Napoleon of Another World!

After dismounting and reaching the command post, Daemon asked to see the battle plans.

"When have you ever seen over ninety thousand soldiers on the same battlefield?" he smiled, handing the scroll back to Adrian

In fact, a clash of this magnitude had not been seen in all of western Erthea for at least a hundred years; not even the Flor War between Saedonia and Connelly or the eternal conflicts between Patria and Torian had ever moved so many soldiers.

The fate of two nations was at stake, and they had both put everything they had into play for this purpose.

"His reserves are stationed behind the hill." Daemon said while observing the enemy lines through his spyglass. "And until he deploys them, we won't know which flank he intends to hit us on."

"So what are we going to do?" asked Richard

"We'll go and provoke him, of course. We will begin the attack on the right with a massive shelling of his positions, then we will send the light cavalry. If he tries to pursue our knights or if, fearing an infantry attack, he sends reserves to reinforce that flank, we will strike in the center and break his formation in two."

A few minutes later the first cannon shots pierced the silence and the battle began.

The artillerymen were perhaps the units that had put most efforts in training to improve speed, precision and coordination, and they managed to fire at a rate of two or three shots per minute.

However, having to fire against a slope made the bullets lose their lethal ricocheting capacity, resulting in limited damage with few exceptions, also because Lefde had prudently ordered his troops to arrange themselves in wide formations.

The bombardment continued for several minutes producing modest results, then the time came for the Murat brigade.

Natuli and her horse archers charged, performing a wide arc that almost touched the enemy's front line, while launching hundreds of arrows that Eirinn's soldiers repelled, closing the formation and erecting shield walls.

The other half of the lancer brigade attacked soon after; the plan was to take advantage of the distraction provided by their companions to try to hit the flank of the enemy formation.

But Lefde had clearly chosen and prepared his officers quite well. While the targeted unit defended in an orderly manner from the archers, another positioned slightly higher advanced, covering the flank of its companions and intercepting the spearmen's charge, managing to repel them at the cost of some losses.

At that point, the siege weapons positioned on the Tourelle intervened and began to throw stones, darts and even wasp nests at the archers who continued to run in circles in front of the enemy, and who immediately began to suffer casualties.

Before the situation got further complicated, Daemon ordered a retreat, even though it didn't seem to worry him too much.