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96 – Mercenary King and Madwoman 3

The Muenster area located in the northwestern part of the Holy Empire.

The lords and guests of that place, which was not very far from the Palatinate, were at this moment seized with a weightless fear.

“M.. Mansfeld and that Christian or something crazy b*tch are coming back?”

“Yes, that… Yes, lord.”

At this moment, an enormous force is advancing towards Munster Castle.

The fact that an enormous army numbering in the tens of thousands was approaching this side was enough to make people tremble with heavy fear.

“No.. Didn’t that b*tch Christian already take money and goods when he passed by this place a few weeks ago! Why the hell are you coming here again!”

“That… we don’t know that either. but..”

“but?”

The servants who show hesitant reactions with deep anxiety on their faces.

However, soon they will definitely be in this place.

He spoke of what his eyes saw as what would happen next.

“Doesn’t the lord know? About the tragedy they staged in the Palatinate.”

“Many cities and towns, including the Alsace region, have been reduced to ashes. There is no law against us, Munster, being like that!”

Rumors of their tyranny in the Palatinate were well known.

The story of the burning of the city and the massacre of the elderly, women and children without a single survivor was enough to make even them tremble in fear.

It was unimaginable that such a thing would happen again here.

“Ha..but… last time, didn’t you take the money and quietly leave? How about trying that again?”

The lord of Münster asks with hope that it seems like it will collapse if you hit it.

However, the servants all shook their heads and expressed negative opinions about this.

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Normally, they would have at least pretended to agree with the lord’s words, but at this moment, they knew very well that the situation was too harsh for them to make such flattering remarks.

“As things stand… this time, I don’t think they will go over with a few pennies like before.”

“Last time, he brought halfway troops, so it should have ended like that, but right now, the Mansfeld army is with him. Things are fundamentally different then and now.”

“Surely they won’t stop until they turn this city into hell. The Alsace region also tried to negotiate without resistance, and that was it.”

The servants who spoke with fear while feeling fear at the fact that an unavoidable disaster was approaching.

In the end, they came to the conclusion that they had only one choice at this moment.

“Even if we stay still like this, we will only die.”

“And… we have an army, albeit few in number. Last time the situation was so urgent that we didn’t have time to react, but this time it’s different.”

“Um… I see what you mean.”

The sense of crisis caused by Christian’s tyranny last time, and the fact that the lord and his subjects needed to prepare an army in order to prepare for the increasingly tough situation, and as a result, they had to scrape together nearby mercenaries and militias. He succeeded in gathering 7000 troops.

Of course, it would be unreasonable to engage in a head-on confrontation with Mansfeld and Christian’s forces with such an army.

However.. if they could make the most of the advantage of the defense side, and if they could give them a big loss even if they couldn’t beat them by resisting fiercely, maybe they could see the slightest possibility.

Of course, the biggest reason was because of the simplest and most basic idea that it is much more meaningful to die after resisting even once.

In response to the approaching army of Mansfeld, Munster locked its gates and prepared for defense.

And… less than a few days after that.

Before their eyes, the planned army of Mansfeld and Christian began to appear.

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Münster Castle, which clearly shows its intention to resist, with its gates firmly locked.

However, the defense of the castle never looked solid, even though it showed a clear intention of resistance.

A castle built on flat land with an emphasis on convenience of transportation, not on mountains or rivers.

Although there were thick forests along the mountain ranges on the flanks, they were not very helpful in defense.

Of course, it was possible to evacuate people through this, but there was no need to care much about that part from the point of view of the invader.

All they want anyway is food and gold and silver treasures left in the castle. There was no need to try hard to take people’s lives.

Just like that, Munster Castle and its soldiers, relying on its flimsy castle walls, are in a clumsy defensive posture.

watching them…

Mansfeld and Christian, who were in the aggressor’s position, began to snort lightly.

“Fools, are you going to put up a pointless resistance?”

“Perhaps he would rather squirm and die than sit idly by.”

“Well, I guess so… How much do they say their army is?”

“The number of soldiers inside the castle is said to be about 7,000. However, there are less than 100 wizards among them, so you don’t have to worry too much.”:

“I guess so. The strength of an army prepared in just a few weeks is obvious, and trying to stop this Mansfeld with something like that is really foolish.”

With those words, Manspelt pulled out his sword. At the same time, Christian also drew his wand with an excited smile on his lips.

“Then I have no choice but to kill them all as they wish! Wipe it all out! We will show the fools our fearlessness!”

Mansfeld firmly gave orders to the castle in front of him.

Accordingly, the soldiers lined up behind him immediately began marching forward.

“Shoot! Shoot wildly!”

“Stop the enemies!”

The lord of Munster, who resolutely gives the order to fire at the enemies who are rushing at him with fearsome momentum.

The soldiers immediately began pulling the trigger on their preloaded guns.

-“Tatta da da dadang!”-

-Quaguaguawang!”

Bullets fired at enemies with a loud sound.

At the same time, the cannons placed in the rear began to fire and fire shells at the enemies.

however..

“Deploy barriers!”

Right before the attack pours in, a barrier spread by hundreds of wizards standing in the forefront.

It has the appearance of a translucent membrane, and has begun to cover the front of the soldiers running in front of you.

and.

– “Pacang! Pacan!”-

A barrier that blocks shells and bullets that fly straight in

Although the bullets were blocked without much difficulty, the shells showed cracks in the barriers every time they defended, and some shells broke through the barriers and fell on the heads of the soldiers.

“Kuk!”

“damn!”

However, despite this, the power of the attack from this side is less than 20%.

As a result, dark shadows began to fall on the faces of the soldiers guarding the castle, and yet they began to load bullets and cannonballs again to block the approach of the enemies as much as possible.

However, before they even finished preparing for the second attack, Mansfeld’s troops reached the vicinity of the fortress wall in an instant.

“Stop them! You can’t let even a single one in!”

“They are aiming for the castle gate! No matter what, just.. keoeouk!”

Soldiers climbed up the lowly built walls in an instant.

Among them, there were many wizards who had strengthened their bodies, and they jumped up on the wall in an instant using their superior physical abilities and began to cut the heads of the Munster soldiers.

“Damn it… stop it! We have to stop it no matter what!”

“Kuh.. why are these guys so strong.. kuh!”

Although they gathered a considerable number, in the first place, they were showing a significant gap in individual combat power.

This is true not only of the wizards, but also of the soldiers wielding weapons as they follow them.

It was only natural that the Münster army, most of which was a militia, was no match for the mercenaries who had been professionally trained and had a lot of experience in the field.

“Is it collapsing like this… I expected it to some extent, but it was so futile.”

“Your lord, you must avoid it! Soon the castle will fall!”

“Avoiding, where do you mean… If you’re going to go, you guys run away in a hurry, I’m the lord of this place. I will bury the bones here until the end.”

“Lord!”

In such a hopeless situation, the lord resolutely draws his sword and prepares for the end.

In his eyes, he could see the soldiers brandishing their weapons and pushing into the command post here, and the lord made a final resolution and prepared to charge at the enemy.

That moment..

-“Puuu!!!”-

“huh?”

“What… what is it?”

The next moment, a loud trumpet sound suddenly began to reverberate.

At the same time, the enemies who had been rushing in suddenly turned back and began to disappear somewhere in a hurry,

As a result, the faces of those who were there began to feel puzzled and puzzled… and a sense of relief that they had survived.

“This… what the hell is this?”

“I… I don’t know either. Why did you come all the way here and retreat?”

That was the time when the lord, his servants, and the surrounding guards were questioning him without understanding the current situation.

“Huh.. Lord, over there!”

In the next moment, as if he had discovered something, the hand of a guardsman pointed somewhere.

In response, the people there simultaneously turned their gazes toward that direction.

What’s there is…