162 Under the Iron Hoof and Courage
The most lethal are those spear cavalry composed of the children of the small and medium-sized nobles and knights of Lithuania, these cavalry may not have high-quality knight plate armor, but each can master the skill of the spear on the horse, the cavalry charge in the battle, the cavalry holding the cavalry spear is undoubtedly the most terrifying, there is no one!
Looking in the direction of Hong Tiancheng, the moment the Taiping infantry gun array collided with the Lithuanian cavalry, the entire frontal battlefield was like the scene of a science fiction blockbuster, and the body of the heavy Taiping soldiers wearing iron armor actually flew up with their feet off the ground, knocking the companions behind them to the ground, and the size of the war horse and the inertia momentum formed by acceleration made the stationary infantry wall a ridiculous puppet.
This is the reason why the cavalry frontal charge can also cause a lot of battle damage to the infantry spear array, not only the piercing of the cavalry spear, but also the huge potential energy carried by the huge size of the war horse, which will allow the infantry with the spear piercing into the horse's body to smoothly take over the potential energy of the horse charge, and then turn into a 'corpse superman' that takes off.
There are no fancy, just real frontal impacts, a bit like the scene of a car accident in the 21st century, in fact, the momentum of the charging war horse is not weaker than that of a car at the speed of a normal situation.
It is conceivable what kind of tragedy such a group of high-headed horses will cause when they crash into the human body......
Of course, the Lithuanian cavalry can so solidly crash into the infantry array of the Taiping Army, and the Lithuanian cavalry used a black cloth to cover the eyes of the war horse also has a great relationship, even if the war horse has been trained in guns, at most it will not be afraid of the sound of guns, but the survival instinct of the war horse will avoid itself when approaching the sharp spear, and the cavalry who wants to maximize the 'mutual harm' can only cover the eyes of the war horse with a black cloth, and the war horse cannot see, so it will naturally not be afraid of the layers of guns.
The battlefield where the Lithuanian cavalry collided head-on with the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army was in shambles, and in just a few minutes, thousands of soldiers were killed and thousands of wounded soldiers were born......
The Lithuanian cavalry, who had risen from the side of the fallen horse, looked like a madman, chanting the slang of his hometown that the Taiping soldiers could not understand, and pulled out the weapons he carried with them and slashed at the Taiping soldiers who were also knocked to pieces.
At this time, the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army, who had barely curbed the momentum of the Lithuanian cavalry, most of the soldiers pulled out their swords, and the excellent iron armor on their bodies provided good protection for these Taiping soldiers, and they did not intimidate themselves in hand-to-hand combat!
However, the momentum of the first wave of Lithuanian cavalry was contained, and even more than half of the Lithuanian cavalry's horses became a corpse, and the Lithuanian cavalry carried out the traditional wave progressive charge, and soon after the first batch of Lithuanian cavalry charges were stopped, the second round of charging Lithuanian cavalry crashed in again, they simply avoided the 'friendly army' who did not wear the iron armor of the Taiping Army, and accidental injuries were definitely unavoidable, but the damage to the Taiping Army's military formation was undoubtedly stronger!
The Taiping infantry formation, which was chaotic in the first wave of Lithuanian cavalry charges, was like a bowling ball that was scattered in the shock wave of the second round of Lithuanian cavalry, and it was no longer able to maintain the integrity of the infantry phalanx.
According to normal traditional warfare, the infantry group is not far from collapsing at this moment, and how can the infantry, which has lost the support of the phalanx, have the courage to continue to resist in the face of the cavalry troops rushing on horseback?
It's a pity that the trend of the war is destined to disappoint the Lithuanian noble generals who are full of expectations, and there is no living elite musketeer of the Taiping Army on the whole battlefield to take a step back, they take five people and a team as the smallest combat unit, forming a small group of battles, frantically entangled with the fallen Lithuanian cavalry, fighting with swords, broken spears, blunt hammers and even teeth and fists, the Lithuanian aristocratic coalition is not a rookie newcomer who has not been on the battlefield, and the big guys know a truth, If you don't kill the enemy on the battlefield, you will be killed by the enemy!
No one dares to guarantee that the moment they surrender on their knees, the red-eyed enemy soldier will end his life with a knife, so the only thing everyone can do is to fight and fight, until the moment when they can't lift their swords, they will helplessly lay down their weapons and wait for God's fate.
It's just that the Lithuanians who took out their family background can be regarded as fighting their best in this war, on the battlefield of the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army who fell into chaos in the second wave of Lithuanian cavalry charge, the third and last wave of Lithuanian cavalry rushed as scheduled, and the number of Lithuanian cavalry in this wave of charging was not much, only less than a thousand, but all of them were fully armored Lithuanian hussars!
They raged through the Taiping infantry that had lost the protection of the phalanx, taking with them a corpse and blood, and for the first time broke through the chaotic battlefield that stretched for miles.
However, what awaited these Lithuanian hussars was not the weak Taiping artillery positions, let alone the unsuspecting Hong Tiancheng personal guard battalion, but the remaining elite musketeers of the Taiping Army lined up with guns in the second echelon!
In this battle, the Lithuanians' tactics were actually very correct, seizing the shortcomings of the weak cavalry of the Taiping Army, and using continuous and powerful cavalry to break through the main battle line of the Taiping Army, not giving the Taiping Army a chance to exert its superior firepower, but the Lithuanian generals had to ignore a fatal problem - the Taiping Army had more troops than the Lithuanian aristocratic coalition army!
Therefore, even though the main battle line of the Taiping army stretched for several miles, much more than the Lithuanian cavalry that charged, Hong Tiancheng still had enough reservists to form a second echelon that was not thick but neat and deadly.
Nearly 1,000 Lithuanian hussars who broke through the main infantry battle line of the Taiping Army crashed headlong into the elite musketeer reserve of the Taiping Army that was lined up, and then, a three-stage salvo sounded on the battlefield, and less than 1,000 Lithuanian hussars were swept by lead bullets in just five minutes, just like the Manchu iron cavalry charging towards the British and French forces in the Battle of Bali Bridge in history, and they were killed and wounded without even touching the enemy's edge!
Due to the obstruction of the field of vision on the battlefield, the Lithuanian noble commanders did not see the fate of the Lithuanian hussars who broke through the main force of the Taiping Army, they just followed the normal campaign steps, when the Taiping Army was broken through and infiltrated, launched a general attack, and the follow-up Lithuanian noble coalition infantry rushed into the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army who were being divided and surrounded like a tsunami, and the victory seemed to be not far from the Lithuanian noble coalition army.