Freedom is independence, non-attachment, and non-fear.

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

The Sixteenth Legion was equipped with three wings of new weapons and equipment (i.e., the standard weapons and equipment of the Roman Youth Army), namely the third wing commanded by Di Maria and the second and ninth wings commanded by Pereira, and the other seven wings used ordinary weapons and equipment.

The main reason why Di Maria handed over the two wings equipped with new weapons and equipment to Pereira was because Pereira knew how to use these two wings better than him, and Di Maria, who had never been exposed to such new weapons and equipment, was still used to commanding regular troops.

The 3rd Wing, which had been trained for shield walls, used their unskilled shield walls to block the surprise attack of the enemy cavalry, and the 1st Wing and the 5th Wing, which rushed over, launched a fierce encirclement attack directly from the left and right flanks of the enemy cavalry.

If it weren't for the limited movement speed of the infantry, Di Maria would not mind surrounding the enemy cavalry regiment that attacked him for the second time; even so, Di Maria, who had been prepared for a long time, still gave the white flag cavalry who launched the attack on three sides.

The 3rd Wing, which was desperately counterattacking, the 1st and 5th Wings, which were violently attacking the left and right flanks, and the 6th and 8th Wings, which were rapidly reinforcing them, and the large army on the left flank, which had been mobilized by the whole army, burst out with combat effectiveness far beyond the imagination of the cavalry under the White Banner.

The encirclement that could not penetrate the battle formation of the Third Wing and could not be withdrawn backwards forced the white flag cavalry, which had lost its mobility advantage, to engage in an unfair battle with the vengeful Sixteenth Corps, and the encirclement of 6,000 infantry was not so easy to break through.

The commander of this cavalry unit with the white flag did not break the shield wall of the third wing after three fierce charges, and then he directly gave up the plan to break through; seeing that the reinforcements of the two wings of the sixteenth army were killed, he put the direction of the breakthrough behind him.

The road behind the attacking troops, the same road from which they came, had not yet been blocked by the infantry of the Sixteenth Legion, except that if the chief of staff was to lead his troops along this road, he had to leave enough troops behind him to block the pursuit of the Third Wing.

As soon as the 1st and 5th Wings entered his cavalry cluster, the commander, who was quite determined to break his arms, ordered the two teams of cavalry that had been in a bitter battle to stay behind and break the rear, while he himself personally led the other three groups of cavalry and slowly retreated backwards.

After the battle, which lasted for nearly two hours, the two groups of cavalry left behind by the attacking force were completely annihilated by Di Maria's troops, who had an absolute advantage in numbers, and the price of the 16th Army's annihilation of more than 700 White Banner cavalry was 2,000 casualties!

Although only more than 600 soldiers of the 16th Army were actually killed, and the other more than 1,300 soldiers were wounded, this one-to-three casualty ratio between the enemy and the enemy still made Di Maria, who had a slightly inflated psychology due to the change of clothes, dispel his heart of underestimating the enemy.

When Quintus, who was in charge of the Chinese army, learned of the casualties of his left wing army, he only sent someone to tell Di Maria that Di Maria should remain on guard and march, and if he encountered another enemy attack, he could immediately ask the Chinese army for help.

After successfully defeating the attacking enemy, Di Maria's army on the left flank was never attacked by the White Banner again, but Louis's 14th Army, as the vanguard of the army, was attacked by three large-scale White Banner cavalry in succession.

The so-called vanguard is the elite unit that opens the way for the army and tests the enemy's reaction, and it is reasonable that it will be attacked by the enemy's key attack; Louis, who has always been cautious, spares no effort in strengthening the defense of his army.

Of the five wings of the Fourteenth Army Corps equipped with new weaponry, three were at the forefront of the army, the other two were deployed on the flanks, and in the middle were five wings equipped with conventional weapons and equipment.

The first wave of the Fourteenth Army's White Banner troops, about three Niulu and thousands of cavalry, and the same flank attack, the Fourth Wing of the Fourteenth Army Corps easily withstood the enemy's attack, and with the reinforcement of the Ninth Wing behind them, the enemy was routed.

The strength of the White Banner troops attacking the Fourteenth Army Corps in the second wave had risen to nearly 2,000 cavalry in six Niulu, and the White Banner cavalry, which intended to attack the Fourteenth Army Corps from both flanks at the same time, left behind more than 500 corpses, but did not penetrate the two flanks of the Fourteenth Army Corps.

The last wave of the White Banner troops attacking the Fourteenth Army Corps was 5,000 elite cavalry under the command of three staff officers, and the Fourth Wing, which had endured two successive attacks, did not hold their line this time, and was cut through their line by the fierce attack of the White Banner cavalry.

The shield wall in front of it did not work, and the 9th Wing, which remained behind the shield wall and waited for the counterattack, was immediately hit hard by the attacking cavalry; fortunately, the 3 wings in front turned around in time and pressed back with the shield wall, which saved the 4th and 9th Wings.

Otherwise, the rampage of the 5,000 elite cavalry of the white flag would have caused at least 3,000 casualties to the 14th Army Corps, which had been attacked one after another, and even with the reinforcements of the three wings in front, the 4th and 9th wings would still suffer heavy losses.

The 4th Wing, which had suffered the most serious blows, had less than 1,400 men and men left after the cavalry had retreated, with a third of them lightly wounded, and the 9th Wing, which was in slightly better condition than the 4th Wing, had more than 400 killed.

The total casualties of the Fourteenth and Sixteenth Legions were 1,800 killed and 2,600 wounded, while the Zhengbai Banner, which took the initiative to attack, left more than 1,600 corpses on the battlefield, and the losses were no less than those of Quintus's army.

The dispatch of 5,000 elite cavalry at one time failed to inflict heavy damage on the main force of the 14th Army Corps, and Solgobel, who was not a fool's white banner master, then gave up this kind of attack to kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 of them; after all, the number of cavalry under his command was not many.

Without the attack of the White Banner cavalry, the advance of the Quintus army increased again, and six days later, the swaying Quintus army approached Belfort County, where the White Flag was located, and surrounded the high-walled county.

At this time, Quintus still had more than 65,000 troops under his command, excluding the dead and wounded soldiers who could not participate in the battle, while the army of the White Banner trapped in the county town of Belfort had only 17,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry of the White Flag.

According to common sense, the banner owner of the white flag, Solgobel, should lead the army to retreat to Longchamps before the Quintus army arrives in Belfort, but the hostility of the white flag cavalry to the red flag and the yellow flag made Solgo make the most helpless choice.

At about the same time, Ranocchia's army of 80,000 surrounded the city of Pomerian Damus under the White Flag in the Suba Sea, but the losses of the Ranocchia army under the White Flag were much heavier than those of the Quintus army under the White Flag.

The superior combat effectiveness of the Predator Guards has never been blown out, and the Predator Guards, who can fight head-on with the orc army, are at ease with the white flag cavalry that attack, and at least 3,000 white flag cavalry have paid the price with their lives for Subahai's attack decision.