Hakai no Miko

Episode 38: Battle of Mirza 16 - Empty Castle Meter

Looting "Seeing as you do the southern part of the defenseless Eldorian country, you lure the Son of Destruction into the land of Mirza, where there is no escape. And with all our Romanian National Army, we will crush the Eldor National Army!" Prior to the battle of Mirza, Piata said so before the princes of Partis in a military conference held at the headquarters of the Romanian National Army.

Piata further says to the generals who leak their admiration.

"But that's not enough. The Son of Destruction led only a few Zoans, and finally the man who also destroyed the great power Holmea. If we let this guy get away with it, we don't know what we're gonna do this time. So..."

Piata puts a small pawn on the Masarca Gate Fort on the map and puts her finger on it.

"We will keep the eyes of our enemies pointed at the main unit and keep separate teams secretly marching. And as the Eldor National Army marches on Mirza, they will attack down the rear castle hall, which has become gala-empty!

Piata moved the pawn, which she moved to slide on the map, to the castle hall in Eldore Country.

"Even if we can escape our troops in Mirza and retreat to the rear mountain, if we take down this castle, the Erdoah National Army will lose any more ground to escape and be pushed into the mountain."

There is no way that the Erdoah National Army, trying to ambush us, could have bothered to bring massive amounts of food. At best, they would just let each soldier have one or two meals of food. What would happen if such thousands of troops could be pushed into the mountains with no replenishment and no water fields known where?

In just a few days the soldiers are tormented by hunger and thirst. And among the soldiers who could not stand it, deserters would continue to emerge and even cause civil strife. In that case, the Eldor National Army will collapse without setting aside the time.

Even as we forcibly break through the Romanian National Army, which will wait before that happens, we must first put together the residual forces to do so.

But it's in a mountain with no prospects and no room to just assemble again. I can't even get the residual force together. Still, if you can't strike it out, that's the good way to destroy each one.

Piata tells with complete complacency.

Complete Skin "That is, by this battle we will destroy the Eldor National Army and the Son of Destruction by the time we are gone, and will! This is what I do!" This was the secret Piata spent several years working out to defeat the Ethereal Horse, the Son of Destruction.

And as a last resort to that special attack, five hundred separate units of the Romanian National Army were now about to attack the castle.

But it's not perfect with Piata.

At this time, there was a situation that she did not envisage.

That's when the Ethereal Horse got there before the castle was attacked down.

According to Piata's assumption, the Ethereal Horse was still crushed by the army of his brother Prince Partis in the land of Mirza without being able to retreat with Guzguz, or when he was still wandering through the mountains, even if he had stomped through the retreat.

There are two reasons I missed that Piata reading.

The first was the presence of Shemr. Shemr scolded the Ethereal Horse, who had suffered from his own loss and had not been able to stop retreating, and urged him to make a decision, so that the Ethereal Horse fled to the castle quicker than he had expected.

And the other was in Piata's own miscalculation.

Instantly the first heavy-duty spear cavalry in the western region of the Serdeas continent - the Silver Wolf Soldier - was also the first real battle input for Piata. The power of this silver werewolf was much higher than expected, crushing the Dwarf Heavy Infantry Corps in the meantime, to the headquarters where the Ethereal Horse was located. For this reason, the retreat of the Ethereal Horse was speeded up. This is going to take it to Piata and cause unexpected results.

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"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!!"

Soon the inside of the castle became rushed. The soldiers rush to intercept the enemies they are attacking and begin to consolidate their defenses in order to defend the castle.

In it, the Ethereal Horse was desperate to think.

This operation is an ambush on the Romanian National Army, which reaches three times its own. Because even one soldier needed a lot of fighting power, he had put almost all his fighting power into surprise attacks.

For this reason, fewer than twenty men remain in this castle now - and only weak soldiers who are old or too young.

Besides, this castle was not originally built to assume combat. Even if a small number of raids, such as bandits and bandits, could be prevented, if enemy forces from hundreds of people attacked, they would not be very defensible.

"What's the status quo?! Big defeat aboard the enemy's invitation! Running into a small castle. Only a few soldiers can fight! Enemies attacking there! What do I do?! What do I do!?"

Behind the brain of a pale horse desperate to think of a way to open it, then the heavens descended.

It is a vestige of vision.

"What?! I know it somewhere. I know a situation very similar to this one! What the hell is that?!"

An electric shock runs through the cerebral cord of the Ethereal Horse, who had his eyes open enough to pop out.

Triangahara: "Right! battle. Hamamatsu Castle......!" Tokugawa Jiakang, famous for his dramas, comics and novels, lost a great deal to Shingen Takeda, that battle.

The captain of the soldier who remained in the castle at that time shouts out loud.

"Hurry and close the gate! Enemy attack! Close the gate!!"

"No!!"

The Ethereal Horse screamed out loud.

"Don't close the gate! Leave it open!

The soldiers who were about to close the slaughter gate will be flashed. How do we fight with the gates open when our enemies are about to push us? They just break in through open gates and leave no one behind. But the Ethereal Horse thought differently.

Now that the enemy that overwhelms this one is approaching to the present, it is no use hastily closing the gate and caging it. If it is a strong fort that can prevent and stop the enemy's army, it will not even be a slight resistance in this castle. So closing the castle gate could have taught them that this one couldn't defeat the enemy properly. Then, instead, it invites the enemy to attack.

Furthermore, the pale horse flies his life early in the arrow.

"Lay down all the flags! And the spear! Everybody, hide so you can't see from the outside! Don't raise your voice! Don't even let the horses go!

Confused by an unexpected order, Shemr yells at the soldiers who don't want to move.

"What are you doing! Do what Soma says!!"

The soldiers who returned to me began to move wacky to the shouts of Shemr, who had been working out yelling at the Ethereal Horse from day to day.

"Big drum!

The Ethereal Horse commands the drummer's heartbeat.

"Anyway, keep beating the drums as much as you want! Keep hitting the drums even louder so your allies can come back here!

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One of the Romanian National Army officers, who was ordered to lead five hundred soldiers to take control of the castle, saw the castle of interest and raised one hand to order a halt to all armies.

Officers staring at the castle hall leak a shivering voice as military horses and infantry kick up earthquakes and stop their feet. "What does this mean...?

There comes an officer who commands the rear of the unit on horseback.

"What's up? The castle is right in front of you. Don't stop here, let's attack quickly."

The officer prompted to attack does not answer that, but points to the castle in front.

"Look at that."

The officer, whose colleague told him to look at the castle, had often frowned, but was immediately surprised to open his eyes. "What do you mean? Why is the gate open? And you can't see the enemy soldiers."

As the officer said, the gates of the castle, which were supposed to be tightly closed, were wide open. On the contrary, from here on out, I don't see the castle as one enemy soldier. Also, it was not raised as a single flag or spear.

Already after the soldiers of the Eldor Nation fled?

But for that, the big drum still keeps pounding. At least, there's definitely someone left inside the castle who hits the drums. And yet, why don't you close the gate? Why don't you show yourself to one enemy soldier?

It is abnormal.

This was an obviously unusual situation.

Two officers in the Romanian state became confused because they did not understand the current situation.

But this was too much thought on the part of the officers of the Romanian State.

A battle that is very similar to the status quo recalled by Aoima Sangamihara is the battle of - the battle waged by Jiayang Tokugawa, who later opens the Shogun of Edo, and Shingen Takeda, who led the strongest Takeda horseback riding regiment at the time, in Sangamihara in Fuchi County, Far River Country. Although there are bonfire theories, Tokugawa Jiayang, who was lured to Mitsugahara by Takeda Shingen's ruse in this battle, was greatly defeated and fled to Hamamatsu Castle with his life. To Changjing, Yamagata prefecture, where he has been chasing him, Tokugawa Jiayang said he used a strategy to open all the castle gates and incite the enemy's vigilance - an empty castle gauge - to retreat from this. The pale horse, placed in a similar situation, was in the Tokugawa family at that time, betting everything on the empty castle gauge. But it was a dangerous bet.

An empty castle gauge is only a measure to incite the enemy's vigilance, a dangerous act that could instead invite the enemy inside the castle to an opponent like a swine martial artist who does not alert the enemy's trap.

It was exactly one or eight bets to use in the present situation, where we don't even know the name of the Romanian National Army officer who has attacked the castle with such dangerous measures.

But the Ethereal Horse wins the bet.

"Hello, this is..."

The officer salivated with a goofy throat.

"- Isn't that the trap of the Son of Destruction?

Besides, my colleague nods severely again.

"Right. This must be the trap of the Son of Destruction"

It was actually Piata's fault that they thought so.

Prior to this battle of Mirza, Piata had forcefully described the horrors of the subhumans in order to take the Son of Destruction as their chief generals. And it was also Piata's caution to bring up the two names of General Darius and General Darius in that case so that he would not divulge the Son of Destruction.

But that caution has passed.

Darius, who was called the supreme general of the kingdom of Holmea, is a famous general who knows nothing of his horrors in his mouth if he is a general lord of the Romanian kingdom. It is also no longer worth mentioning if we are to be the greatness of the great hero of the Romanian nation, General Daraios. Of the two great heroes who made a name for themselves throughout the western realm, he was General Darius and was also recognized by another General Darius, the son of Destruction. And it hath opened the gates of the castle to wait before them, which have led and pursued the soldiers thus.

The Romanian officers have assumed that this is no longer a trap.

The Romanian National Army officers, who had done so, no longer felt the open gate like the monster's huge mouth.

It is the mouth of a giant monster who bites and swallows all the soldiers he led if he jumps in.

It's not something that can be attacked.

Of course, they weren't stupid either. I do not believe that the Son of Destruction predicted his own raid and prepared measures in advance at that time. There are no measures, because there are no soldiers, and by daring to open the gates and keep the soldiers out of sight, we are stirring up our vigilance and preventing them from being attacked.

Yes, I can understand it with my head.

But at the same time, I really think about the possibilities.

If there really was a trap,

And the price to be paid in case it hits is hundreds of soldiers and their own lives. If I think about it, my decision is really dull.

"What do we do...?

Neither did the officer have the answers to return to his fellow officers who questioned him without judgment.

"I don't know. What am I supposed to do?