The Valentine Brothers' Ghoul Army

The Ghoul Army was an army of Ghouls armed with military equipment (including but not exclusively limited to body armor, riot shields and military weaponry) that were used by The Valentine Brothers to storm Hellsing HQ in the storylines of the original manga, the OVA and the anime series.

History


The Valentine Brothers were assigned the task of killing the entire Convention of Twelve, and destroying Hellsing HQ in the process. To this end, they were given command of a sizable number of armed and armored ghouls and a pair of travel lorries. Pretending at first to be lost tourists, they attacked Hellsing personnel at the compound's entrance and blasted the main driveway, allowing their forces to march into the complex.

Their brutal assault caught Hellsing forces by surprise and caused much of Hellsing's workforce to be slain and devoured by the ghouls under the command of Jan Valentine. As much resistance as the human defenders presented, it soon became obvious they had little hope of overcoming the much larger ghoul force. As they are about to reach the conference room, they ran into Walter C. Dornez and Seras Victoria, who are guarding the way to the conference room. Dornez's quick attacks, unblockable by their shields, quickly mowed many of them down, and the remaining majority died under fire from the Harkonnen cannon wielded by Victoria. While the initial fighting force was effectively wiped out, Valentine played his last card: the dead Hellsing guards rose again as ghouls themselves.

Overcoming Victoria as Dornez pursued Valentine to the doors of the Convention, the attack caused her to lose herself to her bloodlust, engaging powers she had never used before to utterly rip the attackers to pieces. While she later ended this fugue state, the main attack was over. Integra Hellsing tried to have Walter dispose of the dying ghouls, but Sir Hugh Irons, believing Integra to be the main responsible for the assault, whether due to incompetence or deliberate fault of judgment, had her personally execute the dozens of ghouls with his revolver.

Equipment
In all their incarnations, the Ghoul Army used a sizable force and were armed with machine guns or carbines, bulletproof armor to increase even more their odds of survival, and heavy anti-riot shields, always engraved with the message: "Boo Doo People Murder People" and the emblem of the Valentine Brothers, a stylized eye staring upwards with what appears to be a tear sliding down.

Trivia

 * Oddly, in the anime series, the eyes of the ghouls attacking Hellsing are normal, rather than the white irises of the other ghouls.
 * The Ghouls made a brief appearance in some of the flashbacks in Hellsing: The Dawn anime.