Since ancient times, in the face of cavalry harassment and charge, the best response is to also use cavalry to fight back, if the cavalry is weak, you can also use infantry to cover the enemy cavalry.

It's a pity that the noble cavalry lost too much in that duel, and many of the noble cavalry who turned back saw that their side began to retreat, and even whistled their horses, and left from the other direction with their horses, and disappeared without a trace.

This is the 'organization and discipline' of the noble cavalry, if there is any hope of victory, the nobles and knights will naturally follow the order conscientiously and fight for the spoils of war for glory and the spoils of war, once these noble knights find that the battle situation cannot be reversed, naturally, the goal of the battle will change from victory to life.

Most of the noble cavalry are nobles and knights with high social status, even if they are the big nobles and even commanders who are generals, it is difficult to punish those noble cavalry who flee after the defeat, everyone belongs to the aristocratic class, and the responsibility for the defeat is obviously the commander of the big nobles, if the commander of the big nobles wants to punish the responsibility of the noble cavalry, it is necessary to do a good job of these nobles and knights who are not shallow in their own relationships, and sue the Duma noble council.

No one cares about the death of untouchables, and the deaths and injuries of ordinary mercenaries can be settled with money, but only the noble cavalry is not war cannon fodder that can be consumed at will.

If after a battle, among the troops under the command, the troops of the nobles and knights are killed in a large area, and the commander of the great nobles who is the commander loses the battle unscathed, it is a big deal, even if the commander's family power is deep-rooted, he will be disgraced by the relatives of many noble classes.

The aristocracy is still more reasonable among themselves, and even many European countries have established aristocratic democratic parliaments!

For example, the United Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania, or the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which is now the strongest, most powerful, most populous, and most extensive territory in Eastern Europe, is a country with an aristocratic democratic parliamentary system that prides itself on 'democracy and freedom'.

The Sym parliament of the United Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania even has the authority to impeach the king, to remove him from power!

Of course, because of this, the Polish king has always lived a very hard life, and he needs to rely on a large number of aristocratic classes to support himself in order to sit on the throne of the king.

The aristocrats are a group of selfish guys, what they want more is to preserve their strength and seek more benefits and enjoyment, of course they don't want to start a war at will, it takes dead people to fight, and when the time comes, will your private soldiers go up to die or mine?

Nowadays, although the Duma aristocratic council of the Moscow principality also holds a lot of power, but due to the absolute dictatorial authority of the previous generation of the Grand Duke of Moscow, the Duma Council nominally needs to be loyal to the tsar, so the power of Moscow City is still very huge.

When the main force of Rostov faced the humiliation of defeat, the noble cavalry, which had built morale based on glory, would naturally run away alone in a large area for the first time, especially those knight classes who did not have much wealth, and they were faster than the other, because the war that they thought belonged to the knights was over......

So the Rostov commander did not gather how many noble cavalry returned to the team at all, to put it bluntly, the composition of the noble cavalry was a knight and a horseman of small and medium-sized nobles, and even the master fled, of course they had to follow!

Of course, the commander of Rostov, who originally had a large number of noble cavalry, suddenly fell into an embarrassing situation in the face of the hundred-man heavy cavalry personal guard led by Shu Zifeng, and he could not send the same number of cavalry to fight.

Although there were many people riding war horses in the retreating procession, they were all noble noble generals, could it be difficult for these noble generals to form a death squad to face the enemy face to death?

The Rostov commander did not dare to do this, once he gave such an order, even if he saved the defeat, he would be sued by the dead noble family when he returned, and he would be stripped of a layer of skin......

The big nobles and the small and medium nobles and the knight class are basically two concepts!

The Duma Council of Nobles is nominally open to all aristocratic classes, but in fact all the representatives who can sit in it are from the big aristocratic class, and even the big aristocratic class allowed by Moscow City, and the marginalized nobles like Grand Duke Yaroslav have no right to go in to discuss state affairs, and their marginalized nobles are just large lords who provide military service obligations rewarded by the Moscow Principality.

On the path to centralization, Muscovy was undoubtedly at the forefront thanks to the efforts of previous tsars.

In the same way, almost all of the main forces in Rostov in retreat came from the elite infantry of Moscow City, the personal guards of the nobles, and the direct infantry of the nobles gathered in various places.

These private armies were the private property of the aristocratic class, and if the First World War was lost, the commander of the Rostov regiment would suffer, and he would of course give priority to these aristocratic private armies.

Of course, those who are left behind in the palace are those mercenaries who can be solved with money, this is the tragic status of mercenaries in this era, fighting and charging ahead, retreating and being responsible for the palace, otherwise, who wants to spend a lot of money on this group of outlaws?

Only the conscripted peasants and soldiers, who are inferior to humans and animals, are more miserable than mercenaries.

Of course, mercenaries do not work in vain, as long as they can complete the mission of the queen when they are defeated, they can get the full amount of the subsequent commission, otherwise, the reputation of the hired city of Moscow will be stinky all over Eastern Europe!

One side sells his life and the other pays a lot of money, this is the main way to maintain the morale of mercenaries in this era, but the truth is that when it comes to desperate efforts, there are not many mercenaries who can fully fulfill it, and the mercenary discipline of mercenaries who work for money is always a big problem......

There are mercenaries who are greedy for life and afraid of death, and naturally, there are also scumbags among the nobles, but the money hired in the name of the state is rarely relied upon, and they can use the financial taxes of the entire country as collateral protection, and they can also use installments if they can't afford to pay for a while.

This is the reason why, in times of frequent wars, the seemingly rich European continent is often in debt......

Military expenditures are swallowed up by huge mercenaries!