Although the Cossack cavalry carried spears, these spears were not the main weapon of the Cossack cavalry. The role of these spears is mainly to take advantage of the advantage of length and take advantage of the opponent in the first round of charge.

When hedging against each other, one inch is long and one inch is stronger. A Cossack with a spear will obviously have an advantage over an opponent with a saber - I can poke you, but your sword can't cut me......

However, the speed of the light cavalry charge is very fast, which poses a number of problems, mainly two - one is that when charging at high speed, the reaction force of the impact is quite large. With a spear in hand, if it hits the opposing cavalry, the reaction force is also amazing. If you are not careful, you can dislocate it. The second is that once the spear penetrates the enemy's body, there is no chance to pull it out and continue to use it because it is rushing forward at high speed.

So, the spears of the Cossack cavalry, when fighting, were often disposable items. When the spear penetrated the enemy, the Cossack cavalrymen often immediately let go, so as not to dislocate their arms. As soon as they let go, they would draw their sabers and turn on the slashing mode - this is what the Cossacks are best at......

said that it was taking advantage, and it was indeed true. When Hus, the chief of the court guard of the Duchy of Lüneburg in Braunschweig, rushed up with more than 4,000 miscellaneous hussars, they were greeted not by the group of hussars who had been eyed by the muskets, but by the hussars who had retreated from the knights......

But Hus was not afraid, because, in his opinion, the group of cavalry in front of him, who did not even have armor, was obviously not a regular cavalry, and it was no better than the light cavalry on his side. The only trouble is that the opponent has not a saber in his hand, but a spear......

Hus wanted to scold his mother a little in his heart, and he wanted to say that the opponent had fouled. But at this point, he didn't have time to worry about that. After all, at this time his cavalry had already pulled up the speed. In the words of later generations, it is - it can't be stopped......

Yes, can't stop at all! It's not a joke, but it really can't stop.

Cavalry charging and individuals galloping on horseback are two different things. When an individual is galloping, if he wants to stop, he can just rein in the horse. But when the cavalry charges, you can't just stop the brakes. Because, if the person in front "brakes" at will, the comrades who are charging behind will not be able to stop and hit the person in front.

Therefore, once the cavalry group rushed, it could not stop at all, and did not dare to stop. Otherwise, you will definitely be bumped into by someone behind. Then, the fallen horse was trampled to death by the hooves of his comrades......

Therefore, although Hus was very afraid of the enemy's use of spears, he could not say anything at this time, but could only lead his cavalry to rush forward at high speed......

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"Whew-"

On the opposite side of the Hus, the Cossack cavalry, who had begun to pick up speed, were so excited that they began to howl like huskies. For most of the authentic Cossacks, fighting on horseback is undoubtedly very much a testament to their worth. Moreover, they had no worries - Marin promised that all Cossacks who died in battle, their descendants would receive preferential treatment from the state. Even if he is injured and disabled, he will be raised by Beihai for the rest of his life.

In the Schleswig province, the Cossacks visited the "Rongyang Manor", which was specially used in Marin to house disabled veterans who had been discharged from the army. There are many disabled soldiers living in it, and they only need to do some simple work within their power in the manor. However, the treatment is similar to that of the able-bodied workforce. There is even priority in the distribution of materials. For disabled veterans who have lost their ability to work, Rongyang Manor even arranges special personnel to take care of their lives.

All this, naturally, made those Cossacks have no worries. So, now they just need to hack the other side to death......

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"Whew-"

"Hack those smashes!"

After the two armies approached, those Ukrainian Cossacks showed fierce and bloodthirsty expressions on their faces. And the hussars of the allied army of the princes of the eight countries in the charge were a little nervous.

Now that the distance between the two sides is only twenty or thirty meters, they can already see the faces of their opponents. For the Hussars of the coalition army, most of whom are not professional cavalry, it seems that the cavalry on the opposite side is a bit fierce......

Then they saw an even more ferocious ......

When the cavalry of the two sides came into contact head-on, the Cossacks, who had been wielding spears, were still 10 meters away from the opponent, suddenly threw their spears and stabbed the enemy's horses in the front row......

The reason why the enemy's war horse is thrown is because he is afraid that after throwing the enemy's cavalry, the opponent will dodge the spear. After all, people are still very flexible. The better the riding, the more agile you are on horseback.

However, their war horses cannot be so flexible. In the face of the oncoming spears stabbing at high speed, the group of allied hussars who rushed to the front suddenly had no time to dodge, and their horses were hit by spears one after another......

"Yu-" The war horses that were stabbed by the spears let out a burst of mournful screams and fell to the ground one after another. At the same time, the coalition cavalry on horseback was thrown out violently.

Then, these unfortunate people who were thrown off their horses were either trampled to death by enemy horses or trampled by friendly horses. For a time, the front of the battle was full of the sorrowful screams of war horses and the wails of people after being trampled on......

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Unfortunately, the coalition cavalry was at the forefront, and according to the custom of this era, they were the best veterans. As for the recruits, they are all in the back.

Therefore, in this first round of confrontation, the coalition cavalry lost hundreds of the most warlike veterans at once......

As for the Cossack cavalrymen, after throwing out their spears, they quickly drew their sabers, and laid their sabers diagonally in front of the side, and began to slash and slash with their opponents......

At the moment when the front cavalry of the two sides staggered by, the Cossack cavalry of the North Sea Kingdom twisted their waists to dodge the opponent's sabers. At the same time, wipe the saber in your hand at a suitable angle towards the enemy's body......

Because everyone is a hussar who does not wear armor, it doesn't matter if you cut your neck or not. As long as the saber smears the enemy's body, even if the saber does not cut the blade, it can cut through the opponent's body under high-speed hedge......

Sure enough, after many unlucky eggs were wiped by the steel 65 cavalry knife, they didn't have time to scream, and their bodies were cut through a big gap. Then, rushing out a long way, it began to spurt blood......

Some Cossacks, who were skilled in their skills, could easily wipe their sabers on the enemy's necks and fly into the sky with their great heads, even in the process of dodging......

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On the side of the coalition army, because it is a ragtag army that has been put together temporarily, most of the men and horses are average in martial arts. When you stagger, you often can't hit the enemy smoothly.

Only the most elite of them, the captain-level hussars, can successfully cut down the opponent. However, even if it is hit, it may not work. Because, the opponent will block their swords......

Even, when the two sides staggered by, the two swords struck each other, which had the effect of jaw-dropping the coalition hussars - the swords of the coalition hussars were cut off......

The sabers used by the Cossacks were all carefully organized and developed by Marin. In order to maintain the toughness of the blade and avoid cutting, the Cossack sabers mainly used carbon spring steel (medium carbon steel) with manganese added to the blade. The blade is quenched using whale oil and horse urine.

Subsequently, the ancient Chinese soybean paste and saltpeter were wrapped and heated in a metal container for several hours to carburize the surface. In this way, you get an excellent saber with a hard exterior but a very elastic blade.

In fact, after applying saltpeter, this is no longer a simple carburizing, but a very high carbonitriding technology.

Originally, Marin used the carburizing method, which was heated with soybean paste. But on a trip to Daming, he learned how to apply saltpeter to the body of the knife. Saltpeter itself contains nitrogen, so after adding saltpeter, it is not a simple carburizing, but a carbonitriding effect. In this way, the performance of the blade surface has been greatly improved.

After returning, Marin specially sent craftsmen to Jutland to re-carburize the sabers of 5,000 Cossacks, using high-end carbonitriding technology, which enhanced the performance of the steel knives in the hands of the Cossack cavalry.

And the sword of the alliance of the princes of the eight countries is especially an iron sword. Even if it is tempered, an iron knife is an iron knife. In the face of the high-quality steel knives of the Cossacks of the North Sea Kingdom, they were naturally vulnerable and were cut off one after another......

A veteran in the front row of the allied hussars was either hacked to death or his saber was cut off, and he was extremely miserable......

And what happens when you lose your saber? The veterans of the allied hussars with broken sabers were like toothless tigers, and their combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, and then they were unceremoniously hacked to death by the Cossack cavalry who rushed up from behind......

And after defeating the coalition hussar veterans in the front row, the coalition recruits or conscripted amateur cavalry in the back are even less opponents......

Although some masters slashed and killed some Cossack cavalry, on the whole, because of the huge differences in individual horse martial arts and weapons, the Cossack cavalry only took three rounds to defeat the more than 4,000 improvised hussars sent by the alliance of the princes of the Eight Kingdoms, and their own casualties were very small......

Seeing that they could not defeat their opponents, the surviving members of this ragtag army cavalry temporarily put together by the princes of the Eight Kingdoms immediately turned their horses and began to flee. And the Cossack cavalry, without hesitation, caught up and continued to slash......