Is it fate?

"Don't engage and find a way to escape! Prepare to charge for the border!" 

Even though he was in this bad situation, the king forced himself to calm down and come up with this rational decision.

That was because he knew that if he were to stay here any longer, the only thing that would await them was death.

There was even a part of the king that wanted to abandon his knights just to escape on his own, but he knew that he wouldn't survive if he did something like this. If he were to go alone, there was only death that was waiting for him.

His only value right now was that he commanded this group of knights.

Without them, he wouldn't have the same value as he had right now.

So he had to bring these knights with him.

Their greatest weapon was the unified charge that they had, so that was what he was planning to use to get out of this place.

When they received this order, the knights immediately moved into formation.