40 The Siege of Saiju

The Prohorovka, An entire army led by another Commander marches ahead towards the Saiju. The beautiful green fields being droved and stomped onto, leaving tracks traces and footprints. Their numbers countless, as if they are like a wave of the ocean about to hit the village. Their march strikes fear to the soldiers on the walls, lowering morales and losing courage. Tanks' paces slowed down for their foot soldiers. Their air force flying above them with haste, from fighter planes to heavy bombers. The usually quiet and empty lands, the natural blow of wind, the natures of untouched lands, colored by the greens of wild grasses, are now filled and stained by the raging machines of the modern world. Polluting the air, covering the surroundings with the smokes of the vehicles. Birds are diverting from the plane's direction, gathering together in the air and on the ground, making noises together as if they are giving hints of a natural disaster.

"Who are leading these guys, I wonder?" Tanaka broke their silence. "Either Setogawa or Liliya..." Nagami responded. "Nami doesn't bring out that much" Tanaka looked behind to them. "Then the whole Red Mosin then?" Takumi asked as she walks forward. "I bet it's not just Saiju. They are also after us. Liliya doesn't want traitors unlike Shichiro" She said then she summoned a binocular, which got their attention. "You can even spawn a thing... Just how long have you been learning them? I'm really surprised" Nagami said. Takumi just smiled as she looks for the ground troops. "Hold on..." Her tone suggested that she saw something. "Что? (What?)" Nagami looked ahead despite not clearly seeing anything. "Я вижу Тiger I... (I see Tiger I)" Takumi responded. "Huh? О чем вы? (Huh? What are you talking about?)" Nagami looked again with squinted eyes. "Здесь... (Here...)" Takumi throws the binocular at the T-26 and Nagami caught it and quickly looked ahead. "Что немцы здесь делают? Tо не может быть... (What are the Germans doing here? It can't be...)" She saw a Tiger I that is seemed leading the pack. "That's definitely Heidemarie. They're the only one using Tigers on the field..." Tanaka said. "Aren't they doing that 'gathering the storm' bullshit? Why would they join the assault?!" Takumi sounded annoyed. "Who knows. She might have taken interest in this world too" He answered. "Like, 'it's our time' kind of stuff... You see any of their uniforms?" He asked.

Nagami takes a look again. "I only see our uniforms, no jerry uniforms yet..." She said. "They could be behind them, no way Heidemarie could be joining the assault by herself" He said. "Heidemarie. Heidemarie. Just call her with her own name! Himari! That nickname is way too obnoxious" Takumi was mad for that reason. " I think that name is beautiful! But... Her real name is Himari Chinen, right?" Sagiri asked. "She's leading the German circle..." She said. "Yeah. She gathered people who are interested in German technologies and built a faction of her own" Nagami nodded. "We don't usually share military equipment and vehicles with them, but we borrow some of their aircraft sometimes... Why do you sound like you just joined?" Takumi asked her. "I didn't get to ask much about them. I almost didn't know there was a german side in our Organization if it weren't for their different uniforms..." She responded. "That pretty much shows that you are new face" Takumi laughed. "It's not just Red Mosin, my friend. If Liliya can make faction like that, so the others too. There are Jerries, the Froggies, and the Vikings" She said. "F-Froggies?" Sagiri looked confused. Takumi looked at her with one brow up. "German, French and Swedish factions..." She said with a sigh. "Oh? Vikings aren't Swedish alone, you know" Tanaka said. Takumi turned back to him. "So what's your point?" She asked, hands on her hips. "That naming them 'Vikings' doesn't specify them as Swedish!" "Shut up! Here they come!" Nagami shouted as the planes approach fast.

"Chiho should hurry, we can't handle them all! We need that Peacemaker!" Takumi shouted. "I'm going before they bomb the whole place!" With that, she ran ahead to get the distance. "Our bullets should penetrate their tanks..." Tanaka took his Mosin-Nagant from his back and opened the bolt slightly. He felt faint magic emitting from the bullets. Then he closed it shut. "Sagiri?" He checked on his sister. "I'm good!" She took hers and also did the same thing. "Are you guys on an AT squad?" Nagami asked. 'Obviously..." Tanaka replied. "Well, you might be part of Nami's army. They are issued with the same armor-piercing rounds from her no matter what your designated class is" Nagami said. "I and Sagiri spent our whole time with Minohara-san's squad. We would keep them safe from any enemies while they do their 'sniping'. Until Mark joined in and we were lucky to be included on one of the troops that were transferred under his control" He said. "Minohara? Shichiro's tank commanders?" Nagami asked. "Yeah. They are very skilled and talented. I wouldn't like to separate myself from them, I would-" Takumi suddenly flew off and one of the approaching planes exploded. "Ah! She's gone for it! Let's go!" Tanaka alerted his sister and flew away. "Начало революции! (The start of a revolution!)" Nagami slams down her hatch and they drove ahead with the BT-7

Meanwhile, inside Saiju, Mark was imprisoned into a temporary cell beneath the leader's building. It was surrounded by crumbling cold stone walls and a single candle hanging from the wall in the middle of the cell. The whole village has heard the incoming planes and their explosions on the air. People are running for safety and the soldiers are forming at the walls. Some of them started firing the Maxim M1910s with a bipod mounted at the walls at the incoming planes, some of them are using their large crossbows against the enemies on the ground. Groups of soldiers are pushing their catapults and some are sent outside to alert the whole region. "It's started!" Mariko shouted. They were still in the underground when the village was fully alert. "I can hear those guns at the walls!" She looked at Chiho. "Well, come on! Let's not waste time here!" Chiho ran past them and they followed her outside. As they bust out of the building, they saw blue traces connecting to the planes and exploding them. A Pe-2 survived Takumi's attack and is falling from the skies directed at the middle of the village. "Oh no!" Chiho stopped on her tracks to see the plane drops four bombs, dealing wide damages on the village before crashing itself down to the Markets. "Shit! It's all going to be Tsuchiya again!" Mariko shouted. "Let's destroy those planes before they wreck the whole place!" Chiho shouted at them. "Mariko! Go get something to fight with!" Chiho said before flying away. Shu Fang and Ayumi followed her up the skies. "Something to fight with?!" Mariko looked around and turned back inside.

"Leader-san!" Mariko called upstairs but no one responded. She quickly climbed up the stairs and met Gentaro at the doorway. "Ah... Takumi stockpiled some guns here, right?!" She asked. Both of them stormed down to the underground and gathered guns from a dim-lit room where they hid them. Mariko chose a scoped SVT-40 and a PPSh-41 to carry. "I need someone to carry my ammunitions!" She said. They went upstairs and took a soldier in guard duty to go with her to carry her ammo. Then Mariko ran outside. She ran to the right and turned straight left. From there, they ran past through the panicking people and soldiers. She saw the skies covered with bright traces and thick smokes. She can also hear the soldiers' shouts up the wall to their right. "Shit... wait!" Mariko placed her arms in front of the soldier to stop. Another Pe-2 hasn't been completely destroyed and was going down directed at the center of the village. Like the first one, the plane dropped its bomb, obliterating a wide area before crashing itself somewhere. "This is bad! It's happening again! Saiju will be destroyed!" The soldier screamed. "Calm down!" Mariko shouted. "It'll not be the same as Tsuchiya! We now have something to fight back!" She said. "Y-You're right..." He calmed himself down. "Come on, come on!" Mariko ran again. After running at some time, they are half-way through the entrance. "Where are we going exactly?!" He asked.

"I don't know, but let's go outside for now!" "That's dangerous!" Mariko told him and he quickly objected. "We can't stay he-!" The walls to their right suddenly exploded, debris loudly falls to the ground and scatters. "No!" The soldier screamed as they stare at the holed wall. "Fuck! They're swarming in from that hole!" Mariko shouted. They ran to cover distance and hid behind a large crate. "I'm gonna shoot them!" She said as she moves up to the surface and aimed at the hole. Enemy soldiers are pouring in, climbing up the pile of stones that were once served as the protection of the village. Mariko chose a target and fired. The male soldier was shot at his left chest while going down from the rubble and fell down instead. "I saw that!" He said. Mariko kept firing at the soldiers flooding in from the hole until they noticed her flashes. One of them splashed their PPSh against Mariko's cover. Despite the inaccuracy due to the distance and recoil, it was enough to scare Mariko and go down. "They saw us!" She said. "Change position?" The soldier asked. "Yeah, yeah..." Mariko took a peek and they are now running towards them. "They're coming here!" Mariko placed her SVT on the crate once again and sniped some of the soldiers. They stopped her by pressuring her with gun fires "We can't stay here, Mariko-san!" The soldier shouted. "Come!" He ran back and Mariko followed her. The enemy soldiers fired at them but they escaped unscathed.

"If you're gonna use that sharpshooter, we better off hiding inside the Akuzawa residence!" The soldier pointed to a building to their right as they run. It was not too far from them. "B-But that's where the planes are crashing!" Mariko looked at the black smoke rising up past the house. "It's the only high ground we can step on! We can't use that thing at the opposite wall!" He shouted. "They might shoot the house down if we were found out!" Mariko shouted. The soldier was quiet for a second. "Screw it, the whole place is gonna get bombed anyway!" He shouted. After running straight, they turned right and the house was in sight from the left of the intersection. They had to run around it to get into the front. "Akuzawa-sama! Let us in, please!" The soldier shook the gates. The door quickly opened and revealed a familiar woman. "Haruna! No!" A male voice came out as soon as she ran out to open the gates for them. "Thank you!" The soldier ran ahead with Mariko. "Mariko?" Haruna looked back as she closes the gates again. "What's the meaning of this?!" Her father blocked the doorway. "Sir, forgive our intrusion! But we need a high ground to shoot from!" He bowed on him and apologized. "I cannot accept this!" The father was red in the face. "Sir! The eastern wall is holed! The least we can do is try to hold them off or this whole place will be full of enemies soon!" The soldier insisted. "There are no other structures we can step on!" He said. "C'mon old man, this isn't an argument!" Mariko grabbed the man's collar and pushed him inside. His eyes widen in surprise as he gets pushed back. "Your precious house is gonna fall into ashes anyway!" She pushed him away and they rushed upstairs. "Father!" Haruna ran to his side. "I'm fine..." He said as he fixes his collar.

They ran in a circle as the stairs are in the same spot. They ran up the four floors before reaching their terrace up high. Mariko quickly aimed down at the streets while the soldier falls to the ground to catch his breath. After firing one, Mariko shouted. "Goddamn it! They are coming here!" The enemies are coming from the street they were running on before. From the terrace, she holds off the soldiers, picking the enemies one by one. The soldier took her PPSh to help her. Meanwhile, up in the skies. Takumi and the others are easily taking down the planes as no other thing is defending them besides the few enemy soldiers who can also fly. Takumi's thunder-like power was very effective in taking down several planes in a short time. However, the count of the planes is enormous, some are able to get pass through them and drops their bomb down the village and break away from their formations. On a Pe-8, Takumi landed beside the rear support gunner, surprising him. "До свидания... (Goodbye...)" She smiled at him before stabbing his head through the glass with her blade. Then she turned to the cockpit and went for the remaining pilots. She quickly opened the cockpit and threw the bodies out with the help of the intense wind blowing them away. She got in and quickly regained control of the plane.

Her eyes flash as she reaches for her allies' minds. "Be advised, I hijacked a Pe-8 Bomber, 84th squadron. Chiho, don't touch the big plane with an '84' number on its rear, you got it?" She said as she focuses on turning the plane back to the enemy ground units. "W-What?!" Chiho shouted loud and looked around. She saw Ayumi and Shu Fang stopped in confusion. "This is called Telepathy, but Shichiro and Mariyou didn't call it that way. I believe you have witnessed this kind of power from Mariyou herself. I'm speaking to you with my thoughts alone. Such power is essential when you can't or don't want to use your mouths when there's someone listening" Takumi said. "Remember what I said. Big plane with '84' number on it. Don't tell me you still don't know how numbers look like?" She said. "I got it!" The three of them answered before continuing on dealing with the planes. Ayumi was using her chained sickle infused with sharpening magic that made her sickle brights pink. She will either cut through the cockpit and behead the pilots or cut the plane's wings and using the hardening magic to push the plane down. Shu Fang was in her shade form and just like Takumi, she's hitting the planes with insane speed, disturbing their flight, and making the plane uncontrollable. Some got pushed down and crashed to the lands as it cannot fly back up quickly.

While the two are busy, she looked around. At the brief seconds, she saw some flashes of guns from the opposite side. Then she saw one diving plane with '84' written on its rear fuselage. "Ah! There it is!" They were distant from Takumi's plane so she can return on freely killing down planes again. Back on the ground, The BT-7 and T-26 are on a top of a small hill. With their shells imbued with magic power, they are able to take down heavier tanks and disrupt their formations. "Load HE! Fire at those infantries!" Nagami shouted a command. "Выполняю! (Will do!)" Kaho took a shell that has a bright light on its tip. She rammed the shell inside the gun. "Давай, стреляй! (Go on, shoot!)" Kaho shouted. Satomi aimed for the ground on where the enemy soldiers are running, they are disappearing from the corner of Saiju's wall. The T-26 fired and a large number of soldiers were blown away by the shell. "Готов! (Killed them!)" Satomi shouted. Its shot showered the nearby tanks with dirt and turned to their direction. "Нас выясняют! Oтступать, поспешите! (They found us! Back away, hurry!)" They saw the tanks' turrets rotating and aiming down their sights at them and Nagami ordered the driver to reverse away. "Бетка! Пошли, держись рядом! (Betka! Let's move, stay close!)" Nagami told the BT-7 to relocate with them as they are found. The two tanks backed down the hill and moved away. They moved to their left, leaving the hill and leaving them exposed to the enemies.

As they are visible, the enemy tanks started firing. Due to both of them moving, most of the shots miss them. The whistles of the shells flying past by them terrified them. As they were reaching another hill, the BT-7's right tracks were broken by a shell shot near them. It slightly slanted to the left and the tank was forced to turn towards their right where are the enemies at. "Shit! Our right track is gone!" The BT-7 commander shouted in fear. "Laying fire!" Even though de-tracked, the BT-7 kept shooting. "Hold on!" Nagami shouted as they take cover on a mound. Peeking to its left, the T-26 shoots with the BT-7. "Takumi! We need some help here!" She shouted. "Hold on!" Takumi moved away from her original targets and went for the tanks aiming at them. "На прикури! (Lights up!)" Takumi released the bombs and pulled up. "Whooo!!!" Both of the tanks cheered as the enemies got bombarded. "Хороший! Takumi! (Good one, Takumi!)" Nagami said. "Aye!" Takumi was laughing when she got hit by something, shaking the plane. "Damn! Somebody shot the plane!" Takumi shouted. As she looks around her, she saw the tanks shooting the walls down completely. "Shit, their wall is gone!" She stared at the enemy troops going through the rubble of the walls and entering the village. "I'm crashing this plane!" Takumi turned the plane back and aimed towards the remaining armies outside the village. "Alright..." Takumi opened the canopy and jumped out, leaving the plane to crash at the ground at full speed.

As she falls, she saw incoming german planes. "What the hell?!" There were multiple Stukas and Focke-wulf fighter planes with the Balkenkreuz symbols. "German squadrons in sight!" Takumi shouted. "Вот какого чёрта они тут делают?! (What the fuck are they doing here?!)" Nagami looked at the skies. "Их приоритетность! (Prioritize them!)" She shouted. "Aye! Chiho, guys! Make sure to destroy the planes with the black cross as their symbols! Those Östkampfer Stukas' bombs are way deadlier than these Pe bombers!" Takumi warned them. "You heard her?! The one with black cross! Let's deal with them first if we ever get close to them!" Chiho shouted at the two. "Chiho!" Tanaka flew towards her. "I and Sagiri will fly down the village! Your people are being overrun down there!" He said before the two of them flew down. Sagiri stopped and faced her. "Wait!" She shouted. Chiho was about to fly away but was called. "Those German planes... Like Takumi-san said, they are wearing black crosses as their symbols! They are flying in formations like the others, so go for their side and use your Peacemaker's power to shoot through them with one shot!" After that, she hurried to follow her brother. "I... I got it!" Chiho smiled as she gets what Sagiri meant.

Without wasting any more time, Chiho flew to her right, to the side of the battlefield. Ayumi saw her going away. "Onee-chan! Where are you going?!" She shouted but Chiho didn't hear her. "Black cross... Black cross..." Chiho watches the planes passing by. "There!" She saw camouflaged Stukas flying in line abreast formation. She quickly pressed the button of the Peacemaker and aimed at Stukas. Her rage started to gather, having her eyes, along with the Peacemaker, sparking with power. "Aiming..." Chiho set her sights ahead of the Stuka's direction. Once they entered her scope, she fired. The Peacemaker roared in the air as it fired its enormous power, Chiho pushed away due to the recoil almost losing the Peacemaker from her hand. Its yellow trace cuts through the fuselage of the Stukas and explodes at the same time, breaking away their fighter escorts, some are hit by the explosions and are going down. "There goes the Peacemaker!" Takumi stopped to see the yellow trace disappear. "That's one hell of a weapon..." The BT-7 and the T-26 saw the explosions of the Stukas up the skies. "She's so cool!" Ayumi and Shu Fang were watching her when she fired the Peacemaker. "What the hell was that?!" Mariko saw a burst of fire and smoke at the corner of her eyes and stopped firing. "What's that bright line?!" The soldier pointed at the yellow trace. "Peacemaker! Urgh!" Mariko was happy before quickly realizing that she had enemies to fire. As soon as she looked through her scope, she saw the enemies also looking up the skies, curious about what caused the noise.

"This is no time to get carried away!" Mariko fired at one of the soldiers, surprising them and making them focus back. "She has done it!" Sagiri cheered as they are under fire at a broken wall. "Who would have thought some villagers can take Sera-sama's Peacemaker just like that..." Tanaka smiled. "It was Mark's fault, though" Sagiri said and they both smiled at each other. Chiho remained at the skies, looking at the havoc she made. "Whew..." She changed back to normal as the Peacemaker recharges itself. Hearing the loud noise, the tanks aimed at her and started firing. Chiho quickly flew away to avoid them. A minute has passed, Mariko and her assisting soldier took many enemies off the streets. But they are endlessly being replaced by other soldiers "Argh!" Her scope was shot from one of the charging enemies. She backs off inside. "Damn it! They shot my gun!" She said. "A-Are you okay?!" The soldier was firing her PPSh when she was shot. "I'm fine, I'm fine..." Mariko sways her hands. With that, the soldier returned on firing. "Ah!" He saw their own army in horseback charging against the enemies. "They have arrived!" The horsemen have swords, spears, and guns with them as they charge, outnumbering the enemies on the street.

On Kosunjin-Yi, a Saijun messenger arrived and alerted the leader that the Saiju is under siege by the Prohorovkans. Maeru's forces who were convincing them to join their side were quickly held by their soldiers and were dragged to see their leader. "Tell your woman THE SAIJU IS UNDER ATTACK!!!" The leader was outraged and angrily shouted at the enemy soldiers. "你死定了... 殺了他們! (You're dead... Get rid of them!)" With his order, the soldiers quickly slit their throat. Some of them were able to react quickly and struggle away from them. Thus, the Kosun is now also under attack. The other Kosun soldiers ran away to warn Tamie who just arrived to park her Stuka. She helped the village defend against the enemy soldiers inside.

Back on Saiju, Tanaka and Sagiri was now in contact with the Saijun army and helps them hold off the enemies. "Hey, hey!" Tanaka looked for a very armored one on a horse. "Where are the AT guns?!" He asked. "W-What gun, sir?!" The commander asked. "Anti-tanks! The one with two wheels!" Tanaka shouted. "Y-Yeah! They are in the Markets, placed for ambushes!" The commander said. "Bring some of them outside! Our friendly tanks need help! Two Pak-40s and two Zis-3 is good enough! Line 'em up with the tanks and they are good to go!" Tanaka said. "Roger that!" The commander nodded and ordered some of his men to get the AT guns outside. They continued to hold off the enemies for a while. Meanwhile, in the skies, the girls have become tired and they have become less agile and a bit powerless. Seeing that the planes are continuously flying ahead makes it more tiring for them. "I can't... It's my limit..." Ayumi landed on the left wing of an Fw-190. From there she catches her breath. It took the pilot half a minute to realize someone was on her wings. Ayumi quickly got rid of the pilot and took over the cockpit. From there, she closed the canopy and used the flight stick, the only thing she remembers on controlling the plane. She focused on catching her breath while she turns the plane back and aims for the ground. "I'm... I'm crashing a plane, guys!" The plane was on full throttle and racing towards the ground. "Дочь?" A female voice came through the radio but Ayumi was busy escaping the plane. "Eeep!" She cried as she hurriedly stands and jumps out of the plane.

The plane crashed into the ground, destroying few tanks and several foot soldiers. Meanwhile, Takumi was also starting to get fatigued. However, without them realizing, they already managed to take out the rest of the planes. The next wave was still far away, giving them time to handle the ground. "Whew..." Takumi wiped her sweat off her forehead. "Guys, the skies are clear. Go take care of the ground for now. I will..." As she was looking around, she saw four carriages down the village towing the AT guns and charging fast towards the entrance. "I will tell you when the planes are near!" Takumi then flew ahead of their route and took out the enemies that they will get contact into. "Cleared..." She whispered as she waits for the carriages to go past her. Chiho sniped the enemies from the skies, while Shu Fang and Ayumi goes down, killing many foot soldiers. Meanwhile, in the Akuzawa residence, Mariko and the soldier were taking fire on the second floor. They hid into a room and shooting the wall near the stairs to stop the enemy soldiers from going up. "Hey! You saw our army right?! Let me take the gun and call out for help upstairs!" Mariko said. He gave the PPSh to her and he ran upstairs. The enemies heard his footstep and climbed up the stairs. "Stay away!" Mariko fired, stopping them from having another step. "Бей то гадов! Одна из комнат! (Bey to gadov! Odna iz komnat! )" She heard them shouting something. "Граната! Oпааа! (Granata! Opaaa!)" As she heard another shout, she saw a round shape thrown towards her. With quick reaction, she shut the door close, preventing the grenade to enter her room. After a few seconds, the grenade took off.

"Motherfucker!" When the grenade exploded, she heard them going up the stairs. She opened the door and open fired at them. "Спуститесь, иди! (Spustites, idi!)" They shouted as they hurriedly go back downstairs. Mariko shot six soldiers and they fell dead on the floor. "Great!" She saw the two PPSh on the ground, she took them and their drum magazines in the room. "Don't come in here, motherfuckers!" Mariko shouted. "Fuck you!" A sweet reply came from downstairs. "Grr..." Mariko fired at the walls again to scare them as she makes her way to the dead bodies. "These are those exploding things, right?!" Mariko took a Mk 2 grenade from one of the bodies. "Eat this...!" She took off the pin and the lever springs away from the grenade. She threw it downstairs, hitting a soldier on his face and panicking away from the stairs. "Over here! Over here!" As she was waiting for the grenade to take off, she heard the soldier up in the terrace calling for help. When the grenade exploded, she was surprised she heard no screams. "They're all dead...?" Mariko came down quietly with her gun ready. An enemy came out of a table and has her gun on Mariko, but she was bested in who pulled the trigger first.

"Неeeт! (Nooo!)" Another soldier came out of hiding from the same table, he looked at the girl sadly for a second. Mariko quickly showered him with the PPSh and he fell on the girl. "Вы... Akh! (You... Akh!)" Two soldiers came out of hiding from her right but two Saijun soldiers came in and fired at them with an SVT and PPSh. "Mariko-san! Where's the Akuzawa?!" One of them asked. "They're safe! They're on the third floor!" Mariko responded. "Good! I'm glad you're both safe! The eastern wall is completely gone! They're swarming in!" He said. "Go back to Gentaro-sama if you need weapons and ammunition! Otherwise, help the others hold off the enemies at the east!" He said before heading upstairs. More friendly soldiers came in to secure the area. As she was about to go out, the soldier she was with called her from the stairs. "Mariko-san! Do you still need me?" He asked. Mariko stopped at the doorway and turned back. "Y-Yeah... Come with me if you like" She nodded and she waited for him to go down and they ran outside. The streets are now filled with Saijun army, going to the east and securing the surrounding areas. "Great. We are still many. Let's go!" Mariko and the soldier ran with the army towards the east. "You saw the whole place up there? How'd it look?" She asked. "The damage is very big, especially in the middle, and the Markets. But surprisingly, the other part of the village is untouched. The entrance opened normally and I saw some carriage made it out safely" He responded. "See? If it were like Tsuchiya, this whole village will be long gone!" Mariko grinned, which makes him happy.

Meanwhile, in the fields. Both T-26 and BT-7 is sneakingly firing at the enemies when they are no longer focused on them. They have effectively shut off many tanks they could. "Nagami-san! There are horse transports with PaKs and Zis ATs!" The commander of the BT-7 told them. "Goddamn! That's a big help! A big thanks to whoever told them to bring some!" Nagami and her crew cheered. The BT-7 crew went out of their tank to help the Saijun soldiers set up the AT guns.

The siege was still hot. More Prohorovkan tanks are still coming in and the infantries are still pushing their way inside the village. The T-26 and BT-7 and their Anti-tank guns are effectively taking down enemy tanks from their position on the west of the battlefield. The girls at the skies cleared out the planes and prevented the village from being heavily bombarded. They helped the ground for a while and despite being tired, the girls returned to the skies and continued taking down any incoming planes to prevent them from reaching the village and disrupting their bombing runs. Takumi would go after the planes that are heading towards the Nagami's direction to prevent them from getting bombed. With Mariko, Tanaka, and Sagiri helping the Saijun army to defend the eastern part of the village, the enemies were having a hard time pushing through the village. The tanks are being outrun by the horses in the narrow streets and they can't use High-explosive rounds as they were told not to, to prevent friendly-fire. Most of them are being jumped by the soldiers from the horses and getting shot inside of their tanks. The army that was tasked to jump on the tanks and clear out the crews were Yagano's. They prioritized the tanks and the other armies would cover fire. The attack remained for more than twenty minutes, the last five minutes were starting to get minimal. Some of them are starting to retreat. Until they were called out to completely retreat.

"They're going back!" A soldier cheered loudly as they saw the enemies pulling back. "Yeah!" "Take that!!!" "Long live the Tsukosa!!!" The very hyper cheers reached out the friendly tanks in the fields. "We did it?!" Nagami heard them and pops out of her hatch. "Son of a bitch we made it!" She slams the turret. "We defended the place!" The commander of the BT-7 cheered on his hatch. The crews of the AT guns have started to cheer as well, putting their fists up and screaming.

Meanwhile, at Trupriv/Betty. "Was? Ihre Truppen sind weg?" A light-blonde haired girl was mocking Nami on a tower. "Speak Japanese" Nami said as she looked at the battlefield with a binocular. "Damit habe ich nicht gerechnet..." The girl giggled. "One more German word and I'm kicking you off this tower. Try me" Nami glared at her and looked back to her binoculars. "I said that I wasn't expecting you. You to be defeated like that" She said. "Well, that GODDAMN Takumi and her friends helped them and took most of our birds down!" Nami stomped hard. "Someone was flying too fast, almost unseen by bare eyes. They are destroying the planes one by one, I can barely focus on them. I don't know who that was, but that certain power is one of Mariyou's. And that can't be Mariyou herself" Nami grits her teeth in anger. After seeing her army retreat, she sat down the binoculars and faced the girl. "What about you Fräulein Heidemarie?" She asked. Himari coughs off. "Excuse me, don't call me that. It is very offensive" She said. "Then what? Herr Heidemarie?" Nami looked confused. "No, God no... Just call me... Führer" Himari moved her hands to her back and stands proud.

"I'd stick with Heidemarie, I'm more superior than you" Nami shook her head. "Whatever. If you already had your tails between your legs, then I guess it's time for us to strike now" Himari said. She took her radio and spoke. "Verstärkt den Angriff, der Sieg ist unser!" She said to the radio. "Verzeihung, Heidemarie! Aber das ist völlig unmöglich! Die Russen hatten sich zurückgezogen!" A voice responded to her, making her sigh. "You were supposed to show us how it's done, Nami. You disappoint me..." She let out another sigh before going for her radio. "in Ordnung. Rückzug! Wir ziehen uns auch zurück!" She said then faced Nami. "You barely even damaged the village. How embarrassing" She insulted her. "Huh?!" Nami grabbed her collar and brought her closer. "Didn't you understand? There was someone with that power that makes them fly in a very crazy speed, that a naked eye can't see! And most of our planes are from a world war back in the twentieth century! They aren't no modern jets!" She shouted. Despite her aggressiveness, Himari was still calm and smiling. "Then that makes us on the same level..." She said. "You goddamn German junkies!" Nami pushed her off. "Get that fucking smile off your face!" She shouted.

"You're no superior. You can't even kill a single magic-user" Himari said. In anger, Nami pulled a knife and brought it on Himari's neck. "I will slit your throat, I SWEAR!" She shouted. "...Sie können mich nicht töten, Ich bin Deine Führer..." Himari looks up to her due to their height differences. She gently rubs her cheeks. "Nami Setogawa. You're a disgrace to Red Mosin by doing this" She whispered. Then she grabbed her arm, surprising her. "Losing temper to a lower faction than yours..." She grips her arm hard. "Slit my throat, then..." Himari slowly slides her arm across her neck. "Hey!" Nami's eyes widen as she pulls herself away from her. Blood pours from her neck down to her chest. "In the end, you're all talk..." Himari wipes the blood and showed it to her. "A superior can kill and betray an ally, no matter what the consequences..." She gestured stabbing a knife in her intestine. Nami couldn't react to her. Satisfied on how Nami reacted, Himari sighed with a smile. "I will take care of it. We will gather forces again and go for that silly village again. It will be a Blitzkrieg!" She smiled at her. "Fine. Do what you want, I'm telling Shichiro you're gonna replace Mark's position" Nami heads for the ladder. "No, no. We are not replacing that guy, we are just here for a tour" Himari said. "Whatever..." Nami shook her head and went down the ladder.

At the end of the day, the Saiju was successfully defended. Takumi's hidden powers saved them from being bombed. Together with Chiho and her group, they handled the rest of the planes. The T-26 and BT-7 helped to disable tanks and some foot soldiers from a different location. Mariko managed to hold off the enemies entering the village before their army is mobilized. The Saijun army used the advantage of narrow streets to deal with the tanks, leaving many unmanned tanks blocking the streets.