The Self-Defense Army's two-thousand-man infantry formation resembled a round inkstone, evenly spread across that vast ocean of desert.
The inkstone was dotted with bright red, fluttering in the wind.
In the distance, the Desert Star heavy cavalry, regrouping, surged toward them like a silver torrent, poised to slice through billowing waves of grass.
The distance between the two sides closed rapidly.
Deputy General Wang still intended to launch a frontal assault. Heavy cavalry were made for frontal assaults, unlike other light cavalry, for whom kiting was the most effective tactic against this sort of defensive infantry formation.
Clearly, the heavy cavalry were launching another frontal assault!
As the distance approached three hundred meters, Deputy General Wang led his men swiftly into charging range as usual. The warhorses instantly broke into a charge, like a flood bursting its banks.
"Fire!"
An officer of the Self-Defense Army's Artillery Battalion gave the order, and flags began waving. The Heaven-Shaking Thunder bombs had already been loaded onto the Stone-Throwing Machines, their fuses already lit. With the firebrands in the Artillerymen's hands, the lit bombs were launched one after another, sailing over the Infantry Regiment ahead and the infantry square Jiang Hao had brought, toward the Desert Star heavy cavalry thundering toward them.
Boom, boom, boom...
More than twenty tremendous blasts erupted in succession, as though the sky had shattered. They streaked through the air with faint, shrill whistles and landed in their designated positions.
During a charge, the heavy cavalry kept only about two meters between one another, with the same distance front to back, to fully ensure the impact and compactness of their charge.
The Self-Defense Army's Heaven-Shaking Thunder bombs instantly plunged into the charging heavy cavalry.
Some swept between them, while others struck riders directly. Those hit were instantly destroyed by the