Lu Yue looked at the battlefield, "After ordering Xiao Heda to lead 500 armored cavalry and light cavalry to surround the Polish army, let Zhang Zigai lead 1,000 cavalry to aid Yelu Zonglei." But in this short period of time, Yelu Zongdian had already packed up all the Polish light cavalry, leaving a battalion of men and horses to guard and escort the prisoners back, and the other four battalions of cavalry rushed to the infantry in the Polish front.

But Jeruzonray fell into the middle of the Poles.

Although the military literacy of European armies in this period was far inferior to that of Lu Qi, this does not mean that they were a rabble with loose discipline from top to bottom.

When the Europeans charged with cavalry, they also had arrays. It is completely different from the light cavalry, even if the array does not look so tight, but the array that is not strict is still an array, isn't it?

The stepped charge was a common method used by European knights when attacking.

And the number of knights who make up the 'ladder' is not much, from as few as twenty or thirty people, to a maximum of fifty or sixty people, unless it is in the ranks of a large knight country, you can rarely see a 'ladder' with a scale of 100 people.

This is not because there are few knights, but because their military coordination is not tacit.

The stepped charge is the cavalry group attack under the guidance of the banners of the big and small nobles. In order to maximize their strength, the cavalry needs to be grouped in a solid line, with a short lateral distance between each other, and close to each other. And then straight ahead like a wall!

The knights charged with their guns in hand, trotting forward at the beginning and charging only at the last moment, in case the horses were tired or the formation was out of shape. The mounted spear is initially raised vertically, and is only lowered when approaching the enemy, in the hope of hitting the enemy or his shield head-on, and the mounted spear is to be grasped and held under the arm.

The latter is very long, generally 9 to 14 feet in length, that is, three to four meters. Just look at the shape is very similar to the Chinese horse lance, but in fact it is completely different. The horse lance is so durable, but the Western-style riding gun is a consumable. The handle of the gun is mostly made of brittle wood such as birch. If you charge a wave, you will break the handle of the gun if you stab someone (otherwise the hand of the cavalry will be broken).

Therefore, it is not for nothing that the historical wall cavalry [modern cavalry] was born in the European world. But because of the lack of tacit understanding and unfamiliar cooperation between each other, the "wall" of the Poles is really far worse than the "wall" of the Lu Qi army.

The Polish knights in front of them, a column of ten people seemed to have reached their limit.

Therefore, the elite cavalry led by Henrik is actually a hard little stone, and the Yeluzong Thunder Department is a big hammer, at first it can easily smash one small stone after another, but the Polish population is larger, at least more than the Yeluzong Thunder Department, and the strength is not strong, so it can only be embarrassing.

Lu Yue now let his deputy commander of the forbidden army, Zhang Zigai, lead a thousand horsemen to aid Yelu Zonglei. This Zhang Zigai is the same as Cheng Min and Wang Sheng beside Lu Chuan, he was the general in Lu Yuewei's protector army before he took up the country, and he was also a very fierce person.

The extremely short battle spacing gave Zhang Zigai's army a lot of convenience, almost Lu Yue's side had just given the order, and with a few blinks of his eyes, Zhang Zigai had already led the horse army to rush into the Polish cavalry.

Just at this moment, Zhang Zigai's army was like a sharp arrow into the formation of the Polish cavalry. Naturally, Henrik also discovered the reinforcements of the coalition forces and sent a team to block them.

But in front of Zhang Zigai's army was a main cavalry battalion that lined up a wall-like front and broke in as a whole. The elite Polish cavalry that came to block was invincible.

Although the elite cavalry of the coalition also paid the price in blood. In an instant, almost half of the entire 100 armored horsemen in the front row were knocked out! But this was clearly more devastating to the Poles.

The five rows of armored cavalry in front advanced like a wall, and followed by five hundred armored cavalry behind to take advantage of the fire to rob, and Henrik felt that the situation was different again in just an instant.

His face turned pale.

"How is that possible? How is this possible? ”

He couldn't figure it out, how could such a strong and mighty knight be annihilated by the Chinese all of a sudden?

When Zhang Zigai led a thousand armored cavalry into the battle formation, the situation had completely changed. The combination of the two armies of Yelu Zonglei and Zhang Zigai is two thousand armored cavalry, which is naturally inferior to the Polish knights, but don't forget the gap in combat effectiveness between the two sides.

In this kind of frontal battle, even if the two thousand armored cavalry could not tear apart the Polish knights, they could not be easily defeated by the Poles. It can be said that when the follow-up Zhang Zigai's army entered, in the short term, a short-term stalemate was formed on the battlefield. Neither army could defeat the opponent at once.

The only thing that is sad is that the two sides of the battle there are half of the elite of the Poles on one side, and only part of the strength of Lu Yue on the other side.

Jerod Zong telegraphed the light cavalry and continued to charge towards the Polish infantry.

Władysław's face was heavy when he looked at the rear, and he certainly understood the Chinese's intentions. Entangled the main cavalry with elite cavalry, and then used the archers to break up the weak conscripted infantry, and then the army attacked, and if you want to defeat Poland, is it not easy to capture?

In particular, the Chinese sent a cavalry around the rear of the Polish army early, isn't this preparing for the closing?

"Tell the front army, hold the front, you must hold the front!" Władysław screamed nervously.

You must know that the few armored infantry of the Poles are all after a large number of unarmored conscripts, if those farmers herd their sheep and rout backwards, the armored infantry will be blocked even if they come forward. It's a pity that at this time, it is impossible to let the armored infantry come forward, and then withdraw a part of the unarmored levies.

Changing formations in the formation is to abolish martial arts. Won't the levies immediately turn from retreat to rout?

Now, Władysław can only rely on the few rows of crossbowmen in the former army.

Crossbowmen are a very lethal type of troops, and a large number of crossbowmen are formed in formation, which is definitely the nemesis of cavalry troops.

The Khitans did not rush the soldiers of the Zhao and Song dynasties, and the power of the crossbowmen could be seen.

However, what was the scale of the crossbows of the Zhao and Song armies? How many crossbowmen are there in Poland at the moment?

Several rows of crossbow arrows fell into the charging light cavalry, and even Yelu Zongdian, who was in the lead, was shot in the shoulder with an arrow, and it was not impossible that he was wearing plate armor, and it was not impossible for this arrow to shoot him straight off his horse.

The impact of the crossbow caused him to shake his body on the horse's back a few times, but with the help of the stirrups, he finally stabilized.

And when the crossbow bolts had been killed, when the distance reached a hundred paces, the light horsemen bent their bows and arrows, and a puff of arrows rained down on the heads of the crossbowmen in the forefront.

Rows of cavalry turned their horses' heads at a distance of thirty or fifty paces from the formation, like a stream of water that had been separated, without the slightest stiffness, and completed the transformation of the formation.

If the Polish front army had hidden an iron cavalry, and rushed out at this time, it would definitely be able to kill Yelu Zongdian by surprise.

Rows of arrows rained down in dense rows, not only knocking the crossbowmen away, but also a large number of Polish unarmored infantry who followed. Władysław had already given the order for the former army to attack the conscripts, but it was purely for them to die.

The large number of conscripts collapsed. They had forgotten the God who had given them great encouragement before the war, and their lords had forgotten about it, and running for their lives had become the only thing in their hearts.

Bolesław was also ordered to lead his knights at this time to attack the already disorganized rabble of the Polish front army. Rain of arrows + iron cavalry charge, what can the unarmored conscripts do except flee for their lives in defeat?

Within a radius of several miles, between the mountains of corpses and the sea of blood, the Polish army was already in chaos.

The armored infantry behind the unarmored infantry intercepted the defeated infantry like crazy. They just take the initiative to send them to death, and they can consume the enemy's energy and arrows to a certain extent, and there is horsepower, isn't it?

Even if their death has only a faint effect, it should be done. But the crowd of the rout eventually broke the armoured infantry's barricades, not only breaking the 'dike', but also cutting the latter......

At the same time, in front of the two armies, when countless people were running in the vast wilderness like scattered birds, desperately fleeing for their lives, some people chose to kneel.

One by one, one by one, one by one.

The first shouts of killing gradually stopped, and they saved their humble lives, but it was really difficult to stand up again when they knelt down.

Perhaps, the Polish peasants at this time did not care whether they could stand up or not......