132 The soldier is the key
Different from Hong Tiancheng's combat concept, Marshal Jan Skrzetuski is well aware of the fact that the main force of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army seems to be huge and strong, but in fact it is strong from the outside, and the fact that it is capable of doing it in the middle is not that there are too many soldiers in the main force of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army, but that this coalition army comes from different territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom, and the command is basically obtained by 'negotiation'. On the orders of Grand Duke Rajvir, he refused to cooperate with the Parliament of Symm of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania.
Archduke Janusz Rajvir, driven by interests, preferred to form an alliance with the Swedes rather than be at the mercy of the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom.
At the very least, the Swedes could allow the Lithuanian nobility some autonomy over their domains, rather than trying to make Lithuania part of the Poles from the beginning.
Unfortunately, the strength of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Heavenly King Hong Tiancheng was much more terrifying than that of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom, and the natives in the areas occupied by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, from the nobles to the serfs, would be confiscated and reduced to official slaves of the Taiping Army if they had the slightest tendency to disobey the laws of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
The young men were all put into the coolie camps where they toiled to death, and the young women were forcibly escorted into the 'what' camp to satisfy the desires of the Taiping soldiers, and the good ones were also enshrined, starting with Hong Tiancheng, and the maids were selected from top to bottom like 'livestock'......
Obviously, the maid of this era and the maid of the later generations are completely different concepts!
However, because this kind of young woman who has been raided and exterminated has a deep hatred in her heart, and often can't pass the 'political trial' of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hong Tiancheng takes his life very seriously, and he has no shortage of women......
This kind of thing has not happened before, in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the past six months, there have been a total of thirteen cases of female slaves 'biting' off or even biting to death of Taiping Army officers, which sounded the alarm for senior officials of various departments of the Taiping Army......
There is a knife on the head of the color word, and the ancients do not deceive me!
The Polish musket scum who was placed at the front looked at the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army advancing under the fire of the Polish officers under the blades of Polish officers.
Marshal Jan Skzhetusky had no confidence in whether the first line of defense could withstand the attack of the Taiping army, and naturally he was unwilling to keep the artillery in the original position, in case the first line of defense was broken, these artillery would become trophies of the Taiping army, and it was likely that the muzzle of the guns would be turned to bombard his own people!
The soldiers of the main force of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army are not the fanatical Taiping soldiers who are not afraid of death, and they are stepping forward without changing their faces with the big shells at the mouth of the bowl......
Because of this, Marshal Jan Skzhetuski preferred to reduce the time of artillery bombardment, but also to pull the artillery back to the safe second or even third line of defense before the Taiping army overwhelmed it!
Not only that, but Marshal Jan Skzhetusky had already given a death order to all the artillery officers, and once they found that the war was not good, they must destroy all the artillery as soon as possible, otherwise even if they escaped with their lives, they would be shown to the public in accordance with military law.
On the battlefield, a high-ranking aristocratic general wants to kill a soldier or even a junior officer, and he doesn't even need a reason, just find an excuse.
In this era, there is no such thing as a military court, there is only obedience and military law!
"No fire! Hit it again when you get closer!! ”
As the Taiping army approached, even the small-caliber light small guns of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition stopped bombarding at the first line of defense, moved to the rear and rearranged the artillery positions.
Most of the soldiers were illiterate, so they could not estimate the distance between us and the enemy with their eyes, let alone predict the best time to fire, which was the use of noble officers.
However, even if the aristocratic officers can see the best time to fire and give the order in time, they have a prerequisite that they have to face, and the soldiers under their command will not pull the trigger in advance due to negative emotions such as nervousness and panic.
The reason why the musket team at the end of the Ming Dynasty was always unable to cause substantial damage to the Manchu cavalry in history was because the quality of the musket team at the end of the Ming Dynasty was too poor, and often before the Manchu cavalry entered the effective firing range, they crackled and hit the disposable bird guns, and as a result, when the Manchu cavalry entered the firing range, the infantry in the late Ming Dynasty could only change into hand-to-hand weapons and wait for death to come......
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the firearms of the Ming army were inferior to the Manchu troops, not because of the weapon, but because of the military system and morale.
This point was even more vividly reflected in the later Opium War, and later generations generally believed that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was placed on the problem that firearms were not sharp enough, but as everyone knows, during the Opium War, the Qing army's green battalion was equipped with an astonishing 80 percent of the muskets, and almost all the front-line green battalion soldiers in the coastal areas had a well-maintained bird gun!
During the Opium War, even the British lamented that their infantry did not have the slightest advantage in the light of the musket shooting, and there were too many musketeers in the Qing army......
However, the Anglo-French army only needed a bayonet charge and could solve everything......
The Qing army was defeated to rot to the bone, not inferior in weapons!
A similar scene in history seemed to be about to be repeated in the decisive battle known as the Battle of Moziri, when the Polish officers shouted hoarsely not to fire, and before the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army entered the distance of 100 meters, thousands of Polish musketeers on the front line crackled like firecrackers and played a lively 'free fire' mode.
At first, only a few people misfired, but unfortunately, in this tense moment, the sound of the musket firing was like a starting gun, leading to a burst of gunfire......
As a result, the Taiping Army's musket line, which suffered minor casualties, easily shortened the combat distance between the enemy and us!
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