"Geo and Tisha, you will be tasked with guarding the right and left sides of the city walls."
"Gunri and Faro, you guys are in charge of guarding the city gates"
"And Remilo, you will be by my side assisting the other battalions in the battle"
Romandia orders gave directions to the five captains.
"No matter what, the gate is important to guard" Romandia emphasized the vital point of the battle in this Esmoth city.
"We will place our archer soldiers on the side of the city wall" replied Geo who represented Tisha in making decisions this time.
"Good, archers from other battalions will shoot from behind the walls. Also, place some spear and sword soldiers and magicians on the side of the city wall if the enemy manages to penetrate from the wall side," Romandia ordered to tighten the defense on the wall.
In general in war, many kingdoms use special tools made to reach the height of city walls such as siege towers, or to destroy or slow down the work of enemy troops with launchers such as a trebuchet which is a catapult and margonel which is a small but moveable catapult.
The Siege Tower is an important tool for breaking through the city's defenses if the gates haven't been breached, although the soldiers deployed aren't as fast as if the gates were penetrated, it still puts pressure on the enemy who must focus on defense rather than attacking those who are still trying to climb up to Siege Tower as well as trying to break through the gate,
"Order some Magicians to burn down the Siege Tower before reaching the side of the wall, the others focus on healing injured soldiers" A special directive for magicians who have important tasks on the side of the city wall.
"My battalion consists of many magicians, I will help in that matter" Faro proposes that idea, indeed in his battalion almost 50 percent have job class magicians.
"Good, the remaining sword and spear warriors of the entire battalion are focused on the gate section, when Rizumi has done his job, we will fully attack by opening the gate." General Romandia's instructions regarding offense in defense are the best option in confusing the enemy.
"Remilo, burn something and make white smoke out of it" Romandia ordered Remilo who intended to give the signal for Rizumi's troops to attack.
In this strategy, Estafera side would purposely open the gate to make a sudden attack. The best defense was to attack, such as the strategy used this time, the enemy who was attacked with flames from behind and a strong attack from the front would break the ranks of the troops.
"When attacking, keep the line from being penetrated and separate them into 2 groups" Romandia command was very clearly targeting the enemy's weakness.
In a large army, one of the weaknesses is the form of communication from the war command, if there is a group that is separated from the main group, they will certainly lose.
After they finished discussing the new strategy, Romandia dismissed them all to return to their assigned positions.
After disbanding his captains, Romandia then walked out of the tent and immediately headed towards the city walls to see the enemy and think about what strategy he should use if the strategy he just ordered failed.
Romandia climbed the wall stairs, when she reached the top, she was treated to a view of a sea of people ready to crash.
In war, there is an ethic to wait for each other before the war signals are sounded, this is of course out of respect for both sides to be prepared. This was certainly respected by the kingdoms of Rostalia and Estafera even though in fact, many other kingdoms violated it.
Romandia who saw this couldn't help but feel proud and nervous too, this was the biggest battle he had ever experienced while serving the kingdom of Estafera and its king.
The sound of running footsteps could be heard from behind, Romandia who looked towards the city could only hope that the soldiers who were running ready in their respective positions remained strong in battle and were not afraid.
Romandia walked down the stairs of the wall, ready to confront those who dared to try to penetrate the city.
Not long after that, the sound of war trumpets sounded.
'finally' Romandia heart said.
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Rizumi who had already made a move, gave the order in a small voice.
"Ruka, Archi and I and some soldiers will burn trees and anything from behind, you guys stay hidden in this forest, don't let the enemy find out the route we are coming from" the order was directed directly at Ruka as the person in charge while Riku and his troops were doing their job.
"Understood, Rizu" Ruka nodded indicating she understood how important it was to not be noticed by the enemy.
Rizumi and Archi and several other soldiers walked away from Ruka and most of the troops, the war had started and they could see that the city was being invaded by enemy soldiers.
Rizumi, who felt that it was time to carry out his sneaking task, could only patiently wait for a signal from his father, who knows what the signal was but Rizumi was sure that he would know it immediately after seeing it.
The cries of the soldiers had been heard, and the groans of those who were struck by arrows or slashed sweetly decorated the atmosphere on the battlefield.
You can see stone throwing from catapults and fireballs cast by opposing magicians flying towards the city of Esmoth, whether Estafera soldiers can withstand this attack or not, but this time, Rostalia attacks relentlessly.
Rizumi who was still waiting for the signal could only try to target first, which part they would burn.
After a while, white smoke was seen emerging from the direction of the city.
Although the fireballs from Rostalia's troops produce smoke however, please note that there are two colors of the smoke itself which can be produced from different burning materials.
Rizumi gave a nod to Archi and some of his soldiers consisting of 2 magicians who would later do a fire spell and 1 ordinary soldier guarding them both. They were also divided into 2 groups consisting of Rizumi and Archi, and another group consisting of the three soldiers.
They also began to sneak between the enemy's tents to avoid meeting the enemy who was still on guard around the tent. If they were lucky, they could immediately kill the enemy commandos who were still in the tent. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to them, Lurt The Red did not intend to stay in the command center from the start and give directions from afar.
Rizumi and Archi also tried to burn some parts of the tent that were flammable, with the Magic Swordsman skill choosing Archi who could issue fire skills and Rizumi manual method of burning the tent as quickly as possible.
Rizumi's other group of soldiers focused on burning the forest so the enemy soldiers couldn't run apart and get caught between the flames and the troops from Estafera.
With magic skills, the forest is easy to burn and spread to the surrounding area. Those who had finished with their duties retreated to the main battalion troops where Ruka and some of the other soldiers were waiting.
Rizumi and Archi who were still doing their job were surprised by several guards passing by.
"Shit" the word came out of Rizumi's mouth.
"Archi, now" Rizumi shouted telling Archi to do something.
Archi who heard this immediately understood and tried to do a spell.
"Cross of Fire" Archi shouted as he unleashed a skill from his sword slash forming a cross slash surrounded by fire elements hitting several of the tents that were their targets. while Rizumi tried to paralyze the 4 guards.
But before being able to paralyze all of them, the guards from Rostalia managed to scream and summon the others to join the fight, this made Rizumi have to return immediately before they were surrounded by the rest of the troops guarding the tent.
"Archi, hurry… we have to go back!" Rizumi shouted after successfully slashing the four soldiers.
"Okay" Archi who was ready with his work immediately tried to run towards the route where they came from.
As they ran, several soldiers who were close to the area came to Rizumi and were ready to attack, Rizumi who was running to them couldn't help but face them one by one.
'Crash' the sound of swords colliding with each other, the sound was followed by the sound of metal slashing through something.
'slash' 2 soldiers who ran towards Rizumi were already lying without any sign of life. Even though it looked easy, they had to run and try to remove their tracks from the soldiers of Rostalia.
'slash'
'Aaaa'
'Aaargh'
The slashing sound continued to sound, Rizumi and Archi who were almost approaching the direction of their coming route had to immediately dispose of their tracks.
Archi who was behind Rizumi suddenly stopped and swung his sword to the ground.
"Fire Wall" Archi again released his sword magic by pointing it at the grassy ground.
Instantly a wall of fire formed and separated them from the pursuit of Rostalia's soldiers. Rizumi and Archi who saw this opportunity immediately disappeared from the enemy reach.
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The fire that burned the enemy tent was getting bigger, accompanied by the burning part of the forest making the escape route from the direction of Rostalia troops closed.
"Report, commander" one of Rostalia soldiers came to her commander.
"Oh, I see, it's easy to guess" with a smile, the figure replied to the report which was certainly not good news.
"I already guessed this" the word came from the person who was none other than Lurt The Red.
"Keep going according to plan" he ordered to his subordinates as if he didn't care about the fire incident in the central command tent.
At the same time, another soldier shouted.
"The gate has been breached!!!"
Lurt who heard this scream from a distance couldn't help but smile and laugh.