EP.86
About 30 minutes had passed since then, but we still had not encountered the enemy infantry.
This is because the evil barbarian infantry pretended to advance towards us, but when they were within range of the arrows, they retreated, similar to the method they had used in the previous Battle of Tönner.
The vicious barbarian archers fired arrows like it was raining, and the soldiers did not fall like autumn leaves.
As the distance to the enemy infantry does not close, the number of friendly troops being sacrificed continues to increase.
Of course, our northern army is not stupid, so we are fighting their long-distance attacks with magic and arrows, so it is an even match.
“f*ck you, you barbarians who are worse than dogs! How can you shamelessly run away by just shooting arrows? “Hey, you damn flies!”
“Catch that bastard trying to run away! If the battle line is broken because of that bastard, you never know when the enemy archers will take advantage of the gap and attack!”
“You cowardly infantrymen, come forward. Let’s have a fight. Why are you going backwards? Damn it.”
While pushing back the infantry, the imperial army is suffering greater damage than expected due to falling into the enemy’s scheme to attack us with long-distance attacks using horse cavalry and archers, while also taking their own losses.
When comparing the situations these two forces face, the scales of victory are so far tilted, albeit only slightly, in favor of the barbarians.
In the meantime, it seems that the knights, who were under heavy attack from the barbarian archers, somehow succeeded in slowing down the enemy’s central army infantry by attacking the rear of the enemy’s central army infantry so that they could no longer move backwards.
At some point, the distance between us and the barbarians became closer and closer, and the non-commissioned officers and lower-ranking officers shouted and did their best to maintain morale.
“If we go a little further, we will engage in hand-to-hand combat with them! “Don’t be scared, these infantrymen are trash, worse than our new recruits!”
“Hold on to your evil spirit! Then you can win.”
“Let’s go avenge our dead comrades!”
If you say something like this, normal soldiers would respond by trying hard to hold on, but now they don’t have the stamina or spirit to do so.
No one answered them.
In addition, when I looked at other units around our unit, I saw that even commanders such as regiment commanders and battalion commanders were being supported by soldiers or carried out on carts.
It is said that in war, it is very common for wounded soldiers or wounded commanders to be escorted out.
I would never have thought that a man like the commander of a regiment would be hit by an arrow and carried to the rear.
Damn, the situation isn’t as good as I thought.
When on earth will I be able to get permission to act on my own from the division commander?
“Regimental commander! “Regiment commander!”
When I turned my head toward the sound calling me, a soldier rode up quickly and said,
“As the regimental commander said, the division commander gave permission for the 24th Regiment to move alone, leaving only two infantry battalions.”
“Really?”
“Look here, it has the division commander’s seal.”
After hearing that, I took the letter from the messenger’s hand, checked it, and spoke.
“I will leave the deputy regiment commander’s battalion and the 2nd battalion here. The rest of the unit will follow me and go out to the left and spread out the formation thinly according to the breakaway operation. And come out with a white flag to make it look like our unit has suffered heavy damage and is retreating.”
Although there is a possibility that the barbarians may not recognize the white flag that signifies surrender or reduced fighting ability.
At the very least, any soldier or officer serving in the imperial army would be able to guess the condition of the unit that was withdrawing with the white flag.
If the imperial army were being defeated, they would have come to chase us when we tried to escape.
Since we are now in a situation where we are fighting evenly, there will be no time to chase after us who are running away right before our eyes.
“Hang the white flag and leave here quickly, except for the deputy regiment commander’s battalion and the 2nd battalion! “Hurry up!”
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So I broke away from the left wing with the 3rd Infantry Battalion, 1st Wizard Battalion, and 2 Knight Battalions and began a slow retreat.
Was it because he left with a white flag? Even stories like this began to circulate among soldiers and officers.
“Is the regimental commander injured? “You won’t die, right?”
“Shut up you son of a bitch. If the regimental commander dies, promotions and everything else will be blocked. “I heard I could fight under damned Colonel Yeager, so I threw away the opportunity to work at the center.”
“The war doesn’t end in a day or two. “He will get better and return soon.”
And I was on the sick cart because I had to pretend to be sick to get out anyway.
Anyone who sees me will only see me as a seriously injured person.
In fact, let alone being hit by an arrow, I didn’t even get a single scratch thanks to my armor.
When the soldiers I had led fell to some extent on the left wing of the Northern Army, I naturally got up from the cart and said,
“Each platoon of an infantry battalion changes its formation into a six-row line, with spearmen at the front and pikemen at the back. “Wizards should provide fire support among the infantry, and crossbowmen should also load arrows.”
When I gave this order, the regimental commander, who had just heard the news that he had been injured, stood up and gave an order.
Rather than reacting to my orders, the other officers and soldiers looked at each other with blank expressions and tilted their heads as if they were puzzled.
So, when I gave the command one more time, the officers repeated the command and formed their formation as instructed.
“This is a division flag borrowed for times like this. From now on, call me a division commander, not a regiment commander, and prepare yourselves to act boldly by thinking that our unit is a division, not a regiment. “We will decide whether this war is won or lost.”
After giving that order, I sat on my horse and scanned the troops with my eyes.
Is it because the units were thinly spread out, unlike normal infantry units? When the enemy soldiers only looked at the horizontal area they could see with their own eyes.
If we were to exaggerate a bit, it was at a level that was truly believable even if it was just a division.
“Based on the center where I am, the 1st Battalion on the left takes 30 steps forward, and the 3rd Battalion on the right takes 30 steps back, forming a diagonal line and moving forward while maintaining this formation.”
When Frederick the Great of Prussia deployed his troops diagonally like this to attack enemy troops arranged in a rectangular shape.
There is a record that the damage to the enemy army against the Prussian army was maximized as it shook like a wave.
Although we don’t use guns like he does, we can achieve similar results using the tactics that worked best before the advent of machine guns and modern artillery.
“The order of attack is as follows. The knights ran 300 meters ahead, pierced the gap between the enemy infantry, and broke away. “Afterwards, the infantry charges with spears and weapons.”
We call this a sudden charge or a sudden charge in technical terms, but before modern warfare, an accurately calculated charge was also used as a very efficient means for a small number of troops to defeat a large number of enemies.
The soldiers of our regiment are strong elites who have served in the north for at least 1 year and at most 4 years and have gone through several battles, and their infantry is definitely except for a few who were standing in front.
It would be no different from the ragtag group of people we saw when dealing with the Töner tribe in the past.
Therefore, they will not be able to create a proper phalanx, and they will be torn apart without even being able to properly resist a life-threatening charge.
At the same time, due to the diagonal charge, the blow will spread throughout the enemy’s central army, and they will be completely pinned down by our regiment.
Moreover, the morale of our army will skyrocket as a division-level force appears out of nowhere and attacks the enemy’s central army from the side, inflicting fatal blows on the barbarians and tying their ankles.
I’m sure it will be recognized as a huge achievement.
“Then, gentlemen, from now on, move forward slowly, and when the signal is given, run with all your might, pointing your weapons forward.”
When he said that, the soldiers nodded.
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I slowly changed my marching route and moved to a place where I could target the left wing of the barbarians.
When I arrived there, I saw that Ludvik’s army and the imperial army had finally started fighting hand-to-hand with spears and swords.
They didn’t seem to care that much about our appearance because they were engaged in a close battle, pushing each other back and forth.
After observing this, I first sent a signal to the two knight battalions.
Then, about 100 knights rushed out, raising a cloud of dust, aiming for the enemy’s left wing.
“The infantry follows the knights towards the enemy! Shout, long live the empire! Long live Deus! “
Screaming like this makes me feel like I’m making a romantic charge during the Renaissance.
“Long live the great Reich Empire!”
“Long live Deus! Long live the Reich Reich!”
“Be judged by God!!”
Shouting like that, my soldiers and I ran out to completely defeat the barbarians.
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