046 Fully armed
Under the rigid tactics of musketeers, more than half of the Polish light cavalry in the front team were killed on the spot by the senior musketeers of the Taiping Army, who were less than their own in a volley, and completely lost the ability to continue fighting.
But the losses of the Polish light cavalry were not in vain, after the Polish light cavalry charge and volley at close range, the firing queue of the senior musketeers of the Taiping Army, a total of four hundred people in front and behind, has obvious defects, although the senior musketeers of the Taiping Army did not retreat in the slightest, but the Taiping soldiers who were shot could never get up and continue the fight......
"Long live Greater Poland!!
"Long live !!"
The Polish hussars, led by the Polish nobles, held their mounted spears with magnificent morale and rushed to the senior musketeers of the Taiping Army who were busy reorganizing their ranks to replenish the gap while loading their arquebuses.
Due to the consumption of the Polish hussars before, before the Polish hussars rushed up, the senior musketeers of the Taiping Army only fired a salvo, mainly because the arquebuses of the pit father were too complicated to load, which led to the second echelon of Polish hussars rushing up, and many of the senior musketeers of the Taiping Army who fired after shooting did not have time to reload!
However, in the face of the bright long-pole cavalry spears of the Polish hussars, the senior musketeers of the Taiping Army were not afraid, and the Taiping Army commander led by him drew his war knife and shouted hysterically: "Change the big sword, kill the white demon!" Heaven Heaven! โ
"Kill the White Demon! Heavenly !! โ
The senior musketeer of the Taiping Army threw the arquebus in his hand, skillfully drew his long-handled Han-style broadsword from behind, and shouted that it collided with the Polish hussars who came in like a whirlwind, and then ......
And then there is no more......
The Polish hussars were superior to the senior musketeers of the Taiping Army, who were only four hundred-man troops, in terms of armor, weapons and numbers, not to mention that they also had the advantage of the charging speed of cavalry horses!
You know, it is not easy for infantry to attack the cavalry moving at high speed, but the cavalry moving at high speed wants to kill the infantry who is walking slowly, but it is very easy, and the charging kinetic energy carried does not even require the cavalry to spend much effort to kill.
Such is the great advantage of cavalry over infantry!
Moreover, the charging formation of the Polish hussars was not the traditional 'swarm of bees' common in this era, but the standard cavalry horizontal wall charging formation, and the unscrupulous wall charging formation of the modern European cavalry was actually absorbed from the Polish hussars.
At the peak of the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom, the Polish hussars used this set of advanced cavalry wall to charge into battle, and beat the Muscovite aristocratic cavalry, Tatar elite iron cavalry, and the Ottoman Turkish army to lose their armor and become famous.
Even in the later invasion of the Kingdom of Sweden, the Swedish army, which had entered the era of line formation, was afraid of the wall charge of the Polish hussars.
The decline of the Polish hussars was only due to the backwardness of its military system, and the requirements for the cavalry of the Polish hussars were too high, and only the children of the Polish and Lithuanian military nobles who had learned martial arts since childhood and had high-quality cavalry combat effectiveness could fill the position.
The training cycle of Polish hussars was often more than ten years, and it was completely monopolized by the Polish military aristocracy, of course, losing a group and a small number of ......
However, the Polish hussars were also the most elite cavalry units at that time, and the modern cavalry of Western European countries, which had also trained the wall charge, were often defeated in the face of the wall charge of the Polish hussars, under the same number of people......
Modern cavalry training in Western Europe, while improving the speed and efficiency of training, also saved a lot of individual cavalry combat effectiveness, they learned the formation of Polish hussars, but could not learn their horse combat skills of small training.
Such a Polish hussar, which can be called the pinnacle of the entire European continent, charged at close range against the small number of senior musketeers of the Taiping Army, and the result can be imagined, the fanatical morale of the senior musketeers of the Taiping Army only made the Polish hussars pay some more casualties, and then none of them were slaughtered!
Of course, the sacrifice of the senior musketeers of the Taiping Army of the four centurians was not meaningless, and the supreme commander of the Polish hussars, Samuel Vaลกc, never expected that a mere few hundred infantry would drag his own Polish hussars for so long.
When the Polish hussars slaughtered the veteran musketeers of the Taiping Army, a line of senior musketeers of the Taiping Army was once again listed in front.
The Polish light cavalry lost more than half of the battle, and was no longer able to fight, and the Polish infantry on both flanks suffered heavy losses in the fire with the senior musketeers of the Taiping Army, not to mention the attack, and the ability to hold the line was thanks to the Polish hussars who attracted the main force of the Taiping Army.
Samuel Wasch looked at the conspicuous 16-lift recliner sedan chair, and gave the order to charge again with a fierce face, aiming at the sedan chair in the center of the Taiping Army!
Samuel Wasch had already received information that the leader of this fanatical Tatar bandit, greedy for pleasure, had built himself a special 16-man chaise longue to facilitate the march, and Samuel Wasch had just been impressed by the desperate interception of the Taiping soldiers.
Samuel Vasch had a vague feeling that if the Tatar leader was not killed, the Tatar bandits would probably fight to the last man!
This is clearly unacceptable to Samuel Vasch.
Naturally, the best way to do this is to kill the spiritual leader of this fanatical Tatar bandit army and break their will to fight to the death!
"Charge with me!"
Under the leadership of Samuel Waszc, the Polish hussars took another step and rushed towards the Taiping army that had just assembled, and the Polish hussars on the other side saw the movements of Samuel Waszc's team, and continued to sprint.
This time, Hong Tiancheng even sent out his own personal guards, leaving only one senior musketeer of the Taiping Army on each flank to shoot at the Polish infantry, and the remaining 9 hundred-man teams were all divided into two parts to block the Polish hussars who rushed over!
Naturally, these nine hundred-man teams were not piled together, but established two lines of defense, one by the side of the real Hong Tiancheng, and the other in front.
The battle in the front and rear directions began almost at the same time, and the Polish hussars either threw away or broke under the spurs in the previous charge, and at this time the weapons in their hands were basically only sabers.
However, just as the Polish hussars were within effective range of the Taipings' veteran musketeers, each of the Polish hussars pulled out their flintlock pistols from their holsters and aimed them at the Taipings!
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