episode_0121

A decisive battle for the fate of the empire (1)

“Reinforcement!!”

“Ajin has arrived!!”

There were quite a few soldiers who used axes as weapons, but since Ajin was the only one who could blow off a person’s head by throwing such a hatchet from a distance, the soldiers in Gerard’s unit quickly figured out who the owner of the hatchet was.

“Kwaaa!!”

Along with Ajin’s roar, arrows fired by rangers rained down in the dark forest.

“Kaaaa!! Raise your shield to block!!”

“I don’t know where it’s shooting from!”

The fire caused by Gerard was extinguished, but smoke was still rising, and because the smoke obscured the sight of the Imperial Army, the Rangers, with a small number of people, were able to safely eliminate the Imperial Army by hiding in the trees of the forest.

“Crung! Gerard, you worked hard”

“Ajin! Thank you for coming. But how did you know we were in crisis…?”

The situation was so urgent that there was no time to send communications, and since the area was so far away, Gerard was glad to have survived, but wondered how reinforcements could have arrived.

“Mayer sent it. You guys must have fallen into a trap”

“Ah… Mayer…”

“Creung First of all, this is not the time to be like this. When the enemy is in confusion, you must reorganize your soldiers and destroy the enemy”

“Yes, I understand!”

Following Ajin’s instructions, Gerard quickly gathered his troops and began attacking the imperial army.

“The only opportunity is now! Squeeze out all your might and destroy the enemy!”

When Gerard’s unit began attacking the imperial army, the rangers switched from shooting arrows at them to covering fire and efficiently hunted down the imperial army.

“How can you shoot an arrow like that through smoke that you can’t even see?”

“When we were running to death, Jane did eye training in addition to the training we were doing. Why am I a ranger?”

Gerard smiled wryly as he listened to his men, who had allowed a surprise attack from behind while cutting down the enemy, talk about their training after being saved by the rangers’ covering fire.

‘I thought I was going to die because of that eye training… The training involved finding a marked stone in the forest in the middle of the moonless night…’

Gerard, who briefly remembered the painful memories of having to go through that to sleep, focused on the battle again and annihilated the enemy.

“Come to your senses! Raise your shield high to block arrows and re-form your formation! The enemy is a minority!! The numbers are still similar!!”

“You can win if you just come to your senses. We haven’t lost yet!!”

However, the imperial army, as if it were the imperial army, gradually reorganized its battle lines under the command of hundreds of commanders, even in the midst of chaos with the death of the commander who led the Thousand People’s Army and sniping coming from all over.

“Whoa, Ajin… I think we should retreat now. The smoke is slowly blowing away with the wind, and they are also setting up camp. Ajin?”

Despite Gerard’s call, Ajin remained silent and looked at the formation of the imperial army.

“Ajin. Now we have to retreat…gasp!”

Gerard once again recommended a retreat, but before he could finish his words, Ajin let out a huge roar, reorganized his battle lines, and jumped into the imperial army, which had once again formed a complete dense formation.

“Cooo!!”

“Troll…it’s a troll!!”

“Why are trolls here? React calmly! If you stab it from afar with a long spear, it’s not a big deal… Wow!”

The imperial army tried to fight against Ajin with spears and arrows, but the troll’s power in the night forest was greater than their imagination.

Azin broke into the camp and wielded a huge ax, causing a bloody storm among the imperial troops.

Moreover, because the troll was not an ordinary troll but a master Ajin, the damage suffered by the imperial army, which responded as if it were dealing with an ordinary troll, began to increase enormously.

Several shield warriors stacked their shields to block Ajin’s axe, but the cool energy on the axe tore their shields apart like pieces of paper, and as blood and flesh exploded, the faces of the imperial soldiers were filled with fear.

“Ma…Master…”

“Monster… It’s a monster!! A troll that uses sword skills!!”

“Run away!! It’s a monster we can’t deal with!!”

As soon as one person began to run away, the fear spread and all the soldiers began to run away in disorder.

However, the fleeing imperial troops were knocked to the ground one by one by Ajin’s axes and the swords of the light infantry in pursuit, and the arrows of the rangers hiding here and there in the forest also flew towards the backs of their heads, so by dawn there was not a single imperial soldier left alive in the forest. didn’t

“Whew~ It was barely finished… Still, it was quite a sacrifice. There were nearly 200 deaths…”

In terms of military history alone, it could be said that it was not bad since it recorded only 200 casualties and completely annihilated one thousand troops, but since it was Yuno’s army that had barely suffered any casualties so far, Gerard became a little depressed.

“Crung! Come to your senses, Gerard. You did your best!”

“But… I didn’t recognize the trap quickly, so it was a pointless sacrifice…”

“It is not your responsibility, nor is it the responsibility of Captain Mayer! Rather, I should praise Mayer who quickly recognized this trap and sent a relief force, and you who quickly used fire at the scene to create an opportunity to escape”

“….Thank you. However, it is very unfortunate that the deaths of my subordinates… They were the ones who followed the training really hard and worked together…”

“Crrr!! In that case, you just have to fight harder in the future! So that there will be no such vain sacrifices in the future… so that there will no longer be fights between fellow citizens like this!”

“Thank you. Ajin… In order to do that, I will have to fight harder for His Highness Yuno”

“Yes, that will do. My great lord Miri said: Being loyal to one’s companion, Yuno, is what our clan and humans need~ ㅡㅡ ㅡㅡ”

Ah-jin’s consolation helped a lot, but from the moment he started praising Miri and Yuno, he knew that it would continue endlessly, so Gerard walked away with the excuse of having to clear the battlefield.

He then gathered the corpses of the imperial and allied forces in one place, cremated them, carefully scattered the items given by May towards the west, gathered his troops, and left the battlefield.

After Gerard’s unit returned to the main unit, Mayer also called Cordelia’s cavalry, secured supplies by looting the last food warehouse she had obtained, and departed for the Eastern Front on the date agreed with Juno.

The day Mayer’s army departed for the Eastern Front. In the cabinet hall of the Adriatic Palace, Emperor Henry’s anger was piercing the sky.

“What? Is it true that the food warehouse has been robbed and the soldiers cannot be supplied? How on earth does this even make sense!!!”

“So…I apologize. majesty. But their movements are so unpredictable…”

“So, didn’t I hand over to the head of the intelligence department one of the thousand men of the Capital Guard Corps, which was heading to the east to suppress Prinz? It is a unit with the combat power of two thousand men of the Imperial Legion. What happened to them?”

In response to Heinrich’s question, Viscount Skimmer, head of the intelligence department, could not bear to answer and only sweated heavily.

However, his attitude made Heinrich’s anger worse, and eventually Heinrich pulled the sword from his belt.

Scratch!!

The sword Heinrich swung was deeply embedded in the table in front of Viscount Skimmer.

“Answer straight. Head of Information Department. Do you think I put you there expecting that kind of silence?”

“Ah…no, Your Majesty. It is confirmed that the 2nd Cheonindae of the Royal Guard Corps has been annihilated… Heeet!!”

As soon as he heard the report that 10 percent of the strength of the Guard Corps, which he had worked hard to raise since his days as a prince, was lost, Heinrich swung his sword again, and this time it grazed Viscount Skimmer’s neck instead of the table.

“Next time my sword will go deeper. Head of Information Department. So did you find out who was behind them? At least you found out whether they were Prinz-kun or not, right?”

“Huh, oh, oh, oh… The legionnaires were wiped out, so they couldn’t take any prisoners, so they couldn’t get the correct information… Now… Please wait a moment, Your Majesty!! Still, I found something!!”

When Heinrich’s sword tried to rise again, Viscount Skimmer panicked and reported everything he had discovered.

“Hmm~ A small amount of milk powder was found on the battlefield?”

“Yes, that’s right. It seems that the unidentified men who robbed the food warehouse spilled it while eating after the battle. Not only this time, small amounts of milk powder were found on the battlefield where food warehouses and supply depots were robbed”

“Milk powder…. There is only one place in the empire that produces enough milk to be used as food for soldiers…”

“Yes, that’s right. It is the southwestern region currently occupied by the Kent rebels. That’s the only large pastureland where cattle can be raised in large quantities”

Chancellor Marquis Dietrich supported the intelligence chief’s report.

“It seems that when food to supply the people of the empire became insufficient due to the revolution in the Zenon Plain, he deployed his own army and robbed food stores and supply depots. Since Count Zion, who was a member of the Prinz faction, governed the area so well, the public sentiment would not have followed otherwise, but it seems that they are rationing food to prevent refugees and calm the public sentiment a little.”

“How dare this damn bastard… is he trying to found a nation through that place?! You care about the public sentiment!! The emperor of the empire is this Heinrich!! Huh, huh, I can’t stand the heat. I need to cut off that noble impersonator’s head right now!!”

Heinrich was furious and ordered the Guards Corps to retreat and suppress the rebels in Kent.

However, it was barely possible to stop it due to the opposition of all ministers, including Chancellor Dietrich, and it was decided to turn the 8th and 9th corps of the central front, which had been organized as reserve forces, down to attack the Kent rebels.

‘Woo~ It’s cold… There’s nothing wrong obviously… but I feel like I’m being played by someone… Now that we don’t have any reserve forces… If we lose this war, Your Majesty’s empire could collapse at any moment. There will be’

Chancellor Dietrich trembled with inexplicable anxiety. However, he did not know where his anxiety came from, and although he was excellent at political strategy and financial management, he was poor at military affairs, so he only trusted Baron Derian, the former commander of the 5th Corps, who was newly appointed as the commander of the Prinz subjugation army.

Mayer’s original plan was to retreat one of the legions heading east, but the intended goal was achieved by eliminating the two reserve legions, and as time passed, the day of the decisive battle for the fate of Balkan arrived. It was approaching.

*It has nothing to do with the content, but the artist wanted to make it for her birthday, so she created an illustration of Yuria’s pregnant belly.