113 – Battle of Hattin Forest (5)
The Francois Republic formation, which was in chaos, lost order and reached a point where it could be called a mess.
The soldiers just screamed, not even hearing the words of the platoon commanders or senior NCOs who were right next to them shouting that they should reorganize their formation and find order.
“Help me! Help me!”
“f*ck, I don’t want to die like this! Mom! Dad!”
“Formation, we need to reorganize our formation!”
At times like this, when the enemy is confused and cannot even think of a proper response, the winning soldiers are usually so excited that they try to take prisoners, or they let their guard down and relax.
The soldiers of the Reich Empire knew well that when they were in chaos, they could only stand a chance of winning the battle if they killed even one more person.
As a result of formal training, soldiers have reached a point where their arms and legs automatically move in synchrony with just the sound of ‘one, two’, like a machine that kills people.
Following commands given in a loud voice by the battalion commander and company commander who commanded them, the slaughter continued by repeatedly stabbing and pulling out the spear as if measuring it with a sword.
When François and his soldiers saw this, some even urinated in fear, and some of the soldiers, and even many of the units standing in the line, reached the point where they lost control.
“f*ck, those bastards are monsters. “It moves exactly as if it were measured with a ruler!”
“You crazy bastard, if you’re going to die, die yourself! “I will live.”
“Get out of the way, get out of the way!”
There were also idiot-like soldiers who lost their senses and ran in the opposite direction of their unit.
They were all executed right on the battlefield by officers or senior non-commissioned officers of the Republic Army.
Meanwhile, Brigadier General Jaeger, who was watching this, sent a signal to the crossbowmen and wizard troops with a flag and ordered them to aim for the middle of the enemy infantry line and shoot.
As a result, Francois and his infantry holding spears in the middle of the formation were stuck and had no choice but to fall victim to the arrows and magic attacks flying from above.
Because the battlefield here is not that wide, Division Commander Pompadour cannot use his numerical superiority to form an encircling formation such as the Crane Wing.
Unable to give any instructions to turn the situation around, he let out his anger by pointing the sword in his hand into the air.
“Peter Yeager, you cowardly, cunning bastard! If that bastard is a noble, shouldn’t he at least follow the basic etiquette on the battlefield? Archer cavalry is not enough, so this time we move the infantry back and forth to avoid a fair confrontation!?”
Normally, if you said it this way, any officer next to you would probably agree with what you said.
Because everyone, including Division Commander Pompadour, believed and believed in the truth that ‘justice is the one who wins the war.’
His subordinates couldn’t help but criticize him and thought that their superior was talking nonsense because they were losing the war.
While swinging his baton, Pompadour thought of a way that might be the only way to overcome this situation and decided to take that move.
“Because the number of crossbowmen and wizards is overwhelmingly greater than that of our allies, we have more magic and arrows that can be fired at once in this narrow battlefield. And since the situation on the front line is already at a standstill, even if we risk misdirecting our troops.”
Then he raised his baton towards the sky and pointed it down, giving an order.
“If you provide long-distance fire support directly to the front line, the enemy’s sacrifice will be greater than the number of friendly troops killed due to friendly fire! Support them with magic and arrows, but try not to hit your allies if possible!”
According to the order, the flag bearers and military band sent signals with flags and music to induce a long-distance attack near the front line of the Republic army.
Although the wizards and crossbowmen were reluctant to face the prospect of being hit by their own troops, they began shooting at the front line of the Reich Empire soldiers as ordered.
Then, the soldiers of the Reich Empire, who had been unilaterally slaughtering the soldiers of the Francois Republic until recently, also became slow due to the rain of arrows and magic.
In the meantime, the combat ability of the Republic soldiers recovered to some extent, and the war situation tilted somewhat towards Francois…
“Division Commander Pompadour, what the f*ck would a person do?”
“No matter how important it is to win, does it make sense for one of our allies to be killed when four of our enemies die from the arrows we shoot?”
“You f*cking bastard. “After the f*cking war is over, get stabbed to death by an infidel while walking down the street.”
With the dissatisfaction of the Republic soldiers skyrocketing, the confrontation between the soldiers of the Francois Republic and the Imperial Army continued.
Normally, at this point, Brigadier General Jaeger would have sent out Pyongon soldiers to turn the tide of battle, but instead of doing so, he issued another order.
“Pyeongonbyeong must remain on standby, and the battle line must be maintained at all costs. “It’s not time yet.”
At the same time, he sent a signal to march to the waiting archer cavalry and knight units.
As soon as the signal was received, the imperial cavalry and knight troops fled in the same direction, and some of Francois’s infantry who witnessed this reported it to Pompadour.
Because Division Commander Pompadour currently had only the knights left to keep them in check.
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“Order the knights of the glorious Republic to intercept the Empire’s flying bastards!”
We had no choice but to mobilize 750 knights, which were not very effective in catching the archers.
Major Anastasia, who was aware of this whole trend by Brigadier General Jaeger, ran towards his knights, held a bow in his right hand, and asked the archers under his command.
“The Brigadier General, who avenged our enemies by personally cutting and killing Ludvik, trusts us. But can you possibly lose to those cowardly snails whose bodies are wrapped in iron?”
All the archers responded loudly to those words.
“If it is the order of Him who avenges our enemies and not anyone else, it is okay to die!”
“Whose credit is it that we, who were discriminated against because we were northerners, are able to live as human beings?”
“Now is the time to repay His grace!”
So, Major Anastasia rode out at high speed with her archers and discovered about 700 of Francois’s knights targeting the imperial knights.
They formed a wedge formation and went back and forth to the left, right, and behind those who were running, firing arrows as nomadic peoples usually do.
Then, the knights’ speed gradually decreased and problems began to arise in maintaining their formation.
The knights led by Lieutenant Colonel Werner were able to capture the infantry by the crossbowmen and wizards deployed on the left and right wings of the enemy army without being attacked by Francois’s knights.
Because crossbowmen and wizards had the responsibility of somehow supporting the friendly infantry to achieve victory in infantry battles.
I was so focused on that direction that I didn’t notice the knights approaching.
Werner, who commands the knights of the Jaeger Brigade, said while laughing like crazy.
“It looks like the crossbowmen and wizard idiots can’t turn their heads! How dare you keep looking straight ahead even in this situation! Gyahahahahaha!”
In that way, the knights he commands aim for the rear of the long-distance attack units deployed on the left and right wings, respectively.
Rather than a wedge shape that emphasizes breakthrough power, they charged in a diagonal formation used to maximize impact power.
This was because those who only had long-range weapons were completely poor at close-range combat.
When the Imperial Knights were about 100 meters away from Francois’s rear troops, they noticed it and tried to respond somehow.
It took time for the order to spread throughout the unit, resulting in only a few wizards and crossbowmen responding to the lance charge.
“What on earth are the knights doing sitting around? “We have several times more knights!”
“I don’t know, damn it! If you want to live, load your arrows and shoot! “Just shoot wherever you can!”
“Ahh… Ah!!”
Then, the knights holding lances trampled on the enemies who were unable to make any proper resistance and pierced them with their lances.
The blood and shouts of the enemy army echoed loudly throughout the battlefield.
At the same time, the attacks of the rear support ranged units deployed on both the left and right wings ceased, and the infantry front line, which was deprived of range support, began to gradually tilt towards the Reich Empire.
Brigadier General Jaeger naturally did not miss this opportunity and gave orders to his soldiers.
“The pikemen of each infantry unit are to charge with their spears extended forward and maintain their line of battle. Then, use the gap between the soldiers in the infantry square to send the side soldiers forward. “It is time to start the one-sided slaughter.”
In this way, Brigadier General Peter Jaeger began to fully dominate his battle with over 10,000 of Francois’s troops.