Build a Human Empire by Creating Clans

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Admiral

Horatio

Lv. 83

Grade: A

Attributes: [Fellow], [Navigating], [Gunning]

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Nuadil’s expression turned strange as he looked at him.

That would be the case as well, given Horatio’s rank and level, he could have been treated better than Nuadil or Gerhard, but as a naval commander without a navy, he was commanding an under-organized battery on the ground.

“Shoot!”

Kwakwang—!

The siege cannons, which had been spent over half a year of hard work, spewed fire.

Because the gun barrel was increased and the shell was changed from stone to metal, the accuracy was clearly different.

The first bullet hit the wall accurately.

“Ohh.”

Nuadil narrowed his eyes.

The surface of the castle wall hit by the shells fell.

The stones fired in Germania were only to make cracks in the walls, but the metal shells were smashing the walls.

“It’s a pity that the numbers aren’t enough.”

I nodded my head as I watched the siege artillery pounding on the castle wall again and again.

“This war will be a long one. Therefore, even if you only have that one right now, you will soon have enough numbers.”

Even at this moment, Olymus’s arsenal must be running.

“I think this is enough to check the performance.”

As the car was about to stop the bombardment, the gates opened.

“hmm?”

Thirty horsemen came out of the fort.

Nuadil laughed in an absurd tone.

“It must have been quite a shock. A final assault without holding out in the castle? Is it like an honorable death?”

“well.”

【Lv. 38]

【Lv. 43]

【Lv. 39]

【Lv. 47]

“It’s a hybrid.”

I raised my hand again looking at the level of the cavalry.

This time the musketeers, not the artillery, came forward.

The number of musketeers was 211, slightly more than half of one company.

Plus 4 field guns, the same number of siege guns.

“Isn’t that too dangerous?”

“Okay. suitable.”

With a chin, he had his subordinates stand by right behind the musketeers.

If the musketeers are ineffective, let the subordinates deal with the cavalry.

“Ready to shoot!”

Enemy cavalry charge immediately upon exiting the gates.

The musketeers were formed in three lines in front of the cavalry. The first row had their knees on the floor, the second row slightly bent their legs, and the third row stood up straight and aimed at the front.

“Don’t shoot until you see the whites!”

The company commander shouted from the right end of the ranks.

As I recall, his name was Piemon.

He was a mercenary-turned-human who was recommended by a member of his family named Titus.

pop! pop!

Field artillery deployed for infantry support opened fire.

However, the field artillery did not show a hot look like the siege gun.

Because the number of opponents is small and it is too fast. It was a difficult opponent for artillerymen with low proficiency to hit.

“atmosphere!”

Some of the cavalrymen were surprised by the shells that fell nearby and broke away from the ranks, but that’s all.

The thirty cavalrymen sped up as they watched the gunners squirm and reload.

They must be laughing at the foot soldiers aiming wooden sticks in front of them.

It’s your first time seeing cannons, so you’re probably thinking of muskets as just weird spears. At least he must be thinking that he won’t die in vain after the last charge.

“Shoot!”

Ride on and on!

It was a salvo that greeted them.

Hybrid Wars (4)

Hee hee hee!

The horses screamed and fell over.

Enemy cavalry was met with volley fire from a distance of only ten yards from the musketeers. Despite the low accuracy of the musket, few bullets would miss at this range.

“Cheer up!”

All thirty horses were knocked down and did not get up. Fifteen riders struggled to get themselves up, but lost the momentum they had shown earlier and hesitated.

In an instant, flames and smoke exploded in front of his eyes, tearing his flesh and killing his comrades. The shock to the mind would not be normal.

“…”

The smoke that enveloped the musketeers slowly dissipated.

Thick smoke was one of the downsides of black powder. When burning, there was so much smoke that it was impossible to aim a follow-up shot.

The troopers saw the musketeers moving in the dispersing smoke. I didn’t know about gunpowder weapons, but I noticed that the action of the fusiliers was to load the bullets.

“These… you motherf*ckers!”

If you keep standing still, you’ll only get a second shot.

A cavalryman who came to his senses belatedly grabbed his spear.

【Lv. 43]

He suffered only a gunshot wound to his left arm.

There, the distance between the musketry and cavalry was only ten meters.

“It’s dangerous.”

Nuadil muttered, frowning.

The musketeers, which should have prepared for a cavalry charge, were slow.

Because it’s the first practice. It was also the first real battle I experienced against cavalrymen running with all their might. Even if the number of enemies was small, if they were one beat late, they would have died.

The tension took over them and they forgot about training.

He had just tipped the gunpowder cartridge into the muzzle and filled it up. Some shook their hands so much that they even spilled gunpowder on the floor. Even if the cavalry came, they couldn’t finish loading before then.

“Charge! Kill those motherf*ckers!”

The cavalry charged the musketeers.

bang!

At that moment, a hole the size of a fist pierced the cavalryman’s chest.

“…?”

The trooper stupidly lowered his head to look at the hole.

Then he raised his head again and looked to the side.

The gray smoke cleared, revealing field guns.

fluff

Horatio laughed as the trooper fell.

“Good job. okay. You can shoot it like this.”

While all attention was turned to the musketeers and cavalry, he ran to the field battery and commanded the stumbling artillery.

The field battery, which missed the first shot, fired a second time and aimed at the remaining cavalry.

“Keep shooting!”

bang! bang! bang!

The other three field guns also opened fire.

The distance was more than ten meters, and the opponent was just standing there.

It didn’t make sense that it couldn’t be matched directly.

Since the shells were smaller than fists and close in distance, their penetrating power was perfect, so they showed a completely different look from those who were hit by cannons in Germania.

Those hit by the stone shells only bounced or had shrapnel stuck all over their bodies, but the metal shells pierced their bodies and stuck to the ground.

“My… leg, my leg!”

“100 million!”

“aaagh!”

Each of the three cavalrymen had their legs torn off, their heads exploded, and their flanks ruptured by three cannon fire, and they died.

【Lv. 37], [Lv. 36], [Lv. 41]

The cavalry, hit directly by shells,

【Lv. 4], [Lv. 6], [Lv. 5]

The Imperial Army soldier who ignited the fuse,

A gap that Bondi would never be able to compete with.

However, as long as they held the musket, the two became equal.

I made all men free, but the musket Pasimea made equalized them.

“aiming!”

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“…!”

While the cavalry hesitated, frightened by the field artillery, the musketeers finished loading and aimed again at the enemy.

“Come on, sleep…!”

“Shoot!”

Ride on and on!

A second shot annihilated the cavalry.

If you look at the numbers alone, it doesn’t seem like a big deal since they caught 30 people out of 211. But didn’t you just show it? level gap.

Freed slaves who had trained for a lifetime were hunted with the snap of two fingers after months of shooting training. without loss.

“this. It’s more than you think.”

Nuadil muttered as he stroked his white beard.

“Range, reload speed, accuracy… there are many things to improve, but if the numbers come together, the firepower will come out enough to ignore those shortcomings.”

“Because I was expecting that.”

“There are few people in my household who can gain the upper hand against a large musketeer.”

I nodded.

Among his followers, there are numerous levels equal to that of the cavalry.

Whether it was an individual, if they had to deal with the musketeers who formed a group and formed a network like now, even a decent number of people could not help but be forced to suffer.

If I don’t do it right, my followers might reproduce the appearance of the cavalrymen of the Republic of Cesena.

“From now on, I’ll have to wrap myself in armor and go around.”

Do you want to block bullets with armor?

It sounds like a ridiculous idea, but these are family members.

Not only his family, but also the strong ones of the same level as his family. Because they had the strength to crush steel with their bare hands, the armor they wore could increase their defense tremendously if they endured the inconvenience of movement.

“There is also a way to arm yourself with Mithral or Orichalcum.”

Of course, only a few are capable of such arming.

“Is this what the owner wants? We take on enemies that are not affected by gunpowder weapons, and humans take on the rest. yes?”

“okay.”

that’s what i intended

Because the empire has no power to stand against the different races other than its own people.

What would she do if she had an asymmetric force like Calliope, but if the opponent decided and forced a quantity war, she would have no choice.

Let’s remember the time we were hunting Vlad in Wallochia.

At that time, the number of followers I mobilized was 300, and the average level was in the mid-30s. However, except for Calliope and Pasimea, the family succeeded in hunting several blood relatives who had reached level 80.

Is there any guarantee that I won’t have this situation reversed?

“You guys are obviously strong, but you can’t overturn the overwhelming amount. I turned the representative system into an enemy, and the representative system is the entire heterogeneous race. Therefore, I had to prepare an amount that could deal with all the different races.”

Gunpowder weapons were an adequate means to that end.

Its effectiveness has been proven with a criminal record of single-digit level freed slaves slaughtering 30th and 40th level naga hybrids. Now, if weapons were minted from the arsenal and the entire imperial army was armed, the situation of having to look only at the subordinates on land was over.

I smiled contentedly.

“Calliope.”

I rushed her and her followers into the fortress.

The fortress surrendered as soon as the vassals arrived.

After being hit by a siege gun, he fell into a panic and chose to commit suicide, but seeing that even that was crumbling in vain, there was no way he would have the will to fight.

“What will the prisoner do?”

“Didn’t the Catholic Church decide to send a priest?”

“hmm. He’s a priest with a rather odd job of being an indulgences salesman…”

His name was Karamazov.

I remembered the name because the job was so intense.

“Leave it to him. I asked Rachel for a priest for edification.”

“Indoctrination?”

“A republic is different from the two kingdoms. Citizens of the Republic have a deep way of thinking that regards themselves as the same as other races, so you need to be careful.”

I identified the trooper’s body.

Wrinkles wriggled under the corpse’s neck.

As Calliope cut the crease with her sword, an octopus-like creature slithered out from within. I pressed it with a cavalryman’s spear that had fallen to the floor.

“Look.”

“Is this the naga parasite the master said?”

Although it is a parasite, it is slightly different from a parasite.

It only survives for the first few years by exploiting the host’s nutrients. When it grows into an adult, it lives symbiotically with the host and gradually transforms the host into a creature identical to the parasite.

“Because this is a subspecies of naga, the humans who become its hosts also change into a subspecies of naga.”

That is the same as becoming a naga in the eyes of a citizen of the Republic.

“…The reason why humans want to become servants of blood is because of the desire to go beyond humans and become a different race. If the citizens of the Republic are of the same mind as them…”

“I would do anything to become a host.”

That was how the naga ruled the Republic.

They received tribute from humans and indirectly ruled the Republic, selecting loyal citizens and planting parasitic substances, and treating humans as hosts when they became complete subspecies.

“Orcs and goblins only see humans as breeding tools. Vlad and his blood relatives only enslave humans as servants, while Horbid brainwashes humans and their very existence is deception itself.”

“Compared to them, the naga’s behavior of making them subspecies but treating them as their own kind can be seen as benevolent. I heard that they don’t even serve wolves?”

“Yes, merciful. Except for using humans as breeding facilities to breed subspecies offspring.”

“mmm…”

Nuadil narrowed his eyes.

“A different race is just a different race.”

“As if humans were only humans to them.”

Nuadil shook his head and examined the dead troopers.

“Come to think of it, they look alike.”

“The more the mutation progresses to the subspecies, the more the appearance changes. Like a fish, the pupils protrude, the hair falls out of the skin, and scales and gills are formed.”

These mutations raised suspicion that the heterogeneous race was deeply involved in human society, so the scaly hybrids did not leave the Republic. Just as the Knights of the Religion hid their identity of being of mixed blood.

“Try to repair the walls with prisoners. We’re the only ones with cannons right now. For a while, that classic wall will come in handy.”

It was one of the reasons why I conquered all the inland bases without going directly to the capital of the Republic. If you leave the fortress defenders alone, there is a risk of attempting to plunder the rear, and if you occupy the fortress, you can use it for inland defense.

In a situation where pirates are infiltrating inland like now, it will be of great help.

“Where next?”

“There is a city half a day’s drive from here.”

Calliope answered.

“Occupied during the day. Get ready to move.”

“yes.”

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It took about a month to conquer the Republic’s interior territories bordering on western Wallachia.

Me and Gehard’s soldiers suffered little loss during that time, but the coasts throughout the empire became uninhabitable.

It wasn’t that it became barren, it was that the pirates were so infested that the entire coast had to be emptied. Piracy was so severe that they had to vacate their residences and force them to relocate deep inland.

“This is a letter from Rachel.”

Calliope handed over the letter.

“hmm.”

I handed the letter to Gehard, the Minister of Military Affairs, and pressed my fingers to my temples.

Gerhard read the letter and frowned.

“Kyoguk is trying to cross the border again.”

“Since all of Germania is in a frenzy because of pirates, they must have been looking for an opportunity. Nothing to worry about. It was to be expected, and Rachel will take care of it.”

No matter how much I cared, there was no answer.

It’s not just Germania who’s confused.

On the southern border of Wallochia, the frequency of local warfare increased, resulting in the loss of several forts, and in the northern part of the Great Plain of Orocco, Orcs and Goblins were in full swing. Even when he came and talked about Germania, he was not impressed.

“I didn’t know that depriving the sea would be so fatal.”

Gerhard shook his head and sighed.

As he said, the attack from the sea was fierce.

The Republic was simultaneously committing simple and ignorant methods of landing on the coast, kidnapping and escaping imperial citizens under the policy of unlimited plunder on the coasts throughout the empire.

Reports came in that more than a hundred villages had been raided in one month, and that several cities where the family had defended themselves were also devastated.

‘March to the sea, they go through this again.’

I’ve experienced it once before.

A strategy to land in a weakly defended area using superior naval power and destroy the facility while hunting all humans around it.

Through this, the Republic reduced the enemy’s ability to wage war without directly confronting the enemy. The enemy, whose powers were cut down by the Republic, was conquered by the Republic’s allies.

“The biggest problem is that the different races sent by the Great Festival joined the pirate fleet. Since most of them are on the same level as their household members, they cannot be dealt with as humans, and if their household members confront each other, the damage is great.”

8 people are created per day, 240 people in a month.

Of these, less than half of the members of the family can be put into battle.

For reference, there were 92 casualties in the last month.

It wasn’t even an all-out war, but the damage was enormous.

“It’s comforting that there are more replenishments than losses, but the frequency of raids continues to rise, so it’s unclear if it will be the same in the future.”

“It’s okay if you only rely on your family.”

Tadadadadang!

On one side of the garrison, I saw a group of musketeers in shooting training.

The musketeers numbered just over 600 men. A few days ago, Olymus sent 443 muskets produced last month, so I reorganized some of the imperial regiments under my command into musketeers.

Gehard looked at the musketeers and made a sound.

“Isn’t practical experience too lacking? Also, I don’t think it would be appropriate to deal with a different race that engages in guerrilla warfare.”

“Don’t worry. You will face it directly.”

“You mean fight?”

“Sooner or later they won’t even be able to afford to touch the shores of the Empire. You will be convinced that there is no other way but to annihilate us.”

“I’m sorry, but Your Majesty, I understand what you mean…”

“That means we just have to get them all out of the city.”

I said while looking at Tishreddon.

An island at the southwestern end of the Republic’s Inland Territory.

There was a wide sea between the island and the mainland.

The distance is more than 1 km. It was farther than the field artillery’s maximum range.

“mmm…”

Gerhard groaned as if he still didn’t know.

“If it is heavy artillery, it seems to reach it.”

“That’s right, it’s outside the effective range.”

What’s the point of throwing an iron ball that might land somewhere?

“There is not much damage that can be done by blowing shells. At least a few days can be psychologically pressured. But I don’t think that will make the Republic surrender.”

“yes. It will. The only way to be sure of the end is to land in that city and plant a flag.”

Nuadil, who had been listening to Gerhard and me, said,

“But how are you going to land? We don’t have a navy.”

And Nuadil’s words were followed by Horatio.

“We don’t even have a base to run a navy on.”

There are no engineers who can build ships.

Like when making a cannon, if you try to attract an engineer, it will be at the level of making a slightly larger fishing boat. Because the two kingdoms have no history of making warships.

“hmm.”

I saw the sea again.

The ships of the Republic were densely filling the sea.

Maybe it’s to keep us from crossing the sea.

“I guess it’s impossible to sneak across the sea.”

Tsk, Horatio clicked his tongue.

“Is there any good way? You didn’t come here for nothing, did you?”

“Horace. Your tone is rude to His Majesty.”

“His Majesty allowed it, but what kind of meddling are you?”

Horatio snorted, and Gerhard glared.

Gerhard was more fussy than Calliope when it came to hierarchical order, and he often quarreled in this regard. On the other hand, Horatio has a vulgar personality that doesn’t match his title or name.

Considering that Gehard is serving as Minister of Military Affairs, but there are no suitable candidates, so he is also serving as Army Chief, and Horatio is the Navy Chief, it gave me a strange feeling that it was like a confrontation between the Army and Navy.