Seeing that the battle ahead had already begun, Marvin anxiously ordered his troops to accelerate their march again. He wanted to reach the battlefield as soon as possible; otherwise, Victor's mobile force might suffer losses fighting an enemy twice its size.
Under Marvin's leadership, his troops completed a forced march and finally reached the battlefield ten minutes later. However, the situation there far exceeded his expectations. Victor's forces had not suffered due to their numerical disadvantage; on the contrary, they had even gained the upper hand against the enemy to their front.
This was only natural. Although the Barbarians had greater numbers, Victor's force could be considered elite. His guard troops and the Third Regiment were likely the most fully capable units within the Two Rivers Legion.
Moreover, both units excelled in infantry combat, which was why Victor had kept them in reserve.
In particular, Victor's guard Heavy Infantry was not something these Barbarians could handle easily. Although Victor had divided the formation of his mobile force into two, he had not split up the Heavy Infantry, instead keeping it deployed with the left wing.
Like a powerful fist, this Heavy Infantry force threw a devastating hook from the left-side formation.
The Heavy Infantry formation became Walking Knights. With an infantry charge alone, it easily tore apart the vanguard of the Barbarian ten-thousand-man squad before it.
The entire force drove straight into Kuba's ten-thousand-man squad, crushing the two Barbarian Thousand-man squads at the very front.
That was only to be expected. Although Kuba's force was also considered elite, it had absorbed troops from many other Thousand-man squads and had not yet fully integrated them. Coordination between its units was far from perfect.
At the very instant the battle began, the Heavy Infantry commander noticed a gap between the formations of