Second Blood

Poul Anderson, The High Crusade, CHAPTER VI.

Sir Roger:

makes the ship hover above the fortress of Ganturath on the planet Tharixan;
burns down approaching aircraft;
lands lengthwise, crushing half the fortress;
leads a cavalry charge into the Wersgorix exiting the uncrushed part of the fortress;
kills three at once with his lance;
fights with his sword when the lance is broken;
leads men who use "...handguns from the ship..." (p. 42) as well as conventional weapons but who also engage the enemy so closely that axes, daggers and staffs are more effective than guns;
leads a second cavalry charge against the outlying fort holding the upward-pointing laser cannons;
defeats the defending Wersgorix, who are no longer familiar with ground combat;
leads a further charge of armored cavalrymen on galloping horses that topples a small spaceship before it can take off to attack from above;
makes it impossible for patrol boats flying overhead to shoot downward without killing their own people.

Attacking a detachment of longbowmen, the patrol boats and their pilots are riddled with arrows and crash. The toppled spaceship fires lasers but the bowmen, using a fallen steel beam as a battering ram, break open the portal and kill the crew. The speedy attack has destroyed the far-speakers and the nearest estates are not close by so it will be a while before the escaped Wersgorix can summon reinforcements. Few Englishmen have been killed and none are seriously wounded because the heat beams either kill or miss.