There was a group of vehicles approaching the fortified city of Nassist.
"Yes, my lord commander-in-chief."
"Oh, and the sergeant."
With that said, Sergeant Sasaka saluted Kazuya and said goodbye.
And the vehicle assigned to the 4th Squad (Hanvey x 2. 1 x M1126 Striker ICV Armoured Vehicle. 2 x M1128 Striker MGS Armored Vehicles. 2 x Model 73 Large Trucks) Aim for South Gate with a total of 7.
... You see it.
Running along the plain along the walls for a few minutes. I finally see the south gate.
The South Gate had rounded up about twice as many soldiers as the enemy soldiers who were at the North Gate, but they were obsessed with carrying loot out of the fortified city and never noticed the approaching of the Fourth Squad.
"Cars three and four. Fire two grenades at the enemy near the castle gate. After we get inside, don't let enemy reinforcements get inside by firing white phosphorous incendiary shells outside the castle gate intermittently."
"'Copy that!!
Two striker MGS armoured vehicles fired howitzers from the M68A1E4 105mm cannon as ordered by Sergeant Kisaka.
"Hmm? What?"
"Hey, don't stop -"
Suddenly, the grenades that have landed take the lives of many soldiers in an instant.
"So who is it?! Help me, help me!
"Mine, my leg!! My leg, okay?
Fortunately (unfortunately) the surviving soldiers scream around.
"Now, assault wee!!
While the Imperial Army, which was suddenly attacked and caused numerous injuries, was in disarray, Sergeant Tsusaka forcibly broke through the castle gate and broke into the interior of the fortified city.
"Get off!! Let the fight begin. No, no!
Sergeant Kusaka shouted and rode like that. When he jumped out of Hanvey, he stuck a Type 38 infantry gun with a 30-year-old sword in his hand alone into a flock of enemies.
"Mmmm!!
"Gaaaaaaaa!!
"Weak!! You're too weak!!
Sergeant Tsusaka shouts out loudly as he panics and defeats an enemy soldier who escapes without knowing what's going on.
"Gu, Sergeant!! Again!! Don't go in there on your own!!
Sergeant Sasaka's deputy, Sergeant Makino, shouted as he was stunned while taking command of the detachment on behalf of Sergeant Sasaka, who rammed around without taking command of the detachment.
"What, you're in command, so let's not get into trouble."
While answering the words of Sergeant Makino, Sergeant Misaka shot and killed one of the two enemy soldiers who had been cut off with a Model 38 pack - 6.5mmx50SR bullet into his heart.
And when he recirculated the other slaughter with a Type 38 infantry gun, he punched the enemy in the head with the gunbed as it were, stabbing the Type 38 infantry gun's sword in the chest with a fresh hand with an unexpected gap.
"That's not the problem!! Besides, don't storm with such old fashioned gear!! I'm watching. This one hurts!!
"What is old-fashioned gear!! This type 38 infantry gun fits me best!! - Whoa!?
The Imperial Army recovers from the mess and starts a counterattack when Sergeant Sasaka is talking to Sergeant Makino while killing his enemies.
About ten gunmen lined up in two rows and fired simultaneously at Sergeant Kusaka.
But shortly before the shooting, Sergeant Sakaka realized he was being targeted, hiding himself in the shadows and protecting himself from the bullets faster than the gunmen pulled the trigger.
"Plus, I can't let go of this type 38 infantry gun I got directly from the Commander-in-Chief!!
Peeping his face from the shadow of a hidden object, Sergeant Izaka, who confirmed how the gunmen were hurrying to reload the bullet, moved his hand as he said so to Sergeant Makino, and when he took out a hundred bullet throwers and a decade-long grenade, he wore them on a Type 38 infantry gun.
It then jumps out of the shadows and fires a decade-long grenade at the gunmen who are still taking the trouble to reload the bullet.
"Eh."
The decade-long grenade fired with Sergeant Tsubaka's little ordinance and the sound of bong burst in front of the gunmen.
The gunmen blew it all up because the gunpowder they had in their hands detonated after a 10-year grenade explosion at close range.
"In person!? That's because the sergeant was forced to hang on to the commander-in-chief that a type 38 infantry gun wanted to use!! Even the commander-in-chief laughed bitterly when the sergeant told you!!
"Were you? Wahaha!! I forgot already!! - Mmmm!?
When Sergeant Hayazaka, who had rid himself of the gunmen, removed the 100-style bullet thrower and reloaded the insertion bullet (clip) with a new set of five of the 38-style actual packs into the 38-style infantry gun, pulled the play bottom, loaded the insertion bullet, and tried to slide the play bottom back forward, the play bottom was hooked and the play bottom could not return.
...... yummy.
Sergeant Tsusaka moves the bottoms of the Class 38 infantry guns in a chattered fashion, and when they are hassled, the enemy soldiers who saw it as an opportunity strike at Sergeant Tsusaka at the same time screaming.
"" "Death to fools who do not obey the Empire!! Death to the heathens who side with the Subhumans!!
- Zash!!
"What a prick!!
With that said, Sergeant Kusaka lets go of the type 38 infantry gun, pulls out the military knife he was wearing on his hips, and jumps the neck of the enemy soldier that hit him in the blink of an eye.
――
The enemy soldiers, whose necks were jumped in an instant, blew a frightening amount of blood from the cutting surface and fell to the ground with the sound of a dosa.
"Hmm!! No deflection either."
Sergeant Kusaka throws up like a bore. When he shakes off the blood paste attached to the military knife, he holds it in his sheath and takes a Type 38 infantry gun that is rolling on the ground.
And from behind the SS, he threw it with a tossing procedure toward the wizard who was about to unleash exactly the magic now.
- Dossssssssss!!
"Ugh!!
Type 38 infantry guns fly straight to Sergeant Sakasaka's aim to pierce the wizard's back and pierce his heart.
"In the middle...... no, it's a little sloppy"
As he leaked his words, Sergeant Kusaka went as far as the breathless Wizard's side, screaming as he stepped on the Wizard's body and pulled through a Type 38 infantry gun that was piercing him.
"Don't you have more responsive enemies!!
- Chong Chong.
Someone takes that shoulder when Sergeant Tsusaka is screaming to provoke enemy soldiers.
Sergeant Hayazaka noticed it. When Sergeant Hayazaka turned to you, Sergeant Hayazaka's shoulder was resting with the face of Sergeant Makino.
"Um... I'm done...?
"Mm-hmm."
Captain Makino told me to look around and I saw the hindsight of the enemy as he abandoned his weapon and fled to the castle gate at first sight.
Outside the castle gate, however, the white phosphorous incendiary shells unleashed by striker MGS armored vehicles lingered on the ground, and the enemy soldiers who escaped were set to plunge into that scorching hell because they still kept burning as they raised white smoke.
"Atchi!!
"Hot!? What!? What the hell is this fire!! Sprinkle the water and the fire won't go out!?
"Gaaaaaa!! Hot!! Hot!!
The unfortunate soldier, who had white phosphorus on his bare skin as he fled, was suffering from a fire that would not quench even with water.
Incidentally, burns caused by white phosphorous, unlike normal burns, result in yellowing around the wound and smell like garlic.
White phosphorous also has to cut off every skin with white phosphorous because spraying water is hard to put out, but the soldiers who fled to the Imperial Army headquarters couldn't possibly have known that and were desperately trying to water their bodies and extinguish the fire.
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The day after he defeated the Imperial Army.
"Good morning. Sergeant."
"Oh, good morning"
Yesterday, near the castle gate, where control was secured, the fourth detachment was building a position and revealing the night.
"Go ahead."
Sergeant Makino brought warm drinks for Sergeant Kusaka, who had been on overnight watch in preparation for the night raid.
"Thanks"
Sergeant Izaka thanked Sergeant Makino for his drink and took a breather.
"... hey, Sergeant? I need to ask you something."
"What is it? Sergeant."
"I really care what the enemy was saying during yesterday's battle, do you know anything about the Warlord?
"What did you say? The enemy?
"Death to the heathen who joins the subhuman... Was it? Are they religious lunatics?
"Ah, that's a subtle place. I don't know much about it either...... certainly enemies - the Elsas Magic Empire should have promoted a religion called Lowenism for the country to believe in. It's true that the enemy's religion is dark because of it."
"What religion is Lowen?
"Eh... Zachri, I say, only man is allowed to exist in the Lowenian god, and the demon and beast tribes, which are human imitations, should perish. or should be destroyed. Or something."
"... what a radical religion....... hmm? Sure, the Imperial Army didn't serve demons? Is the demon good?
"Come on? I don't know that much about it either... And then... I heard that there was a place in the empire where it was said that a Lowenian god had descended, and it was called a sanctuary, and as a sacred place, all the fanatics of religious madness were entrusted with the management and operation of the sanctuary, making it look like a kind of autonomous community."
"Is there even such a place... Well, one question is, how strong is your enemy's faith? If the level of Colonel Thousand Years worshipping the Commander-in-Chief is a mess..."
"I think that's okay. Yes, yes, a thousand years of Colonel level faith? Because no one will have. Well, if the faith of the enemies of religious madness is ten, isn't there about a hundred beliefs (thoughts) of Colonel Chitose admiring the Commander-in-Chief? Because it's that Chitose colonel, isn't it? If anything happens to the Commander-in-Chief, it's like shooting a nuke at an enemy without hesitation, right?
"I won't do anything that far. I can't argue with you, Colonel Chitose wouldn't do it."
…… Ahahahahaha!! "
It was when Sergeant Kisaka and Sergeant Makino were looking at each other and laughing at each other.
"Huh!? Everybody down! Whoa!
I stopped laughing and noticed something. The moment Sergeant Kusaka shouted so and jumped and pushed me down to the ground, surprised and round my eyes, Sergeant Makino.
- Dogawan!!
The castle gate suddenly blew up without a trace.
Sergeant Kusaka and Sergeant Makino temporarily lose consciousness when exposed to violent blasts and explosions.
"-... gehu, gehu!! What the hell... what?
"Goho, goho!! I don't know..."
Sergeant Kusaka and Sergeant Makino, buried in the rubble, regained consciousness and crawled out from under the rubble, but the dust in his mouth kept the two from each other.
"Gehu, gehu!! Sergeant Makino, check the safety of your men, hurry!!
"Goho, goho!! Roger!!"
A commanding sergeant Makino ran away and heard Kazuya from a radio that Sergeant Kusaka had held to a soldier buried in a rubble just around the corner to pull him out from under the rubble.
'- Do it!! 4th Squad!! Ain't nobody here!! Hey!! Sergeant Kisaka!! Come in!!
- Tsar, tsar, zip.
"Gohoo, here, 4th Squad...... Goho, Sergeant Kisaka...... I've managed to be safe."
'What's your situation!!
"Yes, Goho, 4th Squad... many casualties... but battle is possible -"
Sergeant Kusaka replied to Kazuya while the dirt and dust dancing around him entered his mouth and nose many times. He looked around and the soldiers continued to crawl out of the rubble with various wounds, large and small.
Damn...
But at the end of Sergeant Kusaka's gaze, there was a soldier half-baked in rubble and immobile.
"4th Squad!! The enemy is coming!! Retreat to the second castle wall, everyone!! Hurry!! '
"Commander-in-Chief...... Now our evacuation is unlikely to be in time. About us… please give up"
"Door ho!! Who gives up!! If you guys can't make it out of here, I'll pick you up here, so wait!! Don't die!!
- Buturi.
The last time I heard Kazuya's voice, the radio went off.
"Is that the Commander-in-Chief now?
Captain Makino, who was away from Sergeant Kisaka's side to check his men's safety, came back and said so.
"Oh, they're going to retrieve us"
"... will you make it?
"I don't know. What's the situation better than that?
Sergeant Izaka, who is ready for battle, asked Sergeant Makino, with an uneasy expression, to report the current situation.
"Ha, the group of traps planted near the castle gate is extinguished by an explosion, and the vehicle is all turned upside down by a blast. The ammunition also blew up on every Type 73 large truck, so the only ammunition left is for your hand."
"Right...... What about your men?
"Four dead, four seriously injured, seven slightly injured, two missing."
"That's a lot of damage..."
A soldier watching the enemy shouted as Sergeant Hayazaka was stunned when he heard the report.
"Enemy approaching!! Demons are coming!!
"Have you come yet... Sergeant Makino!!
"Ha, what is it?
"I'm in charge."
"Ha!!... where is the sergeant going?!?
"It will be decided. I'll get two missing before the Commander-in-Chief picks you up."
"What!! Hey!! Wait!! Sergeant!? Sergeant ooh!!
Ignoring Warlord Makino's call, Sergeant Kisaka slashed his army knife into a herd of demons that would storm him with one hand.
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Oh, what... what the hell am I?
Sergeant Kisaka woke up with a severe pain emanating from all over his body.
After I slaughtered them into a bunch of demons... I found two bodies that were missing... I can't remember retreating from where I was responsible...
When Sergeant Sakasaka is looking up at Bo and the white tent ceiling, he hears the cloth rubbing and someone comes inside.
"Oh, did you wake up?
That said, the woman dressed as a nun sat in the chair that was next to the bed where Sergeant Sasaka was sleeping.
"This is... where?
"This is the headquarters of the Imperial Army. You are... a prisoner."
"Huh!?... right. You're a prisoner...... GOOD!! Ohhhhhhhhh!!"
"Don't move!! You have severe injuries to your whole body and you are in a very good position to move... state... then..."
In front of the nun, whose voice was slowly dwindling, a man who should have had difficulty even striking a turnaround stood up and walked with Stasta as if nothing had happened.
And the scratchy Sergeant Kusaka opened the entrance to the tent and went outside, beating down the outpost standing beside the entrance and shouting that he would take the spear the outpost had.
"Your enemies are here!! Call me!! And kill me!! Kill him quickly!!
They were soldiers of the Imperial Army who were surprised that the captive man, who was not even thought to be able to move, had suddenly burst out, but immediately laid down his weapon and was attacked by Sergeant Izaka.
"Ha ha, I'm finally dead. This guy."
An Imperial Army soldier breathed on his shoulder, shooting an arrow all over his body, stopping him, slashing him with a bastard in the back, and telling him to look at the incompetent in front of him.
"Shit, let me trick you!!
The corpse of dozens of soldiers killed by Sergeant Kisaka was rolling when a different soldier from the earlier soldier looked around squealing like that.
You heard the noise there. A girl appears with a cane bigger than her height and a white robe, breaking the soldiers' walls.
"What the hell is this!?
At that sip, the soldiers notice the presence of the girl and rush to thank her.
"Ha, actually, the captured prisoner has rumbled out...... sorry. Dear Celisia, the resistance of the prisoners has determined that it is impossible to capture them alive again."
"... Really? I wanted to ask this guy a lot...... I can't help it."
Having said that, the girl, called Celicia, took a glimpse of Sergeant Hayazaka lying on the ground before turning herself over and leaving the scene.
The remaining soldiers stroked down their ho breasts relieved that no punishment had been imposed.
"... do you want to get rid of the body for now"
"Right."
That's what the soldiers said. When they took Sergeant Sasaka's hands and feet and took them to the morgue, they threw Sergeant Sasaka's body unconstitutionally in the hole where it was used as the morgue, along with the bodies of his dead companions.
- Zuri, Zuri.
Midnight when all but soldiers on watch are in their sleep.
The fire of the bonfire set up there in the Imperial Army Headquarters, which is surrounded by darkness, is blurring and illuminating the area.
But I could hear something crawling up from under the hole in the morgue where no one was supposed to rely on such bonfire light to move.
- Zuri, Zuri, Ga!!
"Me...... ha!! Ma... die!! He's not here... here he is!!
It was Sergeant Kisaka, who was supposed to be dead, who crawled out of the hole in the morgue.
Is it a move that the height of life can form, surprisingly, all of Sergeant Kisaka's body wounds were blocked?
But Sergeant Hayasaka's eyes were deafening because of too much blood.
"Not yet!! Ma......!! I can... I can kill you!!
Though blocked, Sergeant Kusaka slowly but surely crawls across the ground, desperately moving his body as he thinks because of the wound that didn't completely heal him and saying so with a tiny mosquito ringing voice.
"Here... then!!
It took less than an hour for the scratchy Sergeant Kusaka to arrive at the tent where the gunpowder used for musket guns and artillery was collected.
"Now... watch!!
Once inside the tent, Sergeant Tsukasaka grabs some bags of gunpowder and crawls down the ground just like he did earlier, then spreads the gunpowder to the ground one by one and returns to the hole in the morgue.
"Ha ha..."
The night had already dawned and the sky was brighter when Sergeant Kusaka returned to the morgue.
"Ha ha...... Screw you motherfuckers!!
Sergeant Kisaka sets fire to the gunpowder that he brought with him to the morgue with the firestone he brought with him.
Fired gunpowder goes toward the tent where gunpowder is stockpiled in the muscles of the scattered gunpowder.
- Don't!!
And when the explosion sounded around him and he found out that the Imperial Army had successfully detonated the gunpowder he had stockpiled, he gave a niggling grin to his mouth and Sergeant Sakasaka lost consciousness.