Chapter 335

EP.335

The next morning.

After receiving the report that the entire army was ready for siege, Peter Yeager approached the castle walls and looked up at them.

As the commander-in-chief of a 150,000-strong army, this may seem like a rash action, but in this era, even in a war situation where the survival of the country is at stake, it is almost impossible to kill the opposing commander who came to give an ‘official recommendation to surrender’.

Because killing an enemy lion is, without exaggeration, an atrocity at the level of raping and massacring innocent civilian villages, and it not only spreads across the entire continent.

In this era, the war had not officially started, but directly shooting and killing a high-ranking person such as an enemy general was considered an atrocity that no human should commit.

Therefore, Captain Jaeger, who had a certain degree of trust, walked slowly and majestically while having Laura follow him holding the division flag of the Reich 7th Guards Division, the unit that he and others feared the most.

“Laura, that’s a good thing. That castle wall looks really strong, but the soldiers guarding it are idiots who can’t even hold a spear properly.”

Laura responded to that statement with a slightly exaggerated chuckle.

“If the soldiers on that wall were elite, I would have advised them to retreat, Captain.”

“I almost came all the way here and couldn’t capture Veneta Castle. In that sense, I am very lucky.”

The ones guarding the high, sturdy walls, about 6 meters high, are men with the skills of a private who had just graduated from a training camp in the Reich Empire.

No, it is a castle guarded by heads of families who must somehow survive and preserve their lives in order to protect their beloved wives and children.

In some ways, it looked like an impregnable and strong castle, but it was fortunate for the imperial army that the people supporting the walls on top were nothing more than trash.

As a man with a wife and children, Captain Jaeger felt a small amount of resistance, but the most important thing to him was the victory of the Empire and the survival of the Imperial soldiers.

He completely let go of his guilt and decided to urge them to surrender, which was the last thing he could do for them as commander of the Imperial Army.

“Hear, brave militia of the walls of Veneta!”

At those words, the nobles standing on the castle wall murmured with tension and fear, asking if that was Peter Jaeger, and the militiamen swore wildly to drive away fear.

Normally, Jaeger would have listened to each of these words and tried to dig up information about the enemy, but right now he had no time or need to do so, so he ignored them and moved on.

Even the soldiers of the imperial army, who had won an overwhelming victory, thought it was a terrible sight, and the sight of the prisoners and their earnest cries of boiling resentment plunged the morale of the militia to the bottom of hell.

Even though the nobles around them were watching, the militia members shed tears of fear or collapsed due to lack of strength.

It is obvious that if you fight against the monster-like imperial army of hell, as testified by those who returned from the last war, you will either die or be reduced to a miserable situation worse than dying like the wounded soldiers in front of you.

Meanwhile, the nobles inside Veneta Castle sensed the militia’s agitation and, in order to correct it, drew their swords and threatened the soldiers.

“You idiots! Peter Yeager Are you going to believe that warmongering bastard’s bullshit! Or will you believe us who lived in the same city!”

“Hold your spear and prepare to fight! “As soon as the imperial army crosses the wall, they will change their tune and immediately rape your wives and children!”

“A cub who sits down because he is scared. A cub who hesitates because of fear. “I will kill you all with the sword of my body!”

Originally, they would have killed some scared citizens as an example and passed around their severed heads to control the militia through fear, but punishing one person out of extreme fear (punishing one person very severely and warning them) would have only backfired, so they could have actually cut them to death. There wasn’t.

However, the soldiers did not want to die right away, so they somehow grabbed their spears and barely managed to lean against the castle wall, preparing to fight against the imperial army.

Peter Yeager returned to his camp and gave strict orders to his generals.

“If there are reasonable grounds that the sacrifice of our troops is necessary, never hesitate and push for it as strongly as possible! Show hell to those ragtag gangs with courage and boldness that goes beyond the training you have received so far! Let their blood flow like a river! Long live your Majesty the Emperor! Long live the Reich Reich!”

As soon as the command was delivered, the knights and archers of the Reich Empire dismounted from their horses and immediately the pre-assembled catapults and ballistas were launched.

The ballista arrows and catapult stones that hit the castle wall made a loud banging sound, but those that flew into the castle had already caused enough fear and tragedy.

More than two or three arrows pierced the bodies of soldiers and citizens, and those who were hit by flying stones died with their bodies crushed and blood and internal organs scattered.

The militiamen who saw this trembled with fear.

‘If that hellish army led by Captain Peter Yeager crosses the castle wall, we won’t be able to fight properly. I’m just going to die.’

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