Chapter 82 Unprepared Disaster (3)
As soon as I heard the news of the enemy’s attack.
Roman knew that the Fifth Line of Defense would not last long.
‘The southern front is a place where the sense of national defense is weak as a whole, but among them, the 5th line of defense has the worst power due to its commander, Baron Bruce. With aging equipment and a rotten state of mind, even if it lasted long, it wouldn’t last more than two hours. It must arrive within an hour at least.’
Lucas’ info.
And it was the same thing mentioned in the book McBurney gave me.
There was no time.
After notifying the officer of the reserve unit that he would go first, Roman took the soldiers and moved quickly.
About 2 hours from reserve unit.
Common sense would make it very difficult to cut that in half, but Roman’s soldiers ran after him without the slightest complaint.
It was the moment when the training of the past shined.
For the soldiers who constantly climbed the mountain carrying heavy military equipment every day, running on flat ground did not disturb their breath.
Let’s run for a while like that.
In no time, we reached the vicinity of the 5th line of defense.
It was then.
At the sight of a man running in the distance, Roman stopped first and signaled to the soldiers to stop.
“Oh, those are the reserve troops!”
The man was delighted.
Baron Bruce.
To him, the reserve unit was like an oasis in the desert.
He wiped the profuse sweat with his sleeve and approached Roman.
“Are you the commander of these soldiers? Skip the name of the official rank and guide me to the rear for now. Now, it is more important for me to inform the royal family of the dangers of the southern front than to help the 5th line of defense.”
He continued to gasp for breath.
Seeing Baron Bruce treating him like it was natural, Roman looked at him.
‘Commander of the 5th line of defense.’
It was the face I identified on the directory.
the problem is.
Now that the war had broken out, he shouldn’t have been here.
There were only two possibilities.
Either the 5th line of defense had already been captured, or he had fled alone.
“Baron Bruce. Why are you here alone with no troops?”
“Baron Bruce?! Have you ever seen such a cheeky bastard? If you belong to the reserve unit, you would be a semi-nobleman at best, so dare you speak plain language to me?”
“I think I’m mistaken about something… .”
snap.
“Gagging?!”
Roman grabbed Baron Bruce by the collar.
The pathetic movements made no sense.
Baron Bruce desperately tried to shake off Roman’s hand, but the strong grip was so strong that he couldn’t move at all.
Roman Dmitri looking down at Baron Bruce.
In an instant, my heart felt cold.
It was too ferocious to be a human gaze, and Baron Bruce could not handle it.
Roman said.
“The fact that you are here now means one fact. That a man called the commander abandoned his soldiers and ran away. According to military law, deserters can be summarily executed regardless of status. Do you know what that means?”
“You can’t… .”
“No way.”
Awesome!
The wind blew.
I didn’t even see the scene where Roman pulled out the sword, but before I knew it, the blade reflected in the sun cut Baron Bruce’s throat.
Baron Bruce’s head falling to the floor.
The face, unable to accept death, had a terrified expression.
widely.
brushed off blood
It was a shocking situation.
Even though killing a nobleman was a huge event, Roman’s eyes were calm as he looked at the bodies scattered on the floor.
“At least if you ordered a retreat and ran away, you wouldn’t have died by my hand.”
This one won’t be a problem.
We are at war now.
The only witnesses were Roman’s soldiers, and they weren’t too surprised by the situation just like Roman.
In the process of destroying Barco.
Roman showed the face of a predator.
Maybe when Baron Bruce screamed, they also hoped for the same ending as now.
“let’s go.”
Roman taking the first step.
In order not to miss him, the soldiers quickly followed, leaving only the corpse of Baron Bruce alone.
* * *
Only 1 hour.
That much time has passed since the enemy’s attack began.
Although it was still time to take advantage of Mercury’s advantage, the 5th line of defense with the gates breached became a hell of a father and mother.
hooked!
“Gagging.”
“Ah!”
Screams rang out from all directions.
The soldiers of Hector Kingdom mercilessly slaughtered Cairo’s soldiers, and people died one after another due to enemies constantly flooding into the gates.
There was no way to stop it.
The dusty magic weapons didn’t listen, and when they fired their arrows, enemies already invaded the castle walls.
still.
The soldiers fought to the end.
Stephen, the only knight of the Fifth Line of Defense, swung his sword in anger as Baron Bruce ordered a desperate fight.
“die!”
Pooh!
His face was drenched in the blood of the enemy soldiers.
At least, Stephen, who is called a ‘real soldier’ in the 5th line of defense, stopped and cut down the enemies one after another.
There are already twelve soldiers who have met death by sharp swordsmanship. But there was no end in sight.
Seeing the enemy soldiers constantly rushing in, even Steven’s mouth went dry.
‘Damn the damn.’
finished.
It was a battle already lost.
If the gates were still intact, how would they survive, but from the moment the gates opened, there was no way to stop the enemies.
‘I knew a day like this would come someday.’
Carelessness is contagious.
Everyone knew that the attitude of not properly maintaining equipment and neglecting vigilance was clearly wrong.
But if everyone behaved complacently from generation to generation.
People accepted it as a custom.
On the southern front, the strength of the commander is strong.
I couldn’t change a lot as a single article, and as I accepted the reality, I became the current situation.
Kururureureung.
The castle wall collapsed.
Enemies rushing in through the collapsed walls.
It was dark before my eyes.
Even with Mercury’s advantage, the 5th Line of Defense lasted less than an hour and was in danger of being captured.
‘I can’t be annihilated like this. Even if we retreat, we must save the soldiers and plan for the future.’
I hurriedly found the commander.
Command is the domain of the commander.
I was thinking of persuading Baron Bruce to let the soldiers retreat, but no matter how much I looked, the commander was nowhere to be seen.
‘no way.’
suddenly.
The image of Baron Bruce, who was running alone, came to mind.
At the time, I didn’t think of running away.
Does it make sense that a person known as the commander of a defensive line would run away without fighting properly?
The blood was cold.
Stephen had a hunch that this was his place of death.
“You fucking pig.”
You can run away with him.
but.
I didn’t want to.
Rather than abandoning everyone to live alone, I thought it would be an honorable thing to die fighting to the best of my ability.
“Kuaaaaa!”
I grabbed my sword and ran.
Slashed and slashed enemies.
It’s a dead life anyway
Baron Bruce would not leave survivors alone, even to hide his disgrace, and there was no reason to keep important figures like Steven alive.
I felt at ease.
for accepting death. Steven took the lives of his enemies in a fit of madness, even as his body was getting more and more scarred.
Awesome!
cut the enemy’s flesh
He felt his life cut through the sword, but in return Stephen was stabbed in the back as well.
puck!
“Gagging.”
Pain penetrated his brain.
Death was now in sight.
After barely cutting off the head of the soldier who had stabbed him, he thought as he saw the sword falling right above his head.
‘It’s over.’
It was now the limit.
The moment you accept death.
Pooh!
A man with black hair appeared spraying bright red blood.
* * *
When Roman arrived on the scene.
It was after the castle gate had already been breached.
There was no time to think.
He ran forward and gave orders to the soldiers.
“I will be at the forefront. Follow me while clearing out the enemies in turn.”
It was like a previous life.
Heavenly Demon Baek Joong-hyeok.
He always fought the enemy at the forefront before anyone else, and accomplished the great feat of conquering Murim.
It was no different in this world.
If you kill even one more person.
I knew that the war could be ended with minimal damage.
Roman threw himself on the ground that had turned into an abyss and swung his sword at the enemies he found.
Pooh!
It was the beginning of a massacre.
The first two soldiers who launched a pincer attack were decapitated in a single blow, and the soldiers who attacked Roman from all sides fell in the blink of an eye, spraying blood.
It was an overwhelming force.
Like a wolf that fell between a flock of sheep, Roman moved quickly forward, slashing through each and every enemy he encountered.
was not in a hurry
at reasonable intervals.
He kept his distance from the soldiers, and naturally, most of the blades that were supposed to be directed at them were focused on Roman.
“You freaking freak!”
“Kill that guy!”
Hector’s soldiers.
They also knew that Roman was not an ordinary person.
They attacked Roman at the same time, but no matter how many numbers attacked, the side that became a corpse was Hector’s kingdom.
only 5 minutes.
Roman killed dozens of soldiers in that short amount of time.
Other people’s blood dripped from the sword, and Roman was also drenched in blood before he knew it.
It was then.
In Roman’s field of vision, he saw a man struggling with his enemies.
‘Steven?’
person on the list.
According to Lucas’ information, it was explained that at least Steven was worth using if deployed on the 5th line of defense.
so that.
Roman made a quick decision.
Blocked the front and slaughtered the enemies.
And then.
At the moment when Steven accepted death.
He blew the neck of the enemy who was swinging his sword at Stephen.
Pooh!
Took.
Degururu.
My head rolled on the ground.
There was no time to talk to each other.
A large number of enemies had entered the walls, and Roman slashed the attacking enemies without stopping.
“… what is this?”
A series of sights.
Stephen was stunned.
The sight of Roman unilaterally slaughtering his enemies in a state where he couldn’t accept the fact that he was still alive was bound to come as a shock.
Was there such a person on the southern front?
In his increasingly complicated mind, a person suddenly came to mind.
“Roman Dmitry. He will be assigned to the reserve unit of the 5th Line of Defense.”
This morning.
Those were the words I heard from Baron Bruce.
Upon hearing the news that rankers would be assigned to the southern front, Steven honestly couldn’t take Roman Dmitri’s existence lightly.
Ranker is strong.
He thought that he was more needed on the Western Front than on the Southern Front, and that Roman Dmitri should not be assigned to the 5th line of defense if he really thought about the safety of the kingdom.
but.
It was an illusion.
Seeing Roman arrive so quickly, Stephen recognized at once how hard he had been running.
hooked!
“… Kruck.”
Eliminate the last remaining enemies nearby.
Roman brushed off the blood on his sword and approached Stephen.
“Are you Steven?”
“you’re right.”
“Baron Bruce is dead. From now on, as you are in charge of this place and have served the 5th line of defense for many years, tell me what methods are needed to defend it in your judgment. If, in your judgment, it is hopeless, I, Roman Dmitry, as the head of the reserve unit, will force all troops to retreat.”
It was an embarrassing situation.
My mind was not immediately organized.
Roman asked Stephen for advice based on his ‘experience’, and Steven thought it over briefly but carefully before speaking.
“… In fact, it’s already a battle with a lot of momentum. Common sense would make it the right decision to retreat, but doing so would give the enemy an advantage. A river runs behind the southern front. They need to secure a route for supply troops to move in preparation for a prolonged war, but if they fail to capture the five defensive lines, they cannot lead the war into a protracted battle.”
I cleared my mind as I spoke.
At first, I thought I should give up.
But the more I spoke, the more I couldn’t leave this place.
then.
I needed to flip the plate somehow.
“There is only one way. You must prevent enemies from pushing through the gates any further. The gap in the wall is not very wide, but the gate is different. If you can secure just 10 minutes of time, you can use the reserve barbed wire to block the enemy’s entry at least as a last resort.”
It was the only way.
When all the enemies enter the castle.
There was no chance of winning.
Even though he knew that it was a very difficult choice, Stephen said the best choice considering the future situation.
but.
It was an impossible method no matter how you thought about it.
In a situation where numerous enemy forces had already entered the castle, how could they penetrate them and secure the gate?
It was then.
Roman said without hesitation.
“From now on, I will secure a space for the iron fence. Move your troops right now and prepare the barbed wire fence.”
at that point.
Stephen couldn’t help but open his eyes.
