52 – Hammer and Anvil (5)
There are two cases where a battalion commander or higher takes the lead.
The first is when the allies are in a very unfavorable situation and the high-level commander, the battalion commander, has to risk his life in order to somehow reverse the situation.
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Later, it was judged that the allies had an overwhelming superiority compared to the enemy, so it was a measure to firmly establish the superiority by setting up martial arts based on the view that there was not much danger.
In the case of the former, the enemy’s reaction would be good, saying that we had won, but in the case of the latter, they would realize that they were in a very dangerous situation and fall into a state of desperation.
Therefore, the soldiers of the unit we are dealing with now realized that they had fallen into a mire that they could not get out of because of my appearance as a battalion commander.
“Why is the battalion commander standing in the vanguard and making a fuss here? Are we already lost? Are we all going to die now?”
“f*ck, save me! You crazy bastards!”
“What is our battalion commander doing? The battalion commander of the Reich pigs is in the vanguard!”
In a war where each other eats and gets eaten, the enemy’s grief is our joy, and the enemy’s misfortune is the friend’s joy.
All members of the Jaeger Battalion, including myself, felt joy and relief when they saw the enemies trembling in fear.
In normal times, it would be a crazy criminal to feel this way when he sees others tremble in fear, but in war, he is a strange man who does not rejoice when he sees his opponent being eaten in fear.
I stood in front of the soldiers under my command and gave an order.
“Break at least 2 enemy heads per person. If you break more than 5, I will take action so that I can be discharged more quickly.”
Is it because of this remark, which is 100% effective in medicine from late sergeants to privates who are excluded from all tasks in military life?
“Long live Jaeger Battalion Commander!”
“For a massive bounty and quick campaign!”
“Go in to break your head!”
The morale of the enemy soldiers was so low that they began to dig in, and I quickly moved towards the enemy soldiers with a ponytail, slipping through the ranks of our spearmen.
Then, when he found the first enemy soldier he encountered without even wearing a helmet, he mercilessly slashed it down with an infantry helmet in both hands.
“Come out of the cowardly commander who is hiding while his subordinates are dying like snow melting! Let’s stick together like nobles!”
If someone higher than a battalion commander, not even a platoon commander or company commander, is dragged out by such a provocation, it will be like a general in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms who is caught in the enemy provocation and gives his castle.
So, if you are a commander with the right concept, even if you curse at your parents and all your shortcomings, you will pretend not to hear and continue to command.
However, since all provocations in this world are done in a way that it is good if it works, and if it does not work, it is not, so he continued to swing his sword and kill the soldiers in front of him while shouting.
“The Czech commanders are as weak as women! How cowardly are you that you don’t come out until the end even though all your soldiers are dying? good! I will send a lot of dresses worn by women to your camp, so from tomorrow, change into dresses and come out dressed up.”
As I spat out such childish and indiscriminate verbal abuse, I stunned the armored enemy soldier by striking the helmet in front of me as naturally as flowing water.
At the timing of his collapse, he stabbed the blade of the spear under the handle of the flat blade into the gap between the armor, and blood flowed out of it.
I don’t know who he is, but seeing as he’s wearing proper armor, he seems to be a commander or a high-class noncommissioned officer.
“Follow the battalion commander! Let’s pick up a pair and go break the head!”
“Thread the Czech pigs with the thick and long spears you are holding!”
“Deus guaranteed us victory!”
When I turned around at the sound of shouting, I saw the scene where the soldiers of the Jaeger Battalion were following me and slaughtering the enemies.
In the front, the soldiers with swords struck the heads and bodies of the enemies like me with the heads of the swords with weights, and from behind, the guys with long spears stabbed the enemy in vital places, such as the neck.
It is pitiful to see them, who had withstood our attacks well until a few minutes ago, collapse in an instant and lose their will to fight.
“Where is our battalion commander? He said he could return alive if he obeyed his orders!”
“Has the commander abandoned us?”
“You crazy bastard, that bastard is too precious for his own life. In the end, it means that only the lowly ones die in this game.”
No matter how much Czechoslovak soldiers search for their commanders as a child desperately searches for his parents, he will never come here.
It’s a pity that the opportunity to establish a major has decreased for us, and it will be indescribably miserable for those who die in front of us.
It is because his unit is in a completely broken situation, and even if a battalion commander appears in a place where there is no way to rebuild it, the charter will not change, and it will be just dog death.
That’s why you can’t just curse at him, and in the middle of a war, losing a single head of a higher rank has a greater impact on the morale of the entire army than the death of thousands of soldiers.
It is because it is impossible on the battlefield for a person who can live to die in order to save soldiers who cannot be saved.
Even if one person survives and kills the enemy, the chance of winning goes up even a little, so in this case, giving up one’s duty as a human being would be a choice to be made as a commander.
Of course, that’s the case, but I don’t think it’s something a human bastard would do if a bastard called a commander hides behind and doesn’t show up while his subordinates are dying.
“Listen up, Czech piglets! Your battalion commander has abandoned you guys! If you lay down your weapons and get on your knees right now, I will save you! Surrender!”
As soon as my words stopped, the Czech Republic guys in front of me all put down their weapons and fell on their knees as instructed.
“Those who kneel are left alone! Don’t worry, the division commander will take you prisoner anyway! Kill those bastards holding weapons in front of you!”
At that, my soldiers continued to advance, not paying attention to those who had surrendered.
On the other side of my mind, ah~ I think it’s a waste of time thinking about how many majors are accumulated if I take care of all the prisoners and hand them over.
However, our goal now is to get to the enemy base as quickly as possible and slit the commander’s throat.
“Commander, there are enemy reinforcements approaching! I don’t know the exact number, but there seem to be more than us!”
From common sense, wouldn’t there be only one obstacle on the way to the enemy commander’s location?
So if you waste your time capturing prisoners alive or fighting unwilling enemies.
The walking corpse-like soldiers will resurface as they merge with the reinforcements, and they will even get in our way.
In that case, it would be much more advantageous to throw away all the prisoners and quickly defeat the swarming enemies.
As I was moving forward, Marco, who was in charge of the unit commander, came up to me and asked.
“Major, should we reorganize the formation now? I guess…”
Under normal circumstances, you’d have to regroup and fight the enemy now.
Right now, the enemy reinforcements are in a hurry to arrive, so they are not in formation, and our formation has collapsed as we fought a melee.
And our battalion has the most advantageous weapon in the melee called dog fighting, the pyeongon.
“Currently, the friendly and enemy forces are intertwined, and unless they are reorganized, both sides will have no choice but to enter a melee. Then both armies will be unable to use long spears. Allies who have thoroughly trained in simple sub-weapons such as flat-arms and blunt weapons have a much better advantage! Get ready for a dogfight!”
“All right! Throw away the battalion long spear! Dig in like this!”
At the same time, there was the sound of a long spear falling to the ground, like a footman’s lover.
I couldn’t look back because I didn’t have time to spare, but I was very moved inside.
This is because it takes great courage to throw away their long spear, the most familiar weapon, in a battlefield where they may die at any time, with a single word of my command.
No, in this case, it should be seen as proof of faith in the commander, Major Peter Yeager, rather than courage.
As evidence of that, isn’t the guy wearing armor that looks like a company commander running in front of him can’t hide his astonished expression?
“Before entering the melee, do what you always do! Crossbows with enough power, sorcerers, shoot enemies in front of you at once! When enemies and allies get entangled, send them with long spears that you can’t even use!”