The commander of the First Army of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania was well aware of the gap between himself and the Taiping Army in terms of weapons and morale, and was naturally ready to fight hard.

The high-ranking generals of the First Legion, after studying the examples of the Taiping Army since its rise, found that the Taiping Army's musket line was very good at firing volleys at close range.

It is true that this style of play is fatal to all troops today, and no army can continue to fight after facing the baptism of bullets at close range, so to speak, this style of play is almost a symbol of invincibility in the field!

Unfortunately, a close-range salvo is not something anyone can afford, and the high requirements for discipline and morale are jaw-dropping, and if you can't go as close as the enemy line before firing, you will be shot by the enemy first......

Fortunately, the First Army did not need to face the Taiping Army in the field, their soldiers only needed to stay in the bunker and put their guns, but even if they did, it was not so safe, so the top management of the First Army issued a death order to all the grassroots officers, once the Taiping Army approached a distance of about 20 meters, they must launch a hand-to-hand counter-charge!

At this distance, the musket hit rate in the hands of elite soldiers will reach its peak, aiming at the head and half of the body exposed to cover becomes commonplace, with the musket equipping rate and warrior spirit of the First Legion, it is not good to shoot at all, rather than waiting for your own front to be shot down, it is better to launch a hand-to-hand charge before the morale has not fallen below the bottom limit.

The speculation of the top level of the First Army is naturally correct, launching a counter-charge at a distance of more than 20 meters, the Taiping Army will be able to shoot a salvo at most, and the numerical advantage is one of the few things that the First Army can be proud of in the face of the attacking Taiping Army, as long as the distance between the two sides is pulled into close hand-to-hand combat, the First Army can completely use the sea of people to flood the main force of the Taiping Army in the attack!

It's just that reality is always more variable than planned.

The junior officers, who had been indoctrinated with honor and chivalry, had the courage to launch a counter-charge as promised, but there was a clear disagreement among the soldiers at the bottom.

Nearly half of the soldiers of the 1st Regiment gathered in the defense line of the bunker were frightened by the continuous lead bullets, and were indifferent to the officers' orders to charge, and the number of Polish soldiers of the 1st Regiment who had been killed and wounded during the previous shooting was even less than that of the attacking Taiping battle line......

The most important thing is that these Polish soldiers, who rarely have the courage to wield cold weapons, have to face a close-to-face salvo!

The real sense of the face!

When the infantry of the Taiping Army pulled the trigger and fired a salvo, the distance between the two sides was only a few meters, and the huge kinetic energy of the lead bullet even caused many Polish soldiers in the charge to fly out of the ground directly backwards by the inertia of the lead bullet, and fell backwards with their heads in the sky!

If it weren't for the fact that the lead bullets of this era were mainly round, the penetration was extremely poor, and the lead bullets were too soft and would be stuck by the muscle fibers and bones in the human body, I am afraid that it would not be a problem to kill several people with one shot.

The bodies of the Polish soldiers in the charge bloomed with continuous blood flowers, and the entire charging formation was beaten in pieces, and the surviving Polish soldiers behind them were empty in front of them, and many people couldn't help but freeze in place.

At this moment, the infantry of the Taiping Army, with their bayonets in hand, like pikemen, launched a bayonet assault forward in waves with bayonet jungles!

The Polish soldiers who were scattered in a volley of charges were instantly swallowed up by bayonets connected in a line like a mantis arm as a car, even if there were still some real blood warriors who did not retreat, under the huge gap in numbers and the slightest density of formation, they were easily picked into hedgehogs by bayonets several times their own size, and unwillingly ended their lives.

In a single effort, the line of the First Army was so broken by bayonet assault that the Polish soldiers who stayed behind the bunkers threw away all the burdens that hindered their escape without looking back, and fled to the rear.

The few Polish soldiers who were still resisting fell victim to the rout, unable to stop the Taiping army for even a second......

The first line of defense, which was also the line of defense with the largest number of troops deployed by the First Army, was lost in such an avalanche, and the infantry of the Taiping Army line took advantage of the situation, carrying a large number of routs to the second line of defense of the First Army.

The Polish soldiers on the second line of defense did not dare to let go of their hands for fear of accidental injury, while the infantry of the Taiping Army did not have this estimate, and musket volleys were fired one after another in battalion and company units, and the Polish soldiers who hit screamed and could not raise their heads again and again.

When the large force was all in position, the infantry of the Taiping Army, which was shooting while advancing, under the shout of the officer, once again crossed the second line of defense with bayonets, and the second line of defense was mixed with the first army of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania with broken troops and reserves, and the resistance collapsed again in less than ten minutes......

The third line of defense is undoubtedly the weakest of the three lines of defense, and their main combat mission is not to fight head-on, but to prevent the rear road from being outflanked and to maintain the security of logistics transport convoys and to prevent small groups of troops from attacking and harassing.

Such a reserve force, which belonged to the second line in the First Army, faced the collapse of the front line like a landslide, and even the officers who led the team no longer had the determination to resist, and led the soldiers under their command to take up arms and flee to the rear......

As for the high-ranking generals of the First Legion, when the second direction collapsed, they rode on fast horses and embarked on the road of escape......

These members of the descendants of the big aristocratic families cherish their own lives, and it is not the first time that the Polish army has been defeated in the face of the Taiping Army.

The commander of the Taiping Division, who had been observing the battlefield in the rear, put down his monoculars with a smile on his face, and said sarcastically to the senior officers of the Taiping Army around him: "The lowly white man is still as timid as ever, is this what the most 'elite' regiment in the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania looks like?" What a disappointing opponent. ”

"At least, they still have the guts to launch a charge at us, and maybe that's the standard of a warrior in the eyes of white people."

The echo next to it immediately caused a burst of laughter, in this battle, tens of thousands of people of the First Army were completely defeated in less than a day, since then, there is no enough force in the Red Rus area to compete with a division of Taiping line infantry, for the Taiping army in charge of the attack, naturally a happy event.

It is precisely because of the image of the white army in the face of the repeated defeats of the Taiping army that there is a general sense of racist superiority among the Han officers and soldiers of the Taiping army, and they unconsciously regard the white people as inferior people.