234 – Glory to the Country, Rest to the Hero (5)
The sky was clear.
It must have been a similar sky when the 8th Assault Magic Infantry Battalion was dispatched by airship for the first time.
At that time, I was a kid who was only a captain.
Now that I have become a lieutenant general in command of the 100,000 soldiers under the corps.
I couldn’t help but be deeply moved.
Of course, it was not just the change in class that made me emotional.
It was also because the name of the unit resurrected by the authority of the corps commander at the same time that the operation was completed was the 8th Assault Magical Infantry Battalion.
“Lieutenant General Enoch Levandel, the battalion’s preparations are complete.”
“I see.”
“We are waiting for the last speech of the corps commander in front of the four soldiers.”
From establishment to dissolution.
Wouldn’t the unit from which everything in the Uk ranian military began be the perfect unit to end it all?
Of course, the horse was the 8th Assault Magical Infantry Battalion, in fact it was no different from a death squad. All in all, there are only 300 people.
A battalion composed of reserve divisions and volunteers hastily drawn from the mainland.
Heroes gathered to save their country from being driven to the end.
Most of them were new faces, but some were familiar.
When the 8th Assault Magical Infantry Battalion was trained for the first time, they were veterans who rolled together. Comrades who remembered the names that were shattered on the battlefield together and held them in their hearts.
“I heard you were discharged.”
“Lieutenant Commander is walking around in good shape. How do I get discharged?”
Looking at my face, the soldiers smirked. Did he really return to the battlefield after overturning the campaign?
I bit my lip bitterly.
The opponent is a great mage. I am also an opponent who cannot predict the odds, and I will never be able to survive in a clash.
Once again, the Great Mage is a strategic weapon.
In modern terms, anything that is within the radius of a nuclear explosion.
However, from that point on, even though it was already a suicide mission, fear could not be found on the faces of the 300 members of the battalion.
‘…… I’ve searched all my senses, too.’
Looking at the soldiers proudly stretching their shoulders and taking their time, I feel a bit of shame.
Yes.
Now is not the time for modest sympathy. It is not something to do to make those who have already made up their minds continue to look back on their lingering feelings.
I shook hands with the onlookers for the first time in a long time, then climbed to the top of the four tropics.
A sloppy place with only a scaffolding placed in the middle of the airfield, at least in the four tropics.
However, it was more than enough to capture 300 soldiers one by one.
“Did everyone eat well?”
“I ate until my stomach exploded!!”
When the square-jawed sergeant gives a bold answer, laughter erupts from everywhere. It was not the kind of attitude a sergeant would have with a lieutenant general, but no one, let alone me, pointed it out.
What would you do if you pointed it out in the first place?
I don’t even know if I’ll be able to live after floating in the sky right away.
“I don’t talk long. Volunteering for this improvised battalion was enough to convey that determination.”
I continued talking slowly.
“We are in a desperate crisis. You fought hard and brilliantly, but your opponent is still strong!”
As soon as the speech started, seriousness appeared on the faces of the battalion members who were laughing and chatting. It was a face that made me feel the spleen beauty.
“Why did we gather here? Because the soldiers knew. If this operation fails, the Uk ranians have no future!
Look around you. That many fighters and transports. Have you ever seen anything like that before? I bet there won’t be. There never was, and never will be.
They are fully prepared. Only to give you the sky, to give salvation to your comrades who are enduring far away on a distant battlefield, and to drive out the shadows that have begun to cast on your country again!!”
I clenched my fists.
“I have always said let’s go home. But I can’t do that this time. Few of you will be able to return home. There are even fewer people who can move their limbs intact.
I can’t promise to survive. I can’t even promise that I’ll be able to go home. Not even a perfect victory can be promised!
But only one thing.
If this operation succeeds, that gigantic empire will collapse and shouts of victory will resound in the capital.”
I imagined the citizens of the capital cheering. They wave the national flag vigorously and come out to the streets to dance to the sound of the trumpet.
Old people, children, young men and women alike will entangle and celebrate the war that has finally ended.
“…… Your names will be recorded in the history books.
It will remain forever in the hearts of people living today!
In the darkest hour, the warriors who did not hesitate to die for the sake of their country were right here!!”
A small crack in a huge concrete pillar doesn’t look like much.
If there are dozens or hundreds of cracks, the pillar will eventually collapse, and even the building may collapse.
Only 300 people.
The number of people is far too small to stand against the Empire. However, it is more than enough to bring down one of the most important pillars.
“Glory to the motherland! Praise to the heroes!”
“Glory—!!!!!”
The airfield, where the propellers were spinning, is filled with shouts from the soldiers.
“Today we fight and die here! Our bodies will crumble, but our names will be remembered forever!!!”
***
A total of 179 planes were taking off all at once from airfields set up in northern Polania.
Explosions were also heard on the front line between Red October and the Imperial Army, which formed in the west of the Soviet Empire.
As the SS and mutant troops were sent in to destroy the Uk ranian army spreading in the south, Red October, breathless, launched a massive counterattack.
Actually, the red October was unfolding more than expected.
It was inevitable.
The difference between the regular army and the guerrilla army was essentially the difference between heaven and earth.
No matter how many generals at the time of the Great Purge expressed their intention to convert to Red October, even if the generals came, equipment that wasn’t there doesn’t spring up.
Red October had no fighters, no fancy tanks, and even the artillery, which is considered essential in modern warfare, was meager.
As a result, it is only natural that the wires are sluggish.
It was for this reason that the imperial family sent in the SS to annihilate the isolated Uk ranian army.
After all, the attacks they could do were limited.
But.
“What, what? This firepower!”
“As for the artillery power, the old-style field artillery supported by the Uk ranians was all!!”
The Red October offensive, which started again, was quite different compared to the last few weeks.
There was a preliminary bombardment.
The imperial army, which had been resting on the judgment that it could not penetrate the trench with old artillery, was exposed to artillery fire and suffered serious damage.
As soon as the headquarters realized that something was going wrong, they responded urgently.
“Our defenses have been breached! There is a chariot, a chariot!”
“They have tanks?”
“This is the Dnur of the Uk ranians!”
The news that kept coming back from the front lines was shocking.
“This is a report that Uk ranian armored divisions have appeared!”
“Busssing! Uk ranian armored divisions, which are already surrounded or concentrated on the southern front, are emerging from the mainland of the great empire? Who is the bastard who reported it!!”
“I came down from the Imperial Intelligence Agency…… !”
“What?”
Mayhem.
The military, which was hit in the back in the moment of being careless, could hardly come to its senses, from a single field commander to the General Information Bureau.
“The bombardment turned out to be friendly.”
“A misfire?”
“That is…… It is presumed that the fire was fired by an artillery unit under the Southwest Group Army, but it does not appear to be a mistake.”
“Isn’t it a misfire?”
“Lieutenant General Radia Khrushchev, commander of the Southwest Army Group, is sending a rogue radio. The content says that the people must rise up and fight against the emperor…….”
To make matters worse, the public opinion war in Uk ran shone once again with a blow.
The existence of mutants has been exposed all over the world.
As Enoch Levandel had predicted, the Southwest Group Army, which had been watching the liver with a lukewarm attitude, completely changed its existing attitude.
In the first place, the southwest region of the empire was being treated badly by the center. Because the West itself was also the stronghold of Red October, and it was the hometown of its leader, Vladimir Trotsky.
Since the area where all kinds of criminals are being deported right now is the southwestern region. The imperial family’s blatant discrimination against the Southwest region is already visible to everyone from the elderly to young children.
Because the distrust of the imperial family of the Southwest Group Army, to which the personnel from that region belonged as troops, was many times greater than that of other regions.
The time when the wounds that I overconfided and overlooked were finally festering.
Uh uh uh uh uh uh ─.
Weiyiing─.
“An enemy raid! Conduct anti-aircraft fire!!”
“Oh, my God… ….”
“Lord, what am I looking at?”
The skies of the empire were covered with Uk ranian planes.
