Summoning the German Army! 〜The Former Strongest Dragon Summoner, Who Lost Everything to the Heroes, Vows Revenge… - Chapter 39
Sweeping the Walls.
Translated by SoundDestiny
Edited by Klepon
“Buhyaaaaaaah!!!”
Jiyoba ｰｰｰｰｰ!
And the King, who suddenly peed again between his legs, could hear its sound.
‘But that bastard – luckily, the only people around him are the ones who were cowed or minced by the shelling, the others don’t know about it…….’
“You’re pissing your pants, do you even have dignity, Oi?”
The king remained pale and shocked. Nasser’s words of ridicule and laughter did not pass through his ears.
The king, who seemed to have finally caught up with the understanding of the circuits in his head, was now sitting down with a thud.
“Ri,di,Ridiculous! That’s multiple chanting by the most elite of the Magic Corps! It can’t be broken…..”
A multiple chanting barrier with a track record of repelling even dragon breath.
It was an ironclad protection that accompanied the king whenever he went to inspect the northern frontline.
And it was easily broken.
The two sides glared at each other across the moat.
But first, the first battle went to Nasser.
“Oi, eh? I see you’ve finally got some blood in your diaper……so, King–san. Why’s your shield made of glass? Are you going to leave the rest to the soldiers, while you wait, rattling and shivering in the castle?”
The king knew it was a cheap provocation, but he had no choice but to bite it.
If only the king retreated in this situation, the morale of the troops would collapse. This was unsurprising, because the king was maintaining the order since his soldiers had been once collapsed by Nasser’s forces.
“Don’t be stupid!”
The king rose while startled by the sudden attack.
As if to make himself look good, he flipped his luxurious cloak ──── to cover his crotch.
“I’ll pull your head off myself! Drawbridge, hurry – next, prepare my chariot!”
“Ha!!!!”
The surviving soldiers saluted and ranoff, and the king disappeared over the main gate.
From the looks of it, they were going to really go at it.
‘His is an idiot…….’
Running into a tank and a half-track where they had set their aim?
That was like sticking a block of meat into a meat grinder.
“You don’t seem to know who you’ve made an enemy of….His Majesty the King.”
Nor did they know that.
They did not know the strength of the summoned beast called up by Nasser.
Even if the Stuka dive bombers reduced the main force to ashes, they truly believde that they could win as long as they had each other backs.
That was why they would obey the king’s orders.
The folly of going all the way to avenge when they would be somewhat safer if they were protected by a solid wall.
Nevertheless, Nasser had no mercy. He would crush them as soon as they came out. He mustn’t let the king escape, so he must agitate him enough.
Gyariririririririririririririri…!!!
A thick bridge supported by a thick chain finally came down. Winding speed faster than normal.
‘…..must have been very impatient.’
The poor operator inside must be dying by the looks of it.
The hoist is located in a tower that stands like a castle, with the main gate inserted into it.
It was massive and heavy, as it was responsible for raising and lowering that sturdy drawbridge. It was impossible to operate it, unless the people responsible for it were very strong.
The tower itself was also a robust structure, housing the drawbridge windlass and functioning as a defensive facility.
For this reason, it was equipped with numerous narrow arrow windows and magic points.
Those two towers alone boasted considerable defensive strength and were the key to the defence.
The carefully applied patterns were wired with barriers that also served as magic defence.
The entire wall was said to be fully covered so that it could be fortified even if a Bummel-class summoner or a Great Sage-class wizard attacks.
‘…… Is it true?’
When Nasser leaned out of his chariot to take a look at the castle walls, a ferocious killing atmosphere came boiling out from the direction of the royal castle.
It was clearly the fighting and killing spirit emanating from the soldiers inside.
The few brave and foolish soldiers who remained in the castle were actively shooting arrows from the ramparts that jutted out to protect the castle gates.
Hyuban!
Hyubababababababababan!
Nasser and his men were out of range, but the shot was probably to cover their allies who were about to charge.
Moreover, was it a strict order from the king?
The shot was a reprisal, as if to say, [I’m going to kill Nasser!]
Of course, they couldn’t reach him, but when they saw Nasser leaning forward, they must have finally decided to fight back.
A volley of shots covered the sky.
Arrows rained down on the Germans.
Zah!!!
Zutotototototon!
A frightening number of arrows pierced the ground, showing the violence of numbers.
They did not intend to second guess either.
As Nasser approached, a storm of arrows was then fired without pause.
Byun, byun–Arrows were shot with a whizzing sound, but within the expected range.
There was no reason to bother to hit it.
In the first place, they did not reach the target, so they had no more meaning than a small threat.
“Ha. And I didn’t bother to hit you. It’s a waste of arrows. The quality of the……Kingsguard has gone downhill.”
But it was Nasser who destroyed them to the extent that their quality had fallen.
Ka, Kokin ── ♪
It made a small noise when it hit the tank’s armour.
“Uoo?!”
A blind arrow came when Nasser was off guard.
A massive arrow sparked with a tremendous recoil sound.
‘It came from a far…..This is no ordinary arrow. ──── It’s a big heavy crossbow ballista!’
“They’re seriously pushing it! Alright……. Blast them! ─ ─ Before we charge against the Kingsguard, kill all the archers on the ramparts.”
“『『『Roger!!!』』』”
Nasser then issued a notice to the Germans to use this as a signal for war.
“『All troops at ready! Form an assault formation with the half-tracks at the core.』”
Following the order of the 『Company Commander』, the German grenadiers, divided into platoons, were further divided into squads and re–deployed.
When the German grenadiers were consigned to the halftracks and the ground, the guns in their hands were pointed at the Royal Castle.
“『Suppressive Fire!!! Suppress the fire point!!』”
“『『『 Roger!!』』』”
The halftrack’s vehicle-mounted firearms pointed at the ramparts following the order of the 『Company Commander』.
In addition, the dismounted infantry men also had their Gew43s in hand and were in sniping position.
Their own platoon support firearm, a hand-held MG42, was also commissioned with its bipod spread on the ground and aimed at the ramparts.
“Shoot!!!”
Vuooooooooooon!! Vobababababababababann!!!
Vobabababababababababababababa!!
The MG42 had a vicious roar that was incomparable to that of the MG34.
It belonged to the vehicle-mounted machine gun mounted on the half tracks of the newly summoned infantry platoon.
And the ground-mounted fire of the MG42, a support firearm equipped by the armoured Grenadier infantry platoon.
The tremendous sound of the firing was so loud that it almost sounded like the roar of a bull.
The entire armoured Grenadier company had nine half-tracks of those MG42 machine guns – 18 guns in total. And three infantry platoons, one per squad, a total of nine. A total of 27 or so MG42s roared out at once.
The glinting muzzle flash of the firing flame and the towing bombs that drew a band of light.
It lit up the ramparts and was unmerciful to the archers.
The over-powerful 7.92mm rounds tore the men apart, splattering blood and guts on the ramparts.
A soldier who had lost his arm let out a terrible cry.
Soldiers who had had their heads pierced, with no signals from their brains to acknowledge what was happening, creating a headless hell.
Hell!
Hell created by machine guns!
The full force of the company’s firepower became a ferocious barrage of bullets that hit the ramparts.
──just stunning!
Yet the soldier remained brave.
It seemed that a few large heavy crossbows had turned to counterattack.
However, there was no way they could aim in such a situation, and the bullet landed in the direction of the sun.
Rather, they fully exposed themselves to those bullets without any way to hide their huge bodies.
A number of shots were concentrated and aimed at them, and the soldiers operating the gun were shot down as if they had been sprawled out.
Soldiers fell to the ground in a flurry.
Expensive large heavy crossbows were also being destroyed with a clatter.
Troops hiding in the unevenness of the ramparts were also being beaten down by MG42s or the Gew43s, semi-automatic rifles of the German infantrymen, as soon as they appeared.
Unilateral overrun with overwhelming firepower and range.
Overkill,
Too much shooting,
Too many kills.
………… How was that possible?
“Good, go on! Hit them!”
The ultimate in tank bombardment.
As there was no amount of time before the enemy assaulted, the shells were loaded under the condition that only one shot was fired.
“『All vehicles fire simultaneously – fire!』”
Zudodoooon!!!
After the overlapping fire, as if fired by a sniper, a shell slipped into the arrow-nosed arrow slit that opened up in the ramparts and exploded in a huge explosion.
── Chubaaaaan!!!
The magically defended ramparts were not completely destroyed, but flames burst fiercely from within, and archers within the red-hot ramparts screamed and dived into the moat in search of water.
A tremendous roar enveloped the surrounding area, but the Germans did not stop firing.
They shot rapidly as if to say, they would not stop until they had emptied out their magazine.
A huge panic washed on the ramparts.
If they weren’t, they wouldn’t be able to stick their heads out.
“[Geeeeeee!] [Hiiiiii!!!]”
All kinds of screams could be heard between the gunshots.
“『Keep shooting.』”
The enemy’s fire from above the ramparts was lost to the continuous, uninterrupted fire.
However, the Germans were not the kind to relent.
But the Royal Castle was indeed solid.
Even though the castle walls with magical defences were made of stone, it took time to cut them down with 7.92 mm rounds alone.
“『Cease fire! Cease fireeeeee! Change position, watch out for enemy assault.』”
The armoured grenadiers ceased firing at the order of the 『Company Commander』.
Once the Germans had fired their round, they moved on to change their position.
Hearing the distinctive sound of the gun barrels contracting as they were cooling down, with a kang…… kang….Nasser kept his eyes on the main gate.
It was a common tactic to get support from the city walls to strike out, but with the current commotion, they must know they could not expect any support from the city walls.
At the end of the drawbridge, which had finally come down.
The latticed main gate rattled and rose upwards.
“Houu. You’re not escaping?”
Behind the main gate, which had opened completely, there was a splendidly evenly spaced line of heavily-armed cavalrymen.
Even the horses were equipped with iron armour, and the riders were Kingsguard soldiers, protected in key areas by breast armour and armed to the teeth with kite shields and mounted spear lances.
They seemed to be very motivated.
Nasser, with a grin on his face……
“Ha. Fine, ──── I’ll meet you head on.”
It was Gachinko time.
(TL: a serious game in sumo wrestling and professional wrestling)