Whether it is for infantry or cavalry, whether it is an ancient army or a modern army, unity of command is crucial, otherwise the troops will fall into separate battles or even chaos.

The current and these Ming cavalry are obviously lacking unified command!

After the more than 1,500 cavalry rushed up in a chaotic manner, almost every group of cavalry chose something different.

The Ming cavalry, wielding spears or sabers, thought that their comrades behind them would follow and charge with them.

And those cavalrymen who dismounted and fought on foot thought that others would also dismount, and then approached those pseudo-Tang thieves step by step.

The cavalrymen who bent their bows directly on horseback thought that the other cavalry were just as skilled as they were, and were able to shoot with precision.

As a result, the Ming cavalry inside each made different choices, so that some people charged directly, some dismounted and fought on foot, and some rode on horseback to bend bows and shoot arrows.

This led to quite a tragic result: a small number of Ming cavalry who took the initiative to rush up died under the spears of the 1st Infantry Battalion for the first time!

Some of the cavalrymen who dismounted and bent bows or fought on foot were scattered by the cavalry of their comrades in the rear, and some were shot by the musketeers of the puppet Tang thief army.

As for those cavalrymen who can play mounted archery, they shouted that their comrades were a bunch of wretched, and then turned their heads and began to go around!

However, these cavalry are only cavalry in the inner perimeter, and more Ming cavalry on the periphery are actually not really close, because there are more than 1,000 Ming cavalry, how can they all rush to the first infantry battalion in a swarm.

Therefore, in the eyes of outsiders, more than 1,000 cavalry of the Ming army had already submerged the first infantry battalion, but at this time, the cavalry of the Ming army could only be regarded as surrounding the first infantry battalion, and it was still surrounded by water, but there was a distance of twenty or thirty meters between the two sides.

The cavalry of the Ming army launched a variety of different tactical attacks at this distance, just like the previous one, some people wanted to rush up, some people dismounted and bent bows and arrows, some people shot arrows on horseback, some people wanted to go around, in short, there were all kinds of people.

And this caused even greater confusion among the cavalry of the Ming army!

The orders issued by the various officers were not the same, and even contradicted each other!

Although the cavalry of the Ming army in the inner circle surrounded the first infantry battalion of the Datang New Army, they rushed up, not to mention the formation of the first infantry battalion was scattered.

The cavalry of the Ming army on the periphery began to bypass, they bypassed the first infantry battalion, and then rushed to the three infantry phalanxes composed of the baggage regiment and other troops of the Datang New Army not far away.

The phalanx composed of the troops of the baggage regiment is also a four-cornered phalanx, but the baggage troops do not have too many musketeers, so they can only rely on spears to defend passively, and there are not many musketeers who shoot guns, and more rely on archers to bend bows and shoot arrows.

However, even if the baggage regiment had fewer musketeers and weaker combat effectiveness, its three infantry phalanxes and the first infantry battalion cooperated together to form a super large phalanx of infantry that cooperated with each other, and the cavalry of the Ming army shuttled back and forth between these phalanxes.

Try to break through!

But it's a pity that the spears of these phalanxes are enough to make any Ming cavalry fearful, and horses are also living creatures, and looking at the spears in front of them will instinctively stop or go around.

Unless it's a knight forcing the horse to rush forward!

Direct hand-to-hand charges did not take place, so that the Ming army could only dismount and fight on foot, some people held shields and tried to get closer, and some people bent their bows and shot arrows.

There are also Ming cavalry who bend bows and shoot arrows on horseback!

I have to say that these arrows of the Ming army also caused some casualties to the Datang New Army, but their own casualties were even greater!

They did not dare to rush up, but shot at a distance of twenty or thirty meters, and in this kind of shooting, the Datang New Army had a great upper hand.

Although the musket of the Datang New Army is not high, it can continue to shoot, and the hit rate at this distance is extremely high, and more importantly, it is extremely powerful.

However, the bows and arrows of the Ming army at this distance, although they also did damage to the new army of the Tang Dynasty, they did not do much damage to the backbone of the phalanx, that is, those heavily armored spearmen.

After all, these spearmen are wearing heavy armor, and most of the bows and arrows used by the cavalry of the Ming army are light bows, needless to say, those riding skills are far less powerful than the foot bows, and even if the cavalry who dismounted to fight took out the foot bows for archery, most of the arrows shot were also light arrows.

There are many types of arrows, including heavy arrows for armor piercing, light arrows for range, and many other types.

And heavy arrows, because they are heavier, want to have range and power, the strength of the bow is relatively high, and a strong bow is generally needed.

And the requirements for the archer are also relatively high, and the archer can't pull it if the physical strength is not strong enough!

These Ming cavalry naturally couldn't be strong archers, in fact, they weren't even professional archers, they were cavalry, or mounted infantry, and archery was not their strong point.

For these cavalrymen, it was actually dismounted and fighting on foot that was their forte!

But it's a pity that if you dismount and fight on foot, if you want to rush up, facing such a dense spear forest, you are basically looking for death.

When the two sides were in such a stalemate, the casualties also increased rapidly, and the casualties on the side of the Tang New Army were not small, and the cavalry of the Ming Army was also no better.

Soon, corpses fell one after another in front of the two sides!

Most of the dead and wounded on the side of the Tang New Army were killed or injured by arrows, while the cavalry of the Ming Army were mostly killed by guns and guns, and a small number of people were shot and killed by the archers of the New Tang Army.

However, the most important casualties were actually caused by the artillery of the Datang New Army!

About ten battalion guns and ten heavy guns were aimed at these Ming cavalry!

Every round of shelling will make a large number of Ming cavalry fall!

On the side of the 1st Infantry Battalion, the spearmen in the formation were still motionless, and even many of them did not look directly ahead to see the Ming cavalry, their only task was to hold the spears in their hands, and then remain motionless, preventing the cavalry of the Ming army from rushing directly up to hand-to-hand combat.

The rest has nothing to do with them!

As for the musketeers, they were very busy, and at this moment, the officers of the musketeers had already ordered free fire, and although free fire could not form a very threatening salvo, it was to increase the rate of fire as much as possible.

After all, the soldiers' shooting speed is not uniform, some veterans reload extremely fast, while some recruits are much slower, in the same time, veterans can fire three shots, new recruits can only fire two.

When one of them was hit by a bow and arrow and fell, the musketeers in the back row would come up with a blank face to fill the vacant position, and then continue to reload, shooting until they were hit and fell, just like their comrades who were already lying at his feet at this time, had been silent!

As the musketeers continued to shoot, the casualties of the Ming cavalry on the opposite side were also increasing, and more importantly, now they not only had to face the shooting of the first infantry battalion, but also the three infantry phalanxes with the core of the baggage regiment were also engaged with the Ming cavalry.

What's more, the artillery in the rear has not stopped firing!

In this case, the casualties of the Ming cavalry increased rapidly, from dozens of cavalry dead and wounded at the beginning to 100, and then more than 200.

At this time, their casualty rate had exceeded 10 percent, and this casualty rate had almost reached the limit that an ordinary army could bear.

Without anyone taking the lead, without the officers above giving orders, the Ming cavalry on the front line began to involuntarily distance themselves.

But it was useless to stretch from a distance of twenty or thirty meters to a distance of fifty or sixty meters, and the power of the musket could penetrate their armor!

What's more, in the four infantry phalanxes that the Datang New Army is now fighting with the Ming cavalry, the distance between them is only about a few tens of meters to a hundred meters, and the Ming cavalry is an air attack between these phalanxes, but it also means that they will be attacked from both sides, and there is no way to retreat, either turn around and return, or continue to rush out.

And no matter which option it is, they will not be able to dodge the attack from the new army of the Tang Dynasty in a short period of time!

At this time, it fully reflects the huge defensive capability of the four-cornered phalanx of the Datang New Army in the face of cavalry attacks.

But a quadrangular phalanx is nothing, but if three or even four such phalanxes are combined, then under the condition of mutual combat support, those cavalry who dare to rush through the air attack between the advance phalanxes will basically be attacked from many sides, and finally suffer heavy casualties.

And the end point of the development of this quadrangular phalanx is actually pure musketeers, and it is also a hollow phalanx composed of flintlock musketeers, and the hollow phalanx is a great killer to restrain cavalry!

For the first time today, the Datang New Army used this kind of four-cornered phalanx that specializes in defending against cavalry charges, and although the effect shown could not be as good as that of a pure hollow phalanx, it was not bad, at least those cavalry had no temper.

Now these Ming cavalry face the four infantry quadrangular phalanxes of the Tang New Army, and there is a sense of embarrassment that is difficult to speak!

I want to rush up, but I know that the spear forest is not easy to mess with at a glance, and I want to take a detour to the back and come to a scattered encirclement, but the phalanx of the pseudo-Tang thief army is different from those traditional infantry phalanxes, not simply against one side, but on all sides, and more importantly, these four phalanxes can also cooperate with each other to fight, and the cavalry will be attacked from two or even three sides when they pass through the middle of the phalanx, so it feels, not to mention how bad it is.

In this case, staying here will not have any effect at all except to increase casualties!

At this time, it was not only those ordinary cavalry who wanted to retreat quietly, but even those cavalry generals saw that something was wrong, and they had already begun to shrink their troops, and then retreated with their troops.

Seeing that the friendly troops had withdrawn, the other cavalry units of the Ming army naturally would not stay in place and wait for death, and naturally quickly followed the retreat.

As a result, these Ming cavalry came with great momentum, and they also walked with great momentum!

Except for leaving a large area of dead and wounded on both sides on the ground where the two sides were fighting, it didn't even change, everything went back to the way it was before they charged!