The Battle of Silesie’s first battle started at the left flank.
Diagonally to the left of the royal army’s goose line, a clash between the 20000 mercenaries from the Germania Empire against the 5000 Garan Mercenaries of Silesie Kingdom started.
Against the 20000 imperial mercenaries that were almost encircling them, the Garan mercenaries were resisting boldly, skillfully coordinating with each other.
Their fighting spirit was strong and their bodies were light, not the fighting style of mercenaries who only work for money.
「Leader Garan, you are working very hard today.」
「Nokon?」
Garan turned to see Nokon Geek, a mercenary in light leather armor, equipped with a short bow.
「Leader, out of the way.」
「Oh」
Nokot hit the mercenary, who was about to slash Leader Garan, in the head with his bow.
Seeing the dumb enemy mercenary rollover, Nokon’s laughs.
Nokon, who used to be a thief specializing in dungeons, has been helping Leader Garan to organize mercenaries as a staff member, even though no one has asked him to do so.
He probably thought it was time to retreat now as well and came to check if he could help around.
He was an unusually hard working man among mercenaries, many of whom are lazy except for fighting.
「You’ve been instructed by the employer to fight against 20000 while we were only 5000. You don’t have to be stubborn.」
「No, I’m not being stubborn.」
Leader Garan swings his large hammer and smashes the enemy’s head including the helmet.
「Ho!」
Nokon’s smile deepened in amusement as he fired his short bow at the oncoming enemy mercenaries.
「You don’t know how incredible the skill of Silesie’s hero-sama is. He has stepped onto the 88th floor of the “White Tower of Trials” in one day.」
「Ah, that’s true.」
「I’m sure hero-sama is looking at us while fighting. If we can make a name for ourselves here, we can clear out our name of being traitors and the Garan Mercenaries will be able to re-establish our prestige.」
「Leader Garan is still holding onto that….since you’re doing what you can here, don’t you think it will be better to be a knight?」
「Haha, I don’t want to work in a castle. That’s your thing, right, Nokon?」
「Of course, not. I don’t want to have anything to do with the soldiers of a castle. I guess we have to do this!」
While Leader Garan slaughtered two more men with the battle-axe he had taken from the enemy, Nokon switched weapons since he had run out of arrows. He used throwing knives and accurately shot enemies in the eyeball.
The raging shouts of their allies, the wailing of the enemies, the spray of blood as well as the ripping flesh. There are people who don’t feel alive unless they are constantly covered in the dust of war. They are the mercenaries.
They want money. They want women.
But more than anything else, they want the feeling of being alive in the midst of battle.
They talk a lot of nonsense but never say what they really think and the mercenaries led by Leader Garan kill with all their might.
The iron they strike with all their might and the blood and flesh they spread are their own art as professionals of the battlefield.
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The Garan Mercenaries, the spearhead of the left flank, persisted until the enemy, who was not attacking them that much, had their large ballistas arranged at the back. They finally pulled back after that.
Rejoicing that they had finally won, the 20000 mercenaries surrounded them with siege weapons behind and attacked.
Indeed, from the point of view of ordinary soldiers, the power of ballistas and trebuchets is overwhelming.
There is nothing more dependable than being covered fire by those siege weapons.
However, these siege weapons were planned to be used against the royal capital of Silesie and not to destroy the left-wing of the Silesie royal army.
The fact that they had deployed it so early was a sign that their tactics had already begun to go awry.
Against the ballistas, which were firing in front of them, and the trebuchets, which were throwing projectiles on them, the cannons of the volunteer army opened fire.
Sixteen bronze cannons roared. The imperial mercenaries on the left wing were violently shaken.
Many of the mercenaries had never seen a cannon before.
Above all, they were scared by the roar of the new weapon that spewed fire. They were scared when they saw their allies being blown away by exploding shells. Then, the gunners fired a volley of shots at them.
Another series of violent roars and iron bullets came flying. The mercenaries started dying one after another without knowing what hit them.
The mercenaries numbering as many as 20000 begin to crumble before the power of Silesie’s new weapon.
Of course, the empire’s side has its own strategists.
The imperial strategist with a young age of 25, the “Almighty” General Forcas Domos Dylan, had the mid-level mages on the left flank to bombard the other side with rain.
Cannons and guns are vulnerable to water.
Of course, General Forcas knew this information.
However, even as rain clouds covered the left flank of Silesie army, even if the dry land of Silesie was moistened by rain, the sound of firing cannons and guns did not cease.
Of course, this was because the volunteer army had taken measures against rain.
Water-resistant tents and fortifications lined up with ratman fur. It would have been different if they had continued the water assault for a longer period of time but it already rained and guns and cannons never stopped.
The imperial army made the mistake of attacking deep into the volunteer army’s lines and even taking along large and slow siege weapons.
「Good! It’s our time to shine!」
The Garan Mercenaries, who had pulled back to join the volunteer army, struck back at the enemies who they had lured in.
When the offensive suddenly turned defensive, the army could no longer maintain its control.
The mercenaries were a rogue army. No matter how much the knights shout at them, they run away instead of regrouping.
Everyone ran for their lives leaving only large ballistas and trebuchets in their wake.
Without soldiers to protect the perimeter, not a single siege weapon was left. The Germania mercenaries retreated and the siege weapons were all destroyed.
The left-wing of the imperial army, which was supposed to attack the royal capital of Silesie, collapsed.
That didn’t end the imperial army’s left-wing.
The imperial army has a final decisive weapon, the 500 flying dragon knights.
In this medieval fantasy world, how formidable is the airborne flying dragon knight order? No one will be able to measure their effectiveness.
Even a lone flying dragon knight who runs through the sky can be called a brave.
And there are 500 of them.
Even if the other party is protected by strong walls, that will mean nothing against an airborne force.
No matter how big a castle or a city is, it would fall without fail if they face flying enemies.
「Everyone, starting now, the flying dragon knights will conquer Silesie Kingdom! It seems like our mercenary allies are not that great but if we make the royal capital fall, the empire will be the one who’ll emerge victoriously! Now is the time to show the power of the flying dragon knights to his royal highness the golden lion! 」
The commander of the flying dragon knight order, Rothbacher von Leifenzbel, was analyzing the war situation from a bird’s eye view while issuing a proclamation to the knights he was leading.
Cannons spewed fire from the left-wing of the volunteer army as they tried to shoot down the flying dragon knights from the sky.
Several knights were hit by cannonballs and fell.
「The enemy’s cannons are certainly very powerful.」
However, iron balls launched high into the sky will encounter a decrease in speed.
Unless you are very unlucky, a good flying dragon knight can evade them. Even the enemy’s new weapon is only this good against the flying dragon knight.
With this, the royal capital can be conquered. If overwhelmed by a large group of flying dragons(wyvern), the castle soldiers and citizens would have no choice but to flee.
What Rothbacher is currently thinking is now to make their allies enter the capital after they had taken care of the city’s defenses.
He must think hard and fast while there is still time.
In fact, even the flying dragon knights are not as invincible as they are rumored to be.
If you keep a wild flying dragon, there is a disadvantage where the second generation of wyvern won’t be that powerful.
The only terrifying thing about their flying dragons is that they can fly.
When one sees that there’s a large group of dragons coming for them, they’ll immediately instinctively think that “we can’t win against that”.
Rothbacher, a veteran flying dragon knight, knows it all.
Once demoralized, even the best soldier will be nothing more than a bunch of fleeing crows.
It is precisely because of human’s instinctive fear that their flying dragon knights remain the strongest in the world.
「Let’s go, flying dragon knights of Germania, remember who you are!」
Commander Rothbacher, who was flying in the lead, as usual, signals the descent assault.
Behind him, the flying dragon knights shouted out loud.
「The empire’s pride! The empire’s glory! We are the undefeated flying dragon knight order!」
The descent attack from the sky can cause panic on the side that will be attacked but it can also cause the attacker to be afraid.
The attacker must have the courage to fly while thinking that they are the strongest in the world.
Commander Rothbacher flew in the lead and swooped down on the royal capital of Silesie.
A gleam flashed from the enemy’s cannons as they are all pointed towards the sky.
「Cannons, dodge!」
Iron balls can be dodged and Rothbacher, who dashed with his flying dragon, had the confidence to do so.
Those with poor reinsmanship or those who were not so lucky would be hit by cannonballs.
But that would only happen once.
After that one time, all of the unprotected cannoneers would die and their bodies would be ripped apart by wyverns.
「Huh?」
Rothbacher, who had been unabashedly staring at the cannons as they spewed balls, was taken aback.
He was stunned because what he saw was not iron balls but large nets.
Rothbacher was caught in a net along with his flying dragon and fell onto the cobblestone pavement.
「W-what’s this?」
The impact of the fall as he slammed onto the cobblestones, left him breathless but he still got up given his indomitable fighting spirit. He must cut through the net so tried to get back on his feet.
What struck him was that there were needle-like things that pushed through the gaps of his armor.
He was pricked but he didn’t care about that until…
「This is, poisoned….」
As a skilled dragon knight, Rothbacher knew immediately from his past experience that he had been exposed to a deadly poison. Even if he’s unscathed, the poison would affect him even more so now.
If he can’t detoxify immediately, he will die. Rothbacher took an antidote potion from his pouch using his trembling hands and drank it down.
However, that was a surprise!
What was shot out from the cannons in the capital were not iron balls but big, sticky nets. Moreover, they even had poison on them.
The enemy had taken countermeasures against the flying dragon knights in advance.
While thinking how careless they stormed there and looking at how the flying dragon knights fell one after another, Rothbacher trembled at the thought that it would be his fault if the empire was to perish.
「But it’s not over yet. I won’t let it all end here!」
The empire’s pride, the empire’s glory, and its symbol, the undefeated flying dragon knight order!
Rothbacher has only been the commander for five years. The legend of the undefeated flying dragon knight order must not end here.
With his unyielding fighting spirit, he drew his sword and cut through the tenacious net.
However, when a young girl, who looked so out of place on the battlefield, arrived in front of Rothbacher’s eyes, he involuntarily stopped what he was doing.
「Nonsense, why would a little girl…….」
Amidst the gusts of wind because of the flapping dragons, a young girl with slick blonde hair, who still looked like a child, comes running toward him.
Her adorable appearance was like an innocent girl playing in the field and for a moment, the proud dragon knight forgot that he was in the middle of a war. Even though he could see a gun in that girl’s hand.
「As soon as I find a dragon knight, I’ll kill him!」
The victorious face of the girl, who pointed the gun to Rothbacher’s head while smiling fearlessly, has become the last thing Rothbacher saw in this world.
The Battle of Silesie’s first battle started at the left flank.
Diagonally to the left of the royal army’s goose line, a clash between the 20000 mercenaries from the Germania Empire against the 5000 Garan Mercenaries of Silesie Kingdom started.
Against the 20000 imperial mercenaries that were almost encircling them, the Garan mercenaries were resisting boldly, skillfully coordinating with each other.
Their fighting spirit was strong and their bodies were light, not the fighting style of mercenaries who only work for money.
「Leader Garan, you are working very hard today.」
「Nokon?」
Garan turned to see Nokon Geek, a mercenary in light leather armor, equipped with a short bow.
「Leader, out of the way.」
「Oh」
Nokot hit the mercenary, who was about to slash Leader Garan, in the head with his bow.
Seeing the dumb enemy mercenary rollover, Nokon’s laughs.
Nokon, who used to be a thief specializing in dungeons, has been helping Leader Garan to organize mercenaries as a staff member, even though no one has asked him to do so.
He probably thought it was time to retreat now as well and came to check if he could help around.
He was an unusually hard working man among mercenaries, many of whom are lazy except for fighting.
「You’ve been instructed by the employer to fight against 20000 while we were only 5000. You don’t have to be stubborn.」
「No, I’m not being stubborn.」
Leader Garan swings his large hammer and smashes the enemy’s head including the helmet.
「Ho!」
Nokon’s smile deepened in amusement as he fired his short bow at the oncoming enemy mercenaries.
「You don’t know how incredible the skill of Silesie’s hero-sama is. He has stepped onto the 88th floor of the “White Tower of Trials” in one day.」
「Ah, that’s true.」
「I’m sure hero-sama is looking at us while fighting. If we can make a name for ourselves here, we can clear out our name of being traitors and the Garan Mercenaries will be able to re-establish our prestige.」
「Leader Garan is still holding onto that….since you’re doing what you can here, don’t you think it will be better to be a knight?」
「Haha, I don’t want to work in a castle. That’s your thing, right, Nokon?」
「Of course, not. I don’t want to have anything to do with the soldiers of a castle. I guess we have to do this!」
While Leader Garan slaughtered two more men with the battle-axe he had taken from the enemy, Nokon switched weapons since he had run out of arrows. He used throwing knives and accurately shot enemies in the eyeball.
The raging shouts of their allies, the wailing of the enemies, the spray of blood as well as the ripping flesh. There are people who don’t feel alive unless they are constantly covered in the dust of war. They are the mercenaries.
They want money. They want women.
But more than anything else, they want the feeling of being alive in the midst of battle.
They talk a lot of nonsense but never say what they really think and the mercenaries led by Leader Garan kill with all their might.
The iron they strike with all their might and the blood and flesh they spread are their own art as professionals of the battlefield.
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—Scene Change—
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The Garan Mercenaries, the spearhead of the left flank, persisted until the enemy, who was not attacking them that much, had their large ballistas arranged at the back. They finally pulled back after that.
Rejoicing that they had finally won, the 20000 mercenaries surrounded them with siege weapons behind and attacked.
Indeed, from the point of view of ordinary soldiers, the power of ballistas and trebuchets is overwhelming.
There is nothing more dependable than being covered fire by those siege weapons.
However, these siege weapons were planned to be used against the royal capital of Silesie and not to destroy the left-wing of the Silesie royal army.
The fact that they had deployed it so early was a sign that their tactics had already begun to go awry.
Against the ballistas, which were firing in front of them, and the trebuchets, which were throwing projectiles on them, the cannons of the volunteer army opened fire.
Sixteen bronze cannons roared. The imperial mercenaries on the left wing were violently shaken.
Many of the mercenaries had never seen a cannon before.
Above all, they were scared by the roar of the new weapon that spewed fire. They were scared when they saw their allies being blown away by exploding shells. Then, the gunners fired a volley of shots at them.
Another series of violent roars and iron bullets came flying. The mercenaries started dying one after another without knowing what hit them.
The mercenaries numbering as many as 20000 begin to crumble before the power of Silesie’s new weapon.
Of course, the empire’s side has its own strategists.
The imperial strategist with a young age of 25, the “Almighty” General Forcas Domos Dylan, had the mid-level mages on the left flank to bombard the other side with rain.
Cannons and guns are vulnerable to water.
Of course, General Forcas knew this information.
However, even as rain clouds covered the left flank of Silesie army, even if the dry land of Silesie was moistened by rain, the sound of firing cannons and guns did not cease.
Of course, this was because the volunteer army had taken measures against rain.
Water-resistant tents and fortifications lined up with ratman fur. It would have been different if they had continued the water assault for a longer period of time but it already rained and guns and cannons never stopped.
The imperial army made the mistake of attacking deep into the volunteer army’s lines and even taking along large and slow siege weapons.
「Good! It’s our time to shine!」
The Garan Mercenaries, who had pulled back to join the volunteer army, struck back at the enemies who they had lured in.
When the offensive suddenly turned defensive, the army could no longer maintain its control.
The mercenaries were a rogue army. No matter how much the knights shout at them, they run away instead of regrouping.
Everyone ran for their lives leaving only large ballistas and trebuchets in their wake.
Without soldiers to protect the perimeter, not a single siege weapon was left. The Germania mercenaries retreated and the siege weapons were all destroyed.
The left-wing of the imperial army, which was supposed to attack the royal capital of Silesie, collapsed.
That didn’t end the imperial army’s left-wing.
The imperial army has a final decisive weapon, the 500 flying dragon knights.
In this medieval fantasy world, how formidable is the airborne flying dragon knight order? No one will be able to measure their effectiveness.
Even a lone flying dragon knight who runs through the sky can be called a brave.
And there are 500 of them.
Even if the other party is protected by strong walls, that will mean nothing against an airborne force.
No matter how big a castle or a city is, it would fall without fail if they face flying enemies.
「Everyone, starting now, the flying dragon knights will conquer Silesie Kingdom! It seems like our mercenary allies are not that great but if we make the royal capital fall, the empire will be the one who’ll emerge victoriously! Now is the time to show the power of the flying dragon knights to his royal highness the golden lion! 」
The commander of the flying dragon knight order, Rothbacher von Leifenzbel, was analyzing the war situation from a bird’s eye view while issuing a proclamation to the knights he was leading.
Cannons spewed fire from the left-wing of the volunteer army as they tried to shoot down the flying dragon knights from the sky.
Several knights were hit by cannonballs and fell.
「The enemy’s cannons are certainly very powerful.」
However, iron balls launched high into the sky will encounter a decrease in speed.
Unless you are very unlucky, a good flying dragon knight can evade them. Even the enemy’s new weapon is only this good against the flying dragon knight.
With this, the royal capital can be conquered. If overwhelmed by a large group of flying dragons(wyvern), the castle soldiers and citizens would have no choice but to flee.
What Rothbacher is currently thinking is now to make their allies enter the capital after they had taken care of the city’s defenses.
He must think hard and fast while there is still time.
In fact, even the flying dragon knights are not as invincible as they are rumored to be.
If you keep a wild flying dragon, there is a disadvantage where the second generation of wyvern won’t be that powerful.
The only terrifying thing about their flying dragons is that they can fly.
When one sees that there’s a large group of dragons coming for them, they’ll immediately instinctively think that “we can’t win against that”.
Rothbacher, a veteran flying dragon knight, knows it all.
Once demoralized, even the best soldier will be nothing more than a bunch of fleeing crows.
It is precisely because of human’s instinctive fear that their flying dragon knights remain the strongest in the world.
「Let’s go, flying dragon knights of Germania, remember who you are!」
Commander Rothbacher, who was flying in the lead, as usual, signals the descent assault.
Behind him, the flying dragon knights shouted out loud.
「The empire’s pride! The empire’s glory! We are the undefeated flying dragon knight order!」
The descent attack from the sky can cause panic on the side that will be attacked but it can also cause the attacker to be afraid.
The attacker must have the courage to fly while thinking that they are the strongest in the world.
Commander Rothbacher flew in the lead and swooped down on the royal capital of Silesie.
A gleam flashed from the enemy’s cannons as they are all pointed towards the sky.
「Cannons, dodge!」
Iron balls can be dodged and Rothbacher, who dashed with his flying dragon, had the confidence to do so.
Those with poor reinsmanship or those who were not so lucky would be hit by cannonballs.
But that would only happen once.
After that one time, all of the unprotected cannoneers would die and their bodies would be ripped apart by wyverns.
「Huh?」
Rothbacher, who had been unabashedly staring at the cannons as they spewed balls, was taken aback.
He was stunned because what he saw was not iron balls but large nets.
Rothbacher was caught in a net along with his flying dragon and fell onto the cobblestone pavement.
「W-what’s this?」
The impact of the fall as he slammed onto the cobblestones, left him breathless but he still got up given his indomitable fighting spirit. He must cut through the net so tried to get back on his feet.
What struck him was that there were needle-like things that pushed through the gaps of his armor.
He was pricked but he didn’t care about that until…
「This is, poisoned….」
As a skilled dragon knight, Rothbacher knew immediately from his past experience that he had been exposed to a deadly poison. Even if he’s unscathed, the poison would affect him even more so now.
If he can’t detoxify immediately, he will die. Rothbacher took an antidote potion from his pouch using his trembling hands and drank it down.
However, that was a surprise!
What was shot out from the cannons in the capital were not iron balls but big, sticky nets. Moreover, they even had poison on them.
The enemy had taken countermeasures against the flying dragon knights in advance.
While thinking how careless they stormed there and looking at how the flying dragon knights fell one after another, Rothbacher trembled at the thought that it would be his fault if the empire was to perish.
「But it’s not over yet. I won’t let it all end here!」
The empire’s pride, the empire’s glory, and its symbol, the undefeated flying dragon knight order!
Rothbacher has only been the commander for five years. The legend of the undefeated flying dragon knight order must not end here.
With his unyielding fighting spirit, he drew his sword and cut through the tenacious net.
However, when a young girl, who looked so out of place on the battlefield, arrived in front of Rothbacher’s eyes, he involuntarily stopped what he was doing.
「Nonsense, why would a little girl…….」
Amidst the gusts of wind because of the flapping dragons, a young girl with slick blonde hair, who still looked like a child, comes running toward him.
Her adorable appearance was like an innocent girl playing in the field and for a moment, the proud dragon knight forgot that he was in the middle of a war. Even though he could see a gun in that girl’s hand.
「As soon as I find a dragon knight, I’ll kill him!」
The victorious face of the girl, who pointed the gun to Rothbacher’s head while smiling fearlessly, has become the last thing Rothbacher saw in this world.
