138 It cannot go on like this
The rumbling cannon sound sounded again, and the soldiers on both sides, who had just filled their stomachs, once again stepped on the battlefield full of energy and blood stains.
The Polish-Lithuanian coalition still sent a large Spanish package as always, and the tactical phalanx is not something that can be changed overnight, and it takes a lot of time to train to run it in.
Of course, the 3rd and 4th regiments of the Taiping Army lined up in a standard line.
"Your Majesty, this time the Poles have taken out the bottom of the box, and the people lined up in front of us are no longer the strong men, militiamen, mercenaries and the like who were temporarily pulled, but the private soldiers from the official nobility and the few regular infantry in the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, most of them are veterans who participated in the Swedish Campaign and the Vienna Campaign, and both the will to fight and the combat ability are much higher than those Polish soldiers before."
Zhao Yan, who was in charge of intelligence work, explained beside Hong Tiancheng.
"Oh? In other words, it is no longer possible to break down the Polish array in one charge like in the morning, right, let the three regiments go up and line up to shoot, and the fourth regiment will cover, and I will make the guard battalion and the Naker heavy cavalry ready to respond, and close the distance between the enemy and us as soon as possible, and I can't let the Polish artillery continue to bombard like this. ”
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Hong Tiancheng's order was quickly conveyed, and although the Taiping army suffered great losses in the morning battle, the impact on the morale of the soldiers in the Taiping army headquarters was completely zero, and the only Nakel heavy cavalry that was not a die-hard unit was also not deeply touched because the dead and wounded troops had little intersection with themselves.
The morale of the Kerr heavy cavalry belonged to the upper echelons among the mercenaries, which was also the reason why Hong Tiancheng left it at the end, if it was the Ottoman armed attendants who were left at this time, after witnessing the tragic scene of the bloody battle in the morning, it was estimated that the army's morale would have been turbulent by now.
This is the case on the side of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army, the infantry is fine, the casualties in the morning battle are all unrecognized cannon fodder scum and mercenaries, but the morale of the cavalry is inevitably reduced, even if those noble generals have been cheering up their own people for the sake of victory, but the fact that the cavalry team lost more than half of the battle in the bloody battle is in front of them, and the cavalry naturally has more thoughts in their hearts.
If it weren't for the fact that most of the cavalry in the Polish-Lithuanian coalition came from knightly families and noble servants, and their loyalty and honor were high, I am afraid that they would have lost the courage to fight at this time.
The sound of bugles and drums sounded again, and the old Polish artillery, including the five captured Ottoman siege cannons, was really ineffective in the field, bombarding for nearly an hour, and the casualties inflicted on the Taiping army did not even reach the triple digits......
If it weren't for the fact that the battles of this era required soldiers to advance intensively, these extremely inaccurate artillery would have had difficulty even causing casualties.
As the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army approached, the elite musketeers of the Polish-Lithuanian infantry who had shrunk into a single front gathered in front of the pikemen under the orders of the officers, and learned from the Taiping Army in the morning battle, and arranged a six-lane horizontal column of deep firing columns.
The generals of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army are not fools, after witnessing the advantages of the Taiping Army's line tactics, they will naturally learn from the gourd and the scoop, because the line tactics are too simple, just let the soldiers stand in line, not to mention, the requirements for the Polish-Lithuanian combined infantry are even saved from the queue, and it is not difficult for them to stand in line.
It's just that the infantry of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army has learned a mold at most, although they are lined up in six horizontal rows, but in fact, only the soldiers in the first row are shooters, and they are also carefully selected soldiers who are good at shooting.
The 5 rows of soldiers in the back are soldiers who load arquebuses, and the salvo is not something that can be learned by looking at it once, and the generals of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army just feel that the simple horizontal column of the Taiping Army is particularly suitable for unfolding the fire shooting surface, so they are arranged in this way, lined up in six horizontal rows, just because the loading steps of the arquebus are far more complex than the flintlock pistol, and the infantry musketeers in the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army are not cavalry masters, and the basic ones used are arquebuses, at most the quality is better.
Standing in the rear, Jan Skzhetusky frowned and looked at the Taiping soldiers who were gradually moving forward with flintlock pistols on their shoulders, and had already begun to think about the problem of completely changing flintlock pistols after this battle, and the super 'fast' firing frequency of flintlock pistols left a deep impression on Jan Skrzetusky in the morning battle.
It is more impressive than the line phalanx of the Taiping Army!
In the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom, which valued cavalry, the depth of the Taiping army's infantry line phalanx was too shallow, and they did not have too strong a desire for reform.
If it hadn't been taught a lesson by the hollow phalanx of the Taiping Army before, the noble generals of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition would even directly rush to the thin Taiping infantry line phalanx with a large number of hussars.
Under the baptism of guns, the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army did not ignore the casualties and stepped into the close-range shooting platoon this time, but stopped at the edge of the effective range of the muskets of about 100 meters, and fired at the elite musketeers of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army!
The elite musketeers of the Taiping Army were undoubtedly very wise, and the flintlock muskets used by all the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army could rely on the rotation method to fire a salvo, while the elite musketeers of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army used arquebuses with a far backward rate of fire, and the average rate of fire of the flintlock pistols was 7 to 8 times that of the arquebus!
Even if the Polish-Lithuanian army had far more musketeers than the elite musketeers of the Taiping army, it was possible to use five times as many soldiers as loaders, and the firing speed was one beat slower than that of the elite musketeers of the Taiping army.
The most important thing is that at such a distance, most of the old guns of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition had to stop shelling in order to avoid accidental damage, and only a few small guns with little power could continue to exert their power.
Less than half an hour after the start of the shooting, the generals of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army were shocked to find that their musketeers were far more numerous than the other side, and there were many small-caliber artillery fire cover, but they were suppressed by the musketeers of the Taiping Army in the counterfire!
In the confrontation, the musketeers of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army instinctively retreated gradually under the continuous casualties, but the musketeers of the Taiping army ignored their own casualties and approached step by step, which once again proved a problem - the comparison of morale, the Taiping army can completely crush any opponent!
"We can't go on like this!" Jan Skzhetusky, who had stepped down from his post as marshal, shouted at the big noble generals around him.
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