102 – Maxburg True Education (6)

After final negotiations with the Duke of Maxburg, we set out to fight him on the plains of Lothringen.

Speaking of marching, it was only two kilometers away from our camp, but it was as difficult as walking dozens of miles, perhaps because we walked while wearing plate armor.

Along the way, the old soldiers told the new recruits jokes, saying that they were going to war again, and the new soldiers struggled to laugh at gags that they would not normally have laughed at.

To face the fear of death, to gain comfort that only one person will not die.

And we moved to our respective locations.

Under my command, I organized 100 knights, 1000 men at arms, and 7000 infantrymen, and under Baron Frost, who will be in charge of the central army, 100 knights, 800 men at arms, 4000 infantrymen, and the right wing. organized

As if the enemies were planning to use the momentum of the vanguard to defeat the allies, well-armed soldiers were placed in the front, and the soldiers in the back seemed to be poorly armed and trained.

Since the enemy has placed the elite soldiers in the front, it seems that the damage of the vanguard will be enormous.

However, a commander is a being who expects his soldiers to die and orders them to stand on limb to achieve a tactical goal.

There is no time now to be swept away by such feelings.

And not long after, a soldier ran up to me and said,

“Your Excellency, the time has come. Give me orders!”

“All forces, advance slowly.”

After my order was given, Major Frost repeated the order behind me.

The trumpet was sounded accordingly, and the banner commanding the march was raised.

And my soldiers now moved as if they were one machine, all moving at the same motion and speed, as if they were all parts of the machine called the army.

After walking for about 10 minutes, no, about 20 minutes, I began to see the flag of the enemy vanguard.

A flag with a picture of a sheep with golden fur and a black rabbit…

I don’t know where the black rabbit is from the Golden Fleece Mercenary Corps, but seeing the discipline of the soldiers is very strict, it seems that it will not be an easy battle.

And after a while, I heard the shouts of the platoon commanders among the soldiers.

“Go ahead, crossbowmen!! Spearmen, raise your spears at an angle and cover your face with your arms!! If an arrow gets hit in the face, it will come back!!”

“Believe in the armor you are wearing, the armor bestowed upon you by His Excellency Count Kreuttel! Even if you get hit by an arrow right in front of your eyes, there won’t be a hole!!! So you don’t die!”

“He who runs away from the enemy dies here. And I will sell their families into slavery! In particular, I will sell your daughter or your wife to Changgwan!”

At that, the soldiers with spears raised their spears obliquely to block their faces, and the crossbowmen, after driving their pavis into the ground, aimed their crossbows at the enemy.

Then, now Frost looked at me and said in a nervous voice.

“dismissal.”

“All-arms salvo! After that, keep firing according to the control of each company commander!!”

“After firing a salvo, fire according to the command of the company commander!!”

A minute after the words were dropped, our soldiers’ arrows flew towards the enemy.

Thousands of arrows flew towards the enemy, but we did not watch them and covered ourselves to live.

Soldiers with long spears bent their right arms slightly to cover their faces, knights and men at arms with shields in their hands, and crossbowmen crouched in their pavis.

“Ouch!”

“Oops… ”

“Um, Mom!!”

Screams could be heard from time to time among the soldiers, but there was no time to worry about them.

All I had to do was properly send reserve units to put in the hole-drilled unit and stand on the same frontline as the soldiers.

After one round of arrow baptism, our crossbowmen fired arrows at the enemies first.

In this way, we constantly exchanged tens of thousands of arrows with the enemy, and before we knew it, the rain of arrows stopped falling as if both we and the enemy had run out of arrows.

Then, led by the Golden Fleece mercenaries, the vanguard began to slowly approach our unit.

At the same time, the bad-mouthed ones among the soldiers shouted as I ordered to provoke them.

“Aren’t you coming to rescue your parents in Lothringen?”

“We don’t plunder, kill, or rape out of respect for Mr. Creutel’s honor, but what’s the difference between the serfs and the mob inside? A few days ago, you know that hundreds of people were hanged? Oh you didn’t know? It’s okay, now that I know it, but if you don’t hurry, you’ll really die!”

“You duke family aristocrats are trembling at the sight of the serfs in the castle right now?”

After the provocation was over, an army with a crest depicting a black rabbit began charging ahead of the Golden Fleece mercenaries.

“Bastards! My mother is in Lothringen!!”

“My first love, Emma, lives in Lothringen! And they are supposed to get married the day after tomorrow, but they ran out!!”

“You guys don’t even have a mother or father!”

An army of nobles with black rabbit crests approached us excitedly.

However, perhaps because of their habit, they kept running with a unified gait even though their eyes went wide from excitement.

After a while, the vanguard of our army and the vanguard of the enemy collided.

As if the enemies were not afraid of being stabbed, they rushed at us with the spirit of slashing a spear with an iron gauntlet or even killing a soldier in front of me, even if it meant dying.

It’s so scary even when I see it from a distance, but how terrifying it must be from the point of view of the soldiers who actually turned those guys into enemies…

Even in that situation, our soldiers reacted really calmly.

He did not break the square even when he retreated according to the teaching that if you break formation against elite soldiers who are not afraid of death, you are more likely to die.

Also, if someone died, the person right behind him would enter the gap in the square and continue to fill the gap.

However, because the enemy charged with desperate determination to slaughter our troops and I gave the order to lure the enemy, our unit suffered a slight defeat for the first time.

And I gave the order to continue the weak defeat in order to draw the enemy as much as possible.

“Send 1 reserve platoon to Weiss Battalion and 2 reserve platoons to Helmut Battalion!!”

“We don’t have enough troops!! If you do this wrong, you will be destroyed!”

“If you want to pretend to be defeated in the first place, you have to be prepared for that much! Any further questions raised will be taken as protests.”

Even after that, I continued to retreat while sparing the reserve as much as possible in response to the continuous request for reinforcements.

The enemy forces reached the temporary command post I had built before I knew it, and the guys in the vanguard shouted with a smirk.

“I heard that Count Kreutel is a walking gold nugget! To supply such good armor and good weapons to low-ranking soldiers… But seeing as they lose to us, it’s an army of pigs who only have a lot of money.”

“If you bring these two armors, you can buy a field! It’s not high-quality armor, but… Isn’t this the level that the Squires wear?”

“And if we win this battle… You will receive a huge indemnity. If you do well, 1 million gold coins… At least 10 gold coins will fall for us too.”

“Gazua!!!”

Fools, since ancient times, wars don’t always go the way you think…

They like that it goes their way, tsk tsk, after all they are blinded by loot.

Normally, if you’re a veteran, it’s normal to notice at this point.

“Wait, this is a resonance trap!”

Even if we retreat while doing this, if we see them thinking of robbing their hats of loot, we’ll probably win the battle in this campaign.

By the way, Baron Balt and Frost are doing well, right?

And I asked Frost.

“Major Frost, how far are we from the target point? And haven’t you seen the knights on horseback?”

“According to the reconnaissance captain, the knights are currently making a big turn to attack our unit from behind. And in another 10 minutes… We arrive at the target point.”

If you retreat while maintaining your formation, it will take 10 minutes, that is, if you run away as if you are running away after leaving your formation, it will take less than 1 minute.

If that’s the case, we should go ahead and wait for the enemy knights to strike us in the coveted back of the head.

As quickly as possible, showing the enemy a calculated gap.

“Give orders to light the torches, and have the Man at Arms and knights deployed in the rear prepare for an attack from the rear. And command the whole army! Move to the target point in a canter! Everyone run!”

After hearing that, Frost listened to me and asked with a dazed look on his face.

“If you disengage and run in front of the enemy, the casualties will increase! But why are you telling me to run with my back turned?”

“I have already given the same order to Balt and Frost! Get everyone ready to run! Jump and get there in the next 3 minutes! To make it look like we’re about to be defeated, we’re leaving everything except weapons and armor behind!”

“Then the flag… ”

“The success of the operation is the highest honor, and you can remake the flag! Throw away all the flags and run!!”

Upon hearing that, Frost sighed and said, as if he had intuition that he would no longer be persuaded.

“Legion riders and buglers, signal retreat one! Throw away all tools except power equipment and armor and retreat!”

At that, the flag bearer and the bugler gave the signal to retreat to all the soldiers, and after a while the soldiers quickly put down all sorts of unnecessary flags on the ground and started running.

Those who saw it, do you know that even if it is dirty, you will receive a huge reward even if you take things like the middle, large, and chronicles?

The battle line was disrupted while picking them up, and the serf soldiers who were chasing them from behind seemed to believe that the soldiers in the vanguard had won the war.

They started running towards us like crazy.

In response, the soldiers and lower commanders began to run and run, complaining.

“Run! Die and run! Your feet alone will save you!”

“Damn it!! I’m just running around when it’s not enough even if I set up my major!! I can’t believe I’m just running!!”

“Why are you here wearing armor and running away like you did during marching training!!”

“I don’t know, just run!!! It is an order!!”

After about two minutes of running like that, I said while brandishing a spear with the banner of Count Kreuttel’s family attached to it.

“Power stop, reverse!! Aim your spear and build a dustproof!!”

And we built a square a little faster than the enemy, and the enemy’s soldiers were already a mix of serf soldiers, mercenaries, and elite soldiers, facing us in a state where it was like five minutes before the opening.