When King Jan Kazimiir Vasa saw the movements of the main force of the Taiping Army, he couldn't help but have two doubts in his mind:

First, the Polish scouts saw with their own eyes that General Hong Tiancheng of the Taiping Army only brought 500 people into the city of Kiev, where did the main force of the Taiping Army have the confidence to put on a posture of confronting the Polish army first, rather than going to rescue their General Hong Tiancheng?

Second, the main force of these Taiping troops is only more than 4,000 people, even if the Polish army is eager to drag them, resulting in a disconnect between the cavalry unit and the infantry, but the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania in the field, it is a cavalry-based combat mode, infantry is just an auxiliary branch, many times the Polish cavalry unit fights alone, even if there is no infantry cooperation, it will not affect the combat effectiveness of the Polish cavalry!

Did the main forces of the Taiping army really think that they could withstand the trampling of the iron hooves of the Polish hussars?

However, King Jan Kazimierz Vasa was puzzled, but he knew very well that the unsheathed sword could no longer be retracted, and that the forced halt of the Polish hussars, who had already been charged, would not only greatly damage the morale of the newly boosted pre-battle battle, but also cause unnecessary losses from self-collision.

Cavalry is different from infantry, as long as the infantry army is disciplined, it can be changed with a few orders to advance and retreat, but the war horse is not human, and the speed of the cavalry is not comparable to the infantry, the faster the object collides, the greater the probability of causing a tragedy!

Of course, the most important thing is that King Jan Kazimierz Vasa, who personally led the charge of the Polish hussars, did not think that the main forces of the Taiping army could hold them back.

You know, King Jan Casimir Vasa brought out the entire strength of the Polish hussars, nearly 3,000 men!

Coupled with those Polish light cavalry who fought fiercely with the Lithuanian Tatar cavalry archers, they were even similar to the main force of the Taiping Army in terms of troops!

The momentum of a thousand cavalry charging is very large, not to mention nearly three thousand Polish hussars, and the Lithuanian Tatar archers who were entangled by the Polish cavalry were wiped by the torrent of Polish hussars and disappeared without a trace......

It's just that the commander of the main force of the Taiping army did not care about the death or wounding of the Lithuanian Tatar cavalry archers, the leader of the Lithuanian Tatar cavalry archers, Sangella. Machiyanskas was kept in his bones until the Polish hussars' cavalry spears stabbed Sangeira. When Machiyanskas was concerned, he realized that his gang was used as bait and outcasts by the Taiping Army headquarters!

It's a pity that the leader of the Lithuanian Tatar cavalry archers, Sanghera, who was limited by the total war system and subconsciously ignored a lot of details. Marchyanskas will never have a chance to take revenge......

When the iron hooves of the Polish hussars easily obliterated the Lithuanian Tatar archers, the veteran Swedish musketeers in the vanguard took the lead in sending three columns of horizontal firing formations, firing volleys at the Polish hussars.

Immediately, the musketeers of the Ming Army's Shenji Battalion of the left and right armies fired pieces of lead bullets at the main force of the Polish hussars from two other directions.

The sacrifice of the Lithuanian Tatar archers was worth it, as they briefly exposed the flanks of the main force of the Polish hussars to the guns of the main force of the Taiping infantry who suddenly turned to rush over!

Bang bang bang......

The guns exploded incessantly, and the Polish hussars in ornate armor fell powerlessly from their horses like dumplings, or simply rolled down with their horses and men.

In the cavalry charging queue, if the cavalry rolls off the war horse, there is almost a more than ninety percent probability that it will be trampled to death by the friendly cavalry behind, because the cavalry group that is moving forward as a whole cannot forcibly strangle the war horse because of the compatriots who rolled off the war horse, which will only detonate a series of 'crash and rear-end collision' incidents in the cavalry queue in the charge......

For the sake of the overall attack, stepping over the corpse of the cavalry that rolled off the horse became the basic choice, and this is the helplessness of the cavalry group charge.

After the layers of muskets of the main muskets of the Taiping Army, the Polish hussars and Polish cavalry were cut off a whole layer, and after successfully getting out of the range of the Taiping Army's muskets, the loss of troops was as high as one-third!

Of course, in the chaos of the battlefield, from King Jan Kazimierz Vasa to ordinary Polish cavalry, they were not in the mood or the eye to calculate their own losses.

King Jan Kazimierz Vasa was unscathed, having been kept in the safest position in the center of the cavalry group.

The reason why the Polish hussars were willing to take the risk of being fired by muskets without resistance was not only because they wanted to annihilate the Lithuanian Tatar cavalry archers in one step, but also because they could transition to taking advantage of the speed advantage of the cavalry and turning around to charge the flank of the Taiping firing array!

Although the horizontal firing formation can maximize the advantage of firepower and inflict heavy casualties on the enemy in a short period of time, it has a fatal weakness and is difficult to change formations!

In the late modern period of the European continent, the column offensive formation replaced the traditional line of shooting and killing in a horizontal formation, and only the British still adhered to this tradition, precisely because of the shortcomings of the difficulty and rigidity of the horizontal formation.

It's just that in the 17th century, when firepower was scarce, trying to increase firepower output was the king's choice.

King Jan Kazimierz Vasa took advantage of the slow speed of the phalanx to shoot horizontally, but he did not expect the Polish hussars to pay such a big price.

Although he couldn't see his own losses at a glance, the corpses left everywhere by the road already said a lot.

This was not a sentimental time, and King Jan Casimir Vasa would not waste this hard-won time difference, and while the main force of the Taiping Army was changing formations, the Polish hussars once again launched a charge with the remaining Polish light cavalry!

In front of their charge was a thin layer of shooting horizontally behind the Taiping Army's palace, and behind them were the main musketeers of the Taiping Army who hurriedly changed formation!

In the eyes of King Jan Kazimierz Vasa, the musketeers were weak in close combat, and as long as the Polish cavalry could rush in, they would be victorious!

The charge against the troops behind the palace of the Taiping army was as King Jan Kazimierz Vasa had predicted, and after surviving two volleys, the Polish hussars survived two volleys and destroyed the thin troops behind the palace of the Taiping army like a moving steel thorn wall, that is, the musketeers of the Ming army's Shenji Battalion, which were full of 1,000 men!

What followed was undoubtedly the slaughter......

It is also the weakness and despair of the infantry in the face of the cavalry in the charge.

Fortunately, the musketeers of the Ming Army's Shenji Battalion belonged to the die-hard level troops, and they did not collapse after the formation was destroyed, but gritted their teeth and howled and insisted on fighting!

Even if they die, they will have to cut off a piece of meat from the Polish hussars!

As a result, King Jan Kazimierz Vasa found that he had seriously underestimated the formidable fighting power of the Taiping army, and although they broke through the interception of the main force of the Taiping army and crushed their formation, they were held back from the momentum of the charge!

What's even worse is that the main force of the Taiping Army has gradually completed the transformation of the formation!