Fly the Flag of Fire!

"Was the enemy more than three thousand troops?"

Finishing his eyes on the scroll, Klaus Yurihalsilla exhaled deeply and long. The sound of your back squeaking. His gaze crossed his desk, he also crossed his bookcase, and he reached the liquor bottle on the shelf in the corner and stopped. Stay a while, then leave. Klaus leaked his exhale small again. Seeing a fearful man in front of you.

"Yes, I thought it might be because of the low number of cavalry, but it was shallow."

It is the magnificent knight of the magnificent who answered. He is the Knight Commander of the Knights of the High Sword Horn. His loyalty to the Marquis of Uliharsilla is also thick, a man who once ran the battlefield side by side with Klaus in the war.

That's what he appeared at the Marquis Mansion in the King's Capital and reported to the winning Klaus. More on the Knights of the Sword Horn battle in the plains of the previous attack. It stands as if waiting for something while still responding to questions after submitting the scroll that wrote it by hand. Klaus can't break the frown root wrinkle.

"It was a brilliant result. Let's exceed a thousand Imperial soldiers we fought for. From the seizure, it has been determined that the target is the 57th regiment of the Imperial Army. You halved it on one count, so you put a lot of face on it as a knighthood."

There was no response. I'm just ready to be quiet on the brave side, my mouth is tightened to gooey and I don't have a grin. Klaus breathed heavily, hoarded, and sent word as he spit out.

"... that's a lot of damage. Especially the loss of three hundred and twenty horsemen is hateful. It was not the damage to be suffered at a stage where it was still just an outpost. This becomes a liability issue."

"Yes. All due to my strange immorality. I'm ready to come."

Klaus had a bitter taste in his mouth at the look of the knight captain, who called it a kipper. This man is asking for a way out. The Knights of the Sword Horn is a Knights for the Marquis of Uliharsilla by the Marquis of Uliharsilla. The winning Klaus was responsible for adjudicating all of his activities.

Three hundred and twenty horsemen of obedient knights died in battle. This is outrageous.

A knight is an aristocratic equivalent in the Kingdom of Asuria and is a privileged class allowed to name his family name. Unlike nobility, it is a one-generation thing, but many knights cease to have family names by raising their sons as knights. The Knight's reign is privileged to be performed by Uncle Sihou, but also because he is allowed to inherit his parents' family names in doing so. It is a de facto family name inheritance.

What can I do if there is one human being and he craves not to be a knight? Sometimes those who have made remarkable achievements are specially appointed, but basically apprenticing them to active knighthood is the means of doing so. Learning about martial arts, equestrianism, etiquette, and martial arts varies. A human being in such training is an obedient knight, and going is a being who should be a knight.

Therefore, a subordinate knight is exclusively a son of a knight. Some are not, but only in a minority. Also, in order to avoid weakening due to internal snoring, the servant knight cannot have relatives as master knights. It is customary to cultivate a strong knight to apprentice to another knight by avoiding the knighthood to which his relatives belong.

On the other hand, the subordinate knight also has character. Even if he teaches the same master knight, he who offers himself as a foot soldier to the battlefield is an understatement. In character, he rides and fights with his master's knight. Heavy armor lightly drives the battlefield of things you can't own. In other words, it is the role of a light cavalry.

In other words, the death of three hundred and twenty knights of obedience means that three hundred and twenty men of good fortune who were nearby in positions to be reckoned with by knights died. Moreover, the majority are the sons of the knights who belong to the other Knights. Parents' expectations would have been great if they had given them horses in the Knights of the Sword Horn, with tragic consequences.

Klaus must inflict some punishment on the Knights Commander. There was another problem not only with numbers and positions, but also with how to make them die. Because the three hundred horsemen who ran to the left flank became "". That's what happens if you just look at the results. If you add up with the thousand horsemen you were there, the enemy light cavalry you were there will be a thousand two hundred and fifty horsemen. The fact that he hit three hundred rides on it… does not absolve him from pointing out that he sent a soldier to give up his life.

"... ask why you attacked at the speed of a foot soldier while taking the back of an enemy"

"Yes, I have considered my strength with horses and soldiers because I have already been marching for a long time. Also, because the number of light cavalry did not differ much from each other, we determined that the prominence of placing foot soldiers was highly dangerous."

In this battle, the Knights had the good opportunity to discover their enemies without their being noticed, and to attack them from behind. Klaus thought of the condition and shook his head small. As far as he knows, that's not a situation that pushes foot soldiers forward. At least that's not how the Knights of the Sword Horn fight.

"Why did you split up the cavalry? Let's hear why."

"Yes, to frustrate the morale of the enemy. The enemy saw a link between the light cavalry and the infantry. It was detected through placement and scouting operations."

"So I tried to promote it," he said?

"Yes, you're right"

Disconnecting the enemy is a correct and effective tactic. In the case of this battle, the Knights are doing it in a truly effective position. If you advance between enemy infantry and light cavalry, you will be hit hard no matter how you move later. You can actually siege the infantry half as you did, or you can turn the other way and try to pinch the light cavalry.

But Klaus roared small. Because I had a problem with this one.

The command of the Knights Commander presupposes the depletion of the obedient knights who run out. We won to win, but the squire knights have almost a five-minute hit-and-run, be a light cavalry or an infantry. It is certain that it created a gap in the enemy and effectively made the Knights' Horseback Riding Assault work... but by considering another element, we see a completely different meaning. Klaus couldn't have stopped checking.

"Sir... you seem to have treated my son too dearly"

I didn't hear back. It is unacceptable to speak falsely against the Knights' main Klaus. It was clear that the vow was creating silence.

tactics to minimize Lucas' added Knights danger as much as possible.

That is what Klaus was discerning as the truth of this battle.

If you discover an enemy and it was a few more than your allies, you can't avoid a battle with the Knights. Not impossible, but for good reason. And there can be no reason to avoid it if you're on a sentry mission with permission to engage. Fight. While protecting Lucas Ulyhalsilla in the first line.

Keep the light cavalry away from the main battlefield, hit the foot soldiers from the front and take on the spears and arrows, carry out a horseback assault without being exposed to enemy attacks and collapse the enemy with one blow. I won't let it be a brawl or a manoeuvre. It doesn't even prolong the fighting time. To achieve a safe and prompt victory for Lucas… the soldiers were used just for that.

What if... Klaus imagined. How would the Knights of the Sword Horn have fought without Lucas?

I would have dared to mount a horseback assault from the beginning. That was close to certainty for Klaus. He would have shouted uninterrupted before the enemy restructured his formation while letting the light cavalry run as a side cover. Kick the bow infantry and also tear the spear infantry ahead of it, breaking through the center of the enemy formation. It must have been a dangerous but most effective blow.

And work with the foot soldiers we've caught up with to pinch the enemy. I would have killed him, but I would have gotten results every now and then. Covering light cavalry fights with each other can still be enough in time afterwards, and it could have been a pursuit battle as it were if the infantry had been devastated. The predictions will be blurry around here, but the victory would have been greater at any rate. I wouldn't have sacrificed too much on my side.

It's all just a matter of what if. Klaus did not commit the foolishness of mouthing it. But I don't blame the Knights again. I couldn't have done it. It's all Klaus's own fault. Because I ordered the Knights to let Lucas go through his first line.

So Klaus uttered the word.

"Light cavalry battalion subordinate to the 57th Regiment of the Eberian Imperial Army...... can you take care of that?

Naturally, the voice goes low and heavy. I was aware that I was being prepared anew.

"I got information about the array from the captured soldier. The battalion commander is Lieutenant Colonel Terencio Barcelo of the Imperial Army. I've heard that name on the battlefield. I was a colonel at the time."

I could see the Knights Commander's eyes were opened. Seeing the heightened will there with surprise, Klaus distorted the edge of his mouth to a laugh.

"Yes, that's the man that Sir knows, too. Barcelona the Black Snake. I thought he was an unrelated man, but I didn't know he was going to order a battalion commander after all those men were demoted..."

“Black Snake” Barcelo. It's one of the names that once struck in the war.

He is the man who led a powerful horseback riding unit to vandalize the battlefield. Known for his thorough control of the soldiers, the army he led moved sharply and quickly without slight disturbance. Even during the day, he had put together a battle jacket for the night raid, so if he looked far away, he also said the black snake seemed to be attacking the Royal Army. That's where the aliases come from.

Klaus only knows the fierceness in the report. His body was always on the king's side, so the battles he took part in were all important to himself. And there shall be no black serpents in such battlefields. They hate it from the upper ranks of the army... it was also rumored to be fruitful due to the similarity of the aliases.

So there were no black snakes on the battlefield where the brave men had fallen. It was like attacking a supply line for the Royal Army in an unrelated place. His army was often also known to strike transport units alone.

"You were alive..."

"I haven't even heard any rumors about the Black Snake Crusade. And he still seems to be a horrible man."

"Yes. There was something awesome about the pressure I felt when I was in opposition. Doubling my power, I couldn't move... seeing enemies in the front and somehow feeling dangerous on all sides."

"Hmm. Maybe it wasn't a mistake, though, was it? Two hundred and fifty light cavalry that the right wing missed... didn't seem to shred busily... but it could have been down somewhere"

"I see... he's the right man to be afraid of"

Yes, a terrible soldier. Overall, Klaus sees the revelations. Apparently, the thousand horsemen of the “Black Snake” were heading north for reinforcements under the orders of a regimental commander. Because a similar encounter had occurred before the Knights of the Sword Horn and the 57th Regiment of the Imperial Army collided. The confrontation between two battalions of the Royal Army and one reinforced battalion of the Imperial Army, two thousand and five hundred, was broken down scattered by a thousand horsemen who came like a disease, although it was at the beginning that the Royal Army proceeded to fight to its advantage. The Royal Army Battalion was both devastated and their respective commanders were taken over.

After such a battle, he would have joined the battle between the light cavalry on his return to the army. No, or... Klaus reconsidered. I wondered if they had been lured more in anticipation of it.

"Let's ask again now. Can my Knights take care of that?

In response to that inquiry, the responses had been exchanged with the eyes before the mouth.

"Yes, I bet on the Four Swords Square Flag"

The pneumonia was rising. It is a proclamation to crusade a warlord who sounded like a sound, betting on the honor and pride of a knight against his fellow knights. I'm not talking about where we're going anymore. The Knights of the Sword Horn hereby certify “Black Snake” as their Successor, and henceforth they will pursue it to the battlefield with all their strength.

Klaus, the captain of the Knights, whose shoe sounds also left the room in high spirits, clears his ears so that the sound may be distant. That was a nostalgic sound. It's the sound of a knight who inspires himself to the battlefield. Only the determination of those who travel to a world of struggle where honour and humiliation intersect in an instant is sounded.

Did you ring it yourself once? Or were you just listening to it once?

Klaus thought of the old days. I thought of myself when I was brave on the battlefield. Strength increases in the body. Yes, there is now because I've been battling through exposing this life to death. I have crossed any ordeal. My life was with the glory of the army. I have spent all my time faithful to the king.

But a flame flashed behind his brain, and Klaus breathed.

My back rang giddy. The fighting spirit that swelled up in his body was thrown away as a long exhalation, and the heat he was feeling cooled down as well. My body is terribly heavy. He was experiencing such a surge, like he was old as soon as he was young.

It was all about the past.

He has returned to the rank of Marshal of the National Army. It is only by running the leadership and the Knights that we will not hold the sword ourselves any longer. The pride of the struggle has already been lost. Klaus sneers at his earlier excitement because he is aware of it.

"I let you die. I let him go to die."

In that study, where there was no one but himself, Klaus Ulyhalsilla was spinning out words.

"Stop laughing at the place of death. You were in control of it. Don't laugh at the ordeal. You died silently. The glory of the army is a thousand laughs. You are still humiliated by that name."

It was condolences. It was penance. But I didn't regret it.

Tears without water droplets seemed to convey its dry cheeks.

"The peace you gave me is already broken... Salomon"

Klaus' ears had the footsteps he once listened to sounded far away. The sharp, heartbreaking sound of a man who had definitely walked away to death… the sound of a nail striking the ice field was singularly constant.