Battle Conclusion (part-2)

Faruq could do nothing but stand like a wooden block as he witnessed with muted shock his army dissolve right in front of him.

"Greed! The gods are punishing me for my greed!" He lamented in a low, silenced breath.

He said this because he realized that if he had committed his reserves to strengthening the sector where he was being attacked, instead of trying to win, then though he might not have won, he would not have lost either.

For by the time Alexander would have finished chewing through the large contingent of men there, dusk would have already descended and the battle would have had to stop.

In fact, if Faruq had been able to hold on just for another hour, Alexander's men would have been simply too tired to fight even if a huge opportunity presented to themselves.

But there were no 'buts and if' in life.

Faruq was certainly enticed by Sunash, but ultimately it was him that made his own choice.