The heavy cavalry's spear was used for charging, and the hammer was used in close combat after the charge.
(Long spears cannot kill enemies at close range, so heavy cavalry are usually equipped with a short weapon for close combat.)
The three hundred Ming army heavy armored cavalrymen began to move after receiving the order.
At first they moved very slowly, even slower than an average person walking.
When they were three hundred steps away from the battle line, they began to speed up.
The iron hooves stepped on the ground, making a sound like a war drum.
When they were fifty paces from the battle line, their speed reached its peak and they continued to charge at that speed.
Boom...
The earth began to tremble and the sky changed color.
The Ming army, which was fighting with the Jiannu, noticed something unusual behind them and immediately looked backwards.
I saw a heavy cavalry galloping across the plain.
They were covered in iron armor and held spears.
The armor and spears reflected a dazzling silver light under the sunlight.
In the light, a Ming Dynasty flag fluttered in the wind.
"What a waste! They are just a bunch of waste!"
On the distant mound, Man Dahai was furious because of Tengjite's defeat.
He shouted to the herald officer beside him, "When they come back, immediately have Teng Jite come to see me."
"Yes," the herald stuck out his tongue and left.
Before Man Dahai could vent his emotions, his attention was attracted by a silver light on the battlefield.
The silver light first appeared behind the Ming army, and then slowly moved northward.
"What is this?" Man Dahai picked up the clairvoyance and looked towards the direction of the silver light.
The dazzling light made it difficult for him to open his eyes.
After a moment, he saw the truth of the silver light.
"It's the heavy cavalry!"
Man Dahai's voice trembled a little.
In the past, if you wanted to quickly penetrate the enemy's army, you needed heavy cavalry to charge head-on.
With the development of firearms, the role of heavy cavalry was gradually replaced by artillery.
People found that instead of spending a lot of money to build a heavy cavalry, it would be better to build a few cannons and use them to bombard the battlefield.
Man Dahai first put down his clairvoyance, then raised it again to count the number of heavy cavalry.
After finding out that the enemy had only a few hundred men, he felt more at ease. "Come on, have the heavy-armored infantry ride on their horses and find a way to stop the Ming army's heavy cavalry."
"Your Highness," the messenger next to him replied, "In order to fight against the Ming army in Songshan, Prince Zheng has transferred all the heavy armored infantry to the Nanshan area for defense."
"Then send the cavalry up to contain the two wings. We must not let these heavy cavalry return alive!"
"Yes," the herald officer left expressionlessly.
At this time, the Ming army's heavy cavalry had already begun to charge.
"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Our heavy cavalry is coming!"
The Ming army, upon hearing the noise, retreated to the rear and to the sides.
As they left, a huge gap appeared in the battle line.
The Jiannu soldiers on the opposite side thought that they had defeated the Ming army, and they urged their horses forward to pursue them in an attempt to expand the victory.
After taking a few steps, they were met head-on by three hundred heavy cavalrymen.
In their eyes, this heavy cavalry with spears was like a black cloud pressing directly towards them.
At this moment the battlefield suddenly became quiet.
The sound of the wind, the shouting, the wailing, the clashing of weapons, and the neighing of war horses all disappeared.
Instead there was the sound of horse hooves.
Boom boom
The iron hooves crushed the earth, making a deafening sound.
"Kill!" The heavy cavalry in full iron armor let out a dull roar and collided with the Jiannu cavalry.
Chi——
The iron spears moved forward side by side and stabbed the Jiannu cavalry that blocked their way.
The huge impact force knocked them off their horses.
Before they could even let out a scream, they were trampled into meat paste by countless iron hooves and became fertilizer for the soil.
Immediately following.
The horses under their crotches collided with the horses of the heavy cavalry.
Bang, bang, bang...
After a dull sound, the Jiannu war horses were knocked over.
Some horses had their necks broken and lay on the ground gasping for breath. Others were hit in the abdomen, blood gushed out of their mouths and noses like fountains, and then they fell to the ground, dying.
Some war horses collided head-on with the heavy cavalry's horses. The horrific impact force directly smashed the horses into corpses, which fell heavily to the ground.
The Ming army's heavy cavalry also inevitably suffered some losses.
However, they did not stop, but continued to charge forward with guns raised.
Their speed was getting faster and faster, like a moving steel fortress.
The Jiannu cavalry who witnessed everything were immediately furious.
They all hid to the sides, consciously making way for the heavy cavalry.
When the heavy cavalry passed by, the Jiannu cavalry's horses felt threatened and began to neigh nervously.
The Jiannu cavalry commander calmed the horses while scolding the soldiers to maintain their formation.
but...
The Ming army's heavy cavalry was followed by light cavalry.
They took advantage of the Jiannu cavalry's daze and urged their horses to start hacking.
Cavalry kills mainly by the momentum generated during the charge.
The Jiannu cavalry had long lost their power.
The visual and auditory impact of the heavy cavalry's charge not only broke their formation, but also broke their confidence.
In addition, after fighting for a whole morning, their physical strength and morale had long been exhausted.
The Jiannu cavalry began to disintegrate when attacked by the heavy cavalry.
The battle line on the battlefield was very long, as long as a river bank.
Like pipe bursts, failures start from a single point and expand rapidly over time.
If this point cannot be blocked in the first place, the entire front line will be affected and a major defeat will occur.
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