"Contact with the enemy is imminent. Get ready. Their left and right flanks will attack us in a pincer movement. Our objective is to break through the center directly. The Servants on their left and right flanks will definitely pursue us afterward, but that doesn't matter. Ignore them. We just need to run faster than they can."
When the allied forces reached the territory of the Vengeance Domain and saw the enemy army arrayed across the plain ahead, Charlemagne immediately shouted out the strategy. The disparity in numbers was too great; they could only use speed to create an advantage.
"All right, let's go. My name is Charlemagne, and the rest is omitted." Even as he spoke, the allied forces did not slow their advance. Charlemagne led the charge, with Roland and Astolfo at his side, and the three were the first to strike the enemy. Their speed was so great that they immediately threw the Vengeance Domain's deployment into disarray.
At the same time, chaos broke out behind the Vengeance Domain army's vanguard, left wing, and right wing. Though the confusion was quickly subdued, it bought the allied forces enough time for their vanguard to reach the Vengeance Domain's vanguard. The two armies clashed at close quarters, rendering the Archer-class formation the Vengeance Domain had prepared in advance useless.
The Vengeance Domain's army had deployed as before, intending to have its Archers blanket the battlefield with Noble Phantasms from the very beginning. But this time, the allied forces did not have enough Magicians to erect defensive barriers. If the Archers were truly allowed to unleash their Noble Phantasms, the allied forces would suffer devastating losses.
Naturally, the allied forces understood this. That was precisely why their strongest Heroic Spirits had taken the lead. Combined with the chaos caused by