They caught up with the bandits at the confluence of the Rivers Asparte and Bass, and three loud-voiced light cavalry galloped forward, taking turns in Neustrian and northern dialects to order the invading Neustrians to immediately lay down their arms and surrender to them.

At the sight of these terrible hussars reappeared, there was no small confusion in the ranks of the northerners, however, none of them surrendered.

Having confirmed that they had no intention of surrendering, the hussars launched an assault on these men.

"Here we go again......" There was a mournful cry among the northerners, for the heavy infantry without real cavalry coordination, the highly mobile light cavalry was a nightmare. The northerners have the confidence to penetrate any enemy's front with their strong arms as long as they assemble, but what if the enemy doesn't have any front at all? Some people thought they could charge at the enemy, yes, they could move forward, but the light cavalry would not stand still and wait for them to crush them - the light cavalry would spread out and detour back to their flanks and rear - and the only thing they could do when they charged forward could only be cut through the air.

The northerners' heavy infantry could not catch up with the Turnest light cavalry and could not effectively inflict damage on them, while the Tournest light cavalry could inflict damage on them beyond the range of the northerners' heavy infantry, and this difference in tactical mobility was extremely fatal.

Even, in cases where the difference is not so great, such as light cavalry versus heavy cavalry, light infantry versus heavy infantry, this difference has resulted in many one-sided results.

In the Cambridge History of War, the Athenian heavy infantry, considered a model of infantry, once exposed such strict flaws when facing the Aeturian light infantry. The Athenian hoplites, dressed in heavy metal armor, could not keep up with the unarmoured Aeturian light infantry, as one Greek historian described the scene as follows: "When the Athenian army advanced. And they withdrew, and the Athenians withdrew. And they followed. The battle, which lasted for a long time, did nothing but a series of pursuits and retreats; And in both actions, Athens was at a disadvantage. One can imagine how the race was an ordeal for the Athenian hoplites, who, when they were finally exhausted, turned back and threw javelins at them, killing many Athenians. The Athenian hoplites were defeated in this campaign, and they lost so badly that after the battle they reformed their equipment. Many parts of the original all-metal armor were replaced with less sturdy, but much lighter leather armor, and a considerable amount of light infantry was required for future battles. The Athenians, who had always been proud of their hoplites, silently turned their hoplites into semi-heavy after suffering this great loss, which shows how much of a shadow this inability to catch up with them was.

Now this shadow fell on the heads of the northerners, who could not catch up with the Tournest light cavalry, could not inflict effective damage on them, and could only be beaten passively.

There were some archers among them. However, the hussars were free to choose which end of the line to attack, and the archers in the infantry line were not so easy to move their positions, as was the case. The ideal line is to line up the archers and long weapons one by one, with the archers attacking and the long weapons protecting. Or archers in the front row, long weapons in the back row. But...... They didn't have enough archers to line up in such formations.

Archers need bows, they need arrows. The most important thing is that it takes a lot of practice, crossbows are more expensive than bows, slower than bows, but crossbowmen are much faster than archers, therefore, during the Crusades, in order to fight against Arab archers, there are a large number of crossbowmen in the team, yes, the church has issued a ban on crossbows, to prevent civilians from learning crossbows for a few months to kill the knight master who has practiced martial arts for ten years, but using crossbows to hunt and kill heretics is not forbidden, European knights used crossbows very happily in the Middle East, and even once formed a horse crossbowman army.

This, in turn, illustrates how difficult a good archer can be to train, so much so that the Crusaders would rather be heavily armed with more expensive crossbows to save the day.

The northerners were better at archery than the Neustrians, but this did not mean that the number of archers among them was sufficient, and when the two armies clashed, the northerners usually threw first and then charged, and only a small part of the arrows thrown at the enemy's head were bows and arrows, and the rest were javelins, stones, and even clubs, and these various long-range weapons fully illustrated the lack of archers, because the javelins had a range of only twenty yards, and the worst Greek bows had a range of a hundred yards.

Close-range "long-range weapons" such as javelins and clubs posed no threat to the Turnest light cavalry, and only the archers' steady advantage with their bows made the Turnest light cavalry fearful, but the light cavalry had an idea of the northerners' formation as soon as they ran through, and then they gathered together and charged in turn towards a corner that the archers lacked.

Wave after wave of arrows rained down on the infantry, who had no foot archers to cover, and they roared in vain, and several javelins were thrown, which did nothing but vent their anger.

To rush out is to die, to stay where you are is to wait for death, and in this case, even the Roman heavy infantry regiment, known for its discipline, would collapse, and the northerners were no exception.

"It's time!" After another round of firing, fifty heavy cavalry drove forward.

They were all cavalrymen armed to the teeth, not only men, but also horses were covered with armor - from danglu to chest armor, the entire front half of the horse was protected by a layer of smooth steel armor, and a slightly worse weapon would be bounced off when it hit this armor, and the rest of the place was a gorgeous horse coat like a long skirt that dragged the floor, which not only ran beautifully, but also had a little protective effect, and could also make the enemy unable to see the position of the horse's legs - a well-trained war horse was very agile, like a matador's mount, Even tossing and turning in place without being stabbed by the horns of an angry bull, no worse than a matador, and with this horse coat covering, it is by no means easy to "cut off the horse's legs".

Their spears, armed with horsepower, slammed into the enemy's ranks.

After breaking through the enemy's line with a spear, it is time to break through the armor at close range with a sword, a heavy hammer, etc.

The hussars did not retreat from the battlefield, they used lases and sabers against the fleeing enemy.

Without even using infantry, the enemy was defeated. (To be continued......)

PS: When is the background convulsion off......