439 – Battle of the Plains of Benedict (8)
As the man mentioned by Behrmann was on his way to where Peter Jaeger was, urgent reports kept coming to Carlos, the Commander-in-Chief of the Francois Republic Army. Come.
“Commander-in-Chief, the 8th Division has been annihilated! “Lord Renaud, commander of the 8th Division, is currently running away.”
“Lord Mellon, commander of the 11th Division, has been captured by the Imperial Army!”
“The Reich Imperial Army knights and horse archers attacked our army’s rear! “The rear is completely blocked!”
Commander-in-Chief Carlos had no choice but to admit it as he continued to receive reports that commanders above the level of division commanders had fled or that his units had been annihilated.
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‘Ah, no matter what I do, there is no way I will win this battle.’
I felt like I wanted to hang myself and die to avoid responsibility for this defeat, but I had to choose the right time and place…
He didn’t do anything other than fiddle with the sheath of his sword.
The staff who did not know how he felt, or even if they did know, were more concerned about ‘their own survival’ than anything else, they continued to peck at him like a baby bird and urge him on.
“Commander in Chief, what should I do?”
“Is it time for our troops to fight further, or… Should we choose to retreat?”
“I know it is a difficult decision. However, the longer the choice is delayed, the worse the condition of our allies will become.”
The staff who pretended to give advice to Carlos tried to somehow shift all responsibility onto him, the commander-in-chief.
Is it because of that pressure, or is it because Carlos himself made a rational decision?
Carlos gritted his teeth and then looked at his staff with cold, frozen eyes.
The staff were momentarily frightened by the sight, but were also excited.
‘Has the Commander-in-Chief finally made a decision?’
“This battle was a defeat in which numerous soldiers and officers died in vain due to the commander-in-chief’s incorrect command. The situation of war was already completely tilted towards the Reich Empire. Therefore, the Commander-in-Chief will make a decision to reduce further sacrifices.”
Carlos waved his baton and pointed to the right of the Francois Republic army, that is, the direction where the Reich army had not yet attacked and where escape was possible.
“If Commander-in-Chief Lee is captured, the damage to our republic will be irreversible. Therefore, Commander Bon and his staff must escape this battlefield as quickly as possible.”
The staff was relieved that they did not have to bear the final responsibility.
“All flags symbolizing the commander-in-chief and headquarters must be left erect here. Hurry!”
Usually, when an order like this is given, it is normal for at least one person to protest that it is not allowed, but…
The high-ranking people of the Francois Republic were people for whom their own lives were more important than honor or pride as soldiers.
“One day, I will get my revenge on that damn Peter Yeager.”
“Long live the Francois Republic! Viva la Francois!”
“Let’s retreat quickly. “The Commander-in-Chief must die alive.”
In a miserable situation where Franco and his soldiers were all dying, the staff decided to retreat quickly and now concentrated only on running away.
On the other hand, Peter Yeager was still diligently slaughtering enemy soldiers.
“There is not a single soldier worthy of a soldier in the Francois Republic! “Isn’t there anyone brave enough to cut off my head and change his name?”
Although François and his soldiers were uneducated and ignorant, they were not foolish enough to try to fight directly with monsters of a different class, seeing arrows with their eyes and deflecting them with their swords.
“If you were like me, would you want to fight a monster like you?”
“Run! “If you fight that guy in bloody armor over there, you’ll all die!”
“f*ck, I want to live!”
Almost all of the soldiers, watching Peter Yeager’s performance, tried to run away before he got close to them, but they were blocked by our troops in all directions.
“Get out of the way, get out of the way! “Ugh!”
The soldiers in front of him, regardless of age or rank, were cut cleanly by the sword one by one and met death.
Thanks to this, the archives that were following Peter Yeager’s achievements were going crazy and going crazy.
“3 Battalion commander level, 12 officers, 50 soldiers…”
The recorder continued to doubt his eyes while recording.
‘I heard that Your Excellency is not a human being, but isn’t he showing company-level combat power on his own?’
The archivist was dumbfounded to see his common sense crumbling before his eyes.
For reference, the reason that officers higher than the battalion commander are not recorded in the records is because many high-ranking members of the French Republic army fled with the appearance of ‘Peter Jaeger.’
The war situation had completely tilted towards the imperial army, and now a one-sided massacre had begun.
“His Excellency the Marshal! Excellency the Marshal! Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Lina came all the way here to meet Her Excellency!”
With those words, Peter Yeager cut down the three enemies in front of him in one go and asked.
“His Majesty the Crown Prince is coming? “How on earth are the knights protecting him doing their job?”
“Sorry! But His Highness says that this useless massacre must stop…”
“Why is His Highness the Crown Prince and not the Crown Prince interfering with the operation I, the Grand Marshal of the Reich Imperial Army, chose based on tactical and strategic needs?”
Although Peter Yeager said this, he was secretly happy.
‘Good, His Highness the Crown Prince is a symbolic figure of the Imperial Family… If he comes and stops me, he can win the hearts of the François people.’
But Jaeger continued to pretend to be angry.
“The signet ring symbolizing Your Majesty’s military authority is worn on my hand. This means that during war, my orders are no different from Your Majesty’s orders. Therefore, even His Majesty the Crown Prince cannot give me military orders! “Take away His Highness the Crown Prince immediately!”
Except for Peter Yeager, other officers would not dare to say such a thing or even dare to say it.
He is someone who has achieved feats that can cover mountains and rivers and has the absolute trust of the emperor. Even if he is the Crown Prince, if an operation is interfered with, he has the power to forcibly issue an order to move and make sure there is no backlash.
“Yes, I understand!”
Then, one of the officers following Peter Yeager gave orders to other subordinates.
“Respectfully chase His Highness the Crown Prince! And the idiots who guarded him will be court-martialed…”
But the officer could not continue speaking until the end.
Because the Crown Princess, who was flirting with Peter Yeager, appeared before his eyes.
“Who told you to take me?”
The officer who had just continued speaking was speechless due to the words overflowing with the dignity of a crown princess.
“Over there, His Excellency the Grand Marshal has given an order to take His Highness the Crown Prince.”
“Even the Grand Marshal would not have the authority to arbitrarily arrest and detain me, the wife of His Highness the Crown Prince!”
No matter how many stars there are or not, everyone had no choice but to become small in front of the crown prince’s rain.
The officer waved his hands around and began to make excuses.
“Well, that’s it. His Excellency the Marshal has a signet ring symbolizing his Majesty’s military authority, so that in times of war his orders have the same authority as the Emperor’s commands.”
“Then I will personally protest, get out of the way!”
Although Lina was acting like this, she felt uneasy inside.
Because although she was given the status of crown princess, her life for 20 years was nothing but a superficial princess.
Therefore, instead of showing off her aristocratic arrogance, she had to bow her head and act servilely, worrying only about how she could survive.
‘If you act even a little arrogantly, even if you are a member of the royal family, you will not be able to avoid being beaten with a stick.’
It wasn’t that she had ever been beaten up, but her old habits came out when she got drunk one day in the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, where her second uncle lived in exile.
She was once beaten to death in the market.
‘Still, I have to do this play to protect my surviving sisters. Because this is a strategy put forward by the Grand Marshal. ‘I have to do it as confidently as possible.’
Peter Yeager looked at her Lina and bowed.
“Meet His Highness the Crown Prince.”
As her cold gaze turned to her, her Crown Prince Rain felt goosebumps rising all over her body.
Still, as the crown prince, Lina went to protect her younger sisters from the surviving Cafe royal family.
She also recalled the gratitude and support of the people who did not forget the Cafe Hwangga when she rescued the people of Francois last time.
I thought back to what Peter Yeager said.
‘It’s okay if His Highness can’t do what I said. However, if that happens, all of François’ people will be killed miserably by me. This is because the military power of the imperial army alone cannot win their sincere loyalty, and my role is to kill all the people who are not loyal to Your Majesty and eliminate the danger.’
Then she whispered her last words so softly that she could make them herself.
“And as they die, they will curse His Majesty the Crown Prince, who gave them even a brief moment of hope.”
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If someone else had said this, I wouldn’t have done it…
Peter Jaeger was a man with a record of massacring all of the people of Polski, the capital of Warsaw, from children to the elderly…
If François says he will kill all of his people, he is the one who will carry it out.
“I give this order as the Crown Prince’s wife. Stop this massacre happening right now. Instead, I will advise them to surrender.”