Just when the warriors or reckless men who were attacking the phalanx head-on fell, the eighteen cavalry did not rush into the phalanx, but bypassed from the side.

They tried to attack the flanks and rear of the phalanx, as well as the musketeers who were hiding behind the phalanx.

But by this moment, some of the musketeers had finished reloading and began to shoot one after another, and when the cavalry finally approached them, they grabbed the brackets and muskets and retreated.

Behind the phalanx, there were also several rows of spears sticking out, and the musketeers could drill through the gaps and retract into the forest of guns as long as they bent their waists, but the cavalry was obviously not so agile.

In addition, it is almost impossible to storm the rear of the phalanx.

The cavalry was very fast, which was also a guarantee of lethality when they launched an attack, but if they wanted to attack the rear of the phalanx, they had to make a big turn.

When turning, the speed will inevitably decrease, and even if you successfully turn around, you still have to walk a straight line for a long time, which is used to accelerate and ensure sufficient lethality and maneuverability.

The musketeers took advantage of this opportunity and launched a round of free fire on the cavalry.

Nowadays, the accuracy of the musket is said to be a little worse, but in fact, at a distance of tens of meters, the probability of hitting a cavalry is not low - during training, they can shoot a target the size of a cavalry at a distance of 60 meters, and they can hit four out of ten shots.

Soon, the cavalry fell one after another, and the remaining blood was completely cold, and after looking at the remaining numbers, they did not dare to attack any part of the phalanx again, and directly began to retreat - or rather, rout.

Some of them fled in the direction of the cavalry force, while others simply fled in the direction of their own infantry, but in the end only eight cavalry managed to escape, and the rest were left on the battlefield forever by lead bullets fired from behind.

Once the musketeers had reloaded their ammunition, the phalanx raised their spears and continued their march - if any cavalry wanted to rush at them, they would be given a baptism of lead bullet, which would also buy the phalanx a little time.

On one side, while a small number of cavalry were completely deflated by the combination of spears and muskets, on the other side, the main force of the Belan cavalry encountered an unexpected blow.

Predicting that there was a limit to the rate of fire of the artillery, they seized the opportunity after a salvo to charge the infantry.

However, what they didn't expect was that there was actually a cannon that still had unfired shells - it was a double configuration of the front shotgun and the rear solid shell.

At a distance of only ten meters, the lead-filled iron ball flew directly into the cavalry's array, penetrating a total of three groups with men and horses, and breaking one horse's leg, and the shotgun also caused a certain amount of damage to the surroundings.

Even at such a close distance, the damage caused by a cannon is no more than that, and it is still not a huge damage for hundreds of cavalry.

But at the moment when the cannon sounded, nearly half of the entire team made evasive actions to varying degrees, and the momentum was chaotic at once.

The team, which was originally like two arrows about to pierce one after another, has now turned into two lumps of stones, although the kinetic energy is about the same, but the breakthrough power has been reduced a lot.

And the enemy spearmen were still demoralized, and even refreshed by the imminent arrival of reinforcements...... Hermir instinctively realized that this was the last chance to break through this formation, and if he didn't succeed this time, the cavalry would lose morale the next time.

However, just as he rushed into the spear formation with the first team, causing a certain amount of confusion, he rode his horse to the side to make way for the following cavalry, and when he turned his head to look, his eyes were dark, and he fell off his horse.

There was no follow-up cavalry at all, and these bastards had already turned their horses' heads, bypassed the spear formation, and then turned around and began to prepare to retreat!

"These mercenaries who see money but are afraid of death! Oh, what a damn thing!"

In the middle of the Beran army, the young viscount couldn't help but curse with a horsewhip, and the old mercenary captain beside him twitched, but pretended not to hear anything.

Mercenaries don't have too much sense of honor, and some even occasionally rob their employers, although most of them are not so unbearable, but at most they take people's money to eliminate disasters for others.

This is just to not smash their own signboards, maintain a good reputation, and still get business in the future.

When there is really no hope of victory, and they can only die in vain, most of them will take the initiative to retreat.

Infantry is just that, cavalry is very expensive, even if you have money to train it, if you die too much, then this trip is a complete loss.

The cavalry of the mercenaries accounted for forty percent of the total, and they slipped away, not only engulfing some of the dazed cavalry to retreat with them, but also leaving the part of the cavalry that had just entered the spear formation there, without support.

It's not that there is no support at all, in fact, many mercenary cavalry still took out their bows and crossbows very thoughtfully and put an arrow in their hands before withdrawing, but that's how it ends.

Some of the cavalry, who had not yet figured out this sudden situation, fell in front of the spear formation, did not seize the fleeting opportunity to escape, and finally fell more than thirty people.

And those cavalrymen who left their comrades and fled first, and occasionally turned back, they could see that the phalanx of reinforcements from Lockin's main camp was very close to the artillery position, and they quickly completed the turn, and no longer showed their sides, knowing that the opportunity to break through there had been completely lost.

But in their hearts, at the moment, they were mostly happy, and at the same time, they were mixed with a little guilt for abandoning their allies to death.

In this confrontation, the total number of casualties on both sides was less than 200, and on the entire battlefield with a total of more than 3,000 people, it can only be said that it was a big test, but it has to be said that the impact of this test on morale is still very large.

The mere failure of the imposing cavalry team already affected morale very much.

An officer who had no choice but to have the cavalrymen take off their helmets and beautiful cloaks, and waved them with spears in the air, and asked the names of many of the victims from the mouths of the cavalry captives who were still alive, made the loud soldiers shout:

"Sir Barthol is dead, Knight of Corrando is dead, Knight Podlirk Jr...... Captain Hermir has been captured alive!"

The psychological offensive worked, and a wave of cheers erupted in Lomin's army, while there was apparently some commotion in Belan's army.

Of course, this is good news across the board, except that Luo Ming has to put a little more effort into controlling the noble cavalry at hand and not acting rashly.

When they saw that a group of infantry had made great achievements, of course they were both envious and jealous, and they wanted to rush out immediately, but Luo Ming asked them to recall the huge casualties of the cavalry when they stormed the phalanx just now, and finally stabilized them for the time being.