Chapter 276 – Chapter 26 – Wildfire
Kaela was grinding her teeth and killing all the fairy troopers.
The demon cavalry that followed from the east are of course excellent warriors.
Even on the beastly side, Kayla, who was considered the strongest, acknowledged that part.
The problem was that the cavalrymen on the side of the fairies against them were also strong.
Quaang! Boom!- Heying!!-
Horses collide with each other, and weapons held by riders are broken and shattered.
Every time the blue spirit flashed, the demons collapsed and the fairy vomited blood.
No matter how strong demons or noble fairies, everyone was fair on the battlefield.
If you are stronger than the enemy, you win, and if you are weaker than the enemy, you will just remain as a corpse on the battlefield.
“Force! We have to make them completely leave the battlefield!!”
In order to fulfill the order Klaus had given her, Kaela cried out as if vomiting blood.
My commander gave me an order to annihilate and repulse all enemy cavalry before our allies get tired first, then return to the battlefield and encircle the rear.
You may think that it is very easy just by listening.
However, even the slightest mistake can not only ruin the plan, but also lead to a catastrophic defeat.
If Caela does not arrive in time, the soldiers of the Marquis of Kienmeyer will be killed in droves by the ferocious beast warriors and nimble fairy soldiers.
Conversely, even if Kaela arrives on time, if the friendly formation collapses before that, it will be like jumping into a well-armed infantry formation for the demon cavalry.
Whatever it is, it is a shortcut that leads to fatal defeat.
The picture Klaus wants will be drawn only when all the circumstances are exquisitely matched.
‘Others would have been worried, but I’m different.’
It’s been years since I just wallowed on the battlefield with Klaus.
In the meantime, staying by his side as an aide-de-camp, it is Caela who sees my commander who has to succeed even with a really ridiculous strategy.
Again, everything will go the way he wants.
All he has to do is annihilate his enemies and return to the battlefield to slaughter them.
“Kuaaaaa!!”
Kayla jumped up on her horse as if she couldn’t stand it any longer.
And he rushed at the cavalry commander on the fairy side who was commanding the cavalry in the middle of the day, and soon cut off the two front legs of the horse he was riding.
Pooh!! Heeing!!-
The horse fell forward and the Fairy’s cavalry commander also fell to the ground.
At least because she was a fairy, she somehow threw herself right before she fell off her horse and suffered only light scratches.
If they were human, it was certain that nine out of ten would have had their necks broken and died on the spot.
“Keugh!”
But that was the last luck of the fairy commander.
There was no way he could stand up to Kayla while being pulled down from his horse.
In the end, Kaela, who succeeded in cutting off the head of the fairy commander before long, climbed on her horse again and shook her head and screamed.
“Your commander’s neck is here! I’ll make all of you headless ghosts!!”
The news of my commander’s death naturally caused a drop in morale.
Conversely, the death of the enemy general had the effect of boosting the morale of the allies tremendously.
Despite being outnumbered, the fairy cavalrymen, who had held up well, began to be pushed back by the news that their commander had become a decapitated ghost.
Unlike infantry, who, once surrounded, cannot escape.
Still, the troopers have one more chance.
As the allies gradually collapsed, deserters eventually began to appear, and in a battlefield like this, even one soldier’s sudden action could spread to the whole.
Not to mention, as the noble horsemen pulled their backs, naturally the others decided that they had no chance of winning, and turned their horses and started running away.
Originally, it would be correct to chase after them and then return to the battlefield.
However, if that is the case, there is a very high probability that the enemies will also regroup and return.
If, on the contrary, the enemy cavalry catches up with them again, the demon cavalry could be surrounded.
So Khaela ordered all the cavalry to pursue.
Even if it couldn’t be annihilated, it was a ulterior motive to make it run away at full speed, as far as possible, so that both horses and cavalry could not fight together.
As the distribution of stamina among allies is also important, this was also a very important part.
“Retreat! Retreat!!”
The fairy horsemen run away without looking back as they cross to the small creek.
Only then Caela ordered him to stop and turn his nose again.
Now it returns to full speed again and stabs the enemy main body whose rear is exposed.
For those who concentrated their strength in the middle to break through the center, the rear has no choice but to be relatively weak.
In addition to that, if you attack from the side, the entire army will naturally be driven inside.
Did you say that a formation without space is just a warehouse full of luggage?
Caela accelerated his allied cavalry with more speed.
And finally, when she and her demon cavalry returned to her battlefield.
Just in time, Klaus’ veterans had succeeded in driving the enemy into the middle, pushing the flanks completely.
“Back, back! It comes from behind!”
“Stop it from behind! I mean stop it from behind!”
“Damn it! Don’t push Don’t push! No seats!”
More than 20,000 troops were literally stuck in a small space.
It was difficult to even turn one’s head to the side right away, let alone stabbing a spear and swinging a sword and erecting a shield.
In the meantime, the beastmen were still trying to aim for the center, and the fairies were trying to build defenses on the flanks and rear, making the otherwise chaotic allied formation even more messed up.
Klaus, who was only aiming for that moment, cut down another beastman warrior and ordered the march.
Then, the Kienmeyer soldiers in the center, who had been concentrating on holding on, began to push the beastmen warriors forward step by step.
“Keugh! Ugh!”
“Don’t be pushed! Don’t be pushed! Strengthen your legs and hold on! As an honorable warrior, you cannot lose to humans!!”
In terms of physical ability, of course, the beastmen and fairies outperform the human counterparts.
However, that is only possible when each other exerts its power in the ‘same situation’.
As now, the allied forces gathered from all sides and barely moved their upper bodies between the cramped gaps.
On the contrary, humans who are in a very free state and easily wield weapons, gradually narrowing the encirclement.
It was obvious who among them would be able to demonstrate their full strength.
In the end, the kingdom’s last hope and the pride of the Western Union, the allied forces of fairies and beasts, were surrounded very nicely on the plains of the kingdom.
No matter where I looked, there was no place I could escape from.
Sensing the end, they tried to find a way out by inflicting as many attacks as possible, or at least inflict more damage and die.
However, there was no need for Klaus to accept such a war of attrition.
Anyway, it was this side that had room, and it was this side that surrounded it.
Slowly, very slowly, kill them one by one and enter.
“Kkeuk! Shut up! Go away!!”
“Ah! Come on, save me! Help me!!”
On both sides, veterans of the First Continental War pounded with terrifying force.
In the rear, there are already cavalrymen who can’t win from the position.
Lastly, Klaus was leading his men in front, brandishing spears and swords.
Whatever it is, you can’t win now, there’s no way to go back alive.
When they reached that point, the allied forces rather calmly accepted the end.
Of course, it was absolutely not a matter of dropping the weapon from his hand and surrendering.
When the warrior in front of me died fighting, another fairy took his place.
When even that fairy died, another one took its place and fought and fought again.
A few hours later, the plains of one of the few kingdoms that boasted richness.
It was stained very red with the blood shed by fairies and beastmen.
Corpses were overflowing everywhere, and the alliance of fairies and beastmen suffered irreparable damage.
The power he had put so much effort into had evaporated in just one battle.
Above all, there was no mistake in going into siege and annihilation.
The siege was perfect, the enemy had nowhere to run, and the only option was to die fighting or surrender.
Numerous fairies and beastmen disappeared at once as blood sacrifices on the spot.
The spilled blood was slippery, making it difficult to step on, and the corpses formed a low hill, to the point where untimely high ground battles took place.
“Too, I will surrender.”
There are definitely those who survived the bloody whirlpool.
In total, there were about 2,000 prisoners, and the problem was what to do with these prisoners.
Killing them is a bit annoying, and taking them with them makes feeding and sleeping over 2,000 people a burden.
But if I let go, all of them will come back as enemies, but I can’t do that recklessly.
Conflicted over what to do, Yulia welcomed Klaus as he entered his command post.
“Come on, Klaus. Are you feeling better?”
“As I said earlier, nothing is wrong.”
Having said that, Klaus, in a state of as far as possible, knelt down in front of Yulia.
Then, carefully stroking the woman’s belly and kissing her on the lips, she personally informed her child that she had returned.
“… A child who has not yet heard.”
“Love spreads even in the smallest seed. It seems that there is something more urgent than that. After all, it is a matter of prisoners, right?”
“… Yes. The question is what to do with the captives we caught this time. I can’t release it, and I can’t just drag it around.”
“The best way is to kill them all at once, but that’s not good.”
“If the prisoners were slaughtered, the reaction would be too severe. It is certain that we will come back intact later with the mistakes we have to deal with.”
“Hmm.”
Klaus, who was ‘pretending’ to think about that part for a while.
Then, as if he had a good idea, he smiles and snaps his fingers.
“Julia, I have one best method.”
“The best way?”
“Yeah. It’s a method that doesn’t cause a lot of backlash and at the same time doesn’t return some of the enemy’s power, but rather a way to reverse it if done well.”
“What the hell is that? You’re saying that!”
Yulia clings to Klaus as if she is going crazy.
At that, Klaus whispered in the demon king’s ear while giggling.
“Immediately tell the soldiers to divide the prisoners.”
“Split the captives?”
“Yeah. Fairies are fairies, and beastmen are beastmen. And after that, divide the fairy captives by family again. Especially Belarus, don’t leave out even one of the fairies from that family.”
“… Aha.”
As soon as she heard what Klaus had to say, Yulia nodded his head as if she knew what he was up to.
Why do you divide the fairy and the prisoner, and the fairy directly mentions Belarus?
If you think about that part, you could easily predict what he was aiming for.
And after a while, amazing news came.
It was that the demon king, who destroyed the allied forces of beasts and fairies, released some of the prisoners captured in battle without any conditions.
Why the hell did the demon king do such a thing, that part was still unclear.
But one thing is for sure, the commonality of the captives freed by the demon king is that they are fairies.
And all of those fairies belonged to a powerful family called Belarus.
