When Leopold I found that the German musketeers had been regrouped and had been slaughtered and pursued like ducks by the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army, who were far less numerous than him, a wave of resentment suddenly erupted from his chest.

"Damn! Who sent this garbage to the battlefield?! ”

The aristocratic general who was in charge of the reorganization on the side replied in a low voice: "Your Majesty, our reserves have been exhausted, and these people are all veterans who have 'retreated' from the front line before. ”

"Veteran?" Leopold I's face turned blue and white, and after a few seconds of silence, he breathed a sigh of helplessness and accepted the fact that the German infantry regiment was demoralized by the Taiping army.

This is very understandable, from the early morning to the present, there are only the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army who have fallen on the battlefield, and not a single Taiping soldier has fled......

Sometimes Leopold I couldn't help but wonder if these Taiping soldiers could really be the devil summoned by Hong Tiancheng from hell, and Leopold I would never believe that Han people are inherently better than white people!

Now, with the rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the remarks that the Taiping Han race surpassed the white people have spread to the entire European continent, even in the countries of Western Europe, many people have heard of this remark, but relatively speaking, people in Eastern Europe are more convinced of this article.

Racial superiority is never born through debate, it is fought inch by inch of blood!

Just like the Aryan racial supremacy theory during World War II, before Hitler made his fortune and swept France, the Aryan racial superiority theory was just the self-congratulatory of a handful of racists, but when Germany took more than a month to fight the surrender of France, a continental power, this statement immediately fermented all over the world!

Communications in the 17th century were far less developed than during World War II, but the prestige that the Taiping Army had built up over the years was enough to spread throughout Europe.

Originally, the German aristocracy led by Leopold I also scoffed at the statement that the Taiping Han were superior to the white group, which was not a sign of their overconfidence, and before the war, the officers and soldiers of the entire German Confederation of the Holy Roman Empire did not believe in the theory of the superiority of the Han race.

However, now on the battlefield, those elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army who do not retreat and only know how to advance made Leopold I have an impact on his three views for the first time, fortunately, to be able to sit in the position of Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold I's city is still very deep.

Although he already felt little hope of defeating the Taiping army in his heart, his face quickly regained his calm, and he calmly ordered the surrounding noble generals: "Our infantry regiment is no longer enough to resist the attack of the main force of the Taiping army, retreat." ”

"Your Majesty, our reserve army is gone, if we retreat, it will be difficult to get rid of contact with the Taiping army, and it will be easy to be chased and killed by the Taiping army." Frederick reminded in a low voice.

"Don't we still have a thousand black-armored cavalry who haven't been on the battlefield? The black-armored cavalry claimed to be 'bulletproof', just allowing them to block the pursuit of the Taiping army. ”

When Frederick heard this, he closed his mouth sensibly, and his mind began to come alive.

The Holy Roman Emperor, on the verge of defeat, had already begun to clean up the pieces for the Habsburgs.

The Black Cavalry was not a unified combat unit, but a 'trump card unit' of symbolic significance greater than practical significance of the children of the military aristocracy of the German states.

Because behind every black-armored cavalry there is a wealthy nobleman who helps him, so that these black-armored cavalry, who are the children of nobles, have enough money to build enough luxury equipment for themselves.

For example, a full-body steel plate armor that can prevent lead bullets from firing at close range!

Bulletproof in the truest sense of the word!

In Central Europe, where the armor industry is developed, there have been many cases of black armor being shot at close range with flintlock pistols, and the soft lead bullets are firmly blocked by the heavy plate armor.

However, the cost of building this kind of black armor is extremely high, except for the children of nobles who have the financial support of a family, ordinary soldiers simply cannot afford it, and the construction of black armor is extremely time-consuming and laborious, so it is also possible to introduce steam engine power and a large number of water forgings in France and Central Europe.

The cost of arming a black-armored cavalry is enough to arm more than a dozen ordinary light cavalry, so the cost performance is very low, and more than a dozen light cavalry will obviously play a far more useful role than a black-armored cavalry.

But it is precisely because of the high cost and scarcity of the black armor cavalry that they have not been sent to the front line of the battlefield, and their greatest significance is to let the soldiers of their own troops know that there is a real bulletproof cavalry unit on their side.

This is still good for morale, and besides, the black-armored cavalry is all the children of the German aristocratic family, and if the loss is large, they will be held responsible.

Among them, there are even many legal heirs of German nobles, once they die on the battlefield, it is undoubtedly the birth of a noble inheritance dispute......

The Habsburgs, who wanted to win over the German states and integrate the Holy Roman Empire, naturally would not let the black-armored cavalry be used as cannon fodder to offend the German nobles in the rear, but now the decisive battle with the Taiping Army is about to fail, and the prestige of the Habsburg Dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire will inevitably decline significantly, and the will to unify the German states will naturally become far away.

At this time, Leopold I naturally did not care whether he would offend the German nobles behind him, if the Taiping army really overwhelmed the battle, as long as the German states were not fools, it would be impossible to start the civil war mode.

The nobles naturally knew the truth of alien invasion and internal unity that all children knew, not to mention that the founding of Hong Tiancheng's Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was fundamentally to break the original feudal aristocratic system and was born to oppose the entire European aristocratic group.

As for Leopold I's ulterior motives for using the black armored cavalry as a rear army and sending them into the tiger's mouth of the Taiping army, Frederick did not dare to think deeply, anyway, for the Prussian king, it was not entirely a bad thing that the main force of the German coalition army was left on Polish soil!

At the very least, the Brandenburg side could completely break free from Habsburg interference in their internal affairs.

Under the orders of Leopold I, groups of hoplites dressed in heavy black steel plate armor were inserted into the pursuit of the Taipings.

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