Heroes and Machine Girls Looking at Profiles

32 – Ikkitousen?

“Annihilation…? Do you mean that 10,000 soldiers were annihilated?”

“Yes… That’s right.”

The crown prince weakly squeezes out words with a dumbfounded expression.

After a while, his dumbfounded expression turned red and became filled with anger.

“Do you… Make sense!? That side has a small number of troops, less than 1,000, and this side has 10,000! That’s a difference of more than ten times! But they were annihilated!?”

“……”

“Tell me! What on earth happened!?”

The soldier was still trembling with a pale expression.

After taking a deep breath, he began to relate what he had seen.

The empire’s 10,000 elite troops were slowly advancing east.

The target is Harbilitz, the coastal city of the empire, at the eastern end of the empire.

No, it can no longer be called an imperial city, but a city that has been taken over by demons.

“It’s been a year since then…I thought I wouldn’t see any demons anymore.”

“Well… You still see monsters occasionally in the wild, but you said that the demons have suffered damage that is close to extinction, right? I thought we wouldn’t see them for several decades.”

“…Well, it is said that most of the strong demons were defeated by the hero’s party…They must be the remnants anyway.”

“From what I heard, most of them are monsters… I guess everything will work out.”

They also participated in the war a year ago.

It is difficult for powerful demons, but it is possible to defeat weak demons or monsters if 3 to 4 people attack together.

They also knew that because they had experienced it.

Furthermore, the current number is more than 10 times the number of enemies.

If my skills were not rusty and broken, I would have been able to win completely if I just kept my wits about me.

“Gentlemen! Harbilitz is not far away! After passing this plain…”

“General! General!!”

General Furius, who was in command of 10,000 troops, was trying to boost the morale of his troops when he turned around when he heard the voice of someone calling him.

This person, wearing a mask and black clothes that made it easy to move, was a member of the scouting unit that had been sent out earlier.

He knelt in front of the general, then raised his head and spoke.

“It’s the enemy! The enemy’s troops are encamped on the plain in front of us!”

“…What?”

“The number is nine hundred! It is a mixed army of demons and monsters!!”

The general quickly got on his horse and ran to the place the scouts had mentioned.

The unit also began its advance.

Plain near Harbilitz.

General Furius arrived there and found the enemy army encamped on the plain.

Hundreds of monsters in the form of beasts.

In addition, a small number of monsters that were close to humanoids such as succubi and vampires, as well as gigantic monsters such as trolls and ogres, were also noticeable.

Although demons are strong, their numbers are much smaller than those of demons.

Demons with overwhelming power, such as the Four Heavenly Kings who were famous during the previous Great War, were not noticed.

General Furius, who looked at the enemy lines, wrinkled his expression and fell into thought.

“…That’s strange.”

“What do you mean?”

“Their numbers are much smaller than ours. But why did they abandon the advantage of a defensive battle and come all the way to this plain?”

“That sure is strange.”

Harbilitz is a coastal city, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a wall on the land side.

So, we expected to wage a defensive battle using the castle walls as shields, and we brought along various siege weapons.

But General Furius could not help but be taken aback that the enemy soldiers would come out to the plain like this and engage in an all-out war.

“Is it a trap? But what kind of trap is there…? What on earth is happening here…?”

But no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t read that number.

Do you mean to say that by putting out hundreds of soldiers on the plain like that, there is a trap they can set?

Could there be a plan?

No matter how much I calculated and thought about it, there seemed to be no plan that could come out of that situation.

‘I’ll have to try it out first.’

If you can’t read your opponent’s plan, it’s a good idea to lightly clash with them.

About an hour later, after the soldiers had gathered, General Furius selected 1,000 soldiers from among his soldiers, mainly cavalry.

General Furius formed an assault force that could be said to be a kind of advance unit.

As they came forward, the monster troops in the distance also reacted.

But that’s all, the monsters are glaring in this direction and not moving.

Although he still felt uncomfortable, General Furius marched 1,000 soldiers.

“March”

“March! March!!”

“The cavalry destroys the monsters in front of you!!”

The advance force of 1,000 men, including the cavalry, began the assault.

A cavalry team running across a wide plain, holding a large lance in their hand.

And as if responding to that, something jumped out from the demon army.

“Hmm?”

“What is that?”

It was a small warrior.

His identity was unknown because his face was covered in something, but he was holding a huge halberd the size of his body with both hands and charging towards him.

Yes, just one person.

“What is that guy? Has he lost his mind at the army in front of him?”

I had no choice but to think that way.

In front of an advance force of 1,000 people, he is charging alone.

This is not something a sane person could do.

Thinking of the warrior who would soon be trampled to death by the cavalry, General Furius clicked his tongue.

However, his prediction was spectacularly wrong.

“aaa!!”

Bam!!

Along with the warrior’s loud shout, a loud impact echoed throughout the plain.

“aaah!!”

“What…What!!”

With an impact sound, something flew into the sky.

No, it would be correct to say that it flew away.

“……”

“……”

General Furius was speechless.

“One more time!!”

Cow!!

“Ugh!!”

“Damn…What…!!”

“You guys! Be quiet…”

The general could not understand the situation he saw.

The warrior in front of me (from the sound of her voice, I presumed she was a woman) swung her halberd once, causing about a dozen cavalrymen who were charging at the front to fly through the air and crash to the ground.

Because of that, when the charge lost some momentum, she lowered her halberd to the ground, causing the ground to shake and crack.

Even the horses that were charging with great momentum ran wild in panic, and the cavalry’s momentum was lost.

After that, it was one-sided.

“Ahahahaha!!”

“Hey!?”

“Don’t… Stop… Ugh!?”

The lance charge failed.

The cavalry was supposed to immediately throw away their lances and draw other weapons to engage in close combat, but before they had time, the fierce halberd attacked them.

Three hundred horsemen, including those who were blown away in the first collision and those who were thrown off their horses due to the impact of the ground, were being trampled by just one person.

“Hieee!!”

“Ugh!? Be careful!!”

“The horses…Ugh!?”

The biggest problem was that the horses panicked.

Starting with horses that try to run away from the spot, those that cannot move properly due to the horses clashing and fighting with each other.

The halberd attacked those people without mercy.

There were also horsemen who somehow managed to control the condition of their horses and themselves, and drew their weapons.

But another disaster was approaching them.

“Attack!!”

“Now that the enemy’s battle lines are disrupted! Monsters, bite them to pieces!!”

Monster units waiting behind.

They took advantage of the confusion and charged in, attacking the soldiers who had barely managed to get themselves together.

Belatedly, the infantry that followed the cavalry arrived and tried to control the situation, but it was already too late to turn the tide.

In the end, the person commanding the infantry unit in the advance guard shouted.

“Retreat…Retreat!!”

“The cavalry corps must retreat quickly! The situation is not good!!”

The commander of the cavalry, who was commanding the advance guard, had already lost his life a long time ago.

On his behalf, the person in command of the infantry ordered a retreat.

Immediately, the members of the advance team began to leave the place like an ebbing tide.

An advance party that turns its back on the demon army and runs away.

But as if laughing at that, there was someone chasing them at the speed of light.

“Run away somewhere!!”

She was a female warrior holding a halberd.

She looked funny wearing a bread bag, but the blue glow streaming from her eye sockets and the blood covering her face made her look very strange.

“Ahahahahaha!! Come on, come on!!”

“aaah!!”

“Uh…Go quickly!!”

“Don’t push…Ugh!?”

Even though they were not on horseback, even the retreating troops fell into chaos due to the attack of the female warrior who chased after them at incredible speed.

In a situation where they were tangled and pushed against each other, Halberd took the lives of the soldiers without mercy.

“Save…Save! Save our troops!!”

According to General Furius’ order, the main force began to move.

No matter how powerful the female warrior is, if thousands of troops move, she will give up the chase and fall.

The main force moved to save the allies with that in mind, but General Furius’ predictions were spectacularly wrong.

A female warrior who brutally trampled retreating soldiers.

That face, that grotesque face covered in a bread bag, turned around and faced the main unit.

…The blue eyes visible inside the eye sockets of that bread bag seemed to be looking at General Furius.

General Furius was just thinking that maybe our eyes had met.

“…You are the leader?”

It was a car where I felt like I heard an eerie voice.

The female warrior turned her body and began charging towards the main force.

At the sudden situation, General Furius and his staff and associates shouted in panic.

“M…Stop!”

“Kill him!!”

“Heavy armor unit! Forward!!”

The brave elite soldiers stepped forward to stop the female warrior.

Among them, there were knights whose bodies were covered in sturdy heavy armor.

Bam!!

“Kaaa!!?”

“aaah!!”

But, as if to ridicule that, with a single blow from the halberd wielded by the female warrior, the sturdy heavy armor crumbled like paper and sent the knights flying.

The soldiers’ cries mixed with confusion and fear.

The knights’ battle.

And the blue eye light seen through the eye hole of the bread bag that laughably blows them away.

General Furius, looking at that scene, let out a deep sigh.

“…hahahahaha, yes. There’s no way there was a trap in this situation.”

The female warrior of the bread bag that was trampled right in front of my eyes.

General Furius muttered as he took in that sight.

“There was no need to set a trap.”

Following the female warrior, the army of demons and monsters charged towards the main force and attacked them.

A fierce halberd approached right before my eyes.

The last sight of General Furius, a commander who devoted himself to the imperial army for decades, was hell.