After the Ming Army Cavalry and the Jiannu Cavalry dashed onto the battlefield, they did not engage in close-quarters combat, but instead halted simultaneously just outside the range of the matchlock bird guns.
Both sides feared the other might have matchlock bird gun cavalry in formation.
Matchlock bird gun cavalry had been recorded as early as the early Ming dynasty, when they were called horse-divine gunners. However, the range and performance of the fire-matchlocks used by the cavalry back then were incomparable to the matchlock bird guns of the mid-to-late Ming dynasty.
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