章 1155: Swift Descent

The bridge under Alexander had been creaking and cracking too like the other two forces, but initially, few among his men had the time or the state of mind to notice that.

Furthermore, given the intensely crowded situation within the unit, where the men were so squeezed together that they could barely watch past their shoulders, much less see what was happening to the rear echelons of the opposing unit, the men failed to notice much of the happenings going on in front or rear of them.

Thus much of the fact that half the enemy forces in front of them had run away and then got eaten up by the sea, or that the Margraves behind them were quickly evacuating themselves remained obscure to them.

But the initial state of confusion managed to quickly erase itself away and as the state of the perilous predicament they were in became clear, panic and fear began to infect the formation just like the two sides.