In the wilderness, tens of thousands of Ottoman troops gathered in all directions, surrounding hundreds of Taiping troops in the middle, and the distance between the two sides was thousands of meters.

The unclothed slave soldiers walked in the front with miscellaneous 'weapons', and the servant soldiers with intact civilian clothes and shabby military uniforms followed the slave soldiers with fancy weapons, and also acted as the slave soldier overseer.

Soldiers of the old army from the Ottoman Turkish Empire, dressed in Turkish and Crescent clothing, armed with Turkish smoothbore guns and Turkish scimitars on their waists, walked on the last line as a reserve for all.

In the space between the three army formations, the cavalry of the old Ottoman army roamed from time to time, and the rear did not move the leaders of the horses and their own soldiers.

The Ottoman Turkish Empire was not much different from the traditional feudal state, and the military leaders and generals were undoubtedly the best in their personal equipment, not to mention the horses, and they were also dressed in exquisite iron armor and steel scimitars, and flintlock handcuffs were standard.

A handful of army leaders still had Minnie rifles in their hands that they had found out of nowhere, and equipped them with their own soldiers.

Although the military leaders knew that in front of the Taiping army's rifles, no matter how thick the plate armor was, it was a shot or two holes, but they were not only dealing with the Taiping army, before in the Balkans, they fought the Balkan indigenous troops, staying in the era of alternating hot and cold weapons, and the plate armor of the personal soldiers was still very powerful.

These pro-soldiers are also the key force to launch a charge in the final battle, otherwise, the bigwigs in Istanbul would have cut these army leaders a long time ago!

The Ottoman Sultan couldn't move the high-ranking nobles who had a lot of power within the empire, but it was still no problem to deal with a group of mid- and low-level military leaders.

However, many of these military leaders have backers behind them, even if it is the Ottoman Sultan, it is not possible to abolish them with lip service, and if you want to reduce the military leaders, you must pay some political benefits.

Those Turkish nobles in Istanbul, what they want most are naturally the rights of the new army!

However, the new army was created by the Ottoman Sultan, and he would not let go of the traditional nobles with sand, so the old army and the old system of the Ottoman Empire have not changed, just to appease those traditional Turkish nobles.

However, it was impossible to dismantle the huge old army, and the Ottoman Turkish Empire's funding had already begun to run deficit, so it only formed a mere 50,000 people, even if you add the 50,000 new army recruits recruited and trained in Asia Minor, it is only more than 100,000 new army establishments, and for the huge Ottoman Turkish Empire, it only feeds more than 100,000 new troops, so you can imagine how embarrassing the financial resources are!

If the burden of the old army and other messy armed funds is recovered, it will not be a problem for the Ottoman Turkish Empire to get hundreds of thousands of new troops!

The Kingdom of England relied on the British Isles and armed with an army of 300,000!

These 300,000 are regular army sequences, even if most of them are recruits, they are also regular troops!

Therefore, the business of raising soldiers is not only about population and territory, but also about financial resources!

Hong Tiancheng made his fortune by relying on system soldiers who could fight until the last moment as long as they were well fed without a salary, so he was able to ignore the economic system that had long since collapsed in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but other countries did not have this plug-in.

Tens of thousands of Ottoman troops, divided into three fronts, suddenly began to accelerate and jog forward when they approached 500 meters, because the Ottomans knew that they were about to enter the effective range of the Taiping army.

The speed of the jogging is getting faster and faster, and it gradually turns into a sprint.

Although the Ottoman army surrounded the Taiping army with a battalion in the middle, it only attacked from two sides, after all, the Taiping army in the middle was extremely small in depth, and it was impossible to deploy many troops to attack from all sides......

The flanking attack on both sides is actually in a semicircle, and if you can really touch the Taiping army, you can form a circle that is just right to surround the Taiping army in the middle.

At that time, the Taiping soldiers will have to face the crowd offensive from all directions.

As soon as the Ottoman army ran up, the Taiping army on the opposite side lined up in two columns of rifle horizontal formations, and suddenly fired round after round.

The first row got down on one knee and pulled the bolt after firing, and the second row fired to replenish the gap in fire.

As a result, the bullets formed a constant web of fire, which swooped down on the Ottoman slave soldiers on the front line!

At the same time, the two Makqin heavy machine guns in the Taiping army camp, relying on the circular position, strafed the sea of Ottoman troops attacking from both sides!

Two Makqin heavy machine guns in one battalion are the standard equipment of the battalion-level Taiping Army, but the grenadier canisters and 75-millimeter rapid-fire guns are not assigned to the battalion-level team, but are concentrated for the use of a large number of regimental-level search teams.

After all, if there is less artillery, there is not much power left.

It was a veteran machine gun who operated the Makqin heavy machine gun, and the head of the gun turned slightly in the strafing fire, and a puff of blood mist erupted from the chest of the Ottoman front row slave soldiers on the opposite side almost at the same time!

The lethality of a Makqin heavy machine gun is no less than that of an entire platoon of gun phalanxes!

Of course, as soon as the Maxim heavy machine gun fired, the Ottoman slave soldiers immediately collapsed!

Then, as a matter of course, the Ottoman slave soldiers were expelled and slaughtered by the servant army behind them!

Those who escape from the battle will be summarily executed!

Without the restraint of this military order and the cooperation of the Warlords, the slave soldiers and servant armies would have collapsed long ago!

The war servant army may not be good, but in the face of the slave soldiers who have no resistance to resist, these servant armies with fancy weapons are really open to killing, no different from slaughtering civilians!

As a result, more Ottoman slave soldiers were killed by their own people than the Taipings!

Many crazy slave soldiers brandished 'weapons' at the servant army or rushed to the Taiping army position in the face of the rain of bullets, so that they could die more heroically......

But most of the slave soldiers who kept their sanity found that they could not escape (there were also many servant troops), and they would not accept the baptism of bullets, but lay down on the spot, with flexible brains, and found a corpse to 'cover' themselves, or smear some blood or something......

In this way, in the vision of the Taiping army, as soon as they opened fire, the slave soldiers collapsed, and at the same time, the slave soldiers fell to the ground, as if they were not shooting bullets, but rockets......

Sensing that the Ottoman slave soldiers had completely broken down and been 'killed', the Taiping gunfire gradually stopped, saving ammunition and waiting for the Ottoman servants on the second front to attack.

At this time, tens of thousands of Ottoman slave soldiers either pretended to be dead or really died, paving the entire charging road!