The Thousand Year Dynasty
14. Battle of the South Gate
Three formations of Urbar's royal army, each consisting of 200 soldiers, and 50 witches, along with 6 stone-throwing devices, marched towards the southern gate of their camp.
The sky-blue colored light was seen stretching in front of the three formations of the troops. It was a magic protector to withstand the attack from the direction of the south gate.
"It seems I saw some additional witches behind the witches who were casting their protective magic" Parpera said after observing the opponent's march with binoculars. "There may be wind magicians among them, in anticipation of us using another smoke bomb attack" he added.
"They learn quickly" Nata responded.
"Then how are we going to attack them this time?" Lucia asked who was still peering at her binoculars at the Urbar royal pageant, feeling anxious.
"I think maybe they have also prepared protection if there is an attack coming from above" Parpera seemed to add to the guesswork.
"That's why yesterday we showed them the power of our weapons" Nata said in response to Lucia's question. "For them to be glued to find a way how to deal with our previous attacks. And not thinking about the other possibilities, which we can do" he added, walking to the place where Aksa had mounted another weapon on the cliff wall of the southern gate.
The weapon was shaped like an iron bamboo tube that stood facing up. It was very simple with the support legs supporting one of its sides, which caused the tube not to be completely straight standing. Unless a little bit of a skew.
Neither Aksa nor Nata, calling the weapon Mortar.
To the left of the gun is a wooden box. Inside, among the dry straw as a coating, there are 20 bullets shaped like oval iron tubes with conical heads, and the tail section has fins and propellers. Also visible on the body there is a red marker.
Everyone in the place looked seriously attentive when Nata made angle measurements and so forth of the weapon.
Then after Nata put the bullet into the iron tube, he immediately pulled the rope that became the trigger for the weapon.
The sound of an explosion resounded to the surprise of everyone at the southern gate. And immediately, the bullet shot into the sky with a strong wind.
And as soon as the contents of the iron tube were empty, Nata immediately put another bullet in. Then the sound of explosions rang out again, along with one bullet hurtling into space again.
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Everyone in the march looked alert in anticipation of the explosion and two objects hurtling into space from the walls of the Pharos Gate.
Some witches were already preparing to chant something to protect the top of the army.
But it seems that the two objects that shot from the direction of the gates of Pharos was too wide, so it passed through the procession of the three troops.
"Are they miscalculating?" Said Tristan who was in the middle of the row when he saw the object that was sliding past above him.
"What do they use to throw things that far? Not even a stone thrower would be able to do it" Joan, who was with one of the troops, looked at where the object fell.
And then Joan's face started to look pale. "Don't they target the camp?!" His words then as soon as they did, the sound of two explosions rang out from the direction of their camp. With fire that seemed to soar high up.
"What's going on?" Bedivere who was in the formation of the right troops was surprised to hear the sound of the explosion.
"Fuck, they're after our camp" Tristan heard, who was in the left formation, in disbelief.
"Don't panic! Don't let your guard down. We are still within range of the enemy's weapons. Keep defending the magic protector" Gawain heard shouting from the middle army formation.
"My troops will retreat to take care of the camp, you two continue to advance" Bedivere said later. Who soon ordered his army to turn back towards the encampment.
Joan follows Bedivere's army back to the camp.
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Everyone at the south gate seemed to be in disbelief that their attacks could reach the opponent's camp that was perhaps ten times the shooting range of the crossbow. And even managed to destroy it.
The sight of the flames rising from the opponent's camp made the soldiers cheer.
"What did you use to produce the explosion and burn their camp, Mr Nata?" Caspian looks curious.
"By using alcohol and ammonia, combined with gunpowder. The mixture of three things will cause an explosive impact that will burn everything in its blast radius" Nata explained.
"The impact is the same as fire magic and explosion magic" Parpera said later.
"However, we can throw it that far. And without using the flow of Souls at all" added Caspian who looked amazed.
"really. It's the same as we have witches as many soldiers as we have" Jean added.
Meanwhile, it appeared that one army from Urbar kingdom had retreated back to their camp, while the remaining two troops were still advancing towards the gate.
"If I hope they cancel this attack" said Nata who looks grim. While returning to the place where the gun named Mortar was located.
Lucia also seemed to be on her mind with Nata. He hoped that the opposing forces would retreat and end the ridiculous attack.
"They returned to attack by uniting the previous two forces into one large line" Caspian said after learning the opposing forces were still moving forward. Although only two formations now.
"But isn't it that as long as those witches still put up their magic protectors, we won't be able to hurt them?" Jean made sure while observing Nata who began to re-measure the slope of the Mortar weapon.
"really. But the magic protector has a weakness" replied Nata who was seen still making measurements.
"really?"
"Because now they are going in long tandem backwards, then the upper and left sides are too wide for the troops to be protected by the witches" Nata replied. "And if they divide the witches equally in each section, then their magic power will decrease" he added, opening another wooden box containing 20 new bullets similar to the previous one, it just has a black mark on the side of his body.
"Truely so" Jean nodded.
"But it makes sense, because their opponents are in front" Nata added, inserting a bullet with a black mark into the iron tube in front of him. "Unfortunately, their opponents are senseless" he added.
And then the bullet shot up with the sound of an explosion like before, as Nata pulled the trigger rope.
It seemed that the opposing forces were getting ready for the object that had just been launched from the direction of the southern gate earlier. The witches again prepared a patch to make a magic protector on the top side.
But this time the direction of the bullet fell just to the left of the rearguard of the Urbar kingdom.
And as soon as the bullet hit the ground, a huge explosion occurred. Although the witches were ready to head off with their protective magic, but the air pressure and force of the explosion managed to throw not only the witches, but the magicians, but some of the soldiers and cavalry on the left side of the rearguard.
The witches seemed not to be seriously injured because of the magic protectors they had installed. But still managed to damage the formation they had. Some of the horses were startled and started to seem uncontrollably panicked.
And they have not finished dealing with it, dozens of bullets shot again towards the two armies that were marching. Go to the left and right side of the line. Which caused a sudden formation chaos.
After trying to continue to survive, right at the tenth explosion, the magic protector of the Urbar kingdom's army was finally split as well.
And the explosive impact of the bullets that still continued to fall after that, made dozens of soldiers and magicians thrown into the sky along with dust and soil scattered.
From the top of the cliff of the south gate, Lucia looked up at the scenery in front of her. Accompanied by the contrasting cheers of joy from the soldiers and witches of the place.
Nata glanced at Parpera who was silent watching the scene with an uncomfortable face, next to Lucia.
"It's not a battle, is it?" Say Nata later.
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