And the cavalry that loses speed is a living target. They have no way to dodge and attack on horseback. The infantry could besiege them from all sides. So it is not that the infantry is without means of dealing with cavalry.

In the Biography of Napoleon, it is recorded that the infantry fought against the cavalry. At that time, the French infantry phalanx was shattered, and the British cavalry took advantage of the situation to rush up and try to slaughter the infantry. On the battlefield, the scattered French soldiers were in groups of five, armed with swords, back to back. This is the traditional French way of infantry against cavalry.

If the five infantry are scattered, one cavalryman can easily slash and kill the five men with the speed and strength of his horse. However, once these five men were brought together, the cavalry would be attacked and resisted by at least two men from any direction.

If the cavalry chooses to charge head-on, then he is even more unlucky! He killed at most one person, and then he would be attacked by the swords of four soldiers, and I am afraid that he would die on the spot!

In fact, the biggest use of cavalry is actually to deal with cavalry and chase down the enemy. When cavalry fights infantry, they generally gravitate close to the edge of the infantry phalanx, and use weapons to kill and wound infantry. Or use the speed of galloping to shoot arrows into the infantry phalanx from a distance, and wear out the infantry phalanx layer by layer.

Moreover, the war horses under the crotch of the cavalry are also living beings, and they also have the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. There are obstacles ahead, and they also know how to get around. Especially in the face of the weapons of the forest, the war horse was even more reluctant to rush in.

Therefore, until the last resort, there will be no cavalry directly rushing into the phalanx. Once you get to this situation, it's a desperate assault, using a life-for-life style of play! In this case, the infantry commander will be so happy that he will die of laughter! Because the cost of training infantry is much cheaper than training cavalry, three or four infantry for one cavalry is suitable!

And even when the cavalry was desperate to rush into battle, the horse's eyes had to be covered with cloth. Otherwise, a war horse with life and thinking will never jump into the bayonet bush by itself! They will dodge and jump on their own!

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The mystery on the bridle of the war horse! Just behind the eyes of the horses there are two round blindfolds, which are specially used to cover the eyes of the horses. So that the horses can rush into the weapons pile without knowing it.

Of course, there was a kind of cavalry capable of breaking through the infantry phalanx. That is, heavy cavalry with heavy armor all over their bodies. But they also did not dare to storm the thick infantry phalanx. A very thick phalanx of infantry will eventually slow down the speed of the heavy cavalry, and the infantry will have countless ways to deal with these cavalry.

And the most crucial point is that the cavalry that dares to charge directly into the infantry phalanx must have the belief in death and unparalleled courage. This kind of courage is not something ordinary people can have, it must be a real warrior to make a decisive blow! Because nine out of ten people who make such a choice will die!

And these rebel cavalry in front of them will definitely not have this spirit. They participated in the rebellion for glory and wealth, for gold, silver, money, and silk, where is the spirit of dedication to Kong Youde?

So when they saw that the steel jungle of spears and bayonets began to dodge the horses, the cavalry scattered to both sides! The remaining hundreds of cavalry stuck to Liu Pei's main formation and went around.

But how could the soldiers let go of such an opportunity? Except for the soldiers in front who kept their bayonet bushes unmoved, the soldiers on both sides kept firing outward. The pikemen also stabbed the reckless cavalry too close to the phalanx off their horses!

In particular, the cavalry that broke into the two phalanxes were attacked from both sides. At such a close distance, there was almost no possibility for the trained soldiers to shoot in the air! Especially when the horses in front fell to the ground, blocking the way of the cavalry behind, forcing them to reduce their speed, they became a live target!

Although these cavalrymen have been shooting arrows at the phalanx, they have also caused certain losses to Liu Pei, but the losses are almost negligible! Because archery on a horse is not so easy.

Without rigorous training, it is fatal to be able to shoot a bow on horseback, and shooting an arrow into a crowd is already a victory! It's even harder to shoot accurately! Not to mention Liu Pei's taxi

The soldiers were all wearing plate armor, and most of the bows and arrows were shot directly off them! A small percentage of the shots on the limbs can cause damage. Only a very small percentage of bows and arrows rely on luck to reach vital points such as the door or throat, causing death. So most of the soldiers were just wounded.

The cavalry that swept past the rear of Liu Pei's main formation was fine, they only lost a lot of people in the confrontation with the musketeers. But the cavalry between the two phalanxes was out of luck!

They had slowed down slightly to avoid the artillery thrown on the ground, and the accumulation of fire from the guns had caused a large number of casualties, and the dead men and horses were piled up there, so they had to slow down again. This only increased their casualties!

In the end, the continuously increasing pile of corpses completely blocked the road in front, making it impossible for more than 100 cavalrymen behind to advance or retreat! Some of those cavalrymen tried to turn and retreat, some tried to find their way through the pile of corpses, and some were at a loss for what to do.

As a result, they were hit by more intensive firecrackers, and they suffered heavy casualties! Occasionally, a few people rushed over and tried to fight hard, but because they had no speed, they were easily stabbed off their horses by pikemen! And they did very little damage to the pikemen!

In this extremely short period of time, the cavalry was almost completely lost, and there were only a few dozen horsemen left ready to turn around and charge outward. Liu Pei seized the opportunity and shouted loudly: "The queue on the right is disbanded!" Rush up! Kill these cavalry! ”

At the command, the soldiers on one side of the phalanx immediately broke away from the phalanx and squeezed towards the cavalry!

The soldiers clinged to each other, raised their guns and bayonets, and kept stabbing at the enemy, stabbing them off their horses! Even if the rebel men and war horses desperately resisted, it would not help!

Cornered, the rebels jumped off their horses and tried to fight back. However, when they jumped off their horses, they could not form a formation in time, and they were still killed in a dense cluster of bayonets. As a result, their counterattack was easily crushed!

Of Kong Youde's cavalry of about 1,000 people, only more than 200 escaped in the end, and the rest were all killed or dismounted and surrendered! In this way, Kong Youde's only cavalry team was completely defeated!