The continuous firing filled the battlefield with gunsmoke for a while, and the north wind seemed to be slightly easterly as Richelieu had expected, making the situation on the battlefield seem slightly more favorable. Seeing that the cavalry prepared at this time was completely ready, Richelieu did not hesitate any longer and immediately gave the order for the cavalry group to launch a surprise attack.

Unlike the cavalry in the Eastern Theater, which tended to attack in loose horizontal formations and in deep rows. In Europe at this time, although the modern cavalry in the true sense of the word has not yet been fully developed, the density of the cavalry in the horizontal line is also quite amazing, almost not much inferior to a row of arquebusiers.

At an imperceptible height like clouds, the little scout balloon kid, who had been trained for a long time and was smart, drew a sketch from the latter as fast as he could, loaded with a streamlined projectile made of lead, and headed down his head like a kite. The cavalry in ten rows in depth was distributed in a depth of no more than sixty or seventy paces, and it was estimated that the total attack range of each horizontal row of about 1,000 men was only a part of two or three miles. It is estimated that the shock cavalry of about 10,000 people or the spear cavalry that does not account for the proportion of the mainstream in this era, and more pistol cavalry and other light cavalry are constantly attacking and harassing around by relying on the superiority of troops.

Obviously, because Richelieu had not found a large number of spearmen in the previous battle formation, this cavalry attack no longer intended to engage in any close-range confrontation as a normal attack, but accelerated as best from the beginning of the meeting, preparing to break the formation at full speed.

More than 10,000 high-class medium-sized horses also brought a terrifying sound of horses' hooves behind the smoke of gunpowder, as if the tide was beginning to rush behind the smoke. At this moment, a little white smoke suddenly burst out in an imperceptible place in the sky. The 1st Regiment of the 1st Volunteer Division, which was preparing as quickly as possible, began to throw black powder grenades in its hands almost immediately on the entire front when it heard the trumpets being counted by the observers watching the sky.

As one of the most elite and prominent units of the volunteer troops, the First Regiment of the First Volunteer Division was not only able to easily and universally throw about two catties of black powder grenades to ten zhang yuan or about one pound of light black powder grenades to a distance of about 16 or 7 zhang in terms of bomb throwing results, but also had a very good grasp of the ability and rhythm of joint training in the field of joint training in the same head and even on the battlefield.

When the first round of neat light black powder grenades of about one pound was thrown, the distance of the enemy cavalry group was about fifty or sixty paces, which was much farther than the landing point of the grenades. However, when thousands of grenades approached the enemy group, they landed right in front of these enemy cavalry groups. Although the smoke and even the sound of rolling thunder from the continuous violent explosions did not make the elite heavy cavalry selected feel unbearable, it was still very effective in deterring the enemy's horses. In previous trainings, the Europeans did not seem to have trained horses with such momentum, which made even the battle-hardened horses in the front row a little overwhelmed for a while.

At this moment, tens of thousands of heavy shotguns fired by hundreds of 200-pound body-barreled light field guns within a range of at least five or six miles seemed to have landed accurately and premeditated, and the storm with dense and accurate bows and arrows caused more than 10,000 enemy cavalry to encounter about 2,000 casualties in an instant.

Richelieu was only a little glad at this time's overestimation of the enemy's combat strength, and with the banner and order, the last reserve of the French army of sufficient size suddenly flashed from the southern flank and launched a fierce bombardment on the left flank of the entire volunteer army. It turned out to be another heavy cavalry unit with nearly 10,000 people.

There is no doubt that in order to deal a heavy blow to this approaching enemy army, the 100,000 or so French troops gathered together were not ordinary heavy groups, but to a large extent represented the most elite strength of the French army in this era.

Perhaps the previous focus of the artillery had been concentrated in the direction slightly north of the front, and there was not much firepower to take care of the French heavy cavalry group rushing from the southern flank. It was not until they approached a distance of about 100 paces that the cavalry began to face the heavy blows of arquebuses and bows and arrows in front of them.

Perhaps the horses were already familiar with these threats on the battlefield, so the attacking cavalry, although suffering hundreds of casualties under the heavy rain of firearms and arrows, quickly approached the middle distance.

Soon after, the explosion of black powder grenades began to put a little pressure on the French horses rushing at the front, and the cavalry torrent in the attack seemed to become more dense during the brief pause. However, for these forces, which seemed to be accustomed to firearms in the past battles and whose ability to resist pressure was far from being comparable to that of the cavalry of the East and even Central Asia, it only seemed that the approaching torrent seemed to stop for a moment, and the French cavalry, which had spent a short time in confusion, continued to approach at a speed that was not too fast.

When the French cavalry found that the direction of attack was not a group of spearmen, and those opponents who intended to resist were only a few firearms in the front row, who were only a few firearms who intended to meet directly, and seemed to intend to rely on the not too long spears to deal with themselves, some of them began to use the auxiliary firearms they carried with them to suppress the fire, and some began to speed up the horses to carry forward to attack.

At this time, those opponents in the direction of the main attack of the cavalry on the southern flank of the French army seemed to be completely shocked and suppressed in the face of great deterrence, until they approached a distance of about one or twenty paces, and suddenly found that those firearms who had seemed to be leaning against their bodies and turned into a defensive posture began to stand up neatly, and raised their double-barreled flintlock torches and pulled the trigger.

The continuous sound of guns seemed to be like a dense and short drum, which seemed relatively small compared to the previous cannon sounds, but at this time, it continued to fire with enough deterrent effect.

Not only in the direction of the attack on the southern flank, but also the French cavalry, which was slightly north and upward, was suddenly encountered by such a steam and fierce fire. After a heavy and heavy blow, the enemy's seemingly thin offensive front took the opportunity to launch a counteroffensive.

(End of chapter)