Hours later.

The deployment of troops proceeded in both armies, and the time was at night.

The Barbell army is quite a large army and it seems to take a long time for each legion to simply take up placement.

Throughout the enemy formation, new moving walls and large stone throwers with wheels considered new have emerged that have never existed before.

"Hey, what a number...... those guys, how many tens of thousands are there?

Seeing the soldiers hissing in the dark, Ichigo groans.

The enemy line was lit with massive bonfires and large numbers of soldiers.

Quite a large army, slightly over 10 legions.

In fact, as many as 14 legions are assembled, but the good guys don't know it until its exact number.

Simple calculations, more than 70,000 troops.

They try to set their aim northeast of the fort and arrange it obliquely, but the left wing, which is the front of the north gate, is relatively thin, with an army thickly positioned in the centre and on the right wing.

"That's twice as good... I can't believe we're gathering this much..."

Reese says with a harsh face.

There are cannon cannons, scorpions, and thousands of crossbows here, but I get anxious that's all I can do to prevent my enemies.

So much so that the Barbell army's intimidation spreading in front of him was even more serious.

In this battle, Istaire's 1st Regiment and 2nd Regiment deputies are accompanied by Ixios and McGregor.

Reese was told by Narson to stay on the wall with Barretta.

Lugro is with Narson and the Rutinas are waiting in their quarters.

"Then the night battle... if the battle starts like this, everyone will fight without going to sleep, but I guess it's okay"

"For once, I've been instructed to rest on the spot. Most people don't seem to be sleeping, though."

To Reese's words, Ichigo and Barletta turn their attention to the self-defensive position laid outside the fence.

The soldiers were all sitting up and falling asleep in their seats.

Most people are nervous and unable to sleep, looking at the enemy with a tense face.

Some sleep easily, but most of them are ancient soldiers.

"You guys seem nervous...... are you ok"

Barletta looks at the soldiers worried.

The meals have been mixed with porridge to feed the rice that Ichigo has brought over the past few days, so he won't have any physical problems.

What worries me is about the loss of concentration due to lack of sleep.

"You're worried about the lack of sleep...... Mr. Barletta, is sleepiness okay?

"Yes. I'm nervous and totally blinded. What about Mr. Kazra?

"Same goes for me. Softly... Always, Leese is grand. Aren't you sleepy?

"I guess I'm just a little sleepy. But I'm fine."

When Ichigo and the others were talking like that, I saw a cavalry coming this way from the enemy line.

Keep reaching right in front of the position, and a couple of people rush over here as well.

With feathers on his helmet, one of them looks like someone from the Legion Leader.

They broke up after talking for a little while, and the enemy cavalry ran back to the enemy formation.

"This is Sackort. Suggested surrender from enemy forces. Well, it's formal. '

After a while, a voice of wireless communication echoed in the ears of the good guys.

Yi Liang has earphones on his ears, and he has made the Arcadia army corps leaders equip him with similar things by explaining the radio.

'The battle will begin soon. Inspire each and every one of you for the future of your country!

Tensions run on the expressions of the three to the powerful Sackort call.

Soon, a loud drum sound echoed from around the neighborhood where Narson was at the center rear of the position.

The soldiers who were falling asleep are awake and carrying their shields at hand.

All the soldiers remain seated, and it seems as though they are yet to rise.

"This is Narson. Each regiment remains in a semi-fighting position, and wait on the spot until instructed to do so. '

Narson's voice echoes in the ears of the good guys.

So much so that the sound of a tall trumpet echoed from the direction of the enemy formation.

The soldiers of Barbell, who were sitting back, rise up and leave the position and slowly begin to advance.

From among the infantry divided by squadron, a number of mobile barriers were advancing.

Soldiers in silver armor twitch and approach the dim meadows lit by a hint of moonlight.

"You're hiding a barista with a moving fence..."

Ichigo puts his binoculars in the eye and increases the magnification.

I can't see behind the moving barrier coming through the center, but I could see a glimmer of barista behind the moving barrier going through both wings.

Due to the considerable distance between the enemy formations, it's going to take a long time to get close.

The mobile stone thrower coming from behind it has no protective wall.

- Mr. Zirconia, are you okay?

Huh, Ichigo pointed his binoculars at the left wing of his own army, where Zirconia was supposed to be.

Zirconia, with its heavy helmet, seen in its own room in the evening, can be seen crossing Rata in the central rear of the legion, looking to the enemy formation.

If you're in that place, you're not going to slash each other with enemy soldiers.

"This is Barletta. Dear Narson, The enemy's travel barrier is out of the way, so far we can't shell the enemy's baristas with cannon cannons"

Barletta spoke to Narson on the radio as Ichiyoshi looked at Zirconia's appearance.

"Once you have peeked your face off the wall to do the shooting, add artillery fire to each one. May I? Go ahead."

'Um, do that. And I'll leave the target and timing of the shelling to you. Attract him as much as you can and shoot him in when you think it's here. Go ahead.'

"Or, yes, I did."

Barletta responds to Narson's instructions with a nervous voice.

Shooting whenever you want is the same as being entrusted with cutting off the tongue of battle.

Ichiyoshi shook Barletta's hand, which became a strong face.

"Mr. Barletta. When shooting in, we'll give instructions together."

"Oh, yes!

Barletta nods with a relieved face.

On the hand they shook, Reese stacked her hand over it.

"I'll do it, too. Barletta, let's do our best!

"Yes!"

While doing so, the Barbell army continued to advance, approaching about 800 metres from the front row of the Arcadia army.

Barretta presses the transmit button on the radio.

"This is Barletta. Send word to the artillery unit. Assign a number to an approaching enemy thrower."

The cannon artillery units deployed everywhere on the walls are staffed one by one by Ninas village daughters equipped with radios.

There are six cannon cannons in all, all installed on the walls.

A hundred or so scorpions were also deployed to the fence, but the same number was placed at positions outside the fence.

"Assign a number to an approaching enemy stone thrower. We'll take the far left as number one, and as we go to the right, we'll take numbers two and three."

Barletta speaks quietly to the radio.

Each of the six cannon cannons was also assigned a name, which was given sequentially from the A turret, the B turret and the left.

"I will issue a shooting target instruction. A, B turrets are enemy No. 1 stone throwers, C, D turrets are enemy No. 2 stone throwers, E, F turrets are enemy No. 3 stone throwers. Start loading"

When Barretta gave the instructions, the lights of the pine lights that informed him a little later that the "loading was complete" were shaken everywhere on the wall.

"Mr. Barretta, the catapult has stopped."

A stone thrower approaching about 500 meters from this avant-garde unit stopped moving, Ichigo says.

The stone thrower is a giant wooden wheel attached to the one used to attack the fort.

that number, about 10.

They're going to target the soldiers filling the positions, not the fortifications.

Enemy troops and mobile barriers are still approaching.

"... let's go"

Remove the radio that Valletta was wearing on her hips and lean against her mouth, unplugging the earphone microphone.

The three of them nod at each other, and we all grip Barletta's radio.

"" "Start shooting!

A few seconds after the three said it, from six places on the fence wall, the explosion sounded almost simultaneously.

Putting it down for a beat, a shell struck directly at three stone throwers that were being targeted.

"Yay! We got a hit!

Reese raises a bright voice.

Some kind of effective bullet was confirmed on all three casters, including one that eats a direct bullet at the bottom of the fuselage and collapses instantly, one in which a shell hits a box containing a hammer (a stool) and renders it incapable of firing, and one in which a soldier who was preparing to load a stone bullet is torn off his torso.

A great deal of cheer comes from the entire Arcadia army position.

Barletta pressed the transmitting button of the radio again, sweating fat on her forehead.

"Kazura, lend me your binoculars!

"Oh, look."

Reese looks at the stone thrower with her binoculars in her eyes.

The direct hit of the shell is breaking the strut in two. I saw that, and I said, "Okay!," he clenched his fist.

"Yay, I can't shoot you anymore with that one! Barletta, we need to shoot more and more at the other throwers!

"Yes. Target change. A, B turrets are enemies 4, C, D turrets are enemies 5, E, F turrets stay intact and attack enemy 3 again. Shoot each one as soon as loading is complete."

Barletta turns to the radio and gives instructions in a quiet tone.

Ichigo stroked his chest down relieved that this seemed like a good idea.

"This is going to work out. If we can destroy all the catapults by the time the baristas get closer..."

"Is that it?"

When Ichirano was about to say it, Reese, who was looking over the battlefield with binoculars, raised her voice.

"Something's running very far away."

"Hmm? Something?

Ichiyoshi asks Reese.

"I don't know... but it's so fast. That's the enemy's army fortress."

At the tip of Reese's finger, Ichigo stares.

In the darkness, a rather distant group of people could be faintly seen.

Sometimes it's night after being quite far away, and I can't tell what it is.

"Maybe, Master Ormachiol! Kazura, lend me the dark-sighted scope!

"Seriously. I can't believe you're gonna give me a hand till this time... see"

"Thanks!"

Reese receives a dark-vision scope and puts it in the eye.

I pushed the zoom button, and little by little, the appearance of that population became clearer.

"Legion fortress is empty now... is that it?

Reese raises her voice as if she were surprised.

"What's up?

"It's like a cavalry, not the Ormachiols."

"Cavalry? Isn't that an enemy cavalry?

"Hmm, what do you think? Something, those cavalry guys, so fast...... eh!?

When Ichiyoshi was about to use the radio, Leese raised her voice to her surprise.

"What's up?

"Mother...! At the head of the cavalry, there's your mother!

"... what? There's no way. Mr. Zirconia will be there forever."

Ichiyoshi has a decent face and looks to the position where the second legion is located.

Similar to when I checked a while ago, she was looking forward across Rata.

"Yeah, 'cause that's really your mother! Look at the rash, too!

Reese pushes me through the dark-vision scope, and Ichigo puts it in my eye.

Zirconia, with a short spear across Rata, was carrying dozens of cavalry and pushing them at an incredible speed to the enemy's Legion Fortress.

"Nah..."

Yiliang lost his word for a moment and rushed to take the radio.

I turn to the cavalry in the position of the second legion, where Zirconia was supposed to be.

"The guy pretending to be Mr. Zirconia in the Second Legion!

Ichigo yells at the radio.

The cavalry moved his face slightly.

"Who are you!? Take your helmet off!

The cavalry put his hand on his helmet, took it off in a slow motion, and turned this way.

What I've always thought of as a zirconia was a celet with hair cut to the same length as zirconia.

"Mr. Sellett... how could you..."

Ichigo leaks a stunned voice at the appearance of Celet, who is not supposed to be on this occasion.

"Kazra, your mother!

While doing so, the Zirconians head for the enemy line.

On the back of a good brain, the words "if anything happens to me -" that she told me a few days ago pass.

At the next moment, Ichigo was rushing out to the wallproof stairs.