The order was issued, and the 5,000 cavalry transferred from the border army moved directly.

After quickly forming a large arrow-shaped attack formation on the battlefield, he slowly drove out of the barracks and rushed towards the rear of the barracks, which was constantly approaching the defense line of the Tiger and Par Army.

Because of the tremendous role of the staff officers, the more than 8,000 infantry cavalry of the Tiger and Leopard Army, who had been deduced on the battlefield, had long expected that the officers and troops would have such a move.

Therefore, the mighty cavalry of the official army has just opened the barracks.

The more than 8,000 cavalry of the Tiger and Par Army, which was constantly approaching the official barracks, stopped, and began to divide the troops.

After a series of battles, more than a thousand iron horsemen were very unexpectedly split in two, guarding the two wings of the musketeers.

The musketeers sent from the front line did the opposite, quickly assembling and marching through the battlefield one after another in battalions. More importantly, one after another, the musket formations were not placed in a straight line in front of the officers and soldiers. Instead, it is like an arc-shaped cauldron, upside down in front of the officers and soldiers.

As for the bottom of the cauldron, it is not just a coincidence, and it is exactly on the official road that is most suitable for cavalry charges.

So many musketeers, the reason for this arrangement. As long as you are discerning, you will know. The Haw Par Army intends to use this formation so that every musketeer on the battlefield can use lead bullets to shoot the officers and cavalry who attack them.

Zhou Haoguang, who was rushing towards the Tiger and Leopard Army, knew very well the conspiracy of the Tiger and Leopard Army.

However, in order to ensure the speed advantage of the cavalry, even if he knew that he would be hit by lead bullets from different directions by the Haw Par Army musketeers if he charged along the official road, he could still only choose the official road and rush towards the hastily formed Haw Par Army army formation step by step.

The battle-hardened Zhou Haoguang is confident. With the combat effectiveness of 5,000 cavalry under his command. No matter how good the formation of the Haw Par Army is. No matter how good the flintlock muskets were, it was impossible to stop yourself and the five thousand cavalry under your command.

Zhou Haoguang did not make a mistake in judgment, unless he ordered his 5,000 cavalry to attack the Tiger and Leopard Army in a line, so that the cavalry under his command would be hit by the Tiger and Par Army musketeers as targets. Otherwise, the weak defensive line formed by thousands of musketeers would not have been able to stop the charge of the cavalry.

But. The self-confident Zhou Haoguang ignored another problem, that is, the ironclad cavalry guarding the two wings of the musketeers.

As long as the line of defense formed by the musketeers is in danger of being broken through by the officers and soldiers. These two ironclad cavalry will be like unsheathed swords, fiercely penetrating into the formation of the official cavalry, slowing down their offensive pace, giving the musketeers to readjust the defensive line and buy time.

As the horses' hooves on the ground became louder and louder, it was like thunder. It slowly reached the ears of all the participating soldiers of the Haw Par Army. The powerful momentum brought by the five thousand officers and cavalry charging together was like a thick black cloud before a storm. Quickly approached them, pressing them almost out of breath......

Two hundred steps...... The officers and cavalry who rushed over were still two hundred paces away from the battlefield. Dozens of medium mortars, hidden behind the musketeers, began to move......

Dozens of black flowering shells flew out of the cannon chamber with a whistling sound, crossed the musket array in front of them, and flew towards the black cavalry at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Under the cover of the roaring horses' hooves, the explosion of dozens of flowering shells can be called almost minimal.

However, the puffs of black smoke that quickly rose from the middle of the officers and cavalry clearly told the Tiger and Leopard Army that these flowering bullets did not disappoint them. At this moment, if you look down from the sky, you can clearly see that in the middle of the dense cavalry, wherever the black smoke rises, there will be a circular gap in a square circle of two battles.

As for the officers and cavalry in the gap, without exception, they were all blown to the ground.

However, the cavalry charge was still too fast. Dozens of medium-sized mortars, which had just finished firing the third round of shells, had already rushed into the firing range of the flintlock muskets at 150 paces.

As a result, the sound of musket shooting like popping beans also sounded on the battlefield.

Dense lead bullets, round after round, whistled and swept towards the officers and soldiers from different directions.

Under the shooting of these lead bullets, the dense cavalry, as if undressing, were swept to the ground layer by layer by lead bullets and turned into corpses.

However, the rate of fire of flintlock muskets was limited after all, and no matter how hard the musketeers tried, their killing speed could not match the charging speed of the cavalry.

In the blink of an eye, the dense cavalry of the officers and soldiers once again approached seventy or eighty paces away.

And their losses, even if they were added to the flowering shells, could only reach six or seven hundred, less than 20 percent of the total strength of the officers and cavalry.

At this time, although dozens of light mortars with limited firing range joined the battlefield, there was still no way to change the situation on the battlefield that was getting worse and worse for the Tiger and Par Army.

Soon, the mighty cavalry rushed to a position less than fifty paces away from the musketeers. The bombardier, who was behind the musketeer, began to prepare the grenade, and was ready to drop the bomb.

The ironclad cavalry, which had been guarding both flanks, moved......

Two cavalry armies that reflected the cold light of the forest outwards under the sunlight. Condescendingly, he crossed the official cavalry located on the official road.

Soon, the cavalry from three different directions collided with each other.

The cavalry attack formation, which was still a steady stream just now, was directly broken into two under the horizontal insertion of the two ironclad cavalry.

The follow-up officer cavalry, intercepted by a thousand ironclad cavalry, had to slow down the pace of attack and fight with the two ironclad cavalry. As for the hundreds of officers and cavalry who were decapitated, they were not affected in any way, and continued to fight towards the defense line of the Tiger and Leopard Army, which was getting closer and closer to him.

However, if you want to break through the defense line with hundreds of troops, it is already an impossible thing for the official cavalry. Because, the Haw Par Musketeers in front of them, and the hand grenade, a melee weapon, are not yet useful.

Under the attack of the musketeers, after again losing hundreds of people. The cavalry, less than five hundred officers, finally rushed to a position less than thirty paces from the defensive line.

Facing the Haw Par Army musketeers who were close at hand, a sneer flashed on the faces of many officers and cavalrymen. Not only that, but a saber with a handle that emitted a cold light from the forest was also tightly held in their hands, and the blade was forward, ready to chop.

At this time, if it is an ordinary army, in the face of unstoppable cavalry, this army will definitely collapse on the spot. However, it was not ordinary troops who stood in front of them, but well-trained Haw Par musketeers.

What's more, the bombardiers standing behind them have already lit the grenade fire rope in their hands. (To be continued......)