I Was Reincarnated as a Mob Noble, and I Swear I'll Protect the Villainess Who Got Married Off to Me No Matter What ~To Dodge Our Total Downfall, I Went All Out Training My Trash Skill [Super Recovery] Through Crazy Hard Work, and Before I Knew It, I Could Totally Wreck the Game Protagonist Who Condemned My Wife Easily

Chapter 32: Using Game Knowledge to Wipe Out an Army of 8,000 Golem Soldiers

I stood on the ramparts of Dalham Castle, watching the main force of the imperial army—their vanguard, the golem legion—come rolling in with ground-shaking noise.

There were about 8,000 of the giant things.

The sight of them surging toward the castle like a tidal wave was honestly overwhelming.

Behind them trailed roughly 60,000 imperial troops skilled in magic. Just like I figured, the overall commander—First Imperial Princess Leticia—planned to smash this castle in one big rush with her entire army.

“…H-holy crap, th-this is bad,” one of the dozens of mercenaries who’d climbed up onto the wall with me let out in a shaky voice.

I’d had them plant a bunch of Greivan frontier count house military banners all over Dalham Castle.

Proof that I’d taken the place back.

The idea was to draw the imperial magic units that were following behind right into Father’s army so they could hit them hard.

Down in the castle courtyard, we were torching the imperial army’s food supplies like crazy. Even though it was night, the whole area was lit up bright as day, and those yellow Greivan banners should be clearly visible from way off.

I bet First Imperial Princess Leticia was absolutely losing it right now seeing this.

Lose their provisions and that huge 60,000-strong force would start starving and suffering.

The biggest weakness of any large army? Supply lines.

It was the same in the game—more soldiers meant you needed way more food to keep them going.

Even in real Earth history, most huge armies didn’t fall because they lost battles; they collapsed when their supplies got cut off.

Take Napoleon’s invasion of Russia—supply failure turned a 600,000-man army into a total disaster.

This game KimiKoi went pretty hard on that realism too. Once provisions hit zero, big armies would weaken bit by bit until they just faded away.

Back when I played, controlling Saintess Alicia and burning down the imperial food warehouses was seriously fun.

“Yaaayyy!! Burn! Buuurn!!”

That moment when Alicia gleefully set everything on fire became a huge running joke among fans because of how wildly it clashed with her usual pure, saintly image.

Anyway… all we had to do now was hold out.

“Good work, but it’s getting dangerous here. Go ahead and fall back,” Valeria, standing right beside me, called out to the mercenaries.

“Y-yessir… But, uh, Commander, can we really beat those things?”

Looked like the mercenaries were completely rattled.

The golem soldiers were brand-new imperial weapons that only appeared about a year ago. Apparently this was the first time most of these guys had actually fought them.

“Don’t worry. I know the first-generation golem soldiers’ weaknesses inside and out.”

I spoke with full confidence to calm them down.

Sure, they looked terrifying charging in like that, but at the end of the day they were just robots that blindly followed simple orders.

Unlike a flesh-and-blood commander like General Baldo, they didn’t have brains to think for themselves and couldn’t exceed their listed specs, so setting traps for them was easy.

“Seriously, I’m constantly amazed by Zenon’s intelligence-gathering skills. Just how many spies did you sneak into the empire?”

“…Well, I can’t really get into the details.”

I couldn’t exactly say “game knowledge,” so I brushed off Valeria’s question.

And luckily—thank god for small mercies—General Baldo had smashed a section of the wall earlier, which made the enemy’s movements way easier to read.

Sure enough, the golems were charging full speed straight toward the weakened spot in the defenses.

“Valeria, now!”

“Right!”

The moment I gave the word, the undead we’d hidden underground all rose up at once and latched onto the legs of the golem legion.

The charging golems tripped over them hard and crashed down spectacularly.

BOOOOOM!!

The lead group went down, then slammed into the ones behind them, and one after another the rest toppled like dominoes.

“…We-we did it!”

Valeria let out a joyful cry.

“Holy shit! The Commander’s plan worked again!”

Huge cheers erupted from the mercenary groups inside the castle.

One of the golems’ big weaknesses was that they were humanoid—meaning they were super unstable on their feet.

Even in the original game, those two-legged walking machines would fall over and get stunned whenever they smashed into obstacles.

That’s why tactics using obstacles or terrain were so effective.

Trip them hard with undead → stall them out. That was the whole point of the plan.

“Now! Magic unit—lightning…!”

I didn’t waste a second and barked the next order.

The demi-lich unit lined up along the wall all chanted their spells together.

“Fire!!”

Hundreds of purple lightning bolts ripped through the night and poured down onto the golem legion.

With a deafening roar, black smoke burst out from the golems.

The first-generation models had crappy insulation on their magical circuits—lightning fried them and shut them down completely.

Their single biggest weakness was lightning magic.

“Uooooohhh!?”

“We can win—we can actually win this!”

“It’s true! They really are weak to lightning magic just like Zenon said!?”

Valeria and the mercenaries on the wall stared in shock.

“Exactly! Keep pouring lightning on them!”

The bolts burned through the golems’ magical circuits and turned their huge metal bodies into worthless scrap.

Normally their position would still be outside normal spell range, but since the golems were giant hunks of metal, lightning could reach them just fine.

The surviving golems kept trying to charge, but the wreckage of their fallen comrades formed barricades that blocked them—and turned them into more lightning targets.

“Nice!”

The golem soldiers faithfully carried out whatever orders First Imperial Princess Leticia gave them.

Even if those orders stopped making sense, even if they were completely pointless or suicidal.

“Valeria, while we’ve got this opening, take out as many as we can!”

“Got it—【Black Thunder】!”

Valeria unleashed black lightning of her own and started blasting through the golem legion.

While I kept giving orders, I threw 【Heal】 spells on her to keep her topped up.

I’d also prepared a ton of Damascus steel spears—same material as the golems’ armor—right here on the ramparts. Weapons we’d taken from the imperial forces inside the castle.

I grabbed those spears and hurled them with everything I had at the golems.

The spears sliced through the night air, punched straight through the golem armor, and impaled them.

“H-holy crap! That’s not normal human strength!?”

“Hitting enemies that far away… Commander, are you seriously a magic-type skill user!?”

The mercenaries practically fell over when they saw my insane power.

“Lots of big, easy targets. Let’s keep going!”

“As expected of Zenon!”

I kept throwing spear after spear, dropping one golem after another as they approached.

Eventually the golem legion started trying to detour around their fallen comrades’ wreckage.

“Looks like First Imperial Princess Leticia gave new orders. But…!”

I’d already predicted that move. I’d placed more hidden undead along the detour path too, so the golems tripped and crashed all over again.

“…Amazing! Everything really is going exactly like Zenon predicted!”