A blue line of skirmishers gradually appeared on the horizon, and the militia on duty on the fortification guard tower sounded the alarm bell for the first time, and a large number of soldiers from the Italian peninsula immediately rushed out of the resting camp, and under the orders of the officers, company by company entered the fortifications of the front line, stood behind the thick wall that could cover the chest, and looked forward at the approaching Taiping army battle flag.

In front of the breastwork were trenches filled with sharpened wooden stakes, which required a lot of extra effort on the part of the Taiping soldiers.

Behind the first line of breastwork were the high firing points, with a large number of small pillboxes on the ground, and the flat walls were full of orderly firing holes, once the Taiping army broke through the first line of defense, they would immediately fall into the fire suppression of the firing pillboxes that occupied the high places behind, and the distance of 100 meters was just within the effective range of the bayonet flintlock guns.

And there was an open flat area behind the first line of defense, and if the Taiping army wanted to attack the shooting pillboxes and towers behind, they had to cross this open space and bear the slaughter of a large number of infantry in the Italian peninsula!

This is the fruit of the labor of the people of the Italian peninsula!

The soldiers of the anti-Han alliance who occupy the commanding heights can well avoid the ultra-long-range sniping of the Taiping army, and in the same cross-section, use the height difference between the upper and lower layers of defense to form a more intensive firepower projection.

In the eyes of the soldiers of the allied forces of the anti-Han alliance, although the Mini rifles used by the Taiping army had the advantage of firing range, the loading step was not much faster than the bayonet flintlock pistol.

The most important thing is that the anti-Han alliance is not afraid of the same attrition as the Taiping army, and the 1-5 battle loss is more willing to pay than the anti-Han allies.

It is frightening that the Taiping army always kills uncleanly, but the Taiping army always emerges one by one, instead of all of them appearing and sweeping across the European continent with a crushing momentum, which is enough for the high-level leaders of the anti-Han allies to see Hong Tiancheng's 'weakness'.

The anti-Han allies are testing the limits of Hong Tiancheng's recruitment of a large army, and it is completely worthwhile to sacrifice some more soldiers for this, which is a great contribution to the future of mankind......

Of course, humans here refer to white Europeans!

"Prepare for battle."

A captain officer standing behind the breastwork had just finished shouting, and the skull on it was suddenly bloodily opened by a bullet, and with a bang, the officer fell to the ground silently.

The death of the officer suddenly made the sweat of the soldiers of the Italian peninsula around him explode, and one by one they crouched down according to the pre-war training and hid behind the breastwork, which was the battlefield trick told by the former French 'predecessors'.

Naturally, the officer was not the only one who died, and before he could get close to 500 meters, the Taiping army wearing a blue Kabuqi military uniform fired accurate fire at this side as they walked.

A large number of bullets hit the chest wall, leaving bullet marks one by one, and the soldiers of the Italian Peninsula who stayed behind couldn't help but have a sad look on their faces, the weapons used by the Taiping army on the opposite side were farther than they imagined, and most importantly, the density of firepower, is it too fierce?

When the Taiping found that the Allied troops on the opposite side were hiding behind the fortifications, they stopped firing and marched forward in a dense line of skirmishers, armed with Hanyang-made rifles.

At 400 meters, the Allied troops on the opposite side had no intention of showing their heads, only a few large-caliber guns deployed in the rear, and there was a responder who did not have a single shot, however, after the Taiping soldiers found the position of the Allied artillery, when they approached the Allied battle line about 300 meters away, a dense and accurate salvo hit the past, and the few artillery of the Allied army suddenly fell silent......

On the artillery position, lying on all sides lay down a piece of Italian artillerymen who had been shot and died, and the Allied forces seemed to have long been accustomed to the scene of the Taiping army sniping their own artillery, and there was no artillery to fill the hole.

Due to the substantial increase in the range of rifles of the Taiping Army, the front-loading howitzer that the Allied forces have finally copied has almost become a big target, which makes the Anti-Han League can't help but make a miscalculation - in the future battlefield, the dominant person is the rifle rather than the artillery!

Because at the same firing range, the rifle is more accurate, and the firepower is more intensive, the artillery is far away and inaccurate, and the accurate shot cannot fight the rifle, and it gradually degenerates into a chicken-like existence, and it is also used to suppress the guerrillas and militia forces that are not well armed, and this is what the Taiping Army did......

On local battlefields, a small number of Taiping troops faced a large force of guerrillas, as long as there was a 12-pounder mountain howitzer, it could form a massacre situation, so the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom placed 10 12-pounder mountain howitzers in the rear and scattered them to deal with the guerrillas.

Of course, even the Taiping Army, which had won many battles and faintly became the vane of the European battlefield, gave up using artillery on the frontal battlefield, and the anti-Han allies naturally did not spend manpower and material resources to develop artillery, but put their main financial resources on imitating Mini rifles.

If the leaders of the anti-Han allies knew that Hong Tiancheng was unable to light up the artillery technology tree because of his shyness, I wonder if they would regret giving up the research and development of artillery completely......

This is the advantage brought by the victorious country, human beings generally have the instinct to learn from the strong, just as the aircraft carrier played a decisive role in ocean operations in the history of World War II, so in the 21st century, the aircraft carrier has become an important symbol to measure a country's overseas military strength.

The whites of the anti-Han alliance were disgusted with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but they would not reject the victory experience of the Taiping army, and the whites of the European continent paid great attention to the practicality of war!

After ending the artillery positions of the Allied army, the Taiping army advanced again, and when the distance was within 200 meters, the Taiping soldiers began to be ready to fire at any time, and slowly advanced step by step, staring at the Allied defense line.

According to past combat experience, because of the weakness of their weapons, the Allied troops would only appear after the Taiping army entered a distance of 100 meters, but there were a few exceptions, a small number of Allied soldiers who used rifled guns would suddenly attack at about 200 meters, stand up and suddenly shoot a few Taiping soldiers and then crouch back.

This is all a lesson learned by the Taiping army in exchange for blood, and the two sides have already played a familiar feeling with each other in more than five years of war.

The soldiers of the Italian peninsula, who were deeply trained by the anti-Han allies, were naturally no exception, and due to the poor quality of their individual soldiers, they did not attack at a distance of 200 meters, but patiently waited to a distance of 100 meters!

It's not that the Allied soldiers don't want to wait any longer to fight, because as the distance gets closer, it will be easier and easier for the Taiping army to break through the defensive line!

Just when the front-line soldiers of the Taiping Army approached 100 meters, the soldiers of the Italian Peninsula suddenly stood up in unison!