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It's regrettable, but you cannot continue to face such losses with our situation as bad as it is; the horn is sounded, and soon, your hussars retreat from the line of battle against the armored knights, who begin to give chase to them, but quickly realize they cannot catch up. Their objective failed, their only option remaining is to aid in the confrontation about to begin in the foot of the hill. They begin to gallop downwards towards the battle lines, your hussars accompanying them their gallop. As they most certainly intend on crashing against the flanks of your infantry, however, they are met with their first roadblock; the skirmishers you had thankfully left on your first flank move to meet them, passing beside as they unload a barrage of inaccurate fire upon the charging horsemen.
Most of them pass through, the shots either missing or plinking off their fire-proofed armor - but not all of them. Whether it be by a bullet finding its aim on an joint or an impact that throws them off their horse to be trampled by their fellows, several dozen knights more fall, reducing their numbers to just below a hundred. Yet despite this, their charge does not stop, hellbent on crashing on your sides to regain their lost honor.
At the same time, at the head of the crossing of Kuften Bridge, the battle continues to develop. Approaching them from their eastern side, your remaining skirmisher company lays fire upon the company of pike left on the hostile flank, soldiers falling as they are hit by bullets only to be replaced by others. You know that many of these men; most, perhaps, continue yet to live, though not for too long, and that some may even survive if they hold on for long enough. If you were to retreat at this very moment, or if your defeat were to be swift, then perhaps more of them would be saved by their fellows; but your sympathy cannot help but be small, knowing the similar fate that your own men had met.
