I hear echoes, from the valley and from the heart, reaping the empty soul with a lonely sickle, repeating the determination and the happiness again, and finally an oasis swaying in the desert. I believe in myself, born like a bright summer flower, undefeated, demonic like fire, bearing the load of heartbeat and the burden of breathing, and never tired of it.

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

Taking advantage of the confusion of the enemy cavalry on the bridge, Eumenes led the first four rows of Spartan heavy infantry to rush into the chaotic cavalry group of the enemy army with an indomitable charging attitude, and killed most of the panicked enemy cavalry before slowly retreating.

Eumenes, covered in the blood of the enemy, had already been cut by the scimitar of the enemy cavalry in his left hand in the battle, and the spear in his right hand was even more stained with viscous blood.

After this fierce battle, the Zhengbaiqi cavalry, who had lost the initial battle, chose to retreat to the north bank of the bridge for the time being; at this time, the two Niuluzheng Baiqi cavalry who were violently killing on the bridge were left with less than 400 cavalry, and more than 200 people were killed and panicked and fell into the river.

Seeing his cavalry defeated by more than 100 enemy troops, he was furious and ordered the captain of his own army: "Go, drag the two leaders who are unfavorable in battle to the front of the army for me, and execute them on the spot!"

"No!"

Frightened by the murderous aura contained in his leader's tone, the captain of the pro-soldier hurriedly took more than a dozen pro-guard cavalry and went straight to the two Niu Lu in front; not long after, the two leaders who were tied up by the five-flower army were taken by the captain of the pro-soldier to the open space in front of the army and executed with two knives.

Looking at the leader under his command, who was ordered to be executed by his own in-laws and good brothers, Harla, who stood side by side with Xiangqile, did not frown his brows, this is the punishment that the loser should accept, the Jurchen tribe has never been a place for the weak to survive.

"This is the fate of cowards!" the irascible Xiangqile pointed to the two corpses in front of him that were still bleeding, and said sharply to the leaders behind him: "In this battle, you will either die on the battlefield like a warrior, or you will be executed by me like a coward!"

For the Jurchen warriors, who regarded honor more than life, Xiangqiler's words were simply humiliating them, and an impulsive leader immediately rushed out on horseback and shouted to Xiangqiler:

"The leader of Xiangqile, the cavalry of our Jurchen tribe, are the most brave and warlike warriors on the grassland, not some cowards who are greedy for life and afraid of death! I, Huerjia, am willing to defend the glory of our Jurchen warriors with my life!!"

This leader under the command of Harla took the initiative to ask for battle with a look of anger on his face, but he was praised by Xiangqiler: "Okay! Huerjia is indeed worthy of being a warrior with a white flag, so you will lead the cavalry of your headquarters and the defeated cavalry to seize the bridge!"

"The last general, Huerjia, swear to die and live up to his mission!"

After Eumenes withdrew to the phalanx with the first four platoons of soldiers, the Spartan hoplites, who had not killed a single soldier, withdrew from the bridge under the orders of Agis, and the defense line on the bridge was taken over by the Spartan heavy infantry led by Agis.

Led by Hulgazo, who had received the order to go to battle, led his command of nearly 700 white flags and 700 white flags, and once again launched a fierce attack on the Spartan heavy infantry, and Agis, who was also standing in the first row, was as high-spirited as Eumenes.

The corpses of more than 100 white flag cavalrymen who died on the bridge before became an obstacle to the charge of the white flag cavalry, and even some unlucky white flag cavalrymen tripped over the corpses on the bridge in the process of charging and fell directly into the Xingyue River.

Except for these few but many unlucky bastards, the rest of the cavalry could not maintain their charging speed, and how could the charging cavalry, which had lost its charging speed, be the opponent of the Spartan heavy infantry, who had been waiting for battle?

The brave Aggis first resisted the two charges of the enemy cavalry, and then used the enemy corpses all over the bridge as cover to launch a counterattack against the enemy's follow-up cavalry;

Instead of making a conservative skirmish, Aggis scattered his inmobile pike-phalanx and launched a fierce assault on the enemy cavalry that had lost their mobility in a skirmish formation.

Ulga, who suffered heavy losses, had to choose to temporarily avoid the Spartan warriors when it was difficult to reorganize the formation and resume the offensive, but Hulga, who could take the initiative to attack, would not give up the attack on the bridge so easily.

After retreating to the north bank of the bridge, Ulga, who had plenty of room to maneuver, began to let his cavalry shoot the Spartan warriors who were chasing them with bows and arrows.

After spending a few minutes regrouping the cavalry formation, Hulga, who had eaten a trench and had a lot of wisdom, asked hundreds of cavalry to turn over and dismount before launching a second attack, and gradually cleaned up the corpses on the bridge under the cover of other cavalrymen's bows and arrows.

If there were only two Spartan hoplites under Aggis' command, Hulga's tactics might not have been impossible, but unfortunately, as time went on, the Macedonian royal pikemen of Aloyos and the Cretan archers of Appius finally arrived on the battlefield!

Finding that reinforcements had arrived, Agis immediately walked down from the bridge and ordered Appius who had arrived: "Appius, immediately lead your Cretan archers to rain arrows on the enemy knights on the bridge deck from both sides of the bridge!"

"No!"

Looking at the corpses on the bridge and the enemy troops who were cleaning up the corpses, Appius, who did not dare to delay, immediately divided his 160 Cretan archers into two teams, rushed to both sides of the bridge entrance, and fired at the enemy troops on the bridge deck.

The Cretan archers, who shot with great accuracy, wiped out the enemy cavalry on the bridge almost at the speed of killing one person with two arrows, and the hundreds of unsuspecting cavalry, without even having a chance to escape, were wiped out by the Cretan archers who arrived on the battlefield in time!

Seeing more than 100 cavalry under his command being shot and killed by the defenders on the other side of the bridge, Hulga, who was furious, was just about to lead his army to launch another attack on the defenders, when he heard a horn sounding behind him on behalf of the retreat of the whole army.

Ulga, who secretly breathed a sigh of relief, glanced hatefully at the archers in green uniforms on the other side of the bridge, and the pikemen in red robes on the bridge deck, and then led the cavalry under his command to retreat to the place where the army was not far away.

The experienced Henchile and Harla were not fools, they were not unaware of the fighting power of the defenders' pikemen, but they were not willing to give up, and now that the reinforcements of the defenders had arrived, and any further fighting would only increase casualties, they resolutely chose to retreat.

In the final analysis, the purpose of the joint southern invasion of Henchile, Harla and others was only to plunder the property, and since the fighting strength of the defenders was enough to make them pay a heavy price in casualties, and the gains outweighed the losses, they would have given up this tentative southern invasion as a matter of course.

Even the joint attack of Xiangqile and Harla ended in failure, how could Tumen and Huanggutai, who came later, continue; the four Xiangqile who invaded the south without success did not know that their tentative attack directly triggered the next series of major battles!