Quit being a knight and become a mercenary

146 – The Battle of the Abe River (4)

In boxing, boxers who can stand calmly even after receiving a few to dozens of punches to the face and body. .

These are people who have succeeded in having tremendous tenacity thanks to training at a level that ordinary people cannot imagine.

They are truly amazing people, but even these people are helpless in the face of ‘unexpected attacks.’

Even legendary boxers like Tyson or Muhammad Ali can lose their lives if they are hit in the back of the head unexpectedly, or even by a weak punch from an ordinary person.

The reason is that humans are weak in the face of unexpected shocks or problems.

Especially in the military, where these individuals are gathered in units of thousands, this principle works even more, roughly like this.

He is a mercenary and not a serf, but he has forgotten the basics of ‘when the enemy invades, you must first form a phalanx’ and is floundering.

“f*ck, what should I do? “What should we do if we gather around the leader of the Ten?”

In extreme situations, even the highest people who the soldiers trust and follow the most are unable to come to their senses.

His voice is full of embarrassment, and even when he makes a single movement to convey an order to the soldiers, he flusters, making his voice very awkward.

It’s so crazy that I, watching as their enemy, lose my senses.

“Gather together in groups of ten and platoons! Gather together!”

The veterans still keep the truth in their mouths to survive the war.

‘If things seem to be messed up, gather together and form a square.’

If you just follow this, your chances of survival will be significantly higher than if you were scattered all over the place.

However, even though the panicked soldiers knew that they had to gather in ‘small units and large units’, they could not gather together correctly.

“Where are our white troops?”

“The centurion commander passed away after being swept away by the river.”

“f*ck, what should I do then?”

Even if we gathered all the kindergarten kids and lined them up, it would be better than this.

‘At this level, it would work if I just hit it without using arrows or magic.’

However, if you just fire a long-distance attack at the enemy, the effect will be double, or even triple, when it hits you.

Why? If a formation that is trying to be formed into a ten-man or platoon unit is attacked from a distance, it will shatter like a glass.

Commander Heinz and other centurion commanders and platoon leaders around me smiled brightly and gave orders as if they were in a very good mood.

“Don’t spare your arrows and magic power! “It’s all or nothing, we have to get rid of them so we can live!”

“There’s no need for sniping, so just shoot!”

“Look at him not even being able to fight back. Don’t you think he’s so cute that you want to kill him? “Kill them all!”

The archers, who had already been shooting arrows so hard that their fingers were bleeding, were stimulated by those words and started shooting arrows even faster.

Until just now, the guys were looking in the direction of the enemy, aiming and shooting…

“It’s not half water and half meat, but it hits everything just by shooting it, right? “Aiming like that is a luxury!”

I stopped trying to figure out how to shoot toward the enemy.

As a result, the firing interval was shortened from one arrow flying every 15 seconds to one arrow flying every 10 seconds.

Wizards also focused on throwing more magic shots rather than focusing on increasing the power of each shot.

“You only need to throw a strong blow at the end, right before charging! Until then, just push ahead with quantity!”

Magic and arrows continued to swirl towards them like a storm.

Fire magic, which is best used to kill people or render them incapable of combat, burned many soldiers to death.

“My body! “Ugh!”

I keep seeing enemy soldiers screaming like that and dying or collapsing in pain.

‘The guy who died instantly after being hit by a fireball probably died without even being able to scream.’

In addition, those who had been hit by arrows countless times fell or stumbled, groaning in pain.

“Ugh, sh*t!”

Even in this situation, the high-ranking members of the enemy army used their wits to give orders to counterattack the friendly forces in any way possible.

“Whether it’s an arrow or magic, shoot it! Fly!”

However, even from afar, it was visible that the mid-level conductors below him were trying to stop him.

“It’s difficult because the formation has completely collapsed… If we send them out now, they won’t be able to avoid death.”

In a typical battle, that is, in a situation where an enemy and an ally face each other on the plain, the ally and enemy attack each other from a distance, resulting in sacrifice of the ally.

Right now, they can’t even use their wizards and archers properly for completely unexpected attacks.

‘It’s always good to lose one-sidedly.’

As the unilateral long-distance attack continued for 10 minutes, their unit went beyond disaster and became chaos.

The peculiar smell of a burnt corpse was in the air, and gray smoke was spreading so freely that it seemed as if there was fog.

Commander Heinz looked at me and sighed and pointed to where the guys were.

“Look at those bastards. “There is no such thing as a very bad thing.”

The direction I pointed to was full of corpses of soldiers who had been burned to death or had fallen and died after being hit by arrows.

It’s a sight I never want to see unless it’s a war situation, but…

‘The enemy’s misfortune on the battlefield is my happiness.’

“Do you think that if all these bastards are destroyed, I will follow Captain Dalton and become a real high-ranking knight of the Baron’s family?”

“Oh, if that happens, it’s all thanks to me, so win and buy me a drink.”

It would be a waste of money for someone with mediocre abilities to say something like that, but in reality, how much did I just spoon-fed?

If you don’t openly say that everything is thanks to me, this isn’t a problem at all.

No, like Captain Dalton, you are a vice commander who is planning to become a ‘high-ranking person’ of the empire, so you should show off your condescension in advance when a civil war breaks out…

‘There will be a high-ranking person who will take my side.’

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Commander Heinz snorted after hearing my story.

“It’s not over yet. Good, one last big hit and charge. You are the leader. “Do you know why?”

I am better at swordsmanship than Heinz, and in a situation where I am dealing with 2,000 enemies with only 600, I cannot manage my stamina like I would in a battle on the plains.

We need to neutralize them as quickly as we captured Count Beluga.

This is because there is a need to hit it big and heavy.

“Don’t worry about breaking the pot.”

Heinz gave his signal by waving his hand loudly.

Then the wizards, including Lucia, began chanting, squeezing out as much magical power as possible.

“A spear of flame that will burn the enemy before my eyes, burn the enemy to death! Fire Spear!”

By the time Lucia finished chanting, the other magicians also finished chanting.

Then, as a large-scale spell flew towards them, screams of fear erupted from Baron Maurer’s army once again.

“Save people, damn it!”

It will be easier when you die, so don’t worry and die in peace.

It would have been great if all that was left after the various magics of the friendly wizards had swept away was ‘ash’…

There were only about 15 wizards under my command, including the wizards in our mercenary corps and the wizards I received support from, so it was not enough to reduce them to ‘ash.’

However, the majesty of the one-sided long-distance attack and finishing blow…

The baker next to me held his stomach and started laughing like crazy.

“The smell of their urine can be felt all the way from here.”

When I smelled it carefully, it really smelled bad.

“Morale is at its lowest. Okay, now it’s time to hit it. “Charge, blow the trumpet.”

Soon the sound of the trumpet rang out, and our troops led their soldiers and began running towards the enemy camp.

“I’ll send you to your friends who have become water ghosts!”

“You cute bastards, I’ll break your head first.”

“If you surrender now, I will kill you comfortably!”

Everyone seems excited because they succeeded in a bold operation of blocking the upper reaches of the river, letting the water flow, and then making a surprise attack.

On the other hand, commanders such as knights and mercenary captains under Baron Maurer were extremely embarrassed.

It seems like he knows how to stop us…

“Form yourselves! “Squeeze out the dust to stop it!”

Someone gave an extremely common sense order to form a square.

“Is it time to do long spear bangjin and such? “Bring out your sword or mace and block it first!”

Another guy gave a completely different order based on common sense that forming squares was useless when the ‘formation’ was scattered.

Everyone is saying something that makes sense, but…

‘If opinions are not unified, it is of no use. ‘Isn’t it cute how flustered they look?’

It’s so cute that I want to cut it up right now.

“I should cut down all those bastards and make a big achievement this time to make money…”

I had underwear and clothes I wanted to buy for Lucia and Karin, but she spent all her money to buy them on taking Hilde away…

Of course, winning Hilde’s heart is more important than all my assets, so I have no regrets.

I shouted loudly with my honest feelings to give strength to the boat and threaten them.

“My heart is distressed because my wallet is empty! So, let’s go!”

To be honest, the sword seemed to listen better today, perhaps because it was filled with emotion.