The knights left their camp and charged towards the front lines. The 500 or so knights immediately activated their shield spells.
Then, the sparks that soon appeared above the shield. . . . . . . The enemies were shooting at the knights in an attempt to stop them, but it wasn’t easy. Occasionally, a grenade would explode and damage the shield, but it was quickly repaired.
The moment they reached the enemy’s trench line, the knights extended their lances. At the same time, they pressed the buttons on the handles of their lances, and with a loud bang as the gunpowder exploded, buckshot was fired from the barrels created at the bottom of the lance blades, sweeping the front.
The Republic soldiers in the trench line were swept away by the gun lance attack, and the knights charged in behind them with their shields raised.
The knights advanced swiftly between the trenches. As they crossed the ditches, they stabbed their lances downwards to deal with the soldiers in the trenches.
“Musketeer Company!”
In order to deal with the knights, a company of musketeers from the Marseille Musketeer Brigade used their MAS-36s to aim at the charging knights.
“Fire!”
Tatatatatatatatang!
Bullets filled with gunpowder flew through the air and soon hit the knights behind the shield, dealing damage.
At that moment, there were some skilled knights who drew their swords and deflected the flying bullets, but most of the knights were hit by the bullets and fell off their horses.
Although the armor had a reinforcement spell cast on it, the impact of the fall was greater than expected, making it difficult to get up easily.
“Euaaaah!”
Soldiers with bayonets attached to their rifles charged at the fallen knights and stabbed them repeatedly. It was not easy to pierce through their heavy armor, but. . . the joints and neck were relatively less protected, and there was also a method of killing them by using the pommel as a blunt weapon.
The Republic border guards fought fiercely.
The problem was that the front lines were in disarray as the knights broke through, and the margraves’ army did not miss the opportunity and launched an all-out assault. In the front, the knights with shield spell artifacts stood and blocked the firepower as much as possible.
“Waaaah!”
“Waaaah!”
“Waaaah!”
As the 10,000-strong army poured in like a flood, the Montbéliard border guards, who numbered less than 2,000, eventually had their trench line broken through.
The Republic army was pushed back as the defense line collapsed.
As Montbéliard, located in the northern part of the Republic and bordering Britannia, fell, the other borders began to fall like dominoes.
In the end, within 10 days of the start of the war, the entire Republic border was completely under the control of the Empire’s border army.
Only then did the Republic, which had arrived from the rear, deploy 200,000 regular troops and begin to establish a new defense line.
On the Empire side as well, the damage to the border army from breaking through the border was greater than expected, so the follow-up attack seemed likely to begin only after the Western Military District troops arrived.
Imperial Empire, August 8, 1914.
From the Western Military District headquarters in Munich, a force that had been completed by adding additional reserve troops was heading towards the neutral city of Geneva Bern as an army group. The plan was to use Bern as a base and use a million troops to capture the Republic’s largest cities.
In particular, one regiment from the Western Military District’s artillery brigade was sent to Nice to destroy the Republic’s mobile fleet that was anchored in the port of Nice.
The million troops all arrived in Bern over the course of five days, and the nearby Kingdom of Francia was nervous at the news. Finally, the Empire’s offensive would begin in earnest. . . . . . . Their decision to participate in the war would depend on how quickly the Western Military District troops took over the Republic’s territory.
Meanwhile, the Republic’s intelligence agency, ‘Vision’, was focusing its efforts on assassinating the Empire’s officers and non-commissioned officers with the help of the special forces unit, ‘Glory Knife Regiment’. The larger the army, the less smoothly it would operate in the absence of its officers, so there was no more effective method than this.
As a result, the number of officers and non-commissioned officers belonging to the margraves was greatly reduced, and the movement of the border armies was bound to become sluggish.
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“Cowards, assassinating officers and non-commissioned officers. . . . . . .”
“For the time being, it’s only happening to the provincial army, so it’s not a big problem. . . . . . .”
“It’ll be a headache if it happens in the military district as well.”
Most of the officers in the military district were filled by the Imperius Academy graduates, with the remaining 20% filled by local academies. And since non-commissioned officers were 100% filled by local academies, there were many trainees who could be used as non-commissioned officers.
“If we’re not careful, even the second years will be promoted to officers early. Will that be okay?”
When the students were bustling, Alicia told Oswald that she would like to be assigned to the same unit if they were deployed.
“Since you’re a Platinum Rank, you’ll probably be a captain from the start. . . . . . . The chances of us being assigned to the same place are slim?”
“Huh?”
“Moreover, Alicia, since you’re a 7th Circle Wizard, the chances of you being assigned to a magic battalion are high.”
A magic battalion composed of 7th Circle Wizards, organized into a brigade in the Western Military District.
“Then what about Oswald?”
“Me? . . . . . . Combat unit? Or maybe I’ll be dragged into Maesterium.”
“If it’s Maesterium. . . . . . . Isn’t that just the rear? But why?”
“Did you know that I made the personal weapons and strategic anti-personnel weapons that are being distributed to the Western Military District troops this time?”
“Hmm. . . . . . .”
“If they start showing results, the chances of me being dragged into Maesterium are very high.”
“Is that so?”
However, unlike Oswald’s thoughts, Hecaton, who knew that Oswald’s unofficial CID rank was Diamond, was arguing that he should be sent to the front lines.
Of course, the high-ranking officers of Maesterium, who were unaware of this fact, shouted that if Oswald were to be promoted early, he should come to Maesterium.
This fact soon reached the Minister of Defense, and the Minister of Defense could not help but worry because he had heard about Oswald’s unofficial rank from Hecaton.
In the end, the minister avoided giving an answer, saying that the decision on early promotion had not yet been made.
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