The Sixth Cuirassier Regiment is a standard heavy cavalry unit in the Tang Army, although its defensive power is not as good as the heavy cavalry wearing full body armor of the First Lancer Regiment, but its enlarged version of the heavy cuirassier is enough to give them proud protection.

The Tatars' riding ability is undoubtedly top-notch, after all, this is their master's book, the accuracy is good, and the power is not weak.

But even so, these Tatar arrows can only take the mode of covering shooting, on horses running at high speed, it is unlikely that they can accurately aim at the detailed part and get hits, and if they can do this, it cannot be an ordinary Tatar cavalry, but belongs to the marksman, this person must have it, but definitely not too many, it is impossible to have thousands of people at all.

These Tatar cavalry, after shooting the arrows, flew into the array of the 6th Cuirassier Regiment in pieces of arrows!

And then......

And then most of the arrows hit their armor!

These armors are all plate armor forged from stainless steel, even if it is to control the weight, except for the chest position, the other parts are relatively thin, but this thinness is only relative to the bullet, as for the bow and arrow, even if the quality of the arrows used by these Tatars is not bad, but the power is still not comparable to the bullet.

Most of the arrows that hit the Tang cavalry were hit on the armor, and at least a very small part was the part that was not covered by the armor, causing casualties to a small number of cuirassiers.

Most of the casualties were only non-torso-based injuries, as most of them were protected by armor.

However, the war horse, in addition to the war horses in the front rows with the protection of war horse armor, the war horses ridden by the ordinary cuirassiers in the back do not have special armor for war horses, so the war horses are more injured.

But on the whole, this wave of arrows of the Tatars did not cause any real damage to the 6th Cuirassier Regiment, but they themselves lost one or two hundred men.

However, although it didn't go well, these Tatar cavalry didn't fall in love with each other, and after approaching the arrow at high speed, they immediately broke away at high speed!

And the 6th Cuirassier Regiment also ignored them, but continued to approach at a trot!

As the distance between the two sides gradually decreases, it is impossible for the other side to continue to use this kind of cavalry and archery tactics, as for the opponent's cavalry troops do not stop to shoot arrows at high speed, or shoot arrows when charging, then the Tang cavalry is more willing.

Because either one, it can bring a great advantage to your own charge later!

But the Tatars obviously also know that at the head of the big war, there is no time and space for them to engage in any salvo, once the Tang cavalry rushes up, and their own speed cannot be raised, then even if they have more people, they will have to be strangled.

And shoot the arrow after the speed, and when you shoot the arrow, the saber will be cut on your head.

What's more, this kind of cavalry engagement of tens of thousands of people is a wave of cavalry charging one after another, and it is impossible to have too many gaps.

If you want to deal with such a cavalry charge, if it is infantry, it is to form a formation, and use spears, infantry bows or muskets to fight, if it is cavalry, there is nothing to say, just rush up, and everyone will be hard.

The Tatars also chose this way, Altan Khan did not hesitate, when the distance between the two sides was about the same, he just let people blow the horn of the charge!

Twenty-five thousand Tatar cavalry began to change from trotting to fast running, and then to sprinting!

Correspondingly, Kang Changning, who was on the opposite side, also started the charge with the cavalry corps!

The distance between the main forces of the two sides quickly shortened from the previous four or five hundred meters to two hundred, one hundred, fifty meters!

In the next moment, the front row of knights on both sides collided together, and all this seemed to be a repeat of the previous battle between the forward troops of the two sides!

The knights of the 6th Cuirassier Regiment, relying on their dense formation, good defense, and tall horses, forcibly rammed into them, and suddenly, both the enemy and the enemy were on their backs.

In this moment alone, at least hundreds of knights on both sides were killed and wounded, but all this was just the beginning.

More cavalry in the rear was continuing to come up, and then the two sides were engaged.

This is an absolutely hard-fought battle, without the slightest trick, both sides invariably chose to give up long-range firepower, bows and arrows, and then pistols were directly put away, just with the most primitive saber to fight.

But soon, Altan Khan found out that even if his side invested more troops, it was twice the number of Tang cavalry on the opposite side, but the actual battle did not give full play to the due strength advantage.

Because the array of the Tatar cavalry is too loose, and the cavalry formation of the Tang Dynasty is very tight, such a comparison has also led to the fact that a considerable part of the Tatar cavalry actually only roared past from both sides of the Tang cavalry, and did not actually make contact with the Tang cavalry, not even contact, let alone any battle.

The Tatar cavalry, which fought against the Tang cavalry, only accounted for less than a quarter of the total strength, and this quarter of the strength was still scattered.

Therefore, on the battlefield, there is such a strange situation, although the total strength of the Tang cavalry is small, but in the actual battle, there are two or three cavalry besieging a Tatar cavalry.

And this is not an isolated case, but a general situation!

At this moment, Altan Khan understood why the previous forward troops would suffer.

Because the opponent's formation is too tight, and the formation is neat, and the action is the same, when your own cavalry encounters such a cavalry, it can be said that there is no way to exert its own power in battle.

At the same time, the heavy cavalry of more than 1,000 people on the other side was too fierce, relying on tall horses and thick armor, they often crushed and killed them directly, and they didn't play any tactics at all.

Their armor, their formation, is their greatest reliance.

However, what worried Altan Khan was that his cavalry would not be able to withstand their charge!

How is this possible!

You must know that the 40,000 cavalry he brought, which were all the cavalry of the headquarters of the 30,000 households in the right wing, had followed him to the south and the north for decades, and I don't know how many tribes he conquered, and every cavalry was a brave man.

But in front of the cavalry of these Southern Tang barbarians, they couldn't even resist it.

This!

How can it be!

He could scarcely believe what he was seeing.

If Altan Khan had seen how the strikers had failed miserably before, then he should not have been shocked, but unfortunately, he was too far away at the time, and only saw his own vanguard cavalry suffer a small loss, but how to suffer a loss, the low generals also knew nothing, and only said that they were fighting, and the overall situation was obviously dominant, but locally it was a fiasco of being killed, and the whole process was inexplicable.

The Tatars did not fight with the Tang Dynasty, when they went south, they fought a battle with the Tang Army in Shandong, and more than 10,000 horsemen were killed and wounded in front of the bayonet formation of the Tang Army.

Therefore, they have also learned to be obedient, and in the years to come, whether it is a small-scale conflict or a large-scale battle today, they have kept in mind a principle, that is, they must never take the initiative to attack the infantry phalanx of the Tang Army that is well prepared and ready for battle.

The battles between the cavalry have also been fought by both sides in the past few years, but they are all small battles with dozens or hundreds of people, and it is difficult to reflect some specific information in this kind of battle.

At the same time, they also couldn't get any useful information from the early years of the Tang cavalry and the Chahar Department and Duoyan Sanwei, because the quality of the Datang cavalry was acceptable, and their cavalry was more often used as mounted infantry, often riding horses, and then directly dismounted and armed with muskets.

Really used more than 10,000 cavalry to carry out cavalry charges, to be honest, the Tang cavalry is also the first time!

The Tang cavalry had never done this before, and the Tatars naturally couldn't judge the true strength of the Tang cavalry's charge.

But now, Altan Khan has seen the true strength of the Tang cavalry's charging battle!

It's so weird!

Yes, it's not that it's shocking or anything, but it's weird!

Because Altan Khan couldn't understand what he saw, his own troops were obviously more, and his cavalry was obviously superior in horsemanship and even knife skills, but why was it that he was vulnerable in front of the cavalry formation composed of this group of farmers.

The cavalry formation of his own side is like paper paste, and it will be broken by the Tang cavalry!

He doesn't understand!

If the Tang cavalry on the opposite side used muskets to engage in the previous kite-flying tactics, although it looks disgusting, he can also understand it, after all, the guns of the Southern Tang barbarians are sharp, which is famous.

He knew it years ago.

But he didn't expect that they would be so sharp in hand-to-hand combat on horseback!

It's unreasonable!

Seeing that the situation was not good, Altan Khan soon made a change, this change was not the mobilization of the 25,000 cavalry of the Chinese army, in fact, the Chinese army was already charging, and it was impossible to make any timely changes, whether it was victory or defeat, it had to be charged before it could be adjusted.

It was the cavalry on both wings that he was going to change!

He glanced up at the cavalry on the left and right flanks who were still making a detour, especially the 10,000 cavalry on the left flank, and immediately ordered: "Let the army on the left flank immediately attack the flank of the Southern Tang barbarians!" ”

Although these 10,000 cavalry have not yet returned to their positions, he doesn't care, because he is afraid that if he continues like this, he is afraid that the 25,000 cavalry of his Chinese army will not be able to stop these 13,000 cavalry!

But at that time, it was not a matter of whether or not they could block the more than 10,000 cavalry of the Southern Tang Barbarians, but that their own army was going to be defeated!

He would never allow that to happen!