Hakai no Miko

Episode 24: Battle of Mirza 3 - Dead Place

A Romanian National Army camp set up on the back of a hill where the sun has just peered into its face now. Until just on the brink, most of the bonfires (calluses) were also burned out, and many of the generals were thought to be falling into deep sleep.

But one heavily armed soldier after the other came out of the tents and secretly dug trenches, and the sound of the drums of the great drums announcing the coming of the enemy. Moreover, there is no confusion with the soldiers of the Romanian National Army when they say it is an early morning ambush, and they line up steadily as they were met beforehand.

The Ethereal Horse leaks his voice in dismay at the sight.

"I was ambushed......!

The situation is obvious. Our ambush was completely read.

The Ethereal Horse, who returned to me from the shock, looked back in haste.

There is a mountain that we have just crossed. The scenario is still brand new to my memory. The mountain path is a thin, winding road. Regardless of the small number, if thousands of people arrive there, the allies will push each other and they will be unable to move. It would be catastrophic if the Romanian National Army went into such a place. At last, we cannot retreat to the rear.

Then the Ethereal Horse sees the armies of his allies.

Then, obviously, the soldiers' movements lacked glory, and even some of them appeared to be standing up early. That's not just because he screwed his nose up with the sound of a big drum trying to ambush him. He has just crossed the mountain with insomnia. After all, the fatigue of the soldiers is enormous, and I guess it has surfaced before the fact that it was ambushed.

Furthermore, the pale horse turns his eyes to the front.

The formation of the Romanian National Army, which will be finished in no time, is a so-called (so-called) crane wing formation that will allow the soldiers to expand wide to the left and right to encompass this one. It is a formation to take advantage of the number of soldiers and destroy enemies.

hindered by the mountains, behind closed exits.

Dark colour of fatigue early, armies of allies.

And on the front, an enemy army that wants to reach three times its own.

The Ethereal Horse bit his back teeth tight with regret.

This is not an ambush. It's not even to the extent that they were reading this behavior.

I was guided.

The land itself was a trap to destroy ourselves!

The Ethereal Horse remembered the shock as if it had been struck by lightning.

Who the hell is that? It's not Partis. Nor is he a general around him. Who the hell thought of this? Who thought of such a measure?!

The Ethereal Horse shakes his head and once he has abandoned the idea.

Now is not the time to consider the identity of an unknown enemy.

Anyway, now I had to take this dead place off.

Should we make an assault before we finish forming?

But the Ethereal Horse immediately denied the idea.

Already the Romanian National Army is about to finish forming a formation. There is no longer a respite that we are storming. Besides, the fence surrounding the enemy's camp is enough to kill Zoan's legs, albeit simple. If you take the trouble to break through the fence, the Romanian National Army will hit you where your legs have stopped.

Should we trump some of our allies as palace troops and forcibly retreat to the rear mountains?

Now at the forefront of his own army are the Black Elf Archers led by Eladia and the Zoan Warriors led by Garam and Zug, for assuming a pre-emptive attack.

Zoan, a lightweight infantry, specializes in assaults utilizing his legs, but he is not good at stopping those legs and fighting them. I didn't think I'd be able to stop the Romanian army at last. Not to mention black elf archers.

I don't want to imagine how much damage would be done if enemy troops who smashed Zoan and the elf from behind raided me where I had killed them on the retreat road and couldn't get around. Good and semi-destructed - no, it was likely to be wiped out altogether.

It sucks.

Blood draws a noise from the face of a pale horse.

"What are you going to do, Thorma?!"

The Ethereal Horse returns to me in a voice that also reveals Shemr's impatience. But I can't think of any instructions.

If he had been a ruthless tactician, he would have ordered his army to retreat even if Zoan had tried to destroy them all. If a heartless king had fled before all the armies, he would have fled alone.

But the Ethereal Horse couldn't do that. It was his beauty as a man, but at the same time it was his shortcoming as a ruler.

And now that's exactly what appears as a fatal flaw.

He was a pale horse who used to let his mouth open and close pointlessly for a long time, but he finally makes his decision.

"Consolidate your defense in all armies!

If this happens, the Romanian National Army will have to leave the army one by one while watching the battle trend (sorry).

Yes, the pale horse decided.

"Tell Eladia to back off! Archers can't stop their enemies! Instruct Setius to support where Zoan is about to collapse! Jaharn, Gill needs to get to the front line!

Individual battles were high but small in number and difficult to operate as troops, which usually led them to the front line as far as the Jahangils Dinosaurian, who kept them near the headquarters where they were.

Shemr speaks to the pale horse, who, with his own instructions, hastily flew Harpuran's decree and stared with a giddy impatience at the soldiers of his own army changing formation.

"Hey, Soma. Is the allocation of soldiers in the Romanian state much skewed?

There was no longer room for shards, a pale horse who had thought of a way to crack open her brain so badly that she could burn it out staring at the movements of her own army and those of her enemies, but still only she could not ignore it. The Ethereal Horse says, "Huh?," he raised his face.

"On the left. There's a lot of horseback riding."

Fished by Shemr's words, the Ethereal Horse turned his attention to the left hand unit of the Romanian National Army from here on out.

Then, although in the distance, I do see a lot of horseback riding. No, it's not a lot. In this era, even when it comes to horseback riding squadrons, it is usually a mixed unit of horseback riding and infantry followed by two to five or so conscripts against a single horseback riding unit. That being said, there were a number of horseback rides there that weren't a hundred or two hundred things. Moreover, the number of infantry is clearly low compared to that.

Is that where the enemy is headed?

The Ethereal Horse thought so first.

In this day and age, basically, weapons, horses for riding, etc., are the bringing of individuals. Weapons and protective equipment are paid for when they become conscripted peasants, but they are only mass-produced and inexpensive. Only aristocrats and wealthy merchants wear solid weapons for this reason. Not to mention being a precious and expensive horse, which becomes even more limited.

In the Eldor country, the state breeds military horses, so that only cavalry troops like the Black Elf Bow Cavalry can be formed, but in other countries the cavalry = a high nobility - i.e. definitely think of it as more than an officer who leads each unit.

As a result, it was not impossible for the Ethereal Horse to first assume that it was the main formation there with hundreds of cavalry gathered.

But if the Ethereal Horse turns his eyes directly to the front, behind the Romanian National Faction, there is a flag of the Kingdom of the Romanian State and a flag of Prince Partis designing a spear and sword that intersects the side of the wolf beside it. The general, Prince Partiz, is there. There is no doubt that the central back of the enemy line is seen as the main line.

So what is that place where horseback riding is gathered?

So it is the flag that has designed the white lily on the wolf. The flag of a leading Romanian National Army warlord in advance was a pale horse I remembered, but I didn't know whose flag that was.

It is very unthinkable that at this very moment when the battle is about to begin, we will deliberately assemble the commanders of each unit - not to mention in a place that is not even our headquarters.

Ice hands stroke the spine of the Ethereal Horse.

"Shemr! Give me your binoculars!

Driven by a chill running on his spine, the Ethereal Horse reached out to Shemr and shouted. When Shemru hands over the quickly assembled binoculars, the Ethereal Horse pushes it against his eyes and sees the enemy.

"What is that...?!"

The Ethereal Horse raised his surprise to a group of horseback riders who seemed clear via the binoculars.

First, it is lightly dressed horseback riding that stands in front. Even from the attire of a knight who crosses (and) leads to a horse, he will probably be a light cavalry who takes advantage of his speed to turn to the side of the enemy and attack him with a throwing spear.

That number is the only one, but the soldiers themselves deserve no surprise.

What amazed the Ethereal Horse was the size of its horse.

A common horse in the western region of the continent of Cerdeas is a variety the size of a larger pony in modern Japan. But the horse you're looking at right now is definitely bigger one turn than that. It is the size of the salad bread that we were looking at in modern Japan. For this reason, the ratio of the size of the horse to the person who always sees it is too different, so much so that initially I imagined that the child was spanning the horse.

And more than that, the pale horses were stunned by the horseback riders behind the light cavalry.

At first glance, it looked like a heavy-duty cavalry.

Both humans and horses wear heavy armor that can be seen in the distance. No, it's not heavy. Even when it comes to heavy armor, infantry armor of this era is scaled armor sewn together with leather armor or scaly iron pieces reinforced with rivets and iron pieces.

But it was obviously sheet metal that covered the chest of the knight crossing the horse that the Ethereal Horse was now staring at. He wears a piece of metal that hit the shape of his chest. Further to the helmet, it was a complete covering except for the eyes and mouth area.

"Is that really a heavy cavalry...?

The Ethereal Horse leaked a trembling voice.

Heavy cavalry in this era refers to heavily armed infantry on horses. Heavy infantry, hardened with strong armor, is highly combative but inferior to manoeuvrability. Also, strong armor is so heavy that it significantly deprives you of strength just by traveling. To compensate for its shortcomings, heavy infantry traveling on horseback to the enemy's present day is called heavy cavalry.

But the heavy cavalry should always be accompanied by a squire. Help your husband, the heavily armed infantry, ride or descend on horses, and when fighting, give him the weapons and shields he kept, and instead a squire who keeps the horses.

But I don't see the squire. I can also see him as an infantry all around me, but at last he didn't match the number of heavy cavalry I'm seeing right now.

And what's more unusual than that is that heavy cavalry has a long spear for people to take it around while riding horses.

The spear is too big to throw and use like a light cavalry. If you want to use it after you disembark, just bring it to the accompanying squire. It would only have been out of the way to have such a long spear when it was spanning a horse. Besides, it's not just spears. He even had a kite-shaped larger shield on his left arm taking the reins. It's probably built to hold the shield in place on your arm, but you don't have to do that. You should leave it with your squire, just like a spear, and get off the horse before you receive it.

And yet, why do you have them now that you've spanned the horses?

Behind the brains of a baffling Ethereal Horse, my memory nods when I was in modern Japan.

"Oh no...! There must be such a thing in this world...?!"

The Ethereal Horse denied.

But the more I deny it, the more voices out of me affirm that's for sure.

Even while the Ethereal Horse was in the grip, the sound of the great drums heard from the Romanian National Army faction increased and the Romanian National Army finally began to move. Of course, it is also a group of enemy horseback riding watched by the Ethereal Horse.

"Command! Command to the left-wing Doverlin as soon as possible!

The Ethereal Horse couldn't help but raise his voice.

"The enemy in front of me is going in," he said!