Continental Hero Senki

Dawn on June 12 at exactly 3: 00 am.

Major General Sergei Romanov of the Imperial Army, who guards the Valavillier supply base, was under immense drowsiness.

He stayed up all night expecting the base to raid even tonight, but the enemy never showed up even when the sky had already begun to whiten.

Regardless, Sergei himself did not fail to be vigilant because there was a possibility of a Pai Dawn ambush. But not if the generals under the flag thought so, too. They were beginning to have anxiety that their commanders might be misjudging the situation and alerting their fictional enemies. What increased it was the fact that the overly cautious command of Imperial Army Marshal Rokosovski in the Zalesier match, in turn, speeded up his death.

For that reason, junior officers continued to advise that "there is no enemy night assault" after 3 a.m.

If such a situation were repeated dozens of times, if he were a concurrent commander, he would have caused stray in his own judgment. But Sergei withdrew the lower officers' judgment.

It was at 3: 20 am that that Sergei prediction proved half (...) correct.

"My lord, from the east (...) It's a cavalry group!

"What!?

Sergei was letting the main force expand west of the base based on information that there was a cavalry group to the west. But the Royal Army, the Meisel Cavalry, attacked from the defenceless east. Only on the east side of the base are resting friends and massive amounts of food and supplies.

Sergei immediately woke up and ordered the trumpet, but it was already too late. Because about 300 horsemen of the Meisel cavalry had already arrived on the outer edge of the base and had simultaneously fired intermediate magic "artillery shells (ignis cannons)". The base, which had only a fragile fence, was instantly engulfed in fire, and one after the other ignited the food supplies it was storing.

Cutting ahead of the Royal Army Meisel Cavalry is the 15th Platoon led by Captain Sarah Marinovska, a red-haired female officer with excellent eyesight and good horse handling.

They stormed with indiscriminate fire system elementary and intermediate magic, paying off the insignificant resistance of the Imperial Army.

"Do not spare the sorcery, burn it down with all your might!

Sarah orders her men loud and unbeatable to the sound of artillery shell landings, cavalry roars, and imperial soldiers screaming. Even so, the orders she gave, already a successful assault, were simple and lucid. "Destroy everything".

Following the 15th Platoon, the main unit of the Meisel Cavalry also raided the supply base. Burn supplies gradually and cut off the wolf Imperial Soldiers. Few platoons dared to put up spears and try to intercept the cavalry, but their eyes dazzled as the cavalry stormed behind the sunrise, ravaging them before forming.

A few minutes later, about 1000 Imperial Army infantry led by Major General Sergei returned to the base. Already at this time, 40% of the base had burned down, and many of the soldiers who were resting had fled or been killed.

"Shit. All hands, harden the formation!

Sergei immediately formed formation and jumped to the front of the 15th Platoon of the Royal Army Cavalry as it stormed. If the 15th Platoon storms like this, the horse is frightened and slowed down or skewered by a spear. Shooting elementary and intermediate sorcery through the gap should bring down the enemy.

This Sergei judgment was right. It is tactical common sense to say that a dense infantry formation is effective against cavalry.

But Sarah was better at this point. She turned the platoon back to the right and began to turn counter-clockwise outside a dense formation of Imperial Army infantry, while elementary magic attenuated its power to maintain a non-threatening distance.

"Guys! Get your bows ready!

When she so ordered, the 15th Platoon delivered the sword to the sheath without slowing down the cavalry, and set up the bow that was equipped on her back. At this moment, the 15th Platoon changed its military race from sword cavalry to bow cavalry.

With Sarah's signal, dozens of arrows descend from the sky. Dozens of arrows are few against an Imperial Army of about 1000 troops, but the bow is a powerful weapon with intermediate enchantment power at a continuous rate of firing with primary enchantment. It was only big, such as an infantry that was dense and immobile.

The bow must be handled with both hands. For this reason, when attacking with a bow, you have to take your hands off the reins, and manipulate the horse with only your feet, and it takes a lot of training to perform it.

But the fifteenth platoon, led by an equestrian genius named Sarah Marinovska, masterfully manipulated the horse as if he and the horse were one and the same.

The 15th Platoon continues to release arrows from long distances, and since it moves around at considerable speeds, Imperial Army sorcery attacks are hard to hit. At last some soldiers protruded in a frenzied state because they were unilaterally attacked without the art of becoming. But each time the fifteenth platoon shook off with the feet of the cavalry, and again showered the bow and arrow from a distance. As far as Sarah was concerned, he skilfully manipulated the horse as he turned back, while continuing to bow and shoot arrows.

Furthermore, the squadron led by Lieutenant Colonel Meisel dared to storm the party with gaps in dense formations disturbed, and repeated it led to a glorious battle.

But Sergei didn't get hit either. Maintained the unit's chain of command and continued to make organizational resistance to the end. It was with the chaos of the supply base that we succeeded in restructuring our troops while we managed to gather the surviving Imperial soldiers.

At this point, Sergei-led defense units had swelled to 2000, and the battle ended with the complete withdrawal of the Royal Army cavalry, also due to the nearly exhausted arrows of the 15th Platoon.

Approximately 850 soldiers were lost by the Imperial Army on this day, and roughly 90% of the supplies stored at the base were burned, and there was no doubt that they would have a significant impact on the Imperial Army's strategy. Moreover, the damage was immense because the Royal Army also attacked the surrounding Heavy Troops and Imperial Army camps after the base raid.

The damage to the Royal Army on the other hand is only 17 horsemen.

In this battle, it is not necessary to argue which is worthy of the name of the winner.

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It was at 5: 40 AM when the sunrise was complete and the confusion of things finally subsided.

Sergei rushed to grasp the damage and report to Fort Tartak. And when the detailed damage was reported to Sergei, he had to hold his temples and worry.

"Oh man. Whose fault do you think this is gonna be, Kreutzer?

"Normally, it's the responsibility of the base commander or the General Command who didn't garrison enough security forces..."

But the commander-in-chief is here. Bye.

"Yep..."

Temporarily speaking, it is true that the supply base where Sergei was stationed was raided, rendering 90% of the supplies stored at the base unusable. If the imperial Marshal Bakunin hears this, there is no doubt that he will pursue Sergei's responsibility.

If that happens, Sergei's political position could be jeopardized and the crown could retreat far.

But Sergei didn't look unexpectedly dark. When Kreutzer inquired in wonder, he said something unexpected.

"Well, it might be happier for me to be held accountable here and ordered to recall the Empire."

"... why?

"Think about it. The supplies that were here are almost completely destroyed. Our army supplies, which are drawn to Atheni, are stored in Fort Tartak for only three days. Whether you're sourcing from a nearby village or town, the Imperial Army in Atheni is roughly 200,000. There's no way we can secure enough supplies to feed it."

"Besides, we've been sourcing supplies since the war, so there won't be any supplies left in the countryside either."

"Ah. The fate of the Imperial Army has four days left. Longer than that, they'll have to starve to death."

That must have been hard for Sergei. He can accept that any imperial commander lacking collaboration dies, but he couldn't bear to sacrifice the 200,000 imperial subjects under his banner.

But at the same time, he was beginning to have respect for the Royal Army.

"Rebels. No, the Royal Silesian Army looks like a lot of excellent generals. Always hitting the forefront of us and not giving us a tactical victory over numbers. That's brilliant."

"But I can't just be impressed. Virtually 20 divisions in Atheni were isolated. Perhaps in a few days, the Royal Army will launch a major offensive."

"... right. We have no choice but to declare full withdrawal to Marshal Bakunin. Kreutzer, please."

"Okay."

Thus, the battle of June 12 closed the curtain. Sergei's withdrawal petition arrived at Bakunin's disposal the following June 13.