"Report, Sir! Those Zouave bastards (a derogatory term used by the Russian Empire) have made their way up!"
The adjutant, standing on the walls of the Star Fortress, saw the Zouave Corps soldiers steadily advancing beneath the walls and hurriedly ran down to report to the fortress commander.
At this moment, the fortress commander was reorganizing the remaining soldiers inside the fortress. After listening to the adjutant's report, he calmly turned his head and said to the adjutant beside him, "I know, thank you for your hard work."
Having said that, the fortress commander turned his head back and looked again at the soldiers.
The more than 300 soldiers before him were the only remaining force within the fortress, yet they were to follow him, an incompetent officer, to their deaths. He felt a sense of guilt towards them.
