You order the Army against the southern Evalians. The battle commences on the high noon, with the enemy cozily positioned slightly above you on a hillside, allowing them to remain on defensive if they wish.
Part of their cavalry begins with a rush before your Thundercats even start to load, stealing the initiative from your hands!
4*
Grazing the left flank of your Army, the stampede of horses moves past your soldiers, and engages your cavalry, dangerously near the Fireblood batteries of yours. They hack and slash any that dares step before their wave of steel!
You order a countercharge against the remainder, while your footmen (of which there is a multitude), try to encircle and defeat the enemy horsemen.
4*, 6*
The countercharge and the encirclement work very well, the latter almost perfectly; the enemy cavalry at their hillside does pose some problems and some of your horsemen are blasted apart by cannon fire that looks and sounds disturbingly alike Thundercats' volleys. The bulk of Evalian cavalry however gets stuck amongst your ranks, and a furious melee ensues.
6*
Enemy numbers get lower and lower all the time, despite the fact that the cavalry manages to escape from encirclement and rides forth easternly, their numbers low. The hillside battle is quickly resolved; the Thundercats of Evalians are abandoned and what remains of their reserve horsemen flees over the hill.
Shortly after the battle, the bodycount is reported to you; about two thousand Evalians litter the ground, alongside about one thousand hundred of Methiantese soldiers (majorly the footmen who engaged the flanking cavalry of theirs). The Evalian Thundercats have been captured in few numbers, and your engineers will try to determine their make and origin.
Your officers convene with you about the next step.
A) We continue marching towards the capital.
B) We swing easternly to deal with the other Evalian troop.
C) We plop down to rest and recuperate for a day or so.