Creative Writing: All Quiet On The Western Front

"Yes. We almost failed to arrive on time. We had to force the march." "But how did you know that Arendelle was going to confront the Southern Isles' army in this valley." "A very nice man, well he was tall like a full grow man although I think he is younger than he seems, told me where it was expected to be. He was a very persuasive fellow. For three days, he was in my encampment insisting that the best way to join the rebellion in Eastmark was through Arendelle. I needed some time to agree with him, but there were too much soldiers in the paths to the South." "Where is that man?" Erick asked. "He and his companion, an old bald soldier with a great scar on his face, left us once we decided to go to the North."

The infantry usually had two options against cavalry. They could form in closed order trying to offer to the horses a solid wall of men with their lances heading forward. In this situation the animals instinctively avoided the clash and turned, breaking the force of the charge. If it was not possible to form a square to get such closed ranks, the other option was to flee trying to scatter as much as possible. So the cavalrymen had to catch their targets one by one. But the Southern Isles' regiment was in column formation, with his men in neat rows not oriented to block the pass of the horses. There was no time to react, Guntlaf maneuver had brought the cuirassiers too near and the cuirassiers just passed through the lines of the infantry with their long straight swords which were designed so that a trooper could cut down to the navel of a standing infantryman, without having to bend in the saddle. The infantrymen were so packed and surprised that the cuirassiers just had too keep their swords down to hit several enemies in a row as they pass through their lines. The column fell in an instant confussion as the men tried to evade the huge horses mounted by riders selected by their height and strength to be trained as shock cavalry. The officers tried to

"Reinhard you will be in the left, Erick took the right Harald will come with me, so he will see what kind of man I'm." Heinst urged his horse forward as he drawn his sword. "Dragoons, follow me!" He shouted, putting his horse at full gallop when he left the trees. Arendelle's dragoons charged behind him. They caught by surprise the Red Lancers when they were gathering to charge against Guntlaf's men. The Uhlans were so focused into what was happening with the cuirassiers that the Dragoons fell over them before they were aware of Arendelle's riders. So they couldn't take advantatge of their long lances. Before they could react the dragoons were among them, and Arendelle's swords were better suited for a close combat than the lances. "Don't stop! Strike them and keep going! Follow me!" Heinst shouted while he cut down a sergenat of the Uhlans with a single strike without slowing the galop of their horse. The dragoons followed their leader and left behind the few Uhlans who had survived the clash. Most of them had been dismounted, although one of the few who remained in his saddle managed to spear a dragoon whomhad been left behind. But the few remaining survivers weren't an organized combat force anymore. "Don't attack the infantry. Follow me." Heinst shouted as he maneuvered to avoid the groups of The Southern Isles' infantry scattered across the field and went towards the cuirassiers