The same tactics would work an hour or so later when the imperial cavalry charged the Swedish left flank.
The very first charge of the imperial cavalry shattered them.
Within half an hour, the powerful imperial cavalry had driven the entire Saxon army into headlong retreat.
The imperial cavalry began curving in upon it.
Now, on the opposite flank, the imperial cavalry failed the lesson for the eighth time.
The imperial heavy cavalry had already broken against that Baltic rock.
They were the advance scouts for the oncoming imperial cavalry, send ahead to study the approaches.
There, in the uninhabited hills between the town, the school and the power plant, the imperial cavalry had been able to move unseen.
Within a minute, leaving hundreds of dead and wounded behind, the imperial cavalry was in full rout.
The whole formation broke into a canter at almost the same instant as the imperial cavalry.