The Witcher: Make Witcher Great Again

Chapter 322 Battle
Gerd pushed aside the thrusting spear, took a step forward, and the sword in his hand drew a silver arc, splitting the spearman's throat.

Blood splattered.

Then, he dodged to the right, avoiding the incoming longsword, and slashed the sword from top to bottom, almost cutting a Nilfgaardian soldier in half.

But at this moment, two more Nilfgaard soldiers took advantage of the fact that Gerd had no time to put away his sword and stabbed him from behind with their spears.

In their opinion, Gerd was dead.

But before their spears touched Gerd, two arrows came from a distance and shot into the gaps in the two men's armor.

Gerd drew his greatsword, swung it in a circle, and killed the two men effortlessly.

He didn't have time to thank Lin En who was providing support shooting from a distance, so he quickly took out two more high-level honeycomb bombs that Lin En had given him before.

Throw it forward and grab a corpse on the ground to use as a meat shield.

Only two bangs were heard, and two small "blanks" were blown out in the surging crowd. In these blank areas, the Nilfgaardians who were not yet dead fell to the ground, wailing while holding their broken arms.

Gerd did not dare to delay and took advantage of this opportunity to rush across the only wooden board in two steps.

Several fearless Nilfgaardian soldiers stepped on their companions' bodies and chased them relentlessly.

But they were killed one after another by Lin En's bow.

Ged crossed the trench and pulled over the last plank. Some of the Nilfgaardian soldiers on the opposite side did not have time to stop their forward momentum and rolled down the trench, hitting the sharpened wooden stakes at the bottom.

The Tursek troops guarding the fence waited for Gerd to pass, then moved the barricades and completely blocked the fence.

……

On the flagship deck.

The messenger reported to Earl Tullius.

"My Lord, the Württemberg and Nassau Infantry have suffered more than half their casualties, and the captain of the Württemberg Infantry has been killed."

Lord Tullius's eyelids twitched, but he hid his expression well.

"Order the Württemberg and Nassau Infantry to withdraw, and let the Palatinate and Lübeck Infantry continue the attack."

Only after the messenger retreated did Earl Tullius's face show a solemn expression.

The tenacity of the islanders was beyond his expectations.

The islanders are more difficult to deal with than expected, but the problem is that he is now in a difficult situation.

If we give the order to retreat now, not only will the soldiers who have already died in battle have died in vain, but if we get around the side of the island and encounter resistance again, will we have to flee again?
Is there any immortality in war?

In fact, Count Tullius has already realized that these hundreds of people are the entire enemy force. The size of his own army is three times that of the enemy. Even if it means exchanging human lives, he will still make a profit.

As long as we can destroy this enemy force in front of us, it will be impossible for Little Skellig to raise a second resistance force...

At that time, he would just need to use the power of victory to directly attack the undermanned Tursek Castle and plunder it. After returning to Nilfgaard, he would naturally be treated like a hero.

On the other hand, if they returned empty-handed due to a lack of manpower, they would inevitably bear the emperor's wrath. Imagine that even now, the empire's coastline continues to be plundered by the archipelago fleet.

Villages were looted, farmland burned, maritime trade was completely cut off, and the losses suffered by the merchant guilds were incalculable.

Nilfgaard is highly centralized, but it has not yet reached the point where the country is the emperor. Even the emperor needs the support of others to sit firmly on the throne.

Therefore, if his operation in the Skellige Islands was successfully completed, it would be fine. However, if he escaped back in disgrace, then as a defeated general, he would inevitably be used by the emperor as a scapegoat to divert the attention of the people and the Merchant Guild.

No matter how prominent your family is, it will be of no use.

Therefore, rather than losing your head because of caring about the casualties of soldiers, it is better to let the soldiers' corpses reap the fruits of victory for you.

The saying "In peacetime, treat soldiers like your own children; but on the battlefield, use soldiers like clay dolls, and do not unilaterally worry about casualties for the sake of victory" is exactly this principle.

……

Under the orders of Count Tullius, the Nilfgaardian army that had previously pursued the islanders retreated and was replaced by another group of fresh troops.

This group of soldiers has been resting since they landed. Now their physical strength has been restored, and the seasickness symptoms caused by long-term ship travel have also been alleviated to a certain extent.

After receiving the commander's order, they rushed forward like a tide.

Since learning of the impending Nilfgaardian invasion, the Tursek branch has built a row of fences directly opposite the beach.

There is no fence in the middle, but it is used to place movable barricades.

The left and right sides of the fence extend all the way to the steep bank. The advantage of arranging fortifications in this way is that the enemy can only attack from the front.

But after Lynn arrived, he proposed digging another trench in front of the fence.

At the same time, sharpened wooden stakes were inserted obliquely at the bottom of the trench near the fence.

Earlier, when Drummond's troops went out to support Quete's troops, they laid a few wooden boards on the trench and removed the barricades in the middle of the fence.

When everyone retreated behind the fence, all the wooden boards were removed and the chevaux de frise were moved back to the middle of the fence.

Therefore, when the Palatinate Infantry and the Lübeck Infantry took over the Württemberg Infantry and the Nassau Infantry to continue the attack, they needed to first climb down the trench, then carefully step on the wooden stakes and use the force to climb up the fence.

This process is very dangerous even under normal circumstances.

Not to mention that when they started to climb up from the bottom of the trench, there were spears and swords waiting for them behind the fence, ready and eyeing them.

Therefore, the twenty or so unlucky guys in the front either climbed up with great difficulty and were scratched by spears and swords that were thrust out from behind the fence, or fell down while trying to avoid it and were stabbed by the wooden stakes inserted diagonally at the bottom.

Realizing that this was not a solution, the Nilfgaardian army temporarily stopped the attack and immediately dispatched a group of archers to stand on the other side of the trench and suppress the Tursek troops at close range.

The archers of Quet's army immediately counterattacked, but the number of Nilfgaardian archers was five times that of Quet's army. Even though there was a disadvantage of shooting upward, the advantage in absolute numbers was enough to make up for it.

After several rounds of shooting, the Quet archers were suppressed. Not only the Quet archers, but the Nilfgaard archers also shot at the Tursek troops behind the fence, forcing the Tursek troops to retreat.

(End of this chapter)