And finally, Tuban capture battle commenced.The commander is āViolent Runnerā Fernel. From different clans, she had brought fifteen hundred soldiers.The reinforcement is the Queen of Vampires, Mereen. She is participating with her three hundred Grave Wax soldiers which were summoned in advanced.Teacher, the Great Sage Gomoviroa is also participating along with thousand skeleton troops.I too followed bringing my treasured two thousand skeleton troops.Total count is close to five thousand troops.
The population of Tuban we are facing is five thousand.The bow cavalry, who also work as palace guards, are estimated around one fifty to two hundred. Because I defeated fifty of them previously, so they had a considerable reduction. The bow cavalry canāt be replaced so easily.Although there would be quite a number of citizen soldiers, but the total number is unknown.Assuming half of the population to be males, and if further half of them are healthy young men, then at least there would be a thousand more.From what I have heard, Tuban citizens know how to use crossbows, and so it is a gathering of archers.
And so, the first problem is the impregnable fortress, which Tuban is proud of.It is higher than the castle walls of Ryun Height, and everywhere it is filled with large crossbows. It can fire large arrows consecutively, and easily shoot down anything, be it a horse or a castle siege weapons.I want to say as expected of an industrial city, but is it even possible to capture it without a surprise attack.
āIt seems the encirclement has been completed.āBeside me, Technical Officer Krutz mutters. He is responsible for handling the gunpowder, the one they call as āDragonās Breathā.To blow up the castle gates at the critical moment, I had him come.This town is thoroughly secretive, so to monitor the comings and goings of the people, there are only two, one in the north and the other in south. So it is enough to predominantly block each.The one to capture the north gate are the sacrificial thousand pieces of skeleton soldiers and three hundred Grave Wax soldiers. And following which, the one thousand five hundred Jinba soldiers would rush inside the city.\n
Mereen-senpai should be looking after the two thousand skelton troops encircling the north gate.
The moment encircling was completed, Fernel sent the messenger recommending them to surrender.But before the Jinba soldier carrying the letter of Fernel could reach the castle gate, he fell receiving concentrated attacks from crossbows.I see, they donāt seem to have any intention to discuss at all.As the unarmed messenger was killed before their eyes, the Jinba race soldiers are in a rage. It seems like they wonāt stop until they see blood.
Fernel is waving her spear from a little distance away.āSenpai! Bone, please!āā¦ Behave a bit more like a commander. Well itās fine.Nodding, I make hand signs and chant the spell.āReturned from the gates of Gevena, you who, declined from the gates of Hauran.Behold my right hand. This becomes the freezing sun.āItās the usual chant to use the dead.By the way, Gevena is the world of darkness filled with the dead, and Hauran is the world of light leading to rebirth.I donāt know which one is better, but let me have them do one thing.
When the skeleton soldiers responded to my voice, I order them to advance.āGroup number one, prepare shield in advance! Anti-air defense formation!āAll the sounds become uniform, the skeleton soldiers put up their shield.āTarget, Tuban North Gate! Assault with highest combat speed!āThe five hundred skeleton soldiers holding spear and shield, simultaneously started attacking.\nImmediately, arrows were fired from the castle walls of Tuban. As feared, the firing range is long. It would hit. It would hit.The skeleton soldiers are holding up the shield in defense but that shield itself was skewered. However invulnerable the skeleton troops may be, once the spinal cord is smashed, they canāt move their body.But even if the ribs are broken to the extent of shattering they should still be able to move without any inconvenience, so they have a good compatibility with the arrows.Since they were slow, half of them were already defeated as they barely managed to reach the castle gates, but this is not a big loss.If the same had been done by the Jinba soldiers, then it would have been worse.
āItās a war of attrition.āBecause Krutz muttered anxiously, I nodded.āFor now, we have to endure, but little by little we will follow next.āAfter confirming that Fernel is waving her spear again, as planned I ordered the second wave of attack.The second group advances towards the place where the first group has gathered near the castle gate.Somehow, I remembered the tower defense game I played a lot in my previous life.Although right now, I am on the attacking side.
The first group of skeleton soldiers is half destroyed with the violent counterattack from enemy, but the second division did not receive such resistance.It would be like that only. Even the large crossbow string is stretched with human power. If they shoot too much, they would be tired and eventually there would be failures.And then in the second group, Mereen-senpaiās specialty Grave Wax soldiersā¦ in other words white waxed zombies are slipped in.More and more it is like Tower Defense, but these guys are the leading actors this time.
The Grave Wax soldiers, being dehydrated, are a variant of the zombies with possibility of long term preservation. But there is a disadvantage that they are easy to burn.However the defect can become the strong point.
The Grave Wax soldiers that reached the castle gates escorted by the skeleton soldiers, started self-destructing according to the prior setup.Since it is far from here, it is not clearly visible, but it surely is a splattering scene. \nAlong with a bluish-white light, a thunderous roar, which can make the atmosphere vibrate, mowed down the surrounding.