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You may be riding out to fight these knights, but it's no reason to be suicidal. You'll not run headfirst into their lances as a fool. With a few signals of your signaling banners, your hussars receive the message; they are to attack the knights from behind. They pick up their pace and rattle their sabers; soon they are at the heels of the heavy horsemen, their light lances flying out to meet their backs! Outsped, thave no choice but to stop their charge lest they be torn apart by the mob of hussars that greatly outnumbers them.
It is when this happens that you strike! Though you have attempted to avoid personal combat in this war, you find that the motion comes off as almost automatic, lowering your visor and couching your lance under your arms as your small force crashes into the exposed side of the knights. For once in the battle, the knights find their match when it comes to equipment. In but a few minutes more, the seemingly unstoppable formation of the knights seem to crumble; though they do not yet yield, headstrong and proud as nobles often are.
You pull back from the heat of the battle to see the developing scenario at your right, and it seems the situation had not gotten much better. Your skirmisher at the far right continues to fire off at the pikes with little effect, and the greatswords of the enemy left finally reach the line; your injured company, despite their attempts, was unable to stop their charge, and their long blades soon fall upon the pikes, methodically chopping them as they slowly clear their way into the formation, slaughtering the then defenseless pikemen before being pushed back as another line of the formation began to throw them back.
Their compatriot company, however, does not fare so well. Already weakened by your skirmishers and your culverins before, a combined volley from your third company is all it takes to break their charge, cutting their numbers to a few straggling survivors far too few in number to even count as an unit.
