Seeing the light cavalry taken down, the Iron Lancers stopped their survivor-hunting and reformed their ranks with their bowmen at front.
An overreaction against just one guy.
Maybe they thought I had reinforcements behind me.
They completely blocked the road.
If I took a detour the enemy will have the terrain advantage and I’ll only tire Schwarz out, which is undesirable.
So I guess there’s no choice but to break through.
There were archers on the left and right flanks.
I can’t defend against dozens of arrows loosed at the same time.
Rather than me, if Schwarz was hit and lost his legs then it’ll be all over.
Then there is only one way.
If I jumped in the middle of the Iron Lancers the bowmen can’t do a thing.
Their spears are long and thin, not something you’d use for melée, so I should be able to manage something if I could get close.
Of course, it’ll be a life-and-death struggle.
Ah, I’m glad I left Carla behind.
“Let’s go, run with all you’ve got!”
A black wind blew.
Some of the Iron Lancers had already started dashing, the distance between us quickly vanished.
The archers hurriedly loosed their arrows but since there is some distance between us the arrows flew in an arc and by the time it fell Schwarz had already moved elsewhere.
There’s not even a 10 meter distance between me and the cavalry anymore.
Now the archers couldn’t move.
The spears were thrusted forwards, forming a line.
If I ran into them there’s no doubt that I’m going to die skewered.
But right before I was about to crash into them, I swung my spear.
The spears, specializing in just stabbing from the front, couldn’t handle the lateral shock from a lump of iron, several of them broke right away, forming a hole in the line.
Without slowing down, Schwarz followed his running momentum and punched through the hole.
As expected from a lewd horse, he’s got good guts, I thought as I readied my spear again.
If either me or him made a blunder, neither of us are going to survive.
Schwarz’s charge was like a rolling boulder, so impressive that the enemy horses gave us way.
Obviously, even I wouldn’t want to face this guy head on.
Now that their front line is broken, I jumped into their middle ranks.