A platoon of veteran musketeers of the Taiping Army drove back the Polish infantry who were trying to drive the Polish slaves to break up.

This delay gave the Taiping soldiers who were suddenly attacked enough time to adjust the marching array into a battle phalanx according to each hundred-man team.

The Polish infantry and the Polish soldiers of Polish origin, who were running and wailing in the center of the Polish infantry and the Taiping soldiers, fell victim to this ambush, and the Polish infantry was clearly prepared for the failure of the first wave of the attack, and after the hundreds of Polish infantry in front were routed, the second wave of Polish infantry followed closely behind, holding a large number of arquebuses.

Immediately, the two sides began to shoot alternately from a distance of hundreds of meters, and in less than half an hour, the battlefield was covered with white smoke, and the musketeers were not to mention aiming, and it was difficult to even see the figure of the enemy soldiers on the opposite side......

This is mainly because the arquebus is too airtight because the airtightness is too poor, which leads to a great increase in the incompleteness of the combustion of black powder, and the smoke naturally becomes more.

This kind of counter-shooting was exactly what the Taiping soldiers were looking forward to, and the Taiping army formation, which had given a respite, under the command of Hong Tiancheng, immediately transferred the Taiping army of 100 people who had just formed from other directions to try to attack the Polish infantry formation.

Because Hong Tiancheng found that although the Polish infantry on both sides were well-equipped, all wearing armor and helmets, holding firearms, but the number was not large, as long as the Taiping army passed the initial chaotic period, with the morale of the Taiping army, it only took one wave of charges to crush the Polish infantry ambushed on both sides!

However, the commander of the Polish army, who did not know where to hide, suddenly rushed out hundreds of heavily armed cavalry from the rear and the oblique flank of the Taiping army when the Taiping army was moving his troops to form a team!

The first team is mainly Polish light cavalry wearing iron-studded armor, caps, helmets, arquebuses and scimitars, and the latter is the classic Polish hussars who are famous in later generations, and they are also the basis of the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania to maintain the largest territory in continental Europe at its peak.

The Polish hussars in front were obviously only responsible for covering the harassment or cannon fodder for consumption, and the Polish hussars in the back were the real main force of the charge.

The body of the hussar helmet is made of two iron plates joined together, and is not unlike the kettle helmet (pot shaped iron helmet) popular in the Middle Ages, except that the flat brim is attached to the removable nose, ear, and neck guards, and a large heart-shaped hole in the ear guard so as not to interfere with hearing.

The most striking thing is undoubtedly the sleek armor, their cuirass and back armor are made of several strips of steel joined together to form a lobster-shaped, and then fixed on the back with longitudinal belts and a series of rivets, which is low cost and flexible.

The Hungarian-Polish sabre was hung from the waist, and all of them, including the Polish hussars, were swords, and the Polish hussars were basically born out of the Hungarian cavalry of the past.

The blade was about 80-85 centimeters, which was quite large for most scimitars at the time, and usually had several blood grooves (blood grooves are conventionally called, but they were used to increase the strength of large swords rather than actually bleed) and protruding stiffeners, and the hilt was covered in black leather with a long iron rod-like gauntlet. The scabbard was also covered in black leather, iron or copper, and sometimes with several heart-shaped cutouts depending on the hussars' personal preference.

With the exception of the saber, each Polish hussar carried a cavalry spear more than one person high, and many of them had the Polish crown banner and the Polish eagle banner hanging on them, and a holster on each side of the saddle!

Compared to the simply equipped Polish infantry, the equipment of these sudden Polish hussars can be called luxurious.

Although Hong Tiancheng ordered the mobilization of the Taiping Army to counterattack the Polish infantry firing on both sides, he did not give up the defense of the front and rear formations, and the Taiping Army, which had changed from a marching long snake formation to a battle phalanx, had two senior musketeers of the Taiping Army with a full formation of 100 men in front and behind, and opened a long shooting horizontal formation to face the Polish cavalry that suddenly appeared and inserted diagonally.

Hong Tiancheng saw the Polish hussars suddenly appearing in front and back, so he had to give up the plan to counterattack the Polish infantry on both sides, and had to redeploy the Taiping soldiers who had just gathered in the front and rear directions.

Compared with the Polish infantry on both sides who suffered heavy losses in the confrontation and were unable to attack, the Polish hussars who flanked the front and rear were the hole cards of the Polish army!

However, the deployment of the army, especially the movement of the infantry, was not something that could be run through with lip service, and even if the senior soldiers of the Taiping Army were strictly disciplined and the speed of the whole team was the elite regular army of this era, they could not rush over and line up the battle formation when the Polish cavalry rushed into the formation.

Of course, Hong Tiancheng can also let the senior musketeers of the Taiping Army launch a counter-charge against the Polish cavalry, so that the speed can keep up, but the morale of the Taiping soldiers does not represent combat effectiveness, and they use infantry to hedge against the cavalry, even Hong Tiancheng, a layman, knows how miserable it will be......

The most important thing is that the Polish cavalry will not necessarily be defeated by doing so!

Hong Tiancheng can only pin his hopes on the combat effectiveness of the senior soldiers of the Taiping Army.

This is the first time, Hong Tiancheng is not sure about the outcome of the battle, and the enemy's comprehensive strength and battlefield advantage are ahead of him!

Different from Hong Tiancheng's worries, the senior musketeers of the Taiping Army, who faced the impact of the Polish cavalry on both sides in front and back, looked extremely calm, or regarded death as home!

After the Polish light cavalry in the front line entered the effective firing range, they decisively fired round after round of guns, and the Polish light cavalry, which was lined up in a horizontal formation, also raised the cavalry in their hands and pulled the trigger with their muskets in the charge.

This round of shooting was damaged on both sides, but after the shooting, the Polish light cavalry directly hit the horse and turned around in front of the Taiping army formation, trying to return to the rear position, but was fired two more volleys by the Taiping army's senior musketeers on the horse's buttocks!

The tactics of the Polish light cavalry were the standard tactics of the European musketeers of this era, sluggish and rigid in firing formations and riding horses in front of the enemy army to shoot, and then turning back to their own formation, using the speed advantage to disengage from the enemy army.

Although the effect of this tactic is not very good, it seems that the European countries that are still in the exploration stage of musketeer tactics will only play like this, so to speak, the Europeans completely command the musketeers as musket infantry......

It was the Polish hussars who were the first to break this rigid tactic and achieve glory and victory!