Don't use them if you can help it, but trust to your swords.

Cut your way through that crowd.

Ride in at the gate, and dismount at the door leading up to the turret.

Then do you, Macpherson and Hunter, cover our rear while we fight our way up the steps.

Follow us as we go, and if you want aid, shout and we will come down to you." On hearing the sound of the galloping hoofs the peasants for a moment made a movement of retreat, but when they saw that the six horsemen were alone, they began to gather courage, and again waved their arms, which were mostly axes, or poles to which scythes or billhooks were attached.
Riding three abreast, the horsemen burst in among them, hewing and hacking with their swords; and the crowd, unable to resist the impetus of the charge, opened a way for them, and in a moment they had passed through the gate.