Chapter 148 – Battle of Yeongji (6)
-Puuu~!
The sound of the trumpet sounded from both camps, announcing the start of the Yeongji War.
“Let’s go!”
The captains of the mercenary corps in the Klener camp shouted. Three groups of 10 each came forward. Their armament, such as leather armor and breastplate, was different, but they had as much in common as their hard faces.
At first I walked.
When the enemy mercenary got closer than a certain distance, he ran with a loud shout.
And it was the same for the other mercenaries.
-Aaaaa!!!
– Aaaaa!!!
The two shouts came closer and then collided. The mercenaries are mixed. Swords and axes pierced shields and armor and crushed flesh.
“You’re being pushed.”
Karen looked at the battlefield and said.
On her battlefield, the mercenaries on her side were being pushed back. Even though they were in the same group, the numbers were different. Claire’s camp had 30 people, while the other side had 45 people.
She’s half her number more than her side.
The difference in troops in war returns in doubles, not in the number of differences.
Karen looked at her mercenaries and made a quick decision.
“Send 2 scouts.”
The trumpet blew twice, announcing the sortie of the 2nd skirmisher. However, Team 2 hesitated and did not move forward. It was the same no matter how much the leader polished it. They were terrified as they watched the battle unfold before their eyes.
Karen clicked her tongue briefly.
“You mean an adventurer after all?”
She wasn’t disappointed. Because I didn’t expect it in the first place.
After all, isn’t an adventurer a contractor who takes care of things for money? It was a luxury to find a sense of mission from them.
“Horald.”
“Yes!”
The senior knight recognized the master’s will just by being called. I turned my horse and ran to the second group of skirmishers. He pointed his sword at the field and shouted something to Team 2.
-!@#!@$!@!!
Then some adventurers appealed to him. Some adventurers protested by shouting loudly before Horald.
Horald’s sword drew a neat trajectory. The head of the protesting adventurer fell. A fountain of blood gushed out from his neck.
The remaining adventurers stared blankly at the body of the dead man. Some of them sat down. As Horald approached, the adventurers rushed to the battlefield.
I was so scared that I couldn’t even line up properly, but that was enough.
Because what was expected of them was just to fill the numbers.
“Good job Horald.”
Karen greeted her knight upon her return and turned her gaze back to the battlefield.
With the participation of the 2nd skirmisher, the numbers became even.
However, the pushing speed slowed down a little, but the battle situation did not change.
It was because of the emergence of a job called adventurer, and the difference in skills between mercenaries specialized for warfare and new adventurers was evident.
Inevitably, Karen had to send her next unit.
The 4th, 5th, and 6th mercenaries who were saving their strength moved to the battlefield.
Their role is to create gaps for them to escape while taking turns with the previous group.
There was also a way to fight in an intrusive state, but it wasn’t a good way. In that case, the opponent might regard it as an all-out war and send all troops.
That’s too much of a gamble with troop losses.
Gambling in which one believes in an uncertain hand and goes all-in without any strategy.
It was much better to minimize troop losses and promise the next.
The 4th, 5th, and 6th groups that sortied entered the battlefield. They pushed the other mercenaries who were tired, and created a gap for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 2nd scouts to escape.
Now, as long as 1, 2, 3, and 3 groups come out, it becomes a successful replacement.
However, a variable occurred here.
“My lady, Lord Vanrid…”
“Yeah, so you’re not going to let go easily.”
Van Reed moved the adventurers. The adventurers lined up on the left and right of the main body rushed into the battlefield spreading in the shape of wings.
Like besieging a battlefield.
This was Ban Reed’s provocation to bring out the main force and lead it into an all-out war.
Looking at the adventurers spreading out in the shape of wings, Karen fell into trouble.
Should the main force be moved in response to the provocation?
Or should I send in a team of skirmishers to open an escape route?
The pros and cons of both are clear.
If we move the main unit, we can surely break through that siege. However, if that happens, Van Reid will also move her main force, and then a fight will break out that she doesn’t want. She could have lost more troops.
If the skirmisher is moved, all problems are resolved if successful. It’s because the chances of success are low. If I fail, it will only gnaw away at my own flesh.
‘Should I rather move Philip or Horald?’
Move the main unit and send an escort knight along with it. When that happens, Van Reed will also send her articles. However, Karen was confident in the skills of her knights.
If her knight stirs up the battlefield like that…
“Miss.”
A stern voice rang in Karen’s ears.
The moment I heard that voice, I thought of Karen. That this is a fight to lose.
When I realized it, I didn’t even laugh.
Why was he so desperate for a fight with a decided outcome?
“…Move the first team of scouts.”
In the end, Karen made a choice that moved her adventurers.
There was no desire for victory like before.
It was just building a tower for defeat.
* * *
“It’s crazy…”
Among the adventurers looking at the battlefield, one muttered. Other adventurers agreed with the murmur. The heat of the battlefield of death and killing seemed like madness to the immature people.
-Poo~!
The trumpeter standing on the left blew the trumpet, as per Lady Clenaire’s standards. It means to prepare to compete. And it was the first team of skirmishers who participated.
A messenger rode her horse and delivered Karen’s orders to the adventurers.
“Break through the encirclement and give the other troops time to retreat…”
Yoosung murmured and turned his eyes towards the battlefield. Dozens of people fight in the center, and dozens of others try to cover the periphery.
The legs of the adventurers who saw the battlefield began to tremble. The effect of mental management that Yuseong and Gillick had been doing had decreased. As the actual battle approached, I couldn’t keep my composure like before.
Why am I in this place
What kind of money did he participate in?
All sorts of regrets clung to her chest. The desire to run away was like a chimney. I wanted to go back to the city and lie down in bed.
But it didn’t.
Because the figure of the adventurer who was decapitated while protesting was clear. Still looking around, I see a body covered in blood.
-Poo~!
Eventually, at the second sound of the trumpet, they lifted their heavy feet. Every time I take a step closer to the battlefield, I have the illusion that the shouts get louder.
Albore raised his gaze, which had only been looking at the ground.
Road to the battlefield.
It seemed to him that he was on his way to death. Anxiety and fear overtook me, but I tried not to show it. Because he wanted to be a husband his wife could depend on.
However, it could not be helped that the movement was hardened by tension.
Alvor instinctively turned his gaze toward the last remaining hope.
And she opened her eyes wide in surprise.
His last hope, Yuseong, the same rank of Group 1, did not look nervous at all. All of them, even those who appear to be his companions.
In reality, Yoosung, Seris, and Kara weren’t too nervous.
In the meantime, the chaos that has come over has firmly supported their feet. Adding to that the experience of being chased by the Orcs a while ago, he wasn’t afraid of fighting between those quantities.
“Crazy… Crazy…!”
Of course, Ariel is an exception.
No matter how much she has hunted humans, she is always a trapper.
The battlefield, where swords clashed directly and exchanged lives, seemed nothing but a crazy place.
Because of this, she prayed to Yoo-seong with an uncharacteristically servile face.
“Alright, let’s go back. I’ll listen to you in the future…”
“If you can run faster than a horse, try it. If you don’t, you’ll be decapitated like the guy before.”
“Ik… Why, why did you bring me to this place?! What did I do wrong! I don’t want to die!”
“Don’t die. Seris and Kara will stand by her side to protect her, and you also have your spirits. It will be harder to die.”
Yuseong brushed aside the whining Ariel and said to Gillick.
“Shouldn’t you be running soon?”
The encirclement of the adventurers on the other side was narrowing. It was safe to break through before that narrowed all the way.
“Yeah, that would be nice. Everyone, let’s run slowly.”
Gillick started running forward as if to lead by example. The same goes for Yooseong and his companions. The adventurers who saw their backs gritted their teeth and started running.
“Aaaaa!!!!”
Shouting in evil gave birth anew. The adventurers who were besieging the battlefield turned their heads to the epicenter of the shouting. Faced with the adventurers running towards them, they stopped the siege and prepared to fight.
When the distance between the adventurers of the Mar Nix family was ten steps away, Seris raised her shield. A large new iron shield was enough to cover her leaning body.
“Uh, uh?!”
Faced with a large iron shield, the adventurer panicked and stiffened. They were novice adventurers either.
Bang!
The adventurer hit by the iron shield floated and rolled on her floor. At that unrealistic appearance, not only Marnix’s side adventurers, but also her allied adventurers’ eyes widened.
“What, what… What power…”
“Hey, watch out! I haven’t stopped yet!”
Even after blowing one person away, Seris’ charge did not stop. In the end, another victim was born.
“Move! I block you!”
A tall blond man stole another adventurer’s shield.
“Eh, Eric!”
The faces of the adventurers who knew him brightened.
Eric, who is he?
Aren’t you an outstanding rookie adventurer who faced two huge hobgoblins at the same time?
Bahran’s adventurer’s guild is paying attention!
Also, his forearms are thick enough to be compared to those of a bear. Even that reckless rush could be stopped by him.
Erik bent down and held his shield forward. He ran towards the charging iron shield.
Bang!
There was a dull sound as the shields collided with each other. Eric fell out and Ceris stepped on him.
Wooddeuk. Quadduk.
The sound of something hard being smashed was heard. It was because Cerys put a lot of strength on her legs when she stepped on Eric. Eric was lying in the spot where she passed, barely breathing, with all the bones in her body broken.
“Eric is so easy…”
“But that shield stopped! Now, kill me quickly!”
Don’t let it run again. The three adventurers rushed towards Seris.
At that time, it seemed that there was a strong wind coming from somewhere. I thought it was an illusion, but it wasn’t. Because the guy running on the left had a deep cut in his throat.
The decapitated adventurer collapsed clutching at the bloody water. The eyes of the remaining two turned to the place where the sound of the wind had been heard.
“What, why is it only that powerful? You cut down trees last time.”
“This is not a forest! No wonder the spirits can’t use their power!”
A woman with pointed ears shouted and a dark-haired man guarded her surroundings. Listening to her words, it seemed that the thing that had just happened was the work of that woman.
‘That woman looks dangerous too..! Where are these monsters… Huh?’
Suddenly, his vision changed drastically. The last thing I saw in my rotating view was my torso falling headless and my co-worker’s arm being cut off by a brown-haired woman.
After that, his consciousness disappeared.
But the fight doesn’t end when he dies. He is only one of many troops.
The fight continued.
“Kill those bitches first! Or we die!”
The adventurers focused on the meteor’s colleagues who performed outstandingly.
Five adventurers rushed in front of Kara. Kara lays her sword loose and tightens her stomach! Gave it
She spun her sword as she surrendered to the current.
In the first turn, the head of the adventurer who was running in the lead fell off.
In the second turn, the adventurer holding the ax split at the waist.
The third spin split the head of the guy who was trying to turn around and run away.
Kara drew her sword from her split head and caught her breath. The two remaining adventurers behind her trembled and raised their weapons.
“Uh, ah! Die this monster…”
The adventurer, who was about to hit him with a blunt weapon, lowered his eyes at the tingling sensation he felt in his chest. A pure white blade protruded from his chest.
“Uh… Uh?!”
It was before he could even scream in pain. The sword in his chest moved. He was swung by the sword and bumped into another adventurer who was after Kara.
The force of his swing dislodged the sword stuck in his chest. The two adventurers rolled on the floor entangled. The sword from before took their necks.
“Kara, focus. Aren’t you dangerous?”
The owner of the sword, Seris, said as she wiped off the blood on the sword.
Kara raised her thumb at her older sister.
“It was because I trusted her sister. The two of us are one!”
“Anyway, you speak well.”
Celis sighed, but couldn’t hide the twitching in her mouth.
A cool breeze blew past their necks.
Kara and Seris simultaneously turned their heads to where the wind blew.
“Don’t kill our side, only kill the other side. Don’t do anything too conspicuous.”
“No, kill me! Kill every single human being here!!! Aagh! Why are you pinching?!”
“It’s because you talk nonsense.”
Meteor pinches Ariel’s cheek and Ariel screams loudly.
A ridiculous sight that can’t be thought of as being in the middle of a battlefield.
However, the situation unfolding above it is not funny at all.
Above, two splendid spirits were floating.
“Um, what is that…”
“I don’t know… Fuck…!”
Some adventurers with good senses realized an unusual situation. I turned around and ran without hesitation. Sharp wind blades and sharp ice spears chased their backs as they fled.
Those who fled collapsed without even being able to take twenty steps.
-Yingying!
– Weeing!
Ariel and Meteor orders to kill all humans except for our side.
The spirits intended to do it faithfully.
Because they don’t want their cute contractor to get hurt.
Dozens of wind blades and ice spears attacked the adventurers.
* * *
“What? Why does that happen?”
The back row of the camp of Count Marnix.
Van Reed frowned as he sat on the saddle that had the fluttering trim on it. It was because the situation on the battlefield through the telescope was very different from what he thought.
“That’s not the level of annihilation, it’s annihilation.”
As a military term, annihilation refers to a level in which it is impossible to continue fighting due to a loss of 30 to 40% of troops.
When all the members of a unit die or run away and no one remains, it is said to be annihilation.
And the adventurer Jo Hana sent by Van Reed was destroyed.
“Kas, 25 people were destroyed by 15 people. Do you think this makes sense?”
“…It looks like there were some outstanding adventurers out there. It’s my ignorance. Please forgive me.”
The escort knight bowed his head in disdain. Van Reed frowned in displeasure and reached for the grapes the attendant was holding. He put his grapes in his mouth and chewed them.
The sweetness of ripe grapes spread in your mouth.
Feeling a little better, Van Reed waved his hand, saying don’t mind.
“It’s okay, it’s not your fault. Anyway… There’s no talent in the city, no talent. Oh, what happened to what we talked about last time?”
“If it’s something related to the Red Heart Adventure Corps… It’s misfired.”
“What? Why? Why on earth would you refuse my unconventional treatment?”
“That… He didn’t answer that. I think maybe it’s because I’m attached to the city.”
Van Reed attempted to bring Kalita’s Red Heart Adventure Team to Bahran. He handed over the conditions, saying that he was treated unconventionally in his own way, but the adventure team refused.
Because I was already being treated better in Kalita.
However, it was clear that telling the truth would hurt Banreed’s feelings, so the escort knight was vague about that part.
“Tsk… It seems that the adventure captain is getting old too. This is why you can’t be keuts. The field of view is short I can’t draw the big picture! Whoa… We’ll talk about that later, and we’ll have to sort things out now. Send the next group.”
“Yes!”
The escort knight, Cass, raised his hand to the trumpeters. The trumpeter blew the trumpet, and the groups to be put in next finished their resolutions and preparations.
“Is that properly prepared?”
“Yes, don’t worry. They are properly trained guys.”
“Okay?”
Van Reid smirked and looked at the next group preparing for the sortie.
Bahran’s regular army disguised as mercenaries.
‘I can’t even compare to mercenaries.’
A delightful smile bloomed on his face.
“Kas, send a messenger to them before sortie.”
“What are you sending?”
“I mean, don’t miss a single one of those guys over there. Especially adventurers who have just moved must.”
“Yes!”
After a while, the trumpet sounded again.
Forty-five of Bahran’s regular troops rushed into the battlefield.
