The situation on the battlefield started to become chaotic.
For most cavalry commanders, once they ordered their cavalry to charge, the remaining matters had little to do with them.
Because on this chaotic battlefield, the armored cavalry with limited view simply could not always observe the military banners in the hands of the standard bearers.
Many knights of the Knight Order, holding lances tied with square banners and swallowtail banners, realized only after charging out of the battlefield and finding the view suddenly open up that they had already passed by the Saracen cavalry.
The square banner and swallowtail banner are symbols used by the Gaul knights to distinguish between official knights and attendants, thus there is the knighting ceremony known as "cutting off the swallowtail."
However, for the Germanic knights, there were no such formalities.
