Turn XX: Apocalypse now Part II.
(Coast of Kyushu)
9:00 am
"To all units the enemy has engaged our forces in Tokyo, while my brother holds the front there we must do the same hear, so let's do a good job and not be upstaged by the Kyushu garrison alright!" Schneizell said through the communication grid to his troops which lifted their spirits as they faced Xingke
(Outside the city of Tokyo)
9:30 am
"We are live here just a few miles short of Tokyo where the Imperial army and the U.F.N Slayers have only a few moments ago engaged in battle, with me is Diethard Reed of the Black knights who is managing the logistics , mister Reed care to comment on the situation?" Millie said to him.
"We'll Miss Ashford we estimate that the enemy had roughly 1.5 million men, we have aprox 900 thousand, despite the seemingly disadvantage we have let me remind you that when compared to Fukuoka, Gettysburg and Bengali rice fields this situation is a breeze for the Black Knights, also we have the 8th army and Princess Cornelia with us, we have a Dragon and a Witch on our side, how can a mere samurai hope to defeat them like this?" Diethard replied with a chuckle and then returned to his logistic duties.
Millie after finishing the interview looked around, the city of Tokyo had been evacuated by Euphie and Nunnally at Lelouch's request off civilians, but the civilians now flocked where she was to watch the battle, there where now fast-food stands and scalpers who where sealing seats to view the battle.
"They are treating this like it's like a soccer game or something like that, humans really are disgusting creatures" she lamented to herself.
(Battle's Northern Flank)
12:45 am
Lelouch's original Black Knight army was holding that Flank and he looked at the approaching units.
Just then a report came from Rivals: "Fifth division sais that there is a breach in their formation, we have enemy knightmares punching through!"
"Give me a visual feed!" Lelouch replied and he saw the enemy knightmare regiment which had broken through.
"Enhance the armband those knightmares have!" Lelouch ordered and he saw the image of A Crimson Mountain on them.
"According to our Colonel Reed that is the Symbol of what the Slayers Call the Narita 'Mountain Hunters' regiment, a regiment composed out of the survivors of the Narita Battle" Shirley told them.
"Those men are the Shock troops of the Slayers, they are some of the most feared troops are enemies have, who is commanding them?" Lelouch asked.
"A Colonel Shinichiro Tamaki is commanding them." Shirley replied.
"Tamaki? Tamaki where have I heard that name before?" Lelouch asked himself as he searched his mind, and then the answer came to him.
HEH HEH! The Iron Prince has been defeated by me, the GREAT Shinichirō Tamaki!" Tamaki said laughing.
Lelouch got out of his cockpit, with his mask and cape on and looked at the knightmare and from what he could hear it had one heck of a stupid pilot.
"You're my prisoner now!" Tamaki said and pointed his knightmare's rifle towards Lelouch.
Lelouch was now more scared than he had ever been in his life.
He was now in a no way out situation, and in that king off situation he did what any desperate man would, he would fight to the last breath, so her pulled out his handgun and pointed it at Tamaki's Burai.
"What the?" Tamaki asked confused.
"A BLACK KNIGHT DIES, BUT HE DOES NOT SURRENDER! IF YOU THINK YOUCAN CLAIM MY HEAD, THEN DO IT!" Lelouch said with a thunderous voice.
"WHAT! You're crazy man! In case you haven't noticed I'M THE ONE HOLDING A BIGER GUN! THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL YOU COULD EVER WIN AGAINT THIS"
"Then come get me" Lelouch replied to Tamaki's above mentioned statement.
"What! ...Well I'd never! ….." Tamaki said in shock to this lunatic who tried to fight a knightmare with a handgun!
Just then a rocket hit Tamaki's Burai forcing the cockpit to eject.
"DAMIIIIIIITTTT!" Tamaki said as the cockpit flew away.
End of Flashback.
"The most fearsome troops are enemies have…..and the most poorly lead "Lelouch's mind then returned to the present.
"What is his merits?" Lelouch asked.
"Well he has the distinction of having over five knightmares hit and he survived without a scratch.." Shirley replied.
"A man of Steel , let's see how this Man of Steel's Mountain Hunters perform against our 'Wild Wolves' order Gordon to take his regiment forward!" Lelouch ordered.
(Excerpt from the 2090 Kenneth Burns the Third documentary: The Century of War)
1:07 pm
"There was a shortage of Pilots following the artillery Barrage and I was promoted to the Knightmare core, after mounting it and getting into formation we were given orders from Colonel Gordon, he came before us and said:
"The enemy regiment before us are considered the Best the Slayers have, we are the Best the Black Knight have, we are invincible, they are undefeated, NOE LET'S FIND OUT WHO IS INDESTRUCTIBLE!"
"Awhooooooooo!" we cried and charged.
At first they held their ground, but we kept pushing them and pushing them until we pushed them all the way back to their lines, we then fell back to our lines and waited for round three!"
Recently field Promoted Captain Naoto Kan 761st regiment, 501st division, 42nd corps Black Knights.
Excerpt from the Diary of Naoto Kan.
(Center of the Battlefield)
2:22 pm
The Slayers main thrust was doing marvelously, Todoh knowing that all relied of this attack on the center spared no expense and so the for the attack on the center Urabe and Asahina commanded the assaulting forces with Senba in reverse.
"So looks like the main thrust is here!" George said as he a column heading for his forces.
"Alright have the fifth corps form a circular formation and advance 500 meters forward" George ordered.
"The Old Reverse Pit?" Omar asked at which George nodded with a smile on his face.
And so the order was carried out.
(Lelouch's position)
"The emperor is passing by Japan?" Lelouch asked his communication officer.
"Yes, we don't know where he is going, but we received a transmission in which he said good luck!" the officer replied.
"It doesn't concern us, let us focus on the battle ahead" Lelouch replied but was nervous on what his father was planning.
Slayers command network.
2: 27 pm
"One enemy corps is advancing independently of the 3rd army?" Todoh asked his subordinate.
"Yes Colonel, we are now proceeding to encircle them." Asahina replied.
"George Patton is known to be an aggressive general, but he is not reckless so why is he doing this foolish maneuver?" Todoh thought to himself as he watched the enemy corps being encircled.
He then realized the true reason behind the maneuver, he tried to order a withdrawn, but by now it was too late, the trap had been sprung.
2: 35pm
Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia.
During the battle of Tokyo General Patton ordered his fifth corps forward, the that enemy encircled it found itself then caught in pinpoint fire from the 3rd army's main force, the army of Asahina which was encircling the fifth corps where now under heavy firepower both form the fifth corps and the remainder of Patton's third army, this procedure of moving a part of your army forward so it could be encircled by the enemy, so that your main force can then encircle the encirclers was a maneuver developed by Patton at West Point called the 'Reverse Pit Trap' the instructors and students alike thought it either too difficult, to unpractical and too unconventional to be applied, but there was one cadet who thought it was brilliant, his name was Lelouch vi Brittannia…..
(Battle's Northern Flank)
4:56 PM
Chiba who was commanding the Southern flank of the Slayers was determined to break the 8th army the pride and joy of the Imperial Force.
"Have the Irish Corps advance forward and hit their right flank!" Chiba ordered her warriors.
From her vantage point Cornelia saw the approaching Irish army.
"Has Todoh nothing to offer us besides these…..leprechauns?" Cornelia lamented as she let out a breath of disappointment, she then ordered a counter attack of her forces.
(Coast of Kyushu)
5:38 PM
"All units forward, break through point eight and encircle the enemy formation!" Xingke ordered his soldiers as the battle was going in their favor.
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"You want us to launch a counter attack on the left flank of point eight?" Kewell said to Schneizell.
"Yes, that is they're formation breakthrough weak point, if we can put peruse their we can turn the tide of battle," Schneizell replied.
"But our men are exhausted, if we lose momentum the army may be slaughtered!" Viletta said to Schneizell.
"That is why I am asking you to lead the charge Marshall Kewell, you along with Marshall Jeremiah are named the Hammers of the Black knights, so I know you will not fail" Schneizell said and he ended the transmission.
Just then a messenger came and gave a report to Kewell at which his eyes went wide with astonishment.
"What is it?" Viletta asked concerned.
"Luciano Bradley's Valkirye squadron ….has suffered full casualties during the enemy breakthrough….." Kewell said now barely able to move from the shock.
Viletta immediately knew what this meant, Kewell's little sister was a member of the Valkirye squadron and this meant she was now dead.
Kewell shattered by this he placed his head in his palms, Viletta tried to comfort him, but he immediately shot up from his seat and ordered:
"Prepare my Lancelot for deployment! I will lead the Flanking force myself, Marshall Nu you have command!" Kewell ordered and he left the bridge, Viletta wanted to stop him, but from what she just hear happened she saw that he was going out for blood and a man like that couldn't be stopped.
Kewell bordered the Lancelot and Prepared to lead the counterattack.
"Prince Lelouch, he placed his thrust in me to guard Kyushu, I cannot return to him saying I failed him, My father , my mother, my sister are now all gone, the Iron Prince and the Black Knights are the only thing I have left…." Kewell said to himself and he then lead the charge.
(Center of the Battlefield)
6:22PM
"The Russian units are being routed?" Jeremiah said to his aide.
"Yes sir! At this rate it won't be long until our whole formation collapses, Marshall we must retreat!" the aide told him.
"Retreat! I am 29 years old and a proud soldier! This Field Marshall's baton is my word, the word I gave to the Prince that we would hold the center! I am too stupid to know how to break it!" Jeremiah replied and he immediately ordered that a broadcast be issued to the whole front!"
Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia
"This is Field Marshall Gotwald to all of my forces, I have no need or sympathy for those who run away from the fight, any soldier who does so will be cut into pieces by the blades of the Siegfried!"
That was the transmission Marshall Gotwald gave his men, upon hearing this the line quickly stabilized, and although such an outrages order would have never been carried even by the old Imperial army it's desired effect was nevertheless what Jeremiah wanted.
Also this transmission was heard by Cornelia's 8th army, at which it is rumored that Sir Guilford said to his men:
"We cannot let that Orange upstage us! Let's show them the power of Princess Cornelia's army!"
"Long live the Princess!" his men shouted and charged forward.
(Slayers communication network
7:00 PM
"We are being repulsed on all fronts! how is that possible, we have 1,400 thousand men, the enemy has just over 900, even if it costs us one soldier per Black Knight we would still be winning this so why aren't we?" Chiba said to those present.
"The enemy despite being outnumbered has a in terms of skilled commanders greater number than us, so our forces are evenly matched" Todoh replied.
"What do we do now?" Ohgi asked.
"We through in our final ace! Senba get your men to reinforce the front, if we can break through there we can win this!" Todoh ordered him.
"Understood!" Senba said and he then addressed his men.
"Listen up we will reinforce Generals Urabe and Asahina!" he said and then led his men forward.
(Lelouch position).
7:12 PM
"The enemy is throwing in their final reserves, looks like this battle is coming to an en…are the Bellerophon's ready Lloyd?" Lelouch asked him .
"Yes, sir and I managed to patch up the Lancelot with one unit, Suzaku's just waiting for the order." Lloyd replied.
Just then a transmission was given to the Tokyo force from Schneizell.
"The enemy fleet which was trying to land was repulsed, friendly casualties 38%, enemy casualties 29%, also among the High Ranking officers Marshall Kewell is reported K.I.A"
(Excerpt from the 2090 Kenneth Burns the Third documentary: The Century of War)
"The news of Kewell's death shook us members of the 501st to the core, he was one of our original commanders and we felt a sudden emptiness in us because of it.
"Farewell Old Lemon head, we enlisted men loved you, because you made us love ourselves."
Recently field Promoted Captain Naoto Kan 761st regiment, 501st division, 42nd corps Black Knights.
Excerpt from the Diary of Naoto Kan.
"K…..Kewell is dead!" Jeremiah said distraught
"How many….how many enemies did it take to take him down?" Jeremiah asked.
"The Marshall had died while destroying Cruiser" the reply was heard.
"A Cruiser…., well it's take at least and Dozen Iceberg Carrier for me! Your Highness please give us the order to begin Phase Two!" Jeremiah said to his liege.
"The timing is appropriate for Phase two and with Kewell's death the troops will have the taste for revenge.." Lelouch though in his mind.
"Very well! George, Omar you will fall back to create the impression that the line is collapsing, Suzaku will on my mark launch a counteroffensive with the Bellerophone frames, George, Omar, Jeremiah, Cornelia all units counterattack as well, all units forward, for Kewell and revenge.!" Lelouch said and they all complied.
As he watched the second part of his plan put into motion his mind went back to the confrontation in Kewell's apartment and his words that day.
"So you see, after that I decided to resign and just let them come after me, after all a scumbag like wouldn't be missed!" Kewell said and chuckled
"You where right my friend, Kewell the 'Scumbag' would have not been missed, But Kewell the 'Hero who died in battle' will be, you said you wanted to apologies by giving your life away, well you got that, and I get victory, this couldn't have happened better if I planned it all!" Lelouch thought to himself.
(Todoh's position)
7:40 PM
"General the enemy center is collapsing! General Manfred requests reinforcements!" Senba said to Todoh.
"The Center has fallen, now all we have to do is send id the last reserves and we win!" Todoh thought to himself, he prayed that it was so.
"All units forward to support the assaults, let us break through now!"Todoh ordered
(Center of the Battle)
8:24 PM
General Manfred who's German division was at the spearhead of the breach was about to break through the lines, to motivate them he started playing the German national anthem on speakers for the whole front to hear.
Just then Lelouch unleashed the Bellerophon's, the project he had Lloyd start after he woke from his coma these machines where Vincent and Sutherlands which where mounted on robot horses, these horses where proportional in size to a normal horse is to a human.
For a while Lelouch knew that armor was a knightmares weakness, the Lancelot seemed to solve that weakness, but the cost was too high to implement on a industrial scale, the cost necessary to make a shield generator compact enough to fit in a knightmare was very high, but by making the generator less compact the cost went down, like laptops and ordinary computers of the same efficiency.
The Bellerophon's had the same shield capacity as the Lancelot, and now it was their time to be baptized.
Suzaku was the one leading these 300 frames, so from his now mounted Conquesta he said:
"Soldiers the world is watching us..so let us put on a good Show!"
"AWHOOOOO!" the black battle cry was heard and the frames charged the Slayers center.
Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Germany, Germany above all,
The Bellerophon's charged the Slayers knightmares dwarfing them in size, and fear factor
Über alles in der Welt,
Above all in the world
They charged them like the old Dragoons of Napoleon charged the line infantry
Wenn es stets zu Schutz und Trutze
Brüderlich zusammenhält.
When, for protection and defence, it always
takes a brotherly stand together.
The units of the Slayers where not green troops, but the problem was that from the excess of the Bellerophon's they had many times the horsepower of the ordinary Frames and they charged the Gekkas so fast they did not had time, nor did they know how to respond.
Von der Maas bis an die Memel,
Von der Etsch bis an den Belt,
From the Meuse to the Memel,
From the Adige to the Belt,
"First the squat is defeated, then the company in is attached to, then the battalion, the regiment, the division, and finally the whole army is defeated…." Lelouch said with glee to himself as he watched the Slayers formation disintegrate.
|: Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Über alles in der Welt! :|
|: Germany, Germany above everything,
Above everything in the world!
The whole division had now been broken and the Slayers center was collapsing.
Deutsche Frauen, deutsche Treue,
Deutscher Wein und deutscher Sang
Sollen in der Welt behalten
Ihren alten schönen Klang,
German women, German loyalty,
German wine and German song
Shall retain in the world
Their old beautiful chime
Whatever was left of discipline, order of the chain of command now was gone and the center was now routing.
Und zu edler Tat begeistern
Unser ganzes Leben lang.
And inspire us to noble deeds
During all of our life.
|: German women, German loyalty,
German wine and German song!
"Stop men! Hold the lines Don't you love your homes, you country?" Todoh said over the comm.'s as he charged the Bellerophon's trying to rally the troops.
|: Deutsche Frauen, deutsche Treue,
Deutscher Wein und deutscher Sang! :|
|: German women, German loyalty,
German wine and German song!
"Ja, Sir, und wir versuchen, zu ihnen zurück, so schnell wie wir können!
Yes sir, and we are trying to get back to them as fast as we can!"
One anonymous soldier replied to Todoh's plea.
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
Für das deutsche Vaterland!
Unity and justice and freedom
For the German fatherland!
Ohgi from the Ikaruga now saw how everything was falling apart, they had gambled and now where losing
"It's over , it's all over!" Ohgi said as the Bellerophon's now started to go north and south to envelope the left and right flanks of the Slayers army
Danach lasst uns alle streben
Brüderlich mit Herz und Hand!
For these let us all strive
Brotherly with heart and hand!
"Do not panic! The left and right wings will disengage and withdraw back to the seaport, if we can reorganize the line, with the Iceberg carriers we can still win the day!" Todoh ordered and this restored Ohgi's faith and the army complied, most got away….
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
Sind des Glückes Unterpfand;
Unity and justice and freedom
Are the pledge of fortune;
….but a few where caught from behind, Suzaku with his sword now cut a Gekka in two, he then picked up a Black Knight flag and started waiving the Black Knights forward.
"That's the Style Suzaku! That's the style!" George said as he delightedly watched how Suzaku smashed the Slayers.
|: Blüh' im Glanze dieses Glückes,
Blühe, deutsches Vaterland! :|
Bloom in this fortune's blessing,
Bloom, German fatherland! :|
The Slayers where now in retreat to the docks, victory which seemed in their grasps was now very far away all of a sudden.
Blüh' im Glanze dieses Glückes,
Blühe, deutsches Vaterland! :|
Bloom in this fortune's blessing,
Bloom, German fatherland! :|
(Battle's Southern Flank)
"This is Field Marshall Cornelia to all units…raise high the Black Flag children, No Prisoners! No pity! I will shoot any man with Pity in them, Forward!" Cornelia ordered and all of their unit advanced in tandem with the collapse of the Slayers center.
(Battles' center position)
"This is it boys forward with all you might, The Goddess of Victory is waiving her underwear in your faces!".
George said to his men with glee, this was the kind of fight he liked, a fast and powerful offensive!
(Lelouch's position)
The Slayers by now under Todoh's leadership had managed to avoid encirclement and where reorganizing around the harbor.
"This is it! After two years of humiliation, two years of chasing you from here to Asia and back this is it! The Slayers who every time I wanted to take a step forward placed a clothes pin where I wanted to put my foot will now die!" Lelouch said now his body flowing with jubilee, extreme happiness, relief and Bloodlust.
"Nothing can save you now! There is no landslide, No Hidden Carrier, No Miracle for you Todoh!"
"I will kill each cursed Slayer and I will cut off your head Todoh and use your skull as a drinking cup!"
"Hehehe hahahah HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA H!'Lelouch unable to restrain his jubilation laughed out loud in his command center greatly startling those present.
Shirley was the most disturbed off all, for the laughter, the words and smirk on his face was something she never saw before.
"The truth is, I am a horrible person… I lie…cheat…steal, and if there's no other choice I kill…that's the kind of life the 'Iron Prince' leads, I was afraid of dragging you into that world, I thought that if I rejected you or acted irresponsible, you'd fall for it and give up.." he replied."
Shirley's mind involuntarily flashed what he told her at Ashford during Cupids Day.
"Is this that dark side of you that you hid from us Lelouch, are you really the same Lelouch I knew at Ashford, or did I knew you at all?" she thought to herself.
( Northern Edge of the Battlefield)
The Convoy had now arrived at the Battlefield.
Calare's looked at the battlefield and after a moment said.
"Launch the F.L.E.J.A!"
9:00 PM
Authors note:
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