178 – Fishing Strategy (5)
When I hear the sound of the trumpet, my body reacts before my head.
“Everyone in battle formation! “Spearmen form a square, and archers and wizards prepare for long-distance attacks!”
Even low-level recruits know that before engaging in direct combat with the enemy, they must first send out archers and wizards to reduce the enemy forces approaching from afar.
So, as soon as you hear the trumpet sound, you react like this.
The centurion commander and platoon commanders began repeating my orders.
“Spearmen stand in square, archers and wizards prepare for long-distance attacks!”
“We have to prepare for a long-distance attack, so the wizard and archer go to the front!”
“Those with spears, don’t hold out your spears for no reason! “It’s easiest to lift it vertically until you get right in front of the enemy!”
The spearmen raised their spears while maintaining a 90-degree angle, as if measured by a ruler, according to the command to raise their spears, and the archers and wizards followed the orders and moved to the front.
Now all that’s left is to charge at the enemy, so all you have to do is give the order to charge…
When I was about to pull out my sword and order a charge, a messenger came hurriedly running from behind me.
“Is Captain Martin of the Whitebeard Mercenaries here?”
Looking at the flag on the messenger’s back, it appears to be under the command of Baron Eclair, my immediate superior.
“It’s me. “Right now, it’s urgent, so please tell me as soon as possible.”
“Count Dion ordered the soldiers under Baron Eclair to block the enemy’s rear.”
Is the Count crazy to order us to block the enemy’s rear with only 3,000 men when we haven’t even encountered the enemy yet?
But when I think about it, the people in front of me are all exhausted.
If it looked like that to me even from a distance, the Count would have already noticed…
This might be worth a try.
‘If you deploy your troops widely front and back and push them with all your might…’
“Just in case, please show me the seal on the order.”
I checked the seal on the order the messenger brought and confirmed that this guy was not a spy sent by the enemy.
“Thank you for your hard work, then our Whitebeard mercenaries will now turn towards the enemy’s left wing and go to the rear to stop them.”
“Yes, then I will just leave.”
After the messenger left, Otto asked slyly.
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“Captain, what do you mean? Are you telling us to pick off all the high-ranking people in Barcelo that we see right in front of us?”
“It’s similar, but a little different. “I have ordered all troops under Baron Eclair to completely block the enemy’s route of retreat.”
“I prepared as much as I could, but it turned out to be nothing, ha.”
Honestly, if an order like this comes at a time when you have made up your mind and are fully prepared to crush the guys panting from exhaustion in front of you, it will make anyone nervous.
“What can we do? We need to get the soldiers back right now. Whitebeard mercenaries! “From now on, we’re heading back towards the enemy’s rear with Baron Eclair!”
Everyone looked depressed at those words, but they knew that it was an order and there was nothing they could do, so they all turned and started walking.
It was also a moment when the tension of having to stand on a battlefield where magic and arrows were raining down in just a few tens of seconds was instantly relieved.
The guys under me noticed this and scolded the soldiers.
“Don’t relax and don’t feel relieved about going back! “It will be harder there!”
“You never know when the enemy will jump out! “Don’t lose your mind!”
“Don’t relax just because you feel comfortable for a moment; look straight ahead!”
This is something that is said to new recruits, but it is also something that centurion commanders and platoon leaders who give such warnings say to themselves.
The other units next to us are already starting to make noises as they are dying from arrows and magic…
Since we are leaving the battlefield so leisurely, the tension will probably ease.
‘But unless the enemy was an idiot, he would have noticed that we were going sideways.’
While we were so anxious, a messenger under Baron Eclair was passing by us and shouted as he rode.
“The Baron will take a big detour to the left! “We will make a big detour to the left wing and hit the enemy’s rear at the most critical time!”
Even if we take back 3,000, our troops number 12,000, but the enemy troops only number around 10,000.
The longer the battle lasts, the more the enemy commander-in-chief will naturally and unconsciously erase the existence of our three thousand men from his mind.
However, unless the enemy is an idiot, we will have to stay away from the battlefield for at least an hour or two to get out of the enemy commander’s mind and forget us.
‘Neither Baron Eclair nor Count Dion are idiots, so they all know this.’
So what should I do now?
The goal is to follow the flag of Baron Eclair while using as little unnecessary force as possible.
“March as comfortably as possible while maintaining the marching formation! However, chatting or making a fuss will be punished according to military law!”
Then I also stopped spinning my head needlessly for a moment.
Because what I want to do now is to save up without using as much energy as possible.
After walking for several hours, we arrived near the rear of the enemy lines.
I could barely see the guys fighting at the front, but I could tell right away that they were engaged in a fierce battle with Count Dion.
The proof is that there are a lot of messengers coming and going over there, and everyone is moving around in a hurry.
When the situation is urgent, reports keep pouring in from lower-level units about who is dead or which unit is unable to fight, and higher-level units have to constantly convey measures and orders.
Looking closely, the messengers were moving around with a very urgent look on their faces.
“f*ck, f*ck!”
The messenger who looked like a mercenary was running and out of breath.
“Wow, if we continue like this, we will be wiped out. “It is annihilation.”
Still, seeing as the messengers don’t look like everything is over, I guess it’s not quite over yet.
“Captain! “The Baron Eclair family flag and the flag to form a formation have been raised!”
Because we marched while maintaining our formation, we were able to carry out orders just by slightly changing direction.
When I changed direction and looked at where the enemies were, I saw numerous enemy soldiers catching their breath in front of me, holding their spears.
“You cowardly bastards, are you going to come back and hit me in the back?”
In a war, the guy who cowardly won is better than the guy who lost fair and square. What kind of nonsense is that? Won.
Soon after, an arrow (an arrow that makes a sound) went up from the direction where Baron Eclair was.
The same order was given to all units.
“Wizard, archer! “Everyone fire in unison!”
Then, those under Baron Eclair attacked them at the same time as if they were one body.
What struck the enemy first were the arrows of the archers, which could be fired immediately without chanting.
“Ugh!”
“Ten, ahhh!”
The guys who had been released, not expecting us to come all the way to the rear, were attacked from a distance and fell helplessly.
Next, a torrent of high-, middle-, and low-level fire magic poured out, which were the most effective for slaughter.
“Ugh, it’s hot!”
As soon as the fire magic flew away, the guys who had been resting in the rear hurriedly grabbed their spears and started panting.
“Ugh, sh*t! Window! Raise the spear!”
Of course, our military’s barrage of arrows and magic continued…
“Ugh!”
Even while the formation was being reorganized, the screams of the dying enemy soldiers did not stop.
For now, we are succeeding in ambushing the enemy waiting in the rear, but from now on we have only 3,000 friendly troops and we have to deal with the enemy troops rushing in all at once in an attempt to retreat.
Until now, we have fought a relatively easy battle, but this means that we will have to fight the fiercest in the upcoming battle.
‘If you want to turn the situation even a little more in your favor, you have to break their morale and spirit.’
“Kill everyone without leaving a single one behind!”
According to the order, he killed numerous enemy soldiers with one-sided long-distance attacks, but since the number was so large…
No matter how many times we killed them, they kept coming out and trying to form a formation.
“… We need to hit them before they form a formation.”
I called the messenger with a gesture.
“Ask Baron Eclair if it’s okay to charge now!”
“Yes!”
“For those holding long spears, do a final check on the phalanx and prepare yourselves to attack them!”
After about ten minutes, a heavy trumpet sound was heard announcing the assault to our unit.
“Yes, I was waiting for this.”
The reason why I walked in circles for hours to get here without being detected, and even did crazy things like catching enemy soldiers in enemy territory.
It was just one thing: to annihilate the guys in front of us right now.
‘If we just kill all these bastards, there will be no need for a siege until we occupy the castle right in front of Lamasana Castle.’
“Whitebeard mercenaries, prepare to charge!”
With those words, our mercenaries aimed their long spears in the direction of the enemy’s neck.
“f*ck you, you bastards!”
“Try it today!”
I also drew my sword and gave the order slightly behind them.
“Charge!”