Chapter 6.3
The sun had already appeared above the mountain’s ridge line completely, but the fog still hadn’t cleared away .
Of course, the hot air enveloping the surroundings wasn’t only because of the fierce battle, it was easy to predict that the temperature would rise after the fog had cleared away . It’d be quite warm until about noon, and it’d probably be a cloudless clear sky .
「Will the overall situation be decided by then…?」
Narrowing his eyes at the battle cries, screams and bellows that could be heard far in the distance, Euchemard looked up at the sky . At the foremost line, the cavalry of Haiderota’s army had repeated attacks, which seemed meaningless, on the infantry of Yururogu’s army many times over since a short while ago .
Building a wall of heavy infantry at the front and lining up archers and magic warriorsMarefikos at the rear, Yururogu’s army merely continued to stop the attacks of Haiderota’s army only .
However, just by that alone, Haiderota’s cavalry was gradually decreasing their number . The heavy infantry of Yururogu acted as a strong shield and protected the archers at the rear; at the same time, the archers’ accurate shooting blunted the charge force of Haiderota’s cavalry . As a result, Haiderota’s army couldn’t even break through Yururogu’s infantry unit .
However, Euchemard would never actively make an attack .
Holding out against the enemy’s fierce attacks, the moment when the other party showed signs of getting tired and retreating was by rights the perfect chance to switch to the offensive, but Euchemard would by no means give the order to do so . If the enemy retreated, he’d leave it to them to retreat; if they attacked, he’d fortify the defence like a turtle .
The reason is that Euchemard didn’t need to win in this field battle . The Yururogu’s army just have to build a strong wall in front of its precious trebuchets and keep on protecting these castle siege weapons until Delbrück’s rampart was destroyed . Rather, they were afraid of moving forward too much to try to annihilate the enemy cavalry, leaving the trebuchets unprotected .
「Your Highness」
A new information came to Euchemard, who was watching the progress of the battle attentively .
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「What is it?」
「A cavalry of about fifty horsemen is approaching from the west!」
「…Is it a detached force of Aurillac?」
「The details are unclear, but it’s a group that had rose patterns printed on blue mantles」
「Rose… huh」
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Euchemard’s moustache quivered .
「…I certainly didn’t expect the Amaddo’s brat to use the Aurillac’s brat as a decoy to run through this battlefield…」
「What should we do?」
「Increase the thickness in the west a little . The extent of fifty horsemen won’t make much difference, but just in case, we mustn’t allow them to break through . …Amaddo’s Seal Chivalric Order is nothing but elites who have perfected both swordsmanship and magic… ma, I don’t know to what extent is that the truth, but there’s such a rumour」
「Ha!」
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Seeing the orderly who had ran away off, Euchemard knitted his brows .
「…It doesn’t seem that Amaddo’s intention is to intervene in this battle though」
The trebuchets were continuing their throws smoothly . At this rate, Delbrück’s rampart would probably collapse in the not-so-distant future .
However, it was a small surprise to Euchemard that Amaddo’s Crown Prince would nonchalantly appear on this battlefield . Even if he understood that it wouldn’t immediately lead to Amaddo’s full-scale participation in the war, it wasn’t something that could be completely ignored either .
Although a cavalry of fifty was numerically trivial on this battlefield, it was a fact that it evoked a sense of discomfort, which was very hard to express, in Euchemard .