The left and right wings also seized the chance to advance diagonally toward the center at a brisk pace.
Even as they advanced quickly, they maintained their formation.
That was the benefit of regular training.
Although the Soldiers were still afraid, the Officers' clubs forced them onward by instinct.
"Switch to heavy arrows!"
The White Armor soldiers swiftly replaced their arrows with heavy ones and hurriedly fired another volley.
At once, men and horses went down in chaos.
The 150-man squad at the front center, facing the enemy head-on, had more than sixty men killed. Combined with their earlier losses, this far exceeded what they could bear. They collapsed outright and turned to flee.
At that moment, the four squads on the left and right wings had entered firing range.
They fired again.
Three more White Armor soldiers fell.
They had all been unlucky enough to be hit in the head.
More than fifty ordinary bannermen also went down.
Just as the two sides were about to complete their encirclement, the White Armor soldiers held on while the seventy cavalrymen moved forward, attempting to scatter the squads on both flanks and extract them.
The cavalry had not charged the formation directly before. They had been preparing to cover the retreat.
Forced by the cavalry charge, the infantry squads on both sides had to halt their encirclement.
Instead, they prepared to countercharge.
The cavalry swiftly loosed light arrows in high arcs from their mounted bows, then turned away.
Naturally, they also took a volley of musket fire and suffered heavy losses.
The cavalry unit began fleeing rapidly. After extracting part of the infantry, they realized that their opponents' muskets were simply far too difficult to handle.
They were completely unlike those beggar Ming Army soldiers who threw away their guns and