242 – Vikings of the Empire (3)
When I said that and pointed the sword forward, the soldiers of the Reich Empire ran forward, humming.
“Let’s go in! “There’s a reward for every one of those bastards’ heads taken!”
“Why would Captain Jaeger bother to make you wield a sword? “Ride out with your sword!”
“Let’s pick off the bastards who fired arrows at our colleagues! “Don’t leave a single person alive!”
Then, I crossed over to the enemy ship on the right side of the flagship I was riding, carrying a cavalry sword used on horseback.
The sight of them holding swords and pushing towards them looked like Mongolian cavalry riding on horseback and sweeping away an enemy city in an instant.
No. Until they defected to the Reich Empire, they were a nomadic people who made a living by plundering good people who lived by farming.
However, after I killed Ludvik myself, they listened to me so well that everything I said was exaggerated and that they would even pretend to die if it meant death, so I almost forgot their identity.
After piloting the ship, he slaughtered the enemy marines one by one with a ferocity that reminded me of the monsters that suck the enemy’s blood from pirate movies I saw before my reincarnation.
“You crazy barbarian bastards, aren’t you afraid of dying?”
“f*ck, unite! Don’t you know that we can only survive if we come together as one?! Bundle up, damn it!”
“Ahh, you bastards of the Empire… Why did you invade…”
The soldiers aboard the flagship of the imperial army that I was on gradually pressured the enemy and brought the flow of battle to our side.
The enemy captain couldn’t bear to be treated like this, so he pulled out his sword and swung it around, leading with great effort.
“Don’t be pushed by the northern barbarians raised by the Reich Empire! Kill every single one of them! Push!! With just a little push, you can slit that Jaeger’s head! “Anyone who wants to change his mind should charge without sparing his life!”
As the captain personally stepped forward and encouraged the Warsaw guys on the same boat, their spirits seemed to suddenly pick up.
Then my soldiers also took a small step back to catch their breath, and I also looked around and thought about what order to give.
“This old man went to so much trouble for two months just to kill idiots like you, damn it!”
“You bastards who don’t want to be left behind, put down your swords and surrender!”
“f*ck, just die. “Die!”
I couldn’t climb up the watchtower and check from a high place, but the situation of the war was clearly tilted in our army’s favor up to now.
If the standoff continues like this, unnecessary sacrifices to our troops may increase.
And the increase in casualties here is related to the failure of the follow-up operation, the ‘Plunder of Coastal Cities’ operation.
As a commander, it is unacceptable for such variables to arise.
So, even if it meant taking a little risk, I decided to crush those guys who were no better than dogs with my own hands.
“Everyone get out of the way! “I, Peter Yeager, will personally cut the heads of those baseless Warsaw thieves in half!”
After saying that, I immediately dug into the gap between the Reich soldiers and the Warsaw soldiers.
As I entered, I took out from the scabbard the cavalry sword gifted to me by the Northerners on my right, and immediately killed the Warsaw Marine in front of me.
For the first time in a while, I felt the heavy touch that one feels when killing someone, but there was no time for me to feel that emotion.
Because there were still so many Warsaw bastards that I had to cut down and kill with my own hands.
“You Warsaw bastards who are worse than dogs! If you were born as a man, wouldn’t you have to run to grab my hair? “Then why are you crawling like this?”
After scratching the nerves of the Warsaw soldiers, he raised his sword from the bottom left to the top right, ending the life of another unfortunate bastard.
I continued to engage in close combat, holding on to positions where magic or arrows did not fly, with the aim of lowering the morale of the Warsaw Marines.
As each person died by my hand, cheers rose among the northerners.
“Damn, I’m glad I’m alive. “I can’t believe I got to see Captain Jaeger cut the enemy soldiers into pieces.”
“You probably fought like that when you killed Ludvik, right?”
“That is a real man. Ha, I need to do some sword practice from now on.”
As soon as I started to gain momentum, the Northern soldiers followed suit and killed the combatants on the Warsaw ship next to our flagship one by one.
When we just crossed over to the enemy ship, there were close to 100 enemy combatants, but now they have decreased to the number where we can count them all on ten fingers.
When the situation reached this point, the enemy soldiers, including the captain, looked around desperately trying to find a place to escape, but there was no way.
“A captain must be prepared to die along with his ship. Does it make sense to abandon ship and run away? “Fight and die on the ship fairly!”
If I miss you, it’s like giving someone else’s dog a meal, but I can’t miss you.
Just like that, I wiped the blood off my sword and quickly ran toward where the captain was.
“f*ck, why is a bastard with 4 stars and a captain himself fighting with a sword?! “You bastard!”
It was a decision I made in order to have at least one less soldier under my command die, but there is no need to answer for that.
I blocked the sword he was swinging diagonally to the left, and slashed it to the right, violently slitting the captain’s neck.
Although I did not kill the enemy commander, I killed the enemy’s high-ranking figure in the body of the Reich Empire captain.
Of course, the morale of the Reich Imperial Army soared, and soon this fact spread to the 40 Reich Imperial battleships fighting fiercely here.
“Captain Peter Jaeger personally decapitated the captain of the Warsaw Battleship!”
“It’s like we’ve already won! Let’s keep pushing forward like this!”
“Long live the Reich Empire! Long live Kakan! Long live your Majesty the Emperor!”
I personally took over only one ship, but just as a huge building collapses starting from a small crack.
The fact that the Reich commander beheaded an enemy captain would be enough to lower the morale of the entire Warsaw Fleet.
My prediction was exactly right, and the spirit of the Marines belonging to the Grand Duchy of Warsaw was noticeably lower than before.
“Now that you have captured the battleship, go under the ship and kill or capture the rowers! Kill everyone who resists. “Take those who surrender as prisoners!”
When that order was given, about 40 soldiers went below the deck of the Warsaw battleship I was on, and I led the remaining soldiers from the flagship and returned to the flagship.
The momentum, which had been at a boiling point until we killed the captain, completely tilted towards us, and the battlefield was filled with the deathly screams of the enemy soldiers dying.
“f*ck you, Reich bastards!”
“Surrender, I will surrender, so put down that knife!”
“Just save my life, just save my life!”
In this way, we continued to gradually reduce the front line occupied by the Warsaw Fleet by capturing or occupying the enemy ships one by one.
Eventually, several of the Warsaw Navy battleships began preparing to flee.
If it had been a normal battle, we might have left them escaping in this situation, but the enemy who ran away during a surprise operation would definitely chase after them and let them know that we had invaded.
We need to kill as many of them as possible, and this will slow down the speed at which our plunder plans become known throughout the coast.
In this way, the original plan of plundering coastal cities can be carried out on a large scale.
Of course, now that this has happened, the Warsaw guys will soon realize that the ship they were patrolling has evaporated.
The scale of plunder of coastal cities and ports that I proposed to your Majesty will be reduced…
We achieved a great victory against 40 enemy ships, so the actual outcome would have been much greater than robbing the coast, so if we had to be honest, we achieved a better result than expected.
“Any battleship that has the capacity, immediately chase after the fleeing bastards! Disarm the prisoners, pin them to the bottom of the boat, and chase them! Don’t miss a single one! “I will be at the forefront!”
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After saying that, I again took out my cavalry sword and laid a plank between the ships and went back and forth chasing the enemy ships to prevent them from escaping.
Thanks to that day, I fought to the death without sparing my body, and succeeded in achieving a great victory even though it was my first naval battle.
Captured 8 enemy ships, sank 15, killed 2,000 enemy soldiers, acquired nearly 1,000 prisoners and naval supplies.
The original plan to plunder from deep inside Warsaw along the western coast had to be changed to only rob two major base cities and then return…
With this, it will be difficult for the enemy to regain control for the time being, so from a strategic point of view, this would be a bigger victory.
“Tie the prisoners with rope, put them in the bottom of the boat, and make them row! If they resist, make them listen, but if they don’t, don’t kill or beat them. “I’m only going to rob two big coastal cities and then go back right away!”