Having successfully crossed the gate leading to the middle ring, some of Rhyfel's knights stayed behind preparing a base while others went out to explore and investigate, while Adolf was left leaning against the wall lost in thought, his body he had been greatly weakened, in his current capacity he could only squeeze out 20-30% of his original strength.
"[Sacrifice] in exchange for the full recovery of my body I give my [Blood Sweat] skill."
[The skill [Sacrifice] has been used]
[The skill [Blood Sweat] has been permanently removed from user records]
Along with her words, Adolf's body began to recover so fast that it was visible to the naked eye, but as the price to pay quickly became apparent, the [Blood Sweat] skill was instantly removed from the window. of Adolf's state, he sighed when he saw her disappear since even though he only used it on a few occasions, he had a certain affection for it.
'A good skill but if I keep doing this there will be nothing left to sacrifice.'
Adolf had already used the [Sacrifice] skill on several occasions, itself it was quite a simple skill in operation but its effects were far from simple.
[Sacrifice] was an ability that the user, in this case Adolf, would sacrifice something of himself to get something in return with equal or even higher value depending on what is sacrificed, for example Adolf could sacrifice an important memory and not that he didn't. it is important and he would get superior benefits from the important memory, since it was something Adolf valued and by losing it he would be losing a small fragment of who he is.
In this case, knowing that a memory or something similar would not be precious enough to help him return his body to its best state, Adolf sacrificed an ability, thanks to that he was able to return his body to its best state, this also influences since between the more powerful the ability the better what Adolf will get afterwards.
As Adolf rested to recover from mental fatigue, a knight from Rhyfel approached him.
"What happened?" Adolf asked when he saw that Rhyfel's knight did not speak.
The gentleman was silent for several seconds before answering.
"We need to know what we're going to do next."
"I see... for the next few weeks we will move from the attacking role to a defensive role."
"Why do I make that decision? Of course, if I can know."
Adolf sighed before opening his eyes to look at him, then in a tired monotone voice he said.
"Because we can't be aggressive or rather we don't have the chance, our strength is too low to go on the attack."
"Young leader, I know that you revived us and over time we have accepted you as a leader but I will not allow you to look down on me or my comrades."
Adolf shook his head before the Rhyfel knight's words.
"You're wrong, I don't disparage their strength simply as a group we don't have enough strength to launch an assault against the burnt knights that haunt the middle ring, we can no longer attack carelessly, doing that without proper planning would be no different from walking straight into our death.
Before we can carry out an assault we need to become a real army, besides my body is not in its best state due to the abuse of mana."
"Understand".
Rhyfel's knight nodded to Adolf's words and approached the others to convey the information.
Ever since Adolf started to revive the burned knights transforming them into the true Rhyfel knights they never moved as an army, sure, they applied basic group formations but it was just so as not to obstruct each other, they never really acted like a true army .
The main reason for that was that they mostly didn't need to, with their strength and numerical superiority carrying out assaults against burnt knights or groups of goblins wasn't too complicated, but it only worked since they possessed superior strength. to that of their opponents but now that was no longer true, now the strength of their opponents was equal to or greater than theirs.
That is why Adolf has the idea of making Rhyfel's knights and he a real army, for that two fundamental things were needed, the first would be the soldiers and the second would be a general.
An army without a general would be no different than a headless chicken and a general without an army would be no different than an invalid, both fulfilling different roles that complemented each other.
Un general estaba a cargo no solo de pensar en tácticas de guerra y formaciones de batalla, un general era mucho más que liderar un ejército ya que cualquiera podía hacerlo, un general era alguien que estaba a cargo de planificar no uno o dos movimientos hacia adelante sino lo que estaban planeando up to four or seven moves ahead, they had the role of avoiding the most Allied casualties by using everything at their disposal.
On the other hand, an army was those who had the role of carrying out the assault organized by a general and although it may seem simple and simple, it is quite the opposite, one should know that the soldiers must have not only the strength and fighting skills sufficient to to carry out the assault but must also have unimaginable strength of mind and bravery.
'Although melee weapons and magic are the style of warfare in this world there is still something that my old world far surpasses this one, I just have to adapt it to work with the available resources.'
Adolf sighed and closed his eyes, from the outside so that he was resting but in reality he was searching through his memories for everything he knew about tactics used by the military.
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Time quickly flew by and Rhyfel's knights together with Adolf had investigated the entire southern area of the middle ring, they could also see some burnt knights in the distance and with just a little glance they could see the difference in strength between them, the burnt knight he could roughly deal alone with two or three Rhyfel knights.
But it wasn't the biggest problem either, since compared to the burnt knights of the outer ring, these traveled in groups of five to ten members, also when there was a fight, the nearby burned knights came to join the fight.
Also the number of knights burned was truly alarming, considering that there were 150 Rhyfel knights under Adolf's command against 200 knights burned the prognosis was not very good, but even so the number of knights could be higher since 200 is an approximate number. .
No matter how brave and ferocious Rhyfel's knights were, it was impossible for them to overcome the primordial instinct that governs any living being, the fear of death, that was a primal instinct and strongly rooted in any living being and Rhyfel's knights were not an exception, even if they were dead.
On the other hand, the burned knights did not possess that instinct so they could fight without fear of death.
The most troublesome opponent that exists have never been those who are stronger, smarter or cunning but are those who are not afraid of death, those types of opponents do not care about their life at all and would gladly throw it away if it meant taking I get your opponent.
So, was it impossible for living beings to eliminate this instinct? The answer yes and no.
No one could eliminate the instinct of fear of dying but when a living being went through many life and death situations they could suppress it to a certain extent, this made them no longer fear when they faced death face to face.
But like everything in the universe, there are beings that do not adhere to the rules, there are beings that are not afraid of death, but among that tiny group they are divided into two factions, the natural and the irregular.
The natural ones are those who from their birth were born like this, but the irregular ones are different from that, they were not born like this but they entered that place by themselves, unfortunately there is only one way to eliminate the instinct of fear of death, it was to suffer multiple deaths over and over and over again until your body and soul completely forgot the fear of death.
If the number of those who are born naturally without fear of death is small, those who manage to eliminate fear of death from themselves are even smaller.
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Adolf stood in front of the group of Rhyfel knights, his face gaunt as dark circles hung from under his eyes, the Rhyfel knights didn't know why Adolf looked so gaunt but they didn't ask anything either and waited patiently for that he will speak
"As you know we are currently in the intermediate ring of the city of Rhyfel, we do not have an exact number of burnt knights residing in this place but it is estimated that there are between 200-250 burnt knights approximately.
They not only outnumber us but they outnumber us too, no matter how you look at this matter it is complete suicide to fight head on, even if we were to win against them the losses would simply be catastrophic."
When Rhyfel's knights heard Adolf's words, they lowered their heads helplessly, lamenting that they did not have enough strength. Adolf looked at that and waited a few dozen seconds before speaking again.
"But that doesn't mean we're completely lost."
Those words rekindled the small flame of hope in Rhyfel's knights, Adolf took advantage and continued hitting the steel while it was still hot.
"Puedes tener participated in several wars, some may have been big conflicts with historical relevance but others maybe were insignificant conflicts that will never be remembered in history, but no matter how small or big the conflicts were, the important thing was that you experienced all of that first hand.
Although the burnt knights have superior strength, that does not mean that we cannot win against them, throughout history wars are not only won with strength and numerical superiority, no, of course not, wars are also won with cunning and planning .
Battle formations, seizing terrain, employing different tactics, etc. In this universe we can't just sit around crying waiting for things to change, we must make things change!"
The more they listened to Adolf's words, the more the flame of hope burned within Rhyfel's knights.
"They may outnumber us in strength and numbers but that's okay! We are not just strength and numbers, we possess intelligence and cunning compared to them, we will win even if it means we have to drag ourselves to get it.
"Today I will take the first step to war, we will go and fight for the first time in the history of Rhyfel the first urban war!"
Along with Adolf's final declaration came the euphoric cry of the Rhyfel knights, for them the concept of urban warfare was something they had never heard of before but for Adolf it was something he had already heard and studied, it just took him a long time. I struggle to remember everything I knew about urban warfare.
Humans are warlike by nature, wars and conflicts evolved as civilization developed, as human cities grew both in size and in infrastructure, wars had to adapt to this, hence urban warfare was born.
Urban warfare took advantage of the environment and the infrastructures either at the time of attacking or defending.
Adolf thought of employing the tactics of urban warfare to win against the burnt knights, of course before adjustments would be made here and there to accommodate the use of melee weapons and their magic instead of firearms.
When that was completed the urban war between the Rhyfel knights led by Adolf and the burnt knights would begin.