192 – The Great Battle of the Linz Plain (4)
The morale of the 20,000 knights under the Archduke of Austria was very high.
The reason is that those at the forefront of the knight unit were the knights of the Grand Duke’s direct command who had the highest status and were proud of being the strongest in the Grand Duchy.
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So, although His Majesty the Archduke is not directly participating in this assault, he is leading the charge with the Archduke’s flag.
This is because this path is littered with opportunities for fame and success.
“Whoever captures Lieutenant General Jaeger or the Crown Prince will be granted the title of Baron and a rich barony! Do you want to change the direction of your life? Anyone who wants to gain wealth, fame, and have a beautiful woman on their arms, capture those bastards! “Everything you want is hanging around the necks of those two bastards!”
In addition, if you think about it with common sense, you can only deal with a knight.
There are 20,000 knights under the Archduke of Austria, but the Reich Imperial Army has only half that number, about 10,000.
In other words, in a war where the number of knights greatly determines victory or defeat, the possibility of them dying as they are twice as numerous is bound to be very low.
The probability of winning is estimated to be over 95%, so morale cannot be low.
“Maria wait! From now on, I’ll let you eat white bread and meat every day!”
“Other than that damn nagging woman, sometimes I want to have a pretty b*tch in bed!”
“f*ck! “Let’s bring both of them together and sell them. Let’s change things properly!!!”
With morale at its peak, I rode around the left wing of the Imperial Army on horseback, and Major General Hans von Grunwald, commander of the Austrian Guard Knights, saw something in the eyes.
“You crazy Reich bastards… Stop crawling like cockroaches! Ahh!”
“What’s so funny about exploding people’s heads like that?”
“Reserve unit, when will the reserve unit arrive?”
Because the Archduke of Austria deployed the reserve force at an inappropriate time, the reserve force deployed was not of much help in the battle.
Major Hans’ heart became more urgent as he had a premonition that thousands of soldiers deployed here would die in an instant due to the commander’s wrong judgment.
‘We must succeed here at all costs. If we fail to do so, the Austrian army may be defeated.’
Because he was like that, when he looked to the side, the thought of hitting the back of the seemingly defenseless Reich Imperial Army infantry suddenly occurred to him.
Because he was a soldier who had to carry out the Archduke’s orders, he resisted the temptation and prepared to attack the rear of the Reich army through several divisions of the Reich Empire.
“Form a wedge formation. “We will attack the Imperial Army’s 7th Guards Division and use that momentum to capture the crown prince.”
With this order, the knights of the Grand Duchy of Austria naturally formed a wedge-shaped formation and began moving toward the goal.
“Sir, two thousand Austrian knights are now moving on the rear flank of the infantry soldiers. “We’ll arrive in about 15 minutes.”
“Send a signal to the Northern Cavalry Regiment led by Colonel Anya to completely shake the left side of the wedge formation. Then send a signal to the knights and tell them to attack them from behind. In addition, ask His Majesty to lead the Royal Guard and go close to the rear.”
“I will do as you command.”
The Crown Prince received Lieutenant General Jaeger’s instructions and moved to the rear of the 7th Division and began to focus on raising the morale of his soldiers.
Colonel Anastasia led the archer cavalry regiment composed of northerners under his command and went out to carry out the given orders.
“For Lieutenant General Jaeger! “Let’s go show our power beyond the best we can for Her Highness, Fourth Princess Louise!”
Her true intention when she said that was actually not for the sake of the princess, but rather for her, the most important thing for her was that she played a big role here, made a great contribution, and was praised by Lieutenant General Jaeger.
‘Lieutenant General, if you ask me to make time on the night the war ended, I will gladly give it to you. And while I’m talking about strategy, I make him drink some alcohol and try to seduce him a little. It seems like Laura has acknowledged it to some extent, so she might be able to help…’
What she was missing was that she did not consider how to defeat Charlotte, another female fox who was targeting Lieutenant General Jaeger.
The archers under her command responded very positively to her shouts, cheering.
“Long live the great lieutenant general who killed the northern tyrant!”
“Long live Her Majesty Princess Louise! Long live the Reich Reich!”
“Long live the empire that freed us from damned starvation! f*ck it, let’s change the character!”
The northern archers raised their spirits and ran towards the Austrian knights with their bows and arrows, running side by side at a distance that barely touched the knights’ lances.
As he always did, he kept shooting arrows at them and tormenting them to the point where they couldn’t come to their senses.
Most of the arrows bounced off the barding on the horses and the armor the knights wore, but sometimes knights were killed by being hit through gaps in their armor.
If one person fell from his horse and died after being hit by an arrow, the two or three people behind him were crushed to death by the knights pushing from behind as the battle line was disorganized because of the dead person.
“Damn you barbarians, you look so girly when you fight! “Let’s officially get together!”
“You’re fighting so obnoxiously! “If you get caught, I won’t let you go.”
“You damn barbarian heathen bastards.”
The Austrian knights tried to dilute the fear of those who were steadily reducing their numbers by swearing and shooting arrows from afar.
The archer cavalry of the Reich Empire sincerely laughed at the knights who were in a position to do nothing but curse.
In this way, they had no choice but to move toward the rear of the 7th Division, where the crown prince was located, while being bombarded with thousands of arrows.
Imperial infantry units gradually began to show signs of nervousness.
Then, when the Austrian army changed direction and attempted to attack towards the location of the Imperial Army’s 7th Guards Division, Colonel Anastasia gave an order.
“The archer cavalry regiment stops shooting arrows! “Take out the leather skin bag containing the caltrops you have prepared and sprinkle it on for a refreshing drink!”
At the same time as those words were spoken, the cavalry took the leather sacks containing the caltrops hanging from the saddles and sprinkled them on the knights as they rode out.
“f*ck you! “Isn’t it nice to get hit by caltrops while charging?”
“You bastards, it’s a gift. “I won’t go far to see you off.”
“Have a safe journey to the underworld.”
The horses that stepped on the iron caltrops, which were natural but unavoidable, were unable to come to their senses and ran wild.
As the numerous horses stopped running in the direction instructed by the knights, each other’s footsteps became entangled, and pieces of metal weighing hundreds of kilometers or over 0.6 Tons, including the knights riding on them, collided with each other.
With a tremendous crackling, clattering sound, horses and people were crushed and crushed into pieces of meat.
“aaah! Onyx stop! No, run! Go forward!!”
“f*ck you, Mom! Dad! Philia!”
“You stupid nomads! Die and go to hell!! “Ahh!”
In this way, the momentum of the left wing of the Austrian Grand Air Force knights’ assault formation was greatly reduced, and Major General Grunwald also noticed the aftereffects.
‘f*ck, f*ck… In order to really kill or capture the bastard of the Crown Prince and Lieutenant General Jaeger who are hiding among the infantry, we have to maintain the high spirit of the knights until the end.’
However, what has already happened cannot be undone, and if you try to stop the charge in this state, more than a thousand knights will die because you cannot stop.
“We have to tear them down at all costs! “Kill me!”
Many knights simply followed that cruel command.
Meanwhile, the Crown Prince decided that here and now he must show courage to his soldiers.
“I will be with you too! Brave soldiers of the SS, warriors of the 7th Division who changed my shame on Lichen Hill into the brilliant honor of the imperial army! Grab the spear! “Let’s go clean up those dirty things that are blocking my way!”
As soon as the crown prince said those words, he positioned himself in a place where the knights’ charge could barely reach him, then got off his horse and grabbed his spear.
“I am different from the last time. I won’t run away. So don’t turn your eyes away from those iron armor! Those who are afraid will die, and those who are prepared to die will return alive with glory!”
The commanders were secretly impressed that the crown prince took a small risk and grabbed a spear at the front line, and the soldiers were thrilled to see the crown prince standing on the front line with them.
“Long live the great Reich Empire! Long live His Majesty the Crown Prince!”
“Li Chen’s courage once again!”
“Even if we die, let’s kill at least one more damn knight approaching right in front of us!”
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“You crazy guy! “You must return alive to receive a reward from His Highness the Crown Prince.”
The soldiers held out their spears forward toward the knights, following the instructions of their officers, as they had been trained and disciplined.