All the textbooks on the use of cavalry in the North and South Lecture Hall do not encourage cavalry as the target for charging, and only one book called "Tales of Treading the Desert" briefly mentions what cavalry generals should do in such situations.

The author of "The Story of Walking in the Desert" is Ma Fang, this book is not a military book in the traditional sense, but since the tenth year of Jiajing, Ma Fang followed Altan Khan to serve in Mobei at the age of fifteen, and Jiajing defected to Datong in the sixteenth year of Zhou Shangwen as the captain, until the summary of the battle examples of the Ming-Mongolian border war in Longqing and 31 years.

The reason why the old general compiled this military book was not to add teaching materials to the lecture hall, but because a large number of Nanyang literati wrote scripts into the hands of the students of the lecture hall, he really did not look down on those heroic story books full of literati speculation, and did not want the most outstanding young generals of the empire to read those unreal things all day long and lose their lives on the battlefield.

Unlike most opportunistic cavalry textbooks, other textbooks hedge cavalry with more hopes of 'I am not afraid of him, and one side will always be afraid', which is indeed in line with the real situation, but Ma Fang emphasizes in the battle example 'what to do if you really collide', because he really collided with my armored cavalry.

It was Datong in the 40th year of Jiajing, when Ma Fang of Xuanfu in the town came to the aid to relieve the siege, relying on the early morning and night to attack the Altan camp to win, I Ta integrated the troops and horses to retreat alternately, and personally broke off to resist Ma Fang's attack, and retreated 20 miles to regroup with the intention of revenge.

At Rabbit Ridge and Yinlong River, the cavalry of the two armies fought each other in an extremely rare way.

Ma Fang said in the book that the generals should not hope that the enemy army is not brave, and if they are brave, the temple will calculate the rest of the victory or defeat.

The meaning of this sentence is to let the cavalry generals retract their focus from the courage of the enemy and us, and instead pay attention to the weapons and armor, the morale of the soldiers, and the quality of combat skills, rather than just focusing on the blood and bravery.

You are above, there is always someone who is better than you, and the fact that the two teams of horses and armies are rushing each other is something that people who don't get up to the top can't do.

The so-called top is the belief in victory.

At this point, the Black Cloud Dragoon had it, and his enemies had more.

One hundred and seventy genuine Spanish knights, led by more than four hundred light cavalry, armed with heavy spears and hanging coats of arms, were perhaps the most powerful tactical charge, and in France and England the knights would not have charged like this, for the knights of those countries had not yet been completely squeezed out by the cheap infantry legions.

Since the Crusades brought back ancient Greek books, the retro Swiss phalanx and the Spanish phalanx changed the situation of warfare, and the infantry reform has not changed for more than a hundred years, the knights' combat thinking has not changed, but they have faced more challenges, and people's views on this class and class have been brought back to the dust.

The knights are neither invincible mortal soldiers, nor useless stupid and reckless men, they have experienced ups and downs, in the early rise of the phalanx, the knights retreated from the main force of the war to the auxiliary forces, and when the phalanx became the mainstream of the war, they became the key to determining the victory or defeat.

If this cavalry team is described in terms of an organizational structure that is easier for the Ming Dynasty people to understand, they are more like 170 hundred households each leading the general banner under their command to go into battle alone, leaving the banner army behind, turning over and facing the charge.

The knights of Spain were more challenged than any other knight class in the Old World, not only because of the rapid growth of their own infantry legions, but also because of the cunning Moors, the enemies of the long-standing war in North Africa.

Unlike the French, who adhered to the spirit of chivalry, the Spanish knights who charged at the Ming army were close to two hundred paces away, and I don't know which knight in the battle group was the first to roar, followed by everyone roaring, but the words of the brave battle cry were not so open.

They were heavy, riding horses that were taller and stronger than Chinese horses, and the hooves of the horses that stomped in the charge shook the earth, and in the earth-shattering shock, their roars could be heard throughout the battlefield.

"Spain! Santiago! Poke their horses! Poke their horses! ”

The black cloud dragon raised its long knife and galloped in the middle of the horse team's formation, the front row of the cavalry with sharp arrows all raised their spears, and the cavalry in the rear carried large axes and long knives.

None of the troops raised their favorite handcuffs at this juncture, and they all charged at the enemy in the heroic posture of ancient samurai.

The black cloud dragon shouted a war cry to the Spaniards to express his disdain with his eyes, the Beiyang cavalry was trained to charge in silence, with the accumulated momentum is not easy to leak, only at the last moment can the supreme commander chant to give military orders, and now, he is the supreme commander of the cavalry!

One hundred steps.

The banner of the banner officer in the battle formation slowly drooped, pointing the spearhead in front of the war horse, and the cavalry on both sides could see the faces of the enemy in the smoke and dust, and they carried the same astonishment - no one dispersed!

Both armies were aware of the situation almost at the same moment, and at the end of the rampage, neither officer gave any orders, but the horses of both sides were separated from each other to meet the final collision.

The galloping black cloud dragon took a deep breath, they were finally going to engage the enemy in the most stupid form, the long knife in his hand turned slightly, and the left hand holding the reins flipped and buckled the handle of the knife to the top of the tail, and at the moment when the cavalry of the two sides was about to meet in short arms, he only issued a five-word military order, shouting: "Charge and assemble!" ”

"Charge and assemble!"

Boom!

The moment the two earth dragons collided together, no one could tell which of the two sides hit the enemy first, and almost at the moment when people could not feel the flow of time, the sound of collision sounded one after another in front of the formation.

Spears exploded in the air and shattered into a cloud of sawdust.

Heavy figures flew up and fell.

Horses fell and neighed.

Then he was crushed by the galloping horses.

Almost at the moment of engagement, the spear-holding riders in front of the Ming cavalry fell off their horses, and the goal of the Spanish knights was too clear - they did not hit people, and the knights honed their skills in the competition to accurately stab the enemy's throat and used them to kill the horses.

At the same distance, the horse's head came into contact with the spear earlier than the man, which was a tactic they had summed up in the battle with the Moorish cavalry, and now, the Ming cavalry suffered the same loss as the Moorish cavalry.

The cavalry of the Ming army was not kind either, and the Spanish knights who broke through the front line still maintained enough impact to crash into the heavy horse team composed of the Ming army's battle axes, two-handed bones, and swords, and they were swept off their horses cleanly one by one.

Heavy casualties were inflicted on two equally proud and stubborn cavalry teams at the same time, and when the two sides crossed by wrong horses and the battlefield was littered with corpses of men and horses, those fallen warriors who had escaped with elite weapons and luck shook their bodies that had not been seriously injured by the armor lining to their feet, and almost simultaneously drew their weapons and slashed at the enemies of different colors.

The two cavalry armies of the East and West regrouped at the other end of the battlefield, and the Black Cloud Dragon's raised hand paused in mid-air, and he nodded slowly to the high platform with the umbrella in the distance, while casting a look of pity at the enemies who were no less heroic than himself.

Because he saw a rider with a flag on his back running dozens of steps from a high platform, waving the command flag at the artillery position, and had already aimed his artillery at his own artillery before the charge, and accurately asked General Zhenshuo to speak for him.

In the roar of the cannon, the black cloud dragon's arm fell, and shouted: "Beiyang cavalry, charge!" ”