Chapter 12: Siege

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Location: Lesberg, Leifor, 2nd Civilized area
21st August, 1632, 4:00 PM

After the occupation of Leiforia, the Gra Valkans started to advanced rapidly. 1st Minute men regiment retreated to Lesberg and set up a defense line around the city and inside the city of Lesberg. They were heavily outnumbered yet they stood against the impossible odds.

Kingdom of Sonal has accepted to lend their hands in defense of Leifor but it will take total of 1 day before they reached Leifor. The Gra Valkans started to showed up in the sight of the resistance, and the unexpected happened. The Gra Valkans has siege the entire city without them knowing, many of Militias started to panic when they knew this. Then howitzer shells started raining down on the defense line, the Minute men that stationed in the said defense line started to retreated into the city.

"Come on! Get up!"

Delan attempt to help his companian who got stuck in a pile of trench.

"We got no time! We need to retreat to the city!"

Vera shouted as he pulling Delan out while trying to evade howitzer's shell.

"He's still in there!" Delan shouted.

"It's too late! Do you see!?"

Vera shouted back as a siren sound coming from the sky.

"Go now!"

He carry Delan with him and run to the city. Bomb were falling around the retreating Minute men, some were unfortunate enough to get hit by one. The Gra Valkans troop started to moved towards them. The mages on the city walls started to act and cast a magic against the aircraft, a bolt of lightning strike down on Gra Valkan's dive bombers and take down 3 of them.

Mages in fiction was often depicted as overpowered against technology. In this world, mages was rendered to a mere funny trickster after the invention of guns, airplane and bombs. The technology was proved to be more effective than mages as it can be produced but mages can't. Not many people can used magic in this world and it also can't be learned. There's some powerful magic that can be used but it was too much for a single mage to performed.

"Mage! Enchant the field gun! We will started firing!" They call out to the mages.

"Yes sir!"

Denese, one of the mage that join the Leiforian's remnant. He started enchanted most of field gun with explosives magic, and everything is ready.

"Thank you, Denese. Believe in our lord and we all will survive"

Faran, former officer of Leifor's ground force said as he pat the mage shoulder.

"Ready to fire!" He shouted. All field gun aim high into the sky.

"Fire!"

All the 20 Field guns fire at their enemies position, hoping it could do something but the hope was crush as siren ring. The Gra Valkan's bomber flying over the city and is releasing their payload of hellfire on city of Lesberg, the giant aircraft block out the sun and a loud booming voices was sent from the Gra Valkans aircraft to decrease the resistance morale.

"CITIZEN OF LEIFOR, HEAR US AS YOU'RE STILL ABLE TO, AN IRON RING HAS DESCENDED UPON YOUR ROTTEN CITY AND IT'S PEOPLE STOP RESISTING THE EMPEROR'S WILL AND SUBMIT TO THE EMPIRE"

The voices was playing repeatly to both taunt and draining down the resistance's wills to fight. It was a repeat of occupation of Leiforia, hopeless and helpless. Many innocent civilian was still in Lesberg during the bombing.

 Many innocent civilian was still in Lesberg during the bombing

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