Once the charge ended, the narrow terrain restricted the cavalry from turning around. Yang Zhengshan had no choice but to lead the riders up the gentle slope and wheel about there.
It was not that cavalry could not stop and then turn around, only that doing so would throw the formation into chaos, and the time spent reorganizing it would be no less than making a loop to change direction.
And on the battlefield, that kind of chaos could very likely give the enemy an opening to exploit.
So after a cavalry charge, if they had rushed out of the battlefield, they would usually circle around to turn back. Not only did this preserve their full speed, it also maintained a certain degree of mobility, allowing them to launch another charge at any moment, or withdraw if needed.
At this moment, Yang Zhengshan led only three hundred cavalry. With fewer men, they were more flexible, and they did not need much space to loop around and change direction.
Even so, turning around still took them several minutes. By the time they returned to the mountain hollow, they found that the enemy's remaining cavalry had already scattered in all directions, leaving only a field of wreckage behind.
This outcome left Yang Zhengshan somewhat stunned.
They broke just like that!
Although the battle just now had produced a crushing effect, in truth, they had not killed that many Hu cavalry.
This mountain path was narrow, but the slopes on both sides were not particularly steep. When many of the Hu cavalry realized something was wrong, they had already ridden up the slopes to evade them.
The corpses left behind by the Hu cavalry amounted to roughly half their number. The remaining half still had a certain amount of combat power.
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