tone:

“This is the data I predicted next. Take it with you.”

“Yes, I will follow Your Highness’s words!”

He respectfully received the map that Shuel had made himself with both hands.

“You must use that to confuse the enemy. Do you understand?”

“Yes!”

This operation would fail outright if Shuel’s predictions were wrong.

The results obtained through his sharp analytical abilities,

He intended to make them think that crucial information had been leaked due to a spy and have them fight among themselves.

Shuel was not only good at making simple predictions, but was also more skilled than anyone at utilizing situations created by his predictions.

And Shuel’s operation succeeded perfectly without question.

Because the pirate crew’s factions began fighting each other as if they would kill each other from then on.

Watching that situation, the Knight Commander thought:

‘Because they’re stupid bastards, once you plant suspicion, it becomes uncontrollable.’

Even while thinking that, he concluded that even he would have been fooled.

Prince Shuel’s god-given predictive ability never failed, and this was at a level where the pirate crew had no choice but to suspect information leaks among themselves.

Knight Captain Mitchell thought a bit more.

Not only was the success rate of strategies ridiculous, but the supply capability was also absurd.

The enemy’s supplies were cut off while their own supplies were filled immediately without shortage.

The pirates, having been sowed with discord on cold days and with supplies cut off, died one by one without much resistance the moment they faced the soldiers.

In such a situation, they even reduced their own numbers by fighting among themselves.

At this selfish deal exchange where only they benefited, the Knight Commander’s blood boiled for the first time in a long while.

‘Yes. This is it!’

It was a course of action that contrasted with his predecessor who had died after repeatedly launching only reckless operations.

It was winter now, but only one soldier had died from cold or disease.

Even this soldier had been unable to overcome the harsh environment before Shuel arrived and had died after spending a long time bedridden.

Practically speaking, since Prince Shuel arrived at Chato Domain, not a single person had died from cold or disease.

Like his mysterious strategies, the Knight Commander couldn’t help but admire the supplies that seemed about to be cut off but exquisitely never were.

At this point, he was getting confused.

‘What? Was Chato Domain actually flat land?’

Chato Domain was terrain that suffered many inconveniences in supply due to mountains in the middle.

And with the sea nearby, it was harsh terrain that suffered both pirate raids and damage from wild beasts.

The sight of supplies being continuously and stably procured without being plundered even once by pirates and bandits despite such unfavorable terrain was almost a miracle.

If Cloud, Duke was one against a hundred with swordsmanship, then Shuel was literally a miraculous commander who made the impossible possible.

Setting sail? Just once.

His Future Imperial Majesty said it was favorable wind for fire attacks, and when pirate ships were visible, he gathered archers just once and poured fire attacks, that was all.

Since there were so many pirate ships, they couldn’t annihilate them all at once, but they still dealt them a really big blow.

His Future Imperial Majesty said that in such weather anyway, they would eventually have to set foot on land even just to resupply.

“The Imperial Knight Order is better at land battles. I don’t see why we need to engage in naval warfare to please the pirates.”

Shuel’s ghostly strategy made the impossible possible.

What does that mean?

It means the pirates were on the verge of extinction.

Compared to before Prince Shuel arrived, the pirates’ spirit was definitely broken. It was visible to the eye.

‘His Imperial Majesty did well in raising his children.’

In the Knight Commander’s opinion, Prince Shuel was much more suited for the Emperor’s position than Cloud, Duke.

The Emperor also knew this fact and sent his son to such a remote region to check Cloud, Duke who had achieved great military merit.

Your Highness, whom he observed closely, truly had nothing he couldn’t do.

When Shuel, who had finally succeeded in uprooting the pirates that had been a major headache for the Luzhiere Empire, was leaving, the knights of Chato Domain ended up crying…

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