Since the Empire began to attack everywhere and invade Kalsas and surrounding countries, and declared that the full-scale war on the Elusalia continent had officially begun, it was natural that the Ice Dragon Legion, one of the Fourth Imperial Legion, also participated in the front line of the war and invaded Kalsas.
Isn't this?
Today, the soldiers of the Ice Dragon Legion were attacking fiercely in front of this old small fortress, and killed and injured many defenders in the city, and killed many of the ordinary male civilians who were temporarily armed, so they had to leave many of their bodies in disappointment and temporarily retreated to a relatively safe distance.
Naturally, these soldiers of the Imperial Army did not give up here. This was just a temporary renovation after the war.
"very!"
"What a stubborn old guy..."
Imelda first looked at the last defenders in the small fortress with a gloomy face, then looked at the bodies of the dead imperial soldiers under the fortress walls. Looking at the soldiers who originally belonged to her Ice Dragon Legion, she couldn't help but hate some old thing in the small fortress castle even more.
But no matter how much I hate it, there is no way. Although the castle fortress in front of me doesn't look big and looks a bit dilapidated, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack on three sides. There are not many troops that can be deployed every time the attack is. In addition, she was in a hurry when she came, and she did not think about bringing the air force and navy, and there were no siege equipment, so the battle situation had to be so stalemate.
"Hello!"
"Let me listen to the defenders in the fortress. You have been persisting for so many days and have proved your courage. Now, your soldiers and men are almost dead, so should you give up?"
"Come out and surrender!"
"Maybe, I can consider it and let you bastards die a little more happily. What do you think of this proposal?!"
After fighting for so many days and having so many subordinates died, it is definitely impossible to let myself give up or something!
Imelda thought about retreating and coming back after he was ready, but she was a little unwilling. She also thought about crossing here to attack other places first, but she was a little worried that once his army left, the defenders inside would run out to counterattack or interfere with his supply line.
Therefore, she could only order her subordinates to reorganize their formation, and coldly rode her horse to the castle formation, and persuaded her to surrender again to the small fortress and the last defender inside, especially the old person who had stubbornly resisted her for nearly half a month.
But it is obvious that Imelda's persuasion of surrender was not sincere.
But thinking about it, when the war reached this point, she lost so many capable soldiers in front of such a small fortress. As one of the four generals of the empire, she would definitely not spare the people inside easily.
Besides, she is the only female general in the empire and is also a woman. She certainly has all the advantages and disadvantages of women, such as... she is particularly slim, admits her truth, and is vindictive to revenge?
"you!"
"Imelda!"
"This is just a small castle for receiving refugees. After more than ten days of fighting, there are only some women and children left inside. What's the benefit of capturing this place? Why bother to force each other?"
"You have no contribution to capturing my small remote territory, right?"
At this time, an old swordsman in silver-white plate armor walked out in front of a severely damaged city wall in the fortress. His body was covered with dirt and blood, but he didn't care about it, and just responded loudly to the fierce woman in front of the enemy formation in front of the fortress.
That's right, he is the supreme commander in this fortress, belonging to the Kingdom of Kalsas, and also the noble lord of this small place. It was he who accepted the refugees nearby and organized almost all men to resist the fierce attack of the Imperial Ice Dragon Legion for nearly half a month.
Of course, although they have been guarding it until now, there are not many soldiers in this small castle fortress, and there are no fewer casualties than the imperial soldiers outside.
"Maintenance?"
"Hmph! I want to hit you, it has nothing to do with that kind of thing!"
"Old guy, I'm just unhappy with your stubborn resistance."
Imelda certainly expressed his understanding of the old thing wearing silver armor who showed his body.
The other party is called "Aron". He was once a swordsman from the mainland. He also served as the swordsman of Princess Shirley in Kalsas. His skills are said to be very good?
Unfortunately, she could see that the other party was old now and was not very useful, and she probably had few levels of skills left. She had heard that the other party was retired here, so she came over and wanted to see if she could incorporate the other party into her Ice Dragon Legion as a recruit instructor or something.
But in the end, the other party gave her a great surprise and made her messy and continue to struggle until now.
She was already in a difficult situation and no longer considered the boring idea of ​​incorporating the other party. Now she just wanted to destroy the small but extremely strong fortress in front of her, level the territory, and then incorporate it into the territory of the empire.
Of course, besides that, it is certainly necessary to cut off the old guy's head and take it around to the stubborn local lords who still want to resist the imperial army.
She must let the stubborn Kalsas local lords know what the fate of the Immelda and the people who dare to disobey the will of the empire and resist her will be!
"I said one last time, come out and surrender quickly, otherwise, when you break the castle, you will be the time when you don't keep your family!"
"I have never left any survivors for you guys who disobey the will of the empire. Do you have to consider it?"
"Now it's your last chance..."
Of course, although she had made up her mind to carry out a massacre here to deter the lords around her, if the other party could voluntarily surrender and let her soldiers suffer less losses, she would be happy to trick the other party out.
“…”
The old swordsman Allen did not rush to speak, but just looked at the smiling blonde woman in front of the castle with a calm face.
"No!"
"I refuse!"
"I will never promise to hand over the lives of me and thousands of villagers to a cruel woman like you!"
"Your Ice Dragon Legion has a lot of bad deeds and has done a lot of city slaughtering. Do you think I will be fooled?"
If they wanted to surrender, they would have surrendered long ago, so how could they resist until now?
So, after pondering for a long time, the old swordsman Arun, who felt that his physical strength was gradually recovering after a war, supported the damaged city wall of the fortress, shouted to the evil woman outside with full energy and loud voice.
"oh?"
"Yeah?"
Imelda had never thought of persuading the stubborn old man inside. After all, the same thing has been repeated many times in the past half month. Just now, she was just shy and angry that she could not conquer for a long time and some clichés she said when her soldiers retreated and repaired. Whether it was her or the cunning old man inside, they were afraid they didn't take it seriously.
"Very good, then..."
Now, since the talk has been completed, and the soldiers on his side have organized a new round of offensive echelons, then, next, there will be almost a new round of fighting.
“Hmm?”
"how?"
Imelda, who was about to issue another offensive order, had to stop the hand that he wanted to raise, and turned to look at the deputy general who was running towards her in a hurry.
"Not good!"
"General Imelda!"
"It's the enemy!"
"The enemy's reinforcements are here, look!!"
However, the deputy general did not care about explanation, and directly stretched out his hand in a panic and ugly face, pointing in a direction on the distant sky.
“??”
“That’s…”
“!!”
"Giant, dragon?!"
With just one glance, Imelda recognized the red thing that was not very big on the horizon.
"strangeness!"
"How could Kalsas have a dragon?"
"I haven't heard of it..."
After being shocked, Imelda quickly calmed down again and murmured and thought.
Even when facing a giant dragon, she was not too panicked.
After all, no matter what, she was also one of the four generals who first followed Emperor Barnhart, and she has always commanded the Ice Dragon Legion, one of the Fourth Legion of the Empire. As a chief official of a border area and had fought and fought countless enemies in the south and north. She had never seen any big battles in recent years. How could she easily take a dragon into her heart?
"General!"
"Don't worry about where Kalsas got the dragon!"
"Now we have few people here, and the main force is not here either. A giant dragon cannot be dealt with by a group of new recruits. Let's retreat quickly!"
"It's too late!"
Before Imelda could think clearly, the deputy general hurriedly persuaded him.
He was right. They were really just a partial division of the Ice Dragon Legion, and most of them were recruits who dared to come out of the recruit camp for not long. Otherwise, they wouldn't have even been able to attack such a small fortress for more than ten days.
If it were the main force of their Ice Dragon Legion, just such a small broken castle, it would be almost time to take it down with a wave of charges. How could it be until now?
However, it is precisely because everyone here is full of a group of new recruits that they have to retreat now!
“…”
"Are you sure that that thing is Karthas' reinforcements?"
Turning his head and looking at the giant dragons on the castle wall not far away that were also found slowly descending in the sky in the distance. Karthas, who was also in amazement, participated in the defenders. Imelda asked at the deputy general next to him with some hesitation.
"General!"
"No matter whether it is Kalsas or not, it is definitely not from our empire anyway!"
“Time is tight!”
"General, even if you want to train troops, you can still change the place another day or another place. Now, please order your retreat quickly!"
The deputy general was anxious and had to urge him so anxiously.
And what he said just now is right. No matter which side the dragon belongs to, it is definitely not from their empire anyway. So, even if it is a wild dragon, it can be seen from the other party's actions that its goal is very clear, so it must be right here.
And later, after it flew down, whether it simply wanted to attack or prey, the Ice Dragon Legion, which was lined up on the wild plains and was crowded with people, will definitely be the first to be the target of the opponent and become the opponent's attack. At that time, God knows how many people their legion will die innocently!
As for dragon slaying or something, you don’t even think about it.
Dragon slaying cannot be done by him, the commander of the legion Imelda and a few officers. Anyway, he never thought that the new recruits who even had to fight a small castle for more than ten days could pose an effective threat to such a terrifying beast.
“…”
After looking at the dragon that was getting closer and lowering its height, he analyzed the other party's body shape and approximate threat. In the end, although Imelda was very unwilling to give up, she could not do anything except staring at the castle not far away and remembering the old guy named "Aron".
"Go and give orders!"
"us……"
"withdraw!!"
Now that I can't win, I can't win, and waiting may become the target of the terrifying monster. No matter how unwilling Imelda was, he knew that it was not a good idea to stay here, so retreat became her most wise choice at the moment.
soon!
With the order of Imelda, the commander of the Ice Dragon Legion, the new recruits who fought here for more than ten days and were about to capture the small fortress had to quickly turn in shame, and then with only the light supplies and wounded people that could be taken away, evacuated the place as quickly as possible, leaving behind corpses and a large number of tents and vehicles around the castle.
“??”
(.)
"Hey! Uncle Gniel, why did they run away in vain?"
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"I want to ask for a way..."
=(*)
That's right, at this time, on the dragon's back, there is no place to see on the ground, the red dragon is controlling and slowly lowering its height to prepare for landing, which is the careless and omnipotent arcane wizard, Queen Anne!
However, unlike the speculations of the Imperial Army just now, she was not the reinforcements invited by Kalsas, nor did she want to help anyone. She just flew in the sky and got lost. Then the human navigation devices such as Aimeda and Matthew made mistakes repeatedly. It seemed a little uncomfortable outside the signal service area in the sky. So, she had no choice but to see that there seemed to be a lot of people gathered here, and then she planned to fly down to ask for directions.
Moreover, she promised not to interfere with the battle between the two sides, and she promised to turn around and leave immediately after asking about the road, and then the two groups below could continue to beat them again!
But no idea...
Before she could let the dragon slowly lower its height and reach the flat grass in front of the broken castle, the Imperial Army soldiers wearing green armor ran away first, leaving behind the big mess, and crawling into the forest before disappearing shortly after?
“Um…”
"Well..."
"I guess, maybe it was because the Imperial Army people thought we were reinforcements from Karthas, so they were scared away?"
Looking at the mess on the ground, the heights getting lower and lower, and the friendly land that was so close, Gniel breathed a sigh of relief and did not forget to guess like this.
For them who had never flew before, after most of the day of flight, they were really frightened and frozen. Now, he just wanted to rest for a while, then make a fire and eat a bowl of hot broth. As for everything else, he was not in the mood to think about more.
"So that?"
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"Then forget it, I'd better ask the people in the castle, they haven't run away yet!"
ヾ(⌒⌒*) ~
Although she felt that she had been misunderstood by the uncles of the Imperial Army, Annie didn't mind much, so she continued to control the huge crawler under her feet, allowing it to slowly hover and land accurately towards the open space in front of the castle.
This is a big guy that is bigger than that kind of big plane, at least a few thousand tons. Such a huge behemoth must not be ordered to dive to the ground casually, so she must let it slowly lower its height, slowly hover and slow down.
Otherwise, if she really rushed to the ground without any lightness or heavyness, she might have to consider changing to another new mount.
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“Eh?”
!?('')
"This old man... uncle, have you recognized the wrong person? He is not your reinforcements!"
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Not long after he stopped on the ground, he saw an old man in silver armor and a group of ragged soldiers rushing out of the castle to welcome him. Anne hurriedly called them on the dragon's back and said that she was really not with Kalsas, she was just a passing by.
"ah!"
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"I didn't help you drive away the Imperial Army uncles. I just wanted to come down and ask for a way!"
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Anne herself also expressed helplessness to the fact that the uncles of the Imperial Army were so timid and ran away first when they saw them.
"By the way!"
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"They ran away and asked you the same. Does anyone know where to fly to that city of Valdia?"
(Д≡д)!?
Chapter completed!