Field Marshal Erich Seighard gazed upon the battlefield littered with the corpses of his soldiers and civilians where the end of his kingdom indisputable. The sounds of artillery and the screams of civilians begging for their lives before being shot by the enemies filled the ruined royal capital city. 'It seem that this is my last stand against two superpower in their conquest of my small and weak Motherland' he thought to himself.
He was a rising Field Marshal within a small kingdom who rose to power after leading his soldiers to victory after victory against an army five times stronger than them. He even succeeded in pushing back the Eastern Empire back to their original borders until they reached a stalemate when the enemy start throwing mass charges of infantry, armoured vehicle and even chemical gasses just to stop their army from advancing.
However, after many years of fighting against the hostile empire at east which have cause countless death of his fellow countrymen, a new enemy, an emerging empire from the west attack them in a surprise attack in an attempt to conquer their small kingdom as fast as possible as they had made a deal with the empire to the east.
Even if all his soldier sacrificed themselves in the defence of the Motherland, it seems it was impossible for him and his countrymen to turn the tide of war. After many years of fighting against the Eastern Empire, countless young and old men have already died defending the Motherland in stopping the enemy advances in hopes that the enemy will stop the war after suffering heavy casualties fighting against them and hoped that this will force them into signing an armistice which is at least favourable for them. But fate is cruel towards them, when the rising Western Empire attack them from their western border, the small number of soldiers garrison there were immediately overrun and Army Central Command was forced to ordered them to retreat and protect all the provinces near the capital to buy time for the prime minister, the ministers, civillians and the royal family to escape and create a government in exile within a friendly nation abroad.
For his Motherland and his goals, he and his men have volunteered to make a futile last stand to kill as many of their enemies that dares to take their capital and attack their kingdom.
"Sir, the enemies have breached the last line of defence, and they are marching towards here!"
"How many men do we have left colonel?"
"We have less than a few hundred men left but most of them are injured, what should we do Sir?"
"Tell them to retreat back to the castle and to get ready to defend it until the very last men, we will make this our heroic last stand that will be remembered throughout history, we shall give them hell for every step they take."
"Understood Sir!"
After my adjutant left, I open my personal chest and took out my gun and my favourite sword. As I stood there seeing the sword that was gifted to me by my family, I can't stop wondering why the world was cruel towards us.
"Why did they attacked us, if they didn't attack us mom, dad and Sofia will still be alive. I swear to the three of you, I will kill as many of those bastards before I meet all of you again in the afterlife." He muttered. Erich was the only child of his parents living in a small but lively town near the border of the Eastern Empire. During his time living and growing up with his family, he befriended and fallen in love with his childhood friend, Sofia. He had promised her that he shall marry her after he finish his officer training at the Royal Army Officer Academy.
Alas fate was cruel towards him, his hometown was one of the first place to be occupied by the Eastern Empire during the invasion. His parent and lover was massacred together with all the town residents and buried in a mass grave after some of the residents within the town rebelled against their invaders. When he and his men was able to push back the enemy to their original border a few years later, he decided to immediately return back to his hometown to find his parents and lover that might still be alive. Unfortunately, what he found was the mass grave where his parents and lover which were buried together with the residents of his hometown from the massacre. On that day, he wept alone in front of the mass grave and swore he will make them pay for all the sins they have committed until either him or his enemies were dead.
After taking a deep breath, he took his trusty sword and gun and he went to the crumbled palace hall. He gave all of his men a salute before giving a small speech before they go to battle one last time.
"Men! I know that we are surrounded at all sides, and our end is inevitable. All of us have at least lost a friend, a family, a loved one and maybe everything important within our live. I know that what I am about to ask from all of you are a lot but I would still ask whether all of you here, standing in front of me, will follow me into hellish battle! In this battle, let's show our enemies who we are and what we are capable of. Now, here is my order! I order all of you to take as many of these bastards with us to hell with us! Are all of you in with me?!"
"Huurah!!!" All the men shouted with high spirits as my speech ended.
Not long after that, the sounds of enemy's artillery raining on us were heard.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
I immediately ordered everyone to go into their battle position.
Days of fighting nonstop have put a toll on many of my men, our ammunitions and our rations. We were pushed deeper and deeper into the palace.
After 3 days of fighting, I was the last man standing with the dead bodies of my soldier around me while being surrounded by a platoon size enemy. "Surrender or we will shoot you! The war is over!" The leader of the platoon shouted at me as they aim their riffles at me.
"Suck my balls you bastards!" Bang! As I shot their leader and another one on the head, I also starts cut down an enemy with my sword, and decapitating another.
"Fuck! Kill him!" An enemy soldier shouted as they start shooting at me.
/BANG/ /BANG/ /BANG/ /BANG/
"Ugh…"
As I lied on the floor which is soaked with blood, an enemy soldier walks towards me and aim his gun at my head, "Any last word before I shoot you in the head."
Smiling weakly at his question I can answered with a bloody spit to his face "Heh, let's go with a bang then" before pressing a button in my hand to detonate the whole palace area.
'Mom, dad, Sofia, I'll finally be with you all again now.'
/KaBoom!!!/
All the enemies in the palace and surrounding died instantly as all the bombs planted under the palace detonated creating a small mushroom cloud which is visible from tenths of kilometres away. The explosion took away tenths of thousands of lives all together within the blast.
The whole world immediately went dark for him.