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147 – Battle of the Abe River (5)

With one swing of the sword, its head flew into the chest of the soldier right behind it.

If you get hit in the neck with blood spraying out, it won’t hurt that much.

‘Because I didn’t hit the head of the guy I just killed with a bat like a baseball.’

In reality, the speed at which the neck flew was only as fast as a leaf falling from a tree branch…

“Ugh! Mom!!!”

The man’s spirit must have already reached its limit after seeing hundreds of his allies being swept away and dying in front of his eyes, as well as many of his allies being killed by a sudden barrage of magic and arrows.

The eyes are completely dilated and the mouth is wide open with tears streaming down the face.

Actually, even I wouldn’t be able to come to my senses if our Baekundae were swept away by the river, 10 to 15 of them died, and were even attacked by surprise.

But since I have completely let go of my mind, even if my neck gets blown off, it will hurt relatively less.

“I will send you to your ancestors.”

When I aimed the sword at his heart and stabbed him at high speed, the guy fell down, holding his chest with both hands.

At the same time, around me, I heard the deathly cries of enemy soldiers dying one after another.

“Save me, ugh!”

“I don’t want to die like this, save me!”

“Surrender, I will surrender!”

There are many people who express their will to survive by persistently shouting things like “Please save me,” “I don’t want to die,” Or “I will surrender.”

If you’re going to surrender, you have to put down your weapon and lie down before they’ll save you. But if you don’t do that and you’re just shaking, how can they save your life?

Otto, who was following me, pierced the necks of two enemy soldiers with a very long sword.

“The stupid grilled skewers are complete!”

Those who had been grilled on skewers opened their mouths and complained, but all that came out was the sound of air being knocked out.

Otto pulled out the ones stuck on his knife with his feet, just like pulling out meat from his lamb skewer with a fork.

The other guys also continued to reduce the number of enemy soldiers in front of them one by one by breaking their heads with maces or stabbing them with swords.

It is an extremely desirable sight.

I shouted as I cut the upper body of the trembling man in front of me.

“Fight like a man without hesitation!” “After all, every single one of these bastards will die by our hands today!”

I told you to fight without measuring back and forth, but in reality, it’s not a situation where you can measure back and forth.

You have to give them as big a shock as possible with one hit so they can’t make a proper decision, and then take advantage of that opportunity to give them a big shock…

Even if Baron Maurer and other leaders come to their senses later, their situation could worsen to the point where it cannot be reversed.

If we fail to do that, we will not be able to avoid being hit by surprise.

So, with 300 people, they are doing something crazy, surrounding and annihilating approximately 1,000 enemies.

Of course, this crazy thing is only possible if the besieged guys think that we are much more numerous than them…

‘How did it work?’

Soldiers pointing weapons such as swords or short spears approached me while I was lost in thought.

No, they are scattered and running hurriedly, just like kindergarten kids running.

“Die!”

I have no intention of asking serfs or mercenaries to make the same tactical judgment as a ‘knight’, but what about confronting an opponent who is clearly much stronger than you?

They were rushing in with only a few people, so they must have lost their senses due to the fear they gained from the surprise attack.

“aaah!”

In comics or novels, when the main character shouts out loud like that and tries to do something with desperate will, it usually goes well…

‘But for things to work out that well, it’s only possible if you really get the lead character, right?’

Most people attack someone they can’t handle and end up breaking like dogs.

Clicking my tongue, I cut off the body of the guy that was bravely running towards me.

“You piece of trash.”

After cutting down the one in front and killing him, the rest of the guys got scared and started shaking.

“David the bastard is dead.”

“No, f*ck.”

“……Calm down and gather around. “We need to get together.”

Just a moment ago, he rushed at me with a desperate will, saying he would kill me, but then his attitude changed as if he was flipping his palm just because one of his colleagues was dead.

This is absolutely pathetic.

If that was going to be the case, we would have tried our best to come together as a group somehow and form a defense, tsk.

“Aren’t you coming? Then I will go.”

Usually when I said this, I would use my Auror and run away, but now I need to stimulate their fear as much as possible.

That way, they will scream because they don’t want to die, and their fear won’t spread to other soldiers next to them.

Just like adding just one drop of ink to water changes the color of the entire water.

One of them, a man with white hair mixed in his beard, spoke in a loud voice.

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“Gather together! Gather together!”

The guys who heard the word “Gather together” Immediately flocked to the old man.

Normally, I wouldn’t let them do something like that because of the possibility that something could happen, but I deliberately left them alone with the intention of causing greater fear to them.

To intimidate them a little more, I deliberately pulled up my face shield and smiled while twitching the corners of my mouth.

“Try it, once.”

It only took about ten seconds to get to this point, but when I intentionally said something that aroused fear, they showed signs of being scared.

Our faces are pale, we are sweating, and our bodies are all shaking like trees swaying in the wind.

And the one who looks the youngest among them…

“Ugh, help me!”

If we could afford it, we would accept surrender, but right now we cannot afford it.

I’m already so mad that I’m dying, but trying to tell who should be killed and who should be saved would be a fool’s errand.

So I will kill them all.

‘The guy over there who is begging for his life should be kept alive as long as possible.’

The tension gradually increased, and when I got right in front of them, four soldiers attacked at once.

“Die, you son of a b*tch!”

They say it like that, but you can tell just by looking at their arms shaking.

‘It’s the final struggle, like a mouse biting a cat.’

The first one to be killed was an old man with white hair mixed in his beard who had eaten a lot of jjambap.

After blowing off the old man’s head, he easily dodged the attacks of the remaining three and used his whole body to perform a roundhouse kick.

The guy who was hit with a spinning kick had his head cracked like a watermelon.

“Monster, monster…”

The other two knelt down at the same time and trembled and shouted.

“Help me, I surrender! Just save my life! “There’s a wife at home with a baby!”

Ira, after I finish my career as a mercenary, someday I will have my own child with Karin, Lucia, and Hilde.

I definitely sympathize with this. However, it is said that there is no place in any grave without an excuse, but where is there a bastard without an excuse for war?

“Please, if I die, my wife won’t be able to live in the village!!”

I took a step closer to the guy who said that.

“Ugh, help me! Help me!”

I can’t go so far as to ask you to understand because it is something that cannot be helped in order to win the war.

But there is nothing we can do about it.

“I’m sorry, die.”

A man whose wife had a child died like that.

And then the guy who had been saved until the end now got down on his knees and stuck his head in and cried out.

“f*ck, I’m a virgin. He said that if he returned from the war alive, he would marry Maria and spend their first night with her. Please, please save me! “Just let me go alive.”

…… No, if you surrender in front of me and return, you will be expelled from the village, and the sparks will fly even to your fiancé.

But he said what I wanted to hear the most.

“I f*cking want to live! Other guys say they have a wife and children waiting for them when they return, but I haven’t even made it yet. “I can’t die like a dog like this!”

Even in a world where you can make voice calls, text calls, or even face-to-face video calls with your family whenever you want, you still get homesick when you live abroad.

How dare you bring up your family in a losing war when your life is at risk?

‘Wow, the morale of the serf soldiers and regular soldiers will definitely fall.’

Thank you for this guy, I should send him away at once.

“Thank you, bastard.”

This is what war is all about, so don’t hold any grudges and die gracefully.

Then I cut off his head with a single sword.

The soldiers under Baron Maurer who were fighting around them could feel their morale dropping further as they saw the scene or heard the screams.

The expressions on their faces showed their determination to clenched their teeth and survive somehow…

“f*ck, f*ck!”

I’m already so scared that the hand holding the spear is shaking like a person suffering from a seizure, so I’ve said all I can say.

And may the knights and mercenary captains command.

“The enemy outnumbers us! Everyone gather in defensive formation! If you want to live, gather together!”

When I heard that, I could barely suppress my laughter.

I was anxious about what I would do if they realized that we were in the minority.

I’m grateful to these little guys that they are even aware of the mistake.