Survival in Another World With My Master

Less than thirty minutes after the start of the war, the crusaders raised their white flags.

Harpy's aerial bombardment and my automatic shotgun attack thwarted the march's nose and caused a thorough strafing attack with a light machine gun where his feet stopped. These attacks cannot be prevented by leather or metal armor, and the Tiger's Wizards will not function in the chaos.

I wonder if the Crusader Commander, who flew the White Flag quickly before the damage spread any further, was quite capable. I don't know the identity of the attack, and I don't think I can make that decision in the confusion and complexity of the information.

"What do you think?

"I generally agree. Maybe it was the prisoners who made the quick decision."

I see.

The handed over prisoners were survivors of those who had been kicked out with light machine guns by the Liberation Army during its occupation of Merynesburg. I should have known the horrors of an attack with a light machine gun, so it's highly probable that he complained about the dangers to the Crusader Commander.

Well, if you don't actually see the fear of light machine guns firing. In other words, even if I knew a little about light machine guns, I don't think I could protect 20,000 people with the technology of this world.

What would I do? If the enemy is armed with light machine guns and airboards and can only be attacked by the technology of this world... we might only be able to lure them into a narrow path and saturate them with bows and magic. At least I don't think there's any way to deal with the street on the plains where there's no shelter or anything like this battlefield.

I don't think there's anything we can do about it, including Harpy's reconnaissance capabilities, Golem communications, and aerial bombardment. If you'd like to use my abilities, I'll have anti-aircraft guns at a rugged base and shut out the Herbies, and the airboards will be destroyed by mortar siege from within the base.

The airboards are lightly armored, so I wonder if they could be destroyed with more powerful 50-calibre heavy machine guns or objective rifles from afar.

What are you running from?

"This is... terrible."

There is a strong smell of blood and organs in the area, and soldiers of the Holy King's Army lying on their backs without moaning. Archbishop Deckard, who saw such a sight, blued his face while holding his mouth.

This area has been subjected to relentless machine gun fire by the Gunners. Everyone who falls down feels as if they are missing limbs, parts of his torso, etc., and almost everyone is dying instantly. A little past that battlefield, it is now a battlefield in which people who have passed through the casualties and been hit by powerless bullets fall down.

This is worse than the previous battlefield. They all suffered severe, but not fatal, injuries from the lethal bullets.

Behind it is once again a dead area. This is the spot exposed to a barrage of barely declining power, as the previous human fell and fell.

"The army from 20,000 is like this in just that much time...."

Archbishop Deckard murmured in a serious voice. You didn't think this would be a one-sided development. And you seem surprised at the number of dead.

The world's wars are basically fought by swords, spears, and then bows and arrows, where magic intervenes a little. Even if it is an injury, there are many things such as being slashed or beaten with a blade from the top of the armor, and the instant death rate is not very high if you put it straight.

But the bolt-action rifles, the light machine guns, the aerial bombs and other weapons I brought into this world are more lethal than swords, spears, bows and other weapons. In any case, the world's defenses can hardly reduce its power.

Moreover, gunshot wounds do much more damage to the human body than wounds caused by swords, spears, bows and arrows. I don't even remember the detailed mechanism, but the story is that a bullet that enters the human body rolls inside the body until it penetrates the human body, damaging the inside of the human body in a distorted way, or causing shock waves in the human body to cause severe damage.

In fact, all of the fallen soldiers' wounds appear to be accompanied by unbearable damage. I don't know how many casualties there were.

"Sir Leonard and Merty, and Archbishop Deckard, are at your disposal for reconciliation. Ira is treating with me ─ ─"

"That is after the rapprochement is over. They have not yet officially surrendered."

"No, but not in this situation."

"Not yet. It is good to proceed with preparations. However, it is only after they have officially surrendered that the treatment begins. Either way, it takes manpower to disarm and so on, so it would be a good idea to move manpower from Merynesburg as far as possible."

Well, let's do that.

Following Sir Leonard's remarks, Merty starts the call on the Golem comms.

"Koske, he unilaterally slaughtered his enemies with his own weapon. As you may think, they are the enemies who have come to kill, capture and ravage us all in the first place. If we hadn't been armed with Koske's weapons, this would have been us."

"That's... that's right"

"That's right. Koske's spirit of mercy is noble, but there are procedures for everything. This is my responsibility, so I can bear it now."

"... okay."

Many lives will be lost while we negotiate. Still, Sir Leonard says we need to get through this first. He has more experience on the battlefield than I do, so I have to obey him. Or perhaps it is Lord Leonard's temptation or his concern to make him think so.

The faces of the Liberation Army, including Sir Leonard and Archbishop Deckard, and the commanders of the Holy King's Army met again for about an hour and a half, or about three hours. I'm waiting in the airboard, just like before. What's different is that Isla is still inside the airboard, and the samurai airboard is gathering and pointing its muzzle at the Holy King's army.

They seem to be trying to hold the Wizards back and intimidate them, but if they try anything, they'll pull the trigger on the Musketeers' light machine guns sooner rather than later and turn them into bloody smoke.

"For now, it doesn't seem disturbing."

"Nh, there's no disturbing movement in the Enemy Wizards."

Isla opens the door on the roof of the airboard and monitors the enemy sorcerers from a slightly higher place. Isla's big eyes can see the magic flow when she uses magic, and she can monitor her magic to avoid surprises.

Well, it's not even innate, but it uses special magic to make magic visible... but I don't really know about magic. In the meantime, Isla activated the magic to see the magic. Inside her eyes, something like a magical formation was sparkling and it felt a little mysterious.

"I wonder what happens to this. I wonder if you could pull us out of here?

"I have to. If we don't retreat, we'll just slap it thoroughly. More dead. It is impossible to say that you have been unilaterally attacked so far and that you want to fight even more. I can tell by the look on the soldiers' faces."

Well, that's true.

Even the commanders who are talking to Sir Leonard and the others have stiff expressions, as I can see, pushing fear and killing. I've seen the faces of the surviving soldiers on the road, but nobody seems to be pushing him to death with fear and anxiety. Morale sucks.

"Even if we fight like this, the soldiers are willing to drop their weapons and surrender."

"Nh. Some of the Holy Knights and some of the faithful may still be able to fight, but I think most of them will. The soldiers of the Holy King are no different from humans. Life is a waste."

That's how the negotiations seemed to have ended while I was talking to Isla. Sir Leonard's lion face is difficult to read honestly, but the negotiation itself seems to have gone well.

Well, what happened?

"The other person has to drink at any request. Don't worry about it."

The dead who came to the side of the Holy King's Army in this battle climbed to 3,500 in the avant-garde forces and 2,000 in the heavyweight forces. Of the total of 20,000 on the side of the Holy King's Army, 13,000 are pure combatants, which means that the Holy King's Army lost almost 28% of its combatants in this battle. With about 3,000 more wounded, there are actually 6300 people who can move. If the wounded are included, the attrition rate of the combatants will be approximately 51%, which is not very good, but it is not a state in which the fighting can continue.

Well, it's all gone.

"Nh, total annihilation"

Sylphie, who received a report from us back in Merynesburg, murmured and nodded in agreement with Isla who made the report. Well, I suppose it was because of the barrage of light machine guns. At the very least, the damage would have been smaller, but it's nothing more than a loss of combat ability for those armed with their armor helmets and swords and spears to lay down on the ground. There will be no commander in the world who can aggressively issue such instructions in those circumstances.

"Wow?

"It's a bit unbelievable..."

"Koske's secret weapon is Yabe's."

Slime's three daughters, who were listening to the report together, each shared their thoughts. What about the way you say "it's my fault"? That's it.

So the captives are the enemy commanders, the aristocrats, and the Holy Knights.

"Nh. Subcommanders and non-commissioned officers need to be held accountable to bring the remnants back to their home countries. Others were imprisoned with the collar of a slave so as not to go wild or make strange drawings."

"We should give them instructions to treat it with respect. Prisoners are an important bargaining ground."

The purpose of the Liberation Army is simply to free the Kingdom of Merinard from the control of the Holy King and to reclaim its former land and its people. From now on, we will need to negotiate with the Holy King. The prisoners who are the subject of negotiations have never been brought here.

"I wish the Holy King would give up now."

Is that going to work?

"It's going to be hard. But we have to do it."

I see.

"Nh, yeah. We have to do it for all the things that have been sacrificed."

The liberation of the kingdom of Merinard seems to be a long way off.