Continental Hero Senki

In the Lake Atheni water region of northeastern Silesia is Fort Tartak, once used by Yuzef and others as a relay base for Laskino.

Since the beginning of the war, the fort has been garrisoned with three divisions led by Viscount Kuharski, Lieutenant General of the Royal Army, in order to intercept 10 Imperial Army divisions that come intermittently. And while building up numerous corpses, he managed to stop the invasion of the Imperial Army.

If we keep defending ourselves, reinforcements will come sooner or later. If you hold out until then, your country will be saved. The Royal Army waited for the reinforcements to arrive, letting their own hearts hear that.

But that hope was to be crushed on April 10 by information that 10 Imperial Army divisions on the Osmora side had made a big election and moved north.

"There is a risk that Fort Tartak will be besieged by 20 Imperial Army divisions. We should step back here."

"But even if I say retreat, it's a situation I'm currently in relative to 10 divisions. If we go down in the middle of nowhere, it could call for an all-out attack by the Imperial Army and wipe out our army."

"But even if you sit here and watch the situation, you won't be spared if you get caught in 20 divisions. Fort Tartak is not an impenetrable fortress."

Fort Tartak's command was disputed. Retreat with knowledge of the danger of inviting an all-out enemy offense, or continue to cage like this?

Either choice could be wiped out. That's why the Tabernacles had accumulated careful arguments, but they can't keep that argument forever, and I'm sure the Imperial Army of Osmora will come to Atheni in less than a week. Whether we retreat or cage, we need time to prep. If that time is taken into account, conclusions must be drawn within a day or two.

"How the hell are we going to save the general if we're going to cage him by adopting your opinion!

"If the General Command finds out that Osmora's Imperial Army has moved north, they should always point reinforcements north. That way the enemy would turn their backs on reinforcements or turn their backs on us for Operation Two Fronts. If you fight there, the 10 enemy divisions will be buried for sure!

"But what if the General Command doesn't come here or doesn't know about this!? You just isolate us among our enemies!

They still do not know that the Xyle Legion has moved south. It takes another week for them to know about the Xyle Corps, but it is more obvious than seeing fire that the Imperial Army will come first than information.

If they had known that information, they would not have put forward a cage castle proposal or something. It can be described as a good example of the importance of information transmission in war and its difficulty.

"Phew. In the meantime, calm down."

"... excuse me"

The incandescent discussion by the Tabernacles was once sedated by a word of Kuharski.

"Retreat or cage. We leave this decision to Your Excellency."

The chief minister, who advanced the retreat proposal, said so in a calm voice. Whatever the final decision lies with Kuhalski, Kuhalski himself has to decide which one to choose over the fact that the staff couldn't come to a conclusion.

From a different point of view, this was an action that could also be taken as a circumvention of the responsibility of the staff. But it is also certain that they did not have the courage and the instrumentality to narrow it down to one proposal and recommend it to Kuhalski.

Kuhalski thought in silence.

There's only one thing he was thinking about in his brain. That was only about retreating or caged castles, which were more likely to survive the generals under the flag. Before tactics and strategies, I was thinking about how to bring many soldiers under my family, that's all.

In a sense, this idea would not be worthy of being the one who stands on top as a general.

Still, Kuhalski thought about it only and made up his mind.

"Abandon Fort Tartak and retreat"

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Same day, 7: 30pm.

The Royal Army waited for sunset to start the operation.

Fort Tartak is not currently under the siege of the Imperial Army. That is because a fairly large lake exists north and south of Fort Tartak, making it physically impossible to besiege it.

The Kuharski Legion was carrying out defensive combat utilizing its terrain to prevent the invasion of the Imperial Army, but that was making the retreat somewhat easier this time.

Kuhalski first put the supplies that he could carry out at Fort Tartak in his carriage. Regardless, this was a measure to make effective use of supplies and not to be harvested and used by the Imperial Army.

But if this material withdrawal operation is detected by the Imperial Army, it will be felt that "the Royal Army is about to abandon the fort".

So the Royal Army waited for the night before carrying out a material withdrawal operation.

At the same time, he also carried out a small night raid against the Imperial Army. This is a prior measure to prevent the Imperial Army from sending an aggressive offensive at night against Fort Tartak.

Kuhalski led the Imperial Army and made its actions passive to create room for withdrawal.

The measure was successful, and the Imperial Army took a defensive stance by alerting the Royal Army to night raids and dawn raids.

Against Kuharski's expectations again, the Imperial Army began a slight retreat to the east at 9: 45 a.m. the following April 11. This was an operation carried out by the Imperial Army in an attempt to lure the Royal Army caged in Fort Tartak out of the fort and into a full-scale offensive where it fished out.

But it was more convenient for the Royal Army. Because this reduces to some extent the difficulty of the withdrawal of the Kuhalski Legion itself.

Kuhalski retreated his troops one by one as the Imperial Army retreated. As of 1.30pm it succeeded in withdrawing two-thirds of all the Legion's forces.

At this point, realizing that the Imperial Army could not fish out the Royal Army, the retreat ended somewhat halfway through the day as it moved the troops forward again.

2: 40pm.

Kuhalski draws up an operation below with a filed petition from Captain Janus Maevski, captain of the 58th Infantry Squadron, and moves it to execution.

The number of troops remaining in Fort Tartak at this time is more than 9600 in one division under the direct command of Kuharski. The Imperial Army confirmed that these more than 9600 soldiers withdrew simultaneously from the fort.

The Imperial Army used this as an opportunity to penetrate troops at once and took control of Fort Tartak. Two Imperial Army divisions then rushed out of the fort following the Kuharski division, which would still continue to retreat. At that time, one fire-based advanced sorcery landed on Fort Tartak.

The fire of advanced sorcery instantly ignited the barracks of wooden architecture in the fort and, for some reason, also lit the ground free of flammable materials. Less than a few minutes later, the fort was engulfed in fire and struck a regiment of one Imperial Army that was working on the occupation.

This was suggested by Captain Maevski shortly before the retreat, due to the fact that the murderous distilled liquor (Spiritus) stored in the fort had been sprinkled in bulk at a critical point.

Seeing that sight, the two steep Imperial Army divisions were completely afloat.

Kuhalski couldn't have missed it either, turning away from the retreat and out on the offense. There were no measures that could effectively defend it against the confused Imperial Army, and two divisions were hunted down to the lake by one division, and the Imperial Army continued to be the feather of enjoying a lake bath in Silesia, where the cold still lingered.

It was at 3.20 p.m. when the Imperial Army restored order, and at this time Kuharski's division had completely completed its withdrawal.

In this series of battles, the Imperial Army allegedly sent out more than 3,800 war fatalities and less than 1,300 drowning deaths.