Continental Hero Senki

Night. That's bedtime.

Except for military personnel. Especially the Corps of Engineers.

"The enemy could attack the city soon enough! Hurry up and build the position!

"The enemy forces are more powerful than we thought. Existing positions are useless!

Relying on bonfires and moonlights, the Corps of Engineers builds positions.

And slightly inside, not the outermost edge of the city, to avoid being perceived and obstructed by the enemy.

Torn's princess defensive position was built at a time when the Grand Duchy army offense was perceived. At that time, however, defenses were lacking because the size of the enemy was unknown and it was unexpected that the enemy would not be able to achieve any results in the field.

"I guess it's my responsibility to be too used to winning and maneuvering ahead of success..."

And, as Yuzef groans, he does what needs to be done.

Even in the Raskino War of Independence he defended the town from impending Imperial armies with fewer forces. Drawing on that experience, Yuzef rushes to build the town's position.

But overnight penetration puts constraint on quite a bit. Radek, the supply officer, told me about it.

"Hey, Yuzef, we don't have enough material to build the position."

"Can't you manage to procure it?

"Don't push it. Not enough bricks, not enough lumber, and above all, not enough manpower."

Even though the position has already been built, it is impossible to further strengthen the position in the short time between sundown and the next morning to make it a perfect defense. The lack of material and manpower is exactly what it is.

"... I don't really want to do it, but I just have to ask the citizens to help me too. I should be able to do something about chores. The missing material is superior magic. Destroy the building and use its remains."

"Do you want to do that?"

"If we don't make it that far, we won't be able to make a position."

Yuzef says so, giving instructions to the Corps of Engineers and the Sorcerer to execute it immediately. Just cut it off because it's a building that will be destroyed if it gets into the city anyway.

But still, there's still something missing.

"Commander. We don't have enough time. Positions at some points will be incomplete"

"... show me the map"

Yuzef and the captain of the engineers will view the map of the city of Torn and check the status of the construction of the position. The engineer captain said the position at the point is incomplete over the west, making it vulnerable there. I'd like to reinforce this place as well if we're looking for a complete defense, but we don't have enough time.

"The personnel who were building the other positions, what now?

"What we can afford is letting us build positions at unfinished points..."

The morning sun is almost there, so I almost said I wouldn't make it, and Yuzef gave the engineer captain an unexpected instruction.

"Okay. Okay, you can interrupt that. It's almost morning, so get some rest."

"... what?

"You must be tired of building positions all night, right? Rest in preparation for the battle if it doesn't finish anyway."

Yuzef had a good smile and said so.

Regardless, that smile had a back.

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9: 50 PM on March 16 at dawn.

Grand Duchy Army Commander-in-Chief of the Trun Attack Army, Marshal Jigmunt Lax, issued a directive for the total Trun attack.

"Once and for all before the enemy's posture is ready! Sorcerer, prepare to attack!

The order seemed to be a prudent Marshal Lax.

If he were a general, he would have used his predominant power to attack positions with infantry and cavalry assaults. I thought they weren't enemies, such as positions built overnight.

But Marshal Lax didn't do it. Use luxurious advanced magic attacks to sharpen the enemy's defenses as much as possible before letting infantry and cavalry enter. The sorcery offensive, which made the numbers say things, cooled the liver of the princess army generals, as well as making them understand that this time the enemy is an opponent out of line.

"Assuming it's the same Silesian city, the same subordinate city... make it easy and relentless to attack... Now, an accurate and cautious pre-attack. I don't like them."

"That's Marshal Lax."

It was Brigadier General Tarnovsky and Lieutenant General Yogihes who so praised him. So they were pessimistic that they had to fight as enemies.

Because you have to fight a good Silesian general against you.

"Anyway, this attack has to endure. There will be an enemy infantry assault soon, so keep control until then. Always keep in touch with the Rosenstock Corps, a reserve force."

"I know."

But that is the cause of hardship.

The fierce fire of the advanced sorcery Fire God Ammo (Prometheus) surely sharpens the power and morale of the princess and disrupts the chain of command. Several buildings collapse, and soldiers are involved in it and the medical department runs.

"Healing magic prioritizes minor injuries! Severe injuries must be evacuated after being treated to an undead degree! There's still a lot of injuries left!

Iada, a Medical Department affiliate and Sarah's best friend, saves as many lives as she can while quickly judging the shortage of medical soldiers and the growing number of wounded, and maintains the number of soldiers on the front line.

Priority should be given to the number of soldiers and the maintenance of the chain of command. The idea is also stained in the head of those involved in health care on the front line, and she chooses life unceasingly.

Those who have no prospect of being helped treat them as dead already just because they are not dead. That is the battle of Iada.

"But... I will definitely help...!

With that vow, Iada will treat the wounded appropriately and quickly. They recognize him as an angel who descended on Torn, which becomes a battlefield legend and spreads across the country, but it is still a story of the future.

What they princess army need is neither God nor an angel. Winning.

The preparatory attack, which lasted several hours, ends at 12: 10. Marshal Lax directed the attack at a time when the conspicuous effect of the attack could no longer be ascertained.

"Forward!"

A simple, but very difficult order to achieve. Because the position of the princess army was complete beyond the level of overnight marination.

Less than half an hour later, a screaming voice from troops on the front line is delivered to Marshal Lax.

"55th Infantry Regiment, met with fierce resistance from the enemy and retreated!

"The 305th Cavalry Battalion is also heavily damaged and unable to break through the enemy formation!

Before that report, Marshal Lax did not mean to give up the offense...... Instead, what he does is scrutinize and analyze all reports in his head and make a small attack that combines reconnaissance to grasp enemy positions.

And I noticed.

That the left wing, western defensive positions are thin and incomplete from the Lax Corps. It was on a level you wouldn't know if you observed it carefully, but he found it.

"After all, it couldn't be helped overnight, does that mean?

"Probably. If so, what we do is simple...... Contact Brigadier General Kopp. Lead the brigade under you to attack the Torn Guard from the left wing and break through the position. Major General Riselski's division carries out a combined manoeuvre offensive from the east. You don't have to break through."

"Ha, right away!

Assault in urban strategy is considered to be the most repellent choice because of the increased damage on the offensive side. But Marshal Lax was under silent pressure from the Grand Duke and other nobles at this time, and was not in a situation where he could keep the siege silent.

That's why he was exploring every hand so that he could settle for a little less damage and in a short period of time.

"Colonel Agnon's regiment has broken through enemy positions! Then Colonel Karwovich's regiment will also enter!

"Okay. Spread the wound where it broke through and fold it up all at once. Let Major General Kretzki's division support you!

"Ha!"

Brigade of Grand Duchy Army Brigadier General Kopp, 4,300 men successfully entered Torn Street. Subsequently Major General Kretzki's division of 10,000 supported this. The incomplete positions are not strong enough to receive that great offense, and the Princess Army is broken through the defensive line and falls into a crisis of destruction of each -,

"There's no way!

And it was thought.

Because the princely army was well aware of the incompleteness of the position, and no one understood its "advantages" better than a man named Yuzef Waresa.

"We'll start the operation. Radek, contact the rear magic soldiers."

"Ooh."

"Please. Mr. Maya, this is the right place to be. Lead reinforcements to stop enemy city incursions to the 7th Avenue line."

"Leave it to me!

Maya was not beside Emilia at this time.

Already Emilia is not just a princess. In the name of the Princess Army, it is a symbolic being. This is not a situation where you can get out on the battlefield with a whee.

So Emilia told Maya before the battle began.

"Maya Krakowska. I will relieve you of your duties as a samurai martial officer at this time."

"- Your Highness!"

Emilia smiles and controls Maya with her hand, confused by the abrupt words told, spinning the words.

"I command you on my behalf. - Help my loved ones."

……

Emilia knows the names of those she loved.

But if you want to protect him, Emilia can't do it anymore. At least not now. That's why I entrusted it to my most trusted best friend.

"Sincerely, I am dying!

Maya responded to the order with the utmost respect.

14: 40.

Brigadier General Kopp's troops are entering the city. Even though the Princess Army, backed by an infantry battalion led by Maya, intercepts this, the power difference was immense.

The Princess Army was also under attack from the east side of town at this time. In other words, it was only a matter of time before we had come to the limit of being crushed by the quantity of things, and its defense was broken.

"Keep pushing! The enemy is not creating infinite force! Limits will be here soon!

The Brigadier General thinks so and moves forward steadily without being forced.

His command was accurate, even in hard-to-take downtown areas where force differentials were difficult to take advantage of. Be wary of guerrilla warfare with great care in the alley. Scatter swordsmen to hit perimeter alert. Thanks to its careful vigilance network, the princess army was never attacked from the side streets.

Rather than, I didn't have to.

"My lord, advanced magic activated light ahead!

"What!?

By the time he realized, it was too late.

A giant fireball lands around his command unit. Nevertheless, in a city with buildings lined up and lots of blind spots, advanced magic cannot be most effective.

"I saw it as an attack of rash. Forward without fear!

Frontline Brigadier General Kopp shouts so, but that's a good place to make a difference. Because it is a theoretically constructed operation, not a rash.

It happened when they ignored the attack and tried to move further forward.

It was too late when I understood that something was ringing.

"Become -!?"

Brigadier General Kopp's last sight of his life, the church tower that stood beside his own army marching, was about to collapse.

I don't have time to scream, let alone give orders.

When the soldiers understood, it was all over.

"The church has collapsed!

"The rebels, for Christ's sake -"

"Where's Your Excellency?!?

The building is destroyed by advanced sorcery attacks after breaking through positions where defenses are supposedly weak and dragging breakthroughs as they are deep into the city. Including the church, the collapsed building served as an impromptu defensive position and an obstacle to blocking enemy exit.

Before the rear Kretzki division, dimensioned in the chain of command and unable to swallow the circumstances, realizes, the Princess Army turns around and goes into a counterattack.

"Assault! There's no one left to kick you out of Torn!

Maya Krakowska takes the lead and the soldiers raise their voices. The confused Grand Duchy Army Ex-Cop Brigade has no exchanging skills before a wave-like attack by an impending rebel army, or Princess Army. Even as they flee, the collapsed building is holding back their whereabouts.

It was already too late when Major General Kretzki grasped the facts, and the Cop Brigade lost miserably after suffering damage of less than 2,500 Brigadier General. In front of the crushed and uncontrolled soldiers, the Kretzki Division soldiers were also upset, and he had to give up a second offense.

The attack on the east side also caused more damage as solid defensive positions were being built. Marshal Lax decides to halt this day's assault.

"I knew the building collapse that would stop the monster would work great!

And, the op planner says he laughed satisfactorily by saying things that didn't make sense.

"... hey Yuzef. What's my turn?

"Sarah's not coming back."

"Bu......"

And Sarah Marinovska, of the cavalry, evened without a turn.

On the second day of the Torn offensive, Grand Duchy troops had scattered results, including devastating damage to Brigadier General Kopp's brigade. The Princess Army didn't say it was intact at all either, but the damage outweighed the battle.

This battle will be long.

The two generals had skin and felt that way.