Hearing the retreat bugle from the opposite bank, Knight Henkel looked at the nearly completed pontoon bridge and angrily clenched his fist.
If only they could have waited a little longer! If the Young Master had taken his advice before the attack!
His resentment turned into a sigh. The old knight didn't understand how a battlefield where they had more than twice the enemy's strength could be lost, but since the main force had already retreated, the two hundred Militia he led could no longer turn the tide.
Henkel ordered a halt to the bridge construction and turned to lead his troops away from the north bank.
...
As the army of the Wolf Family retreated farther and farther back along the way they had come, disappearing entirely from the battlefield, the Soldiers Mister Brian Sr. had gathered only truly felt the advent of victory.
But after their cheers, people couldn't rest immediately.