If a person does not think how important he is, he can live a very happy life.

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

Ten minutes before the start of the battle, he was able to kill seven pikemen with a spear in his hand, and the entire First Wing would not exceed five people, including the regiment commander Gapitus and his powerful general guard.

As a self-grown general, Cabitus was surrounded by a general's guard composed of twenty-four low-level and high-level Roman heavy cavalry, and when necessary, these twenty-four Roman heavy cavalry could also dismount and fight.

At this moment, the twenty-four Roman heavy cavalry who had existed because of Cabitus were guarding Cabitus with their spears, and the protection of Cabitus and the killing of the enemy cavalry were undoubtedly of much greater importance to them than to the latter.

The cavalry spear was much shorter than the super-long lance, and the main focus of the Roman heavy cavalry was on Cabitus, so the results of the cavalry of the general guard were not dazzling, but the number of kills of Cabitus who was on the front line was simply terrifying!

The armor worn by Cabitus is no longer the big red robe of the centurion of the Spartan heavy infantry, but the typical battle armor of the captain of the Celestial Dragon Empire;

The importance of capturing the thief and capturing the king first is understood even by the relatively backward nomads, and after perceiving the identity of Caditus, the excited Red Banner cavalry naturally aimed their attack at the place where Cabitus was.

This is also the reason why Claire was able to kill seven enemy cavalry in just ten minutes, and the enemy cavalry's overly dense charge allowed Claire to easily harvest the enemy's life as her own record, whether she was defending desperately or stabbing her spear.

When Claire, who was mediocre, killed the seventh enemy cavalry, Cabitus, who had been in an attacking position, had already killed a full thirty enemy cavalry;

Even if Cabitus was no longer the centurion of the Spartan hoplites, but the commander of the pikemen who commanded an army of 20,000, he would still come to the forefront of the battle after deploying the army, and fight the enemy with his spear.

The overly belligerent Spartan warrior nature of Cabitus is, to some extent, detrimental to his overall command of the Lancers, but on the other hand, a brave and strong commander can always make his soldiers more and more courageous, doesn't it?

With Capitus personally in charge, the first line of pikemen of the first company, composed of 2,000 pikemen, resisted the charge of the enemy cavalry for more than half an hour, and only then slowly withdrew to the second pikemen line under the extreme situation of more than two-thirds of the casualties.

The two hoplite wings covering the flanks of the first lance line were not under heavy attack from the enemy cavalry, so the casualties were acceptable, but as the middle line moved back, they retreated accordingly.

The Red Banner Cavalry, who also suffered heavy casualties, found that the first line of defense of the Lancer Regiments began to slowly retreat, and their offensive became more and more ferocious, as if they wanted to take advantage of the retreat of the First Wing to break the pikes phalanx of the First Wing in one fell swoop.

Whether it is a war in the age of cold weapons or a war in the age of hot weapons, retreat is always more difficult than attacking; when an elite division capable of attacking and winning a big victory in a battle, when it retreats, it will often cause a great rout of the whole army because of the panic during the retreat.

The Lancer Regiment, which had not been formed for a long time, and its relatively most elite First Wing had almost a good record of one to one in the half hour that it had resisted the charge of the Red Banner cavalry head-on, and if we added the results of the crossbow troops behind them, they could already be called elite.

It is a pity that as soon as Cabitus gave the order to retreat, the originally rock-solid spear defense line suddenly became chaotic in the process of retreating, and even some soldiers who were struggling with the enemy one second turned around and ran the next second.

The first half hour of the battle had caused Cabitus to misjudge his men, who prematurely thought that his men were elite, only to be caught off guard by the relentless pursuit of the enemy cavalry on the way back.

At least half of the more than 700 retreating spearmen of the 1st Wing did not escape the pursuit of the enemy cavalry, and the other half were only able to retreat to the rear from the gap between the 2nd spear line and the hoplites on both flanks with the timely response of the 2nd Wing.

Luckily Claire was lucky enough to retreat this time, but he had an enemy arrow stuck in his chest, and unfortunately only twelve wounded pikemen were left alive in his seventh squadron, which was full of 100 pikemen.

Although the First Wing was lucky enough to withdraw more than 300 pikemen, the fact that the First Wing, which had suffered heavy losses on the way, had completely lost its combat effectiveness was also a reality that Cabitus had to admit; as a result, Cabitus's command had to be appropriately adjusted.

Originally, Cabitus planned to use the method of resistance to fully exert the advantages of his own army on the premise of gradually depleting the enemy's vital forces, but the defeat in the first retreat made Cabitus clearly realize that his soldiers would obviously not retreat yet.

To fight a war of attrition with soldiers who will not retreat is undoubtedly self-defeating, and the very clear-headed Cabitus knows that in his next battle, he must use a hard-fought way to concentrate on fighting the enemy's cavalry to the end!

The second line of spear defense, which was still in formation, soon ushered in a large-scale charge of enemy cavalry, but fortunately, there was a desperate battle before the first line of spear defense, and when the second line of defense met the enemy, the charge of the enemy cavalry did not lose its initial ferocity and rage.

Cabitus, who was still at the forefront of the battle, again increased his number of kills to a staggering seventy-five cavalry in half an hour, while the second line of defense, full of two thousand pikemen, paid the price of a thousand pikemen killed.

As soon as the time came, the 3rd Spear Wing, a hundred meters away behind the second line of defense, maintained its own spear phalanx posture and slowly advanced behind the 2nd Spear Wing.

They were replaced by the 3rd Spear Wing, which was close behind them, and the 900 pikemen of the 2nd Spear Wing withdrew very smoothly from the gap between the two flanks of the defensive line.

In nearly eighty minutes of fighting, two of the two most elite pikemen under the command of Capitus were killed, and another 1,300 pikemen were wounded, and all four infantry wings were killed by 1,900 hoplites.

The cost of 4,600 soldiers killed and 2,700 wounded by the pikemen was exchanged for the death of 5,000 cavalry and the wounding of 1,000 cavalry.