I Became a Genius Commander at the Academy - Chapter 273

EP.273

As the main naval unit, directly commanded by Peter Jaeger, was preparing for close combat, a sound was heard that the commanders of the Duchy of Warsaw, including Captain Timo, did not want to hear.

The watchmen frantically rang the bell on the mast’s watchtower, sending out a warning in a loud voice.

“emergency! emergency! “A ship believed to be a Reich Imperial battleship is attempting to surround our troops’ rear!”

“The number is estimated to be around 20 ships! “The number is approximately 20 ships!”

“The enemy fleet appears in the rear! “The enemy fleet appears behind us!”

The scariest thing for soldiers, both on land and on land, is the story of being surrounded by enemy forces.

If the enemy is only in front and the back is open, you can fight the enemy with a sense of stability because you can retreat in the worst case.

If the front, back, left, and right sides are all blocked, the direction of the allies’ attacks will have to be dispersed, which will not only weaken their strength, but they will also have to suffer from the pressure of having no way to survive even if they are cornered.

The soldiers began to become agitated at the fact that their rear was blocked, and the officers maintained discipline by drawing swords and scolding them to calm them down, or by cutting down a few to make an example of them.

“We’re surrounded from front and back…”

“Shut up, why is a soldier from the Grand Duchy of Warsaw so scared? “You’re a spy, aren’t you?”

“In numbers, we will be much more! “I will kill you with my own hands if you are so embarrassed!”

Captain Teemo blamed himself, saying that even the worst people would never have a bad situation like this.

From a tactical and strategic perspective, it occurred to him that he might already be playing in the palm of Captain Jaeger’s hand.

With the fate of Warsaw on his shoulders, he had to achieve victory at all costs, so Timo gave the best orders he could think of.

“Pass it to the second-in-command. From now on, the fleet will be divided in half, and operational authority and command of half of the fleet will be transferred to Vice Admiral Shumitrikov. “Order him to destroy the Reich army that is surrounding our army from the rear.”

As the order was about to be delivered, the Imperial Fleet’s attack, which succeeded in capturing Warsaw, began.

Stones fired from siege ballistas, arrows fired from crossbows, and fireballs fired by wizards attacked the Warsaw fleet.

The staff of the flagship that Captain Teemo was on hurriedly rushed over and began reporting.

“The enemy’s attacks continue from the rear! If we continue like this, we will all die.”

“Our vanguard fleet has been annihilated by the Reich Imperial Army!”

“Out of the 115 ships in the fleet, nearly 30 have already become unusable!”

Timo, who was already worried about going bald due to hair loss, said while tearing out his hair with his fingers after hearing the depressing reports from his staff.

“Fuck, I know everything! We must drive out the Reich bastards by any means necessary! The bastards who surrounded us in the rear have been left to Lieutenant General Shmitrikov, so we focus on killing Peter Yeager, an orphan born and raised among those homosexuals, in the front! Focus all your attention on that guy. “If you keep babbling, I’ll hit you hard before the court martial!”

When the staff heard those words, they looked for a moment with pitiful eyes at the commander, who was furious even though he had not asked them to retreat.

Fearing that if something went wrong, the angry captain would kill them for defiance, they nodded and returned to their respective seats.

Meanwhile, the soldiers of the main Reich Imperial Fleet, commanded by Peter Jaeger, began to fight fiercely as if they were guarding the castle walls on their own ships.

Due to the nature of naval combat, soldiers holding long spears kept a check on enemy soldiers who were not wearing armor by randomly stabbing them to death.

Among the spearmen, the pikemen chopped off the heads and shoulders of the Warsaw Marines who stuck out their heads, while the siege ballistas and crossbows reduced the number of enemies behind them at a tremendous speed.

“Warsaw bastards! “We can go up on the deck of your ship as we please, but you can’t!”

“How can a human being try to starve his own people living on the western coast to death?”

“You guys are trash that should never have been born!”

Among them, what stood out the most was Captain Jaeger, fighting at the vanguard with a sword.

“As long as I stand on this deck holding my sword, not a single one of you will pass by!”

Usually, people who say this usually only talk like that, but their skills often do not match the grand words.

Peter Yeager, living up to his titles of Khan Slayer and Sword Master, pointed his sword at himself and cut down the incoming soldiers one by one.

In other words, the Warsaw soldier officers’ golden opportunity to change the course of their lives by killing the enemy commander ended in vain with the death of the challenger.

Generally, if a guy with four stars came out at the front, it meant that the army was cornered, so it was normal for the Warsaw soldiers’ morale to be high, but none of them showed any signs of excitement or excitement.

No, everyone was scared.

“… It’s a monster. There’s a monster over there.”

“Fuck mom. “What is that bastard?”

“… Attack several at a time! “Even that monster will get tired someday.”

It was a sight that would have horrified Emperor Michael of the Reich Empire, who had a small wish for Captain Jaeger to serve as Marshal until he was 100 years old, even his grandson’s generation.

There were many reasons why Peter Yeager came out like this and went around chopping up enemies with his sword.

When an ally and an enemy soldier are engaged in close combat, especially if the enemy soldier is kept at a very close distance, there is a high risk that covering fire will result in friendly fire to the ally, so magic ballista arrow attacks do not come in.

Therefore, if you were confident in hand-to-hand combat, you were surprisingly safe.

The Reich Imperial Navy, which had a small number of soldiers, had many soldiers whose physical stamina was already at its limit, so it was necessary to push them beyond their limits with mental strength and morale.

In order to increase the will to fight, the captain had to personally hold the sword and stand on the front line.

But there was something else more important than this reason.

‘The eyes of Captain Teemo and all enemy general staff must be focused only on me. That way, the time when they notice that a fishing boat that is about to launch a fire attack is approaching them will be delayed as much as possible.’

For this reason, even though Jaeger holds the position of commander of the Imperial Army, he must fight alongside the soldiers.

On the other hand, Captain Teemo couldn’t understand why a guy named Peter Yeager was fighting directly with a sword, even though he had 4 stars just like him.

As he looked at the incomprehensible sight, he felt anxious, as if defeat was getting closer, and it drove him into a desperate situation where he felt like he was going crazy.

Driven to the end, as a commander, he issued orders filled with emotion, although they were based on reason.

“Use all your might to murder that bastard, Peter Yeager! Don’t even look at anything else. As long as we capture the enemy commander, our Grand Duchy of Warsaw will win. Long live Warsaw! Long live His Royal Highness Archduke Stefan! Everyone charges except the rowing soldiers! Break through the enemy’s defenses!”

Although it was the most certain winning operation in this war, it was also an order that resulted in the death of tens of thousands of Warsaw Marines.

This is what Peter Jaeger would later say if he heard this from someone else.

‘Is this a blatant protest demanding that their soldiers be killed? How is it different from the Japanese army’s Banzai charge?’

But now, the Reich soldiers, including Peter Jaeger, were busy dealing with the waves of soldiers that were nearly three times as many as they were.

There were many who looked like they were going to collapse due to exhaustion of stamina, but there were also many soldiers who fought and fought as they watched the captain next to them kill several times more soldiers than them, but the tip of his sword was still not blunted.

“The commander is fighting next to us! “Hold on with your wickedness!”

“Fight for the glory of the Reich Empire! Then you too will receive sufficient compensation!”

“If you hold on just a little longer, the captain will do something!”

This situation was the same for the subfleet that surrounded and fought behind the Warsaw Fleet, which was not under the command of Captain Peter Jaeger.

Warsaw’s Captain Timo, who noticed the momentum, had expectations.

If things continue like this, that damned Captain Peter Jaeger of the Reich Empire will be outnumbered and his stamina will run out first. I saw hope that I would be able to decapitate him or capture him.

Whether by killing or capturing him, he wanted to inflict as much humiliation and shame as he could.

When the situation of the war was slightly, if not quite, tilted towards Warsaw, Lieutenant Vincent approached Captain Peter Jaeger and spoke in a whisper.

“The fire ship will arrive soon.”

The last hidden fireworks ship that will allow the Reich Imperial Navy to defeat the Warsaw Navy, which is three times more numerous than them, has finally appeared.

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