I Became a Genius Commander at the Academy - Chapter 87

EP.87

A battle in which knights wearing iron armor thrust in like a wedge, inflicting large wounds on the enemy’s lines, and the infantry tears through the gap.

Although it is a very simple attack method, it was the most widely used combat method in both the East and the West until the advent of guns and gunpowder weapons.

This is a tactic that was very effective in winning the war.

However, I just didn’t use it because the size and deployment of the troops I had so far were not suitable for using this tactic.

Deep down, I really wanted to try it at least once.

“I am very lucky to be able to plan and directly lead an operation that combines standard tactics with surprise attacks to defeat barbarians.”

I really think so.

Because I can kill the evil barbarians cleanly with the tactics I came up with.

In other wars, there are times when you feel bad after killing soldiers, but as long as the barbarians, who are vicious criminals, do not go beyond the limit and brutally torture and kill them, justice has been served.

With that in mind, I was passing through the immediate vicinity of our army’s formation with my knights and charging toward where the barbarians were.

“4th Division 4th Division came out to support us!”

“They are finished now! “Let’s push!”

“Long live the Reich Empire! Long live your Majesty the Emperor! Long live the reinforcements!”

While the archers attached to Ludvik’s main camp continue to fire arrows, the infantry fighting has just begun in close combat.

It would be a very heart-warming sight to see a large unit carrying a flag symbolizing the 4th Division appear and rush to attack the enemy.

This is because the flow of battle will change in the direction of completely pushing back against the enemy, who has been unable to escape, with the advent of our reinforcements in a situation where we were being trampled by enemy infantry who were reluctant to avoid close combat until not long ago.

“The 4th Division, which was left as a reserve unit, has come to support us! “Command already thinks we’ve won!”

“This is a battle we have already won! “Cheer up a little!”

“Kill the barbarians! “Don’t lose to those guys from the 4th Division!”

Those who shout like that must be high-ranking officers, major or higher.

And they must be thinking this way.

‘No matter how good I think about it, up until now, we were just fighting with the army led by Ludvik. ‘How did reinforcements come when they probably didn’t have the capacity to come?’

‘During the operations meeting, I did not hear anything about a division-sized reinforcement suddenly arriving in a confrontation like this.’

However, with the time and ability to rise to that position through the difficult promotion competition in the imperial army, they must have decided that the arrival of reinforcements was a benefit to them and not a loss.

I don’t know what the result will be, but I guess I’ll start by cheering.

Then, after the war was over, what if we found out that our regiment had obtained permission for the operation in advance from Count Benner and then pretended to be a division and charged in?

You will definitely be incredibly surprised.

“It’s an arrow! “They’re shooting arrows at us from everywhere!”

“Keep your head down and look at the ground! “If you don’t want to be left behind, grab your spear and run!”

“Use all your strength and run! Just throw it away!”

Judging by the arrows starting to fly, the distance between us and them must be around 100 to 200 meters.

That means it will soon be the knights’ turn to attack them with their massive bodies and lances.

After running like that for about two minutes, the arrows coming from the front completely stopped.

So I looked up and saw that about 100 knights had turned the enemy camp into a complete wasteland.

“A knight? “Fuck!”

“help me! I always hated dying. “I want to live overwhelmingly now.”

“My arm is gone. “Am I going to die now?”

Looking ahead, I saw the knights forming a wedge formation, turning Ludvik’s petty infantrymen into minced meat or using lances to turn them into human skewers.

As a result, things like human blood, flesh and severed limbs began to fly freely around the battlefield where we were.

Blood began to emit a strong smell of rusty iron and a fishy smell.

Our knights, who succeeded in attacking the enemy through a barrage of fierce attacks, quickly pulled out their jousting horses and swung away after completing the cavalry charge so as not to impede the path of the infantry that followed behind them.

Even from a distance, every time Pyeongon was swung, at least one, sometimes two or three unfortunate deaths occurred one after another.

“The knights escape through the gap between the infantry units following behind!”

“Leave the rest to the division commander and infantry and get back!”

The knights fell to the rear without being stopped by the enemy troops, breaking the enemy’s head and bones with their cavalry rifles as if threshing them.

As a result, the enemy infantry fell into a state of great confusion.

“help me! help me! “I don’t want to die yet!!”

“Calm down and grab the spear! “If you don’t want to fucking die, grab the spear, stand up, and move forward!”

“If you hold a spear in front of a soldier, you are sure to get killed…”

In this situation, those who look like officers of the enemy army draw their swords and try to somehow get the unit into a state where they can fight again.

They try to run away or quickly return to their original positions and grab spears or pitchforks and randomly cut to death those foolish enough to not aim at us.

We tried our best to rebuild our army, but the distance between us and the devastated enemy forces and the infantry that came to support us was only about 50 meters.

That meant that in just 10 seconds, we would clash with them.

At that moment, the covering fire of the wizards and crossbowmen who came together to support the infantry with melee weapons, who were fighting with the enemy with spears and pins, began to provide covering fire.

As hundreds of arrows and magic flew, the left wing of the enemy army, which was already on the verge of collapse, collapsed.

“Okay, 1st Battalion! “Hold your weapon tightly and hit it!!”

“Long live the division commander! Long live the Reich Empire! Long live Deus!”

“Don’t be scared! “Because the one who gets scared dies first!”

We ran towards the enemies like that, and I also ran towards the enemy in front of me, holding tightly the spear used by the soldiers.

He then aimed his gaze at the enemy soldier’s neck, stretched out his spear, and pierced the unfortunate barbarian.

“….. A monster monster has appeared. “We’re all dead!”

“Collect the unit! “Calm down, go back to your seats, and grab your spear!”

“You bastards who don’t deserve anything! Get your mind straight. “If we lose here, we all die!”

However, the officers and captains of those who said that ended up going to the other world at the hands of our soldiers and officers who charged with such force.

Some enemy soldiers who saw this shouted loudly.

“It looks like there are 10,000 enemy soldiers! It’s a great army. We are all dead. Argh!”

“Ludvik, Ludvik, please send reinforcements!”

“Save me! “I’ll do everything you tell me to do!”

Even if they cried out like that, there was no way anyone, including me, would show mercy to the bastards who had committed all kinds of heinous crimes against the heretics.

Then everyone, including me, took advantage of this momentum and started running wild like Asura to kill even one more person.

Also, like Laura did before, I drew a sword directly from the body of the regiment commander and stood at the front, saying,

“The division commander will personally take the lead! If I go back and find a soldier or officer who killed less than the number of barbarians I killed, I’ll put you on guard duty during the banquet! Destroy it with the readiness to die!”

It’s something I wouldn’t do unless I was in a crisis.

Because they mistakenly think we are about 8,000 people.

From what they see, we have about 8,000 soldiers charging at us with momentum.

In a situation like this where the enemy is scared and unable to prepare their posture, it is very unlikely that they will die even if they are at the forefront of the breakthrough.

The human survival instinct makes it difficult for anyone unless they are quite brave to aim their sword at a guy approaching with terrifying force.

If it were easy, why would I train infantry to death?

With that in mind, I move forward, naturally killing the enemy that appears in front of me by decapitating it or stabbing it in the heart, as if I were doing what I was supposed to do.

“Protect the division commander! “We must protect the division commander.”

“The division commander is at the forefront! “Do not spare your life!”

“Do your best! “Kill one guy with each swing!”

Thanks to the morale of the commanders and soldiers, we were able to enter quite deep into the enemy camp in a short period of time.

If I had fought in Visocia in the past, I would have gone a little further in to catch the enemy commander-in-chief.

In a situation where you don’t even know where the enemy commander-in-chief is, you shut up and go inside when they reorganize their stance.

We might die from being surrounded by the barbarian infantry, so we’ll have to retreat once in a while.

“It looks like Ludvik, the coward, ran away because he was scared of us! So, let’s leave that cowardly bastard alone and retreat for now!”

After saying that, we escaped by exploiting the enemy’s gap at the right time, inflicting maximum damage, and breaking through the barbarians who were just as confused on the way back as they were when we came in.

When I looked around and thought about how to move next, I realized that our shut-up and charge tactic was very effective.

Ludvik’s army appeared to be completely pushed back by our northern army.

So, in effect, we won the victory, and the ‘shut up and charge’ that my unit and I did succeeded in changing the game of this war, so it is a great achievement.

It was a war that had been prepared for several years, but it could not end at this level.

“I am returning to my original unit. Then we look for the next opportunity.”

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