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At the ridicule of his aides, Koamic nodded.

“Turn around and overdo it, it’s a river…. If it had been the way it had been before, I would have thought it would do something novel, but was it a bluff?”

overdo it

A river that flows between the kingdoms of Huacan and Xochitlak.

The river has long been treated as the natural border between the two kingdoms.

The water was calm and the water was not deep, but the river was a river. To cross the river, you had to launch a boat or build a bridge, but there was no port and only one bridge where the Imperial army was heading.

“Crossing the river itself is not a problem. There is a bridge, so there is no need to build a raft, just cross it.”

“But you don’t even have to cross the river, do you?”

“right. From the capital of Huacan to the capital of Xochitlak there is a nearly straight road. Leave this road and detour to the south where the river is? It’s stupid to go back a distance that would take twice as long in terms of time.”

Why did the Imperial army cross the mountain range?

Wasn’t it to give Komicic time to respond?

However, now the imperial army was doing the exact opposite.

“That’s how I wouldn’t have to inform Cuilau.”

Koamic tilted his head several times and chased after the imperial army. However, no matter how much he pondered until Edar’s imperial army reached the riverside, the only conclusion was that Edar was bluffing and took the wrong road.

“if.”

As I was about to guess and move on, the warrior commander said.

“You’re not going to be foolish enough to spin with Kuirau, are you?”

Koamic laughed at his guess.

“It can’t be, can it?”

“Still, don’t you know? He promised to bring back the head of Kuirau. So, isn’t it possible that Master Cuilau gave us time to muster the troops so that we could rotate?”

“hour? Do you think the reason for the detour was that it was wasting time?”

“yes. It can be said that he pretended to know the way out of pride because he didn’t know the way, and it can be said that he ended up like this… but it’s very different from what we’ve heard about him so far.”

Comick hardened his expression and thought.

That was the reason he pondered over and over again.

Edar’s history was so splendid that it felt more reasonable to assume that he was acting unknowingly because of another strategy.

“Then why do you think the river was chosen? Wouldn’t it be better to choose plain plain? If things go wrong and we have to retreat, it will be difficult to retreat on narrow bridges.”

If the bridge was broken, it would be impossible to even cross, and it would be like being stuck in the territory of Kuirau.

The warrior commander seemed to know the answer, but he hesitated.

When Koamic urged him on, he replied in a confident voice.

“…wasn’t it because of Your Highness?”

“Is it because of me?”

“If you had expected that Your Highness was aiming for a pincer attack with Kuirau. Putting the river in the back to promote safety…”

“…”

Comic caught his breath.

I hope it was nonsense.

“no! It can’t be! It doesn’t make any sense to assume that he would spin with Kuirau in the first place. Even if you defeat and kill Kuirau, will his strength be intact? Will I or Sumontema let go of a man who has become a wreck?”

Edar clearly promised.

I’ll get Kuirau’s head.

Coamic didn’t believe in promises. Because he made a false pact. How can a liar believe what others say?

“There will be no rotation. It must also be a ulterior motive to make an agreement by teasing his tongue and deal with it without fuss. I’m sure it will.”

He muttered as if hypnotizing himself.

The warrior commander stepped back without saying anything more.

In the meantime, the Imperial Army began to cross the bridge.

Dung- Dung-

And at that time, Kuirau’s army appeared.

Because there is no more vulnerable moment than the moment you cross the river.

‘I’ve already crossed the bridge. I can’t even get bitten by now.’

Coamic, who was watching from the hill, clenched his fists.

“The time has come!”

Comic turned around and shouted.

Uakan’s army lined up in front of him.

30,000 Lizardman warriors, including the expeditionary force that hastily returned from the Mycenae Empire and the miscellaneous soldiers gathered from the provinces. About half of these were cavalry and hippo infantry from expeditionary forces.

In terms of numbers, it was only half of the Imperial Army, but the Imperial Army was dispersed to cross the bridge. They couldn’t get a numerical advantage, and they wouldn’t be able to even respond properly.

“Cattle from a distant land told me! Break down my fence and free my cattle! Do you think this makes sense!”

They shouted that they were not warriors.

“okay! It’s nonsensical bullsh*t! So I called you In order to stop the war against vampires and to punish the livestock that dare not become slaves to intimidate us!”

Coamic gestured toward the bridge.

“good! Catch them all! The cattle you kill are yours!”

Armies led by the two incarnations swarmed from both sides of the Imperial army.

‘Show me if you’ve really done something stupid or if you’ve conceived a clever ploy! We will show that nothing can overcome our wrath.’

Coamic glared at the two humans standing behind the imperial army.

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“As expected.”

Edar nodded at Calliope’s words.

“Yes, I guess.”

I saw an enemy running from the front.

Coamic’s army was small, numbering thirty thousand.

A sandstorm erupted behind the enemy coming down from the hill.

hard-

The rough vibrations reached the riverside.

Edar turned his head and looked at the imperial army. Unlike the fiercely running enemy, the imperial army did not even line up.

There was no point in coming and forming a rank. I couldn’t equip it, and even if I had it, I couldn’t compete with it. Those who remained in the rear were not musketeers.

What would you do with the spearmen you mobilized for bluffing?

“Just take your time.”

Edar commanded Calliope.

“Abandon the thought of harming the enemy. Just make sure not to cross the bridge. We just need to stop them from coming after us.”

“All right.”

To stop an army of thirty thousand by herself?

If anyone else heard it, it would have sounded like a suicide order.

Calliope’s expression did not change at all.

“He always puts a heavy burden on you.”

“no.”

He replied that he wanted her thoughts to depend on him again.

Edar read the thought and laughed.

“Don’t leave it to me.”

As Edar joins the back row across the bridge, Calliope is the only human standing in the way of Coamic’s army.

She let out a small breath, then raised her head and looked ahead.

– Speed up!

Enemy cavalry charging towards her.

The cavalry commander leading the cavalry shouted.

There was no sound, but Calliope knew what the lizard was saying by looking at the shape of its mouth. From the moment she was created, she had all sorts of talents, including poisoning.

– The enemy abandons the munitions wagon and runs away!

– Ignore it! Start with cattle! The loot will be distributed after the battle is over!

Talent wasn’t the only thing.

In battle, he was better than anyone else.

She mainly used a knife, but anything that wasn’t a knife made a great weapon in her hand. Representatively, the cobblestone was like that, and the bow I am holding now was like that.

Kwaak…

Calliope drew the bowstring.

The arrowhead on the string flickered on fire.

‘Idiots.’

She had no expression.

But there were feelings.

It is very restrained in expression.

Because she was a human with feelings too.

‘Edar-nim knew everything.’

Her feelings now are disgust and ridicule.

Calliope’s gaze turned to the abandoned wagon in the rear.

The wagons were dispersed at a certain distance, but from the looks of it, it seemed that they had been ambushed during transport and abandoned and ran away.

The reality was different. The wagon was a powder keg.

An oak barrel full of gunpowder was placed inside the wagon. It was a trap placed at intervals so that when one wagon exploded, another wagon exploded in succession.

Edar decided that the method of ignorantly exploding gunpowder while destroying the elf’s barrier had its own effective use.

Although it had the disadvantage of huge consumption of gunpowder, Pasimea, the minister of agriculture and commerce, had a genius talent for meeting the demand. She always listened to Edar’s wishes if you listened to her screaming grunts a few times.

‘He knew that you were making false promises from the beginning.’

hard-

Enemy cavalry passed the wagons.

ping!

Calliope put up a protest.

The flaming arrow hit the powder keg loaded on the wagon.

pop!

The gunpowder keg exploded and hit the cavalryman who passed by it.

“———!”

A huge explosion that drowned out screams.

The explosion engulfed the surroundings, spewing gray smoke, and sparks mixed with the smoke flew into other machies, causing a series of explosions.

Perbung! Beopbeopbeopbeobung—!

“Hey Koamic…!”

Fortunately, the troopers who were out of the blast radius vomited in astonishment.

It was the lead column that passed the wagon just before the powder keg exploded.

“Was it a trap!”

Originally, the cavalrymen would have only looked forward and ran.

They looked back unintentionally as the human woman who was blocking them alone was hit in the back by a roar and a storm right after the flaming arrows flew.

What they saw was smoke billowing high into the sky, intense heat, and the corpses of their comrades exploding. Seeing this, how can you be cool-headed?

I pulled the reins, stopped the charge, and stood there blankly.

Tadat!

Taking advantage of that gap, Calliope rushed.

Coamic’s army numbered over 30,000, but only cavalry reached the riverside. Among thousands of cavalrymen, 72 of them reached the front of Calliope beyond the explosion.

Awesome!

72 did not even send a message to Calliope.

“Cuck!”

The knife was unobstructed.

With one swing, it cut through anything.

The only consolation for the enemy was that they were cavalry, so the distance between them was wide. If they had been close together, three or four would have died in one knife cut.

The consolation wasn’t much.

72 Lizardmen were killed by Calliope before the smoke from the explosion subsided. She dealt with the cavalry commander and his group without a single wound, wiping the blood from her face.

“…”

Coamic’s forces were shocked by the explosion and halted the offensive.

The explosion itself did not do much damage. The roar and smoke, and the fire that just happened to spread to the dry grass in the meadow, only exaggerated the damage.

“Don’t hesitate! Do not let the cattle run away!”

Koamic waved his hand in anger.

A strong wind blew through the meadow once and cleared the smoke.

After the smoke cleared, I realized that the damage was less than expected and that the last soldier of the Imperial Army was on the bridge.

“It’s a trick! Humans tricked us to escape!”

“Don’t miss it!”

Coamic’s army raised a fighting spirit again and continued the pursuit.

Denggung!

“My, my paaal!”

“…!”

But there was Calliope.

Standing on the bridge, she blocked the army.

“Something human!”

A lizardman’s head exploded.

As Calliope swung the spear she was about to snatch from the enemy, her head exploded when it hit the body of the spear. At the same time, the spear could not even be touched and was broken, but Calliope immediately took another enemy’s sword and swung it.

“Mu, step back… kuck!”

The length of the bridge reached 600 m, and the width was 7 m.

Calliope slashed the attacks that aimed at her in reverse, but also slashed enemies who ignored her and pursued the imperial army. It left her with a few small scratches, but not enough to slow her movements.

Coamik, who pushed the warriors to exhaust her, could not bear the damage and retreated. Over a hundred corpses were piled on top of the bridge, making it look like a small hill.

fast…

Comic gnashed his teeth.

His pride was shattered by just one livestock.

No, his pride was destroyed at the point where he negotiated without killing Edar. It would be fair to say that even the chance to recover one’s self-esteem was destroyed.

An army of thirty thousand was stopped by one human.

“Among the tribes that pride themselves on being warriors, there is no one who can catch a single livestock!”

At that cry, the warrior commander came forward.

The warrior commander who led the expeditionary force dispatched to the Mycenae Empire of Coamic was the strongest in the kingdom next to Coamic.

He charged Calliope with half of his bodyguards. Because her legs are so wide, even she wouldn’t be able to knock them out easily if she surrounded them and attacked them all at once.

That was how it was judged.

“Beasts must form a herd. If you try to take on everything just because you can stand alone, write it. The word arrogant doesn’t mean good. In other words, it refers to arrogance.”

But they were mistaken.

How long will Calliope deal with them alone?

Gerhard and Jekt, the two members of the group, stood next to Calliope.

“What about Edar?”

Gerhard shook his head at her worried question.

“Caliope. His Majesty has sent us to help you. Worry about yourself now, not His Majesty.”

“Who is protecting Edar?”

Seeing her, Gehard and Jekt stuck out their tongues.

What you need to worry about is the enemy in front of you.

Everyone in her household wants her master more than her own life, but she was unique among her household. If you look at it differently, should I say it’s not as good as Rachel?

“There are guards beside His Majesty. The guards you chose with so much effort. You have to trust them too. Isn’t it?”

“…”

Even without facial expressions, members of the household could read each other’s thoughts.

Gerhard and Jekt read disbelief in her thoughts.

“Brothers and sisters close by are also having a hard time.”

“You should thank me for being the superior.”

Gerhard hardened his expression when he saw the guards approaching.

“Caliope. If you’re worried about His Majesty, you can quickly deal with them and go back. So don’t get excited, stay calm, and do your duty as usual.”

“…”

Calliope closed her eyes for a moment, then opened them.

Her confused thoughts subsided.

Soon, a cool reason dwelled in her, and her attacks were more passionate than ever. The passion to return to his master continued until the moment he finished the slaughter of Coamic’s warriors and his pack.

After a while, only three of his followers remained on the bridge.

Comic stopped pursuing. He realized that no one could cross the bridge as long as his family members were on it.

Calliope slammed her foot down, breaking her leg, and returned to Edar’s side.

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The time when Calliope is blocking Coamic’s army.

Cuilau’s army was rushing from the front of the Imperial army.

Kuirau’s offensive was identical to that of Coamick. A simple tactic in which the cavalry charge at the front, followed by the infantry at full speed.

The difference was that Koamic came down from the hill and attacked the Imperials, and Kuirau had to attack the Imperials on top of the hill, and that the Imperials did not explode the powder keg.

“Aren’t you going to use the gunpowder keg like the rear?”

I shook my head at the question of Gehard’s lieutenant, Titus.

He was a person who had assisted Gehard from the beginning of the Imperial Army’s establishment, and was good at military tactics, so I was considering him as a field commander to succeed Jekt.

“The rear is in a position to be chased. It looks like he abandoned the wagon. But isn’t the front line different? Koamic or Kuirau will notice the oddity.”

The gunpowder was not comfortable enough to be used so quickly.

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“But don’t worry too much. Even if you don’t dig a trap like that, it’s as if you’ve already dug a trap.”

“What do you mean?”

“The enemy is ignorant of gunpowder. It will come up the hill like a fire moth, so what’s the problem?”

I pointed at the musketeers and artillery lined up on the hill with my chin.

189 field guns and siege guns have been discharged.

“From the point of view of Koamic and Kuirau, now is the best moment to attack the Imperials. Even though they have their numbers, they don’t look like they are ready to fight.”

In fact, aren’t most of the Imperial Army crossing the bridge?

A group of about 10,000 people crossed the bridge and even lined up.

“A rough estimate of the number of the Imperial Army is 60,000. 10,000 of them in line are only one-third of the hordes of enemies rushing over there. see there From the point of view of someone ignorant of gunpowder weapons, how would a group of people lined up on a hill look like?”

“Won’t you look at it as a wooden stick without a spear or a miscellaneous soldier holding it?”

“right. that’s the trap It is a trap created by ignorance.”

Titus laughed.

“It’s been several years since I first used cannons, but I’m still ignorant of gunpowder weapons. Didn’t Your Majesty say that the dwarves have been using gunpowder since ancient times? But, how are you so ignorant?”

“There are many reasons. If you pick one of them, there is a representative system.”

“Are you saying that the great cause is the cause of ignorance?”

I nodded.

“Even though the representative system was created for communication, communication is not possible due to mutual checks. Instead, they hide information or lie and hope that their competitors will suffer.”

There was a reason why gunpowder weapons were effective as new weapons every time, from Naga, Orcs, Goblins, and finally to Lizardmen.

Have you suffered significant damage from gunpowder weapons?

Other countries and races must suffer the same damage as me.

An organization made up of a group of people who thought so was the representative system.

“It is difficult to understand.”

“There is nothing difficult to think about. Because they still look down on humans. Why am I aiming for the Mycenae Empire even though I am rampaging like this?”

“Isn’t it because humans are considered less threatening than vampires?”

“Yes. Even though the shipless Empire conquered the Republic using artillery, it did not inform the outgoing representative process. And there was no retaliation. As if you could catch a human at any time.”

It was really arrogant.

I’m choking him.

The one who is tightened laughs, saying that he can always loosen it.

“But that will end here.”

Things will change after this expedition.

Because the history of the human empire was so different.

I destroyed the elves’ barriers, induced the invasion of orcs and goblins, and even invaded the Lizardmen’s homeland.

“That’s why Vlad should live longer.”

I laughed lightly.

There were many reasons for inciting the Orcs and Goblins, and recalling the Lizardmen Expeditionary Force, but one of them was to increase Vlad’s lifeline.

It’s because he has to live long and compete with the representative system to reduce the threat to me.

“Prepare for bombardment!”

The hills were low.

To the extent that the enemy doesn’t have to worry about getting tired after coming up.

But that was enough. The hill itself benefited.

Unlike placing artillery on a hill, the risk of misfire is greatly reduced. Since all the cannons I mobilized were direct fire, it was virtually impossible to play an active role from the moment the musketeers and their subordinates went to the front if it was a flat terrain.

But hills are different.

“Shoot!”

Both field artillery and siege artillery fired shells.

Perbung! pop! pop!

189 cannons were the quantity of copper and copper sent to Olymus and stamped throughout the empire. Hundreds of horses tangled and fell as they fired their cannonballs at the enemy cavalry.

“Excellent.”

I smiled and murmured.

It was distinctly different from the war with the Republic.

I couldn’t hit the running cavalry at all at that time.

Through training and practice, their proficiency increased considerably.

“Not yet.”