Let's say a 1v1 happens

No guns

Just melee combat

These soldiers have the idea of 'honorable combat' drilled into their heads

What will they do?

Do they have orders to kill one another?

It is a battle in which the two armies are facing one another

Yes

Then they don't need to worry about honor at that point, unless the situation changes and thus different orders come into play

1v1: the soldiers are alone - they will fight
1v1: there is a retreating soldier and a soldier in pursuit - the soldier in pursuit may have no intention of letting the soldier go, due to orders being such, but he has the idea of honorable combat. What will happen?

That's still the same situation

Retreat or not

If the order is to kill, then it is to kill

Retreat or not

Surrender however would be different

So what I'm getting is that you don't know what honorable combat is in the first place, romanticized or how it was historically

wut

Ok

The soldier will face the other soldier, but will make it a fight in which they test their mettle

And?

That is honorable

You're not offering a new scenario

It's the same scenario as before

Fuck it, this is easier to understand: honorable combat is where soldiers respect each other

Yes

Correct

Same scenario

When soldiers respect each other but must kill one another, they fight respectfully

wtf is that supposed to mean

If I stick my sword into your gut respectfully, or disrespectfully, the end result is exactly the same

You bleed to death, probably

In pain

I need to get better at explaining things

I tried dumbing this down too

Do you understand what respect is?

Yes

How it is earned?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma-yuddha

Respect is not earned in war, that much I know

It is earned through seeing the person, the human

Treating someone as a person