Less than a mile away from them, thousands of cavalrymen stood quietly in the clearing, their armor shining dazzlingly in the light of the setting sun, and looking particularly dignified against the backdrop of the bright red cloak behind them.

"How can there be Ming cavalry here?"

Looking at the rows of cavalry, a general let out an unwilling roar, and the surrounding rogues looked at the Ming army in front of them with a desperate look in their eyes, even idiots knew what would happen if an unprepared and exhausted foot soldier encountered a large group of cavalry on flat ground.

There was no nonsense, only to see a general at the head raised the saber in his hand, and the herald beside him raised his head and blew the horn in his hand, accompanied by the passionate trumpet, the cavalry that was originally standing quietly began to move, and then the speed became faster and faster, and soon the deafening sound of horse hooves began to resound in the sky.

"Everyone...... Formation ...... It's all for me. ”

"Don't escape, but whoever retreats will be killed!"

Shouts rang out from all over the rogue as various big and small leaders restrain their men, some of whom tried to fend off the cavalry in formation.

"It's too late!"

Tian Jianxiu, who was not far away, closed his eyes painfully, the foot soldiers have a natural disadvantage when facing the cavalry, especially when they encounter cavalry in the plains, if they don't form a military formation, they will be 100% killed, but it takes time to form a formation.

In terms of the speed of the cavalry, the distance of a mile can be said to be instantaneous, let alone the formation at such a time, even if it is a bit hasty to pee, in the face of the cavalry that came in surprise, Tian Jianxiu's personal soldiers made the most correct choice without thinking.

One of the henchmen at the head whipped him fiercely on his horse's buttocks and shouted, "Tian Ye hurry up...... If you don't leave, it's too late! ”

Tian Jianxiu also understood that now was not the time to be hypocritical, so he naturally lowered his body and let the war horse gallop away with him.

As the cavalry gradually accelerated, the rogues who were still in a chaotic array felt the sound of heavy horses' hooves getting closer and closer, and their feet felt the vibration of the ground, looking at the oncoming cavalry as if they were about to crush everything in front of them, the rogues finally collapsed.

They could no longer pay attention to the shouting and scolding of the leaders around them, and began to scatter and flee, but no one came to scold them at this time, because the leaders also began to run away like them.

No one is stupid, knowing that they will die hard.

Before Tian Jianxiu could run a few hundred meters away, he saw that the cavalry of the Ming army not far away was like a burst of red torrents engulfing the chaotic rogues.

Cao Yingspear lay on the horse's back, pulling the reins of the horse with his left hand, and holding the saber tightly with his right hand, and the entire saber was inclined down forty-five degrees.

In this way, he doesn't need to make any extra moves when charging, and he can easily cut the enemy on his right hand in half with the speed of his warhorse.

As a guerrilla general of the cavalry battalion, Cao Yingmao could have safely commanded the charge in the back, but he was born with a passion for excitement and adventure, but he didn't like it very much, and insisted on following the troops to charge in person.

However, the pro-soldiers naturally couldn't let their own general take such a risk, and they consciously surrounded him in the middle.

When the cavalry came into contact with the rogue, Cao Yingmao personally saw the war horse under the crotch of the cavalry rushing in front collided with a rogue, and at the moment of the collision, the rogue seemed to be quite strong and his body rose into the air, and he was knocked into the canon, and finally fell heavily to the ground, and then was trampled into meat sauce by the cavalry who followed closely.

However, he just glanced at it and took his gaze back, the battlefield was changing rapidly, and he didn't dare to be careless.

"Kill ......"

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw two rogues holding spears high and spurting towards his war horses from the right, Cao Yingmao's eyes flashed with a trace of contempt, and he pulled the reins of the horse with his left hand, and the war horse under his crotch let out a neighing and tilted slightly to the left, dodging the spear, and then collided with a rogue.

Before he could make any sound, he was knocked upside down by his horse and flew out, spitting blood in mid-air and slamming to the ground.

Cao Yingmao ignored this rogue, the saber in his right hand changed the angle slightly, and the sharp saber slashed through the neck of this rogue, and without any strength at all, a huge head flew out of the shackles of the neck and flew into the air.

The restraint of cavalry on infantry is almost innate, which is why in all dynasties, once the Central Plains Dynasty lacks horses, it will repeatedly suffer losses in the face of nomads dominated by cavalry.

In later generations, military enthusiasts once did an experiment of infantry against cavalry, in which the experimenter used 100 people to arrange a ten-row phalanx, and then let one cavalry charge.

As a result, the cavalryman broke through ten rows of dummies and rushed out, knocking down 18 of them along the way, stomping on 8 of them, and the rider slashing 5. This means that a rider rushing into a phalanx of 100 people can kill or seriously injure 13 enemies and lightly injure 10 enemies.

Of course, the soldiers of the opposing side on the real battlefield are not dummies, and they will not stand still and let the cavalry ram, they will also attack the cavalry with the weapons in their hands, so the above experiments cannot be counted.

But in fact, the real situation is not much different from the above experimental results, otherwise there would not be a late Ming Dynasty in history, when thousands of Manchu Tartar cavalry could defeat tens of thousands of Ming soldiers like killing chickens and sheep, and slaughtered more than half of them.

Therefore, before the popularization of hot weapons, the only way for infantry to fight with cavalry in the field was to use well-trained infantry, with the help of carts, thistles, antlers, spears, strong bows, shields and other weapons to form a neat phalanx to withstand the cavalry attack.

Don't look at Yang Feng's ease when he fought the Manchu Tartars in Liaodong, but it was based on the fact that the whole army was equipped with firearms and a large number of artillery, and formed a phalanx, and the results were achieved by using the advantages of hot weapons against cold weapons in range and rate of fire, otherwise if Yang Feng really commanded an army equipped with cold weapons to fight against the Tartar cavalry, he still had to sing Liangliang.

And it's a pity that these things don't have them, so they are destined to be miserable.

It was a one-sided slaughter, more than 3,000 exhausted and unsuspecting rogues were suddenly attacked by 5,000 cavalry, the consequences were doomed, but in less than two quarters of an hour, more than 3,000 rogues were killed and wounded, except for a very few clever and war-horse people, the rest of the rogues either became dead souls under the knife or knelt on the ground in despair as prisoners......