When both sides are confident in themselves, the battle is often the most intense, as they both believe they can win and morale is high.

But this kind of fierceness usually doesn't last long, because in battle, there will always be winners and losers, and when the losing side realizes that their tactical intentions cannot be realized, and may even suffer a crushing defeat, then it is time for a complete change.

When the 1st Cavalry Division and the 5th Cavalry Division of the Tang Army, together formed a huge arrow, collided with the Tatar cavalry array, in the first tens of seconds, because of the inertia of the battle, the battle between the two sides was very fierce, the knights in front fell one after another, and the knights in the rear also rushed up one after another.

But after tens of seconds, when some of the Tatar cavalry found that although they had more total strength, they were very strange and always faced a local disadvantage, they panicked.

The Tatar cavalry is a standard traditional cavalry, their formation is more relaxed, and even the speed is different, some run fast, some run slowly, and when it comes to the final engagement, its loose formation faces the dense and almost crowded Tang cavalry charge formation.

It is the result that in the actual battle area between the two sides, a Tatar cavalry often needs to face the siege of three or four Tang cavalry at the same time, in this case, Rao is Tatar cavalry's riding skills and even martial arts are more excellent, but they still have to hate on the spot, and finally be beheaded under the horse.

The total strength of the Tatar cavalry was more than that of the two cavalry divisions of the Tang Army, and the ratio of troops between the two sides was 10,000 to 7,000.

However, among the 10,000 Tatars, less than 3,000 actually fought with the Tang cavalry, and more went around on both sides.

Because the cavalry formation of the Tang Army was more dense, the frontal charge width formed was smaller, and the Tatar cavalry on the opposite side was too wide on the front, which led to the fact that although the Tatar cavalry was more, it was actually at a disadvantage in the actual combat area.

This is also the biggest advantage of modern cavalry using wall-riding tactics to meet traditional classical cavalry!

It doesn't matter what kind of weapon advantage such as muskets is, what matters is this local superiority in forces.

And this kind of local strength advantage also makes the cavalry formation of the Tatars, when facing the charge of the Tang cavalry, it seems to be like paper paste.

The arrows composed of the Tang cavalry directly tore through and even penetrated their defensive lines!

The roaring cavalry on both sides engaged each other, and then left behind the dead and wounded!

When Kang Changning held a telescope in the rear and saw the cavalry of the 1st Cavalry Division penetrating the Tatar defense line, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth!

When he sent the 1st and 5th Cavalry Divisions to charge, he already expected that if the Tatars fought against him, they would definitely lose money.

This is a tactical gap that there is no way to make up for.

If the Tatars were smart enough, they should avoid the war, not fight by force!

Unfortunately, after this charge, the remaining Tatars also seemed to have woken up, and when the two sides hedged, the remaining Tatars began to turn and began to avoid the battle.

There is no chance for a second hedging!

As for the pursuit......

Please, people are also cavalry, so if you can't beat it, you can't run away?

After the Tatars retreated slightly, the 1st and 5th Cavalry Divisions also made a large circle, and then returned to their own array to rest.

It's just that there are no more than 7,000 cavalry back!

Although this battle defeated the arrogance of the Tatars and caused considerable losses to the Tatars, the two armies fought each other, and they fought this very cruel hedging operation, and the losses were inevitable.

Of the cavalry that managed to return, only about 6,500 men remained!

One charge left 500 soldiers in place, and the casualties were unknown!

And the Tatars left even more, they left a full fifteen hundred dead and wounded on the battlefield!

In this battle, the ratio of battle losses between the two sides was about one to three, and this was under the premise that the number of cavalry in the Tang Dynasty was more than 3,000 less than that of the Tatars!

Kang Changning is still quite satisfied with this result!

What's more critical is that this battle has a great boost to morale, and the officers and men of the whole army can maintain enough confidence to deal with the next battle!

And the two elite troops he has in his hands, such as the 3rd Musketeer Regiment and the 6th Cuirassier Regiment, have not yet attacked!

In this battle, although your own troops are far less than the opponent's, as long as you play well, you may not have a chance to win.

In the following time, the remaining 8,000 or so Tatars learned wisely, and they ran directly to a kilometer away and did not come closer, waiting for the arrival of friendly troops in the rear.

And the cavalry corps of the Tang Army also seized the time to rest and prepare!

This war has just begun, and it is far from the end.

Because it is expected that the time will be relatively long, the cavalry of the Tang Army, while preparing for the battle, sit directly on the ground to conserve their physical strength, eat dry food and drink water, and feed the horses ** private chat at the same time to maintain the physical fitness of the war horses

They didn't even eat breakfast early in the morning!

The cavalry of the Tang Army, when they were resting and even eating, the Tatars on the opposite side were almost doing the same thing, they had been running for a long time, and they had charged again just now, whether it was a soldier or a war horse, they all needed to recover and replenish their physical strength in time.

As a result, the two sides were separated by a distance of more than a kilometer, and their eyes were wide and small.

With the passage of time, the cavalry under Kang Changning has gradually rested, and some of the cavalry units that have not had time to prepare just now because of the hurry of time are now also ready.

The Tatars on the opposite side also arrived one after another.

From 10,000 forward troops at the beginning, to 20,000, three people, and finally almost 40,000 horsemen.

The number of cavalry is already quite a lot, and Altan Khan has more than 60,000 cavalry on hand that can be used for battle, but it is impossible to bring all these 60,000 people.

In order to confuse the Southern Tang barbarians, he left more than 10,000 cavalry in the east, and then left more than 3,000 people on the Southern Linbao side, and sent out thousands of people to intercept the reconnaissance cavalry of the Southern Tang barbarians.

Other than that, the rest of the troops were brought here by him.

40,000 horsemen, against an enemy with only about 15,000 horsemen, in Altan Khan's opinion, even if they have sharp firearms, but this is enough.

But he didn't expect that when he first arrived, a battle in the forward troops made him frown.

The forward force with the scale of 10,000 cavalry, and the 7,000 cavalry of the Southern Tang barbarians on the opposite side fought face-to-face hedging battles, but it turned out that their own losses were more than that of the other party, and the 10,000 cavalry only had 8,500 left, while the Southern Tang barbarians on the opposite side only lost 500.

Although the forward troops are new to the country and have traveled a long way, it should not be the result.

Altan Khan was very unhappy about this, but it didn't bring him too much shock, although the striker suffered a small loss, but it was only a small loss, and it could not affect the overall situation.

I have worked so hard, this is the opportunity to block these nearly 15,000 Southern Tang barbarians here, naturally I hope to fight a big battle!

He would not be as foolish as the Southern Tang barbarians imagined, and they would fight a head-on battle with their main infantry force, in his opinion, these Southern Tang barbarians dared to go deep into the grassland, nothing more than relying on these fifteen thousand horsemen.

In fact, this fifteen thousand cavalry did play a huge role, without this cavalry wandering and covering, pinning down a large number of Tatar cavalry, and at the same time supporting the transport troops in time, it is impossible to maintain this supply line by infantry alone.

As long as this cavalry is killed, then he will be able to occupy a huge strategic initiative and completely cut off the blockade line of the Southern Tang barbarians, and then he will see how long Dongsheng City can be maintained.

Deng Xide has his own plan, and Altan Khan also has his own plan!

When both sides pushed forward the war according to their own plans, this situation arose!

The cavalry corps was blocked by 40,000 cavalry of the Tatars!

In this regard, Kang Changning naturally will not sit still, he wants to fight his way!

The previous forward battle had already given him hope, the enemy had many troops, but it was not necessarily without a chance!

This opportunity is not about defeating them, but about breaking out of the encirclement and leaving!

Seeing that his troops were ready, Kang Changning was not prepared to delay for too long, it was easy to change if it dragged on for too long, and he also wanted to take advantage of the fact that the main cavalry of the Tatars had just arrived and were tired of people and horses.

And this time, he was already ready to let the 1st Cavalry Division and other ordinary cavalry take the lead, he personally took the 6th Cuirassier Regiment forward, ready to act as the spearhead of the whole army's charge.

But before that, he sent out the 3rd Musketeer Regiment first!

This is to prepare to use the kite-flying tactics of this cavalry regiment to harass and strike at the enemy, create chaos, and thus create better opportunities for the charge of the main forces!

Soon, the Tatars saw the shamelessness of the 3rd Musketeer Regiment!

When Altan Khan first saw the Tang cavalry, which was only nearly a thousand people coming forward, he didn't care, and he didn't even bother to send troops to intercept it, because now that his main force had just arrived and needed to rest, it was impossible to destroy the entire rest plan because of the arrival of the enemy army of only 1,000 people.

Anyway, with their own 40,000 troops, even if these 1,000 horsemen rush up, they can swallow them in one bite.

But he soon found that these Tang cavalry had no intention of rushing over at all, but slowly advanced directly nearly 100 meters away from a group of cavalry on his side......

And then I saw them take out their muskets!

After seeing them slowly march forward on horseback, and finally reached a distance of about seventy or eighty meters, they shot directly on horseback!

Although the hit rate was average, there were still dozens of meters of Tatar cavalry hit, and immediately a Tatar cavalry general led about 2,000 cavalry of his side to attack, ready to return the color with a cavalry bow after approaching.

However, as soon as they moved, those Tang cavalry on the opposite side turned around and left!

Since they were all gone, the Tatar generals who led the attack also knew the overall situation, so they didn't plan to catch up, just stopped and prepared to turn around and return, but what they didn't expect was that the Tang cavalry in front of them also stopped, and shot again seventy or eighty meters away, and even after seeing the Tatar cavalry retreating, they turned their horses and followed again!

Seeing this scene, Altan Khan was speechless.

These Southern Tang barbarians are so shameless!