103 – Maxburg True Education (7)

“reversal!! Turn back!”

“Forward Halberd! Long spearmen, retreat 5 paces and lower your spear!!”

“Damn it!! A twist here! Turn back in this situation!!”

The soldiers complained, but quickly turned around and built a square at my command.

As the square was built, the enemy soldiers began to panic.

“uh? uh!! Aren’t those guys retreating? But why are you suddenly turning it over there?”

“Hey, shouldn’t this be going back?”

“It’s already too late!!”

To the bewildered soldiers, the enemy’s lower commanders wearing armor began to shout.

“stop! Stop and form!”

“If we don’t form, everyone will die here!”

“Jinhyung! Form a square!!!”

It was good that we responded right away as soon as we formed formation, but those who had already been chasing us from the front began to be slaughtered by our 1st and 2nd rank soldiers.

The elite soldiers with high skill levels tried to respond in this situation, but were pushed by the serfs coming from behind and were stabbed or crushed to death.

And with this momentum, I gave the order to annihilate the enemy.

“All-army advance! Stay calm and move forward slowly! Match the sum with the soldiers next to you!”

When the order was given, the soldiers moved towards the enemy like mountains moving silently and very slowly.

As a result, the place where the mercenaries and elite troops were located maintained their formation and counterattacked, but a gap in the square began to appear where the inexperienced serfs were.

“Now, go into the enemy’s gaps!!”

“Get into the gap and kill the commander! If you kill the commander, promotions and rewards await!”

“All troops, run for success!!”

With just this push, I would be able to win the battle for my left wing.

However, if that happens, the enemy will use any method to reorganize and retreat to another location.

Then you may have to wage a grueling siege and capture the castles of the barons, counts and dukes.

In the worst case, reinforcements may come to save the Maxburg family.

Of course, the people of the Imperial Council will oppose it, so the emperor personally leading an army of 100,000 won’t happen.

In that case, no matter how high our fighting power per person is compared to the enemy, we will be defeated heavily, as the saying goes, that there is no business in front of Dagul.

So you must end the war before your opponent sends reinforcements.

“messenger!! Is there a messenger?”

At that, a messenger wearing a rank insignia appeared in front of me.

“Recruit one battalion, and send the soldiers of that battalion to all battalion commanders under my command. Even if the enemy’s square collapses, don’t go more than 400 meters from your current location. Run right now!”

Hearing that, the second lieutenant repeated my order and ran as fast as he could to the battalion commander of the reserve next to him.

“This is an order from His Excellency the Count. You told me to mobilize all members of this battalion and deliver the order! The order is not to go more than 400 meters from your current location even if the earthquake square collapses!!”

“Okay, Captain Falken! Captain Charlotte, Captain Galeas! Captain Jack! Communicate the same to the company’s soldiers, and move them in units of each squad! Hurry up!!!”

“Yes, I understand. Call out the quickest ones and deliver them to the left and right wing of the Central Army!!”

About thirty minutes after that, our soldiers also stopped their fierce pursuit.

At the same time, the enemy seemed to have reorganized their disorganized battle lines, and unlike before, responded to the allied attack with a solid response.

“Ouch, die!!”

“Why are you sitting there after sucking your mother’s milk more!!”

“Stand up, you son of a bitch!”

“If you are a mercenary, go home like a mercenary!”

So when I told them to stop marching, a fierce battle broke out.

In a situation where it was difficult to move forward by pushing and pushing each other, I deliberately preserved as many reserves as possible to maintain this situation.

Thanks to that, the current enemy seems to have used most of their reserves, but the allies have not used even 1/5 of their reserves.

In other words, the fatigue of the soldiers on the front line is extreme…

Sooner or later, we will have to replace the frontline units with other units.

“Delivery to the entire army, units in the forefront move to the rear and units behind them advance to the forefront!! Leave the dead and retrieve as many wounded as possible.”

“Collect the wounded, and change the vanguard unit and the unit behind it!!”

With that said, the vanguard unit began swapping with the units behind it.

Taking advantage of that gap, I was afraid that the enemy’s troops would attack us, but as the enemy also pursued us, we began to reorganize as if to repair the collapsed line.

Thanks to that, we were able to finish without suffering a big loss even though we replaced the front line unit.

The replaced unit quickly lowered their spears, and the enemies also lowered their weapons accordingly to form a square.

Our soldiers and the enemy soldiers threw their weapons to kill each other, and when approximately 4 enemy soldiers fell, one of us died.

Gradually, the war intensified, and when the movement of the long spears became disorderly, the company commanders of each unit gave orders.

“Forward the assault force!”

“Prepare the assault force, those with two-handed swords cut the enemy’s spearheads, those with halberds, support!”

“Guys with daggers move to a prone position first!”

At the same time, the guys in hardened leather armor began crawling towards the enemy with daggers in one hand.

Like snakes, they secretly crawled aiming for the ankles and knees of their enemies.

After crawling for about 10 minutes and approaching the enemy’s ankle, they carefully lifted their daggers and slashed the ankle.

And the soldiers whose ankles were stamped began to weep while bleeding profusely.

“mom!!!!”

“My ankle… My ankles don’t have any more strength… Ahh… ”

As the spearheads of the enemy, who had their ankles stamped, put down their spears, halberd soldiers and two-handed swordsmen in full-body armor clad only in front of plates came after them.

The two-handed swordsmen began to cut through the gaps in the enemy and cut all the spearheads, and the halberd soldiers began to open holes in the heads of the soldiers stunned behind them with their halberds.

The pikemen began to eliminate the enemies by surrounding them in a half-moon shape in the gaps of the enemies who still maintained the pike square.

At this point, they might have retreated, but they continued to hold their ground as if it wasn’t the time yet.

And I was sure at this time, that the main force of the enemy, the knights, would come back to the rear of the infantry unit.

Then, as if to prove that I was right, a scout appeared next to me and reported.

“I report to His Excellency the Count. The knights and cavalry of the Duke of Maxburg are making a great detour into our rear!”

“What is that number!!”

“4000 people! And it seems that Count Willemheim, Chancellor of the Maxburg family, is in the vanguard!”

“How long do you think the enemy will come?”

“I think the enemy units will be visible after about 20 minutes.”

“Okay, let’s go.”

The scout returned to his duties that way.

Let’s see, Maxburg mobilized about 40,000 to 50,000 soldiers…

If there are 4,000 knights, that means that virtually all available knight resources are being used to kill me.

In normal times, he would have already given the order to retreat and acknowledged defeat at the point of giving back like this, but in this operation, it was necessary to give his back to the enemy like this.

With everything going smoothly as I had intended, I ordered the messenger to do so.

“Tell Colonel Biermann, who is in overall command of the knights in the rear. Reserves to raise flags and weapons. Go and put the knights in confusion to rest.”

**

“Colonel Beerman, when will it be our turn? No matter how much we are in the rearguard, isn’t the war almost settled now?”

Nabierman thought so, but His Excellency’s order was not to act unconditionally until further instructions were given.

Therefore, even if I want to move now, I can’t.

“Colonel Beerman! Now our soldiers are dying in front, and there is no attack from behind. Please, Your Excellency, allow one-third, even one-fourth, of us to go out and support them!”

“Major Miller! Calm down!! His Excellency told us not to go out to support the soldiers unless the whole army is being pushed back! Violating this is an act against military law.”

“Colonel!!”

“wait a moment! just a little bit more… Even if you don’t believe me, believe in Your Excellency, who has been victorious in wars until now.”

Hearing that, Major Miller chewed his lips with his teeth as if he couldn’t help it.

“Yes, I understand.”

When Major Miller returned to his original position, I touched the oil-filled Molotov cocktail that His Excellency had given me.

His Excellency said while handing this to the knights.

“Honorable Knights of Kreutel, trust me. And after holding the position until the end, pour all your energy into the moment of decisive battle.”

That said, it will burn their stomachs.

Because even their own children are now fighting alongside the foot soldiers and bleeding together.

Especially for those who enlisted, like Miller, excluding his eldest son, the son of his wife and the son of his concubine, saying that infantrymen who were not knights would be better off in the world.

After waiting for about thirty minutes, the messenger we had been waiting for finally arrived.

“Colonel Beerman! This is an order from His Excellency!!!”

… . Is it finally time for the reserve to move?

“His Excellency the Count ordered it. Hold up your flag and weapon and put the knights chasing after you to rest!”

Your Excellency’s prediction was correct, Magsburg must have sent knights to reverse his inferiority in infantry warfare.

It’s finally our turn.

I raised my hand toward the messenger and put a piece of gold into his hand.

“This is the price for telling us that we can make a major. And tell that to His Excellency the Count.”

“Yes, I understand.”

I took off my helmet, put it back on, drew my sword, and said,

“It is Your Excellency’s order. Soon, enemy knights will come after our troops. It’s time to show the taste of your fire to the filthy things that only see behind people! All troops, pack your equipment and move to the designated location!!”

“hurray!!!”

“Long live Deus! Long live the Elaine Empire! Long live His Excellency Kreutel!!”

“I, too, will try the lieutenant colonel!!”

“Let’s go inside!!”

And by the time we reached the designated location, the guy with his ear on the ground said.

“Enemy knights are coming. I don’t know the exact number because it’s far away, but there are about thousands of knights running.”

Hearing those words, two conflicting emotions passed through me.

One is the anxiety and fear of having to deal with the guys on the horse while dismounted, and the other is gratitude to your Excellency for trusting and entrusting such a difficult task.

In my 50 years of life, the day will come when I will feel gratitude and fear at the same time.

Shall I pass on the title to my eldest son and retire and go under the command of the Viscount…

If I go under the Viscount, I won’t have to go out like now, but I’ll be able to go fishing or hunting with him from time to time.

After thinking about it for a while, I gave instructions to the knights.

“All troops, knights standing in the forefront, install Pavis in front of your body! Soldiers in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th rows prepare to throw Molotov cocktails at the same time!”

Following my instructions, the knights planted their shields into the ground and prepared to throw Molotov cocktails.

And after a while, the knights finally appeared with the sound of the enemy’s thunderous hooves.

At first glance, the number was 4,000, a scale that could not be handled in a state that was dismounted from the horse.

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Maybe that’s why the guys started whistling and talking.

“Those bastards got off their horses despite being knights!”

“Each of those is 30 to 40 gold coins! Got it!”

“All forces, speed up!!!”

With those words, the enemy knights increased their speed and began approaching us.

About 300 meters, 250 meters, 200 meters before colliding with us… 170…

When the front ranks of the enemy reached about 150 meters in the snow, the Bannerlet Knights gave orders to the Knights.

“Javelin with Molotov cocktail! And throw a javelin into a javelin!!”

At that, the soldiers combined firebombs with lit wicks and javelins.

And I signaled

After a while, our knights threw lit Molotov cocktails at the enemy, then prayed.

Ask for the strength to punish the disgraced duke’s knights.