Chapter 98: A King and his General (11)
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“Hiyaah!”
“Whoa there!”
The mounted archers were no more than 20 meters away from where we had crouched down. They were shouting at each other loudly, but that was most likely so that they could accurately grasp the location of their allies. It’d be a calamity if they couldn’t figure out where their allies were due to the darkness and end up crashing into one another.
The mounted archers passed Laura and I. They weren’t paying attention to their flanks at all. Well, it’s only natural since they’re using all of their concentration keeping an eye in front of them and figuring out each other’s location.
This is why night battles are usually avoided when possible. Out of the five senses, sight is one of the most important senses for humans. Stepping out into a life-threatening battle where your vision is restricted puts a heavy mental strain on people. ……The very fact that an army would resort to a night battle proves how elite their soldiers are and the fact that they would even use mounted archers, which are already difficult to use, shows that they are not conscripted soldiers but professionals.
But why does that matter?
Even elite soldiers can’t survive if their necks are broken.
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