With a bang, a flying cannonball happened to hit the advancing siege tower, and the main frame of the tower was suddenly smashed out of a hole, and the fracture of the main wooden stake caused the entire tower to collapse with the splash of wood chips, smashing dozens of Polish slaves pushed below into meat sauce!

Lutsk is also an important city in the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, nearly ten meters high city walls, arrow towers, battlements, firing ports, etc., there are also several forts built on it, and there are old bronze cannons built in the 16th century, these cannons are very cumbersome and large, and they are fixed artillery specially used to defend the city, although the frequency and accuracy of bombardment are very low, but as long as they are hit, no matter what siege equipment basically has to be played.

The reason why the advancing Polish slaves and Taiping disciples had a nervous breakdown and fled even though they knew that there was a warlord behind them was because of the deterrent power of these artillery.

The tall siege towers shattered with a single blow, which made many Polish cannon fodder directly frightened and lost their minds!

After all, they are just ordinary civilians who have not experienced a real battlefield, and their will to fight is far worse than that of the regular army.

However, the Polish cannon fodder who turned and fled happened to face the muzzle of the Swedish musket mercenaries behind, and after a round of fire, the dead Polish cannon fodder was more than the fire cannon in Lutsk City, and the muzzle of white smoke in front poured cold water on the heads of the Polish cannon fodder who fled and did not escape......

Many thoughtful Polish cannon fodder subconsciously looked at the Lithuanian Tatar cavalry archers cruising on the periphery of the battlefield, and had to grit their teeth and continue to insist on moving forward, even if they dodged the muzzle, don't want to flee the battlefield under the pursuit of the cavalry!

These Poles had already seen the ruthless methods of the Taipings, and had no doubt that they would face the consequences of betraying the Taipings, and if they were regarded as deserters by the Taipings, not only would they be summarily executed, but their families would also become part of the mass grave after the war!

There has never been benevolence and righteousness on the battlefield, and all propaganda slogans are just bait to lure more ignorant young people who do not know the cruelty of the battlefield, because there is no turning back on the battlefield, no matter how glamorous and democratic the country is, the punishment for deserters is zero tolerance!

The phenomenon of desertion is a battlefield plague, not that the national government is too cold-blooded, but that they do not allow this plague to spread and lead to the defeat of the war.

"Don't go back, go back where you need to go!" The Polish interpreter of the Swedish musket mercenaries shouted at the hesitant Polish cannon fodder, urging them to move forward, while the Swedish musket mercenaries, who had finished loading their ammunition, turned their guns on the group again.

Obviously, the muzzle of the gun is more binding than the pale language, and many Poles did not hear the words of the Polish translation at all in the noisy battlefield environment, but after seeing the muzzle of the black hole pointed at them, they did not hesitate to stop the pace of escape, and turned around and came back to the various siege equipment as coolies to die.

Boom Boom Boom ......

Lutsk's artillery continued to shoot solid projectiles, even if it failed to hit those huge siege equipment, it would cut out a path of flesh and blood in the crowd, and in front of it were thousands of Polish cannon fodder pushing hundreds of large siege equipment, and the lethality of no more than 10 old bronze guns in the head of Lutsk was a drop in the bucket......

The purpose of artillery is more to deter and demoralize the enemy, and it is never the artillery that really kills, but the various long-range shooting weapons at the head of the city!

After the Polish cannon fodder pushed the siege equipment into 100 meters, a large number of arrows and lead bullets were immediately fired from the city.

The militia at the head of the city of Lutsk brought up all the far more weapons, crossbows, bows and arrows, arquebuses, carrying guns, etc., as long as they could be used, they were all pulled up, and the unification of armaments or something did not exist in this era, especially for the militia!

The fire attack that broke out on the head of the city of Lutsk ushered in the first large-scale 'street fighting' disaster for the Polish cannon fodder, and every minute and second there were Polish cannon fodder falling on the way to push siege equipment, and under the forced gaze of the Swedish musket mercenaries, the Polish cannon fodder who lost his brain and turned around and ran backwards again, whining and screaming hometown slang in his mouth while running......

In the extreme environment of life and death, the brain is easy to go to one extreme, and the manifestation of going to the extreme is ...... Become psychotic!

Oh yes, in the 17th century it was generally called an idiot or a madman.

The head of the city of Lutsk seems to have a very sufficient garrison, but Hong Tiancheng and his generals know very well that the vast majority of the soldiers on the head of the city are militia level, because in the previous interception battle in the field, there was not even a Polish hussar in the tangled 'field troops' in Lutsk City, either third-rate mercenaries or 'regular troops' at the level of the city defense army......

The 'field troops' sent out by Lutsk City are all so 'good at fighting and brave', not to mention the remaining group of crooked melons and cracked dates in the city?

Lutsk's confidence in resolute resistance is nothing more than a nearly ten-meter-high city wall, and a perfect fort and other defense systems on it, as long as the city wall is broken, Lutsk is like a girl stripped naked in front of Hong Tiancheng, pure and flawless.

Therefore, in order to take Lutsk as soon as possible and reduce the consumption of extra grain and grass, Hong Tiancheng, after leading the army to arrive outside the city, ordered people to build hundreds of serious siege equipment in a few days, and then directly launched a general attack today!

Fighting a war is about one drum and then declining and exhausting, and there is no problem with the morale of the soldiers in the Taiping Army headquarters, but what about Polish cannon fodder?

When the Polish cannon fodder found out that their attack was no different from sending them to death, why did they still work hard for the Taipings?

The Taiping may fight for their family's farming, but what will the Polish slaves who have nothing but one life left? And what will be done?

Therefore, as soon as Hong Tiancheng came up, he staked all the siege equipment and sent all the mercenaries!

The Swedish musket mercenaries were only the first wave, followed by the Ottoman Turkish light shield soldiers who rushed up after waiting for the siege equipment to be in place, and behind were the 3,000 musketeers of the elite of the Ming army.

Hong Tiancheng is full of confidence in the morale of the army produced by the all-out war system, and the introduction of those mercenaries also said that as long as their inner desires are satisfied, their morale can also reach the MAX level, and Hong Tiancheng naturally wants to solve all the problems at once.

He just crushes his opponent with hard power!