The Heavy Armored Cavalry were not exclusive to Chongshan Town; Beiyuan Town had its own Heavy Armored Cavalry as well, only Beiyuan Town currently had just two thousand of them.
But Song Dashan regarded these two thousand Heavy Armored Cavalry as his trump card. Now that he had sent them out, he wanted to settle the victory of this battle as quickly as possible.
In a field battle between two armies, the greatest fear was getting bogged down, because once they became entangled, both sides would pay grievous casualties.
The best course was to raise the soldiers' morale at the very start of the battle and shock the enemy, creating a brief suppression. With one side rising as the other fell, they could then seize the advantage.
The moment the two thousand Heavy Armored Cavalry appeared, they brought agonizing casualties to the Ongud Tribe's army.
These iron cans were best suited to a broad field battlefield like the one in front of them.
Their warhorses advanced in short, choppy steps, not fast at all, unable even to catch up to the Ongud Tribe's Hu Cavalry. Yet those Ongud Tribe Hu Cavalry had no choice but to charge over and intercept them.
Because once the enemy allowed them to charge and kill freely, these two thousand Heavy Armored Cavalry could break through the enemy's central army formation.
Most Hu Cavalry were light cavalry. Their armor was mainly leather armor, and very few wore full suits of iron armor; there were not enough to form proper units.
And the outcome when light cavalry ran into Heavy Armored Cavalry could be imagined—it was like an egg striking a stone.
Although they stopped the charge of the Heavy Armored Cavalry, they paid incomparably devastating casualties for it.
In just the instant of collision, over