433 – Battle of Benedict’s Plain (2)
Frederick pulled out his sword and swung it left and right, cutting off the enemy’s spear pole.
“What is the quality of spears, you Francois!”
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François and his soldiers froze for a moment, frightened by his fierce force as he charged, cutting off the spear pole with his sword.
If he had been a soldier who received proper training and was sent into war like the Reich Imperial Army, he would have immediately tried to fight with a sword or sidearm attached to his waist.
Without systematic training, they only learned how to hold a spear and were put into combat.
And then I just fought to survive.
Because I had learned war as an amateur, I had never faced a strong enemy who charged at me by cutting off a spear pole like that with a sword, so I was so shocked that I recoiled for a moment.
It is not that there were no strong enemies in the war they went through, but since all those who encountered such strong enemies were already dead, Franco and his soldiers here had no immunity against a skilled officer like Frederick.
This was a great opportunity for Frederick.
“Die, you Francois Baguette bastards!”
Immediately, Frederick cut off the head of the soldier in front of him with the sword given to him by his father.
Every time he continued to swing his sword, the arms, legs, and bodies of the enemy soldiers were cut off one by one.
“Ouch, my arm! “My arm!”
“My legs! “Ugh.”
“Marianne, I am like this…”
The soldiers who were directly struck by Frederick’s sword cried out in despair and met a miserable end.
François and his soldiers around him were shocked at the sight.
“What is that guy? Why are you flying around like that?!”
“f*ck, f*ck! Die!”
“Calm down and fight as one! “Push with numbers!”
This is the time when François and his soldiers regain their lost spirit and try to counterattack to kill Frederick.
“Don’t let our second lieutenant fight alone! Charge forward!”
“Long live the Reich Empire! Long live your Majesty the Emperor!”
“Throw those baguettes through the spear like you’re making skewers!”
As he said those words, the Reich Empire soldiers followed closely behind Friedrich Jaeger.
When they ran towards the confused enemy with their spears and stabbed them in unison, the soldiers who were at the forefront of the enemy army were stabbed by the spears and bled to death.
“Platoon leader! “We are here!”
Friedrich felt grateful to the platoon members who showed up at the right time, and immediately gave the next order.
“Gather behind me! I will stand at the forefront and break through them! Follow closely. “The flag bearers should wave the flag to signal the charge!”
“Platoon commander, if we attack like that, will the company commander and other soldiers follow us?”
If our troops do not follow us when we delve deep into the enemy lines, we will dry up and die inside the enemy lines.
But Frederick had confidence.
Because the orders he and his company and battalion received from headquarters were to annihilate the enemy soldiers without overdoing it.
This was the order given to the Grand Marshal.
‘Show us a clear difference in power so that they don’t even think about resisting the Reich Empire.’
From that perspective, the reason why Friedrich’s platoon succeeded in breaking through the enemy square from the beginning was.
They moved in unison to fulfill the Grand Marshal’s order to inflict a ‘big blow’ on the enemy.
‘Once word gets out that we have made a hole in the enemy’s lines, support will come right away.’
“Support will definitely come! So don’t worry and just follow me!”
After saying that, Frederick started digging like a woodpecker, aiming deep into Francois’ enemy territory.
The battalion commander of the battalion to which Friedrich belonged then confirmed the signal for Friedrich’s platoon to charge.
‘The orders we received from the division commander were not to focus on maintaining our position, but to defeat the enemy infantry as much as possible.’
And in order to faithfully follow the order, Lieutenant Friedrich is advancing while destroying Francois’s army’s formation.
Furthermore, the platoon leader who was currently chopping up the enemy soldiers up front was the son of Peter Yeager, who was confirmed to be ‘General Marshal for life.’
No matter what the order, he is someone who should not be allowed to die in vain at any cost.
“Our battalion will fully support Lieutenant Jaeger! “Follow me!”
“Battalion Commander, but the enemy’s momentum is still high, so boldly pushing forward is…”
At those words, Battalion Commander Fritz sighed, grabbed the operations manager’s shoulder and shook him.
“Are you saying this because you don’t know who the second lieutenant in front of you is? He is the son of His Excellency Peter Yeager, and thanks to his activities, the tide of the battle is gradually turning in our favor!”
“That’s true, but it’s a bit premature…”
“Now is the time to go for it no matter what. Even if things don’t work out, we must rescue Lieutenant Friedrich from those damn baguettes! However, seeing as he is procrastinating and giving reasons, it seems that our captain does not want to be promoted. “Aren’t you going to go to the General Staff College?”
With those words, the operations manager immediately realized his mistake.
“Send a messenger to the division commander to urgently request support for our battalion! “We are immediately following Ensign Friedrich!”
So the battalion to which Friedrich belonged immediately went out to support him.
The hole in the enemy’s line created by one platoon grew to a level large enough to shake a battalion-level hole, that is, an enemy regiment.
Friedrich could not see the situation in the enemy camp, but…
“Follow Ensign Jaeger! “Don’t leave Ensign Jaeger alone!”
“Long live the Fritz Battalion!”
“Take out all the baguettes like this!”
I was able to see how the battle was going as the voices of our allies coming from behind grew louder and the enemy’s momentum continued to weaken.
‘The situation has clearly tilted in our favor.’
Frederick, who was convinced of that, gave more strength to his hand holding his sword.
Then they began to move towards the enemy faster and more violently.
“Our soldiers came to support our platoon. “It means we win!”
It was their first actual battle, and the platoon members were slowly getting tired of the prolonged battle…
When I heard that we won, I felt the strength that had been disappearing come back.
You wouldn’t know it if you were losing, but winning meant getting back from here alive.
‘If we break through the enemy lines and return alive, won’t we be able to receive a huge reward?’
The thought that I might be able to change my life with a reward, or perhaps get a chance to turn my life around, such as being promoted to a non-commissioned officer, took away my fatigue.
“Long live the Reich Empire!”
“Follow the platoon leader! “Fight with all your might!”
“Should I buy it once or twice anyway?”
As Frederick began to drive victory in the war towards the Reich Empire, the report was also sent to the commander of the 8th Division of the Francois Republic.
“Director Lafayette! “Right now, a platoon commander in the Reich Imperial Army is eating away at our division, and the scale is gradually growing. How can we deal with it?”
Lafayette clicked his tongue when he heard that.
“This is rotten, yes. “Have you any idea what that damn guy is doing?”
No matter how excellent the intelligence of the Francois Republic Army was, there was no way to know what the name or identity of a single platoon leader in the Imperial Army was.
Lafayette asked without much expectation.
Nevertheless, the messenger heard those words and responded with his face frozen.
“He was a platoon leader who wore the emblem of the Jaeger family of the Reich Empire.”
When Lafayette heard those words, he felt like he was going crazy.
If the fact that the son of the Grand Marshal’s family, and no one else, would change the course of the war spread throughout the Reich Imperial Army and Francois Army…
It was obvious that the morale of our troops would drop to the ground, and in return, the morale of the soldiers belonging to the Reich Empire would soar to the sky.
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‘Then we might lose.’
“Holy sh*t! I will go there myself. “Concentrate all your forces there!”
And of course the commander of the division to which Friedrich belonged also had this thought.
“Fully support Lieutenant Friedrich! “This is our chance to gain the upper hand in infantry-to-infantry combat!”
At the same time as those words were said, a division of the Reich Empire naturally began to support Frederick.
When the division commanders of both armies were deciding whether to stop Frederick or help him spread his wings.
“Jaeger platoon, hold on just a little longer! “If we dig a little deeper, our platoon will have a big impact on the war!”
After hearing those words, the platoon members strengthened their will to hold on at all costs, but were unable to respond out loud due to their low stamina.
Friedrich thought as he looked at his platoon members who did not respond to his words of encouragement.
‘If you’ve made it this far, you’ve at least performed well enough to be promoted to lieutenant and receive a medal. Is this the limit? Should I step down now?’
Even though such thoughts passed through his mind, Friedrich did not want to give up yet.
Although his subordinates are having a hard time physically, they are still following him.
However, as a platoon leader and commander, he did not think that this was the limit.
Meanwhile, Frederick caught a scene 40 meters away that appeared to be an enemy division commander riding his horse and swinging his baton wildly.
“Our division commander has stepped forward! Charge forward!”
“If you catch that wild bastard over there, I’ll give you a huge reward!”
“Kill that guy who wants to grill sausages!”
And as if to prove that what Frederick saw was not wrong, he saw that Francois’s army, which had been pushed back by him and his platoon, was regaining its momentum…
‘I think that guy is the division commander!’
As the platoon members were almost at their limit, this desire arose in his heart.
Let’s make a big contribution by somehow killing the division commander in front of us.
The odds of it not working were very high, but he happened to have a loaded crossbow that could pierce even plate armor.
“It’s all or nothing!”
And Frederick immediately gave orders to the soldiers of his platoon.
“Attention platoon! We’ll go as far as we can until we get to that guy on the horse! “Let’s just do this and then fall back!”
It was a situation where everyone in the platoon felt like they were going to collapse from exhaustion…
In the name of the Duke Jaeger family, he believed in the platoon leader who led by example and lived up to that reputation, and squeezed out all the strength he had been nursing.
“Yes!”
“Follow the platoon leader!”
“Go forward!”
Then, the soldiers of the Jaeger Platoon advanced with great momentum, as if an arrow had been fired, to the location of the division commander.
Lafayette, the commander of Francois’s division, was inwardly frightened when he saw that.
‘The young ensign rolled his eyes when he saw me. Still, if I just kill this guy, my momentum will die, so it’s actually a good thing.’
“You don’t need my escort! Everyone doesn’t know how high the sky is, so kill that one-day puppy first!”
As the soldiers belonging to the division’s elite guarding the division commander advanced to block Friedrich, the soldiers who were keeping Friedrich and his platoon in check fell to the side.
“Now is the time…”
Frederick immediately put his sword down on the ground for a moment and took out the crossbow from his back.
It was already loaded…
‘Aim at the guy’s torso. If you aim at the neck or something like that and miss, it’s over.’
“Die!”
Lafayette saw it and didn’t think it was a big deal.
Because, based on common sense, it was extremely rare for a crossbow or something like that to penetrate plate armor.
“It doesn’t look like a star…”
However, contrary to his expectations, the crossbow shot by Frederick flew quickly and pierced his chest.
He could no longer speak and fell from his horse, vomiting blood.