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He conveyed this to his subordinate officers.

“Mayer’s group rises as slowly as possible. Currently, the other allies’ eyes must have turned because they wanted to go up first. Competing with them in this situation is benefiting the enemy.”

“Yes? But general! The enemy only has 5,000 in supply! If you don’t go up first, everything will be taken away!!”

That’s only when we can get supply and demand, man. I felt frustrated, but I controlled my emotions as best as I could and spoke.

“I won’t say it three times. Allies ascend as slowly as possible. Don’t disobey orders.”

The officers under his command looked dissatisfied. They were looking forward to establishing a major, but their master was like telling them to give up their major. But they will know after the battle is over. This battle is not an opportunity to build a free major as others think, but a crisis of becoming a free major yourself.

—–

When the battle began.

Andeln had expected it. The enemy will stage a sit-in inside the temporary fortress. Otherwise, there would be no need to build a temporary fortress, right?

However, the expectations of Andeln and the four great families were completely wrong. That’s right…

“I am the vanguard of the Kruzenstein army! It’s Clemens de Balboa!”

Clemens shouted and left the castle with his entire army.

The team was shocked by the unexpected turn, but they thought this was their chance and rushed forward.

“Ha! You’re desperate to die! This body is Marco Endia of the 4th generation!”

“Four major families? Are you talking about people with false names and no results? This is ridiculous! Hahaha!”

“This bastard… !”

Endia and Clemens de Balboa, the vanguard of our army, clashed swords. And Endia realized this the moment she hit her first pair.

‘The level is different… !’

This person is on a different level from himself. Fortunately, even though Endia knew that he was on a different level, he was not a person who could show courage until the end. so that…

“Kill Clemens! Knights, listen! Kill Clemens!”

Endia ran away and left the rest to the knights.

“You’re a little bitch!”

Clemens snorted and charged in again. However, there was no one in our army’s vanguard who could stop Clemens.

“Andeln. The vanguard is pushed back.”

One knight was concerned, but Andeln was watching the scene leisurely.

“Don’t worry. It is a battle of 5,000 vs 30,000. It’s nothing to do with personal uselessness. The overwhelming numerical superiority cannot be easily overturned.”

But there was something Andeln didn’t know. The fact was that the Leona Army, to which Clemens belonged, had already easily overturned its numerical superiority, which was more than two times greater.

‘Was the victory of Leona’s army in the Battle of Endora really due to the military power of one Clemens?’

It is true that individual dance played a major role in pre-modern battles. This is especially true in a fantasy world with sword energy and mana. but…

‘Leona-kun is naturally strong. Even without Clemens.’

There was a reason why Leona von Krusenstein was the main character of this game. The reason is…

“Musket Soldiers! Shoot!”

At the same time as Clemens shouted, thunder struck.

Thunder. There was no other way to express it. Hundreds of muskets fired at the same time, and it sounded like a loud thunder.

And, with the sound of thunder, hundreds of allies fell simultaneously. The soldiers who saw this could not help but be astonished.

“Well, the enemy deals with thunder!”

“The god of lightning is angry! You’re angry about the war of aggression!”

Yes. Musket.

In real history, there was a war in which guns were used on a large scale for the first time. That was the Battle of Pavia between the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of France.

In that battle, the Holy Roman Empire introduced muskets, which had previously only been used in small quantities, in large quantities for the first time, and the musket tactic was a great success, destroying France’s elite cavalry.

That history was being relived in the game.

The soldiers panicked when they heard that it was a weapon that could control thunder, but there was a man walking through them. That’s it…

“Come to your senses! That’s a new weapon called a musket! I am by no means a god of thunder!”

It was Andeln von Setia. Andeln personally went to the front with a sword and began to encourage the soldiers.

“That’s a new weapon called a musket! Not God at all!”

“What? Musket? This is my first time hearing this name.”

“I’ve heard of it. They say hunters use it to catch birds.”

“Oh, was that it?”

“Then… ”

“Aren’t we the ones at the advantage?”

The soldiers began to recover their morale, and Andeln did not miss the opportunity to shout.

“Charge! Everyone charge! Charge!”

If we somehow create a melee, we who are ahead in numbers will win. It may be disadvantageous in an organized fight, but it will be advantageous in a melee. Andeln, who thought so, shouted to charge.

30,000 soldiers charged towards the top of the mountain at once. It seemed like it would soon reach the musketeers who were firing thunderbolts at our troops. but.

The Leona army’s secret weapon was not only the musket.

“Pikemen! Forward!”

“Yes!”

Thousands of pikemen lined up in an instant.

The long spear soldiers stood in a straight line and pointed their long spears at the enemy, as if they had completed their formal training quite well.

A long spear formation created by thousands of long spear soldiers all at once.

The phalanx tactic, which only appeared in ancient history, was revived here after 1,000 years.

“What the hell is that… ”

Even Andeln could not help but be surprised by this sight.

Long spear soldiers were definitely a main tactic in ancient history.

However, it was known that long spear soldiers, who showed overwhelming performance in protecting the same position, had disadvantages in moving or changing direction, and for that reason, long spear soldiers were left out of history.

But the spearman was resurrected? In 1000 years? And that too in thousands?

Andeln felt as if he had entered a book about ancient history. It feels like this isn’t real…

And it wasn’t only Andeln who was embarrassed, but the soldiers as well. The soldiers were panicked, not knowing where or how to attack the long spear formation that spread out in an instant.

“What is this? There are windows on all sides, above and on both sides. How do I get in?”

“I don’t know, fuck! Get in quickly!”

Whick! The soldier behind pushed the soldier in front. The soldier who was pushed back was instantly skewered by dozens of polearms aimed at him.

The pike soldier didn’t do anything in particular. I just kept my posture and stayed still, but one person died. Helplessly.

“Fuck, what the hell is this… ”

“Well, where and how should I touch it? There is no gap in this!”

Long spears tightly aimed. Even though I tried to squeeze through the gap, I couldn’t see it. Leona’s long spear phalanx was such a well-made long spear phalanx.

“All, all, don’t panic! Even so, it is a tactic that was eliminated a thousand years ago! There must be a reason why we were eliminated!”

“What is the reason?”

“Why?”

Reason for being eliminated. What is the reason for being eliminated? Andeln, who had been thinking for a while, his eyes sparkled.

“Bow! It’s a bow! Those pikemen have no defense against long-distance attacks! Even if you look at ancient records, there is a record of a slinger throwing stones and running away repeatedly, and the long spear soldiers collapsed!”

“Then try it quickly!”

“Archers forward!”

Hundreds of archers stepped forward. and…

“Archers! Shoot… ”

“Musket Soldiers! Fire!”

-Ta-ta-tang!

The enemy’s musketeers, who were ready to reload before the friendly archers, shot and killed the friendly archers who came forward in an instant.

Only then did Andeln realize.

The significance of the revival of the long spear soldier after a thousand years.

“There was no need to attack the long spear soldiers in the first place… The role of the long spear soldier was to protect the musketeer during the long reload time.”

The advantage of the musket is that it has tremendous destructive power, and the disadvantage is that it takes a long time to reload.

The advantage of a long spear is that it has tremendous defensive power, and the disadvantage is that it is poor at moving and changing direction.

So what happens when a long spear and a musket meet?

The long spear stays in the same position and the musket only fires from behind.

A perfect tactic is created that compensates for each other’s weaknesses.

“This is… It’s a fight you can’t win.”

Even if it was pushed through the water, there was no way it would have been possible. That long spear soldier will stay in place forever no matter how many of our troops charge.

While the pikemen held their ground, the musketeers would kill all of our troops.

It is better for our troops to be annihilated than for them to tire.

The enemy has created the perfect strategy to not be defeated.

Andeln, who realized that fact, had no choice but to say this.

“All troops… Retreat.”

Only now Andeln was able to realize why Leona’s 6,000 troops were victorious over Clozel’s 14,000 troops.

It wasn’t because Clozel was weak.

Because Leona discovered it. A winning formula that has no choice but to win.

—–

“Well, the main character wins.”

Leona von Krusenstein is the main character of this game. There was no reason to lose to someone like Andeln.

Above all, in reality, Leona von Krusenstein was the first person in this world to invent the tactic called ‘tercio’, which dominated the battlefield for over 200 years.

Tercio is a tactic invented in history by a Spanish soldier named Gonzalo de Cordoba. The tercio tactic he invented was so effective that no enemy existed, so everyone followed and developed tercio for over 200 years.

It was at this time that the military power of Europe and other continents became asymmetrical.

Therefore, there was no way that an army with Tersio would be defeated by an army without Tersio.

That’s why I told our knights to advance as slowly as possible.

Let the battle end before our soldiers die.

Even the knights who were initially dissatisfied were now looking at me with reverence.

This was after the ally was unilaterally broken.

“How did you know that you would be defeated?”

“Phew. Thanks to you, I survived. My heart breaks when I think about not seeing Sophia anymore.”

“Our lord must have a pioneering plan. From now on, let’s not doubt our lord’s words.”

The knights each nodded.

Meanwhile, Andeln was heartbroken.

“There is no way I can win. There is no way you can win against something like that.”

Andeln was also well aware of the existence of muskets. There was also the fact that Leona raised pikemen.

Nevertheless, there were three reasons why Andeln did not introduce muskets. First, muskets were too expensive. Muskets, which could only be made by a few engineers in the capital, had to be made by hand by a limited number of engineers because mass production lines were not introduced, and that was why they were overly expensive.

Secondly, there was no trade network to bring in muskets. As mentioned earlier, muskets are produced only in certain areas of the capital. Coming from the capital to here by land was too far, so there was a high possibility of being looted by thieves, and the transportation costs alone were a level that could not be ignored.

Thirdly, I thought the musket was no big deal. Even though Leona’s army overwhelmingly defeated Clozel’s army, which was twice the size of Clozel’s army, it was because Clozel’s army was weak, and she thought it would be different if she came forward.

And that expectation was tragically shattered.

“But even if we introduce muskets now… Krusenstein is a port city, so we can introduce it from the capital by ship, but we are a mountainous region. It is close to impossible to transport muskets produced in the capital here.”

Andeln bit his nails and trembled. It was his habit when he was anxious. It was his first appearance since the day before the rebellion.

“What on earth should I do…? How can I win?”

The moment I thought that. The escort driver shouted from outside.

“Franz Mayer of the May family would like to meet you.”

A thought passed through Andeln’s mind at that moment.

“If it were Mayer… ?”

I thought there might be a way if he was a child of the Mayer family, who had been the Setia family’s advisor for generations.