Gunka no Baltzar - Vol. 10 Ch. 61 - The Last Cavalryman

[MangaDex]

 

[Doomer]

good Jurgen the traitor is finally dead, feel sorry for Helmut though, she lost her best friend and her father within a few minutes and were even instrumental in their deaths.

 

[noobchicken]

Jurgen saw first hand how devastating those gatling guns were. Guy should have known better than to charge straight in.

 

[Martindinh]

That free up main girl for our main villain

I kinda prefer the journalist girl tho

 

[taesu]

Drawn and quarter for 1st Prince?

 

[leaderreborn]

well most old nobles and the heirs are dead

i expected helmut to be prime candidate to a queen tbh but i guess the country can t live without a alliance with a foreign country throu marriage so there s that.

i love helmut as a character. absolute strenght of mind and conviction without resorting to killing her own emotions nor mary sue garbage.

 

[sterven]

Can't say I liked the guy but damn did he die a dog's death.

 

[Fuko]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym4VmVwd24c

 

[ADK]

ah yes the Gatling gun... my favorite weapon

 

[C3PO]

Wow, good chapter. Cruelty, madness, death, all that depicted very nicely. Though the backpacks were funny - who'd wait for them to build their barricade in the right mind, they'd been shot before.

 

[agtra]

Finally he died. If only he surrendered

 

[AbuHajaar]

Death flags, man

 

[EOTFOFYL]

Rather impressive,
Quite some Ingenuity
Using dirt and bags.

 

[VadjanD]

Yes!, she is finally free to live her path no links attached, head up front Helmut my darling.. and shipping is really strong now, hands down better than the journalist.

 

[pigeons]

Extremely bad call by Jurgen no matter how you cut it. He even notices and says it himself they were at their limit, and then to charge at fresh reinforcements, let alone Weißen ones? Makes you wonder if he was in character, but I guess he got drunk on victory because it was going too well beforehand. A common military problem no matter what the era.

 

[Scythe244]

I'd have to go back and see but perhaps Jurgen knew it was over? I mean, he'd already thrown everything away and knew there was no hope. Go out fighting vs. becoming obsolete... On one hand it would've been nice to get some of that final action and thoughts but the ambiguity isn't too bad either.

 

[stilgar]

It is a fucking volley gun, not a gatling gun. Also, Jurgen made his decision and it cost him his life because he is an idiot

 

[ampnaman]

Jurgen was an idiot who couldn't adapt to the times. Good riddance!

 

[Treason]

@agtra I don't really think surrender was ever really an option for Jurgen to be honest. Given his inner monologue at the beginning of the chapter, I think he always knew that all his actions would amount to was a sacrifice play to buy for time. His job was to ambush the enemy's flank, interrupt supply lines, and make them waste time regrouping before resuming their march and advancing more slowly while looking out for future ambushes. This would allow the rest of the 1st prince's faction to fortify Ingolstadt and coronate the 1st prince as King, then flee south to an allied nation where they could establish a government in exile and return in the future with tons of foreign military support. It's not like they would've been spared if they just surrendered. If they had succeeded and bought enough time for their fathers and the 1st prince to have escaped, then they would've been held responsible for the civil war as the heirs to their families and executed as traitors. If they had failed and their fathers and the 1st prince were captured, then they'd still be held responsible for the civil war and executed as traitors. It's not like the 2nd prince would suddenly become magnanimous and welcome the nobles that sided with his brother back into the fold. You can bet that at the end of the war, a lot of the noble houses are gonna be put under for either siding with the 1st prince or failing to aide the 2nd prince. The 2nd prince is going to start consolidating his power and probably begin the process of centralization as well. He needs a military loyal to him as the future leader of the land, not a bunch nobles with their own private armies that could suddenly stab him in the back once a succession war kicks in.

Back to Jurgen, he and his fellow classmates were a symbol of an older generation's romantic ideals about war and the place of the nobility in modern society. They were slowly becoming obsolete in face of society and the military marching towards modernization. He could see a preview of that during his trip to Weiβen. That last charge against 2nd prince's forces and the Weiβen reinforcements was just a matter of choosing the time and place of his end. That they got cut down by volley guns and modern firearms wielded by commoner professional soldiers was just a matter of poetry. He lived by romantic ideals and died in a symbolic way that he felt best conformed to them.

 

[Credians]

Jurgen secretly helping 2nd prince faction imo, he delayed weiben army to intervene civil war by sacrificing himself.