049 Elite Guards Battalion

[Congratulations to the host for achieving a close victory, completely annihilating the ambushed Polish regular army, obtaining 10 prestige points, a chance to draw a total war class, and a free upgrade to participate in the Taiping Army's senior musketeer rewards.]

Ask the host to bring the veteran musketeers of the Taiping Army who participated in this battle into an area where there is no outsider's vision for class upgrades. 】

"Fame gained 10 points, which is double the previous time I captured the town, and now I only have 20 personal fame, it seems that there is still a long way to go before I can reach 100 Fame points and open the next authority of the all-out war system.

As for this free upgrade for all members, it is a surprise, and sure enough, when the enemy is strong, there is still a lot of extra income to annihilate the opponent, and the all-out war system has not said that you can upgrade for free if you win the battle, or all the soldiers who participate in the battle!

Just ......"

Hong Tiancheng looked at the remnants of the more than 500 Taiping Army soldiers who were cleaning up the corpses, and sighed helplessly, he underestimated the military strength of the European powers in this era, and he didn't expect that he only ransacked two towns, and he met the famous Polish hussars in the later generations!

More than 1,600 Taiping soldiers, 15 mortuary veteran musketeers hundred-man team, and a Taiping Army Guard formed by hundreds of people were scrapped in the confrontation with the Polish infantry.

In this battle, because the combat effectiveness of the new recruits and veteran soldiers of the Taiping Army was far inferior to the senior musketeers of the Taiping Army, they encountered Polish veterans and elite Polish hussars, and suffered total losses.

The only remaining senior musketeers of the Taiping Army made Hong Tiancheng deeply understand the gap between the survival rate of veterans and recruits in the war.

The Polish infantry did not inflict much losses on Hong Tiancheng, only consuming two Taiping Army veteran musketeers, 100 people and some miscellaneous soldiers, the Taiping Army's new recruits and veteran soldiers, but the Polish hussars fought out more than 800 Taiping Army main soldiers!

Because the combat tradition of the Taiping Army was that the officers led the charge, the battle losses of the officers were extremely serious, and many of the remaining more than 500 senior musketeers of the Taiping Army had lost all the military commanders above the two horses.

In that kind of chaotic battlefield, even civilian subordinates had to take up arms to fight, and you can imagine how big the losses were!

If it weren't for the fighting style of the senior soldiers of the Taiping Army, the Polish hussars could have beaten the senior musketeers of the Taiping Army in a pair of two or even one against three, even if they did not ride war horses.

In addition to the loss of the core force of the Taiping Army, the Polish slaves and the Polish Taiping warriors accumulated by Hong Tiancheng during this period were all wiped out, either taking advantage of the chaos to escape or being turned into corpses by the aftermath of the battle, the damage output of the sudden ambush of the Polish infantry was all absorbed by the Poles on the periphery, and when the two sides fired at each other, they almost used the Polish slaves and Polish Taiping warriors as meat shields, and before the battle was over, there were few Poles on the battlefield who could still stand......

The only ones that have survived well are Kaspersky and Hamsbond, who have always been behind the main force of the Taiping army, these two people have been protected after the Taiping army took control of the war because they have helped Hong Tiancheng a lot because they betrayed the Polish nation, and of course, their families stayed with them and did not die.

This is the advantage of being a lackey, the phrase "beating a dog depends on the owner" is not a derogatory term, for Hong Tiancheng, it is not easy to find two loyal and unscrupulous Polish lackeys like Kaspersky and Hamsbond.

Anyway, protecting them and their families is just a gesture, and Hong Tiancheng certainly won't mind selling favors.

He just wants to let Hamsbond and Kaspersky know that in this world, apart from him, the 'Tatar chief', no one wants to rely on!

Now that the notoriety of Hamsbond and Kaspersky has spread far to Zhytomyr with the ravages of the Taipings, there is really little way out for such people.

"A senior musketeer of the Taiping Army needs 10 sin points to be upgraded to an elite musketeer of the Taiping Army after accumulating experience, and the free upgrade obtained this time, more than 500 people saved me more than 5,000 sin points at once, which is also a lot of income."

Hong Tiancheng looked at the elite soldiers of the Taiping Army wearing a light half-length infantry cuirass, wearing a round pointed iron helmet, hanging a Taiping Army-standard steel waist knife from his waist, carrying an early flint firing smoothbore gun on his shoulder and carrying a marching backpack, and the team walked out of a bush in high spirits, and finally showed a smile of relief on his face.

Soon, Hong Tiancheng discovered that these elite musketeers of the Taiping Army had a short-handled stabbing blade with a strange shape hanging from their belts.

After inquiry, Hong Tiancheng learned that this short-handled bayonet blade was the originator of the bayonet - the early plug-in bayonet!

This plugged bayonet allowed the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army to insert a bayonet blade into the muzzle of the early flintlock muskets, turning the long-roded flintlock into a spear more than 2 meters long, which, of course, made it impossible to shoot.

This kind of spear is mainly to let the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army have the means to deal with the cavalry, if it is a melee battle between ordinary infantry, the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army only need to pull out the steel combat knife of the Taiping Army at the waist, which is somewhat similar to the melee combat method of the Ottoman Turkish Janissaries.

Since these more than 500 elite musketeers of the Taiping Army were all promoted from the senior musketeers of the Taiping Army, which had serious officer defects, and could not generate officers to restore their original establishment, Hong Tiancheng simply unified these more than 500 people into his own personal guard musket battalion, and he himself became the chief officer of the personal guard battalion, and the two surviving pawn commanders served as the deputy commanders of the personal guard battalion.

The military position of the two simas was directly banned, and all the two simas were promoted to the captains and deputy captains of the 100-man team of the pro-guard battalion, and only the basic establishment of the army commander was retained.

The deputy captain served as a platoon commander in the personal guard battalion, and the captain served as a company commander, and was also the chief officer of the basic musket firing phalanx of the 100-man team.

With a flintlock pistol with a rate of fire much higher than that of the arquebus, Hong Tiancheng naturally wanted to try to carry out the famous line tactical phalanx in later generations, the quality of these Taiping Army officers and the discipline of the soldiers were all first-class, Hong Tiancheng did not need to spend too much effort to train them in basic tactics, just tell them the specific line of the formation of the phalanx.

In fact, although the basic tactics of the Taiping army were different from those of the line phalanx, there were many similarities, and it was not difficult for the soldiers to understand when they were trained.

After planning the elite soldiers of the Taiping Army, Hong Tiancheng finally set his sights on the lottery opportunity.