Atop the very best hill of the Plaskowyz Plateau, a person flanked by his 7000 or so subordinates watched the battle between the Porrish and the Drussians unfold atop his warhorse.

His purple cape and silver-hair have been blown backwards by the wind, which made him seem to be a bigger than life determine regardless of how common his typical look appeared when one took his signature silver hair and purple hair out of the equation.

With one hand inside his pocket and the opposite gripping the reins of his horse, Maxwell continued to spectate the battle that was in the end of his personal making.

As soon as once more he has succeeded.

Not solely has he as soon as once more achieved a whole and utter victory towards his foes however he would almost certainly shatter the worldview of the opposite nations by quashing Porrand in a comparatively easy method.

Now all that was left for him to do was to shortly overwhelm the undermanned and under-defended Porrish cities till a consensus is made with the surviving Porrish royalty or all of Porrand is efficiently annexed.

Maxwell did not thoughts which path the Porrish will take, to him it’ll all finish in the identical means anyway.

Though no smile has fashioned on Maxwell’s face, he continued to relish the sight of the battle.

To Maxwell’s shock, he discovered that he really felt fairly apathetic in the direction of this explicit battle. In particular, how he knew that victory already fell properly inside his grasp in the course of the early phases of the battle with subsequent to no resistance.

To him, they have been nothing greater than stepping stones on his highway to glory.

…

“I see… It’s possible you’ll depart.”

Michelle instantly dismissed the knight as soon as he completed recounting what has occurred to this point in the course of the Drussian invasion of Porrand. Quickly Michelle as soon as once more cupped her chin as she fell into deep thought.

“What a moderately fascinating flip of occasions…”

Whereas Michelle nonetheless had issues in regards to the fixed menace of the Panish empire, their menace stage has decreased ever since they misplaced a sizeable quantity of their army energy after a number of Panish nobles took their forces to Benice, almost certainly making ready to take part within the subsequent campaign.

As such, Michelle was given a second of aid which allowed her to refocus a few of her consideration again to the northeast of the mainland continent. Specifically, she was capable of examine what the Imperium of Drussia and its emperor; Maxwell was as much as.

Particularly now that they just about crushed the mixed would possibly of Porrand in a single fell swoop, principally leaving the Kingdom of Porrand within the Imperium of Drussia’s mercy.

Nevertheless, Michelle was largely unconcerned with no matter plans the Imperium and by extension Maxwell had for Porrand.

As an alternative, what she was really involved about was the implications that the Imperium’s victory could have on the continent.

In any case, it was very uncommon for a whole nation to be dropped at its knees, to not point out being dropped at its knees by an up and coming newcomer in a comparatively fast and easy method.

Though she knew that Maxwell would try to make use of his place as monarch of a nation to make outrageous strikes. What he has finished was one thing that was out of even Michelle’s expectations.

What Maxwell is making an attempt is not even napoleonic warfare anymore. In Michelle’s authentic world, the gatling gun was solely invented in the course of the Crimean-war period.

From the appears to be like of issues, it might appear that Maxwell is utilizing his monopoly on trendy information together along with his energy as emperor of a nation to advance the age and nature of warfare at his personal tempo.

This in fact meant that the Imperium of Drussia will attain unprecedented heights of energy at a excessive velocity which leaves different nations within the mud.

What makes this prospect much more terrifying is due to how Maxwell is ready to dictate using superior strategies and applied sciences in a means that might by no means be matched even of their authentic worlds.

Within the authentic timeline, the complete potential of the gatling gun took a considerably very long time to be realised as a consequence of traditionalist generals not utilising the gatling weapons to their fullest.

This was primarily as a consequence of the truth that by that time limit, most generals has already settled right into a ‘conventional’ type of warfare, with the historical past of over 300 years value of line warfare ranging from the early renaissance period dictating generals’ choice making when it got here to using gatling weapons.

Nevertheless, on this timeline, for the reason that development of warfare has turn into unstable no because of Maxwell, there have been just about no traditionalist generals or a minimum of none inside Drussia who have been unable to see the values of latest technological weapon developments.

The gatling gun was no totally different.

Though, Michelle was nonetheless sure that there nonetheless existed traditionalist generals who’re unable to adapt the brand new type of warfare whether or not they belonged to Drussia or not.

Nevertheless, if the previous few conflicts have been something to go by, then these aforementioned traditionalist generals would most likely not final lengthy within the upcoming conflicts. If Michelle needed to examine her ideas to a concept, she would examine it to-

“Pure choice…”

Whereas Michelle already predicted that the nations which have been unable to adapt to the brand new type of warfare shall be crushed underneath the heel of a way more crueler and unforgiving type of warfare, she has but to see her prediction turn into a actuality.

Now, Porrand has turn into the prime instance of this brutally merciless but trustworthy prediction.

Michelle knew that the latest successes of the Drussians would probably persuade different nations to reevaluate and even reform their army doctrine and armies with a purpose to match the Drussians.

With this in thoughts, Michelle was positive that there could be no scarcity of poor imitations making an attempt to copy the Drussians sooner or later.

The truth is a few of these reforms and imitations have been already taking place. Ever for the reason that Ostrian provisional pressure was obliterated by the Drussians, experiences trickled into Breeton that increasingly nations began incorporating extra cannons into their normal armies when in comparison with earlier than.

Beforehand, cannons have been largely solely completely utilized in massive numbers throughout sieges with solely minimal numbers being utilized in open battles.

This was primarily because of the total low accuracy and fire-rate of cannons making them largely cost-ineffective throughout medieval battles which largely led to a brawl with solely a relative quick window of alternative for cannons to fireplace.

Nevertheless, the Drussians proved that with the right army doctrine and military composition and drilling, artillery may be made right into a pressure to be reckoned with as soon as their numbers attain essential mass.

Nevertheless, the imitation of the Drussian doctrine wasn’t restricted to mere military composition however in weapons growth as properly.

Though, the dearth of experiences detailing how different nations have efficiently imitated Drussian heavy weapons informed Michelle that these imitations have been both nonetheless in growth or have been scrapped as a consequence of being full failures.

If Michelle’s reminiscence wasn’t defective then not solely did the Drussians utilise air-burst rounds however each certainly one of their howitzers have been breach-loaded. A intently guarded secret that not even the overall populace of Drussia knew about.

It was due to their breach-loaded howitzers which made use of air-burst rounds that the Drussians have been capable of inflict such devastation upon their foes with their artillery.

Alternatively, the notion of different nations creating their very own air-burst rounds was utterly out of the query. As if they’d be capable to develop such rounds with out even the essential understanding of the bottom idea.

The closest duplicate one other nation has made to the air-burst spherical have been the canister pictures that was invented by Shweden. Nevertheless, the Shwedish have been allied to the Unified Kingdoms of Nice Breeton which made them allies by proxy to the Imperium of Drussia.

With out breach-loading artillery or air-burst rounds, the artillery of different nations might by no means hope to even examine to their Drussian counterparts.

And that was simply the artillery.

So far as Michelle was involved, the information of the terrifying gatling weapons have been but to unfold throughout the continent because of the lack of Porrish survivors in the course of the battle on the Plaskowyz Plateau.

Nevertheless, that did not imply that the opposite nations nonetheless would not try to copy the profitable Drussian doctrine.

Nevertheless, since they solely had a obscure thought of the Drussian doctrine based mostly on what snippets of data they have been capable of acquire, the opposite nations have been doomed to provide underwhelming replicas that paled compared to their Drussian counterparts.

Each single nation, however one.

The Unified Kingdoms of Nice Breeton.

And that was all because of Michelle’s efforts.

Though the opposite Breetish nobles detested her very existence, they cannot deny that the doctrine that she ‘realized’ from Maxwell was positive to steer the Unified Kingdoms of Nice Breeton to a brand new age of energy and glory.

Nevertheless, that didn’t imply that they’d settle for all types of innovation. Out of a mixture of each jealously and traditionalism, the Breetish nobles have persistently tried to curb Michelle’s maintain inside the Breetish army.

If it weren’t for her previous achievements and the truth that she held sway over a good portion of the royal fleet, Michelle was positive she would have already been tossed to the wayside by the Breetish king.

The truth is, Michelle really uncovered a plot revealing that the Breetish nobles and the king himself solely pledged help to her authentic endeavours in Drussia with a purpose to set her as much as fail.

As soon as she failed, they deliberate to usurp her home’s lands after accusing not simply Michelle however her total noble household of misgovernance and misconduct.

What they didn’t count on was for Michelle to succeed, not solely in securing an alliance with the newly established Imperium of Drussia, however ‘introducing’ ingenious reforms to the army that she ‘learnt’ from Maxwell.

Nevertheless, even then, Michelle was conscious that not even her previous achievements shall be sufficient for her to leverage the king or some other noble for that matter into investing in creating a weapon that sounded as outrageous as a gatling gun.

Due to this predicament, Michelle knew that she needed to in some way discover a solution to counter the Drussian gatling weapons within the case of the ‘slight probability’ that the relationships breakdown between the Breetish and the Drussians.

Nevertheless, she additionally knew that it was extremely unlikely for the Drussians to show over army secrets and techniques concerning certainly one of their trump playing cards it doesn’t matter what the Breetish provided to the Drussians. As such, Michelle was severely restricted in her listing of attainable choices.

As dire as this will sound, Michelle has already discovered her resolution to the gatling weapons.

It was a division of troopers who fought in an irregular open formation which was extra unfold out than a standard line formation and excelled at manoeuvring in regards to the battlefield in addition to being skilled marksmen.

They’d be capable to simply snipe the gatling gun crews whereas on the identical time solely taking minimal casualties because of the nature of how they fought.

To Michelle’s comfort one such unit division already exists, each in her previous world in addition to previously of this world.

Skirmishers.

With no time to waste, Michelle went to work on her plans on find out how to produce napoleonic skirmishers whereas on the identical time, pondering forward on how she persuade the opposite Breetish nobles to speculate into her endeavours.

It was due to such difficulties that Michelle would sometimes discover herself being envious of Maxwell’s place of emperor, principally giving him free reign over his nation’s military when in comparison with Michelle’s pretty restricted grasp on the Breetish army.

Whereas it might appear that Michelle was handicapped when in comparison with Maxwell, to her, it solely served to make the sport much more fascinating.