Even though Maximus doesn't believe in gods, he couldn't help but pray silently in his heart at this moment, while hoping that the resilience and immense trust developed by the rebel soldiers over the past year would support them.
In fact, the current situation of the rebel army's formation had already started to deviate from what Quintus and the others had initially planned.
In the original plan, the right wing served as the root, and it needed to remain as stationary as possible so that the center and the left wing could retreat, using it as an axis, to keep the formation intact...