The two sides fought with nearly 200,000 men, and the battle line spread for dozens of miles, and the Taiping Army and the German Confederation forces of the Holy Roman Empire invariably chose the location of the battle in the plain with a good view.

It can provide a spacious firing range for the artillery, comfortably kill and injure the enemy in a large area, and can also provide a galloping runway for the cavalry corps, so that the cavalry can maximize the advantage of charging.

Moreover, the relatively flat plain area also made the support and mobilization of the army more convenient for each other, and the main battle was not to put all the people in one place to attack, but the most basic arrangement of troops in the front, back, left and right.

The front army is the vanguard of the enemy, the middle army is the main force of the battle, the rear army is the reserve, and the left and right flanks are used to protect the Chinese army from being outflanked by the detour, each of which occupies a range of several miles!

Otherwise, you won't even be able to open the military formation!

Thanks to the repeated victories of the Taiping Army, the tactics of the Taiping Army were regarded as classics throughout Europe, and the backward Spanish package had long been thrown away in the trash can, and all countries began to reduce the thickness of the military formation, increasing the cross-sectional contact area of the battlefield as much as possible, that is, increasing the musket impact area!

At the same time, the arsenals of the European continent began to work overtime to modify arquebuses, install flintlock firing devices, the most time-consuming and labor-intensive place for the manufacture of flintlock pistols is to drill the barrel, some arquebus barrels are ready-made, as long as the bolt is modified, for the Holy Roman Empire, which has experienced 30 years of war and has a large reserve of arquebuses, it is only a matter of money to modify a batch of flintlock armed armies.

The Holy Roman Empire was prepared for so long to sit idly by and watch the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania be destroyed by the Taipings, in order to modify arquebuses and equip the army in large quantities, and at the same time imitate the Taiping Army and increase the number of muskets.

It's just that the bayonet flintlock pistol used by the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army has only appeared in recent years, so the German Confederate Army of the Holy Roman Empire has completed the installation of flintlock pistols, but it has not been equipped with a good card bayonet, the pike phalanx is still retained, and the flintlock infantry regiment also has a self-defense saber hanging from the waist.

Standing on a wooden platform on the high ground, Leopold I held a telescope and scanned the elite grenadiers of the Taiping army on standby, and said to the generals around him: "The uniform dress and uniform banner are worth learning from, so that it will be more convenient for our commanders to command."

Until now, I haven't remembered the number of those fancy infantry regiments! ”

The clerk next to him hurriedly wrote down the words of Leopold I in his hand, Leopold I was not a pedantic and immutable emperor, but a pragmatist, otherwise he would not have personally led a large army to overthrow Hong Tiancheng's rule after the rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

It was precisely because Leopold I saw through Hong Tiancheng's insatiable ambition for aggression that he took the initiative to launch a war of aggression against a powerful empire.

You must know that attacking the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom itself is also a certain risk to the rule of the Holy Roman Empire, and if it wins, everything will be fine, and if it fails, the reputation of the Habsburg Dynasty will decline, not to mention, it is likely that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will have an opportunity to take advantage of!

Even the Ottoman Empire, which had the power to spare, could pounce on it and bite back.

However, Leopold I knew that he could not wait any longer, in order to change the flintlock pistol to learn the tactics of the Taiping army and retrain the army, he had already watched the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania and the Russian Empire fall one after another, if the Kingdom of Sweden was also conquered by Hong Tiancheng, the next target of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would be anyone who could think of it with his ass!

Instead of sitting back and waiting, it is better to take the initiative.

What's more, dealing with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also gave Leopold I the opportunity to regain the power of the German states, and he naturally couldn't let it go.

During Leopold I's observation of the Taiping army, the artillery units of both sides had already begun to speak, and the Taiping army also had artillery units, but they used captured old artillery, and of course, the artillery used by the allied forces of the Holy Roman Empire on the opposite side was not much advanced.

The artillery level of both sides is basically at the level of the red-coated artillery in the late Ming Dynasty, and the deterrence is more than enough to kill but not satisfactory, and the range is long enough, but it is basically up to heaven to hit the target.

When Leopold I saw that the Taiping army's military formation did not move at all under the long-distance artillery bombardment, he gave the order to attack, and the shells were also very valuable, since the artillery bombardment was useless, Leopold I naturally would not waste any more money!

The German army horns sounded one after another, in sharp contrast to the rumbling war drums of the Taiping Army on the opposite side, and the German allied musketeers with different banners and uniforms marched forward to the sound of trumpets and military music drums.

It has to be said that Leopold I was very well prepared, except for the bayonet of the card seat, he almost completely removed the tactics of the Taiping army, the drums, the band, the flintlock pistol, and the line horizontal phalanx were not bad!

If it weren't for the phalanx of pikes, the German Confederate armies of the Holy Roman Empire would have been essentially the same as the line infantry of the time when they were lined up to be shot.

War is the best catalyst for progress, and the ruling class is always quick to agree in the face of survival, and even these German coalition forces, which belong to different lords, have been trained together for a period of time, and have the coordination to fight side by side.

At this time, in the German states, under the policy of Leopold I's British name, the Holy Roman Empire had formed a conscription routine similar to the industrial chain, first recruiting soldiers from various rural towns, and then being taken by the recruits to the castles of the German lords, or the cities directly under the Habsburgs, or even the cities where the bishops were located.

In the Holy Roman Empire, Christianity had a high level of authority, and many archbishops were feudal lords themselves with their own fiefdoms.

Both Protestants and Catholics were fully supportive in dealing with the extreme pagan Hong Tiancheng, and the territories held by the archbishops naturally provided and trained soldiers to heed the call of Leopold I.

After these recruits arrived at the training site with the recruited men of appropriate age, they were handed over to the instructors who had fought against the Taiping army or had trained the line infantry to train them in basic queues and flintlock pistols.

When the recruits have completed a series of training, they are reorganized into recruit infantry regiments and go to several large military camps set up by Leopold I, where they are broken up and organized into units with full officer formations, and the surplus is used as reserves, or new infantry regiments are formed, or used to replenish the troops who have retired from battle losses at the front.

Interestingly, this set of recruitment policies was eighty percent similar to the Russian Empire at this time.