In this battle, he didn't feel even the slightest bit complacent. Nor did he harbor any intention of trying to annihilate the enemy.
As a Commander, what he learned from his mentor, apart from military theory and command skills, was how, as a qualified Commander, to keep his own emotions and desires under control.
He didn't need to wipe out the enemy; he only needed to hold them back, and that was enough! Any unrealistic greed usually brings, in the end, not the dessert of victory.
Even though his reorganized Armored Camp had more than 400 Mecha, five or six times the enemy's number, after weighing the gains and losses between annihilating the enemy and blocking them, and after weighing that unusual scent he had caught earlier, he still chose the more cautious tactics.
By the time the enemy appeared to the east of the basin, his troops were already fully prepared for battle and marching out of the base in an orderly fashion.
