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Though you'd like to deal with the mortars, those knights too remain a threat, and thus, it shall be that you have decided to engage their knights with both of your hussars. Approaching the formation from both sides, your hussars break out into a charge, bugles blaring as they raise their swords against the plate-armored gendarmes, who in response raise their shields and lances. The two formations crash, and already the difference in equipment can be seen, many of your hussars falling to the far longer lances of the knights. Those who pierce their formation have no easier a time, their swords bouncing and twisting off the expensive plate. Yet hussars they are nonetheless, and little by little, their numbers begin to fall as your men swing at their horses and holes in the armor, falling well over a dozen knight in this first moment of conflict while suffering only double the number of deaths on your own side, a rather impressive feat given the disparity in power.
However, because of this choice, the enemy's mortars continue yet free - and you soon pay the price dearly. Yet again, the sound of thunder echoes. For a moment, you fear they may target the bridge, and you retinue drives you back as you men continue to rush across the Kuften, but in the end, their target is another. You hear the crushing sound of an impact to your left, and a far more dastardly fear comes true; your artillery has been hit, and in full! The rain of lead leaves no mercy to it's rival, and as the wind begins to pick up the cloud of dust, your hand clenches in anger at the sight.
Your culverins have been utterly destroyed.
Your failure to silence the mortars has cost you the most valuable pieces in your army.You curse yourself for making such a mistake, your liege will most certainly not be pleased by this. ***Perhaps if you drive off the enemy, you will be able to seize their mortars instead to repay for such a loss***, but for now, all you can do is attempt to finish the battle with what you have.
