Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 277

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Seven Times Is Too Much

Du-du-du-du!

“Charge!

Charge!”

“Uwaaaa!”

The knights and cavalry of Nudia, who had barely managed to circle behind their allies, charged towards the northern warriors without even having time to form ranks.

There was a reasonable explanation for this action: like themselves, those northern warriors had ridden their horses all the way here without rest, so both people and horses must be exhausted.

The idea was to take advantage of that moment to push them back at once, creating space for the main force to retreat safely.

“No need to clash head-on!

Just prevent them from reaching our allies!”

“They will surely try to lure us again!

Don’t fall for it, maintain your distance and focus on securing the retreat route for our allies!”

Having suffered a painful defeat at their hands not long ago, they were determined not to make the foolish mistake of chasing after the northern warriors and falling into a trap.

“Yorleiy Yorleiy!”

“Yohooyohooo!”

Against the Nudia army, the northern warriors deliberately made ridiculous noises, as if to show their contempt, trying to lure them further away from their main force.

However, having been tricked by that tactic before, it seemed unlikely to work this time.

The Nudia knights were drawing large circles around the area, while the cavalry circled in the opposite direction, guarding against enemies trying to break through the gaps.

“Temujin.

They are not moving as we expected.”

“They have brains too. How long has it been since they were tricked? And those who were tricked are among them, so it would be strange if they fell for it again.”

“Then…”

“Let’s see. Who has more patience. Tell the warriors. From now on, we will fight with bows. Let’s see if they can become hedgehogs and hold out like that until they die.”

“Yes, Temujin!”

A warrior who received Zhan’s order rode off to spread the word to his fellow warriors.

At the same time, another warrior next to him shot four arrows into the air in succession.

Peeeee!

Peeeee!

Pee!

Peeeee!

To Nudia, it was just a bizarre sound.

But to the northern warriors, that sound was like an order from their leader.

“Eeeeeya!”

“Yoooo!”

The warriors put away their swords and spears and all picked up bows.

If others saw this scene, they would have laughed at the idea of some fool trying to shoot arrows while riding a horse, but the Nudia knights had already experienced the power of it.

The power to target the gaps in their armor like ghosts, even penetrating the thinner parts.

From that moment on, the Nudia knights and cavalry began their arduous march.

When they approached to stop the enemies from flanking their allies, the enemies would suddenly turn their horses and draw their bows, firing arrows at them.

“Gasp!”

“Ugh!”

They had prepared in advance, so the damage wasn’t significant, but there were still casualties and those who fell from their horses after being hit by arrows.

Just when they thought they had fended off the enemies once again, a group of cavalry charged from the opposite side.

As the Nudia cavalry tried to block them in place of the knights, they quickly turned their horses again, twisting their waists to shoot arrows at them.

“Kugh!”

“Aaaagh! My eyes, my eyes!”

“Ugh!”

Perhaps because they were less armored, the cavalry suffered more damage than expected.

After showering the Nudia cavalry with arrows as they had done to the knights, they made strange noises again and quickly left the battlefield.

Immediately afterwards, other warriors began to charge towards the infantry of the main force, who were just starting to retreat.

The Nudia knights quickly tried to stop them, but the memory of being tricked earlier made them hesitate, wondering, ‘Again?’

They slowed down to keep their distance from the arrows.

As a result, the northern warriors, with nothing to stop them, drew their swords and charged at the infantry, and only then did the knights realize the situation and grit their teeth, spurring their horses.

“Faster, faster, faster!”

“If the main force is swept away, it’s over!”

The Nudia knights were gritting their teeth, chasing after the warriors and about to attack them when…

“Yahoo!”

“Uhyooh!”

Suddenly, the warriors all threw away their swords and immediately drew their bows, pulling back the strings.

Before the knights could react to the unexpected distance and even more unexpected change, the arrows left the strings and flew straight towards them.

Thud!

Thwack!

“Cough!”

“Ugh!”

The damage was still not great, but it was steadily accumulating.

Above all, the knights and cavalry, who could not leave their positions to protect their allies, were just circling around, becoming easy targets.

“Someone fire back, fire back!”

“Shoot, shoot!”

The Nudia cavalry and a few knights also carried bows.

So they tried to fight back against the northern warriors with counter-fire, but aiming and shooting while riding a horse was not an easy task.

Yet, those northern barbarians were doing that difficult thing, even turning their waists to look back, so naturally.

“Form ranks quickly!”

“You guys! Don’t just stand there blankly, turn around and stand!”

Thanks to the sacrifice of the knights and cavalry, the Nudia main force was slowly emerging.

However, the confusion was so great that with all sorts of noises coming from everywhere, it was impossible to convey orders properly, and even hearing the person next to you was difficult.

“Temujin. The enemy’s main force is starting to come out.”

At the warrior’s words, Zhan glanced at the enemy’s situation.

The enemy’s infantry was pouring out through the narrow exit in the fire, and the proper command system was not working. Right now was the perfect time to start the roundup.

“Deploy the Mangudai [elite Mongol cavalry known for their archery and mobility].”

“Yes!”

Peeeee!―

As the signal went up, another group of northern warriors who had been waiting all this time picked up the spears they had stuck in the ground and began to move.

With something stuck on the blade of the spear they were holding.

“Th-there!

There!”

“What is that!”

The Nudia infantry spotted the warriors.

As if threatening them, they were moving back and forth on the right, holding spears with the heads of knights and cavalry swept away in the previous battle stuck on them!

“U-Uaaaaah…!”

“Savages!”

The Nudia soldiers turned pale and shouted, wondering how they could do such a thing as human beings, while also worrying that their own heads might be stuck on those spears later.

In the meantime, when the enemy cavalry targeted the Nudia main force again, the knights and cavalry stepped forward to block them and soon repelled the northern warriors.

However, the northern warriors did not give up and tried to break into the main force, even risking close combat, so the Nudia soldiers, who thought they had barely escaped from hell, had to face another hell.

Behind them, their allies were still pouring out, surrounded by a huge wall of flames, and on the left, barbarian warriors with Nudia people’s heads stuck on spears were making strange noises, threatening to push in at any moment.

And in front, the knights and cavalry were struggling to stop those who kept trying to kill them.

“Ugh!”

As the desire to live grew stronger, they naturally looked for a way to escape.

While forming ranks, the soldiers looked around and soon realized that the enemy cavalry had not yet occupied their right side.

The main force of Hispania was still fighting other allies inside the flames, and the enemy cavalry had only completely surrounded the left side, not reaching the right side.

But the knights and cavalry fighting in front might not be able to hold out for long.

If they hesitated any longer, they might be completely surrounded and end up with their heads stuck on those spears!

“Eeeeek!”

Eventually, the first deserter appeared.

A soldier threw away his spear and shield and ran towards the direction that seemed like a way out.

Then, the other soldiers next to him also broke ranks one by one and began to run for their lives.

“Y-You fools!”

“Come back! Hold your ground!”

If the command had been fully present, this would not have happened.

But with the commander and key command still fighting inside, and only a few mid-level commanders outside, there was no one to strongly hold onto the soldiers who had fallen into chaos, which was acting as the worst variable.

In addition, when the northern warriors who had confirmed the enemy’s desertion deliberately concentrated their forces on the left as if to strike, the Nudia main force, surprised by this, ended up deserting the battlefield en masse, resulting in the worst situation.

“Th-Those fools!”

To the knights and cavalry who were fighting a bloody battle to protect them, it was an absurd situation.

But the infantry was filled with the urgent situation and the thought that they would die if they hesitated, so they had no choice.

“L-Let’s go too!”

“Run! If we stay like this, we’ll die like dogs!”

If you run away, you can live, if you hold your ground, you’ll just die like a dog!

With that thought, everyone deserted the ranks, and a spectacular sight of hundreds of people running away at once unfolded.

Some commanders even saw this as an opportunity and mixed in with them to escape.

“…It’s starting.”

“I will inform the Hispania side.”

When Zhan nodded, the warrior next to him blew the trumpet he was holding three times.

Then, after a while, the flames surrounding the Nudia main force disappeared at once, as if it had been a midsummer night’s dream.

Thanks to this, the remaining Nudia soldiers who had been working hard to hold out saw the scene of the enemies completely surrounding them except for the right side, and those who had gone out first to reorganize their ranks were running away, trying to save themselves.

“Ah…!”

Ibe could also see that scene.

While those in the front were sacrificing themselves to buy time, the rear was supposed to get out, reorganize their ranks, and prepare to fight, but instead, they were running away, screaming, ‘Save me!’

Even though Ibe thought that even if they lost the battle, they could somehow salvage the army and retreat, it was the same as falling into an abyss of despair with no end in sight.

Someone’s participation calls for another participant, and conversely, someone’s desertion calls for another deserter.

That was the crowd psychology that humans could never reject, and in the middle of the battlefield like this, that psychology appeared twice as strong as usual.

“Commander! Our ranks are collapsing uncontrollably!”

“The infantry is running away! We can’t stop them!”

“Commander! Commander!”

The Nudia front line, which had been barely holding on, finally collapsed.

The extremely natural thought of ‘Why should I die for the person next to me when others are abandoning us and running away?’ triggered the collapse.

“They seemed to be holding out for a while, but they eventually collapsed on their own.”

“We can just slowly destroy the enemies and chase after them, Duke Volko.”

“You mean completely eliminate those who resist? Then what about those who ran away?”

“Those who fight and die like that will be less unhappy.”

The northern warriors treat those who fight to the end as warriors.

But those who give up fighting and run away are not enemies, but just prey.

How do warriors treat prey?

They kill them even if they run away, they kill them even if they give up and stop, and even if they beg for their lives, they just laugh and crush their heads.

The reason why they secretly emptied the right side was because the elite of the northern warriors, trained to the highest level, were waiting in front of them.

Not lightly armed with bows and swords like those who lure prey, but those terrifying people who were heavily armed with all sorts of weapons to wage a massacre.

Those who are running away now will regret it too late, thinking, ‘I should have stayed in that spot with my legs fixed and fought to the death or been captured as a prisoner.’

While arrows and spears are stuck in their bodies, bleeding profusely, and dying.

―

“Kneel!”

“Ugh!”

Ibe was roughly handled and dragged in front of a man and forced to kneel.

Then, the man who had been sitting silently in the cart, watching the battle situation, Zion Klausen, looked down at Ibe and slowly opened his mouth.

“Long time no see. Chess King. Or should I call you Ibe, the only daughter of Nudia’s Minister Etelmo.”

“Young Master Zion Klausen.”

Ibe let out a groan and lowered her head.

The battle was a complete defeat for Nudia.

They even suffered enormous damage with most of their forces annihilated.

Ibe herself became bait to safely retreat the commander and some of the command staff, but in the end, only the knights and cavalry would be able to survive and escape to the border.

The fleeing infantry would be driven here and there and eventually fall like sheep slaughtered by wolves.

“Uaaaah!”

“Aaaaah!”

Even now, the screams of Nudia soldiers being brutally murdered in the not-so-distant place echoed across the field and then subsided.

The warriors from the north had very bright faces as they cut off the heads of the Nudia soldiers one by one, and those who had fled were trampled by horses and had their backs pierced by spears, meeting their end in all sorts of gruesome ways.

“It was a draw in chess at the Hispania Royal Castle. You and I.”

“…Yes. It was.”

“And it seems we’ve come to settle the unfinished match in this war.”

“That’s… right.”

Ibe buried her head in the ground and opened her mouth with difficulty.

“I… lost. I was completely defeated.”

“Hmm.”

“The winner is Young Master Zion Klausen, so… I will await your disposal. Please do not disgrace me and just kill me, I beg you.”

Nudia’s Minister Etelmo is a well-known figure even in Hispania.

And as the only daughter of such a minister, regardless of her abilities or anything else, just capturing her would be an item with tremendous bargaining value.

Ibe was asking for death to prevent herself from being used in such a way.

“Raise your head, Ibe. And listen to me carefully.”

“…”

“The surprise attack on the Hispania main force that happened before. Surely your influence had some effect on that, Ibe. Isn’t that right?”

“Yes, you can say that.”

“Then, because of you, I was properly hit, you see.”

“…Is that… so?”

“Then the score at that time is 2:1, and now I’ve won against you again, so it’s 2:2.”

Suddenly, the story took a strange turn, and Ibe raised her head and looked at Zion.

The beautiful young man, who had a smile so radiant that he couldn’t be thought of as human, stared at Ibe and continued.

“Go.”

“…Yes?”

“Go. It’s a tie, so I’m letting you go to settle the score. Ibe Gi Lestion.”

Was she hearing things?

Ibe sincerely thought so.

The only daughter of Nudia’s Minister is an item that is more valuable than any other item in negotiations.

And this man was saying that he would let her go right away as if he had no regrets.

‘As if, as if he’s saying that he can catch me again anytime…’

Ah, I. I am ultimately an existence that cannot reach him.

I was so foolish to think even for a moment that I could beat him.

Ibe thought so and lowered her head.

‘But seven times is too much. Seven times is too much!

Twice. Let’s make it twice!’

Thanks to Zion, who was a fan of someone, Ibe unintentionally gained another life.

―――――――Author’s Note―――――――

Only that person can catch and release seven times!

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