TS Eiseihei-san no Senjou Nikki - Ch. 19

[Whatevena]

Welp, the calm b4 the storm is real... I'm not crying, u are T-T.

 

[Kireato]

Well, that was a bloodbath. They lost the entire army, medic corp included, so that front has collapsed and the enemy will be able to advance quickly from that breach.

Since the generals sounded the retreat, they're probably thinking about where to set up a new defensive line. They were pretty much on equal footing before this maneuver, so with the loss of that army that balance is broken. Now the enemy will be able to send waves of soldiers to attack their defensive positions or pull another smart plan like this, so that's a terrible position to be in.

 

[ErikTheRed]

Mashdale arc lets go!

 

[Grimmycoffee]

I don't get it, how did they stealthily march a force large enough to just roll over everyone? They even bring a huge carriage filled with sofa and adorned by multiple flags, are they even trying to hide?

"Don't use magic artillery, just attack everywhere" sounds like that joke about how the Nazi shouldn't have wasted time siege Stalingrad and instead just take the city, it doesn't even make sense.

If this is a desperate move from a smaller or outgunned army trying to break through encirclement to escape then maybe I kinda get it, but it's not, the objective isn't escaping but destroying the enemy army. It feels like a terrible gamble that succeed because they paint the whole roulette wheel red.

 

[Hoomanadaw]

Guess the overdosage of mana potions didnt really matter to her health in the end anyways🥲

 

[WJ_PK]

Everyone is die...... Head Nurse went out like a hero....

 

[CommissarPancakes]

I don't get it, how did they stealthily march a force large enough to just roll over everyone? They even bring a huge carriage filled with sofa and adorned by multiple flags, are they even trying to hide?

"Don't use magic artillery, just attack everywhere" sounds like that joke about how the Nazi shouldn't have wasted time siege Stalingrad and instead just take the city, it doesn't even make sense.

From the looks of things, it's taking four things into account.

First, the previous chapter showed an enemy unit moving over rather rough terrain under the cover of darkness, suggesting that they were either slowly infiltrating No-Man's-Land in preparation for this assault or were moving into a weaker section of the defensive line because the terrain they had moved through was considered either impassable or improbable.

Second would be the fact that they're using pseudo Stormtrooper tactics. A "smaller" force (compared to a general attack, "small") assaulting a less defended or weaker portion of the enemy defensive line in order to force a breach, followed by the general infantry to exploit it. The many uses of grenades during the assault sort of suggests this, though there should have been more use of pistols and melee weaponry if so.

Which then leads to the third point. The tech level of the story is somewhere between Great War and Early Interwar (1916 to 1925). Meaning that, while radios are around they're mostly in use with the Navy and ground troops generally made due with telegraph at best, couriers at worst (think the movie 1917). Just even receiving news from commanders at the front is going to take half an hour to an hour, and this isn't even considering conflicting information from different line units. Which leads ro point four...

The strategy looked like it called for a general assault right after a breach was forced in order to mask the fact that there was, in fact, a breach of the first trenchline. Combat is very, VERY chaotic. Incomplete and conflicting information reaching command is almost a certainty with the previous lag time in communications I mentioned, and the unit at the breach is kinda dying a bit too quickly to actually get the word out. This could have been mitigated by things like signal flares, but since we didn't see anything of the like mentioned, the signalmen were either killed too quickly or they just never had them.

 

[RanmaChaos]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[tarika]

Now that all the medics are dead…

Is Touri the new head nurse? :0

 

[kaminomikan]

and to think we are on route to that... WW3

 

[Wachtail]

Well fuck, that was quite the chapter.
Sad for the head medic...
Thanks for the TL!

 

[Gorri]

I don't get it, how did they stealthily march a force large enough to just roll over everyone? They even bring a huge carriage filled with sofa and adorned by multiple flags, are they even trying to hide?

"Don't use magic artillery, just attack everywhere" sounds like that joke about how the Nazi shouldn't have wasted time siege Stalingrad and instead just take the city, it doesn't even make sense.

If this is a desperate move from a smaller or outgunned army trying to break through encirclement to escape then maybe I kinda get it, but it's not, the objective isn't escaping but destroying the enemy army. It feels like a terrible gamble that succeed because they paint the whole roulette wheel red.

Just like you, I'm just trying to understand, but I think what is supposed to be going on here is that this army broke the "stablished rules" or the "code" or the "norm" whatever you want to call it for a first world war army, just like in the real world this front seemed more of a performance politics stage than a real modern war, a 1ww front where the frontline is static forever and you take back and forth the same kilometres.
I guess the girl just decided instead of keeping the stalemate that everyone got comfy with, she went for an unexpected mass attack with everything they had. And due the lack of "performative actions" that both sides were doing when taking back and forth the same trenches "our" side got caught pants down.

Not that it makes that much sense unless you take in consideration one side counted on everyone keeping up the stage and tactis because "its just how war works" I guess. Which would just show how mediocre and decrepit the higher ups are.

 

[JustGreen]

See? Sylph is not a bigmouth but the real thing, but now that the gates of Hell have been opened by her hand you need to be ready for the suffering ahead.

btw, Sylph feels really different from her WN/LN persona here in the manga, wonder what the mangaka told OG creator to get the creative freedom to show her in that way.

What's sylph like in the LN?

 

[nononoko]

The cute ponytail glasses medic...

 

[InsaneAwesomeTony]

Thanks for the chapter 🙏🏼❤️

 

[goobersloobler]

Spoiler: wn spoiler

i hold on to the vain hope that rodri lives this time around, i know it won’t happen but still y’know

 

[YamiryuuZero]

That was a really good strategy on the enemy side.
If they expect mages to make a lot of noise announcing their attack, move without mages and get everyone by surprise.

The author did not hesitate to kill everyone, huh.

 

[AlvoradaGD]

And just like that, all "advancements" made by trampling on multiple lives got lost.

 

[MedNed]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the biggest real breakthrough for the allies in world war I was getting rolling artillery fire done right and more importantly point stop caring anymore if the troops got blasted by friendly artillery in said barrage.

So a historical parallel would be having a mage barrage but at the last exact second it stopped they would see enemy soldiers as far as the horizon.

 

[andanh]

I don't get it, how did they stealthily march a force large enough to just roll over everyone? They even bring a huge carriage filled with sofa and adorned by multiple flags, are they even trying to hide?

"Don't use magic artillery, just attack everywhere" sounds like that joke about how the Nazi shouldn't have wasted time siege Stalingrad and instead just take the city, it doesn't even make sense.

If this is a desperate move from a smaller or outgunned army trying to break through encirclement to escape then maybe I kinda get it, but it's not, the objective isn't escaping but destroying the enemy army. It feels like a terrible gamble that succeed because they paint the whole roulette wheel red.

In WN, author explains the standard tactic/strategy is breakthrough in a single point, because they still new to firearm, still not know how to use them and still fear the power of them. This tactic is basically human wave, use large amount of troop to attack every trenches, they called it "simultaneous multi-point breakthrough".