After shooting this wave, the Romans also put away their muskets, replaced them with bronze daggers, and launched a charge against the Han army.

The distance of two hundred zhang, under the hedge of the two cavalry, is really a short distance.

In a few moments, the two cavalry charged and entangled, and a melee began.

As in previous Scout encounters, the Han had the advantage of sabers, while the Romans had more shields and cuirass protection.

Except for the grenades that can cause large casualties, the rest of the hand-to-hand combat is basically a one-to-one ratio.

However, the Han army was twice as large as the Romans, so they had the upper hand.

Suddenly a trumpet sounded behind the Romans, and the Roman cavalry who heard the trumpet outflanked them, but the middle ground was out of the way.

Just when the commander of the 1st Brigade decided to take advantage of the situation and divide the formation into left and right halves, a large group of mobile fortresses suddenly appeared behind the scattered Roman cavalry in front of him.

It turned out that the heavy armored cavalry of the Romans also rushed out, but the impact of a thousand heavy armored cavalry exceeded the momentum of the Han army's thousands of cavalry when they charged.

They wore expressionless masks on their faces, and a red mane fluttered in the wind on their helmets.

Their entire body was covered in heavy armor, and their helmets were also all-round, revealing only the holes in their two eyes.

The heavy armor extends all the way to the lower body, from the waist to the feet, it is wrapped in armor, and even the war horse under the crotch has a thin layer of metal armor.

The heavy cavalry of the Romans were not equipped with firearms, and in their left hand was a half-man-high oval shield, but in their right hand they held an extra-long knight's spear, which was very heavy, and the knight's left hand held the shield and helped to support it with his right hand.

The cavalry of the Han army only had a layer of light leather armor, and where could they withstand the stabbing of such a fierce spear, even the war horses could not resist the charge of the Romans.

The Roman heavy cavalry, relying entirely on the spears in their hands and heavy armor, went on a rampage, rushed to the Han army's horses, and did not slow down, and directly collided.

The officers of the Han army are also experienced, how can they be willing to fight hard with the enemy?

The trumpets sounded, and the Han cavalry turned their horses, got rid of the enemy in front of them, and retreated, regrouping at a distance of two hundred feet from the Romans.

When the Romans saw that they had repelled the cavalry of the Han army, their morale was immediately high, and they simply lined up and followed closely behind.

Looking at the Romans who tasted a little sweetness, they were invincible, and the commanders of the Han army had sneers on the corners of their mouths.

Ma Chao and Zhang Xiu are used to delegating command for this kind of battle, so many people bully so many Romans, they don't have to worry about it at all, this is also a kind of exercise for the officers below!

This time, the Han army no longer took the initiative to attack, but lined up in a linear array of three rows in front and back with large intervals between the left and right, and raised their guns on the spot to aim.

Then, under the same command of the respective battalion commanders, a salvo was fired, and after the first platoon was finished, the second platoon slowly stepped forward, and then the second salvo was fired, and the first platoon retreated behind the third platoon and began to reload.

This is the standard method of rifle rotation, which is the basic training subject of all units of the Han army.

It's just that the infantry rotates backwards, and the cavalry rotates forward, which is also for the sake of reducing the interval between shots.

The Roman light cavalry, which did not have time to reload, could not return fire at all, so they could only charge forward with their shields in the same way as the heavy cavalry.

This time, the Han army shot at a stationary state, and the hit rate was much higher, and they could selectively target the weakly protected parts of the Romans, such as the lower body of the light cavalry and the unprotected war horses under the crotch.

The huge inertia caused the wounded horses to fall to the ground, and at the same time, the cavalry on the horses were thrown far away, and what awaited them was a storm of bullets.

The rate of fire, penetration and hit rate of the rear-loading rifles of the Han army exceeded the imagination of the Romans, and the previous cavalry battles did not give full play to the advantages of the Han army's firearms, and this time was the real level of the Han army.

At the same time, mortar battalions were brought up, and they began to test fire at the Romans, and the shells were powerful enough to pose a threat to even the heavy cavalry.

The Roman commander was obviously not stupid, and he immediately gave the order to blow the horn of retreat, and the Romans tried to save their comrades who had lost their horses, and the two fled to their own camp on horseback.

The numerically superior Han army immediately pursued the Han army, and when they fled, the heavy cavalry became a burden to the Romans, and their light cavalry had to turn back to help the heavy cavalry resist the pursuit of the Han army.

Ma Chao and Zhang Xiu saw that the battle situation was decided, and they also led two other cavalry brigades that did not participate in the battle, and slowly followed behind.

Ma Chao noticed that when the Romans retreated, they still attached great importance to their military flags, and the cavalry holding the military flag fled to the front, and everyone else was protecting them.

If someone falls, someone will immediately take over the flag, and no flag will be lost on the battlefield.

Zhang Wei, the commander of the 1st Brigade, also noticed this, and he told the guards company to shoot at the riders with good marksmanship.

Especially the Golden Eagle Military Flag, he can keep an eye on it, Ma Chao has issued a military order to rob this Golden Eagle.

If you can achieve the long-cherished wish of the legion commander, the benefits in the future will be indispensable.

In this way, the standard-bearers of the Romans were unlucky, especially the standard-bearers holding their own regimental flags, who were basically replaced by a person, and it didn't take long for them to be killed by the snipers of the Han army, and they had to be replaced immediately.

The commander of this Roman cavalry legion was also very anxious when he saw this scene.

According to the military law of the Roman Empire, if a unit loses its flag, it will be removed from the large sequence and long history of the imperial army, which is a great shame for the soldiers of the Roman Empire.

So a Roman army, as long as there is one man left, must bring the flag back to Rome.

And as long as one person brings back the military flag, and the military flag is not lost, His Majesty the Emperor and the Senate of the Roman Empire will allocate a lot of money to rebuild this legion.

The commander of this Roman cavalry legion was called Macrinus, who was the consul of the guard of the current Roman Emperor Caracalla.

The cavalry regiment he commanded was one of the few cavalry regiments in the Roman Empire, and it had the name of the fifth "lark" regiment in the empire, which is full of glorious history.

The legion has a long history, dating all the way back to the time of Caesar, having been disbanded more than a hundred years ago, reconstituted twenty years ago, and transformed from an infantry division into a cavalry division.

So even if he loses the battle, he can't throw away the military flag, he ordered his guards to protect the military flag, and on the other hand anxiously looked in the direction he came from, there were several Roman legions behind him to meet him, why haven't they caught up yet?