121 – Siege of Villa Hora (3)
When I got up first, my subordinates around me responded with strong voices.
“I will give all those barnacles on that wall a portrait today!”
“I will kill you without leaving a single one behind, so don’t worry.”
“I will only trust the centurion commander!”
Whether I’m scared or not, the fact that I’m having a hard time because of that damn castle wall is an unchangeable fact, so it would be a little easier to attack with the mindset that I can do it.
‘If you think it won’t work before you start, it won’t work out.’
“Ox, let’s lift that ladder together.”
“Yes, I understand.”
Just like that, I picked up the siege ladder, and we ran towards the castle wall like people with their feet on fire.
When fighting on the plains, if you encounter an enemy and run out of stamina, you may run out of strength and be slaughtered by the enemy during an important close combat.
So, in the plains, there is usually no running towards the enemy at full speed, but in a siege, this is an exception.
What if you can’t get to the castle wall and climb up the ladder even for a second?
This is because the chance of being caught in the crossfire and dying from arrows and magic flying from the castle walls and watchtowers is much higher.
“f*ck you, Philip! Philip, you bastard! “Why are you already sleeping?”
“Damn it, isn’t it too much to shoot arrows from the front and left and right?”
“Magic is flying like crazy! “Hurry up, hurry up and take over the wall!”
The more we scurried, the more fiercely the enemies fired their arrows, as if this was their opportunity.
And an archer that caught my eye fired arrows without even aiming even though we were so close.
“Kill, not a single one of you will die!”
Currently, the area under the walls was swarming with people like maggots, to put it a little exaggerated, so no matter where you shot, someone unlucky enough to be killed by a blind arrow was killed.
“Ugh, sh*t. “My shoulder!”
In addition, the eastern wall we are in charge of is showered with magic from the wizards in the watchtowers on the left and right sides of the wall.
“Fire, burn the enemy! Fireball!”
If a round ball of fire is created and the fireball falls where an ally is…
At one time, two or as many as three of our allies were reduced to ashes and lost their lives.
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“Ugh, sh*t!”
“Save people! “It’s so hot!”
“You shouldn’t come…”
There was only one way out in this chaos, with countless soldiers dying around him.
“Hang on to the ladder first and quickly climb up! “Our archers and wizards will provide cover!”
As soon as I shouted, they picked up the fallen rope and started to hang the ladder on the castle wall.
“Ladder! Ladder! “Go up!”
“Climb up the ladder! “Hurry up, if you don’t want to die, hurry up!”
“Don’t even think about pulling back, just go up!”
When the ladder was up, arrows from our troops came flying from behind us.
A considerable number of the enemies on the castle wall died from the barrage of arrows from our troops.
“Save people! Ahh!”
Guys who looked like commanders ordered measures to block arrow attacks.
“Shield! Shield! Bring it! “Fight while protecting the wizard and archers with your shield!”
They also prepared for our allies’ long-distance attacks, but…
‘Our kids have started climbing the ladder. Do you think it will be easy?’
Also, at times like this, if I keep my arms crossed behind the back, saying I’m a centurion leader, their morale will die and my reputation will fall…
“Get on the ladder! “I’m the first to go up!”
Otto stopped me harshly.
“Century leader! Even if you are a leader, if you are hit by magic, you will die. “Isn’t it too dangerous?”
Seeing the guy who always used honorifics protest like this in informal language, it seems like he is quite impatient and cares for me.
‘Ah, I don’t know why I’m so impressed by what this guy is saying at this moment.’
“The other guys here all have the same thing: they don’t want to die. “Then I will set an example and ask you to lead the team well.”
After shaking off Otto’s arm, I immediately hung a ladder on the castle wall and started climbing up.
The guys behind me cheered when I took the initiative like this.
“f*ck it, let’s follow the centurion!”
With that, everyone started climbing the ladder with great strides, keeping pace with me.
If I had saved my life, the first people climbing the ladder would have hesitated or been scared.
Meanwhile, as we began to climb the ladder, all the enemy’s attention was focused on us.
“Don’t let them climb up the ladder! Stop it at all costs!”
At the same time as those words were said, archers, wizards and others capable of long-distance attacks rushed over.
“You can’t climb the castle wall!”
One guy with a bow shot an arrow into the face of the guy climbing the ladder next to me.
“Ugh!”
The guy fell to the ground with an arrow hitting one of his eyes.
He was shot in the eye by an arrow, so he must have died instantly in that condition…
‘f*ck it, just climb the castle wall. ‘I will kill them all.’
“Hurry up and climb the ladder! “We can only win if we secure the access road!”
Like that, I climbed up the ladder at a faster pace, and sure enough…
As if the Mithril alloy armor caught my eye, a wizard appeared next to me.
“Spear of flame, pierce and burn the enemy before me! Fire!”
Almost everyone had finished chanting.
A fireball would be enough to kill a single person, but as if he thought that alone would not be enough, he was chanting intermediate magic with the intention of killing him.
‘What the f*ck…’
I started climbing the ladder at a faster speed to somehow get up to the castle wall before he finished chanting, but…
“Spear!”
I guess I was late, but the spear of fire was already completed on his staff and was about to fly towards me.
‘Damn it, no matter how much I am, I can’t cut magic.’
“Protection.”
In order to increase my chances of survival, I used the defensive magic contained in the ring and circulated the aura throughout my body to prepare for impact.
Contrary to my expectations, no magic came to me.
“Huh? Why?”
Looking behind him, he saw Lucia there, her fox tail upright, pointing her staff at the bastard.
Then I saw that the wizard who tried to kill me had an ice awl stuck between his eyes…
‘Lucia saved my life.’
If I win the siege today, I will show you a lot of love.
In that way, I succeeded in climbing onto the castle wall, which was the most difficult task in a siege.
“f*ck, I barely made it up. Wasn’t it nice when magic and arrows were raining down from above?”
Of course, the miscellaneous things on the castle wall did not answer me.
“Kill! “Kill that son of a b*tch!”
Many people rushed to kill me, but there were no knights here and at most there were only serfs and mercenaries.
Thinking of my comrades who died while climbing the castle wall, I clenched my molars and swung my sword.
“Now it’s your turn to die!”
I swung my sword in a half-moon shape with aura, and with one blow, the bodies of the 4-5 soldiers in front of me were cut in half.
Those who died instantly, those who suffered pain because they could not die immediately, etc…
“Please save me, no, kill me…”
If it had been a merciful knight, that wish might have been granted, but even now, behind my back, our hundred men are dying.
“The stone is rolling, you bastards!”
Some people die because their heads are broken by stones thrown by serfs.
“No, ten…”
A serf poured boiling oil on a ladder, and a wizard shot a fireball right behind him. Thanks to this, several people hanging on the ladder died at the same time.
“Ugh! “Save people!”
“It’s hot! Help me!”
“Mom!”
In order to somehow resolve the situation where my allies are being killed, I have to create a base around me where my allies can come up safely as quickly as even a second later.
Oh, of course, there are important things that must be done before that.
I strongly exhaled the aura from my entire body and shouted in a loud voice.
“Martin Mayer, the centurion of the Whitebeard Mercenaries, was the first to reach Villa Hora Castle! Everyone follow me!”
The volume seems to be using a powerful speaker, the blue fog billowing out from my body like dry ice smoke, and even the striking pose while holding the shining sword.
The best advertisement to let anyone know that I am here.
If someone were to do this when fighting on Earth in the 21st century, that bastard would definitely be crazy, but this is a ‘fantasy pre-modern world’.
The guys below cheered enthusiastically at my declaration.
“Century Martin has finally climbed the castle wall!”
“Follow behind! “We’re going to take this damn castle somehow!”
“As long as you follow that gentleman, there will be no problem!”
Then I swung a sword full of auras at the guys I saw in front of me.
The guys in the position where the sword passed are like when a scythe cuts down wheat, and the grains of wheat fall from the rainwater…
They faced death by dropping their necks, arms, and legs, or were destined to die soon.
“Ugh, damn it! That crazy bastard!”
I simply ignored their words and strengthened the hand holding the sword, vowing to go as wild as I could.
‘This is my first time standing in the vanguard from the very beginning since becoming a centurion commander.’