You are afraid to accept yourself because you have no faith in yourself, which is why you conform to society, your parents, and your religion. If you can't understand yourself and just want to change yourself, it's pointless, so get rid of all your ideals!

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

Barcelona, who didn't know what Rodriguez really thought, didn't expect that the commander of the defensive army behind him would actually use his 74th Army as an outcast;

In the army of the Celestial Dragon Empire, where the internal fighting is not fierce, the contradiction between the standing legion and the royal legion since ancient times is a major feature of the military of the Celestial Dragon Empire;

Fortunately, the Royal Legion and the Standing Legion generally do not fight together, and the contradictions between the two armies have not risen to the point of having to fight, otherwise, how could Bai Feng rest assured that Rodriguez would be the front-line commander of the defensive army?

Leaving aside Rodriguez's contempt for the standing army, there is nothing in itself with the practice of using one or two of his own standing army to fight out the enemy's cannon fodder infantry;

Even if Bai Feng is placed in Rodriguez's position, he will also use his own standing army with relatively low combat effectiveness to fight with the enemy's cannon fodder infantry, but in comparison, Bai Feng will do more fairly.

For example, if the first batch of troops to enter the battle was 10,000 soldiers of the 74th Army Corps, then the second batch of troops to be put into battle would be 10,000 soldiers of the 77th Army Corps.

The bloody battle between the 74th Army and the infantry of the Eight Banners was in full swing, and as long as the 40,000 cavalry of the two blue banners did not enter the canyon, the pro-guards who were lying in ambush on the cliffs and in the mountains and forests on both sides of the canyon would not appear, as both Rodriguez and Barsaromu knew.

As time went by, the soldiers of the two armies fighting in the canyon caused heavy casualties to each other, and their own casualties also rose sharply; seeing that the cannon fodder infantry was about to be unable to bear it again, Duoduo sent 5,000 infantry with the blue banner again.

Azig and Dord's style of play forced Barsaromu to continue to send troops to reinforce the soldiers under his command, who were gradually exhausted, and nearly two hours of fighting had already killed more than 4,000 soldiers in Basaromu's 74th Army.

The 6th, 7th, and 8th Wings, which had lost almost half of their strength, were replaced by the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Wings of Barcelomu, while the 9th and 10th Wings, which were still suffering from acceptable casualties, were still fighting at the forefront of the battle, fighting to the death against the Eighth Banner Infantry.

After another hour of fierce fighting, the 9th and 10th Wings, which had lost 40% of their casualties, were almost routed by the Eight Banners Infantry, but thanks to the timely reinforcements of the last two wings under his command, the 9th and 10th Wings had a chance to withdraw from the battle.

At this time, the infantry of the two blue flags and the two red flags had all been thrown into battle, and the only remaining two yellow flag infantry in Duoduo's hands were ready to enter the battle;

The more than 5,000 officers and men of the 74th Army Corps, who had withdrawn from the battle one after another, simply did not have the strength to go back into battle in a short period of time, and the officers and men of the 74th Army Corps, who were fighting against the infantry of the Eight Banners, could not hold out for too long, and there was even a possibility that the whole army might collapse at any time.

Because Azig, who could not bear it, sent five Niu Lu Zheng Blue Banner cavalry to supervise the cannon fodder infantry to fight to the death, and began to send one Niu Lu after another to send his Blue Banner cavalry to participate in the battle, and the Zheng Blue Banner cavalry mixed with the cannon fodder infantry was the most terrible enemy.

The brave and combative Zhenglan Banner cavalry, taking Niulu as a unit, took advantage of the chaos to launch a surprise attack on the officers and men of the 74th Legion; the officers and men of the 74th Legion who were caught off guard were often torn apart by the charge of the Zhenglan Banner cavalry, and the Eighth Banner infantry followed by them would be killed.

The Eighth Banner Infantry Cavalry Army, which showed a good degree of tacit understanding in the first joint operation, proved that actual combat is indeed the most effective way to enhance the army's combat effectiveness and the coordination of various arms; the officers and men of the 74 th Army Corps, who had been repeatedly hit hard by the Zhenglan Banner Cavalry, were already in a situation of being completely beaten passively.

Seeing that the 74th Legion was about to be overwhelmed, Rodriguez threw the 82nd Legion on the right flank of the Agni Legion into battle, and the 82nd Legion, which had been waiting for a long time, quickly took over the defense line of the 74th Legion and replaced the friendly forces that had been fighting for a long time.

Feeling that he had successfully defeated a legion of the Celestial Dragon Army with cannon fodder infantry, Azig began to invest in his cavalry on a larger scale in excitement, and before he knew it, Azig, who only had 10,000 cavalry under his command, had already put 5,000 cavalry into the battle on the front line.

The cooperation of 5,000 Blue Banner cavalry and more than 8,000 cannon fodder infantry put the 82nd Army Corps, which had just joined the battle, under very great frontal defensive pressure; Leoper, as the commander of the corps, led his army to join the battle in just half an hour, and invested a full 10,000 soldiers.

The 82nd Legion, which remained intact in combat, actually took advantage of the Eight Banners infantry who had not rested for a long time, but as more and more Eight Banner infantry died from exhaustion, Duoduo began to throw the last two Yellow Banner infantry in his hands into battle.

Leopold's 82nd Legion alone naturally could not stop the combined attack of 18,000 Eight Banner infantry and 10,000 taels of Blue Banner cavalry, and Rodriguez, who had made up his mind to fight for attrition, sent the 77th Legion and the 84th Legion one after another to block the enemy's attack.

After the 40,000 fresh troops of the Tianlong army took turns to fight, the Eight Banner infantry, with a total strength of less than 18,000, was quickly reduced to 11,000, and even the 10,000 Blue Banner cavalry, all of whom Azig had thrown into battle, were killed by about 3,000.

At this point in the battle, everyone knew that the moment of the real decisive battle was imminent, and Duoduo, who still had 20,000 taels of Blue Banner reinforcements behind him, led his 10,000 Blue Banner cavalry into the canyon and fought side by side with Azig's Blue Banner cavalry.

With the combat effectiveness of the 77th Army Corps and the 84th Army Corps, it was naturally unable to stop the fierce charge of the 17,000 taels of Blue Banner cavalry; the 77th Army Corps, which had been fighting for a little longer, had just collapsed less than 10 minutes after the entire army, and the 84th Army Corps, which was unable to support itself, also collapsed on all fronts.

After fighting out the four standing legions in succession, Rodriguez began to use the most elite Flame Legion under his command, and at the moment when the 84th Army collapsed, the 3rd, 4th, and 5th divisions of the Agni Legion immediately met the two Blue Banner cavalry that were charging forward.

Dudu Nikan, who had been sending cavalry to the rear to observe the battle, learned that Azig and Duoduo were leading an army to fight against the Flame Legion of the Celestial Dragon Army, they immediately ended their long wait and directly commanded the whole army to charge towards the canyon!

As soon as the 20,000 taels of Blue Banner cavalry led by Du Du and Nikan rushed into the canyon, countless ambush soldiers armed with longbows and crossbows suddenly appeared on the cliffs on both sides of the canyon, which were originally empty.

The overwhelming rain of arrows caused heavy losses to the two Blue Banner cavalry, and the crackling iron artillery gunners shot countless cavalry companies and horses into a sieve; before they could panic, they turned their horses' heads, and a dense group of Tianlong soldiers appeared at the northern end of the canyon.