With just a glance, Colonel Ludwick realized the urgency of the situation.
"Captain Weck!" Ludwick decisively named his best Centurion, "Take your men and submerge from the north! Protect the barricade!"
The named Junior Officer briskly saluted, without a word began to remove his breastplate, then clothes, trousers, and boots, leaving only a helmet. His subordinates did the same.
The nearly naked Centurion led the nearly naked Hundred-Men Squad, sprinting down the riverbank, biting swords, climbing the stakes, flipping over the barricade, straight towards the rebels' small boats.
A brutal battle erupted in the water.
The Iron Peak County soldiers beside the barricade could no longer afford to hack at chains, while onshore, the United Province Musketeers fired at them, and the United Provinces Soldiers surrounded them in the water.
Some engineers hurriedly retreated to the big boats, while several boats rowed hard towards the caltrops, attempting to join their comrades.
