Lord of Training - Chapter 62



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62. From now on, we will take the lead.

[Lacrosse Empire Army Faction.]

The dawn of dawn.

The Imperial Army Operations Conference Room was bustling.

“Attention! The commander is coming in.”

Chuck! Chew chew chew!

As Captain Bok Ferdo entered, the Imperial commanders all stood up from their seats.

Field Marshal Bok of the Northern Army took his seat.

“There must be a reason why you called me so urgently at dawn.”

“The enemy attack has begun.”

Imperial Army Staff Sergeant Major General Adel Helen pointed to a map on his desk.

“We just received information via radio that about 50 bombers have taken off from an airfield south of the capital, Luchar.”

“50th? What’s the target?”

“I checked the direction and it seems to be the city of Lagrind, as expected.”

One corner of Field Marshal Bok Perdeau’s mouth went up.

“This time, the plan is to target the 13th Brigade that has surrounded the gate with bombers.”

“That’s how it looks now. They’re really foolish to keep aiming for Lagrind’s Gate despite several failures.”

“For us, it’s good that the enemy’s objective is clear. They think that if the two legions inside the gate come out, they can turn the tide of the battle.”

The commanders nodded.

The Bavarian Kingdom’s army had already attempted to secure the large gate of Lagrind City by changing its troops several times.

But each time, the imperial army pretended to retreat and surrounded the enemy in a wide area, annihilating them.

“And this time, we also received a report from the reconnaissance aircraft magic knight that the Baern artillery is also gathering on the Lagrind front line.”

Commander Bok Perdeau nodded.

“If the cannon has moved, then it must really be a last-ditch effort.”

“Yes. If we can stop this general offensive, we will be able to have breakfast in the enemy capital in a few days.”

“Whew! Still, we can’t let our guard down until the very end. The enemy’s forces are still three times ours.”

“They are a rabble who can’t even fire a gun properly. They are no match for our soldiers.”

Brigadier General Enhardt, who was standing nearby, said.

Field Marshal Bock looked at Brigadier General Enhardt with a smile.

“How is it? Will it be okay?”

“Yes! Leave it to our 3rd Airborne Magic Brigade. We will destroy them all, whether they are bombers, cannons, or airborne magic units.”

“I thought your nickname was the Knight of Madness?”

“Yes. It’s a nickname given to us because once we start an air battle, we don’t stop until we kill all the enemies.”

“Haha! You’re strong. Your aviation brigade, don’t worry about the situation on the front line at all, and just deal with those who are targeting our 13th Brigade guarding the gate.”

“all right.”

“Okay! Stop sortieing.”

“insect!”

chuck!

Brigadier General Enhardt saluted and went out.

Commander Bok nodded and looked at his staff.

“Would they be enough?”

“Of course. This is the air brigade that broke through the Allied Air Magic Knights twice as many as Loire, rescued Princess Scarlet, and safely escorted her back to her home country. The Bavarian Air Magic Knights are no match for them.”

“Good. Our army’s morale has dropped significantly since our defeat at Lutes. We must occupy the Kingdom of Bavaria, build up our momentum, and reclaim Lutes in one fell swoop.”

Commander Bok Ferdo looked out the window and smiled contentedly.

‘We won this war.’

***

Lagrind, the second city of the Kingdom of Bavaria.

We were running there now.

“Advance!”

Chuck, chuck, chuck!

As Colonel Elmore and the Rangers entered the city center, he started running ahead.

“11 o’clock! Enemy!”

Tata! Tata!

“Ugh!”

“Ahh!”

Imperial soldiers appeared from behind the building and fell helplessly.

“Sergeant Larson, take your squad and secure that intersection!”

“yes!”

Sergeant Larson and the Rangers ran close to the side of the building.

We waited at the back for a while.

Phelps said as he watched the Rangers’ movements.

“For a member of the Kingdom of Bavaria, their skills are not bad.”

“Really? I think they’re great, but they’re better at street fighting than us.”

“Hmm! I see.”

Actually, we were a bit clumsy in the street fighting in the Fairing.

At that time, thanks to Fabian, who knew the sewers well, I was lucky enough to go back underground and attack the enemies from behind, so I was able to subdue them without much damage.

If we had charged in head-on, some of the battalion members we have now would not be here.

Now, he is an aerial magic knight who fights by flying, but if he were to fight on foot in a street fight again, he would not be able to perform as well as Captain Elmore and the Rangers.

“Please stop moving.”

Captain Elmore gestured ahead.

“Huh? Just a moment!”

Lieutenant Phelps raised his hand and stopped the group.

Then Captain Elmore ordered the Rangers to stand by.

“why?”

“There is someone following you.”

“tailing?”

“Ugh!”

Then Kalin took a deep breath.

“what?”

“It looks like the guys followed me.”

“Guys?”

I immediately looked back.

Then I saw a person quickly hiding behind a building.

The silhouette was Private 6 Stella.

Then Lieutenant Phelps shook his head, pointing to the corner of the alley just behind him.

“Personnel Pameli, I know you’re all over there, come out here!”

“omg!”

Pamela came out of the back alley as she unlocked her stealth skill.

“sorry.”

“How many people followed you?”

“Everything.”

“All of them? Haa!”

My head suddenly started hurting.

“Phelps, bring all those kids here!”

“yes!”

Phelps and his men went and brought the trainees.

There were really 40 of them, all of them followed us.

“How did you follow me here? I didn’t feel any movement.”

“When Pamela followed us with her stealth skill and marked the path, we followed her while keeping our distance.”

Paolo Jorge answered number 2.

“I’m sorry. I told you to go.”

“why?”

“We are trainees, but we are also part of the Airborne Magic Battalion. We cannot just stand by and watch as our unit goes on a dangerous mission.”

“That’s right. Didn’t you always tell us that when our comrades are in danger, we must fight together?”

Trainee number 39, Pameli, also stepped forward.

“It’s not us who are in danger right now, it’s you.”

The trainees bowed their heads.

At that time, the only trainee who had awakened the flying technique, Frank, raised his hand.

“And······, I couldn’t just watch such a historic battle from afar, right? That’s why I followed along.”

I shook my head.

Then Captain Elmore approached.

“I can’t go back from here anyway. Time is running out. Please take me with you.”

I nodded and looked at the trainees.

“You will be moving with the Baern Rangers from now on. If you act alone, you will die by my hand! Do you understand?”

“all right.”

Do these guys even know how dangerous a mission we’re embarking on?

When I get back, I’ll have to give you a proper treat.

‘uh?’

I made eye contact with a young child at the small window at the bottom of the building.

“What? There are civilians.”

Captain Elmore said.

“There are quite a few citizens in Lagrind who are unable to evacuate.”

“So, there are civilians, and you are shooting cannons and bombing them?”

“But there are no civilians near the front lines or the gate.”

“On the day when I accidentally misfire······.”

“Haa! There’s nothing we can do. If this place is pushed back, the citizens of the capital will also be in danger.”

Captain Elmore looked bitter.

Knock knock!

“Hey, what is this?”

“huh?”

A little girl held out a lollipop in her tiny hand.

The candy was covered in juice from how much I touched it.

At that moment, something surged in my chest.

“thank you.”

I put my hand through the window and patted the girl’s head.

After all, war is a miserable thing.

I looked at Captain Elmore.

“We know where to ambush, so from now on we’ll take the lead.”

“Yes? Are you okay?”

“It’ll be much faster that way.”

If we moved slowly, we might not be able to make it to the operation time.

And the number of trainees increased.

It took too long for so many troops to move around while checking the safety of each alley.

“Everyone get ready!”

“yes!”

[Uses the low-speed flight (lv.3) skill.]

[Uses Halo (lv.3) skill.]

“Goes!”

Wheeeeeek!

I moved forward, flying alone along the large road between the buildings.

“The enemy!”

“Shoot!”

Bang! Tata tang! Bang!

Then the Imperial soldiers and hidden Imperial snipers started shooting at me.

Bam! Papapapak!

I used the air shield to block the pouring bullets.

Meanwhile, my battalion members flew in and attacked them from behind.

“It’s here!”

“die!”

Bang! Tata tang!

“Ugh!”

“Cough!”

The Imperial Army was caught off guard by the most basic tactics.

It’s human instinct to shoot whatever you see.

And along our way, we destroyed any anti-aircraft guns or machine guns we saw.

So I quickly moved as bait, and before we knew it, we had arrived at our ambush location.

“Captain Elmore, check from the retreat.”

“yes!”

This was where the central square and Main Street met.

The surrounding buildings were sturdy, and most importantly, there was a passage leading to the sewer under the square.

Captain Elmore is back.

“I found the sewer entrance.”

“Okay, let’s get started.”

Rangers and trainees ambushed a building near the entrance to a sewer system with an escape route.

We are not a suicide squad!

Our mission was to draw out as many Imperial Airborne Magic Knights as possible, lure them here to fight alongside the Rangers, and if the enemy’s firepower was too strong or Baern bombers started bombing the area around the gate in the southeast of the city, we would hide underground.

And even if the Imperial Airborne Magic Knights were to pursue us, it would be much easier to deal with them underground than in the air.

Do you think they came without any countermeasures to this extent?

“Kalin! Where are they?”

“I’ll check.”

Kalin was observing the positions of enemy aerial magic knights with her Eagle Eye (lv.3) skill.

Currently, Kalin can identify humans from 20 to 30 kilometers away, as long as the weather is good.

“I see! There are about 70 aerial magic knights waiting across the Tobok River.”

“That far away?”

Somehow I had a strange feeling.

Lagrind was a big city.

The city was spread out to the southeast of the Tobok River, and even the fastest air magician would need ten minutes to get there.

It looked as if the Imperial Aerial Magic Knights were not guarding the front lines, but were deployed forward to shoot down incoming Bavaria bombers.

The Imperial Army seemed to know the movements of the Bavaria Kingdom Army like the back of their hand.

‘Damn, we need to lure as many of the Aerial Magic Knights over here as possible!’

Otherwise the bombers wouldn’t have been able to get here.

“Kalin, check the movements of enemy air magic units frequently!”

“yes.”

“We will now attack the enemy command post in the south.”

“Right away?”

“Yes! This is the only way to attract as many aerial magic knights as possible.”

“yes!”

There will be a lot of soldiers guarding the enemy command post, as well as anti-aircraft guns and machine guns.

But in order to lure the enemy, that level of risk had to be taken.

***

[Watch Lagrind]

We arrived at the point where we expected the enemy command post from the sky.

Because this was the biggest building.

And the defenses were also the best.

“launch!”

“Shoot!”

Bang! Tata tang! Bang!

Phew! Phew phwap!

We used our skills in the sky and fired our rifles.

“The enemy!”

“It’s the Knight of Aviation Magic!”

The imperial army below was in chaos.

The first target was an anti-aircraft gun.

Although the accuracy of anti-aircraft guns was poor, their range was longer than that of machine guns, so the psychological pressure was great.

And even if you only reduce the number of anti-aircraft guns, the effect is also good because the enemies will be under more pressure from the aerial magic knights.

“be careful!”

Thump thump thump thump!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The imperial army returned fire on us.

The rifles the soldiers fired were ridiculous because of their short effective range, but the machine guns and anti-aircraft guns were threatening.

“Keep pouring!”

Special Sergeant John Cutter and Sergeant Douglin’s Flame (lv. 3) explosion skill spit out fire, and Sergeant Jester’s Air Bomb (lv. 2) skill was quite powerful.

But the most threatening skill was my Fire Burst (lv. 1) skill.

[Use the Fire Burst (lv.1) skill.]

[Use the Overlap (lv.1) skill.]

Bang! Kwaaang!

“Ahh!”

“Ugh!”

One bullet had the power of one magic grenade.

Since we added a stacking skill to it, the explosive power is 1.2 times higher.

It’ll feel like you’ve been hit by a shell every 5 seconds.

When these two skills reach level 3, bullets become missiles.

“Captain!”

Kalin flew next to me.

“The enemy air magic knight is coming.”

“How many people?”

“Two battalions, 30 men each.”

End