The cavalry of the Ming army retreated, and the infantry of the new army of the Tang Dynasty were also indifferent, sitting back and watching the retreat of the cavalry of the Ming army, it was already quite good for these infantry to be able to resist the impact of the cavalry of the Ming army, even so, in fact, they suffered heavy casualties.

The 1st Infantry Battalion, which bore the brunt of the attack, suffered no less than 50 or 60 casualties, and this figure was actually quite a heavy casualty figure for an infantry battalion of only more than 500 people.

If the other three infantry phalanxes are added, then in the short few minutes that they just withstood the cavalry charge of the Ming army, the total casualties of the four infantry phalanxes of the Tang New Army were almost more than two hundred.

However, even with such heavy casualties, they can still be regarded as outstanding military achievements, you must know that they are infantry, against the charge of 1,500 Ming cavalry, only 200 people were killed and wounded to repel the attack of the enemy cavalry, and also caused no less than 200 Ming cavalry casualties.

This kind of record can be called a big victory!

But this is only for the officers and ordinary soldiers of the First Infantry and the Baggage Regiment, but for Li Xuan, this is still not enough!

Because the cavalry of the Ming army is still there, they can still pose a serious threat to their own side!

The cavalry of the Ming army, which had 200 dead and wounded, was still 1,300 cavalry, and it could still pose a great threat to its own side on the battlefield!

Now that the cavalry of the Ming army has retreated, Li Xuan is unwilling to let the cavalry of the Ming army flee back safely, he wants to expand the results of the battle, not to mention completely defeating the cavalry of the Ming army, at least he must bite down hard, so as to effectively reduce the pressure of the follow-up battle.

Immediately, he ordered: "Order the cavalry to attack and chase down the fleeing enemy cavalry!" ”

The flag herald behind Li Xuan immediately waved the flag in his hand, hundreds of meters away in the direction where the cavalry of the Datang New Army was located, where the cavalry battalion and the cavalry of the personal guard battalion were located, Cao Mingda also saw the herald on the hillside hundreds of meters away shaking the flag, as an officer, then he had no culture, but the basic flag language still needs to be mastered.

At this time, the flag herald who specially watched the flags of various departments on the battlefield also said loudly: "Report to the battalion commander, Your Majesty has a decree: order the cavalry to attack and chase and kill the fleeing enemy cavalry!" ”。

When the herald relayed the order, he didn't dare to drop or add a word, but completely paraphrased Li Xuan's words.

Cao Mingda immediately nodded and said, "Reply: The minister obeys the order!" ”

Regardless of the flag herald behind him who began to wave the flag in reply, he had already turned over on his horse, and then shouted: "All of them: get on the horse!" ”

Because of the shortage of war horses in the new army of the Tang Dynasty, it is impossible to equip the cavalry with two horses, or even three horses, and they are all riding single horses.

Therefore, in order to reduce the burden of war horses, in fact, the cavalry will not ride war horses for a long time, and when marching, they will lead the horses to walk, and even some cavalry are reluctant to let their war horses carry armor and weapons, but carry them on their own.

And when it comes to the battle stage, the war horse will be fed with concentrate in advance, and then the war horse will not be allowed to carry out high-intensity sports as much as possible, let alone ride a horse and the like.

And all this is to preserve the physical strength of the war horse to the greatest extent, so that the horse can exert its maximum combat effectiveness in the battle!

Therefore, they also fight on horseback, but ordinary officers do not have so many scruples when they ride horses, and even usually march on horses, because ordinary officers do not need to charge on war horses, and war horses are just a means of transportation for them.

However, the full-time cavalry, they need to ride a war horse to charge, and the physical fitness of the war horse is more important than their own physical fitness!

So even if the front line had already been fought, the cavalry of the cavalry battalion and the cavalry of the personal guard battalion actually led their horses into the battlefield slowly, and then just stood and waited for Li Xuan's order.

When Li Xuan's order was issued, they finally rode on horseback for the first time in this large-scale battle!

After Cao Mingda turned over on his horse, the cavalry behind him also turned over and got on his horse!

"Draw your sword!" Cao Mingda grabbed the reins with one hand, pressed it on his saber with one hand, and then drew the knife out, and most of the others behind him were also unified tactical movements.

Suddenly, a bright sabre appeared in this cavalry ranks, and the sabers used by these cavalry were a little different from the cavalry of the Ming army, and they were also different from the waist knives used by the infantry or the command knives of the officers.

The saber they used was set by Li Xuan according to the saber of later generations in his impression, the blade body maintained an arc of the whole, and at the same time there was a gauntlet, and the end of the handle was with a curvature, and then a very important point was that the blade was wide back and thin, and the blade was actually heavier than the ordinary waist knife.

If you look at it from a distance, it is easy to confuse it with a Japanese knife and a waist knife, but in fact it is a completely different type of knife!

And this kind of knife is a typical knife used to chop immediately, the standard configuration of modern cavalry, and even in the 21st century, the sabers used by cavalry are still sabers of this style, at most slightly different in details.

After the cavalry pulled out the saber, they did not waw the saber and wave it, but carried the saber on their shoulders, and before the musketeers charged, they did not hold the muskets flat, but held the tail of the muskets with their hands, and put the body of the guns on their shoulders, which is commonly said to carry the guns!

This is conducive to saving physical strength, and at the same time will not be accidentally injured in the process of advancing, whether it is a saber or a bayonet on a musket, but it is very sharp, if you do not pay attention during the march, it is easy to stab the front row of soldiers, it is a big hole, of course, after entering the battle, it will definitely not care whether it will be injured by mistake.

Carrying swords, these cavalrymen in long leather boots rode slowly on horseback!

But they didn't have long to walk like this, because soon Cao Mingda ordered: "Trot forward!" ”

In an instant, this cavalry of only more than 300 people just raised the speed, although its momentum was not as huge as when the Ming cavalry trotted forward before, but it was enough to attract the attention of most people on the battlefield, especially the senior generals on both sides who observed the battlefield, and they could see at a glance that this cavalry unit that had trotted and accelerated for the final charge, and it would not take long to enter the cavalry unit of the final charge!

Cao Mingda, like the other cavalrymen under his command, sat neatly on the back of the horse with a saber, and his whole body fell down with the running of the horse.

After trotting, the speed of the entire cavalry unit became faster and faster, and at this time, they also crossed a distance of fifty or sixty meters in front of them, and in front of them were more than a thousand Ming cavalry who were retreating!

There is no doubt that Cao Mingda is preparing to lead his 300 cavalry to charge against the cavalry of the more than 1,000 Ming army, and it is the most brutal kind of hand-to-hand charge!

Can you win? Cao Mingda doesn't know, will he die? He doesn't know either!

But he had no other choice, because Li Xuan had already given him an order, if he disobeyed the order, then someone would immediately cut off his head, and then lead this cavalry to charge instead of him!

The countless hooves of the horses in the cavalry on both sides trampled on the ground, so that the sound of rumbling horses' hooves was heard, attracting the attention of the middle and senior generals on both sides of the entire battlefield, then the battalion commanders and captains of several infantry battalions on the front line who were fighting fiercely with the enemy infantry couldn't help but look back at the northwest direction, which was the place where the battle between the two cavalry was about to break out!

At this time, the cavalry of the Ming army obviously also knew that they saw the cavalry of the new army of the Tang Dynasty coming from the flank and rear directions, and at this time, the defects of the lack of unified command of the Ming cavalry were once again exposed.

There were about more than ten units, with a total of six or seven hundred cavalry, and then changed direction and galloped in the direction of the cavalry of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, which was to take the initiative to meet the battle.

But the rest of the cavalry sped up, and then went in the direction of their own Chinese army without looking back, it cannot be said that they were cowardly, but no one ordered them to meet the attacking pseudo-Tang thief army cavalry, they just acted according to instinct.

They will do whatever the officers who lead the team at the grassroots level give orders, and the orders given by so many officers are different, which has caused the more than 1,300 cavalry to be divided into two, one of which took the initiative to meet the cavalry of the Datang New Army, while the other continued to retreat!

This change in the cavalry of the Ming army made Cao Mingda happy in his heart, originally he had the mentality of dying, and he would bite a large piece of meat from the cavalry of the Ming army if he said anything, even if it would cause heavy casualties.

But now, these Ming cavalry turned out to be split in two, what is the situation?

I don't understand!

He didn't understand it himself, in fact, the Ming army himself didn't understand, this is, after these Ming cavalry were divided into two, these two waves of cavalry quickly discovered that something was wrong, and someone immediately tried to make adjustments.

Some of those who continued to retreat took the cavalry around the bend and tried to come back to support, but there were also some Ming cavalry who originally went to meet the cavalry of the puppet Tang thief army, and saw that the friendly forces did not follow, and they did not want to fight alone, so they began to evacuate.

This back and forth made these Ming troops even more chaotic!

When the Ming army retreated from the infantry phalanx of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, it was already relatively chaotic, and more than 200 people were killed and wounded, so that the morale was relatively low.

And Cao Mingda, who saw this scene, had already unconsciously increased his confidence, and when he saw that the distance was suitable for the final sprint, he almost stood up as a person, relying solely on the stirrups on his feet to support his body, holding his saber high, and then shouting: "The whole army charges!" ”

"Rush!"

"Datang is invincible!"

"The guard battalion will not retreat!"

All kinds of slogans instantly sounded in this cavalry unit, and at the same time, the cavalry of the Datang New Army also burst out of the embankment like a rushing stream and rushed towards the Ming cavalry on the opposite side!