Even if the wings are broken, the heart will fly.

– Rabindranath Tagore (Indian poet, philosopher, and Indian nationalist)

The relationship between the four leaders of the White Banner, including Xiangqile, Tumen, Harla, and Huanggutai, was not bad, otherwise they would not have united to launch a plundering war to the south;

The eldest son of Huntil, who are also the leaders of the small tribe, married Halla's young daughter as his wife three years ago.

The relationship between Tumen and Huang Gutai is not as close as that between Xiangqile and Harla, but they have also followed Solgobel in the southern and northern wars together, and the friendship established on the battlefield is still trustworthy, at least they don't need to worry about their backs.

The size of the nearly 6,000 cavalry was too large for a march together, so Henchile and Harla led the army in front, and Tumen and Huanggutai led the army behind, and slowly came to the third bridge.

When the excited Henchile and Halla decided to take the third bridge in one fell swoop, they quickly drew a full battalion of cattle from their commands, and with 600 white banner cavalry, they formed a vanguard force that attempted to capture the third bridge.

"Warriors of the white flag, in front of you is the hinterland of the Celestial Dragon Empire, which is rich and prosperous, full of gold and silver, and in front of us is only four hundred Celestial Dragon Cowards;

The six hundred cavalrymen who were about to be dispatched were all proud, and Harla, who was on the side, said at the right time: "The warriors of the white flag, annihilate the enemy in front, occupy the bridges, and plunder the wealth belonging to the strong!"

"Annihilate the enemy, plunder the wealth!" "Annihilate the enemy, plunder the wealth!!" "Annihilate the enemy, plunder the wealth!!"

The White Flag Cavalry, who had already seen the richness of the towns of the Celestial Dragon Empire during the plundering of Langxiang Province, heard Harla's plundering promise to encourage them, and the White Flag Cavalry, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, immediately burst out with endless enthusiasm for battle.

First, the 600 vanguard cavalry raised their arms and shouted, and then nearly 3,000 cavalry shouted in unison, and the cavalrymen with blood-red eyes clenched their weapons one after another, eager to immediately annihilate the enemy troops in front of them, and entered Besançon Province to plunder on a large scale.

"Let's go!"

With the order of Xiangqile, the six hundred horsemen with the white flag who were ready to wait directly turned their horses and galloped towards the bridge not far away.

Before the Macedonian royal pikemen and Cretan archers arrived on the battlefield, Agis, who lacked long-range strike forces and reserves, did not want to engage the enemy so quickly, but the enemy's attack would not wait for Agis to be ready for battle.

Even so, Aggis still had no intention of using the original bridge defenders, not that the original bridge defenders had no combat value, but their combat effectiveness determined that it was difficult for them to cooperate with the Spartan heavy infantry, and it was better not to use them than to let them disrupt the deployment.

Believing in the combat effectiveness of his soldiers, Aggis shouted to Eumenes, who was about to go to the bridge: "We are Sparta!"

Eumenes, who was stunned at this, strode forward without looking back, and when he came to the front of his own group of Spartan heavy infantry, Eumenes turned around and faced his soldiers, raised his spear and roared, "Thisis Sparta!"

“ThisisSparta！！”

One hundred and fifty-nine Spartan hoplites, dressed in red robes, holding a shield in their left hand and a spear in their right, looked at Eumenes standing in front of them with determined eyes, and shouted this slogan with all their strength, which represented their indomitable will to fight.

Eumenes, who walked into the middle of the first row of soldiers, stood with the nine soldiers of the first row, and together formed the first row of the Spartan heavy infantry, and behind the ten Spartan soldiers in the first row, there were fifteen rows of Spartan soldiers in the same pose.

Seeing the cavalry rushing closer and closer on the north bank of the bridge, the faces of Eumenes and his Spartan hoplites were still not the slightest bit afraid, even if the smoke and dust raised by the enemy cavalry were like an ancient beast that chose to devour people.

"Phalanx of spears, columns!"

It was not until the first horseman with the white flag rode onto the bridge that Eumenes, who was as straight as a mountain, began to give a loud order, and with Eumenes' command, the sixteen rows of Spartan hoplites stepped back with their right feet in unison, and raised their spears in their right hands.

The Spartan hoplites held their spears flat enough to ensure that in front of the first row of warriors, there was a forest of four rows of sharp spears, and the enemy cavalry would have to pay the price of blood if they wanted to attack the Spartan hoplites!

The first thing the white cavalry did after rushing to the bridge was to raise their bows and arrows and shoot arrows at the Spartan hoplites in front of them, in an attempt to disrupt the formation of the Spartan hoplites.

"Raise your shield!"

Eumenes, who was heavy and calm, did not order the Spartan warriors to raise their shields to block the enemy's arrows until the enemy's arrows were about to hit his face, and only four or five Spartan warriors on both wings were wounded by one or two hundred arrows.

For the Spartan heavy infantry, whose initial experience level was as high as level four, the damage caused to them by ordinary arrows was not enough to make them lose their combat effectiveness, and it can be said that the rain of arrows of the White Banner cavalry did not have any effect on the Spartan heavy infantry!

As soon as this round of arrow rain passed, the cavalry of the white flag, whose charging speed had not slowed down, rushed fiercely towards the forest of spears held by the Spartan heavy infantry, and the four rows of spears composed of forty extra-long spears directly penetrated the rushing cavalry into a blood gourd.

However, the enemy cavalry that continued to rush forward only charged forward more and more violently, not caring about the sharp rise in casualties, and Eumenes, as a centurion, stood in the middle of the Spartan warriors in the first row, and his right hand holding the spear was a little numb.

The impact of a cavalryman's charge at full speed is definitely not something that the infantry can withstand, even the Spartan heavy infantry with invincible spears is still unable to resist the charge of the enemy cavalry like a tide, and Eumenes' right hand, which is gradually numb, is the best proof.

Even the strongest Spartan infantry in this group, Eumenes, who was numb in his right hand, and the other Spartan warriors in the first four rows who also withstood the fierce charge of the enemy army would not be in much better condition, but the determination of the Spartan warriors to win supported them to die and not take a step back!

"Thorn!"

Determined to change the situation of his own passive attack, Eumenes suddenly gave a new order before another wave of enemy cavalry rushed forward, and the Spartan warriors in the first four rows, after hearing Eumenes' order, instinctively raised their spears and stabbed forward.

The enemy cavalry, who had just tried to ride past the corpses of their comrades and charge forward, were stabbed on the bridge by four rows of spears that stabbed at the oncoming direction.