Chapter 1245

Episode 1245. Do you really want to fire at the stagecoach?

The southern kingdom bordering the Imperial Principality of Topla is the Shade Kingdom.

The Shade Kingdom was located on the road to the Great Forest and was not adjacent to the Great Forest.

But the problem is that it borders the empire.

When the Adriatic Masdar Bostania Kingdom bordering the Great Forest began to control the Abyss, the Imperial Army asked to open the way to the Shade Kingdom.

Since the southern kingdom was always in a state of alliance, such a request could not work.

When the imperial army gathered on the border of the Shade Kingdom with the intention of breaking through, Adria Masdar and the Kingdom of Bostania sent an army to the Shade Kingdom.

And finally, the armies of both sides clashed on the border between the Principality of Toplar and the Shade Kingdom.

The war went differently from people’s predictions from the beginning.

For example, in the Empire, it was believed that the Empire, a military power, would crush the Confederate Army of the Southern Kingdoms.

On the other hand, the southern kingdoms were confident of their victory with the strategic weapon called the Steel Golem.

However, when the war started, the result was neither one nor the other.

If the Imperial Army struggled against the steel golems of the Southern Kingdoms Alliance, the Southern Kingdoms Alliance was in a bad fight because the command was not unified.

As a result, the Imperial Army and the Confederate Army of the Southern Kingdoms were repeating one step at a time across the border.

The field artillery of the Shade Kingdom Army.

Early moning.

Count Roman Barnett, the commander of the Field Artillery Corps, personally found the front line where the magic cannon was radiated.

After inspecting the nine magic cannons, he called three gunnery commanders.

“You must know the way from Torrens (the southernmost city of the Principality of Toplar) to the Shade Kingdom border checkpoint, right?”

“yes! This is Azesa Road.”

“We are not firing magic cannons towards Azesa Road.”

“Even the imperial bastards don’t touch Azesa Road.”

The three gunners threw one word at a time.

Count Roman Barnet, who had been listening silently, said after washing his face dry with both hands.

“Today, there is an intelligence report that a great aristocrat of the empire is planning to infiltrate using a stagecoach. Do you know what that means?”

One of the gunnery rangers asked cautiously.

“Are you shelling Azesa Road?”

Then a satisfied smile appeared on Count Roman Barnet’s face.

“Yes. Information about the Iron Golem must not be given to the Imperials. If you see a wagon on Azesa Road, don’t hesitate to defeat it. Got it?”

The field artillery commander’s question was not immediately answered by the gunnery commanders.

Because shelling the wagons was like an order to kill civilians.

Count Roman Barnett approached the hesitant gunners and kicked them in the shin.

“hey! this! Dogs! why no answer! So, are we going to give the Empire all the best secrets of our southern kingdoms? uh? Still, are you guys southern aristocrats!”

The gunnery chiefs stumbled with short screams.

They, all barons, did not dare to object to the count’s words, and responded hastily.

“Sorry!”

“I’ll do it!”

When the gunners said they would do it, the field artillery commander’s hardened face finally opened up.

After a while, a light sigh flowed from the mouth of Count Roman Barnet, who sent the gunners back.

‘Whew!’

The nobles of the Kingdom and the Three Magic Towers of the Empire are not enemies, but companions.

If the magic gun of the three great magic towers of the empire was popular in the kingdom, the great nobles of the kingdom were also important customers for the three great magic towers of the empire.

Even when the war broke out, that basic position did not change.

Such a relationship was possible because the mages prioritized the Mage Tower over the Empire.

The Empire’s Three Great Magic Towers and the southern kingdoms maintained their trade through smuggling, avoiding the eyes of the Imperial Intelligence Agency.

Yesterday, however, the trading manager of the Taboola Magic Tower made a strange request.

―There will be a stagecoach coming into the Shade Kingdom this morning. Destroy the stagecoach with the Count’s field artillery. If you do, I will double your annual magic gun sales.

‘Attack the stagecoach with magic cannons... Anyway, they’re people I can’t understand.’

“It did.”

“Then why are you shooting magic cannons this way? You must have made a mistake?”

However, despite his wishes, shells began to fall around him.

bang! bang! bang! Quaang-!

Fabian, who was watching out the window, shouted.

“There are shells falling on the road! Those madmen are shooting magic cannons at the stagecoach!”

“Don’t make a fuss. The stagecoach isn’t standing still. If you run like this, it’s hard to hit even with a magic gun. But do you think you’ll get hit by a magic cannon that fires without looking?”

“But if you’re unlucky...”

“I think you’ll just have to be cubic.”

As Elio glared at him, Fabian covered his mouth with one hand.

The five stagecoaches galloped madly through the barrage.

Hitting a fast-moving wagon with artillery fire was not unusually difficult.

However, the road the wagons were running on was fixed, and the field artillery’s magic cannon fire was quite precise.

In the end, one of the wagons was hit by a cannonball and smashed to pieces.

But the carriage’s passengers did not know that the wagon had been hit and destroyed by shells.

Boom! Boom! Kwak-!

The road was dented by the shells and smashed stones splattered in all directions.

The shell also landed near Elio’s carriage.

‘Boom!’ Stone fragments hit the wagon with the sound of an explosion.

Follow me! Pew-!

All of a sudden, the window where Elio was sitting was smashed by a piece of stone.

In Elio’s self-defence, shards of glass were thrown out of the wagon.

Suddenly, a gasp escaped Elio’s lips.

“Yah! The artillery units must have practiced shelling a lot. Very accurate?”

“Now is not the time to be admiring. hey! Crazy guys! Why are you bombarding ordinary people! Who is the artillery commander? Do you really want to try it!”

Excited Fabian yelled out the window.

Elio spoke as Fabian gasped for breath after making a loud noise.

“Did you talk? Your sound was louder than the sound of falling shells. Are you going to kill us with your sound?”

“sorry. Stop because I’m crying.”

“Shut up and be quiet. Because the bombardment seems to have stopped.”

“yes.”

Fabian kept his mouth shut.

Doo doo doo doo!

There was no real explosion, except for the clatter of the hooves of the four horses.

Crea, who was concentrating on the sound with a nervous face, shouted.

“The bombardment really stopped! It’s over now, right? You’re not going to shoot again, are you?”

Baron Howard Solon shrugged as if he didn’t know.

They do this because they do not know what shame they will face in front of the experienced northern nobles.

The answer came from the mouth of the transport manager who quickly rode his horse to the side of the wagon.

“Looks like the shelling is over! There is a border checkpoint 1 kilometer ahead! There is also the Shade Kingdom army there, so you won’t be able to fire anymore!”

After speaking, the transport manager moved to the wagon behind the mercenaries.

Only then did Crea sweep her chest.

“ha! It’s over. Magic cannons are really amazing. Oh my, look at this stone dust. Scary, scary.”

She made a fuss and brushed off the thick dust on her lap.

Baron Howard Solon was about to say, ‘It’s just dirt coming in through a broken window’.

After all, that dust was also created by shells.

After a while, four wagons arrived at the border checkpoint.

Even during wartime, border checkpoints between the two countries were operating as before the war.

It was thanks to both the Londinium Empire and the Shade Kingdom – out of their own needs – that hostilities were banned at the checkpoint.