243 – Battle of Visby (5)
At the order to block the front with about half of the enemy troops, everyone began to move quickly.
“f*ck, make up your mind!”
A mercenary leader wielded his sword and hunted down his subordinates.
“Ugh, sh*t!”
One of the mercenaries who heard the command responded with cheers.
The order I gave may seem like an unreasonable order, but that is not necessarily the case.
This is not an era where people fight with guns that can fire dozens of bullets in an instant, and in this world where people fight with spears or swords, not all troops can fight at once.
So, I am currently commanding 2,000 troops, but in reality, there are only 250 to 300 people holding weapons and fighting.
Because when someone dies, there are many problems, such as having to fill the empty space.
But what if you think about it in reverse?
If the battle is not prolonged, even 1,000 people can block what appears to be about 3,000 people.
“Forget the idea that all you have to do is endure! “I’m going to tear it all down like this!”
He shouted while swinging his sword at high speed.
Every time the sword passed back and forth, one man at a time, sometimes more than two, fell dead.
“Stop that bastard! Stop it!”
To look at me, a baron, and call me a son of a b*tch, shows a lack of understanding of the hierarchy.
Ignorance is also a sin, so you should kill him immediately.
No, in fact, even if he had clearly called me Baron, he would have killed me.
“You die!”
As I was cutting down the things standing in front of me and trying to block them one by one, I suddenly saw this guy.
For someone with such courageous words and actions that he dared to call Baron Cologne a bastard, he can’t even aim his sword properly.
Look, the tip of that spear is shaking for no reason.
If a knight is going to die anyway, shouldn’t he at least pretend to be brave and fight?
If I had tried so desperately to fight, I would have been lucky enough to wake up and cut my head off.
“Don’t let the bastard knight run away!”
I cut that pathetic guy down with my sword and sent him straight to Deus.
I don’t know exactly whether there is a God or not, but when I die and go before God, I will definitely receive all kinds of insults.
Myeongsaek must have been the one who was acting as a commander, but he threw it all away and left his men to die.
“I see the Viscount’s flag over there!”
In the direction pointed by one of the soldiers, there was a Viscount’s flag.
“All troops follow me!”
The entire army is a little over a thousand people, but in times like this, it seems more romantic and better to say it like this.
I fixed my sights on the Viscount’s flag in front of me and ran.
“Viscount, stand there!”
I’m not in a particularly disadvantageous situation, so I won’t cut my head off or anything.
However, if the Viscount is captured, this unit’s chain of command will be paralyzed and it will quickly fall into an uncontrollable state.
I will take advantage of this opportunity to kill as many of the soldiers of this unit as possible to reduce the number of enemy troops, and then help other units to gradually destroy the entire army of the Second Prince.
Originally, war is like a game of dominoes, so when one unit of several thousand units collapses, a full-scale collapse begins from there.
Of course, I, the rightful Baron of the Barony of Cologne, must play that role.
“You baron-like wild boar!”
When I said that, the knights raised their swords and rushed towards me.
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I quite like the attitude of trying to protect the Viscount, a noble man, even if his unit is destroyed.
“You’re brave!”
I praised their courage and cut them down.
There are some who fight with the readiness to sacrifice their lives and gain enlightenment during the battle and rise to the level, but I didn’t see anyone like that among the guys here.
No, even though my level has risen, they are so much lower level than me… I guess I couldn’t deal with them properly?
“We cannot allow the Viscount’s head to be cut off carelessly. “I, Fran Macron, will deal with you directly!”
Are you a foreigner from the Montmartre Empire?
Nevertheless, he managed to become a knight of the Rhine-Palatinate Empire.
Flames were blooming from his sword.
“Baron Cologne, die!”
A sword engulfed in flames was swung.
The hot blade flew towards my neck, but it didn’t feel as scary or threatening as before.
No, honestly, at this level, this guy would never have to fight with someone of a higher level than him.
But unfortunately for this person, I am at a higher level.
“You bastard die.”
I struck the sword of the guy swinging at high speed even faster.
The sword did not break or fly away, proving that the Expert Intermediate level was not obtained through chess.
It is worthy of praise that his posture was not disturbed, but his sword shook for a moment.
The swordsmanship is almost over the moment the tip of the sword shakes.
If you keep pushing hard, you will win quickly.
“Ugh.”
A moan came out of the guy’s mouth.
He probably realized that he was at a disadvantage, but what can you do?
Unless a miraculous awakening occurs, they will be defeated.
After more than a dozen swords were exchanged, the guy’s posture collapsed a little.
One knee touched the ground for a moment.
“aaah, die!”
The stab aimed at my neck instantly changed its trajectory and aimed somewhere else.
Instead of the neck, the target this time is the armpits.
In my experience, I can’t believe an attack that changed its target so quickly in only about 0.2 Seconds.
Is this your special move?
“It’s pretty good.”
I think it would have been very dangerous if I had met someone who used this special move when I was an expert intermediate level.
But now, even if we receive an attack like this, it is not that dangerous.
All I have to do is focus the auror on the sword and swing it faster to block it.
With a clanging sound, his sword instantly jumped to the left.
I took advantage of that trend and stabbed the guy in the neck in a straight line.
“Ten, ten…”
I don’t know if I was lucky or not, but I got stabbed in the neck but it seems like my airway was missed.
“I’m sorry for not listening to your will.”
After cutting off the guy’s head, I ran to catch the Viscount, who was trying to run away.
If that bastard runs away, he will come to fight us again later.
“Stand there!”
I know that no one really stands up just because they say they stand.
“Retreat, retreat!”
The Viscount continued to run away while giving orders to retreat.
But in the end, I caught the back of his neck in my hands.
“If you were going to run away, you should have done so beforehand.”
If you do anything vaguely, it won’t work.
If I had run away a long time ago, I would have been like a dog staring at a distant rooftop, but since I ran away so slowly, I got caught.
“We have captured Viscount Chelsea! “Pull out the remnants like this, but don’t break away from the battle line to catch those who run away!”
There are countless cases where the line of battle was disorganized while pursuing and then the enemy was defeated.
Furthermore, the war is not over now.
“And I sent a messenger to His Highness the Fourth Prince, saying that we have annihilated Viscount Chelster’s troops and that we will assist other troops in their battles. “Tell them to send the reserve forces!”
War is the same as the group task.
Just as it is right to help the opponent with his/her task once I have completed my task, after defeating the enemy in front of me, I must help defeat the other troops alive next to me.
That way, the enemy will fall like dominoes.
“Yes!”
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“Your Majesty the 4th Prince! His Majesty the 4th Prince! “This is a request from Baron Cologne!”
Otto looked closely at the messenger’s expression.
If the facial expression is bad, it means that a dangerous situation has occurred, and if the facial expression is good, it indicates that the current situation is positive.
Fortunately, the messenger’s expression was very bright.
“Speak quickly.”
Otto hid his expression of anticipation and answered in a cold voice.
“Baron Cologne defeated Viscount Chelster’s troops and captured the Viscount! “I’m going to support other units like this, so I asked you to support the reserve unit!”
“Is it true?”
“Here is the sword the Viscount was wearing.”
Prince Otto’s expression suddenly brightened after receiving the sword.
“What do you think the Margrave should do?”
Although the prince himself is a commander, he has no experience in actually commanding an army, which is why he asked Estelle.
The prince’s eyes were already sparkling.
Just looking at it, it seemed like they were pressuring me to tell them to send reinforcements quickly because the answer was already decided.
Estel also agreed with that opinion, so he nodded.
“It would be enough to send 4,000 troops under Viscount Richen who were in reserve.”
“Okay, then order Viscount Richen to cooperate with Baron Cologne. And let the messenger come here.”
Otto placed two gold coins in the messenger’s hand.
“Thanks for your hard work. “Go back.”
The messenger failed to control his facial expressions, but no one blamed him.
This is because everything that needs to be conveyed has already been conveyed.
“Margrave, I think it’s time to send that signal…”
Otto said, his voice trailing off slightly.
“I agree. I told the people planted in the Second Prince’s faction to betray themselves when 5 blue fireballs were shot into the sky. “I will fire a signal right away.”
“Hurry.”