Enri + Cocytus deployed to the Draconic Kingdom; play wargames before

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>Enri sorts out logistic mess after summoning 5000 goblins in vol9

>Uses gobs for land reclamation, whoever is not on patrol duty - must farm

>Ainz is curious of her progress, decide to pay a visit

>Nemu x Ainz shenanigans ensue: loli runs headfirst into his legs, hugs, looks up with shiny eyes and toothy grin, clearly delighted to see Uncle Skelly

>Enri stays some distance away with pale face: frozen midpose between running to intercept Nemu and kneeling before Ainz

>Ainz goes "hohoho" and takes Nemu for a shoulder ride, tells Enri to have a walk with him, Nemu brags about village and her oneesan in background

>Ainz compliments Enri on her progress with a village managing, it looks like a small town: two story buildings, huge wooden boarding houses and dorms

>Asks if she needs anything

>Enri complains about slow farming progress, ashamed how they still have to rely on Ainz for most of provisions

>Ainz goes "hmm" and takes out notes written in local common tongue: farming notes from Nazarick library, crop rotation, fertilizing, that kind of shit

>Promises to dispatch few Dark Knights and Soul Eaters to expedite reclamation progress

>Enri goes full gratitude, tells how she don't know how she can ever repay Ainz for his kindness, pauses, actually asks if there is anything she can do to repay it

>"Kukuku, subete keikaku doori" - this is what Ainz was leading her to from to begin with

>Explains to her that her talent is very valuable for SKAOG and that like any gem it must be refined lest it waste away

>Murmurs something about "Black Heart" and "wasting away" and sighs, returns back to topic when notices Enri' confusion

>Points out that a commander needs commanding in order to progress, quality of exercises is as important as it's scale

>Proposes Enri to start with general tactics training on relatively small number of troops that can be taken from the pool without impeding farm work

>Suggests to consult with her strategist about what type of exercises she can carry out with her troops

>Bids farewell, [GATE]s away

>Enri's train of thought is still filled with 3 "I'm just a village girl" and 5 "But I must Sasuga our savior Ainz-sama" thoughts per every 10

>The other 2 are "Nemu is a big girl now" and a lewd jiggly one

>Consults with Strategist, he suggest some drill shit she can try like ordering marshing, defensive positions, charge, split, flank etc.

>Climbs up on a watch tower and commands gobs around, starts with 100 gobs, slowly goes up to a 500

>Is constantly fucking scared of a cold steel underpinning her own voice when she issues orders

>Strategist notices her progress, sasugas and suggests that they should switch to a mock battles, kindly nominates himself as her opponent

>Now Strategist and Enri climb watch towers earshot distance away from each other and play gob chess in a field

>Enri is overwhelmed at first by Strategist sharp and precise tactics, but as XP is acquired - starts to push enemy team back

>She mostly relies on a boosts her troops temporarily gain after order is issued: charge is empowered, retreat is expedited, defensive formation hardened

>In little time learns all the tricks Strategist can come up with and win 90% matches

>Strategist sasugas Enri and comments how there is nothing she can learn from him now

>Ainz arrives next morning with eerily precise timing, it's like somebody was monitoring Enri's progress all that time or something

>Requests progress report from Enri and listens to it carefully umuing in the right places as if he didn't stalk poor girl all that time through Lupu and [Remote Viewing]

>Enri goes on about Ainz' notes and undead laborers wast contribution to Carne self-sufficiency (now achieved)

>Shyly adds a note at the end how she can now outplay her Strategist in a mock battle most of the times

>"Umu, very good", applies "How to be a good boss" chapters 2 and 7, confirms that Enri is flattered enough and goes on to the main topic of his today's visit

>"My close aide happens to be in a need for live commander training, would you be so kind to humour him?"

>Enri drops jaw for a moment, realizes it's disrespectful, closes it then drops it again while thinking about how she can possibly train His Majesty' aide?

>Ainz senses her hesitance and calms her down, explains how his aide is a loyal bushido, but not very experienced Commander, murmurs something about "even if...can't learn classes...maybe"

>Goes back to dialogue with Enri, gets her agreement (clenched fists pressed against boobs, furrowed brows, a lot of nods and a look of determination)

>Sets time and date and [GATE]s away

>Next morning Enri wears her best festival clothes, nervously checks every little detail of her attire while standing by with few select gobs and tagalong Lupu at North-East gates as instructed

>A fucking 3 meter Iceberg bug marshes out of the forest accompanied by a shitload of Lizardmen and Undead, Jugem goes gulp and tells Enri how he doesn't want to fight them

>Oversize frozen Ant reaches gates and.greets.Enri.in.his.usual.manner

>Lupu mediates the location, rules, starting positions etc. for the upcoming wargames - they will be situated on the plans to the south of Carne (where Prince retard got rekt

>Enri is allowed to command 2000 troops of her choice, Cocytus brought 3000 POP undead and 500 Lizardmen warriors with him

>A large number of Lizardmen and gob spectators amassed on makeshift tribunes some distance behind both armies

>The outcome of the battle will be decided by Lupu who was instructed how to judge by her master

>All participants were ordered to avoid aiming for enemy vitals, but all casualties will be resurrected after the fight, Enri's army don't have to hold back on POP though.

>Armies line up against each other few hundred meters away

>Enri positioned heavy infantry in a 3 rank-deep line at the front of formation, immediately behind at the center of the formation are ogres and trolls, flanked by goblin riders from both sides, rear consists of magical artillery & support with priests at the center back, some reserve troops guarding them from the flanks

>Cocytus front line consist of POP shield skellies mixed in with zombies, center of formation is skelly archers, flanked by skelly Cavalry, lizards are spread out at the back of the formation

>Lupu goes waku-waku at the sidelines, teases Enri a bit abnout how her husband back home is doing and finally blows a horn, signaling the start of the match

>Enri orders wedge formation for the front line, ogres core follows center of the wedge at the center, riders close their ranks at the flanks of the central core while rear mage support splits to follow the riders, "Forward!", hicks a bit at the power in her voice

>Cocytus order melee skellies to take the front, zombie fall beck immediately behind them, the rest formation goes forward as is

>As armies enter range - mages and skellies start their barrages, skellies fire at will on the go while sacrificing accuracy, not that it matter considering their number

>Gob wedge reaches Cocutys' melee skellies and start grinding through them only slowing down a bit, Skellies archers stop and concentrate timed barrages at the flanks of forward gob wedge formation

>Skellies suddenly stop mid movement, turn on their heels and retreat some distance away

>Enri was confused for a moment and missed her chance to order wedge to hold off, forward gobs rushed forward with lack of resistance but met by a second Cocytus line, consisting of zombies

>Compared to lightweight skellies zombies were meaty, much harder to cut through, spears and swords would stick in their flesh

>Zombies actually seem to be under orders to break down wedge by weighting down on shields, they clung to them with all their limbs, grabbed hold of any weapons that stuck in their flesh even for a moment, weapons got smeared with sticky, greasy blood that made very difficult to get a good grip on a handle

>This tactic opened gobs that were engaged in hugfight with zombies to an attack from second line: Cocytus moved skelly arches there and ordered them to use any clear shot they got on shield gobs

>Seeing this opportunity Enri ordered central core of ogres and trolls to advance into the opening wedge goblins made for them in the center of formation

>Slowed down by zombies only for a moment - hulking demi-humans reached crunchy skeleton archers, crush damage + robust physique = bits of skellies fly everywhere

>Enri looked over battlefield and worriedly noticed that her ogres did not meet any melee skellies when they broke through the zombies

>This is because Cocytus ordered melee skellies line to split and reform into two groups at either flank of his second line, immediately behind skelly riders

>At his signal skelly riders turned 45 degrees forward and outside of their previous formation and advanced forward in an arc, flanking gob wedge from both sides at a bit of a distance

>Melee skellies gone around first and second rank of their comrades zombies and skelly archers and engaged flank of the goblin wedge, stretching further around Enri's army to where the gob riders were

>While ogres and trolls positively decimated skeleton archers at the center of enemy army - Those riders and melee skellies were a threat to Enri's flanks

>Which is why she ordered riders to break through skellies encircling her wedge from the left and follow up to intercept the riders

>At that moment skelly riders on either sides changed course and advanced on the second line of Enri's formation: charging riders on the left flank and squishy mage corps on the right

>Right flank of the wedge received concentrated allied mage support fire and was able to deal with melee skellies flanking it since their ranks were thin to begin with

>Enri then ordered second and third ranks of the wedge on this flank to reorient and face the charging riders in anti-cavalry position: shields down, second rank equipped spears and placed their butts firmly to the ground

>Mage corps on the right flank split in two: priests turned to support anti-cavalry formation to the right, buffing up their defenses, mages faced the front and filled the gap in firepower on the right flank of the wedge where single rank of shield gobs now held their own against zombies and skelly archers

>About at the same time Goblin Riders clashed with Skelly riders on the left flank, anti-cavalry formation received Skelly Riders charge on their shields and spears, Ogres finally dispatched all zombies and skelly archers at the center of enemy formation

>Trolls and Ogres turned to face the Lizardmen charge but instead were met with mild caster fire from the second rank of lizardmen

>Judging that Skeleton Archers can't be much of a threat to her ogres and all other forces are engaged and can't back up Lizards - Enri ordered them to reform and charge Lizardmen line, letting trolls with high regen go first to tank possible AOE spells

>From a distance it looked like Ogres and Trolls grew suddenly tired and started to move slow

>After taking a closer look Enri noticed that their prominent figures somewhat diminished in height

>Lizardmen druids gathered at the very back of Cocytus formation called to their ancestors and cast wide AOE[Swamp] spell

>While Ogres and Trolls were slowed down considerably - it was a natural habitat for lizardmen, with their webbed feet they could easily traverse such terrain and even get an advantage in mobility against other races

>Cocytus ordered Lizardmen to encompass forward rank of trolls and pummel them with fire and acid spells some of the Lizardmen druids were proficient with

>Druids got into position and started chanting spells - but were knocked out by a speeding mass of white

>Enri noticed the dangerous situation around her core ogre group and ordered her Paladin Gob Riders, held in reserve on back of her right flank, to take wing and take out enemy druids

>Cocytus was not able to react in time to order his right flank archers to AA and Paladins just flew over zombies, archers and Lizardmen warriors, reaching druids unobstructed

>Lizardmen felt into disarray at first, but quickly reformed, allocating some of the warriors to protect the druids from airborne cavalry charges why they would take AA action

>Unfortunately to Cocytus without druid support Lizardmen were not able to considerably damage forward rank of Trools, who now regenerated at leisurely

>After Trolls turned tide on Lizardmen warriors and started to push them back - Ogres flanked trolls from either sides and pushed back lizardmen there, eventually driving them to the center in front of the trolls

>With druids unable to help warriors facing Trolls and Lizardmen warriors forces divided between holding back both Trolls and Paladins - lizardmen warriors were surrounded and taken out, trolls with ogres then spread out into a line and worked through druids and leftover lizardmen warriors while Paladins went to support the wedge

>With QRF Paladins at her disposal Enri consequently supported anti-cavalry with dispatching rest of Skelly Riders, both flanks of the wedge were cleared from zombies and archers, and finally Skelly riders to the left all perished

>Lupu signaled the end of Battle with a horn

>Bystander gob and lizardmen quickly collected wounded to be treated and dead to be resurrected