373 – Full-scale Siege (2)
Lightning Bolt is a simple magic that kills enemies by shooting lightning from a staff.
This spell is rarely used among wizards during battle.
Because magic like Fireball is a magic that throws a fireball at the enemy and literally burns them, so it has high lethality.
Lightning magic sometimes causes people to not die even when hit by magic, and it is far less powerful than fireball.
However, Peter Jaeger’s thoughts were a little different.
‘Normally, its lethality is very weak, but what if a lightning bolt is fired toward a moat filled with water? Since water conducts electricity, it can wipe out many soldiers with one blow.’
“All wizards, upon my command, aim at the moat and shoot lightning bolts! Until then, burn every single one of those ants that try to cling to the walls!”
When the head of the Reich Empire’s wizard, who knew nothing about science or electricity, heard those words, he thought that the Marshal was so ignorant of magic that he was ordering an attack in the wrong direction…
I thought there must be some intention since it was Peter Yeager’s job, so I followed orders.
Meanwhile, the military officers of the Allied Powers, who knew nothing, took the lead out of greed when the moat filling, which caused the most deaths, was completed.
Then, branding himself with hypocrisy and false courage as if he was a nobleman and willing to risk his life for his subordinates, he marched forward noisily, brandishing his sword.
“Long live His Royal Highness the Archduke of the Czech Republic! Long live the Grand Duchy of Czechia! Charge forward! “I, Einz Barnheim, will slit the throat of Peter Jaeger, who pushed us into this hell!”
“The time has come to dig out the intestines of the Reich Empire, which is no bigger than a dog, and turn them into sausages! These are people who have nothing but sh*t in their heads. Let’s kill him!”
“It is a time of slaughter and slaughter! Lift the ladder! Move forward! Push the battering ram!”
The noble officers went to the front with their blood boiling because their future promotions and their positions in aristocratic society were determined by how boldly and courageously they fought in this war.
However, the Allied soldiers were aware of their shamelessness and timidity, pushing them into tasks that were dangerous enough to kill them and taking the lead in tasks where they could stand out and achieve merit, so they muttered out loud as they marched.
“Well, you bastards who wouldn’t be able to break off their branches like you would break a chicken’s head. Doesn’t Deus-sama kill those bastards?”
“I wish they would all just die, like dogs who bark so loudly.”
“Ha, I guess I won’t just put my feet up on the castle wall again today. “There’s no need for anything, I just wish Peter Yeager would die.”
There were some who complained and complained and tried to ignore the sight of their colleagues who were alive just moments ago dying before their eyes.
Many of those who entered the siege were friends and neighbors who had been conscripted from the same ‘hometown’, so some people internally shed bloody tears as they watched the deaths of their acquaintances.
But I didn’t express those feelings out loud.
Because if you say that, you will be like those friends who, after saying a few words of complaint, were stabbed to death by our own soldiers and turned into dirt under the moat.
‘……Is this kind of war really right? ‘f*ck, shouldn’t I just desert now?’
In the midst of a battle in which various ideas went back and forth, the Allied soldiers finally succeeded in raising a ladder to the castle wall.
“Wow, sh*t! The damn ladder got stuck! Hurry up, hurry up! “It’s time to eat the Reich Empire’s helmet pot in half!”
“If you are going to rip off the limbs of Reich pigs, follow me!”
“I see Peter Jaeger’s f*cking flag! Kill him! “If we just kill him, we win!”
Having a ladder on the castle wall was successful several times. However, they were unable to cross the wall due to interference from Reich soldiers on the wall.
All of them were thinking this in their hearts.
‘We will win today somehow. You must go over the castle wall.’
If Peter Yeager had seen it, he would have cursed them, saying that they are idiots who are really good at self-justification, but for those who came with 360,000 people and have been killed for the past 7 days without even being able to cross the castle walls, ‘false hope’ is desperately needed. Did.
The imperial soldiers came over the walls again today and began to personally end the poor lives of the idiots who were threatening to kill their commander.
A fierce fight took place, with heavy stones being dropped, magic being used to burn the animal directly, and the brains being smashed with a two-handed hammer to show mercy by sending them off painlessly.
“Aiming for Marshal Yeager’s neck? “It’s a million years too early, you motherf*ckers!”
“I’ll send you to your dead parents! “Your face may be a little crushed, but it’ll be easier when you die!”
“Sleep forever, you f*cking bastards!”
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The Archduke, who was watching this scene from afar, seemed to have a premonition that something was going to happen today, and jumped up from his chair installed outside his command barracks.
As soon as he got up, he brandished the Grand Duke’s commander-in-chief, symbolizing his authority, and spoke.
“All-out attack! All-out attack! “Today I will cut off Peter Yeager’s head!”
In a normal war, an officer with the rank of baron or higher would never beheaded ‘on purpose’, even during a war, but against Peter Jaeger, such customs were not important.
Not one of the generals present or his staff came forward to object to those words.
According to the Archduke’s orders, the Allied forces gathered near the castle walls as if there was a market for them, and at this time, the battering ram also reached the castle gate.
Peter Jaeger chuckled as he watched all of this and gave an order.
“Spray boiling oil on the battering ram and his soldiers. Then, five minutes later, fire lightning bolts at maximum power toward the filled moat.”
Boiling oil began to pour near the gate and walls, and the Allied soldiers expressed their joy at being hit by the boiling oil.
“My body! I feel like my body is burning! Help me!!”
“Battering ram, hide under the battering ram! The oil doesn’t reach there… ugh!”
“Help me, it’s hot…”
As the boiling oil began to take effect, Peter Yeager gave his signal by hitting the head wizard on the shoulder.
Then three fireballs flew into the sky, and the wizards who understood this signal began chanting lightning bolts toward the place where the moat was.
Allied soldiers and officers tried to laugh at the sight of magic being used randomly in strange places, but none of them could even open their mouths.
“Gra la la la la! “My body is tingling… tingling, tingling…”
“aaah! “Aaralalak!”
This is because he was electrocuted by the electricity that came up from the muddy spot where the moat was, and his entire body muscles stiffened and turned into stone. And, in a dirty way, he died while urinating and excreting himself.
At first, it seemed like only the soldiers around the moat suffered this, but the soldiers stuck close to the walls to break through.
They were also wet from their calves to their thighs as they crossed the trench, so the electric shock was instantly transmitted to everyone near the castle walls and moat.
Also, the boiling oil was ignited by lightning, causing a fire under the castle wall.
Like a string snapping, the lives or movements of countless people were cut off all at once, and the wizard leader who witnessed this scene looked at Peter Yeager as if he were a monster.
Although the war was urgent, the magic he knew was to attack the enemy all at once and continuously reduce their numbers little by little.
‘Does it make sense to kill so many soldiers at once with lightning bolt magic?’
But after looking at Peter Yeager’s face for about 10 seconds, I suddenly understood.
It wasn’t a rational reason, it was just that Peter Yeager was such a great commander that I thought this was only natural.
Loud cheers poured out among our soldiers, and the morale of the imperial army rose rapidly.
“Marshal, do you plan to use Lightning Bolt again?”
“…… I have no intention of writing any more today. You may be asking why, so the answer is because our purpose is to stop them. We need to maintain ‘impregnable’, but give those guys the perception that it is a ‘battle worth fighting’. “It’s not good to abuse it too much.”
Then, Peter Jaeger thought it was time to step up and boost his morale even further, so he walked to the eastern wall where the castle’s main gate was located.
When the flag with the five stars symbolizing the Marshal and the black eagle moved together, all the Imperial soldiers cheered when they saw Marshal Jaeger.
If the officers were told that they would be on the front line with a 5-star enemy even though it was not an extreme situation, they would have been worried and their morale would have plummeted…
‘Marshal Jaeger is the highest level swordsman in the empire. So as long as we fight properly, he will never return. Therefore, it can be said to be the most appropriate decision at a time like now when a fierce battle is expected.’
Everyone looked at Peter Yeager with anticipation, and one major who was climbing up the castle wall fell into despair as soon as he saw Peter Yeager’s face.
“f*ck, why are you here!”
At the same time, his head fell below the wall.
The morale of the Allied Powers also crawled into the depths of hell.