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You had hesitated earlier, but no more; whatever the sacrifices, their mortarfire must stop! As the brawl between the companies of horse continue, half of your hussars pull back, their lack of armor allowing them to easily outmaneuver the well protected yet heavier horses of the Knights, and because you outnumber them, they have little way to pull through without endangering being utterly surrounded by the light horsemen and meeting their end from a hundred blows, a fate of which even their plate armor could not save them from.
With them out of the fight, they turn towards the company of mortar; when the masters of artillery realize this, they try uselessly to take up arms to fend them off long enough for aid from the knights to arrive, but it is not enough to save them. The hussars ride them down, horses streaming amidst the mortars as their curves words cut down the panicking gunners, reducing in mere minutes the numbers of the company to ashess. Though the mortars themselves remain intact, their crews have been slaughtered, and their cannisters are silenced; you have succesfully defeated the hostile mortars. With the mortars silenced, you are finally able to cross the Kuften without fear, allowing you more quickly give out orders. You cannot help but think, however: If only you had taken less time...
Nonetheless, this victory does not come without price, and the knights tear through the number of your hussars who had stayed behind, reducing them to over half of their initial numbers. What can you do now that the mortars are silenced, however? Though they still outnumber them, your hussars have shown little skill in being able to take down the knights; should they continue their efforts? If you retreat, the Knights would very well be free to charge down your infantry.
Though your battlelines form, and shall soon enter arquebus range, proper combat has not yet begun, so you have some free time.
