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==== Fighting the Shardbearer ====
On the {{date/sa|year=1172|month=10|text=month of Ishi of the year 1172}}, Kaladin fought his final battle in Amaram's army. Prior to the battle, Kaladin met with another squadleader named [[Gare]] and two of his sergeants. As he usually did when he saw a young recruit in need of protection, Kaladin bribed Gare so the other squadleader would send [[Cenn]] to Kaladin's own squad. He went by the surgeon's station to also bribe the surgeons there to see to Kaladin's men first, although the pouch stuck to his hand by what Kaladin thought was a [[windspren]], then he continued on his way to the front ranks of the battle line to take his place with his squad for the upcoming battle. He started telling his sergeant, [[Dallet]], to take care of Cenn once he arrived but cut off when he saw that the younger boy had already made his way there.{{book ref|sa1|47}} Dallet and Kaladin surveyed the battlefield and decided they would fight around a nearby hill. With a final counsel to Dallet to keep an eye out on Cenn, he took his place at the front of his squad after shortly conferring with another squadleader.
Once the signal to march was given, Kaladin's squad ran ahead of the rest of Amaram's army, thereby avoiding the volleys of arrows the enemy sent their way. They engaged the first enemy squad, and their discipline saw to that the enemy would retreat without Kaladin's squad taking no casualties. For the better part of an hour, they held the small hill they'd chosen as their battlefield, only engaging squads that got close to their position. The larger battle, however, didn't nearly go as well, and after the larger body of Amaram's force broke, Kaladin's squad retreated eastward, towards a larger group of soldiers that were still holding. Before they were halfway across the field however, a large group of enemy soldiers intercepted them. The two sides met in a crash, and in the chaos Cenn got too close to enemy soldiers. Kaladin rushed to the young boy's help, defeating six enemy spearmen, and saw to his wounds.{{book ref|sa1|1}} Nearby an enemy battalionlord was trying to rally his soldiers to mount a counterattack. After seeing to his men, Kaladin decided to attack the enemy officer in the hopes killing a so high ranked officer would be enough to get them to the Shattered Plains. Kaladin and two of his subsquads executed their plan flawlessly, and Kaladin himself struck the killing blow on the enemy battalionlord, while the other two subsquads held back with the wounded.
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