Chapter 80
The kingdom was burning.
But the rampant pillaging across the entire island of Britannia was no longer the work of ‘a mere deserter’.
There had never been any deserters to begin with. It was merely a ruse by the Imperial Army to scatter the Kingdom’s forces.
Moreover, the fleet carrying 20,000 Imperial soldiers never crossed the Calais Strait to return to the continent.
While the Kingdom basked in peace, believing the Empire had retreated.
The fleet, having turned its bows, scattered along the outer reaches of the island of Britannia, seizing key landing sites across the region. Immediately thereafter, large-scale plundering of the entire island commenced by the imperial army’s main forces.
That is the nature of war.
Kill or be killed, take or be taken. Kill before you die, take before you are taken.
And around that time, torrential rain began to pour down across the entire Kingdom of Britannia.
It was raining.
“We die where we stand!”
Amid the pouring rain, the Black Armor Company shouted at the advancing cavalry.
On both flanks, Imperial longbowmen drove stakes into the ground to erect barricades, while Imperial cavalry forces were ordered to dismount en masse and fight alongside the Black Armor Company’s heavily armored infantry.
An absolutely unbreakable formation.
Amid the pouring rain, the Imperial Army’s units were deployed to hold the hilltop.
Between the two sides lay a deep muddy swamp, formed by days of relentless downpours.
