329 – Battle of Brito Plain (7)
The knights and archers of the Reich Empire, the knights of the Venetian Union, and the core forces of both armies move towards the enemy camp first. These were the cavalry of the empire.
This is because, according to Peter Yeager’s orders, they were prepared to move as soon as the war started, with only minimal preparations.
“Captain Jaeger ordered us to attack the enemy’s rear! “Hurry up!”
“Move quickly, but maintain your formation! Don’t forget! “If both the knights and archers cannot maintain their formation, they will charge and die!”
“A bastard who steps on the spur like crazy and canter (over 19km) when told to hurry will face a court-martial, do you understand?”
Anya, who was at the vanguard of the Reich Empire’s archer cavalry, and Major General Sieghardt, who was at the vanguard of the knights, were having a conversation while his men were preparing their formation.
“Well, then our knights will charge their lances first and then leave, as per the plan. Major General Kergit. “Even though it’s an order, I feel a little heavy because I feel like I’m giving up the lead of the charge.”
In this operation, it was necessary to shock the enemy militia and shake up the Venetian allied forces, and to do so, it was necessary for knights wearing iron armor to deliver a big blow first.
As it was an agreement based on tactical necessity, Major General Sieghardt’s voice contained a playful tone to ease the tension before the assault.
“It’s because of operational necessity. And after charging the lance, I will charge in and decapitate Captain Campito, just like I did before when I decapitated Ishtaven.”
“As expected, he is a young man who has risen to the rank of major general before the age of 30. “I was barely a major at that age.”
“Compared to you, Captain…”
“According to my research at the Staff College, the captain told me not to even think about following him because he is of a different species than us. “It’s amazing that he can even compare himself to Him.”
After a few jokes and agreements, Major General Sieghardt took the lead and started moving, commanding about 20,000 knights, followed by the archer cavalry led by Anya.
On the other hand, the knights sent by Captain Campio moved in the opposite direction of the imperial cavalry, so the two armies did not encounter each other.
Peter Yeager came out of the command post in the center of the camp to the rear and personally inspected the returning vanguard soldiers.
Unit that seemed unable to fight was placed slightly forward from the rear and sent to a completely safe place, while those that could not fight were directly encouraged and promised huge rewards.
At the same time, scouts continued to report information such as where the enemy knights were.
“The number of enemy knights is approximately 20,000, and as the captain predicted, they are returning to our rear!”
“By coincidence, the paths diverged from those of our knights, so it seems there was no need to engage in combat.”
“After scouting the current infantry formation from afar, our troops have the upper hand even though their numbers are small!”
The Reich Imperial Army had 100,000 fewer soldiers, but the momentum was already completely pushing back the Duchy of Venetia.
It was difficult to guarantee victory unless the charge of over 20,000 knights was blocked and the charge of the Reich Empire’s archers and knights worked.
‘In order for us, who are outnumbered, to win this battle against the Venetas, the soldiers must carry out all my orders…’
At this time, Major General Sieghard succeeded in returning to the rear of the militia with 20,000 knights.
After confirming that the archer cavalry unit led by Anya was following behind, Sieghard gave orders to his knights.
“I will stand on the far left and take the lead. Form a wedge formation for each battalion and form the formation ordered by Captain Jaeger!”
Then, they began to form the very difficult formation they had been instructed to do for the first time, and after about 30 minutes, they succeeded in completing the diagonal formation.
As a result, they formed a diagonal formation with the left being at the front and the right being positioned backwards.
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“Knights, charge!”
As the battalion directly commanded by Major General Sieghard rushed out at the same time as the order to charge, the other knights on his right also maintained their distance and began charging their lances.
When they saw their speed gradually increasing, the nobles commanding the militia began to make a fuss.
“Campio bastard! “Make our militia, not the mercenaries, fight the knights with a spear in hand!”
“f*ck you, Peter Jaeger bastard!”
“Dust-proof! Square! “Maintain more space and stick together closely!”
The militiamen who saw the knights of the Reich Empire fell into confusion and shock and began to tremble while holding their spears and maintaining their square shape.
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The tip of the spear was trembling, and some of the soldiers were so terrified that some were even crying.
“f*ck you, Reich bastards!”
“If you don’t want to die, Bangjin! Square! “I told you to keep it!”
“I told you to aim your polearm at the horse’s neck, at the horse’s neck!”
Perhaps that’s why, in order to block the knights’ charge with a long spear, the spear pole had to be driven deep enough into the ground, but idiots who just planted it roughly continued to appear one after another.
Those who had to shoot arrows and somehow kill the momentum with magic began to aim at strange places.
The imperial knights who saw this burst into laughter as they charged.
“Those idiots are sitting there shooting fireballs into the sky!”
“What signal are you sending? “Is this a signal for us to step forward?”
“Don’t you think that’s the case?! Battalion commander.”
Such a clumsy response boosted the morale of those charging with lances, and soon the knights attacked the shabby militia formation.
When the battalion led by Major General Siegharg on the far left entered the infantry square, they entered without much resistance.
Militia soldiers were trampled by the hooves of war horses, or were impaled with lances and were skewered in groups of two or three.
After the lance was broken, he slaughtered the wandering militiamen on his left and right using the mace or sword he wore around his waist.
Some of those who had never experienced a proper battle, especially against a knight with an overwhelming superiority in terms of power, screamed or tried to run away.
Sometimes there were those who properly resisted, but they were helpless in front of a 0.6 Ton chunk of steel.
“Reich Reich, you bastards! “f*ck you, you f*cking empire bastards!”
“Mom, Dad, save me! No! “I have a wife and children!”
“Surrender! I surrender! “I will pay enough ransom, so please just spare my life!”
The formation collapsed with a single lance charge from the knights, and their agitation was also conveyed to the mercenaries fighting on the front lines.
The mercenary commanders and veterans realized that they had been overheard through vulgar language just by the sounds they heard behind them and the smell of war.
“f*ck, this looks like Veneta bastards are applying it?”
“……Captain, shall we retreat? It’s true that you’re working hard to make money. “What good is it if you die?”
“Huh, not yet. “Even if the militia are idiots, their numbers are extremely large.”
Then, the Reich Imperial Knights retreated with fewer casualties than expected, perhaps because the militia was worse than Captain Jaeger had expected.
After that, Anastasia attacked in the same formation as the knights.
Unlike the knights, who secured their defense by equipping their horses with heavy armor, it was quite reckless for them, who were light cavalrymen, to charge like this, but the already broken militia was defeated without even being able to use their hands or feet.
“… They are barbarian cavalry! “They came to kill us!”
“Formation! Prepare your formation! “Get your formation in order, you lowly bastards!”
“You should do your best when it comes to reorganization.”
Some soldiers were lucky enough to escape, but the rest of the soldiers had their heads cut off by soldiers holding cavalry curved swords in one hand.
Even if I tried to stab him with a spear, I couldn’t even think of fighting back against the enemy who was approaching so confidently at such a fast speed.
The northern cavalry led by Anya, made up of archer cavalry, almost broke through the formation of tens of thousands of militiamen, and among the mercenaries who were relatively in the rear, they clearly witnessed the scene from the middle.
The situation was that the infantry was pushing back at the front, and the militia at the rear were crushed to dust by the knights and archers.
In a situation where there seemed to be no answer to anyone’s eyes, some of the mercenary leaders gave orders that even Peter Yeager did not expect.
“If we continue like this, we will be annihilated! If you don’t want to be killed, run away!”
“If something breaks like this anyway, even Veneta won’t be able to give you compensation!”
“Campio Captain Boys, I can’t dirt the command and make us die like this.”
Then, without anyone giving them any orders, they voluntarily began to retreat.
Some of them, like mercenaries befitting the word outlaw, stole the cart containing the armor of the Veneta allied forces, as if they were planning to completely sever ties with the Venetas.
I guess they made that choice because armor is the most expensive military item.
On the other hand, at this time, the Reich Imperial Army, commanded by Captain Jaeger, was in a situation where it had to repel the assault of 20,000 knights.
“20,000 Enemy knights are charging in a wedge formation!”
Peter Jaeger saw that and laughed as if he had expected it.
“Isn’t it funny that people who can only use damned militia and mercenaries are called knights! Even if 20,000 or even 100,000 of those guys come, they are no match for the Reich Imperial Army! Square! Form a long spear phalanx!”