Oukoku e Tsuzuku Michi

Episode 428: Burning River

Ares of Ares was progressing to crawl with a large, right-leaning flood.

Barely succeeded in extinguishing the fire, but the fiercely burned cannon row deck is still raising smoke.

"Slow down, man. Whoever rows to power throws it into the river."

Pressure the Ares soldier who manipulates the

The hole drilled by the gunpowder detonation is large, and the first aid repair does not block it off and flooding continues.

If you row without thinking, if you flood more and do poorly, you sink.

"Hmm... I didn't know Han ships bearing Ares' name were so brittle. Can you draw more water?"

"Or why don't we all drink up. You can go as far as a barrel."

"How about believing in the Han Ship and rowing one fiercely?

I threw the last one into the river, but it looks like I managed to grab a rope.

"It won't last long. Should I?

I pull up the soldier I threw, kick him back to the field, and then ask Secrito.

"Just a little bit more. The flagship will make a scene when the lagging Guzz ships wait."

All allied ships, including ours, are pushed deep into the cove.

The enemy blocks the entrance to the river and slowly advances as he buries an ally whose damage was badly delayed in escape.

Absolutely absolute.

"All right around here...... one steering glass, full speed forward!

"Do it or something!

"Noooo!!

Increase speed by thinking through the rudder you were avoiding for flooding.

"Discontinuation of drainage work. Personnel on deck."

We're heading in the same direction as the rest of the ship.

"I don't feel good, even if I do."

Increasing the speed after stopping the drainage makes the flooding more intense at once and sinks more and more.

The earliest sinking would be inevitable. Shall we do some prep gymnastics for a swim?

"A little steering... a little steering... yes, no! Turn your head to the left. Pull over a little more to the right! Too far to the left!

Secrito is standing on the bow, not the bridge, screaming for detailed instructions.

Ares soldiers also manage to answer the request.

The ship continues towards the middle of the inlet.

Allies flee all the way to shore, so there are only enemies in front.

It may look like a rash storm by your side.

The enemy fires this way, but Secrito was peering down the water from the bow without looking.

Then he looks up at a certain point and jumps to the submasto and sees it.

"All prepare for impact!

Ares soldiers are caught around fast.

The chair man is originally chained and I grab the rushing lot.

"Ahhh... but I think I'm going to come in from above my pants"

Don't say that. Though it would be bulky.

Heavy shocks strike the entire Ares of Ares where everyone is equipped.

The vibrations echoing from the gorilla and belly and the incomparable roar of the cannon continue.

It's not a bullet. Something didn't even detonate it.

"Guuuuuuu!"

The groans rise from all over and the speed of the ship is instantly lost.

All things fly in the direction of the bow in recoil.

Barrels, crates, and rolling shells all blow up as they hit and broke each other.

Every nail that was struck even the fixed sweet deck cannon rose and rolled.

Ares of Ares rode up to the shallow waters of the central part of the river.

"The reef is a disgrace to the captain, but I didn't know you'd bother ordering it."

Secrito says with an extra look, sticking his nails up to the submasto.

"But this is..."

Reinstall the lot that is going to slip through your arms and fly away, stopping Ares soldiers from rolling in with their feet.

If the carriage was hooked up to something, the impact would be terrific, but it would stop in an instant.

But a giant battleship with speed doesn't stop so easily.

Ares of Ares still doesn't stop while making an uncomfortable noise rubbing the bottom of the water at the bottom of the boat.

"You couldn't have slowed down more!?

Holding the lot in one arm, he yells at Secrito as he presses and holds Ares' man with his leg.

"Half-speed makes me just ride up and roll over my head. But if we go in at this rate... well, it worked."

The ship stops moving completely.

Release the lot, kick Ares soldier's ass and then peek in.

"Ha, that's an interesting sight"

Ares of Ares had ridden up to the shallow waters and had literally stopped walking on soft sand.

In the long run, this ship will look like it's ashore.

"So-so slope and positioning. All the wildlings, how long have they been snarling? Get back to work."

Secrito yells at me and Ares soldiers raise their bitter voices.

Many are shaking their heads and sticking their heads on the floor because of the shock they are now experiencing in the servant Ares soldiers.

"Don't mumble. We have enemies coming from your right hand."

We ride up in the middle of the river facing the right side of the entrance.

Besides, we cut the steering wheel a lot the moment we got on board, so the hull leans toward the shape the right side lifts, causing the bottom of the ship to plunge into the mud and stop.

"Oops, it wasn't if you were bluffing!

"The enemy is coming! We have to start the war again!

Soldier Ares regains his mind and takes his place.

"But how did you get on with this tilt? It's hard to move."

I listen while I tuck the lot in a barrel and roll it into a relatively safe warehouse.

"I can tell now"

Secrito's reply and the enemy's gunfire were simultaneous.

An enemy who was a little confused by this flashy street art, but it makes no difference that the battleship protrudes in one.

There's no reason anywhere not to smash it.

After a few seconds of respite, a tremendous number of shells descend.

This one can't move at all, so there's nothing we can do about it, and the enemy shells stop beating Ares of Ares.

An unbeatable metal noise echoes the earlier roar, and the impact of the bullet rocks the body.

Didn't the sensation hit more than twenty shots?

"Damage Report"

It didn't take long to respond.

"Nothing in particular!

Secrito slowly hits the railings on the port side as well.

"If you lean this far, the shell you shot from the right string side will only hit the side."

Originally a heavy Ares of Ares, there are even more armoured plates on the sides.

Most of the shelling is frightening.

"Why don't you jump into the cannon row deck?

"Take a peek from the deck, tilt and all you see is the sky. There's a possibility of a bendable mortar, but there's no mortar loaded on the battleship. A cannon cannon that targets straight hits armor no matter how much you shoot.

The opening is also diagonally raised due to the ship's inclination.

It's almost impossible to put a ball that only flies straight into a diagonal hole.

"If so, the enemy will aim at the bottom of the swooping ship."

Gunshots and shocks again - now not metal sounds, but unpleasant sounds of trees being smashed.

Usually the unarmed part that was supposed to go under the water was targeted.

Did the shell penetrate or I can hear the destruction from the ship as well.

"The shooting near the water is deadly... but I'm perfectly fine now"

You're right, no matter how much you break the bottom of the ship, there's no reason to sink.

Because there is no water at all.

"Is this where I'm going next? I just want to smash the deck and kill the crew."

The shells fly towards the deck where we are.

Half of them are bounced against the side just like the first, the other half jump over and fly somewhere.

"It can't even hit the tilted deck."

The harder it is to stand, the harder it leans to the port side.

Aim at that from the starboard side. There's no way a bullet could hit the deck.

I mean, this ship got up on land and couldn't move, but won't accept any enemy attacks.

I lead to the railing on the port side, just like Secrito.

Enemy gunfire grows louder.

He must have come packing his distance to give you the power of the artillery.

But Ares of Ares armor is unusual. It's not that easy to tear.

"The cannon row deck is tilted, and I can't do anything about it. If they ignored me, I'd have been a fool, but I don't care."

"Isn't that nice? All you have to do is gather your enemies here."

An enemy shell jumping over the deck pulls a thousand submasts like a loser.

A shell hits a tall mast... but it's no problem because falling doesn't upset the balance anymore.

If you look, you've imitated our way, and the damaged allied ships are riding up one shallow water after the other.

I couldn't lean because I couldn't steer the ship as brilliantly as Secrito, but it's still quite troublesome to call it a battleship that won't sink.

The only way to destroy it is to smash the deck into dust or shoot it all over until the gunpowder detonates.

I see Chirali and land.

There is no town near the inlet river, only the wetlands with lush aquatic plants are spreading.

One small green kite is rising out of the aquatic plants.

When I'm confused while being shot, I hear voices swooping from the cannon deck.

"... here we go again with the extra stuff"

"... because I incited the enemy to come and I didn't do anything"

Secrito shrugs his jaw all the time when he asks me to see him.

Please don't keep me with them.

"What would you like with a cloak of pants on a red cape"

I really don't want to.

I threw my clothes away somewhere, so I had no choice but to flip my cape and peek into the ship.

"... assholes"

And I lost my word.

They were trying to remove the cannon and bring it to the deck even though they couldn't aim at it on the slope.

"I just get shot and I can't see the enemy"

"Then only head to where you can see it!

Ares soldiers are in charge of one cannon for three.

Large cannons like iron chunks were also held together by nearly ten people.

But this could be interesting.

"I'm not bored just getting hit. Shoot the enemy from the deck."

"Huh? How laborious do you think it is to move cannons? And on the battlefield..."

The foolish Secrito's voice scratches out when he sees Ares soldiers lifting up cannons and walking.

"Don't install it. Shoot as you're in charge. Four men in pairs, three men in charge of the cannon and one man on fire. Move as soon as the enemy shoots."

A hanging voice that seems to be responding and happy.

Shortly afterwards there were simultaneous enemy shelling and the impact of the bullet.

"Now. Go!"

Ares soldiers climb the deck tilted with the cannon in charge and stick the cannon body out of the starboard handslip.

"Shoot!"

With irregular gunfire, several shells hit the enemy.

"Oh, I hit it!

"You can go!

Me and Ares soldiers who rejoice.

The enemy will shoot right back, but if you step back before it does, it won't hit you.

"There were a few ships approaching."

"I guess you're willing to get close and start a fire because this one can't move"

"Hit him."

Arres soldiers, who have finished loading, once again move with the cannon in charge.

Now stand the cannon downwards and shell the enemy that was approaching the shallow water critical.

"All right, we did it! But one big one came."

"Let's see the big one"

Ares soldiers move around on the deck with guns in charge, and when they show their faces, they fire.

The tightness of the slope does not pose a problem either. Because people are in charge, you can change the angle and direction all you want.

"Wow. Do whatever you want. I'll never think about it again."

Neither does Secrito hide his admiration for that struggle.

While doing so, the kite turns yellow.

The enemy had penetrated deep into the river, paying attention to the reef.

They don't hang out with each other anymore.

"It's time to get around"

"Right."

The struggle of Ares soldiers would have done so much damage and surprise to the enemy, but it's no different that Ares of Ares can't move.

Aiming from the starboard side won't settle, but if you get turned around to the port side, it's just a target.

He would be slapped on the unarmed top, and eventually the hull would collapse or ignite and explode.

"And the fate of Ivanna will be exhausted."

Ivanna had rebuilt the remaining ship behind the inlet, but now it's about a quarter the size of the enemy.

Besides, I can't take any complicated manoeuvres from being cornered by a trail.

I'm off.

"Come on, it's the limit."

As a precaution, I ordered Soldier Ares to point a single cannon at an unmanned land side... towards a wetland of aquatic grass.

But without having to give a barren order, the yellow kite is pulled back to the ground, and the bright red kite rises in the wind.

"Are you here?"

Secrito, who was sloppy and wrapped around his hand, uses his abs to gain momentum.

"Finally."

Damn Leopold.

I was just worried because the lives of two women were at stake.

We're in the middle of the river, shallow waters where the boat can't pass.

The enemy fleet was in the middle of the river, and the rear of the river was completely in.

The allied fleet was too shore...... perfect positioning.

"Coming."

Watch the enemy with the anticipation of admiring even Secrito and the two flashy operas.

Ares soldiers run around and loud, but let's understand that there are some of these annoying guests in the theater as well.

There is a low sound to the zun.

Sure, it's gunfire, but when I only hear the sound, I doubt if it really is.

That's all the distance away.

"Five, six, seven, eight, nine... that's a long time"

Secrito counts the time to landing and is surprised by its length… that is, the length of the range.

Hit by an enemy large battleship that was leading the way.

Metal sounds, destructive sounds, explosions… In just a few seconds the heterogeneous sounds will continue and the enemy ships will sink from the bow of the ship to relax.

"Piercing armor, destroying it to the bottom of the ship, and detonating it into gunpowder or oil… did you finish it in just one shot"

Secrito's eyes narrow.

One shell after another pours it into the skin.

The attack was very precise and powerful and hit. The enemy would fall apart or break in two if it was a small or medium-sized ship, and even a large ship would be heavily destroyed, or flooded and sunk.

I hear enemy ships passing near us.

I can't move anymore. I can't seem to afford to set this one up.

"Assalus, sit down! Plungo sinks! Tulark wrecks! What is this!? What's happening!

"Though it will be decided to shell! Look at that water column...... I've never seen a cannon like this before. And there's something wrong with the power of the bullet...... look! We hit the armored side, but we pushed through to the other side!

"Find somewhere you're shooting more than that! What about the firecrackers... land?...... Damn, it's embedded!!

You're right, this is a trap.

In the shadow of the aquatic grass near the river is installed all the guns my army has.

It's hard for us, overwhelmingly inferior in numbers, to win a fleet battle from the front, not to mention annihilate.

If the enemy fleet survives and hides, this one will always have to prepare for a sudden raid across the river, unable to join the front line.

It took more than fighting to pull out all the enemy's power and crush them all.

Leopold was asked to set up an operation for it.

Fleet combat is the first stage, and this is the second.

"Big cannon and... that cannon you said I wanted"

Precisely 22 large guns and 16 Dwarf specialty guns. That's where 60 regular guns go on.

Dwarf cannons in particular are unusually heavy and poorly handled, and honestly they were spared during the march, but once installed, this power is out of step.

The cannon itself is not three times as huge as a regular cannon.

But the shell speed is unusually fast because of the difference in material, and the hitting rate is very high if you use a sight that I don't know how to operate.

"I'm sloppy."

I look at the water.

There are boats drifting decaying through rough waters.

It's not a rare sight, but if you feel the anomaly, you'll be staying in the same place no matter how shaken you are.

Is it obvious because it is bracketed in stone in the water?

And as we passed the enemy ship by the boat, three large artillery shells continued to hit us.

"I haven't put a single aim on it. Set the orientation and angle and shoot several times in advance. Confirm the drop point of the shell and place a buoy on the landmark… If the enemy gives it to me, shoot it at a determined angle and it will hit you on its own"

That goes hand in hand with the color-by-color aiming that Secrito did.

Other unnaturally invisible objects, such as borough flags, gathered chunks of aquatic plants, that looked like they flowed from barrels and fishing boats if you gazed at them, drifted without changing their location despite intense shelling.

"Hit accuracy may increase, but this tragedy will be the performance of the cannon. This power… even imperial cannons can never be put out, but they can't be hidden in a giant cannon like a rising tower"

I would have just said 10% ordinary cannons, 20% large cannons and 70% dwarf cannons are hitting the enemy.

Having an armored battleship hit a regular cannon in the first place wouldn't do that much damage.

It's just that the large guns that we've been forced to load on this ship have done enough damage to our enemies, and the Dwarf guns are almost as close to a one-strike special.

Nevertheless, this isn't the only one left shooting.

"The enemy will fight back."

An enemy shoots simultaneously at the shore.

More than ten times this number should have been released.

"... that doesn't seem to work. Good construction of positions"

An enemy ship blew up firing as it approached the shore, as if to appeal to survival.

"Oh, Leopold has a bad personality. It's your hands that make the enemy's death counterattack meaningless."

When I dropped Leoporto a little because I don't care that Secrito praised him, he laughed just at his eyes.

Leoporto has decided even in the direction of bringing in his enemies, and the herd of aquatic plants and disguised positions make the artillery positions absolutely invisible from that direction.

A battle fleet with more than ten guns, even medium-sized ones, and dozens of guns if large, would easily crush even a very powerful and sturdy stone fortress.

But I don't know where they are. Things are completely different with the enemy.

Accuracy is extremely low if you don't see him even though you know the general direction with gunpowder smoke.

White smoke is rising from places other than where we should be putting up more formations.

I guess Leoporto is sprinkling flour and lime all over it. Now the enemy doesn't know where to aim.

Dwarf cannons in particular choose a solid ground and are set up by digging holes.

This makes it very difficult to destroy with cannons.

"The enemy won't be dumb enough to keep rushing and getting shot at. Sora, we're gonna flip."

I noticed a trap and shot a shell in to silence a shore cannon, but it doesn't work.

Then what do I do... it's easy, you just have to run away.

Unlike a battleship that comes after you with a cannon on its back, a shore cannon cannot be moved during combat first.

A battleship that can move at high speeds is best left out of range.

Of course the enemy fleet will do the same.

It exits from both sides and accelerates as it flips and tries to get out of the inlet.

"We won when we got in, though."

At the head of the inverted enemy fleet - that is, when a naturally intact ship that broke in at the rear of the line tried to get out of the river, the rain of fire poured down.

'Cause I'm going after him in good shape.'

Secrito also looked delightfully at one enemy ship after another burning up.

It wasn't special artillery, powerful magic or anything that poured down.

It is a traditional fire arrow that would probably have been used for thousands of years.

In numbers, more than a thousand pour down simultaneously.

"Hi, Fire Arrow!? We're away from stupid land!

"Get in the boat. But you came!? No, I realize no matter how much this is!

I know so that the enemy wolf can hold it in his hand.

This answer is also simple. I was simply scaffolding from shore to shallow water.

The depth of the inlet is basically shallow and there is little flow.

There's nothing like making a little scaffold if you can predict where your enemies will come in and how they'll escape.

Later, just like the artillery, just how to fake it so you can't find it.

The archers lying down in the aquatic plants that seemed to go were hilarious.

"Well, it wasn't bad. I knew I had it, but it was a little tricky to find it."

Actually, I had found it easy.

Because Celia's cute ass stuck out on the ground can't go wrong.

Fire arrows from close range, not to mention a thousand simultaneous shootings, can't be dealt with just right.

Battleships don't expect to be attacked like that.

Occasionally several enemies burn up and stop.

Yes, I wanted this.

The ship doesn't sink that way even in the presence of a large number of fire arrows.

Fire, or just kill all the commanders and soldiers on deck.

Then the ship will be confused and eventually stop moving and become a giant pine light.

In contrast, it blocks the entrance to the river, which is not wide enough, and the way ahead.

"Damn, it's a stunning obstacle. You've worked like an example."

"Archers did a great job. Tell him to run away."

When you give the signal, the archers go through the scaffolding at first sight to the shore... or jump into the water and escape.

A little later, the aftermath of anger and mind smashed the scaffold to pieces with shells.

"I can't move on. There's no way out."

Secrito squeals, I ride too.

"And then an angry wolf comes at me."

With Swarov in the lead, all the remaining ships were about to burst into a right and left enemy.

"Fuck, I'll tell you later"

Please don't. You're gonna bite me.

Either way, it would have been settled.

"Han! Join us!

Ares soldiers are approaching, tired of running around in charge of cannons.

"Even so, I can't move."

Ares of Ares is all worn out and sitting on a reef.

"Because the ship is moving. What? Only head for one body!

I'm in charge of the boat instead of the cannon at some point.

It's settled, and there's no point in stopping it.

"Whatever you want. Fight me fully!

"Oh, look! Ares, the bravery of a man. Let your enemies know!

Ares soldiers jump off the ship and run through the shallow waters as they raise their joyful ambitions.

Keep going into the water and swim suddenly towards the enemy...... keep the boat in charge.

"Hey, why did you take the boat?

Secrito tilts his neck adorably.

"Do I know..."

Ares soldiers swam everywhere with the boards in their hands.

Subsequent developments were unilateral.

Ivanna's fleet chases after confused enemies, inflicting a fierce attack on all earlier revenge and all.

The enemy manages to leave the cove, but the chain of command was collapsing with artillery fire and arrows, just fleeing to pieces.

Attempting to fight back, he was sunk in shelling, caught in an explosion trying to slip through his inflamed allies, approached the shore and rolled over the reef, taking over the ship unaware of the impending Ares soldiers.

Only a few fled the inlet that turned into a pot of hell.

The enemy fleet virtually collapses after losing more than 90% of its battle power.

The operation succeeded and we were able to join Eirich's army without being threatened behind our backs.

- After the fight.

Enemy battleships sink slowly.

He broke through the cove on a single ship, shot at Swarov as he chased him to the end, and was finally shot through the water.

The enemy ship appears to have leaned to the right as it sinks. The next moment, it is overthrown so as to fall in.

Enemy soldiers are jumping into the river one after the other from the deck, but unluckily this is outside the inlet.

Are tired enemy soldiers powerless to defy the flow or sink one after the other?

I feel sorry for you, but I'm not going to risk my life to save you.

This is also a rule of battle.

Still, a few enemy soldiers manage to get to us.

The earliest exhaustion, no resistance or escape is likely.

It was Secrito who stood before them like that.

She happily removed her prosthetic arm and got a little lost before switching to something that could hold her sword.

And wave down her sword at the enemy soldiers who give her a crying face -.

"Here."

I grab that right hand.

"Mmm."

Ares soldiers grab the left hand.

"... what are you going to do. Let go."

"It wouldn't make sense to kill him for nothing"

I'm tired too. I'm not in the mood for battle anymore.

"It is not the man who defeats and tries to lay low on the earth"

Ares soldiers chest up.

At that time, enemy soldiers cry constantly in their breath.

"Oh, shit... there's still two hundred people on board - and there's nothing we can do about it. Alex...... Missa......"

I take Secrito's sword and hold a man's shoulder.

"What is Massa, a woman's name? There was a woman on that ship? Answer me."

The enemy battleship will be completely submerged in less than a few minutes.

I bint a man's cheek a few times.

"Hebu, is fu... oh, about fifty people left -"

I dump the man in the poy and speak to the Ares soldiers.

"Let's go. There's no way an enemy soldier dies, but a woman is only a man if she helps."

"" Oops!!

I jump into the river, and Ares continues.

In a few minutes, we will return with all the women on board and a few men.

"... Wow, that helped."

"... I've been taken prisoner"

The women were sailors, but they were exhausted in a long battle and could not swim, so they put them in barrels, roped them and pulled them to shore.

"Look, these men... they're savage to see... they'll definitely offend you"

"Um, offend it or not. But let's help."

Ares soldiers answering discipline.

"Oh...... I knew it"

"But I can't replace my life. Wow."

The women seem to have decided to be ready as they float in barrels with pukapuka.

And when I got back to shore, there was no Secrito.

Did I persuade you about earlier?

If you don't follow me, I find you standing in front of one enemy ship looking for you.

Apparently, he surrendered early. No noticeable damage. Below the captain, all sailors are throwing away their weapons.

Handling surrender? If Secrito tries to kill me again, we have to stop him.

When I thought so, one man accidentally jumped out and knelt in front of Secrito.

"Yeah?"

I feel uncomfortable.

It is not uncommon for those who surrender to kneel before their opponents.

But the man didn't seem to be in his eyes except for Secrito.

And as urged by the man, Secrito enters the shadow of the aquatic plants.

The surroundings are still confusing, and no one pays attention to the trends between the two.

I'm the only one approaching to make sure.

――

Looks like a man is saying something to Secrito.

"What are you talking about..."

Then Secrito snorts like a little fool.

But unlike earlier, it is not an atmosphere in which I try to slash it.

Get closer.

"Long time no see - General. It's such a pleasure to meet you."

"I still realize - whose -?"

It only sounds fragmentary. Apparently the man cares about Secrito.

I laugh too.

She is undoubtedly a beauty, but she would be too novel to dictate anything while surrendering.

But the next moment, my smile froze.

"- I need to see you in person and talk to you."

"- Ness. Kuku, nostalgic name -"

Secrito walked over to the man and snapped a letter.

I didn't think I'd take it.

"Uncondensed - an old edge. - Like it."

"Honored - delighted - next week"

After receiving the letter, I accepted it until my next promise.

Besides, what do you mean by old edges? I'm confused and I can't think together.

And the final shock comes.

"- Oh, yeah, rehab crease."

Secrito calls the name of the man.

As it flows, even as I could call it.

"I have no earliest doubts"

I look at the man's face again.

He is half thirty years old, not as loose as the other prisoners, pinned and chested.

"... and that's quite a man"

Gido seems to have been described as a man in business lately, but he can't compare to that man.

He has a face that I can't complain about when I look at him.

"You promised to cheat."

I hold my fist much longer.

It's easy to push him in this place and cut him off with power.

But that's too bad.

You won't even be able to get Secrito's heart back.

You need to let him know I'm better than him from the front.

"- So next week - look forward to - telling you"

If Secrito wanted to meet with a man, he had no choice.

I made you think so. It's my fault. Because it is the impudence of a man who falls asleep.

But I'll take it back.

If you're about to be taken away, until you take it back.

All you have to do is show me I'm a better and more attractive man.

Let's get Secrito's heart back in front of him and pound his proud face... no, let's do it thickly in front of him.

"You can't lose. It's a man's fight."

I went to the woman I helped to renew my resolve and to feed my English.