Academy Genius Commander

86 – Northern Occupation War (4)

Half an hour had passed since then and we still hadn’t encountered enemy infantry.

For the evil barbarian foot soldiers pretended to advance towards us, and when they were within reach of their arrows, they cast a retreat, as they had done at Thoener last time.

The vicious barbarian archers fired arrows like rain, and the soldiers didn’t even make it to the autumn leaves.

The number of allies who are sacrificed while the distance to the enemy infantry is not getting closer continues to increase.

Of course, our Northern Army isn’t stupid either, so we’re fighting against their ranged attacks with magic and arrows, so we’re fighting an even match.

“f*ck, barbarians who aren’t even as good as those dogs! To run away while only firing arrows. Eh, you bastards like dung flies!”

“Catch that bastard trying to run away! If the battle line is broken because of that son of a bitch, you never know when the enemy archers will attack!”

“Come forward, you cowardly foot soldiers. let’s stick together Why are you only going backwards? damn it.”

In the midst of pushing back the infantry, the imperial army is suffering greater damage than expected due to the enemy’s strategy of gnawing at us with long-range attacks using archers and cavalry and taking their own damage.

Comparing the circumstances of these two factions, the scales of victory have so far tipped only slightly on the side of the barbarians.

In the meantime, the knights, who had been hit by the barbarians’ cavalry archers, somehow attacked the rear of the infantry of the enemy central army so that they could no longer retreat, and it seems that they finally succeeded in slowing down.

At some point, the distance between us and the barbarians grew closer, and the noncommissioned officers and junior officers screamed and shouted in order to somehow maintain morale.

“If you go a little further, you will enter into hand-to-hand combat with them! Don’t be intimidated, these foot soldiers are scumbags worse than our new recruits!”

“Stay strong with evil! Then you can win.”

“Let’s go to avenge our dead comrades!”

If you say this, even ordinary soldiers will somehow endure and respond with evil, but now they don’t have the stamina or spirit to do so.

No one answered them.

In addition, looking at other units around our unit, even commanders such as regiment commanders and battalion commanders are being supported by soldiers or being carried out on carts.

Although it is a very common occurrence in war to have wounded soldiers or wounded commanders being escorted.

I could never have imagined that a regimental commander would be hit by an arrow and carried to the rear.

Damn, things aren’t as good as I thought.

Damn, when the hell are we going to get permission from the division commander to act arbitrarily?

“Regimental commander! Colonel!”

When I turned my head towards the sound calling me, a soldier rode up hastily on horseback and said:

“As the regiment commander said, permission has been granted by the division commander that the 24th Regiment may move alone, leaving only two infantry battalions.”

“Really?”

“Look here, the division commander’s seal is stamped on it.”

Hearing that, I took the letter from the messenger’s hand, checked it, and said:

“I will leave the deputy regiment commander’s battalion and the 2nd battalion here. All the rest of the troops follow me to the left and form thin formations according to the evacuation and strategy. And come out with a white flag to make it look like our unit is retreating with heavy losses.”

Although it is possible that the barbarians may not recognize the white flag signifying surrender or reduced fighting ability.

At least, any soldier or officer serving in the Imperial Army would have guessed what state the troops were in when they left with a white flag.

If the Imperial forces were losing, they would have come to pursue us when we tried to break away.

Now that we are fighting each other evenly, there will be no time to pursue us as we run away in front of our eyes.

“Hanging a white flag, except for the deputy regiment commander’s battalion and the 2nd battalion, leave this place quickly! Hurry up!”

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So, with 3 battalions of infantry, 1 battalion of wizards, and 2 battalions of knights, I broke away from the left wing and started a slow retreat.

Was it because he left with the white flag? Among the soldiers and officers, even this story began to circulate.

“Is the regiment commander wounded? Wouldn’t you like to die?”

“Shut up, motherf*cker. If the regiment commander dies, promotion and everything will be blocked. Damn, I was told I could fight under Colonel Jaeger, so I gave up my chance to work in the center.”

“Wars don’t end in a day or two. He will get better soon and come back.”

And since I had to pretend to be sick when I got out anyway, I was in the patient cart.

Anyone can see me as a slanderer.

In fact, I didn’t even get a single scratch thanks to the armor, let alone get hit by an arrow.

When the soldiers I had pulled away from the left wing of the Northern Army to some extent, I naturally stood up from the cart and said,

“Each platoon of the infantry battalion changes ranks in six rows, with the spearmen at the front and the flats at the back. Mages should provide fire support between the infantry, and crossbowmen should also load their arrows.”

When I ordered this, the regimental commander, who had just heard that he had been injured, stood up and gave the order.

Rather than responding to my orders, the other officers and soldiers put on blank faces and tilted their heads in puzzlement as they looked at each other’s faces.

So I gave another order, and the officers repeated the order and formed formations as instructed.

“I borrowed a sadagi in preparation for such an occasion. From now on, call me a division commander, not a regiment commander, and you, too, think of our unit as a division, not a regiment, and make up your mind to act boldly. We will decide the outcome of this war.”

After I ordered that, I glanced over the troops while on horseback.

Unlike an ordinary infantry unit, it might be because the unit was stretched out thinly, when the enemy soldiers only saw the horizontal width that they could see with their own eyes.

If I add a little exaggeration, even a single division was at a level that I could really believe.

“Based on the center where I am, the leftmost 1st Battalion goes forward 30 steps, and the rightmost 3rd Battalion goes 30 steps back, forming a diagonal line, maintaining this formation and advancing.”

When Frederick the Great of Prussia deployed his troops in an oblique line to attack the enemy troops deployed in a rectangular shape.

There is a record that the enemy army against the Prussian army was shaken like a wave and the damage was maximized.

Although we don’t use guns unlike him, we can still target similar feats using tactics that worked best before machine guns and modern cannons.

“The order of attack is as follows. The knights ran out 300 meters ahead, cut through the gaps of the enemy infantry and left. After that, the foot soldiers charge with spears and weapons.”

We call this a shut-up charge or a ura charge in jargon, but before modern warfare, a precisely calculated charge was also used as a very effective means for a small number of troops to defeat a large number of enemies.

The soldiers of our regiment are strong elites who have served in the north for at least 1 to 4 years at the most, and have gone through several real battles, and their infantry is undoubtedly except for a few who stood in front.

It must be on the same level as the ragtag guy he saw when he dealt with the Thoner tribe in the past.

So they won’t be able to create proper squares, and they won’t be able to properly resist before a life-and-death charge and will tear apart.

At the same time, due to the oblique charge, the blow will spread throughout the enemy’s central army, and they will be completely pinned down by our regiment.

In addition, the morale of the allies will skyrocket as the troops of the division unit that appeared out of nowhere attack the enemy’s central army from the side, inflicting a fatal blow on the barbarians and tying their ankles.

It will surely be recognized as a great achievement.

“Then, gentlemen, from now on, go forward slowly, and when the signal goes off, aim your weapon forward with all your might and run.”

After saying that, the soldiers nodded.

I slowly changed my marching route and moved to a place where I could target the barbarians’ left wing.

When I arrived there, Ludvik’s army and the imperial army finally started a hand-to-hand battle with spears and swords.

They didn’t seem to care that much about our appearance, as they were fighting each other back and forth.

Observing such a situation, I first sent a signal to two knight battalions.

Then, up to 100 knights rushed out aiming for the enemy’s left wing while raising dust.

“The foot soldiers follow the knights and run towards the enemy! Shout, Long live the Empire! Long live Deus! ”

Shouting like this makes me feel like I’m making a romantic charge during the Renaissance.

“Long live the great Reich Empire!”

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

“Accept God’s judgment!!”

While shouting, the soldiers and I ran out to completely destroy the barbarians.