92 – Kingdom short selling method 28

Iscal, the captain of Sakiel who was commanding the battle in the highlands.

However, a darker shadow began to fall on his face, which was so confident at first.

‘What… what is this… Is something strange?’

He was the one who gave the order to attack right after the confusion that Bahamut had promised him.

The camp of the Black Legion, which had been established in an orderly manner, was in a state of dizziness, and even the gates that were firmly closed had been lifted.

Even from Iscal’s point of view, this is no different from the fact that the enemies literally stuck out their heads to ask for their death.

However, at the point where Sakiel’s offensive had just arrived, the Hungarian Black Legion seemed to have already sorted out the situation, which was clearly evident from the annihilation of the cavalry immediately after.

Until then, I was able to understand it, albeit with difficulty.

As much as he knew that the Black Legion was quite strong through the first engagement, it was not very likely that he was lucky to quickly sort out the situation and launch a counterattack.

‘Still, no matter what, the gates are open as promised. There is no reason for our soldiers to lose once they get inside. Street fighting is Sakiel’s specialty…’

In a narrow and complex city, no matter how great an army was, it was impossible to fight like a rotation in the plain.

On the other hand, for the Sakiels who make a living fighting in such a place, the battlefield over there is overwhelmingly advantageous.

He thought that this time, as the number was greater, he would be able to seize the victory.

However… his confidence began to turn into heavy anxiety right after a large army of over 10,000 rushed into the castle.

The castle gate closed without hesitation with the explosion, and the loud gunfire heard immediately after.

Since then, the gate has not been opened again, and the allies have become surrounded by the Black Legion with the walls and gates intact.

‘Something…something’s wrong… Boo… It’s clear that Bahamut proceeded as he said. No matter how much our side lacks war experience, how can this be..’

All the promises that Bahamut had secretly made to him actually happened.

The confusion of the Black Legion and the opening of the gates.

With that much, they were sure they would be able to win a victory, but even though all of that had materialized, Sakiel’s large army and Iscal were only accumulating damage to their allies without even inflicting any significant damage on the enemies.

‘That Bahamut… no. There’s no reason to blame him. Actually, he kept all his promises. But why? Why do we keep pushing back? Seo… Could it be that we were so weak? Even with a large army of 90,000, they couldn’t even deal with the black army of only 20,000?’

He knew that the Sakiels were not bad as an individual force, but their war experience was mediocre.

However, despite this, Iscal had no time or method to compensate for this.

While gathering the troops, it was difficult to even agree with the other elders, and even if it was difficult to reach a consensus, only a few of them were actually put into practice.

In particular, most of the Sakiel Knight Commanders objected to the training part, because they couldn’t see their subordinates mixing with other knights who were like their enemies.

Of course, this was actually just an excuse, and it was to avoid creating a situation in which subordinates refused to fight out of feelings of camaraderie when they had to fight again later.

‘Even so, I had to force myself to train, even if that was the case, until this…’

Honestly, it was true that even Iscal had no experience in war, so he was under the illusion that he would win even if he simply advanced.

This is because no matter how well you plan your formation and tactics, in a few fights, it doesn’t show that much.

However, through this war, he was paying a very high price for his stupidity, and the settlement of this was still ongoing.

-bang!-

Another explosion sound.

In response, Iscal looked at him with a trembling gaze, and his complexion began to harden again.

explosion just before.

With that, the bridge the Sakiels were crossing was destroyed.

“Uh.. how.. what should I do?.. this.. now I… ”

In the chaos that erupted one after another, Iscal couldn’t come to his senses, and he didn’t know what order to give.

And… this situation of the commander-in-chief began to bring about the destruction of Sakiel more quickly.

*

“What… what!”

“Everything.. The bridge collapsed!”

“no! They destroyed the bridge!”

Sakiels looked at the bridge with an urgent expression on their faces.

Beyond them were 40,000 allies, stranded and at a loss.

On the other hand, this side is cut off from the troops that entered the castle, and only less than 30,000 troops remain.

In this situation, which was not much different from the Black Legion in terms of head count, the light of despair began to dwell on the faces of Sakiels.

And at that moment, the formation of the Black Legion, which had been quietly entrenched and maintaining its formation, slowly began to show changes.

“The enemy’s end is near! Raise your arms, Hungarian warriors! Wipe out the enemies in front of you without leaving a single one behind!”

-Clap!-

As soon as the words were over, the formation of the Black Legion began to change again.

It was not the same defensive formation as before, with shields planted in the ground.

The Black Legion slowly marches forward with a heavy, gigantic shield pulled out of the ground and led by it.

At the same time, the hitherto interrupted bombardment resumed.

“Uh.. aaagh!”

“Uh… those again!”

“uh… Move anyway! Stay close or you will all die!”

A shower of shells, arrows and magic.

Unlike before, this time, he had no choice but to run towards the Black Legion in order to save Sakiel from the flames of death flying from the front, back, and side.

However, it only served to hasten their deaths more rapidly.

“Hee hee hee!!!”

“What.. what is it?”

“Again… the Knights are moving again!”

The moment they arrive close to the camp, the cavalry start to rush again like a storm.

Unlike Sakiel’s cavalry, who just charged into the enemy camp and saw a loss.

With both eyes completely covered with an eyepatch, it moved only according to the hands of its master with whom it had been in rapport for a long time, literally like the death god itself sweeping the battlefield.

“Aagh!”

“Crowd!”

“Sa..sa..save… Khehehehe!!”

Every time the Knights advance, the Sakiels die while sprinkling blood.

In front, infantry corps advancing with shields under the auspices of spearmen, and cavalry slashing themselves in real time from the side. And behind them are countless long-distance bombing attacks.

And.. a hopeless situation where such a situation is being made against their rear formation as well.

It was reminiscent of two giant living monsters crushing weak humans without hesitation.

“This… this… this is the Black Legion… ”

“Boo.. Impossible.. This.. You can never.. win this..”

Deeply feeling the true face of the target they had ridiculed just a few hours ago, the Sakiels began to completely lose their will to fight one by one.

More than half of our allies had already been torn apart.

The people on the other side of the river are already in fear and have no constructive thoughts such as reconnecting the bridge.

In the end, they had only one choice in this situation.

“Ha.. Surrender! I will surrender!”

“Um… we made a mistake! Please… please save my life!”

Sakiels, who lost all hope, threw their weapons.

Watching them prostrate on the ground begging for their lives, the adjutants asked Commander-in-Chief Gerard.

“What should I do?”

“The foolish ones who dared to invade Hungary. To treat without needing to show mercy like this…”

“No, take those who have abandoned their weapons as prisoners. Tell the whole army that.”

“All right. I will tell you that.”

According to Gerard’s decision, the lieutenants immediately issue orders.

In response, Gerard honestly wanted to insist on killing everyone.

It was because, on this occasion, I was not very greedy to imprint the fear of this country on fools who dared to aim for Hungary.

However, he had no choice but to make concessions while feeling regret about this part.

‘It’s unfortunate, but this victory wasn’t achieved by our own efforts. As far as this war goes, we need to respect his will as much as possible.’