Chapter 193 - Quiet Talk - The Main Characters is the Beastmen
The lord’s strategy is really beyond my imagination.
I was astonished that he could come up with so many new methods.
During the march, I found an enemy messenger sneaking around our camp.
Of course, we had to restrain him.
If they find out what we’re up to, we’re screwed.
When I arrived at the battlefield, the scene was just as I had expected.
My opponent had hurriedly completed the river crossing and was in a backwater position.
In a way, it was rational.
They were trying to prevent the beastmen from escaping with their low morale.
Even if they take a hostage and sit in a row, there will be some who want to save themselves and run away.
The beastmen are in the center.
About four thousand of them.
""
That’s quite a number.
There are 1,000 cavalrymen on each side.
There are about 1,000 of us.
The enemy has four times as many, while we have almost the entire army.
I wonder if my lord was wrong about the number of the enemy ……
Or is that the full strength of the cavalry?
Or did they think they could afford not to use them all?
While the center held the enemy, the superior cavalry went around to the left and right to encircle and destroy them.
It must have been a tactic of the opponent.
It made sense.
This is how they have been winning.
Up to this point, it was as the lord predicted it.
We have 30 knights on standby as a reserve force.
The total number of my squires is about 100.
This time, it was the beastmen who were the main actors.
Normally, beastmen use long weapons to keep their distance in order to take advantage of their physical abilities.
Humans use that space to divide them, so beastmen lose a lot of fights with humans.
The Lord’s answer to this was to give them daggers and equip them with shields.
It takes two of them to kill one.
He demanded that we change our style to fight in a dense formation.
The beastmen would not have liked it even if the other leaders had demanded it.
However, the beastmen have sworn near-faithful allegiance to my lord because of his actions so far.
They accepted it because it’s what my lord said.
My lord is not like a fake military strategist who makes complicated strategies and then gets complacent.
He uses a combination of simple strategies to make it easy to execute and change during the course of the war.
It’s not the most flattering way to win, so it won’t be well received by the stupid lord and all.
Oracio, the vanguard of the beastmen, came up to me.
He seems to be very motivated.
“Sir Rossi, we are ready. We’re all itching to get started.”
The commander shouldn’t get caught up in the excitement.
I nodded in my usual way.
“It seems that they’re ready to go too. Well then, shall we begin?”
◆◇◆◇◆
The sound of the trumpet signals the start of the war.
The enemy beastmen rushed forward.
There, the 100 vanguard, led by Oracio, makes it look like a hit.
Of course, they are outnumbered, so they are defeated immediately.
They serve as bait.
It cannot be used against trained opponents.
It is a strategy that takes advantage of the fact that beastmen are disposable pawns.
Seeing this, the enemy beastmen increased their forward speed.
At the same time, the enemy cavalry started to move.
Against the cavalry, the lord came up with a childish trick.
When I first heard about it, I started laughing.
The main body of friendly beastmen, 600.
They were holding four-meter long spears that they had placed on the ground.
It was made just for this purpose, and is usually too long to use.
It was then split into left and right sides to meet the cavalry’s charge.
Without flinching from the onrushing cavalry, they stand with their spears pointed at them.
Not throwing the spear, but pointing it at the horse.
This takes a lot of courage.
The allies are angry at the enemy’s treatment of the beastmen.
So …… They do not run away, wishing to be helpful to my lord with all their heart.
The lead horse tries to make a sudden stop and ends up in a pile-up and chaos.
I would never want to be in that cavalryman’s position.
We continue to drive them in with the human fence, but since our numbers are small, the safe cavalrymen are fleeing and scattering.
Even if they stay and try to counter us with spears, ours is longer.
More than half of the horses were either dead or fractured by this suicide.
The cavalrymen who fell from their horses would not be safe either.
And cavalry can’t be a force to be reckoned with if they don’t stick together.
I was a little relieved.
This will not be a complete defeat anymore.
◆◇◆◇◆
The pressure of a quadruple enemy is ridiculously hard.
If it hadn’t been for my lord’s plan, I’d have been thinking about how to lose.
Then, in the center, they’ll flee, scattering dried Trapa Natans to slow their pursuit.
The enemy beastmen were not trained properly, so they naturally shifted from horizontal to vertical formation.
They naturally clustered in the center.
As the enemy beastmen reached the planned point, I had them blow the trumpet again.
I had placed 100 crossbowmen on each side as ambushers.
They were wearing grass on their backs to make it harder for them to be spotted.
Since the enemy cavalry is aiming for encirclement and annihilation on the outside, they will not be found.
""
They stood up at once and fired their crossbows in rapid succession.
The beastmen at the point where the line of fire of the crossbow intersects with the crossbow fall down in a heap.
They are even carefully coated with poison.
Each person is given 10 crossbow cartridges.
Up to 10000 poison arrows will fly.
At the same time, the magician troops that were on standby…well, there were only about ten of them.
They cast an explosion magic that made a loud noise.
My lord reminded me to give priority to the sound over the power.
The goal is to strike fear into the opponent.
This was the final blow.
◆◇◆◇◆
The beastmen panicked at the suddenness of the situation.
As they had no protective gear and would fall if hit.
I can’t believe the plan worked so well.
It’s hard to control myself when I’m both shocked and want to start laughing.
The enemy beastmen, looking left and right, were shaken that there were no cavalry on their side and started to run away.
If there were cavalry, they would be so terrified that they would rush in, ready to destroy us.
If so, we would be overwhelmed by their numbers.
This is where the chase begins.
If we don’t beat the beastmen, they will reorganize their forces and the war will drag on.
They can’t fight with cavalry alone.
They need to be combined with infantry to be extremely powerful.
Some tried to stay and let their allies escape, but they were powerless against a two-man battle to kill one.
I’ll have the winged tribesmen confirm the whereabouts of the enemy cavalry.
With the reserve force, we’ll respond when the opponent’s cavalry regrouwasps.
The reserve troops also had crossbows, so they would be able to respond.
The enemy beastmen are fleeing, but there is a river in their path.
They have no training, no armor, and no human cavalry to watch them.
The river was not that deep, but many of them panicked and fell, or were trampled by their allies and drowned.
It was becoming a one-sided slaughter.
However, the value of victory would be diminished if they were to reorganize themselves here.
Those who have crossed the river will not be pursued.
Those who have surrendered will be spared.
This is a well known fact.
The battle was settled in about three hours.
In the end, the enemy cavalry did not return.
Our losses were 39 dead and 181 wounded.
The enemy’s losses were about 1,800 dead beastmen and 160 prisoners.
Human dead: 120, prisoners: 400.
The human prisoners were all fractured from falling off their horses.
It’s truly a hellish picture, but… it turned out just as my lord planned.
Once again, I definitely don’t want to be his enemy.
An excited Oracio came back.
He had taken on a dangerous decoy role and was injured as well.
“I suppose we can call it a great victory!”
“Oh, I can’t complain. But the whereabouts of the enemy cavalry is unknown. Let us return to the fort and report to our lord with caution.”
Oracio nodded.
“But I’m sure this will still hurt his heart.”
“We’ll have to give up on that. We’ll just have to support him.”
Oracio tried to grin and said, frowning at the pain.
“If everything is too perfect, I don’t feel like supporting it. It’s just right.”
“It’s frustrating that I can’t argue with that.”
Chapter 193 - Quiet Talk - The Main Characters is the Beastmen
The lord’s strategy is really beyond my imagination.
I was astonished that he could come up with so many new methods.
During the march, I found an enemy messenger sneaking around our camp.
Of course, we had to restrain him.
If they find out what we’re up to, we’re screwed.
When I arrived at the battlefield, the scene was just as I had expected.
My opponent had hurriedly completed the river crossing and was in a backwater position.
In a way, it was rational.
They were trying to prevent the beastmen from escaping with their low morale.
Even if they take a hostage and sit in a row, there will be some who want to save themselves and run away.
The beastmen are in the center.
About four thousand of them.
""
That’s quite a number.
There are 1,000 cavalrymen on each side.
There are about 1,000 of us.
The enemy has four times as many, while we have almost the entire army.
I wonder if my lord was wrong about the number of the enemy ……
Or is that the full strength of the cavalry?
Or did they think they could afford not to use them all?
While the center held the enemy, the superior cavalry went around to the left and right to encircle and destroy them.
It must have been a tactic of the opponent.
It made sense.
This is how they have been winning.
Up to this point, it was as the lord predicted it.
We have 30 knights on standby as a reserve force.
The total number of my squires is about 100.
This time, it was the beastmen who were the main actors.
Normally, beastmen use long weapons to keep their distance in order to take advantage of their physical abilities.
Humans use that space to divide them, so beastmen lose a lot of fights with humans.
The Lord’s answer to this was to give them daggers and equip them with shields.
It takes two of them to kill one.
He demanded that we change our style to fight in a dense formation.
The beastmen would not have liked it even if the other leaders had demanded it.
However, the beastmen have sworn near-faithful allegiance to my lord because of his actions so far.
They accepted it because it’s what my lord said.
My lord is not like a fake military strategist who makes complicated strategies and then gets complacent.
He uses a combination of simple strategies to make it easy to execute and change during the course of the war.
It’s not the most flattering way to win, so it won’t be well received by the stupid lord and all.
Oracio, the vanguard of the beastmen, came up to me.
He seems to be very motivated.
“Sir Rossi, we are ready. We’re all itching to get started.”
The commander shouldn’t get caught up in the excitement.
I nodded in my usual way.
“It seems that they’re ready to go too. Well then, shall we begin?”
◆◇◆◇◆
The sound of the trumpet signals the start of the war.
The enemy beastmen rushed forward.
There, the 100 vanguard, led by Oracio, makes it look like a hit.
Of course, they are outnumbered, so they are defeated immediately.
They serve as bait.
It cannot be used against trained opponents.
It is a strategy that takes advantage of the fact that beastmen are disposable pawns.
Seeing this, the enemy beastmen increased their forward speed.
At the same time, the enemy cavalry started to move.
Against the cavalry, the lord came up with a childish trick.
When I first heard about it, I started laughing.
The main body of friendly beastmen, 600.
They were holding four-meter long spears that they had placed on the ground.
It was made just for this purpose, and is usually too long to use.
It was then split into left and right sides to meet the cavalry’s charge.
Without flinching from the onrushing cavalry, they stand with their spears pointed at them.
Not throwing the spear, but pointing it at the horse.
This takes a lot of courage.
The allies are angry at the enemy’s treatment of the beastmen.
So …… They do not run away, wishing to be helpful to my lord with all their heart.
The lead horse tries to make a sudden stop and ends up in a pile-up and chaos.
I would never want to be in that cavalryman’s position.
We continue to drive them in with the human fence, but since our numbers are small, the safe cavalrymen are fleeing and scattering.
Even if they stay and try to counter us with spears, ours is longer.
More than half of the horses were either dead or fractured by this suicide.
The cavalrymen who fell from their horses would not be safe either.
And cavalry can’t be a force to be reckoned with if they don’t stick together.
I was a little relieved.
This will not be a complete defeat anymore.
◆◇◆◇◆
The pressure of a quadruple enemy is ridiculously hard.
If it hadn’t been for my lord’s plan, I’d have been thinking about how to lose.
Then, in the center, they’ll flee, scattering dried Trapa Natans to slow their pursuit.
The enemy beastmen were not trained properly, so they naturally shifted from horizontal to vertical formation.
They naturally clustered in the center.
As the enemy beastmen reached the planned point, I had them blow the trumpet again.
I had placed 100 crossbowmen on each side as ambushers.
They were wearing grass on their backs to make it harder for them to be spotted.
Since the enemy cavalry is aiming for encirclement and annihilation on the outside, they will not be found.
""
They stood up at once and fired their crossbows in rapid succession.
The beastmen at the point where the line of fire of the crossbow intersects with the crossbow fall down in a heap.
They are even carefully coated with poison.
Each person is given 10 crossbow cartridges.
Up to 10000 poison arrows will fly.
At the same time, the magician troops that were on standby…well, there were only about ten of them.
They cast an explosion magic that made a loud noise.
My lord reminded me to give priority to the sound over the power.
The goal is to strike fear into the opponent.
This was the final blow.
◆◇◆◇◆
The beastmen panicked at the suddenness of the situation.
As they had no protective gear and would fall if hit.
I can’t believe the plan worked so well.
It’s hard to control myself when I’m both shocked and want to start laughing.
The enemy beastmen, looking left and right, were shaken that there were no cavalry on their side and started to run away.
If there were cavalry, they would be so terrified that they would rush in, ready to destroy us.
If so, we would be overwhelmed by their numbers.
This is where the chase begins.
If we don’t beat the beastmen, they will reorganize their forces and the war will drag on.
They can’t fight with cavalry alone.
They need to be combined with infantry to be extremely powerful.
Some tried to stay and let their allies escape, but they were powerless against a two-man battle to kill one.
I’ll have the winged tribesmen confirm the whereabouts of the enemy cavalry.
With the reserve force, we’ll respond when the opponent’s cavalry regrouwasps.
The reserve troops also had crossbows, so they would be able to respond.
The enemy beastmen are fleeing, but there is a river in their path.
They have no training, no armor, and no human cavalry to watch them.
The river was not that deep, but many of them panicked and fell, or were trampled by their allies and drowned.
It was becoming a one-sided slaughter.
However, the value of victory would be diminished if they were to reorganize themselves here.
Those who have crossed the river will not be pursued.
Those who have surrendered will be spared.
This is a well known fact.
The battle was settled in about three hours.
In the end, the enemy cavalry did not return.
Our losses were 39 dead and 181 wounded.
The enemy’s losses were about 1,800 dead beastmen and 160 prisoners.
Human dead: 120, prisoners: 400.
The human prisoners were all fractured from falling off their horses.
It’s truly a hellish picture, but… it turned out just as my lord planned.
Once again, I definitely don’t want to be his enemy.
An excited Oracio came back.
He had taken on a dangerous decoy role and was injured as well.
“I suppose we can call it a great victory!”
“Oh, I can’t complain. But the whereabouts of the enemy cavalry is unknown. Let us return to the fort and report to our lord with caution.”
Oracio nodded.
“But I’m sure this will still hurt his heart.”
“We’ll have to give up on that. We’ll just have to support him.”
Oracio tried to grin and said, frowning at the pain.
“If everything is too perfect, I don’t feel like supporting it. It’s just right.”
“It’s frustrating that I can’t argue with that.”
