Freedom lies in the beginning, and it is not something that can only be obtained at the end.

- Krishnamurti (the greatest spiritual teacher of the twentieth century)

The pike-phalanx in front of the Spartan legion consisted of four phalanx wings, each of which had two phalanx brigades, for a total of eight phalanx brigades.

The flank line, with a pike-brigade as the core and an elite infantry wing as the auxiliary, was established on both flanks of the Spartan Legion's pike-defence, while the two wings of longbowmen were protected in the middle of the three-sided line.

The moving longbowmen were unable to sustain their rain of arrows when they were setting up a defensive line on both flanks, and the cavalry with yellow flags, who took the opportunity to launch a massive and fierce charge, inflicted considerable losses on the pikemen phalanx, whose defensive pressure had increased dramatically.

The cost of more than 300 pikemen killed was only to defeat the four waves of the charge of the cavalry with the yellow flag, and the corpses of the cavalry with the yellow flag were less than 1,000 left.

Shulhazy, who still had 10,000 yellow-flaged cavalry in his hands and had not yet entered the battle, had been observing the Spartan army's combat patterns, and only after he had confirmed that Dorgon's tactics had worked before he began to use the last 10,000 yellow-flaged cavalry in his hands.

At this time, Murhaqi's 20,000 Red Banner cavalry had already annihilated all the light cavalry of the Spartan Corps desperately blocking them; where could the pike phalanx composed of 512 pikemen, supplemented by the cover of 1,000 elite infantry, stop the charge of tens of thousands of elite cavalry?

In stark contrast to the relatively low proportion of casualties in the frontal pikes, the casualties of the defending officers on both flanks were rapidly rising, and the fierce Red Banner cavalry attacked the two flanks of defense in a way that was almost life-for-life.

The three-sided attack of 20,000 cavalry with the red banner and 10,000 cavalry with yellow flags made the Spartan army, which was already insufficient, unable to move on the battlefield.

If these 10,000 yellow-flaged cavalry were really allowed to enter from the weakest rear of the Spartan legion, then the frontal undefeated Spartan legion would be instantly torn apart by the yellow-flaged cavalry inside them, and all the spear phalanxes would quickly collapse.

The super pikemen who have lost the advantage of the phalanx will not be much stronger in combat than the elite infantry who are better at close combat, and the elite cavalry of the Eight Banners, which is four times the number of soldiers of the Spartan Legion, will easily annihilate the Spartan Legion without the power to resist here!

As the commander of the Spartan army, Leonidas was helpless in the face of the precarious battle situation of his own army, so he could only wave the spear in his hand as much as possible to kill more enemy cavalry.

As the commander of the army, Bai Feng naturally could not watch the Spartan Legion be annihilated by the Eight Banner Cavalry; helplessly, the only army that Bai Feng could command at present, the Yulin Legion, had fallen into the siege of 60,000 Yellow Banner cavalry.

The 60,000 cavalry under the command of Dolgon personally crossed the road directly from the outside of the Spartan Legion and launched a fierce attack on the Yulin Legion, which was waiting for the battle.

Under Bai Feng's personal command, López's 2nd Division and Bartloli's 4th Division, as well as Vermaelen's 5th Division, and the elite of the 30,000 Yulin Legion, took advantage of their shield wall to form a triangular battle formation with pointed heads facing forward.

The 60,000 elite cavalry of the Yellow Banner seemed overwhelming, but in fact there were less than 8,000 cavalry that could be put into a frontal attack; the 30,000 elite of Yulin temporarily constructed a triangular battle formation that could be attacked at the same time was very limited.

No matter how elite the cavalry of the Zhenghuang Banner is, it is impossible to attack the triangular battle formation of the Yulin Legion from the air and underground; the limited area of attack determines that the defensive intensity of the Yulin Legion is very strong, and the offensive strength of the Zhenghuang Banner is correspondingly weakened.

There will be gains and losses, Bai Feng, who used a triangular battle formation to block the attack of 60,000 yellow flag cavalry, but he could not send two divisions in his hands that had not yet been put into battle to aid the Spartan army;

Using the infantry holding the defensive line to counterattack the fierce cavalry is a self-defeating approach, but Bai Feng, who really has no better way, can only pin his hope of saving the Spartan army on the three-column battle formation that the Eight Banners cavalry has not seen.

As for the reinforcements who should have arrived on the battlefield early, their delay in showing up had already made Bai Feng begin to doubt their intentions, after all, the identity of this support army was too special, even if they didn't come, Bai Feng couldn't accuse them of anything.

With Bai Feng's order, the three divisions that formed the triangular battle formation were instantly reduced to pieces and transformed into small-scale combat units with squadrons as units; 300 independent squadrons, with the cooperation of each other, dealt a heavy defeat to the enemy cavalry that was caught off guard.

At least 5,000 or so cavalry with the Yellow Banner, whose charge momentum had been slightly slackened, was surrounded and killed on the spot by the extremely flexible combat squadron before they could regain acceleration, while Hans and Borg's divisions took advantage of the confusion of the enemy cavalry and headed straight for the Spartan corps in front.

The distance of about three miles, whether long or short, was a journey of seven or eight minutes for the heavily armed infantry, and it was evident that Dorgon, who still had a large number of cavalry in his hands, would not give them seven or eight minutes.

Hans's 1st Division and Borg's 3rd Division had just rushed out less than 500 meters away when thousands of yellow-banner cavalry rushed towards them; Hans and Borg, who were in a dilemma, had no choice but to leave half of their men behind to resist the enemy cavalry that rushed up.

After half of the soldiers under their personal leadership advanced 500 meters forward again, a group of thousands of cavalry with the Zhenghuang Banner rushed forward; and then Hans and Borg, who were at risk of being broken one by one, could only lead the whole army to meet the enemy cavalry rushing over this time.

After Hans and Borg's reinforcements were frustrated, only Bai Feng of Leonardo's Feather Forest Wing was left by his side, and no troops were sent to reinforce the Spartan Legion; just as Bai Feng was suffering from his powerlessness, a cavalry in silver-white armor appeared!

The 10,000 Knights of Light of the Holy See rushed to the battlefield at the most critical moment of the battle, and the army of Knights of Light, commanded by the Holy Son Charolle, directly launched the fiercest attack on the cavalry with yellow banners and red banners besieging the Spartan legions.

With a thunderous force, they slaughtered the army of bright knights with yellow flags and red banner cavalry clusters, and easily crushed the 10,000 yellow-flag cavalry that changed lanes to block them in a way that was almost devastating, and then rushed into the enemy's cavalry group and quickly defeated tens of thousands of enemy cavalry!

The battle between the Bright Knight army and the elite cavalry of the Eight Banners was not a contest of magnitude at all; looking at all the human forces on the entire continent, the only one who could take out tens of thousands of high-level knights at one time was probably the Holy See, which had profound strength and terrifying strength.

Among the old and new Eight Banners, the combat effectiveness is second only to the Yellow Banner and the Red Banner, and more than 35,000 cavalry combined forces could not stop a wave of charge from 10,000 Knights of Light; therefore, from the moment they appeared, there was no suspense about the outcome of this decisive battle!