"Ready~Aim~~~"

"Oh my God, it's coming again, oh my God, I'm still standing in front of their guns, am I at the scene of the execution?!!!"

The Russian Shooting Corps soldiers watched in despair as the Taiping soldiers on the opposite side meticulously completed a series of actions to raise their guns and aim, and then listened to the gunfire as if waiting for the doomsday judgment.

"Fire !!"

Bang bang bang......

Under a series of gunfire, the shooting corps once again fell sideways, and the Russian officer with the highest rank standing on the front line was beaten into a hornet's nest!

"Nope! I'm not going to fight, I don't want to die here! Mom! Help me!!! ”

"This is not a war, this is a massacre, I don't want to fight with this group of madmen of the Taiping Army anymore, they are not afraid of bullets at all, they are all devils from hell......"

"I'm not dead...... Again, I wasn't killed...... This is the grace of God, I can't live up to God's gift, well, let's run for my life first......"

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The soldiers of the Russian Shooting Corps, who had a different mentality, decisively chose to flee after the second salvo fell thousands of people again, and under the lead, more and more Russian Archery Corps soldiers made the same choice.

The collapse of the firing musketeers on the whole line left the Russian spearmen in the rear stunned and silent, except that they did not withstand the direct fire of the Taiping army and were not on the verge of collapse.

"All of them, after the reload, Xu Jin shoots!"

The Taiping army did not directly launch a bayonet charge, the bayonet was not invented in this era, the Taiping army used a plug-in bayonet, and the flintlock pistol could no longer shoot for a short time after inserting it into the muzzle, so in the absence of an imminent victory, the Taiping officers would not easily give the order to put on the bayonet, unless they encountered cavalry!

What's more, the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army themselves were equipped with melee combat knives.

Under Xu Jin's order to shoot, the elite musketeers of the well-trained Taiping Army merged into three platoons on their own, the first platoon took a few steps, and the shooter soldiers who collapsed in front of them pulled the trigger, and then stopped, and the soldiers in the second platoon walked out of their gap for a few steps, stopped and fired another volley and reloaded on the spot, at this time, the third platoon would step forward to become the first platoon.

When the third platoon finished firing, the soldiers of the first platoon also reloaded and stepped forward, which was the Xu Jin shooting, and gradually advanced to compress the enemy line while maintaining the continuity of the salvo fire.

The fleeing musketeers were quickly out of range of the Taipings' flintlock muskets, but the spearmen of the Shooting Army, who were waiting to attack, were put within range of the Taipings' flintlock muskets!

After the commander of the Russian spearmen noticed that something was wrong, he gave the order to attack in advance, and a group of Russian spearmen with long spears lined up in a phalanx shouted the slogan of 'Ula', and rushed towards the Taiping army formation dozens of meters away, and then were unsurprisingly broken down by a uniform volley......

Charging the neat array of spears against the neat array of guns has long been proven to be stupid in the history of European warfare, and when Gustav II swept across the continent, his opponents were deeply aware of the weakness of the cold-armed infantry in the face of musket troops, and the reason why the spearmen were retained was only because the bayonet was not invented, and it was difficult for musketeers to resist cavalry units in close combat.

Pikemen are only used to defend against cavalry, or soldiers who launch hand-to-hand charges after gaining an advantage in musket fire, no matter how they are used, they just can't charge into a morale-boosting musket queue face to face!

Of course, the commander of the Russian spearmen was also helpless, the musketeers of the Taiping Army had already pressed up, thousands of shooting soldiers with muskets avalanche, and the spearmen could retreat without charging?

With your ass, you can imagine what the spearmen who were held by the Taiping musketeers in the back will become once they retreat!

Rather than that, it would be better to have the spearmen make a heroic charge, at least, they fought......

This kind of thinking is Lao Maozi's wild instinct, and human life is far less important than courage in their eyes.

It can only be that the proportion of musketeers in the shooting army is very large, and the number of spearmen is very small, and the Russian spearmen, who are themselves small in number, naturally cannot survive the frontal salvo of the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army.

After leaving behind more than 4,000 corpses, tens of thousands of Russian archery troops collapsed without a trace, and the whole battle lasted less than half an hour, and it was not even as much trouble as the Russian aristocratic cavalry caused to the Taiping army.

However, the casualties inflicted by the Shooting Army on the Taiping Army were not small, and in less than half an hour, a casualty record of nearly 3,000 elite musketeers of the Taiping Army was created.

Even if some of the downed elite musketeers of the Taiping Army were not hit, they would probably die a miserable death from the subsequent buckshot infection.

Relatively speaking, the wounded of the shooting army were better, because all the wounded of the shooting army left on the battlefield were chopped up by the Taiping army......

The weapon innovation brought about by the Musket Age has made it easier to die in war, and a slight pull of the trigger can take away a soldier who has grown up for more than ten years or even decades!

The era of modern queuing and shooting is the era of the most tragic battlefield casualties, because the lethal firepower of muskets and the dense formation of the army appeared at the same time in this era, and although the weapons became more lethal in later wars, soldiers also became more and more difficult to kill, and there was no need to fight at gunpoint like on the battlefield where they were lined up to shoot!

The defeat of the Russian firing army was so complete and so fast that the main Polish corps and even the Russians' own cavalry corps had not yet reacted.

As a result, the Taiping army on this side had just finished clearing the battlefield of the shooting army, and the main Polish army on the other side arrived as scheduled, and the defeated shooting army did not even send the messenger who notified it, or rather, did not send it in time......

When the shooting corps fled back to the rear camp and remembered to send someone to inform the friendly troops, the ambush was over.

After easily defeating the shooting army, the collected Lithuanian corps was also reorganized, and under the encouragement of the big victory, it finally had a little appearance, of course, it was not enough to get the first line of battle.

Therefore, the Taiping Army mobilized all the main forces to face the surging Polish main force, their strength is much more than the Russian shooting army, but the quality of the Polish main force is worrying, most of the real Polish elite died in the previous battle, the main body of the Polish main force at this time is composed of mercenaries, militia, aristocratic private soldiers armed and conscripted recruits, compared with the elite of the Russian shooting army with a certain war experience and military training, it is not a little worse.

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