I was excommunicated from the Holy Knights

64 – Baeksan Battle 5

General Tilly is in danger as his sword is broken.

Looking at him, Count Turnen said with a sly smile on his lips.

“Then bye bye, you son of a b*tch of the wicked church!”

“Kuh… ”

With those words, Thurn brandishes his sword

That moment..

“General! Avoid!”

-visor!

The generals blocking General Tilly’s path in the next moment

At their sudden intrusion, Thurn shouted in anger.

“These children! How dare you intrude into a sacred duel!”

“I don’t have time to accept heretical nonsense!”

“If you want to kill General Tilly, get over us first!”

The longevity squeezing out the mana that was almost exhausted and buying time.

They barely bought time at the cost of their lives,

In the meantime, General Tilly, under the escort of the soldiers, began to semi-forcedly pull back.

“These guys! Let go of this! What are you doing!”

“Sorry General! But now I can’t help it!”

“The life and death of the general is the life and death of the entire army! And the general cannot be put to death in a place like this!”

“Damn it!”

Tilly, who was defeated in a duel and saved her life in a humiliating way.

However, although he was outraged, he was the commander-in-chief of the imperial army.

Knowing its importance, he was forced to step back, swallowing his feelings of resentment and humiliation.

“damn!”

“General! This is not the time to stay like this!”

“You must avoid it! Enemies are already right in front of you! If we continue like this, not only the general, but all of us will die!”

An adjutant shouting urgently with a frightened expression.

Certainly as he said, the wizards under his command had already reached their limits physically and magically.

In this case, the forces on this side were no different from 3,000 ordinary soldiers who were just tired and injured, with almost no magicians.

On the other hand, even at this moment, they are devastating the exhausted and weakened allies as they please by shooting magic power.

Seeing that he was defeated by Turnen, who would have been able to win normally, there would be no need to say what the overall situation of the war would be like.

Finally feeling their limits at this point, General Tilly said in a voice filled with anger.

“..to the entire army.. issuing an order to retreat.. we must minimize the loss of troops beyond this.”

“Your general! All troops! retreat! ”

Following General Tilly’s instructions, the adjutant starts giving the retreat order.

Accordingly, the emperor’s army, who had been dealing with the enemy with difficulty, turned around and began to run away.

The morale of the troops of Bohemia, who had been dealing with them, rose in an instant, and began brandishing their weapons without hesitation against the fleeing enemy.

“The imperial army is running away!”

“Don’t let even one of them live!”

“For Bohemia!”

Amidst the shouts coming from everywhere, the Bohemian army waving the tail of the emperor’s army

At the forefront were General Thurne and his men, still full of energy, and Tilly’s forces struggled to pull them off, taking additional damage.

In the process, the number of soldiers who could not escape and were killed or surrendered could not be counted, but even General Tilly had nothing to do with it.

General Tilly and his troops managed to escape while suffering additional damage from the retreat.

Then, in the place where the emperor’s army had just been encamped, only the Bohemians and a few Palatinate troops who barely survived stood and began to shout in victory.

“Wowaaa!!”

“We won!”

“For Bohemia! For Count Thurn!”

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“damn!”

General Tilly stopping a galloping horse while swearing

Fortunately, there seemed to be no further pursuit by the Bohemian army, and he asked his manager about this in a voice filled with a slight sense of relief and deep despair.

“How long do you have left..?”

“Wizards are 800.. Regular soldiers are 4000.”

“Wheat with less than 5,000 left..”

“I’m sorry.. Their pursuit was so fierce at the end..”

Considering the fact that he led 25,000 troops to the battle, it was a very painful defeat.

Of course, that didn’t mean that more than 20,000 of the emperor’s troops were killed in this war.

Most of them would have been taken prisoner or surrendered voluntarily, or else they would have been scattered in all directions, hidden in thick fog.

“It’s a complete defeat… a complete defeat…”

General Tilly, who was talking with a sense of dejection, did not raise his head, not to mention the general manager and other generals.

Even when they first appeared, they boasted that they would definitely put an end to Bohemia.

However, it was their own army that ended, and in the current situation, they had to worry about whether they would be able to safely return to the system, let alone counterattack.

The number of soldiers was drastically reduced, and even those who barely survived were mostly wounded and wounded.

The army of the proud emperor who literally looks like a defeated soldier

Watching them like this, General Tilly began to feel the bitterness in his mouth as it was, and at the same time, he began to reflect on the process of defeat they had suffered.

‘Is this the purpose from the beginning… the Palatinate… even the same Bohemia… was it all just for that one moment…’

There could be many reasons for the defeat, but the decisive factor was the surprise attack by the detached unit at the end.

The Bohemia army, which operated a brisk reserve force of up to 3,000, raided the exhausted allies.

If you think about it, it was very likely that the reason why you broke through this fog from the beginning was also aiming for that point.

A thick fog that obscures the location and scale of the raiding enemies.

In this situation, it was impossible to clearly gauge the strength of the enemy, even for the veteran General Tilly.

In addition, right now, the allies were in a state of exhaustion and were even surprised.

In the end, in this situation, the wizards, including himself, had no choice but to do it easily while being engulfed in embarrassment, and in the process, General Tilly also used his strongest magic to drive away the enemy in front of his eyes.

‘Come to think of it, this was a mistake. It was a mistake to use mana recklessly in this situation where the size of the enemy is unknown… I should have taken into account that they have a hidden power…’

Although the power of magic was powerful, it was not something that could be used indefinitely.

4th grade wizards can keep fighting while condensing and strengthening their bodies for at most 30 minutes.

In the case of a 9th grade archmage like General Tilly, he can fight all day under perfect conditions, but it is only natural that he runs out of mana as he fights while exploding various high-ranking magics during the battle to overturn the unfavorable charter.

However, considering the fact that the war situation was not clearly understood due to the thick fog, and furthermore, the allies were in confusion, this was an unavoidable choice.

from that point of view

If it hadn’t been for the fog, and if it weren’t for the current situation where our allies were exhausted to the max, the outcome of the war would have been completely overturned.

In other words, the enemy knew this situation and started fighting at this timing, which meant that they were literally caught off guard.

If the battle had started a day… no, half a day late, General Tilly would have had some time to spare, and furthermore, he would not have faced such a disastrous defeat.

‘That means… after all, you’ve been completely harmed from the beginning? It’s really amazing… This Tilly was completely taken by the Bohemians’ strategy.’

Recognizing that he was in the hands of the enemy from the beginning, and feeling admiration for the ‘enemy’ who had set up this strategy, General Tilly began to retreat again, paying attention to the enemy’s movement. .

As a single general, paying homage to the being who designed this operation.

At the same time, while pledging to repay the present greed in the future,

‘Heretics… Let’s see. I’m going to go back like this for now, but I’ll definitely do it next time…’