"Chapter 167: Locking the Victory"
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Among Wendell's cavalry, the 2,000 cavalry of the Governor's Guard Cavalry Wing were only auxiliary forces, and the main force was played by eight heavy cavalry and three archers from the Guards Battalion, the latter being the core of this cavalry group.
The four teams of ironclad cavalry and the four teams of companion cavalry were the top of the system heavy cavalry, and even the ordinary system heavy cavalry were not their opponents, let alone the light cavalry of the Governor's Guard, which was not even the system cavalry.
The expensive special training of the cavalry stables can greatly enhance the combat effectiveness of the barbarian light cavalry, but it cannot make them as powerful as the system cavalry; this is an advantage that the system troops cannot be surpassed, and it is also the most powerful hole card in Bai Feng's hand.
The systematically recruited Roman light cavalry is definitely inferior to the specially trained barbarian light cavalry, and even the barbarian light cavalry without special training cannot defeat it, but with the increase in the size of the cavalry, the overall combat effectiveness of the Roman light cavalry will gradually increase.
A Roman light cavalry must win against a barbarian light cavalry of the same size, and even if the opponent is a specially trained barbarian light cavalry, it is impossible to change the fact that they cannot defeat the Roman light cavalry of the same size.
You must know that the Roman light cavalry is the lowest in combat effectiveness among the system cavalry, and which of the light cavalry of the other factions is not stronger than the Roman light cavalry? Even the Roman legionary cavalry in the later period of the Roman faction is much stronger than the Roman light cavalry.
It can be seen from this that the strength of the system is still far superior to that of the barbarian soldiers, especially in terms of high-cost cavalry, the advantages of the system cavalry are incomparable to the barbarian cavalry, and the cavalry of the governor's guard, no matter how elite it is, is still the barbarian cavalry.
As the commander of the Doge's Guard, Wendell was confident in his cavalry wing, and he knew what the actual combat effectiveness of the cavalry under his command was, and it was based on his knowledge of the cavalry under his command that he made the hoplites of the Guards battalion his main force.
If you want to talk about the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Doge's Guard, Wendell can pat his chest and guarantee that the cavalry wing of the Doge's Guard must be stronger than the cavalry wing of the cavalry regiment;
The information that the Tsugaru family army launched an attack on the Langoka Imperial Palace was sent to Wendell by the ghost of the battlefield as early as last night, and Wendell, who learned that the military situation of the Nangaoka Imperial Palace was urgent, did not dare to delay, and rushed to the Nangaoka Imperial Palace with his army early this morning.
The mobility of the cavalry is not comparable to that of the infantry, and when the main army led by Bai Feng was still more than two days away from the Langoka Imperial Palace, Wendell's cavalry troops quickly arrived at the Langoka Imperial Palace and launched an attack in time.
The ironclad cavalry, dressed in silver-white heavy armor, and the brilliantly equipped companion cavalry, began to accelerate their charge three miles from the Langgang Imperial Palace, and eight groups of heavily armored cavalry, arranged in a neat wedge-shaped battle formation, charged forward in a lined formation.
They were followed by two thousand barbarian light cavalry of the Doge's Guard, who formed four larger wedge-shaped battle formations in large brigades, and three other Parthian archers, sent by Wendell to the edge of the battlefield to maneuver.
The distance of three miles was only a flick of a finger for the cavalry who were in the midst of an accelerated charge, and the movement brought about by the galloping of nearly 3,000 cavalry was also the first time in history for the country of Mutsu, which was extremely short of horse resources.
The pale-faced Kaneheita didn't expect such a large cavalry to suddenly appear, and he couldn't even tell where this cavalry came from, because he, who had never panicked, panicked at this moment.
Before the peasants and soldiers under Kanehira Tsunade could react, the hoplite cavalry that charged with all their might had already appeared in Kanehira Tsunano's line of sight;
The peasants and soldiers of the Tsugaru family, who had little morale to speak of, immediately lost the last trace of resistance in their hearts after seeing the cavalry cluster of the Yanhuang family, and fled directly outside the Nangang Imperial Palace.
Unfortunately, they could not flee as fast as the cavalry charged, and the roaring cavalry swarms soon swallowed up the 4,000 peasants of the Tsugaru clan who had not been engaged in the siege, and those who tried to flee did not even have a chance to raise their hands and surrender.
A well-disciplined infantry army can attack and retreat at will under the command of the commander, while the cavalry's charge cannot be interrupted.
Wendell, who personally led the cavalry to charge, obviously discovered the rout of the enemy army, but he could not stop the pace of his cavalry charge, and those peasant soldiers who could have been captured by the Yanhuang family were all reduced to corpses under the iron hooves at this moment.
In just one charge, Wendell's cavalry wiped out the reserve army left in his hands, and of the 4,000 defeated peasants, more than 2,000 were directly wiped out by this charge, and less than 2,000 survived.
Had Wendell's order not been timely, the remaining less than 2,000 peasants would have been killed, and Wendell had paid the price of a dozen cavalrymen of the Doge's Guard.
In the cluster charge of large-scale cavalry, it is normal for the unlucky fall of one's own cavalry to fall from the horse, and even a small stone on the battlefield may cause a horse to fall, and it is difficult for the knight who was thrown off the horse to save their lives in the complex charge.
Even if they didn't break their necks when they fell off their horses, the cavalry that rushed up behind them would trample them to death without being able to control their speed, and this kind of self-inflicted casualties were inevitable and would occur in every war in which cavalry participated.
The timely entry of the cavalry into the battle completely changed the situation on the battlefield, and the reserve forces in Kanehira Tsunori's hands were completely annihilated, and he himself was surrounded by the cavalry of his partners, and the Tsugaru family army, which was still fighting on the city walls, had no intention of fighting again.
The commander of the army was trapped, his own reserve army was annihilated, and no matter how powerful the army was, it was impossible to maintain its combat effectiveness under such circumstances, not to mention, the army of the Tsugaru family was not a strong army in the first place, and their combat effectiveness and fighting will were not strong.
On the other hand, the defenders of the Langgang Imperial Palace, after witnessing the arrival of reinforcements from the Yanhuang family and annihilating the enemy forces outside the city that had not yet entered the battle with a thunderous force, their morale soared and they actually suppressed the enemy forces with superior numbers on the city wall.
Ivan, who was commanding the defenders on the ramparts, knew that there was no need to continue the battle at this point, so he ordered his soldiers to launch a fierce counterattack while ordering them to gradually disengage from the battle.