I Became a Genius Commander at the Academy

EP.433

Frederick pulled out his sword and swung it left and right, cutting off the enemy’s spear pole.

“What is that spear quality, you Francois!”

The bodies of François’ soldiers, frightened by his fierce force as he charged and cut off the spear pole with his sword, froze for a moment.

If a soldier had been properly trained and sent into war like the Reich Imperial Army, he would have immediately tried to fight with a sword or sidearm attached to his waist.

Without any systematic training, they only learned how to hold a spear and were put into combat.

And then I just fought to survive.

Because I had learned war as an amateur, I had never faced a strong enemy charging like that, cutting off a spear pole with a sword, so I was so shocked that I recoiled for a moment.

It’s not that they didn’t have strong enemies in the war they went through, but since all those who encountered such strong enemies had already died, the Francois soldiers here had no immunity to skilled officers like Frederick.

This was a great opportunity for Frederick.

“Die, you Francois Baguette bastards!”

Immediately, Frederick decapitated the soldier in front of him with the sword he had received from his father.

Each time he continued to swing the sword, the limbs, legs, and body of the enemy soldiers were cut off one by one.

“Ouch my arm! “My arm!”

“My legs! “Ugh.”

“Marianne, I am like this…”

The soldiers who were hit directly by Frederick’s sword cried out in despair and met a miserable end.

Francois’ soldiers around him were shocked at the sight.

“What is that guy? Why are you flying around like that?!”

“Fuck, fuck! die!”

“Calm down and fight as one! “Push with numbers!”

That’s when Francois’ soldiers regain their lost spirit and try to counterattack to kill Frederick.

“Don’t let our lieutenant fight alone! Charge forward!”

“Long live the Reich Empire! Long live your Majesty the Emperor!”

“Throw those baguettes through the spear like you’re making skewers!”

As he said those words, the Reich Empire soldiers followed closely behind Friedrich Jaeger.

When they ran with their spears aimed at the confused enemy and stabbed them all at once, the soldiers who were at the forefront of the enemy army were stabbed by the spears and bled to death.

“Platoon leader! “We are here!”

Friedrich felt grateful to the platoon members who showed up at the right time and immediately gave the next order.

“Gather behind me! I will stand at the forefront and break through them! Follow closely. “The flag bearers should wave the flag to signal the charge!”

“Platoon commander, if we attack like that, will the company commander and other soldiers follow us?”

When we delve deep into enemy lines, if our troops do not follow us, we will dry up and die inside the enemy lines.

But Frederick was confident.

This is because the orders he and his company and battalion received from headquarters were to annihilate the enemy soldiers without overdoing it.

This was the order given to the Grand Marshal.

‘Show us a clear difference in power so that they can’t even think of resisting the Reich Empire.’

From that perspective, Frederick’s platoon succeeded in breaking through the enemy square from the beginning.

They moved in unison to fulfill the Grand Marshal’s order to inflict a ‘big blow’ on the enemy.

‘As soon as word gets out that we’ve made a hole in the enemy’s lines, support will come as soon as possible.’

“Support will definitely come! So don’t worry and just follow me!”

After saying that, Frederick began digging like a woodpecker, aiming deep into Francois’ enemy territory.

The battalion commander of the battalion to which Friedrich belonged then confirmed the signal for Friedrich’s platoon to charge.

‘The orders we received from the division commander were not to focus on holding our position, but to defeat the enemy infantry as much as possible.’

And in order to faithfully follow that order, Lieutenant Friedrich is advancing while destroying Francois’s army’s formation.

Moreover, the platoon leader who was currently chopping up the enemy soldiers up front was the son of Peter Yeager, who had been confirmed as ‘Generalissimo for life’.

He is a person who should not be allowed to die in vain at any cost, regardless of whether it is an order or not.

“Our battalion will fully support Lieutenant Jaeger! “Follow me!”

“Battalion Commander, but the enemy’s momentum is still high, so boldly pushing forward is…”

At those words, Battalion Commander Fritz sighed and grabbed the operations manager’s shoulder and shook him.

“Are you saying that you don’t know who the second lieutenant in front of you is? “He is the son of His Excellency Marshal Peter Yeager, and thanks to his activities, the tide of the battle is gradually turning in our favor!”

“That’s true, but it’s a bit premature…”

“Now is the time to do it. Even if things don’t work out, we must rescue Lieutenant Friedrich from those damn baguettes! However, seeing as he is procrastinating and giving reasons, it seems that our captain does not want to be promoted. “Aren’t you going to go to the General Staff College?”

With those words, the operations manager immediately realized his mistake.

“Send a messenger to the division commander to urgently request support for our battalion! “We are immediately following Ensign Friedrich!”

The battalion to which Friedrich belonged immediately went out to support him.

The hole in the enemy’s line created by one platoon grew to a level large enough to shake a battalion-level hole, that is, an enemy regiment.

Friedrich could not see the situation in the enemy camp, but…

“Follow Ensign Jaeger! “Don’t leave Ensign Jaeger alone!”

“Long live the Fritz Battalion!”

“Take out all the baguettes like this!”

I was able to understand how the battle was going as the voices of our allies coming from behind grew louder and the enemy’s momentum continued to weaken.

‘The situation has clearly tilted in our favor.’

Frederick, who was convinced of that, gave more strength to the hand holding the sword.

Then they began to move towards the enemy faster and more violently.

“Our soldiers came to support our platoon. “It means we win!”

The platoon members were slowly getting tired from the long, first battle… but

when they heard that we were winning, they felt their lost strength coming back.

You wouldn’t know it if you were losing, but winning meant getting back from here alive.

‘Now that we’ve broken through the enemy lines, wouldn’t we be able to receive a huge reward if we survive?’

The thought that I could change my life with a reward or get a chance to turn my life around, such as being promoted to a non-commissioned officer, took away my fatigue.

“Long live the Reich Empire!”

“Follow the platoon leader! “Fight with all your might!”

“Do you live once or twice anyway?”

As Frederick began to drive victory in the war towards the Reich Empire, the report was also sent to the commander of the 8th Division of the Francois Republic.

“Major Lafayette! “Right now, a platoon commander in the Reich Imperial Army is eating away at our division, and the scale is gradually growing. How can we deal with it?”

Lafayette clicked his tongue when he heard that.

“Why is this so rotten? “Have you any idea what that damn guy is doing?”

No matter how excellent the intelligence of the Francois Republic Army was, there was no way to know the name or identity of a single platoon leader in the Imperial Army.

Lafayette asked without much expectation.

Nevertheless, the messenger heard those words and responded with a hardened face.

“He was a platoon leader who wore the emblem of the Duke Jaeger family of the Reich Empire.”

When Lafayette heard those words, he felt like he was going crazy.

If the fact that the son of the Grand Marshal’s family, and no one else, were to change the course of the war spread throughout the Reich Empire Army and Francois Army…

the morale of our troops would drop to the ground, and in return, the morale of the soldiers belonging to the Reich Empire would decline. It was as obvious as fire that they would soar into the sky all at once.

‘Then we might lose.’

“Holy shit! I will go there myself. “Concentrate all your forces there!”

And of course the commander of the division to which Friedrich belonged also had this thought.

“Fully support Lieutenant Friedrich! “This is our chance to gain the upper hand in infantry-to-infantry combat!”

At the same time as those words were spoken, a division of the Reich Empire naturally began to support Frederick.

When the division commanders of both armies were deciding whether to stop Frederick or help him spread his wings.

“Jaeger Platoon, hold on a little longer! “If we dig a little deeper, our platoon will have a big impact on the war!”

After hearing those words, the platoon members strengthened their will to hold on at all costs, but were unable to respond out loud due to their low stamina.

Friedrich thought as he looked at his platoon members who did not respond to his words of encouragement.

‘If you’ve made it this far, you’ve at least performed well enough to be promoted to lieutenant and receive a medal. Is this the limit? Should I step down now?’

Although such thoughts crossed his mind, Friedrich did not want to give up yet.

Although his subordinates are having a hard time physically, they are still following him.

However, as a platoon leader and commander, I did not think that this was the end of the line and that I should not limit myself.

Meanwhile, Friedrich caught a scene 40 meters away that appeared to be an enemy division commander riding a horse and swinging his baton wildly.

“Our division commander has stepped forward! Charge forward!”

“If you catch that wild bastard over there, I’ll give you a huge reward!”

“Kill that guy who wants to grill sausages!”

And as if to prove that what Friedrich saw was not wrong, Francois’s army, which had been pushed back by himself and his platoon, was regaining momentum…

‘I think that guy is the division commander!’

As the platoon members were almost at their limit, this desire arose in his heart.

Let’s make a big mark by somehow killing the division commander in front of us.

There was a very high chance that it wouldn’t work, but he happened to have a loaded crossbow that could pierce even plate armor.

“It’s all or nothing!”

And Frederick immediately gave orders to the soldiers of his platoon.

“Attention platoon! We’ll go as far as we can until we get to that guy on the horse! “Let’s just do this and then fall back!”

It was a situation where everyone in the platoon felt like they were going to collapse from exhaustion… but

they put all their strength into believing that the platoon leader was leading by example in the name of the Duke Jaeger family and living up to that reputation.

“yes!”

“Follow the platoon leader!”

“Go forward!”

Then, the soldiers of the Jaeger Platoon advanced with incredible momentum as if an arrow had been fired, all the way to the division commander.

Lafayette, the commander of Francois’s division, was inwardly frightened when he saw this.

‘The young ensign rolled his eyes when he saw me. Still, if I just kill this guy, my momentum will die, so it’s actually a good thing.’

“You don’t need my escort! Everyone doesn’t know how high the sky is, so kill that one-day puppy first!”

As the soldiers belonging to the division’s elite guarding the division commander advanced to block Friedrich, the soldiers who had been keeping Friedrich and his platoon in check fell to the side.

“Now…”

Friedrich immediately put his sword on the ground for a moment and took out the crossbow from his back.

It was already loaded…

‘Aim at the guy’s torso. If you aim at the neck or something like that and miss, it’s over.’

“die!”

Lafayette saw it and didn’t think it was a big deal.

Because, based on common sense, it was extremely rare for a crossbow or something like that to penetrate plate armor.

“It doesn’t seem like much…”

However, contrary to his expectations, the crossbow shot by Friedrich flew quickly and pierced his chest.

He could no longer speak and fell from the horse, vomiting blood.

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