Hermir gritted his teeth, holding back the deepening pain in his abdomen, and led the cavalry out of the entanglement as he pondered why his assault had failed.

It is undeniable that the sudden fires of shotguns have slowed down the momentum of the cavalry, but the role of those spearmen in this conflict is even more important, and even if the cavalry really use their full strength to charge, they may not be able to break through their defenses at one time.

This kind of well-disciplined and high-morale spear phalanx infantry, which Hermir had only seen only a few times in his life, became a thorny enemy for the cavalry.

Sometimes, the shock cavalry needs to pay a lot of money to break through the phalanx, and sometimes the shock cavalry alone can't bite it at all, and it has to rely on the cooperation of other troops, such as archers, infantry and even mages to win.

There are even extreme cases, that is, they can't gnaw down no matter what. For example, if the enemy army has a strong cavalry to respond to the phalanx, it will enter the rhythm of step to step, and it will naturally be difficult to win.

Now, Luo Ming's cavalry is limited in number, so there is no need to worry, but he has artillery, which makes up for the shortcoming.

I can't help but worry about Hermir!

In the spear formation, the officer gritted his teeth and pulled out the arrow on his arm, because the arm was also protected by paper armor, although the arrow pierced deeply, even if it was pulled out, it would not be anything.

At the same time, the other officers were already organizing their spear formations to regroup.

This was the first time they had faced a cavalry onslaught without cover, but the result was not unexpected.

It's basically down to Aya – she's come up with a good training method, which is to find some bad horses and ram the array of soldiers with sticks.

Of course, even if it is an inferior horse, it is impossible to crash it at full speed, and even if it is hit squarely, the soldier will generally only suffer some minor injuries, and of course it cannot be compared with the real heavy cavalry impact.

But in this way, the fear of the soldiers about the horses rushing towards them could be gradually dispelled.

Most of the horses slowed down, stopped or went around before they could charge into the clubs, and a few horses could not hold their hooves and crashed into the array, and were beaten away by the soldiers, which gradually developed their confidence.

The cavalry assault just now was indeed very powerful, not a little stronger than the inferior horses, but it was still far from destroying the morale of Luo Ming's spearmen.

And after surviving that shock, although there were more than twenty casualties among the spearmen, counting the damage of the shotguns, there were eighteen horses in front of the corpses. As an infantryman, he can stab the knight lord from his horse, which is undoubtedly a booster.

At this moment, the detachment of light cavalry fired another round of arrows in the direction of the artillery, but several of the guards raised their large shields and blocked the arrows fired at the artillery.

Under the cover of the shield, the artillerymen quickly loaded their shotguns, turned their muzzles, and fired red-hot shotguns at the hussars.

The hussars were formed in a column, which was convenient for archery, but conversely, it also exposed the wide flanks to the muzzles.

The penetration of the shotgun is not strong enough, and after piercing one person or horse, it may not be able to kill the second person or horse behind it, but it is just right now!

The two guns opened fire one after the other, and at such a clever angle, five hussars were knocked down at once, and their corpses tripped over a horse, and the cavalry immediately fell to the ground, and their limbs twisted at a strange angle.

At this moment, Luo Ming's main formation divided into a squad of two hundred people, maintaining a tight queue that could form a phalanx at any time, and marched towards the right side.

Naturally, this one will not travel very fast, but it will be safe enough, and you can stop at any time and put down the spear and turn it into a hedgehog array. As long as the defenders in front of the artillery held out for about two more minutes, they would be able to welcome enough reinforcements, and Belan's cavalry assault would be a complete failure.

Hermir himself was examining the wound in the abdomen, while his lieutenant took his place, leading the cavalry a little away, ready to storm again after regrouping.

Although it was a great price to pay for such a strong charge at the spear formation, it was not possible to just leave the artillery alone—otherwise Beran's infantry would be subjected to continuous artillery bombardment.

Once the infantry was defeated, or the reinforcements sent by Luo Ming's own camp arrived, their cavalry could only retreat, and there was nothing they could do.

The heavy cavalry was quickly assembled, and this time they were roughly divided into two groups, one to spread out and avoid being hit too many people at once by the shotguns, and the other to ensure that they could launch a relatively continuous attack.

If a simple wave of impact fails to make a gap in the infantry phalanx, the men in front will slow down and block the way of the cavalry behind.

If the first team in front of you can leave as soon as possible after the impact, then the second team behind you will not have to slow down and can still keep crashing into it at full speed - the enemy who has been disrupted by the first wave of the impact may not be able to survive the second wave.

Realizing that this time he would have to endure a more severe test, the officer of the defending army could not help but swallow his saliva, but as a leader, of course, he could not show timidity, but showed a heroic smile as if nothing had happened, and shouted one order after another in an almost unchanged tone, boosting morale.

And believing in Luo Ming, believing in all kinds of friendly forces, will not let the enemy army go on as if no one is in a no-man's land.

The cannon sounded, but this time the cavalry was a little prepared, so the artillery bombardment did not work as well as it had at first - and they had roughly estimated the maximum rate of fire of the artillery, and it was impossible to eat a second round of shells before they reached the phalanx!

With this judgment, their confidence is much stronger!

At this moment, there was a sudden and continuous sound of many sounds, and the sound was like the sound of cannons, although much quieter than the sound of cannons, but also quite loud.

At the same time, more than a dozen people in the cavalry team fell off their horses one after another, and many horses neighed and fell, causing a moment of confusion in the formation of the cavalry reunion.

For a moment, they almost thought that they had been bombarded by other artillery again, some subconsciously rode their horses and scattered, while others hurriedly looked in the direction where the sound came from.

In that direction, there was indeed a lot of smoke, but there was no artillery in sight, just soldiers standing beside the slow-moving phalanx, holding some kind of "thin" tubular weapon, perched on a bracket, pointing this way.

It is not known what it is, but there is no doubt that it is another long-range weapon that poses a great threat.