138 – Battle of Waine Plains (11)

As I raised my sword at the enemy knight, he looked at me and said with a stunned expression.

“Save me! Your Excellency Count!!”

I ignored the noise and swung my sword through the gap between his helms, causing blood to splatter on my arms and horse.

The soldiers behind me must have started slaughtering the enemy knights at a level close to slaughter, and I heard the screams of the enemy knights around me.

“surrender!!”

“Ouch!!”

“help me!!!”

Leaving their cries behind, I spurred on my horse and led the knights deep into the enemy camp.

Normally, I wouldn’t risk my life to do such a drastic move, but the enemy is already in a situation where both horses and people are surprised by the power of the gun and can’t do anything.

No matter how great the duke was, it was judged that it would be impossible to launch a counterattack to the extent of threatening me and the knights in this state.

So, when the enemy’s horses appeared, we used great weight and speed to ram them, and when we saw knights, we trampled them with our feet or attacked with swords or maces.

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Most of the horses that collided with us fell sideways due to the impact, and were immediately trampled and turned into meat paste by the knights following us.

The trampled knights looked fine on the outside because of their armor, but on the inside they were already like minced meat.

After about two minutes of dispersing the enemy’s camp, the horse’s speed slowly began to decrease.

A knight who can’t speed is like a scarecrow who can’t move, so I guess I’ll have to stop here and step back.

“Courageous Knights of Kreutel, retreat as quickly as possible for the next charge! You don’t have to maintain formation!”

With those words, a red flag was raised among the knights, ordering some to retreat.

Soon after, we began breaking away from the enemy ranks as fast as we could.

The enemies seemed to have finally come to their senses, and on the way, they swung maces at us or stabbed us with knives.

I blocked the mace with a shield as much as possible, and prevented the sword from reaching the gap in the armor.

After I successfully escaped, I looked around to check the condition of the knights.

The horses were so overworked that their legs trembled with their masters on board, and several knights fell on their necks.

No matter how much damage you have to do to them in war, you can’t go into the square of the infantry in such a state of exhaustion.

According to my plan, the goal was to end the war completely by having the knights crash into the square of the foot soldiers one more time, but… .

“Everyone pay attention!!”

At those words, the knights looked at me with moderation, as in training, even though they were on the verge of exhaustion.

And Baron Biermann, standing at the vanguard of the knights, hurriedly came to me and said,

“Your Excellency, now the knights are at their limit… They can’t even afford to take enemy knights prisoner. Please order a retreat.”

For the knights of this era, capturing prisoners is an unconditional side job in order to survive.

Because they couldn’t earn enough money to maintain their dignity with the taxes they earned while running the estate.

In other words, a direct translation of what Beerman said would be like this.

‘They have given up even earning money to maintain dignity, which is as important as life to the nobles, and are following Your Excellency. Please do not order them to charge unreasonably.’

When I heard that, two emotions welled up in my heart.

One was self-reproach for running too radically toward the goal, and the other was thanks to the knights who gave up even the opportunity to earn money and followed suit.

“Baron Beerman, thank you for your advice.”

“No, Your Excellency.”

Then, I turned my head toward them and spoke in a loud voice.

“Nasiel von Kreuttel has already won this war. And you are none other than all the contributors to this war! I will not forget the blood and sweat you shed for me today, and I will reward you by robbing my treasure house.”

At that, the knights cheered even before I finished my words.

“So, you guys should now go back to your base and rest. In addition, I will reward you separately from your achievements in my name for not being able to earn ransom due to not capturing a prisoner. All knights must return to their headquarters under the leadership of Baron Biermann.”

At my words, Biermann said in a shocked voice.

“Your Excellency, Your Excellency is not feeling well! It seems that you are fortunately uninjured, but have you not stood in the toughest vanguard twice?”

As he said, I was completely exhausted from standing in the vanguard twice.

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My eyes are dizzy, and my arms and legs do not work well, so I want to sit down.

However, a top commander who is not wounded cannot sit still while other infantrymen risk their lives for a long time.

So I tried my best to force myself to speak.

“Baron Beerman, my men are still fighting. But I, who wasn’t even injured, couldn’t be left out. So just leave one horse in good condition and go. I will join the infantry over there.”

“… All right.”

At that, Baron Biermann mounted his horse and cried out in a loud voice.

“His Excellency stood in the vanguard twice, and held out until the end even in situations where he was about to collapse from exhaustion. Don’t be dissatisfied with the fact that you didn’t catch a prisoner, even if you think of that warm heart towards your allies! We all come back!”

“Yes, Your Excellency!!”

“Long live the Count!!!”

For a while, I led my exhausted body to the place where the infantry unit was.

There, a horrific sight that bordered on massacre unfolded.

4 or 5 foot soldiers tied up to hunt the knight, but two men with pikes prevented the knight from moving.

When the remaining two knights tried to remove the spear, each struck the head endlessly with a mace strapped to his waist.

Then, when the knight fell or showed a gap, the soldiers who used maces used daggers to poke the gap between the armor of the knights.

“Sal, save me!!!!”

“If you catch us, won’t you get a ransom?!”

“Infantrymen, please save us!!”

To the point where those guys who wouldn’t normally treat walking foot soldiers as the same person would use honorifics at them… It almost means hell has unfolded.

The foot soldiers seemed to find it amusing for the knights to rant like that, and spoke in teasing voices to them.

“Knights, I’m sorry for sending you away, lowly people like us! Please go in front of Deus and complain about your injustice!”

“Quickly die. lily!!”

“Don’t worry, it stings a little!!”

Gunshots were heard from the side at regular intervals, and the knights died according to the sound.

“Ah!”

“100 million… Emily… ”

“Damn it!!!”

“Live… ”

I silently watched this scene, then headed to the place where the commander in charge of them was.

The commander smiled as soon as he saw me.

“dismissal! Try!! If we keep fighting like this, our regiment will be able to capture Duke Architel as well!! All of this is possible thanks to the great Count’s commanding skills! Long live His Excellency Creutel!”

The nobleman, who thought there would be nothing to do because it was an infantry regiment deployed in the rear, suddenly played a role in catching the fleeing knights…

From the point of view of the nobleman, it feels like a pumpkin has rolled in from an unexpected place, but it is very burdensome.

“You who follow my command are also excellent. By the way, I’m going to the Matchlock Regiment led by Lieutenant Colonel Frost, but only give me 20 men.

“Yes, I understand.”

“And now you guys start taking prisoners. I’m going to squeeze the knights anymore and even kill the duke.”

“Yes, I understand! Regimental rider! Raise a flag to capture prisoners immediately!!! If the duke dies at this rate, we’re all done!! Don’t you want to receive a reward?!”

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After arriving at the Matchlock Regiment, I immediately rode my horse to Lieutenant Colonel Frost and said:

“Colonel Frost! Cease fire immediately now and make a large return to the enemy’s rear with a rapid march. The target is where the caltrops lie about 500 meters from here!”

“Yes, I understand!! Stop shooting all members of the unit!! Move to a point 500 meters behind the enemy!!”

When the order was given, the men with the matchlocks ceased fire and began a rapid march.

“Take your matchlock no matter what!”

“We must get the matchlock before the corpses of our dead comrades! If that leaks out, it’s over!!”

“Run!! run!!”

In the meantime, I grabbed a messenger passing by and gave an order.

“messenger! Tell all the infantry. All enemy knights are defeated! I mean, I don’t even know if Duke Architel is dead or alive!”

“Yes, I understand.”

Given that the knights were begging for their lives from the foot soldiers just before, they were trying to fight anyway, so the duke is likely alive.

However, against opponents who have already fought to the death and still lose…

Since he doesn’t have the strength to grasp the facts, he will surely start believing in it and running away.

After marching to death for about an hour, I saw enemy infantry running away from 120 to 150 meters away.

Everyone was running around dying to survive on their own, and those who were exhausted in the middle were being trampled to death by the feet of their allies.

And when he saw us, he shouted.

“They’re the ones with rods that shoot damn thunder!!!”

“What you see over there is the coat of arms of Count Creutel!! We are all dead!!”

“mum… I have to stop!!”

They didn’t stop, and it wasn’t long before Lieutenant Short’s reconnaissance team stepped on the caltrops that had been laid.

Those who stepped on it grabbed their feet and cried or rolled over.

As their advance slowed down, Lieutenant Colonel Frost’s order fell.

“Raise the blue flag! Front row fire! Then the white flag!”

When the order was given, the arquebusiers fired at the same timing.

Soon the fire went out of the muzzle, accompanied by acrid gray smoke, and bullets flew at the frail serfs, who barely held on to their iron armor and weapons.

And as if such armor couldn’t stop the bullets, the armor the soldiers wore were just pierced, and blood gushed out of the hole.

“Aagh!!!”

“help me!!!!!!”

“… .. It’s a monster!! monster… ”

At the same time, the friendly infantry also took advantage of their slow movement and caught up with them, so the guys who were not shot started shouting.

“The foot soldiers chasing us caught up with us!!”

“Damn it, everyone dies!!”

“… . If I had known this would happen, I would have just deserted… Only Brenton who went home succeeded… ”

And moments later, as the white flag was raised, bullets flew towards the frightened enemy soldiers.

In addition, enemy soldiers who were difficult to even count died.

I stopped Frost and said to them.

“I am Ciel von Kreuttel, the honorable lord of the Earl of Creutel! I will not kill anyone who surrenders even now. Let everyone lay down their weapons. If you don’t let go… .”

Then he took a bulletless gun from one of the soldiers and fired it at them.

“We can fire dozens more of this. And by the time you shoot them all of you will be dead. Also, the fate of Duke Architel is unknown. Think wisely!”

Having said that, all we have left is about three rounds per soldier.

That alone won’t completely stop them, but those who are already terrified will believe what I say.

The war has already ended here.