Steel Empire
Vienna region

Berengar was mounted on top of his trusty horse as he gazed into the distance. In his view was the border of Lower Austria and its final destination in this conflict. While Eckhard laid siege to every corner of Upper Austria currently occupied by the Bavarians, Berengar would march on Vienna with nearly 20,000 men. 

Berengar swore that after he finally won this war, he would immediately do two things, develop new weapons, and start building a great navy. Although Conrad might protest his every action, in the end, as Regent, he had the power to accomplish these things. After all, Conrad will live at most a few more years. 

As such, he was eager to resolve this war and focused on consolidating his territorial gains as quickly as possible. For Berengar, war was a means to settle disputes and acquire territory; a more critical aspect was the development of land after the battle had ceased. As a visionary, he had grand plans to build an Empire that would last for a thousand years.

For now, he needs to take Austria and establish his rule over the territory, and that is exactly what he plans to do. With the death of the enemy General at the hands of Berengar's assassins, a nobleman had succeeded him and decided that the best course of action to stop Berengar's siege of Vienna was simple, they would come forward and deal with his army for good. . They will use the citizens of Vienna as human shields. 

So when Berengar and his army entered Lower Austria, they saw a great force gathered, almost thirty thousand in total. The citizens of Vienna had been conscripted by the Bavarians and armed with anything that could be used as a weapon remotely. They were stationed in the front row so that they could absorb Berengar's bullets, allowing their main troops to survive the initial attack and close the distance.

Looking at the enemy formation, Berengar started to frown, he preferred not to slaughter over 10,000 Austrians, but this was not easy to avoid. The Bavarian army was behind the vanguard of the ordinary Austrian people and pushed them forward with their spears, beaks, and swords. This is not a good situation. Therefore, Berengar pondered for a while before taking action. So he went to the Artillery unit and gave his orders.

"Prepare your weapons, and aim towards the back of the enemy formation. I want the levy to remain unharmed. We will destroy their rearguard and let the Viennese escape!"

Hearing the orders of their Master and Commander, the Artillery officers quickly arranged the task of ordering the Artillery Regiment to release their cannons and put them in position. They were raised to a certain height to act as howitzers where bullets would be fired into the arc and land on the back of the Bavarian formation, avoiding retribution as much as possible.

This was a tactic they had not yet applied on the battlefield. So the Bavarians did not expect such a thing as Berengar left the artillery to their own devices and went up to the front of the infantry formation where he began to shout his orders to the infantry.

"Try your best not to injure the retribution, when the weapon explodes and destroys the Bavarian ranks, let the Retribution disperse before firing on the remaining Bavarian forces, they are most likely Viennese civilians, and we must not hurt our people if we can avoid them! God is with us!"

The soldiers under Berengar's command all began to shout their famous battle cry in unison.

"God is with us! God is with us! God is with us!"

After which, Berengar raised his sword and gave another order.

"March forward!"

Under the thunder of cannon fire, Tyrolean infantry began marching towards enemy positions. The Bavarians sneered when they thought Berengar had decided to eliminate the citizen levies in front of the formation. However, when bullets fell from the sky and landed between their ranks, the Bavarian troops quickly began to panic. 

They did not expect the bullets to land behind their front row and destroy their ranks, completely ignoring the plans they had made. Two hundred and eighty bullets were fired every minute into the Bavarian formation, and their orders quickly began to collapse. Blood, steel, and bones flew in all directions as Tyrolean artillery hit the infantry ranks. 

Seeing that the Bavarians were in a state of panic, the citizens recruited to serve the Bavarians quickly began to flee from the battlefield. Some were captured and stabbed by the people behind them, but most were able to escape the massacre. Now that Berengar had given the citizens of Vienna enough time to run, he began to lead the cavalry to attack enemy positions. 

Thus, the Mini Ball projectiles were fired from the muzzle of their rifles and entered the enemy ranks. Penetrating their breastplates and knocking them down where they stood, however this did not stop the Bavarian army's assault, they knew their only chance was to engage in close combat with the enemy, and thus they ran as fast as they could to the line of fire, hoping the bullets missed from them and allowing them to attack the enemy.

The Tyrolean forces only fired a few shots before they could engage in close combat with the Bavarians. Thus, the bayonets and spears began to clash with each other in a chaotic display of violence. While this was going on, Berengar rode his mighty horse swiftly, leading an army of cuirassiers, lancers, and hussars who had all prepared to clash with the wings of the enemy formation.

The Bavarian infantry quickly raised spears and other polearms in response to the oncoming cavalry attack, which was usually enough to deter horses, however, just when they were within firing range, it was not, Berengar and his cuirassier raised their pistols where they started shooting. into the spear wall, hit the rope with a shotgun ball, and claimed the lives of hundreds if not thousands of people. 

The Hussars had fired their carbines remotely into the ranks and inflicted a lot of damage on the enemy formations. Almost no spears were raised at this point, and the cavalry released their swords and spears to the Bavarian side which destroyed their ranks in the process.

Berengar unleashed his heavy cavalry sword at the enemy infantry in front of him; while fending off the oncoming blow, he made a stab directly into the opponent's eye, taking his life in the process. His new horse was heavily armored and surrounded by hundreds of other horses that crashed into the enemy formation. So he and his horse were relatively safe, as they trampled the enemy infantry and ruthlessly cut them into ribbons. 

The Bavarian commander stared at the battlefield with fury in his heart as he realized that his wings had been destroyed, allowing the Tyrolean infantry to fill the gap, and besieged the remaining troops. Therefore, he made a rash decision and fled the battlefield and returned to Vienna. The majority of their soldiers had lost this battle, and although it was still ongoing, he refused to be captured alive.

While the Bavarian commander fled the battlefield, Berengar led the attack as he slashed the neck of an archer, who was left exposed, beheading the man in the process. Berengar's heavy cavalry sword was fully capable of decapitating from a horse's back, yet it had a point good enough to pierce through most of the armor. 

The joy he felt as he once again engaged on the battlefield filled Berengar's heart with joy; what use was life he could not get such adrenaline! War is like a cure for him, and he can't get enough of it. The feeling of risking his life to pursue higher glory, the adrenaline and endorphins that flooded his system and made him feel like a living god, this is what it means to be alive. 

Therefore, he was not afraid of the possibility of death as he fended off the spear thrust with his sword and thrust his sword into the gap in the opponent's helmet, he said, inserting a cold steel tip into the enemy's skull before tearing it apart and slashing another fighter. . 

As the cavalry gathered at the Bavarian lines and trampled their ranks, the Tyrolean infantry excelled in major battles and quickly slashed the Bavarians. The bayonet pierced into a weak spot in the enemy armor, spilling blood and bile all over the field. 

As the massacre unfolded, Bavarian troops began to move. Berengar took advantage of and led his cavalry to take them down, Lance pierced through the enemy's back, and the sword pierced through their armor and into their hearts. Many Bavarian soldiers were not equipped with rear plates, so it was a vulnerable area that had been exposed in their hasty retreat.

So the cavalry easily killed those who escaped from the scene. As the Tyrolean cavalry cleared the router, the main force of the Bavarian army struggled to defend their defenses. However, when the grenades threw their grenades behind the Bavarian formation, they could no longer hold the line and quickly collapsed as the explosion shook them to the core.

Grenades exploded one after another, destroying the defensive positions the Bavarians had set up, and in the end, those who survived the explosion were pierced with bayonets. The result of the battle was a complete and utter massacre. Although Berengar's army had suffered casualties, it was nothing compared to the losses that the Bavarians suffered today. 

With this victory, Berengar was one step away from claiming Vienna and ending the Bavarian occupation of Austria. Although the war was not yet over, however, the struggle for Austria was only one of many ongoing conflicts in the larger war for Germany.

As long as this war that would definitely take years to resolve, Berengar would use his power to expand his territory widely and come out as the person above. Conquering Vienna and becoming Duke of Austria was only the beginning of his great ambitions.