Chapter 95: Reinforcements from the Sky
The town of Thame is completely surrounded by monsters.
The attack that started in the middle of the night did not weaken even as dawn broke.
The monsters are completely controlled by the magic of the elves.
They’re just puppets with no will of their own. They continued to advance without fearing death, like Soviet soldiers being driven forward by the penal battalions, pressing on relentlessly.
Against such monsters, the Londeria army, which had been fighting all night to protect Thame, was exhausted, and furthermore, their strength was declining due to heavy casualties.
By dawn, Londeria’s army had taken more than 500 casualties, depleting a quarter of its total force.
On the other hand, the monsters also took a considerable amount of damage…
“Oh dear, quite a lot of them have been killed. But that’s okay, we can just tame some more monsters!”
Then, the elves who had been hiding in the forest tamed the monsters in the forest and sent reinforcements one after the other, so numerically speaking, it was not much different from the beginning of the battle.
There’s already a big difference in terms of military strength between them. The difference in power is gradually widening, and moreover, as the exhaustion caused by the battle accumulates…
“This is terrible! The north gate has been breached!”
“Wha…!?”
The defenses have begun to crack.
Dreadful news reaches the soldiers fighting on the walls.
That means the last bastion that protects the town has been breached.
Upon hearing the report, Lynn and her subordinates, who had been reduced to seven soldiers due to the battle, immediately headed for the north gate.
“Missy, this is terrible, it’s completely devastated.”
“Ugh, we couldn’t protect it. How disgraceful…”
What she saw was the shattered and crumbling walls and the horde of monsters pouring in through the breaches. And the pitiful sight of soldiers giving up their resistance, discarding their weapons and fleeing from the vicinity of the gate.
Some brave soldiers are building barricades with furniture collected from nearby houses, but…
Such a thing will not hold for long. Lynn knows that.
But…
“Our team will also move to provide support, follow me!”
Lynn hurried to the front of the gate, waving her wand and casting spells in order to delay the monsters, even if only a little.
If they allowed the enemy to invade the town completely, civilians who could not fight back would be attacked.
That is one thing they must avoid at all costs. To protect the citizens is Lynn’s duty as a noble.
“How many people capable of fighting do we have left?”
“There are only 10 people here, and the rest have all run away. What about you?”
“It’s just me and my seven subordinates. Better than having no one here, right?”
Lynn, upon joining the soldiers who were constructing defensive positions in front of the gate, unleashed her signature ‘Wind Blade Magic’ against the approaching monsters from behind the barricade.
The blade of the wind pierces the chest of the large ogre who charging ahead of the other monsters. The ogre let out a low growl, spewed a large amount of blood from the wound, and staggered to a halt.
When the soldiers saw what happened, “Did she get him? You’re amazing, missy! As you would expect from a noble, her magic skills are first-class!” They cheered, but…
“…No, I didn’t” she murmured.
The next moment, the ogre who had been hit regained its posture and began running as if nothing had happened.
The ogre’s pectoralis major and thick muscles surpass those of the famously well-muscled Balka soldiers. Before that, magic and such are meaningless.
Yes, muscles do not betray.
It is the ultimate weapon, surpassing even steel armor and magic.
“H-how can this happen…”
Lynn’s men also shoot their arrows in desperation, trying to hold them off with their shots.
However, something like that cannot stop the monster which has become a raging torrent.
In the blink of an eye, the monsters closed in on the barricade where Lynn was.
The ogre that was shot by Lynn earlier is running at the front. Wounded and furious, he uses his well-trained body as a cannonball to break through the feeble barricade with one blow.
And then, after looking down at Lynn who had become defenseless, he swung the club with all his might. Lynn also casts a spell and tries to resist… Although it leaves a deep wound on the ogre’s shoulder, it is not enough to completely defeat it.
Magic cannot be fired in rapid succession, and none of the soldiers here have the muscles needed to fight against the ogre.
Checkmate.
The club was swung down straight towards Lynn…
“Ugh, this is it.”
The moment after Lynn made up her mind…
The ogre bursts with a loud explosion.
Hit by a shell that came flying from somewhere, the upper body burst apart and disappeared.
And then, the sound of the engine resounding from the sky.
“H-huh? Am I not dead?”
Lynn is surprised that she is unharmed.
“…Phew, it looks like they made it in time. Nice work, Hans Ulrich Rudel.”
On the wall, Heydrich lowers the pistol he had aimed at the ogre attacking Lynn and looks up at the savior.
The twin-engine attack aircraft with a sharp nose, ‘Toryu’.
That’s right, the first squadron of the Imperial Guard led by the Demon Lord of the Sky, consisting of 48 attack aircraft ‘Toryu’, has arrived over the town of Thame.
As a greeting, the demon lord fired a 37mm cannon at the ogre who had invaded the gate.
His men followed suit and began shooting… They will not.
Providing support with aircraft in close combat where friend and foe are intermingled requires considerable skill. If someone who is unskilled does it, they might accidentally shoot an ally.
No, rather than being bad, it’s more like it’s impossible for anyone except a monster who can achieve a hit rate of 100%…
Anyway, unless it’s a laser-guided precision bomb, probably the only one that could provide air support in this chaotic battle is someone on the level of the demon lord.
Therefore, the demon lord continues to sweep away the enemies within the walls, while his subordinates search for other targets they can destroy with their own skills.
“Our captain will continue to provide support within the walls, but we are…”
“Company commander, reinforcements are coming out of the forest. The number is about 100. I think it was the goblin type.”
“The number is 100, huh… If they have just come out from the forest, the possibility of misfire is low, let’s attack.”
The first thing they targeted was the goblin reinforcements, who were crossing the plain between the forest and the town in order to attack.
Their number is estimated to be around 100 at the lowest.
These were newly tamed in the forest by the elves, in place of the monsters that were defeated in battle.
There are no friendly soldiers around these monsters which is located a bit away from the town. The possibility of accidental shooting is also low, making it an ideal target for bombs.
A squadron of 16 ‘Toryu’ aircraft turned their wings and pointed their noses above this group, gradually descending while dropping the deadly 250 kg bombs suspended under their fuselages one after another.
“Hahaha, It’s starting to get interesting! Deploy additional forces! War is awesome!”
Then, right in front of the elves who were happily fighting, they completely crushed the reinforcements.
“Huh? Eh, what is this… ”
Suddenly, the elves were surprised by the massive explosion of sixteen 250kg bombs.
In front of her, another company now directs the 37mm nose cannon at the monster unit outside the town walls.
The 37mm shell, each of which is an armor-piercing high-explosive round designed for anti-tank purposes, explodes upon impact, blowing away several monsters that were clustered near the wall.
“Oh, look! It’s reinforcements from the Yamato Empire!”
“They’ve prepared something incredible, a flying monster! That must be it, the so-called demon lord of the sky from the rumors.”
“As expected of the empire renowned for its perversion! They can be relied on.”
The attack aircraft, which was created for ground attacks, fully demonstrates its power.
By the time each ‘Toryu’ had exhausted all of its loaded ammunition, hundreds of monster corpses were piled up on the ground, and the monsters’ advantage had crumbled swiftly.
But, however.
The crisis situation has not yet been resolved.
The culprit elves are hiding in the forest, where they cannot be spotted by the raiding squadron above, and on top of that, there are still some monsters that have made it inside the walls.
The enemies outside the wall posed less risk of friendly fire and were able to be driven away by the heavy bombardment of 47 ‘Toryu’ aircraft. However, only one unit can attack the enemies within the town walls.
The adventurers, bolstered by reinforcements from the Yamato Empire, regain their morale and challenge the invading monsters, but…
“Uuooo! Ogre, prepare yourself! ―― Gahhhh!”
“No, it’s no good. Jonathan was taken out in one hit!”
“Hey missy, stop daydreaming and retreat! You will get blown away by the ogre.”
The ogre blows away adventurers like pieces of paper.
In front of the monstrous muscle strength, the adventurers are powerless. They will simply be blown away like fallen leaves before a storm.
There is only one person who can defeat that ogre.
Seizing the momentary opportunity when there were no friendly forces around the target, the demon lord’s Toryu made a rapid descent. To fire the 37mm cannon mounted on the nose.
“That makes 16… I have no ammo left.”
“There are more inside than we expected. Aren’t there around 20 ogres just by themselves? If your subordinates were a little more skilled, I could have them provide support.”
“It’s no good right now. If an ally gets blown away, it wouldn’t even be a joke.”
The demon lord fired the last shell, striking the rampaging ogre’s head and blowing it away.
The number of 37mm shells loaded in the Toryu is 16 rounds. The demon lord managed to hit all the high-priority targets, such as higher-level monsters like ogres, with these ammunitions, but… There are still monsters left inside the walls.
Even for the demon lord, it was impossible to defeat the hundreds of monsters that had surged into the town without causing any damage to friendly forces.
“So even he was not able to annihilate them completely.”
Led by the surviving ogres, the monsters march towards the town, mowing down adventurers.
Overlooking it from the top of the walls, Heydrich checks his watch.
“But, we’ve bought enough time. Let’s make the adventurers retreat. It’s about time our main force arrived. Well then, let’s get started on the next task.”
Saying that, Heydrich left the wall.
Ten minutes later, just as he said, reinforcements arrived in the town of Thame.
It’s the Imperial Guard Regiment with the medium tank battalion led by the Führer. This army, armed with more than 3,000 modern weapons, will undertake the task of mopping up the remaining enemies.
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