Once you get what you think you like, you don't cherish them anymore.

—Naipaul (West Indian writer, travelogue writer, and social critic)

The nearly 4,000 hoplites of the Hammer Legion, led by the mighty general Antio, bypassed the northern part of the battlefield and marched directly at Roderick's army on the left flank of Lucy, followed by more than 9,000 light cavalry of the Roman Spear Legion led by Nelson.

The 25,000 Lucy warriors under Roderick's command were not those Lucy warriors under the personal command of Viriacius, and they were also soldiers of the Lucian tribe, but the difference in combat effectiveness between the two armies was very large.

As a matter of fact, the soldiers of the Luxi tribe can also be divided into three grades according to their combat strength, among them, the 200,000 Lucy standing infantry and the 50,000 Lucy standing cavalry are undoubtedly the first class with the strongest combat effectiveness.

The 150,000 second-line fighters from the Luxi tribe were the second rank in the middle of the combat effectiveness, and the 150,000 second-line soldiers with the worst combat effectiveness were not the soldiers of the Luxi tribe at all, but the soldiers from the vassal tribes under the Luxi tribe.

Of the 200,000 standing infantry and 50,000 standing cavalry of the Luxi tribe, 40,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry were led south by Gregory to quell the rebellion;

The 110,000 infantry and 40,000 cavalry stationed on the border, under the command of Roderick and Hall, fought a bloody battle with the 700,000 troops of the Eastern Alliance for many days, and finally fought hard to defeat the 550,000 troops of the Eastern Alliance at the cost of almost annihilating the entire army.

To this day, only 50,000 infantry under the command of Viriacius remained, and the soldiers on the left and right flanks led by Roderick and Hall were all second-line soldiers of the Luxi tribe, and their combat effectiveness was far inferior to that of the standing soldiers.

The last time the Hammer Legion attacked, half of the 50,000 Lucy troops defeated were second-line Lucy warriors and half were elite Lucy warriors;

The surging heavy cavalry group of the Heavy Hammer Legion, with a highly offensive wedge-shaped battle formation as an offensive formation, launched an attack on Roderick's Lucy's left flank army, even if they had been prepared, the Lucy warriors who faced the heavy cavalry charge were still terrified.

After seeing with his own eyes that a dense formation was useless to meet the heavy cavalry group charge, Roderick adopted a loose formation to meet the heavy cavalry group charge this time, hoping to reduce the lethality of the enemy's heavy cavalry group charge as much as possible.

Roderick, who had never even known of the existence of heavy cavalry before facing the Hammer Legion, used his experience of only one time to meet the formation he adopted, which brought disastrous consequences to his left flank army.

The more dense the attacking object, the more difficult it is for the cavalry to attack, whether it is the shield wall battle formation of the Roman heavy infantry or the spear phalanx of the Spartan heavy infantry, it is not to use the dense formation supplemented by the coordination of weapons and equipment to resist the charge of the enemy cavalry.

No matter how powerful the heavy cavalry of the Heavy Hammer Regiment is, it still belongs to the category of cavalry; the loose battle formation of the enemy army is simply the most rational attack object for the attacking cavalry, and they have countless ways to expand the results of the battle when their mobility is fully utilized!

Antio, who was followed by his own general guard, rushed into the enemy group, plunged his cavalry gun into the chest of one enemy soldier, and then pulled it out with a splash of blood and plunged it into the chest of another enemy soldier, without the slightest drag in the middle.

The loose formation of the enemy army gave Antio the maximum room to play, and in the first round of charge, he led his hoplite cavalry, easily cutting through the enemy formation, and even increasing the number of kills.

Roderick, who realized that he had used the wrong formation, wanted to take advantage of the gap in Antio's direction to adjust the formation, but the soldiers under his command had been disrupted;

For the thousands of warriors gathered by Roderick, Antio took the initiative to avoid them when he launched the second round of charge, and compared to the 'hard bones' that were not easy to gnaw, the larger number of 'lambs to the slaughter' was the target of Antio's attack.

Courage and belligerence were indeed Antio's most striking personal traits, but he was also a general who cherished the lives of his soldiers, and in order to achieve greater results and minimize the casualties of his own soldiers, he chose to attack the enemy army in confusion.

By the end of the second round of the Hammer Legion's charge, Roderick's Lucy's left flank army had become a scattered mess, and the Lucy warriors, who had been scattered by the heavy cavalry's cluster charge, were once again in a dilemma of fighting on their own.

This time, Antio, who had not waited for Roderick to call again, had already led the heavy cavalry of the Hammer Legion to rush over, and countless panicked Lucy warriors had been trampled into mud before they could utter their wails.

Antio, who had completed this last round of charge, after cutting through Roderick's left flank army for the third time, led his army straight to Hale's Lucy's right flank army, and just as Roderick was secretly relieved, Nelson led his cavalry and rushed over.

Facing a group charge of nearly 4,000 hoplites was a disaster for Roderick's left-wing army, but when the enemy army changed from more than 3,000 hoplites to more than 9,000 light cavalry, the Lucy warriors who were under attack did not feel any ease.

After Lucy's left flank army fell into a situation of fighting on its own, the outflanking and annihilation of the light cavalry could be more deadly than the cluster charge of the heavy cavalry;

Roderick, who had gathered more than 6,000 warriors around him, tried to use his initiative to entangle the enemy light cavalry that was rushing towards him, so that he could sacrifice a small number of soldiers in exchange for the regrouping of most of them.

Unfortunately, Nelson would not give him this opportunity to sacrifice for time, and Nelson, who had a clear goal, directly led his light cavalry, bypassing Roderick's troops who rushed forward on his own initiative, and instead killed those enemy soldiers who were still in chaos.

Within twenty minutes of the Hammer Legion and the Roman Spear Legion, Antio had already led his hoplites through Hale's right flank, and Nelson led his light cavalry to slaughter Roderick's left flank.

In just twenty minutes, the Hammer Legion had lost more than 500 soldiers, the Roman Spear Legion had lost no more than 1,000 soldiers, and the two wings of Roderick and Hall's army had lost an astonishing 15,000 soldiers!