Le Morte Darthur, Chapter 13 summary

What happens

1. Lucas knocks Agwisance down and takes horses from two slain knights to remount Bloias de la Flandres and Sir Gwinas.
2. Arthur kills twenty knights and wounds Lot, while his companions drive other enemy kings from the field.
3. Lot divides the allied army, keeping fifteen thousand men aside while six kings continue fighting with twelve thousand.
4. Ban and Bors emerge from ambush, but Lionses and Phariance must retreat when enemy forces threaten their advance guard.
5. Bors charges, and Lot recognizes him as a dangerous opponent whose arrival escapes their notice.
6. Carados attacks Bors’s force, falls from his horse, and receives rescue from the King with the Hundred Knights.

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What to notice

Lot responds to mounting losses by splitting the army. His plan shifts the fighting from direct pressure toward a coordinated surprise attack.

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