114 – Battle of Soelden Plains (4)
As I ran from the front leading the soldiers under my command, the men following behind me also gave shouts and chased after me.
“Let’s follow Centurion Martin!”
“Let’s kill all those bastards today!”
“Show me clearly what it means to be a real man!”
I have stabbed the enemy’s flank like this several times, and each time I have been cheered by the soldiers who follow me in this way.
‘Are you sick of it? No, it’s thrilling every time I do it.’
As the saying goes, the thrill you feel when you risk your life and charge in to attack the enemy’s weak spot, and the sense of responsibility that comes from being expected by so many subordinates.
The anticipation of what results I will achieve in this assault and how well our unit will perform makes my heart beat wildly.
‘This is why I can’t stop being at the forefront. ‘It turns out I’m a vanguard addict?’
On the other hand, the guys who were suddenly hit with arrows and magic were struggling and not able to come to their senses.
The boy who looked like a new recruit hesitated, not knowing where to go as his comrades disappeared in an instant.
“Captain of the Ten, where should we go?”
When the Ten Commandants saw those new recruits, they couldn’t bear to beat them, so they grabbed their backs and pulled them in.
“You idiot! “Didn’t you learn to run around the platoon leader in times like this?”
“But I can’t see the platoon leader?”
“Then run near the centurion’s flag!”
When a person is stabbed with a knife, if they are stabbed knowingly, the tension in the muscles and various tissues of the entire body increases and the injury is less, but if they are stabbed unexpectedly, the injury is much greater, and their condition is the same.
When they know that someone will die from a spell or an arrow, the commanders of each level unit do whatever they can to deal with it…
If you are beaten like this without knowing anything, you will not be able to avoid being hit for a moment.
Even in such a situation, as if to prove that what was on their heads was not Udon Sari, some guys appeared who somehow managed to straighten out the chaotic formation.
“A bastard who is confused and doesn’t know where to go will be summarily executed just like a deserter! “Stop operating!”
No matter how confused he was, he seemed to understand the word ‘stop’ and the chaotic movement stopped for a moment.
‘Ah, it’s dangerous if the formation is organized like this.’
I don’t know how many enemy mercenaries there are or how strong they are.
There is a huge difference in combat power between fighting with a properly formed formation and without, so we must somehow prevent them from adjusting their posture.
They seemed to know this as well, so they paused their actions and then immediately started running towards where the centurion flag was.
“Flag, flag! Run for the damn centurion flag!”
“If you just go there, you can survive!”
“Those bastards don’t even carry long spears, and they don’t even make squares! Stop it like this!”
If they aren’t extremely embarrassed, our position is at a slight disadvantage. How do we resolve this?
‘Then what if the leader, who is so good at organizing the situation, suddenly dies?’
Obviously, the solidarity of those who are trying to somehow come together now will disintegrate in an instant.
“Senior Karin! That guy over there holding a knife and installing it! “Please do something to that bastard!”
Karin immediately answered those words in a confident voice.
“Understood, Centurion Martin.”
As soon as I heard Karin’s answer, I immediately grabbed the sword tightly with both hands and rushed like a mad cow towards the enemies.
With the same mindset as a bullet that circulates the aura throughout the body and moves infinitely straight toward its goal.
‘Karin never combs.’
From the moment I mixed her body, she became someone I could absolutely trust in this world, and she would never disappoint my expectations.
On the other hand, the guy who was reorganizing the formation on the side we attacked also started laughing when he saw me charging.
“That idiot, you’re so crazy because you want to die!”
“Century commander, that bastard is that crazy dog…”
“We suffered damage, but at least dozens of people! “I’ll stop it for a while, so you guys can surround it and beat it up!”
That bastard, he is planning a strategy based on the premise that he will be able to block my attacks for a while alone…
‘Do you think it will be that easy?’
If I were alone, it might work, but right now I have Karin behind me, so will it work?
I wonder if the centurion commander is using this opportunity to boast about his prowess and try to restore the broken morale of his unit…
He drew the attention of those around him by speaking ostentatiously and swinging his sword in an exaggerated posture.
“Calvin Kurt, the centurion of the Black Brothers mercenaries, will cut off your head! “Try dying today!”
At the same time as he said that, he also raised a sword and walked toward me.
Seeing that he was covered in a faint but blue aura, it seemed like he was not an easy guy.
‘I wasn’t a bastard without skills.’
I also put the Auror on both feet and gradually increased the speed of moving forward.
When the distance between him and I became closer, and we both tried to swing our swords at each other…
I could hear the sound of an arrow wrapped in the wind passing by in my ears.
It was a noise that was enough to blind my ears for a moment, but it wasn’t enough to weaken my will and concentration to kill the enemy.
‘……There’s no way I could lose concentration like this.’
I laughed and quickly stabbed him with my sword, aiming for his neck.
Calvin was momentarily distracted by Karin’s arrow flying between his eyes.
So he tilted his head to the left to avoid the arrow that might kill him, causing the tip of his sword to shake.
“Ugh, sh*t.”
His mouth widened as if he had endured it for ten years, and I did not miss this moment that Karin had created for me.
My sword finally pierced his neck, and Calvin was left vomiting blood all over my expensive armor without even being able to cry out.
“…… Do you think there’s no one you can trust but you?”
As I muttered this quietly, the guys who had planned to surround me in a crescent shape according to Calvin’s plan all rushed at me at once.
“Century Calvin has passed away!”
“I’ll take my revenge by decapitating that crazy son of a bitch!”
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“Don’t stop me, I’m going to cut that bastard’s head off today!”
It’s not like I’m an idiot, but I’m not weak enough to be attacked by these idiots.
‘I wanted to lower Calvin’s morale by holding up his severed head like this.’
I didn’t have time, so I just looked around to kill the guys running towards me.
“If that doesn’t work, there’s nothing we can do.”
They tried to stab me all at once with a long spear, which is the easiest, best, and most efficient weapon to use when dealing with knights used by ordinary people as aurors.
A long spear is a weapon that is just like a cumbersome wooden baton unless it is stabbed by the end of the spear.
In order to take advantage of that weakness, I quickly lowered my posture and was able to safely avoid the first attack from the guys around me.
“You rat!”
Even if you are as ugly as a rat, the most important thing is to somehow survive and cut off the enemy’s head.
It is better to survive even if you are a little cowardly and cruel than to die while fighting proudly with harsh words.
That way, you can survive until you win, and even if you lose, you can get back up again.
“Thanks for the compliment, guys.”
Then I immediately rushed forward.
I had already dodged the tip of the polearm in the first row, but then the second and third rows sometimes made threatening attacks in my direction.
After seeing each and every attack, I used my aura to cut down all the long spears.
The sound of wooden sticks with spear blades falling, the sounds of soldiers freaking out and stuttering, even the sounds of them struggling.
The morale of those in front of me will be completely shattered by this.
“Everyone, go to the underworld in peace.”
I quickly swung the sword filled with Aura.
There was no one alive where the sword passed.
Those who have lost an arm or a leg and are not dead ‘now’, but will suffer and die for a long time from now on.
The lucky ones who died instantly after being stabbed in the neck, waist, or vital area.
Only these two types of people remain.
And I immediately shouted in a loud voice to drive the wedge in.
“The head of Calvin, the centurion of the Black Brothers mercenaries, was cut off by Martin Mayer of the Whitebeard mercenaries!”
At those words, the guys who had been trying to kill me stopped for a moment.
It’s not that I didn’t know that the centurion was dead.
However, the morale of the guys behind me, our Whitebeard mercenaries, has gone up like crazy.
“Long live Centurion Martin!”
“f*ck, after all, our centurion is not an ordinary person!”
“Even if you are surrounded by dozens of people, you come back alive?”
I neither confirmed nor denied those words.
In times like this, it would be foolish to add anything.
Instead, he shrugged his shoulders and pointed at the enemy in front of him.
“They are our food today! And tell Captain Dalton to contact the Red Roses. “As long as we’re here, all the black brothers will die.”