Tyranny of Steel

Despite Lambert ’s death, the battle continued to wage on. Of course, in the middle of the chaos and bloodshed, nobody noticed that the commander of the Teutonic Order lay dead on the ground, not at first at least. However, the surrounding Teutonic knights and grenadiers quickly realized that their commanders were missing and gazed over to see Berengar wounded in one eye, staring down at his brother ’s corpse. You would think that the sight of their commander dying would weaken the crusader ’s resolve. However, it only enhanced it. The Heretic had killed his own brother; that was a grave sin, and as such, their zealotry took hold of them as they began to make their way to Berengar to avenge the loss of their commander.

However, the Grenadiers quickly halted the knight ’s advance to put their bayonets in their path and formed a wall between the enemy and their commander. A fierce clash broke out between Berengar ’s grenadiers and the Knights of the Teutonic Order; despite the Knight ’s being clad head to toe in plate armor, they soon found themselves being gunned down by a few of the rifled musketeers who stayed in the treeline and sniped the enemy targets from afar. These men were Berengar ’s marksman and would one day become his Jaeger Corps. For now, they pelted the heavily armored knights with lead projectiles while they clashed with the Grenadiers.

Eventually, the melee seemed to turn in favor of Berengar ’s army; after all, their commander was dead, and at this point, Berengar and his army had slaughtered the majority of the Knights and Men at Arms. As for the levies, they no longer had the resolve to fight. As such entire ranks of levies dropped their weapons as they realized they were greatly outmatched by the skill of Berengar ’s line infantry and their bayonets. Noticing the decrease in Knights and Men at Arms, Berengar shouted to the chaotic battlefield as loud as possible.

”Any levy who turns on the Teutonic Order will be spared the death in which I have reserved for them! ”

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Berengar ’s officers and NCOs quickly relaid this news across the melee to the point where most of the Levies had taken up arms against the men who forced them into this deadly conflict. There was no love lost between the levies and the Teutonic Order, and given the option, they would gladly backstab the Knights and Men at arms who forced them out of their homes and away from their families into this slaughter.