"Foolish! You sent soldiers charging blindly without any prior preparations?" Count Radetsky glared fiercely at Lieutenant Colonel Bu Saike. "And then they were routed by a group of police officers?"
Bu Saike lowered his head, muttering in his defense: "General, those police officers were highly trained militarily, especially in their firing speed..."
"Silence!" Count Radetsky roared, "You have utterly shamed the soldiers of the Empire!"
His anger was justified—Bu Saike had indeed been far too careless.
If Bu Saike had formed most of his soldiers into line formations and left only two to three hundred skirmishers to harass the enemy, the Walloon Police, lacking the confidence to face regular troops in battle, might have at least fought to a draw.
Instead, he had ordered all his troops to charge in skirmish formation. Against the concentrated firepower of the opposing infantry lines, they were predictably crushed.
