People turn on their backs

The term could not be more appropriate at this time.

When two heavily armed cavalry units charge together, the cavalry spears with great impact will be severely injured and fall from their horses as long as they hit the opponent, no matter how thick the opponent's armor is. Blindfolded horses can move forward under the rider's control, but when the rider has a problem they lose control and crash into other horses.

After the cavalry charge, some of the riders killed their enemies with their cavalry spears, and rushed out on horseback to break through the enemy line. But more cavalry were caught in the melee, and a large number of cavalry gathered together, and they put away their rifles, drew their melee blades, and began to fight.

Soon, a group of horsemen were shot down and dismounted, and a few unlucky fellows were trampled to death by horses. But the cavalry on both sides separated, leaving behind dozens of corpses and many horses that had lost their owners. When the cavalry units of both sides were regrouped, the cavalry on the side of Count Mateas showed signs of decline. In the charge just now, they lost almost thirty men, while the other side had less than ten. Two more times like this, and their forces will have to collapse.

Fatis moved his arm a little numb, although the cavalry spear in his hand was not stained with blood, but in that charge, this cavalry spear had already knocked the two opponent's hired riders off their horses, and without piercing the opponent's thick chain mail and plate armor, the huge impact had already broken their ribs, injured their spines, and made the opponent incapacitated.

Count Mateas didn't expect his mercenary cavalry team to be so far behind the other party, and after holding out for a few minutes, his morale was shaky and he began to retreat. As a last resort, he could only use his banner to send a message to the cavalry troops to keep them in check, and some of the infantry units abandoned their current positions and began to advance in the direction of Count Rayland.

Count Mateas did this under pressure, Byron's mixed infantry was too strong, and the Rhodok infantry, who thought they could hold out for a long time, were constantly squeezed by the Nord shield wall and Vecchia archers on the swamp, and the formation continued to shrink, and the spearmen were defeated, so they could only compress their troops to a position close to the horse convoy, and resist the line with the elite force composed of a few sergeants and senior spearmen, and output crossbow arrows as the main firepower.

The tactic looked good, and the Nords and Vykians who attacked them were held back in front of the phalanx of spears, and one by one they were sniped with heavy crossbows. As long as they exposed their bodies, they would not be able to escape a steel crossbow arrow, and a mere layer of chain mail would not protect them at all. However, the Rhodok forces did not gain an advantage because of this, and when they were about to spread their forces to surround the opposing forces, they found that Byron's engineers had pushed the catapults forward dozens of meters, and while their crossbowmen were busy shooting at the approaching Nord infantry, they kept throwing stones at them, and the casualties of the densely lined Rhodok army increased rapidly. It was also for this reason that Count Mateas mobilized his troops to rush to support. Count Rayland is finally old and more cautious, and if the pressure and losses are too great, he is likely to take the initiative to retreat and retreat to Fort Kurma for defense, and the battle will be lost.

Byron did not miss this good opportunity to attack, and after confirming that Fattis's heavy cavalry troops were sufficient to deal with the cavalry of Count Mateas, his reserves were sent to the front in waves. First the infantry of Svadia and Peony mercenaries, then the mountain infantry and mercenary halberds, then Jamila's women's battalion, and then Rolf's light cavalry troops were also dispatched, circling around the formation of Count Rayland, ready to attack at any time.

At this time, Byron only had some elite infantry and a small number of cavalry around him, these troops were to prevent Count Mateas from flanking, Byron's troops were at a disadvantage after all, the formation could not be stretched too long, and if they were not prepared, it was easy to be surrounded by another Rhodok army. Although this reserve numbered only a little more than a hundred men, it was of good quality enough to repel a third of Count Mateas's troops with the heavy cavalry of Fatis. Moreover, Rolf's light cavalry was constantly on the move, ready to support at any time.

After a while, more than 300 mercenaries of Count Mateas arrived on the flank of Count Rayland's troops, their support was very timely, Count Rayland's army had been suppressed by Byron at this time, and many people had withdrawn to the rear of the troops, and the soldiers in the battle were only half of the whole army, and even the numerical advantage was gone, the Nord warriors scattered to both sides of the army and broke through the two flanks of the Rhodok phalanx, and the middle army of the army was replaced by the newly arrived Swadian infantry and mercenary infantry, Cooperate with the mercenaries behind him to control Rhodok's sergeants and veteran spearmen, so that they cannot move to other positions to defend. If Count Mateas's troops had come a little later, Count Rayland would have given the order to retreat.

The mercenaries began to attack the left flank of the Nord forces, and together with Rhodok's spearmen, they quickly pushed back the Nord infantry group. However, a partial victory could not affect the situation of the whole war, and the troops of the Count of Rayland were already in decline, and Rolf, a rogue nobleman who liked to take advantage of the fire, seized the opportunity to attack.

Rolf was well aware of the power of Rhodok's spear phalanx, even if it was to attack their flanks or rear, as long as the other side eased up and raised their spears, his light cavalry would definitely suffer heavy casualties. He was at Byron's orders, but he didn't want to waste the lives of his soldiers unless it was in his favor. After circling around Rhodok's troops, he set his sights on a much weaker target, the demoralized and exhausted Rhodok spearmen who had just retreated to the rear of the phalanx. Count Rayland had intended for them to repair their position in the center of the troops, but Byron's infantry attacked so fast that the central position of the troops became the vanguard, and the phalanx was stretched into a long line, and these recruits had to withdraw to the rear of the troops. Rolf estimated that these poorly trained soldiers would have been defeated by panic if they had been attacked by a large number of cavalry at this time.

He thought so, and he did. The cavalry archers took the lead in approaching each other, and those temporarily recruited spearmen really panicked when they saw this, the phalanx was very loose, the number of shields was insufficient, and more than ten people were wounded by the Kugit riders in a round of shooting, and the spear array was chaotic, and the cavalry troops led by Rolf himself followed, a round of cavalry charges and spear thrusts, and the rear of the Count of Rayland's troops was directly stabbed into a hole.

The heavy cavalry of Count Mateas could not hold out at this time, their horses were not as strong as Byron's Swadia, and their endurance was not as good as those of the Kugit steppe horses, although Byron himself found a good horse in the south, but Rhodok's horses were indeed not suitable for cavalry combat. More than half of the horses in Count Mateas's troops were local horses (this mercenary team was mainly composed of Rhodoks, mainly serving the Rhodoc nobles who lacked cavalry, and purchased more horses locally to save money). After a long battle, their horses were exhausted and were crushed by the heavy cavalry of the Svadian cavalry and the Peony mercenaries in one round.

By this time, although Count Rayland's troops still had a lot of combat strength, and although half of Count Mateas's troops had not yet entered the battle, Byron could already confirm his victory. After winning the battle of the heavy cavalry, Rhodoc's infantry could only be pinned down by the Byronic infantry and harvested by the heavy cavalry in turns. Eventually, their morale would not be able to sustain them, and the huge losses would force them to withdraw their troops. The next thing Byron has to do is to keep pressuring and make his expectations come true.