Oukoku e Tsuzuku Michi

It makes for good exercise after an injury……owah!」

Right when I was about to throw my last shot, an enemy cavalry suddenly thrust their spear at me.
I instinctively bashed him with that thing in my hand using the weight of my entire body behind it.

「Gyu-!!」

Finished him……or it might be more accurate to say he exploded.
A bunch of stuff leaks out from the soldier who approached me with his spear and got hit by the iron ball.

「It was my last shot too.」

「Hiiiih!」「Brice exploded!」「Demoooooon!」

The remaining enemy cavalry runs away.
This is effective in its own way I guess.

「Well, that side show is over.
Push forward!」

Allies and enemies alike clash with each other.
The shouting of soldiers, the metal clashing sounds and cries of death drown out my voice – this is the battlefield.

Our allies have been one-sidedly pushing them back from the start of the fight.
The enemy cavalry tries to threaten from the side but our bow cavalry and the kingdom army’s cavalry block them, chasing them away instead, while the kingdom’s army overwhelms the enemy from the front, and even the vassal lords’ armies are dominant as they circle around and attack from the side.

But that dominance was before genuinely clashing with the phalanx formations.
The first one to challenge them was a noble’s army affiliated with the vassal lords.

「W-what is this!? Loose your arrows! Thrust your spears!」

「Neither of them have any effect! We can’t stop the enemy! They’re tearing through our formation!」

The heavy infantry are quite slow with the weight of their equipment and shields.
But that slow and steady pace divides the army with certainty.
Then, when they reach the middle of the area, another order is yelled out.

「Spread out!」

Their shields are thrown down and soldiers disperse in all directions from the inside of the box.
They face little to no resistance as they attack from inside the army’s formation.
That noble’s army is instantly destroyed and the entirety of the lords’ armies get shaken just from watching everything unfold.

To make matters worse, some units of the kingdom army’s main force in the front are being split up and crushed in the same manner.
The state of battle quickly shifts from an overwhelming Goldonian advantage to more of an equilibrium.

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There isn’t any movement from the headquarters where Leopolt is.
I guess it isn’t the right time yet.
Then I’ll go wild for a bit.

「Spread out–!!」

The box opens up after stepping deep into an allied army’s formation.
I was waiting for that.
Timing it to be exactly as they opened up, I jump in the middle of the enemy army with Schwartz.

「If you’re opening up, then my spear can also pass through!」

I stab the enemies in my way and Schwartz hooves send them flying as I advance towards the center of their formation.
Schwartz would injure the heavy infantry if he carelessly stepped on them so he made an effort to step on the softer parts.

「Uwaah! He’s here, he’s here again!」
「Why does he only appear in front of us!」

It seems these guys participated in the attack on Port Randel.
They start bad mouthing me as soon as they see my face.

「So noisy! Where I go is for me to decide!」

Talking about people like Casie.
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I swing my spear and send them flying.
I hear screams in the direction I sent them so they shouldn’t be dead.
Thank god.

There seem to be an endless supply of enemies as I’m in the middle of a crowded formation.
Just swinging my spear a little will cause chaos.
I’m a bit short-handed so I prop my spear on my shoulder with one hand and pull my Dual Crater with my other, then swing it a couple times.
10 or 20 easily turn into corpses.

「Kuh! This guy, can I even stop him if I sacrifice my life……nn?」

The eloquently speaking middle-aged man is cut in half.
A young soldier rushes in shouting to get revenge, but is flung in the air, stabbed by a spear from one of my allies and faints in agony.

With the huge confusion, the enemy loses their chance to attack and my allies are able to recover from having their formation split up, successfully regrouping again.
It appears the army Erich trained isn’t that weak.
Now the enemy is isolated in the middle of allied territory.

「Now I just have to find and defeat the commander to put an end to these boxes……」

When I look around, I find a man in nice dress shouting profusely.

「What are you doing!? In this situation, you should get into assault formation again, pull back temporarily……」

Found him.

「Found you, is it you!?」

「Geh! Waaaah! Someone protect me! Hurry and protect me!」

A few enemy soldiers block the path, standing between me and the escaping commander.

「You’re in the way.」

I slice away one of them with my spear, knock another in the air and hit him in midair towards the third soldier.
But the sword of the fourth soldier grazes Schwartz’s face and puts him off balance.

「Bastard!」

I pierce through the heart of the fourth soldier and toss him aside, but now the commander has ran rather far away.
It can’t be avoided, and it might take some time but I’ll for sure…….

「Gugya-」

An arrow flies straight through the running commander’s neck.
Turning back to see who it came from, I see Pipi releasing them while riding on Christoph’s shoulders.
With all the people in a melee like this, the tiny Pipi doesn’t have a clear shot after all.
It’s the first time Christoph ever contributed to the battle.

「Gu……h-heavy……get her off quickly.」

Really, which part of Pipi is heavy when I can lift her easily with one hand? If you can’t even do that, then you won’t be able to lift a woman up and fuck her.

It was then a green flaming arrow was shot into the air from the headquarters.
It looks like they’re ready.

「Maintain your formations while moving backwards slowly.」

All armies currently locked in a struggle for supremacy abandon their battles and my allies start falling back gradually.
The enemy judges we couldn’t endure their pressure and once again get into their phalanx formation, marching forward slowly.

On the right and left flanks of the enemy are 500 cavalry running parallel to their formation.
They’re holding some sort of flaming object in their hands.

「What is that?」

「It looks like a siege weapon.」

Oil is poured into a porcelain pot and flames appear on the surface as well.
If they attach a string to it and throw it after twirling it around a few times, the place it hits would burn fiercely.

It isn’t a particularly special siege weapon.
It doesn’t have much range so it requires the user to get close thus making them a perfect target to be hit by arrows, it doesn’t have much effect on stone walls, and there are many more weaknesses, so there are not many uses for this weapon despite the flames being powerful.

Perhaps it was determined that it will have enough of an effect on the heavy infantry because on top of being sluggish, a human is still under the armor.

「Nn? The enemy flank……no, their feet? Why don’t they throw it in the middle?」

The cavalry threw the pot of oil at the enemy flank, or in other words, at the outermost soldier, just enough to burn him and not directly at the center.

「Well, this is Leopolt’s doing.
Let’s just sit back and watch.」

Those cavalry probably hand-carry only those oil pots and don’t even have spears with them.
They approach numerous times from the flank and attack the phalanx with fire.
From the side, it might seem like these attacks are nothing but harassment, but the fire attacks from the side are gradually pushing the boxes are closer to each other.

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「I see, it’s not like they can walk through fire no matter how large of a shield they have.」

The soldier located at the edge of the formation is focused on maintaining the ranks and there’s no way he would be willing to walk through the fire.
Eventually, the entire box formation slowly shifts towards the center, and the other adjacent boxes are similarly being pushed to change directions too.

「So they’re being gathered towards the center.」

「I see……just a little bit more.」

The Kingdom army is gradually retreating as usual and my private army never moved in the first place.
It wasn’t because of being slack, but they aren’t equipped to conduct normal battle.

The cavalry repeat their attacks several more times and wait until the enemy box formations are almost touching each other before firing arrows at them.
Those arrows aren’t just regular arrows, but flaming arrows used in a siege battle.

「Uwaah!」「Hot!」

The flaming arrows won’t penetrate the iron shields, but they can still disrupt the footwork of the soldiers when they get deflected and fall at their feet.
Even the tiniest bit of flame which burns their body would cause them to pull back their feet on reflex.
But this isn’t the end of it.

Ballistae are used next……firing large flaming arrows that send shields flying and set soldiers on fire.
In addition, the soldiers of the private army get into a defensive formation and throw ignited pots of oil and flaming pipes at them.
Innumerable fires wrap around the front of the enemy.

「Fire ahead! Stomp it out!」
「They’re coming from all over, move the shields.
We can’t see what’s in front of us! 」

The enemy is sluggish and has poor visibility.
They shouldn’t be able to deal with flames coming at them from all directions.

「What incredible flames……but wouldn’t it have been better to do this from the beginning?」

「No, the enemy needed to be tightly packed together, and more importantly, the infantry and cavalry deployed around them can’t be there.
The soldiers ordered to start the fire are not equipped to fight enemies who can move around freely.」

Due to the earlier fierce battle, the infantry and cavalry without the protection of the box have already been scattered and were not able to fulfill their role.
That’s how we are able to do as we please now.
Nevertheless, not just the front, but the flames which converged them from the left and right are burning strong too.
He did well to gather the enemy in the place he aimed for.

「Move! Move it! We’ll be burned to death!」
「Don’t mess up the ranks! We’ll be hit by arrows.」「Don’t be ridiculous! You’re telling us to stay in this fire!」
「Let us fall back! We’ll be wiped out at this rate!!」

They won’t just maintain their formation while remaining in the blazing fire, so most of the enemy abandon their shields and somehow find spots where there is no fire.
However, the flaming arrows raining down on them prove their effectiveness by dropping and burning soldiers who broke formation.

The bow cavalry were prepared for hell and as soon as they released their flaming arrows, they added to the already cruel scene.
There’s no longer any chance for me to do hand-to-hand combat with them so I return to the headquarters and stand beside Leopolt.

「That was incredible.」

「It was for this reason that a large amount of siege weapons were transported.
The box formation the enemy heavy infantry makes is practically a castle on the battlefield, thus we just need to have the suitable equipment and we should be able to defeat them.」

The enemies at the front of the formation have already broken formation and are trying to escape, but the soldiers packed together in the back are preventing them from doing so.
The units in the back are unable to grasp the situation on the field and are still continuing to march forward.

「It’s time now.」

「So I’ll be giving them the death sentence?」

「That is the commander’s duty and also privilege.」

Good grief.
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We are pushed back by the enemy and have retreated to the point where we initially planned to ambush the enemy.
In that case, we should be able to use them.

「All cannons……fire!」

The cannons roar loud enough to drown out the enemy’s screams, and although 10 cannons might seem like a small amount after witnessing the concentrated cannon fire from the Federation’s fleet, it should have enough power at close range.

Even the soldiers barely maintaining their formation are sent flying by the iron ball shot at them from the front and get defeated without any resistance.

At long last, the enemy is beginning to get routed and they all rush to escape after throwing down their swords and shields.
The rear unit with relatively fewer casualties still pushes on in the face of all that’s happened.

「All units……charge!! Thoroughly annihilate them!」

The Kingdom army, the private army, the cavalry and archers all mix together to pursue the enemy.
The vassal lords’ armies who ran away also gathered themselves and give chase as well.
Well-organized actions don’t need to be taken any longer.
We just need to hunt down the enemies and finish them off.
There’s a very slim chance the enemy’s slow heavy infantry will outrun us.

With today’s battle and following pursuit, it appears the Magrado army lost close to 30,000 out of their 35,000 forces.
A majority of the soldiers became burnt corpses so I can’t be sure of the exact number but it’s very clear they have suffered catastrophic losses.
This much should be enough to make them lose the will to fight, especially since their elite heavy infantry were completely destroyed.

「Is the end of the war close?」

「Nmoh ……nmohmoh!」

I mutter while lightly patting the heads of the five women fighting to get my dick in their mouths.

By the way, Christoph got hit by the shield a soldier threw at him out of desperation during the pursuit of the enemy and was knocked out, so he couldn’t finish off a single enemy this time either.

Aegir Hardlett.
22 years old.
Autumn.
Wartime.
Commander of Third Army Corps
Subordinate Squad: 39,900

Private Army: 7900 (Units brought to battle only)
Infantry: 2500, Cavalry: 500, Archers: 700, Engineers: 300, Bow Cavalry: 3900
Cannons: 8 (2 damaged when firing)

Kingdom Army – 2 divisions: 25,500
Neighboring Vassal Lords’ Armies: 6500

Additional – Rafen Defense Squad: 1000

Military Subordinates: Leopolt (Deputy Commander), Celia (adjutant), Myla (commander), Irijina (commander), Luna (commander of the bow cavalry), Pipi, Tristan (house-sitting), Gido (critical condition)
Current Location: Travelling from the Nord Plains to the capital Odoros
Achievements: Capitulated Port Randel, Annihilated the Magrado Army