228 Battle at Sundown
BOOOM!
The Clash of both Elders meeting the Empires A rankers clashed again. Then the sound of magic bombardment hit, and the Bunny-kin Wizards were prepared. We had seen movement, but the sudden arrival was something we had not expected. This was something that we would have to figure out.
How were they approaching attack distance without us seeing?!
Although it mattered overall, it did not matter in the moment as the Empire attacked the trenches. I smiled as the Front fortifications were retreated out of as the Empire entered, and the Beast-kin followed the plan the Elite army told them to follow to the main defenses. The long winding trenches began to fill with blood as magic stormed around us, and Wizards blocked the spells of the Empire Wizards.
The clash and blasts made everything erupt into chaos that was much more organized than before. I turned to Isabelle, and she nodded to me, sending a mana message with her wild magic, "I will gather the reserves and reinforce anywhere the forces are slipping. I will prepare a counter-offensive if possible," Isabelle made note of the previous plans, and I nodded to her.
She headed off into the encampment, and I started toward the front line to have a better feel for the battlefield. The clash above the head was close to the ground, and I did not feel safe surveying the ground from a height. Running to the front would be better than rifting as the Mana around us was going crazy.
BBBOOOOOOMMMMM~!
Suddenly, the world shook above us, and you could see the Empires and the Elders A rankers clash. They were barely overhead, and the ground almost shook. The roars of Beast-kin as they clashed against armor were evident. I was making progress when I reached the front. I allowed myself to a spot where I could see a little of the battle, and my eyes smiled bright.
In the trenches, the beast-kin backed up to the first defensive zone. It was named the first, but it was the only zone that was complete. It was where they planned to fight back to and, at this point, had nothing to back up to. The Empire's soldiers were clashing against our forces, and when they tried to stay out of the trenches, the Wizards easily picked them off.
I got to witness a group of men try to run around a group of beast-kin defending a position in the trenches. So they climbed up and made targets of themselves. Five wizards hit them almost at the same time from different places. Ice, Fire, and wind spells hit them at the same time, blasting them into shreds or into the trenches once again.
As the Wizards got the point and started to cast offensively against anyone trying to flank on the trenches and trying to get around, they were blasted. It was beautiful, and it was like I had rifles of my own doing their work. Sure, it wasn't as good as actual rifles, but the Wizards outside the trenches were also much easier to shoot at from our Wizards.
This started with our Wizards shooting first at anyone trying to flank our fighting forces in the trenches. Humans and Beast-kin alike learned that whoever got out of the dirt got hit quickly by a blast of magic from the opposite side. No beast-kin was even trying at this stage, while the Empire continued to try only to eat a mana bolt of some kind.
The blood was flowing, and the casualties on both sides were growing as B rankers hit up against C rankers until they hit B rankers. This continued to happen on both sides, but our side brought more Wizards. The bunny-kin obsession with Wizards was paying out largely as we started to attack the Wizards more directly without the fortifications and the fact that the Succubi in the Elite army already knew their role and drastically messing with their ability to hit our Wizards, their casualties started to rack up.
The Empire was used to having a Wall of steel before their Wizards, and because of the dirt in the way, the Wizards were killing less of the Beast-kin and could only attack the Wizards, who were having a wonderful time behind Illusion magic messing with Enemy perception.
It was a shit show, and I smiled as the chaos unfolded and the Barbarians thrived in this environment. The Trenches brought a lot of the fighting into the dirtiest uncoordinated bloodshed possible where they were stronger than the united forces of the Empire. Soon, the Empire would have tactics to help them in trenches, but not in time for this war. The barbarians were among them, and under the thunderclap of sonic booms of A rankers clashing, our forces drove the Empire back on their heels.
I didn't even need to intervene at this point, and I got a mana message from Isabelle, "The leftmost flank we have broken through their forces; I plan to drive the reinforcements through and flank the Wizards to kill as many as we can!" She notified me.
I smiled, looked to the center, and sent out a mana message to my army, "Central forces, hold your ground or retreat a little; make it look like you are losing more; reinforcements are coming, and we will flank them from the left!" I sent them to the commanders and sergeants in the Elite army, which many barbarians were listening to for orders without thinking.
I sent out yet another message to the right, "Hold the line and attack with a large push when ordered; do not take more casualties than needed," I again sent that to the commanders and watched as the Empire moved forward in the middle. It was only a minute of the Central forces moving forward and the Wizards casting more and harsher as our lines backed up a little before the empire Stopped, and someone noticed what was happening.
"ATTACK!" I snapped over mana toward the Right rank, and they attacked harsher, and the Wizards expanded their mana. I rifted to watch across the front line and continued to bark orders.
Quickly, our forces clashed against the Empire, backing up as the lines hard and fast as they started to fall apart. Wizards got back first, and the A ranker suddenly burst down to the ground with Elder Leon on him. It was close, but it was in the middle of battle, and the fighters around him died. As the A ranker, they fought to buy time for the Empire's Wizards to escape along with more warriors. We continued to move in to kill more and more.
We moved in, but the fighting was too fierce, and no one got close enough with an A ranker standing in the way even as Elder Leon fought him. Soon, I ordered our forces to back off, and the quick battle only lasted a couple of hours and the sun was just about to finish setting with it, setting the sky ablaze with an orange so red it almost looked like the sky was bleeding.
The Enemy retreated across no man's land with much less than they had before they attacked, and I felt the urge for a counter-offensive. It would do a lot to increase morale and allow the Barbarian part of the Army to understand why we were waiting to attack.
On that wall of the Empire were still steel-focused Wizards waiting to cast spells. Only this time, we allowed none of them even to cast a spell as they watched their bleeding comrades return losers.
This was another great victory, but I don't know if that was what we needed right now.
A loss may have been more useful.
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