Battle of Sissilpond Ridge (Part-5)

Melodias's profusely thanked Gaia that the enemy commander had chosen to rush up the hill with his phalanx, thus presenting him with this once in a lifetime opportunity to win the battle. 

And to capitalize it, he ordered his men to hit hard and hit fast, and to show no mercy.

Now, this thinking that had Petricuno not rushed up the slope and thus lost cohesion with his force, but instead had slowly approached with methodical precision the battle would have been over, was overly simplistic.

Because if the mercenary leader had indeed been too careful, his advance up the slope would have been really a crawl.

And that would have given Melodias ample time to spot and locate him.

Then he would have had options.

The simplest one- he could have charged down the hill and taken the fighting to them.