Colonial empires in a world ruled by elves

New orders for Alfons

Alfons, who was sitting in the medical area while Drusilla was stitching a wound on his hand, just sighed.

“I couldn’t save her, Drusilla. That poor nurse died for that beast that didn’t hesitate to eat her head.

I feel helpless because she didn’t deserve to die like that. “

Drusilla sighed and looked seriously at Alfons “You did what you could, you don’t have to blame yourself. If you live with a guilt that does not correspond to you, you will not enjoy life.

I lived that way for a long time, but since this war started I have stopped blaming myself for why I don’t have time to do it.

If I cannot save a soldier, I will do my best to save others. This war makes people cold, but I cannot do anything.

Just continue with my work, you should do the same. Do not regret the past, look at the present and be grateful that for you, a family will receive the body of their daughter.

Be strong Alfons, your wife and daughter need your positive attitude.

You also have to be prepared because although the two zeppelins are protecting this place, it is probable that they will send you to the trenches.

Because of the large number of dead half-elves, from what I could hear, more reinforcements are coming, but it will take a full week.

You will enter the most inhospitable place for life, so you have to be prepared. I promise you that I will do the best I can to heal your wounded soldiers.

But I am not a goddess or a magician, I am just a doctor who will do everything in her power to save lives.

Anyway Alfons, be careful in the trenches. We do not know what kind of things you can see in that place. “

Alfons looked at Drusilla and nodded. When his wound was stitched up he got up and left the medical tent to get to the command office.

In that place, General Maddox was waiting for him. “I am glad you arrived with your wound healed, but you should know that you will have to go to the battle front.

Because of the losses suffered by the half-elves, the trenches are in poor condition, so you will have to go to start rebuilding them and be able to mount a solid defense against all the elves.

Since we cannot send many reinforcements, you can only count on artillery support at all times, so you will have to rely on artillery to stop the elves’ attacks.

I know it is a suicide mission Unterfeldwebel Alfons, but I can only count on you to maintain a line of almost 3 km that separates us from the elves.

Nor will you have to worry about the air attacks that they can make with the stupid gargoyles, the dragons, or using their Valkyries.

This is because you will have the support of the two Zeppelins which were patrolling every 10 minutes on the battlefield, so you will even have extra support at certain times because they have a much more precise artillery than ours.

So when you see a zeppelin in the sky, feel free to request support to drop enough ammunition for those elven bastards to learn what not to play with us.

You will have to endure in that place about a week. What is the time it will take for the battalions that will replace you to arrive.

For the job, you will not only have your battalion or what is left of it, but you will also have about 300 extra soldiers at your command.

I’ll be honest with you, Unterfeldwebel Alfons. If you can survive, you might be promoted to lieutenant. It’s a good opportunity for your growth.

But more importantly, it is a good way in which you are going to show the Kaiser that you can do such an important job as defending a trench line.

I hope you are ready for your duty because you must be in the trench before nightfall. In that place, you will see all your troops. “

Alfons made a military salute. “You can count on me, General Maddox. I will show you that I can with the defense line.

I would just like to ask you a favor and I hope you can give my troops some mortars and some low-level artillery because we do not know what kind of things we will find with the elves. “

General Maddox smiled. “Very well, you will have that and even about 15 water-cooled machine guns with enough ammo.

I expect many things from you Unterfeldwebel Alfons. We will see each other again in a week. “

After those words Alfons left the command center and went to his barracks as he planned to take his things.

After arriving and taking everything of value that he had, he started his way to the trenches, for that an army truck took him to the front line.

On the way, he can see hundreds of half-elves who were walking towards the place of the artillery area. All of them were completely wounded to different degrees.

They had been the last survivors of the gargoyle attacks. Alfons only sighed, as he hoped things were not so complicated.

Upon reaching the trenches, the military truck stopped, so he had to walk because there was no other way to get there.

As he walked through the trenches, he noticed numerous military engineers reinforcing the walls and wooden parts of the trenches.

Because with the black stones it was completely impossible to use the earth magicians so that they could reinforce the trenches.

For them as humans, it was no problem, as they all had no way of using magic, unlike elves or half elves.

After advancing for a time, he managed to reach the trench that was up to the front. There in that place he could see the sergeants who were under his command.

Which were gathered in the battle tent that had been adapted as the headquarters for the defense of the main trench.

Upon entering the headquarters, the sergeants made a military salute, for which Alfons asked them to lower their hands.

“Welcome to the most dangerous place on the continent sergeants. I hope you are willing to die because in this place it will be something very common.

We don’t know if the elves have any other weapons or hidden things that they can use against us, but I want everyone to have mortars and machine guns available at all times.

We have to guarantee the safety of all of us at any time. I also hope that they can install reflectors so that we can always keep an eye on the sky because we will need help if beast’s approach.

The zeppelins will be in our surveillance at all times but that does not guarantee that we are safe, we will simply have a little insurance to be able to live a little longer.

But something must be clear to all of us and that is that we can only win or we can die because withdrawal is not an option.

As your Unterfeldwebel, I am willing to die with honor alongside you. Like a captain, I will not leave this place.

But let’s talk about the last hope trench. “