Wagon fort the square would usually be the cavalry. There were two principal stages of the battle using the wagon fort: defensive and counterattack. The defensive part would be a pounding of the enemy with artillery. The Hussite artillery was a primitive form of a howitzer, called in Czech a "houfnice", from which the English word howitzer comes. Also, they called their guns the Czech word "píšťala" (hand cannon), meaning that they were shaped like a pipe or a fife, from which the English word pistol is possibly derived. When the enemy would come close to the wagon fort, crossbowmen and hand-gunners
Czech word order Speakers choose the word order according to the communication aim and the emotional state. That principle is called functional sentence perspective. Basic word order is SVO (subject – verb – object) in Czech sentences. It is used in neutral messages: Definite and indefinite articles are not used in Czech. A sentence usually begins with facts, already known from a preceding sentence or context (theme). New and important facts (rheme) are usually placed in the final position: The new facts can be emphasized by their initial place in emotive messages: The subject may be omitted in a Czech sentence if it