Horse Artillery Showed Its Might Again

The Royal Guard Legion, however, maintained its orderly formation, firing rapid three-rank volleys as it steadily pressed forward.

Under this powerful assault, as efficient and precise as a machine, the infantry line the Hanover Army had barely managed to form was finally cut into three sections.

Across the kilometer-wide battlefield, every few minutes another "chunk" of Hanover soldiers ignored their officers' attempts to stop them, threw down their weapons, and turned to flee.

Soon, even the officers began fleeing with them.

The infantry line behind the Royal Guard Legion had yet to advance when it heard the beat of the war drums change. It immediately changed formation accordingly, moving around both flanks to encircle the enemy.

From afar, Mura heard the enemy's drumbeats fall into disorder, then become intermittent. Excitement immediately surged within him-that meant something had gone wrong with the enemy's defensive line.

Sure enough, the battalion commander's order arrived-the Cavalry Battalion was to form up and pursue the routed enemy.

Mura squeezed his horse's flanks hard and waved excitedly, shouting, "Gentlemen, it's our turn to take the stage!"

This was entirely unlike the scenes frequently shown in television dramas of later generations, where cavalry braved fierce enemy fire and plunged recklessly into enemy formations, slaughtering in every direction. Throughout humanity's long history of warfare, cavalry's main tasks were harassment, containment, screening, and pursuit. Expensive cavalry were only committed to a frontal assault if the enemy was confirmed to be weak chickens, or if their own side stood on the brink of defeat and had no choice but to stake everything on one desperate attempt.

That was why Mura had circled the Hanoverians several times earlier without even drawing his saber.

Now he finally had a chance to earn battle merit!

In the previous battle, he had been promoted