Some people shed tears during the day, and some people hide their tears in the deep darkness.

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

Although the 14th Army Corps under Louis was rebuilt after suffering heavy losses, its combat effectiveness should not be underestimated, and the 16th Army Corps, which was also a rebuilt corps with the 14th Army Corps, was slightly inferior in overall combat effectiveness to the 14th Army Corps.

As for the newly built 56th, 57th, and 58th Army Corps, the 74th, 77th, 82nd, and 84th Army Corps, which had just arrived in Besançon Province for a month, the actual combat effectiveness of these seven legions was not even comparable to the five Eastern Army Corps that Bai Feng had left in the eastern part of the empire.

This means that as long as Quintus commands 30,000 recruits to defeat Louis's 14th Army head-on, it proves that his army is stronger than all the standing legions in Besançon, and Quintus, as a strong man, is naturally qualified to be the commander of the army.

If Quintus had not been summoned suddenly, then Luis would have been the commander of the lure army, which can be seen from the composition of the lure army, with Luis as the commander and Di Maria and Ranocchia as his deputies, which was almost the best configuration for the lure army.

Because the army of luring the enemy is composed of five standing legions plus the Iron Guard, the most qualified of the five standing legion commanders is Louis, followed by Di Maria and Ranocchia, the former is second only to Luis in seniority, and the latter is the representative of White Peak.

Therefore, under the premise that there is no more suitable person to be the commander of the army, Louis is undoubtedly the most suitable candidate for the commander of the army, and Di Maria and Ranocchia are the commanders of their own army, and it is natural for them to serve as the deputy general of the army.

How could Louis not be able to see this kind of thing that anyone with a little military knowledge could see? Based on this most basic premise, Luis naturally did not have any good feelings about Quintus, who 'snatched' his position as commander.

What made Luis even more angry was that this Quintus, who came out of nowhere, dared to question his ability in public, and in view of this, Louis, who was angry, decided to ignore Bai Feng's face and personally take action to teach Quintus a lesson!

After the 20,000 soldiers of the 14th Army retreated to the west side of the plain, Louis began to arrange his troops, and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Wings, the most elite of the legions, were deployed by Louis in the center of the army to serve as the main force of the central army.

The left and right armies of the flanking army were composed of the fourth and sixth wings and the fifth and seventh wings respectively, and in front of the Chinese army were the ninth and tenth wings, which were the weakest in combat, and the last remaining eighth wing became the reserve force or mobile force in the hands of Louis.

The core of Luis's arrangement of troops is to first show the enemy weakness to make Quintus feel that he will underestimate the enemy, and then use the elite main force of the Chinese army to defeat Quintus's main force in one fell swoop; in Luis's opinion, the recruits who have only been trained for a month will not have much will to fight.

Is it really as simple as Louis imagined? An hour passed in a flash, and as soon as Louis had deployed his army, the trumpeters on the periphery of the battlefield sounded the horn for the start of the battle!

The sound of the trumpets of the two royal legions and the two standing legions of the two thousand trumpets was enough to resound through the sky at the same time, and Louis, who heard the sound of the trumpets, immediately ordered the co-captains around him: "You all return to the troops, and immediately lead the army forward!"

"No!" the ten wing-captains of the Fourteenth Regiment responded with a bang.

"Remember, at most half an hour, you must crush the enemy army!"

"Crush the enemy!Capture Quintus!!" the captains, who knew their own regimental commanders very well, shouted in unison.

"Crush the enemy!Capture Quintus!!"

"Crush the enemy!Capture Quintus!!"

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The commanders of the Fourteenth Legion took the lead in shouting, and soon the entire Fourteenth Legion shouted this slogan, and the momentum generated by the 20,000 soldiers raising their arms and shouting made the horses under the cavalry seats under Donald on the periphery of the battlefield a little restless.

Compared to the mighty Fourteenth Legion, the 30,000 recruits commanded by Quintus were much quieter, and Quintus, who did not raise any slogans, only formed a huge four-column battle formation with his infantry and longbowmen.

The 10,000 new army infantrymen wearing the standard weapons and equipment of the Roman Youth Army, just like the real Roman Youth Army, formed a small three-column battle formation with a distance of one meter for every two soldiers, and hundreds of small three-column battle formations were combined into a large three-column battle array.

At the front of the three columns were a dense group of longbowmen, and the arrows in their quivers were wooden poles with iron arrows removed, and the tips of the poles were coated with color-changing potions, and if one was hit by two arrows, they would be judged dead.

On either side of the three columns of infantry and one column of longbowmen were 10,000 cavalry, which were divided into two, and these 10,000 specially trained cavalry, riding on the best horses of Rome, were outwardly more elite than Donald's cavalry legions!

As the sound of the trumpets faded away, the distance between the two armies narrowed little by little, until they were in each other's field of vision, and Quintus, seeing the advance of the Fourteenth Legion, ordered his army to halt its advance and prepare for battle.

Luis, who also saw the Quintus army, did not intend to stop the advance of his army, and Luis, who decided to defeat the Quintus army in one go, not only did not slow down the advance of his own army, but gave his own army an attack order.

The 4,000 men of the 14th Army Corps, who launched the charge, quickly approached the immovable Quintus army, and when they approached within 400 meters of the Quintus army, they were greeted by the first round of arrows from the longbowmen under the command of Quintus!

The longbowmen, skilled in archery, covered the front army of the 14th Army Corps, which was not fast in charge, with round after round of volleys, and in a short distance of 400 meters, the 4,000 soldiers of the 14th Army paid the price of more than 2,000 soldiers 'killed'.

All the generals who watched the battle knew that if it weren't for the fact that the soldiers of the 14th Army were just faked their deaths, such heavy advance casualties would have been enough to completely collapse the front army of the charging 14th Army, and even so, the battle would still be in Quintus' favor.

Seeing that the former officers and men of the 14th Legion had managed to escape the rain of arrows, they were about to rush into the cluster of longbowmen who were weak in close combat, and the longbowmen, who had been prepared for a long time, under the command of their respective captains, quickly retreated back along the passage left by the three battle formations behind them.

The extremely nimble infantry officers and men immediately shrunk the loose three-column battle formation into a dense shield wall defense as soon as the longbowmen in front of them withdrew to the rear, and the front army of the 14th Army Corps, which lacked attack power, had no strength to break through the shield wall defense at all.

The officers and men of the 14th Army Corps, who were still worried about being blocked by the shield wall one second, found that the defenders had already killed the shield wall; the attacking soldiers who were caught off guard were immediately defeated by the counterattacking defenders.

Without waiting for Louis to send his main force of the Chinese army and the left and right armies to reinforce the front army, his front army, consisting of the two weakest wings, had been wiped out on the battlefield by Quintus without much effort, and the price Quintus paid for this was only the 'death' of more than a hundred infantry!