Luzia Senki: Notes of the Luzian War

{1-14} AMBUSH

Continental/continental General Calendar 1330: Early Autumn.

Middle Drakea continent: Draeruz Kingdom: Claudia Region: Road to Carran City.

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It's true that summer is past and now it's early autumn, but still if you walk in the hot sun during the day you will still feel hot and thirsty. During the day, a large force of 3,000 troops was seen walking towards the city of Carran.

You can see them simultaneously walking in a row together by making a sound from the combat boots they had previously gotten from some of the merchants they had robbed on the way.

They were a bandit army that had previously nested in Claudia's territory mainly in the Agress forest, the, before the way they fought was never to openly fight Knight Claudia even though they had more numbers than Knight Claudia herself.

Now they had already felt tired of fighting like that again especially after they had fun last night making their confidence become too high and also thought if the Knights had previously dashed away from the line ahead because the Knights are already frustrated.

So Booze thought if they went back to fighting with Knight Claudia in Carran city it might be possible that the Knights Claudia would also retreat like before and Booze would take over Claudia's downtown. But there was actually something even more important than that, namely the water source that had been taken over by the Knight Forces in the city of Carran, so inevitably the bandits had to get it back.

It is common knowledge that if you have a large army you have to divide your army into units, for the case of the Booze bandits divide it into five units in which there are 600 people. Of course the unit was controlled by his confidants, including Frende who led the rear unit.

At first Booze thought that his troops would reach Carran City in the afternoon, but the lack of water supply made the troop move slower than previously thought, it also does not include the scorching sunlight that stings them and also dust when they walk because the soil is still dry after summer.

"Woi hurry don't get out of line!" shouted one of the captains leading the front unit.

"How could I keep going while I myself haven't been drinking water from since we left." replied one of the bandits in a complaining tone and also looked extremely exhausted.

"Shut up! don't complain" hasn't finished his words, an arrow stuck in his head.

"Enemy attack!" loudly said one of the bandits who saw the incident.

Basically the movement of the bandits had been slow from the beginning but suddenly a rain of arrows headed towards them which eventually resulted in the bandits taking a shelter position by using their wooden shields.

The sound of pain rang everywhere, no matter how they tried to take shelter but still there were some of them who were hit by the rain of arrows out of nowhere because they had panicked which eventually made their eyesight somewhat disturbed.

The chaos not only hit the front unit but all the bandit units on the way to Carran City were also showered by arrows coming from all sides.

"Look it's a horse archer!" among the chaos came the voice of one of the bandit members.

As the man said, there were many archers riding around the bandits who were defending from their arrows, they were the combined forces of the tribe who lived in the region of Claudia.

Basically the Tribe that lived in the region of Claudia used to be the great Equestrian Archers of its time, since the age of 3 years have been taught how to hold arrows and gradually the child will be taught how to shoot arrows.

When they reach adolescence they will have extraordinary archery accuracy while riding, however, as their horse population dwindles as they begin to settle in Claudia's territory, men who can shoot while riding are reduced, coupled with the war that hit a few years ago.

Of the many tribe members living in Claudia's territory only 100 men could shoot while riding, and it was those people who were now ambushing the bandit troops on direct orders from Luzia. The 100 soldiers were also divided into ten units that had their respective duties.

If you look at it from above, one unit of archers riding in front of the bandit squad whose purpose is to lure the bandit troops to continue to advance.

On the other hand three mounted archer units with a total of 30 men were behind the bandit troops whose goal was to cut off the bandit retreat which eventually resulted in the bandit troops led by Fendre I have no choice but to move forward.

For the remaining six units on the right and left side of the bandit troops, they initially gave the impression of surprise to the enemy side lines by showering them. After the chaos had struck the enemy, the six mounted archers immediately charged into the enemy's core forces from all sides and attempted to separate the enemy's core units from the rest.

"Armghhh!"

"Help me!"

"My eyes!"

"Death to you fucking bandit!"

"For Miss Luzia!"

When the core unit of the bandits is separated enough from the other forces, the unit immediately becomes a killing field. Many of them were killed by being hit by horses, being harvested in close quarters and other horrendous ways. A hysterical sound of pain was heard from the unit.

The bandits who were trapped tried to run here and there but it was useless because the road for them to escape was closed by reliable horse archers, the only way to survive is to keep fighting.

Of course, there were casualties of the archers but they did not pay attention to it and remained focused on attacking frontally against their enemies.

Although it had the upper hand and killed many members of the enemy's core unit, the six horse archers were still outnumbered by the bandits, the other bandit units of course did not stay silent at the sight of it.

The outnumbered archers finally retreated from the battle because basically their task was not to finish off the enemy here but only to deliver a violent blow before they reached Carran City.

The bandits who saw them retreat from the battle were also just silent not chasing them, because of course chasing the cavalry was a stupid thing because it could damage your battle formation.

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"Fuck shit!" said Booze, who is now lying injured because he was previously in the core unit.

Sometime after the battle Booze finally ordered his troops to camp at night in a place that had previously also become a battleground. The reason he did that was because even though his enemy was only a few people still the element of surprise they felt was really big, so the casualties were quite large as well.

"It's all because of you, you fucking kid!"

"Aragh!"

On the other hand Kaba who was not very useful in battle at this time was doing her duty as a servant member, she said, for example, he now wears Booze's arm a cloth to bandage Booze's wounds after the previous battle. But notya thank Booze actually pushed Kaba to fall down and blame all this to Kaba.

"It's all your fault as well as that rotten noble girl, if I catch her I'll torture her all out!" with an aura of emotion Booze uttered that.

"Calm down boss, maybe it's time we just think about stepping back" with a slightly frightened feeling, Fendre said that.

"Retreat!? after all this!? are you stupid, Fendre?"

"Open your eyes boss, we are bandits not royal soldiers, your past glory days have sunk and now is not the time for revenge to the kingdom!"

"How dare you carry around my past and defy my orders!"

There was a heated debate between Booze and Fendre due to differences in thinking, the atmosphere around him was completely chaotic. The people around him could only shut up and pretend to be busy with his activities.

"I'm tired of this, I don't even care if you kill me!" finally Frende uttered what he had felt all along to Booze blatantly.

The situation becomes really hot Kaba who is around trying to separate them but what can she do with her small body, is, it looks like they have reached the limit of each other's patience and are starting to prepare for a fight with each other.

"Enemy attack!" a warning cry was finally heard again.

"Armghhh!"

"Hot please!"

"I need some water please put me out!"

When Booze and Frende were ready to take the position of the horses to fight suddenly the enemy attacked them again, unlike before now they attacked with arrows containing fire.

"What, again!?" booze said in surprise.

Many people were burned alive because of the rain of fire arrows, again a situation of chaos approached them as happened this afternoon. Panicked people started running here and there to seek shelter and find their weapons.

That's when the bandit troops who were in his camp, for one night they would not get a good sleep and would be in a position to survive in one full night, when they tried to catch the archers on horseback it was all useless because they had run away first, then after that the archers on horseback would come back again to rain them fire arrows.

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Illustration of the Battle:

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