After the Taiping army entered the Moscow area, it was actually on the verge of winter, and in the Russian Empire and the Nordic countries, winter was the term of the truce defined by nature, and perhaps the natives who were accustomed to the cold winter could conduct some small-scale warfare, but for tens of thousands of people to engage in a decisive battle on a large scale, winter was tantamount to suicide.

Although the soldiers of the Taiping Army have the tenacious willpower that can be called perverted, they are flesh and blood after all, and if they are forced to launch an offensive in winter, the non-combat attrition will definitely make Hong Tiancheng feel real heartache!

Therefore, after the Taiping army was stationed in the forward position of the Moscow region, under the supply of materials from the Moscow region, a large number of camps with warm measures were built and a large number of fur coats were stored to keep out the cold.

The greatest lethality of winter to the army is mainly in the state of marching, once the march enters the night, how many soldiers stationed in the field can get up again the next day, there is always an unknown, if you stay in a wooden house with a stove, there is no problem.

With supplies from the Moscow army and civilians, the soldiers of the Taiping Army can live a good winter 'home' life in the Moscow region, and accumulate strength for the war that will be launched in the spring of next year.

The Russian winter bought a lot of time for the coalition forces of the Russian Duma League, led by the Novgorod Kingdom, to gather strength.

Faced with more than 50,000 elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army in four divisions, the Russian Duma coalition forces did not think that the number of troops gathered would be too much......

Of course, winter is not only good for the enemy, but also good for the Taiping army, and the remnants of the 5th Grenadier Division of the Taiping Army, which are deeply in the recalcitrant cities of Vyborg and Helsinki in the Kingdom of Sweden, ushered in a rare respite in winter.

Even the Swedish soldiers, who had adapted to the cold winter, had to slow down their offensive in the winter, and no one could step on the knee-thick snow to charge and kill the enemy, so it would only consume the ammunition of the Taiping army in vain.

However, although the siege of Vyborg and Helsinki stopped, the Kingdom of Sweden was accumulating more strength, trying to quickly uproot the two Taiping strongholds nailed to the Kingdom of Sweden after the beginning of spring, and kill Karl X.

You must know that Karl X, who lived in the city of Helsinki, had used this time to gather a group of orthodox supporters of the royal family, reorganized the royal guard corps loyal to him, and threw himself into the defense of Helsinki.

In 1658, as the snow began to melt and the temperature returned, the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army, who had been facing each other for a long time, embarked on a journey, accumulating enough supplies for a winter to support the elite grenadier divisions of the Taiping Army in several large-scale battles.

Under the personal expedition of Hong Tiancheng, the four elite grenadier divisions of the Taiping Army were divided into three routes, one elite grenadier division of the Taiping Army on the left and right, and the middle was the middle route army formed by two elite grenadier divisions of the Taiping Army.

Fierce fighting broke out a week after the departure of the Taiping Army's elite grenadier division, and for the Taiping Army, whose morale was constant and die-hard, many unfavorable factors could be ignored, and the only thing to worry about was the terrain disadvantage.

Therefore, the offensive routes chosen by the elite grenadier divisions of the Taiping Army were relatively gentle areas, and the mountains, rivers and jungles could be bypassed.

Towns are the areas worth fighting for in the war, because they are necessary places to provide supplies and resting places for the army, and the army hidden in the mountains and forests will definitely come out after a long time, otherwise it will become a group of savages......

This is the reason why the army battles in this era often do not choose the battlefield in the mountains and forests, and the logistical difficulties are fair to both sides, and no one wants their soldiers to fight under harsh conditions, which has a great impact on morale.

Except, of course, for the guerrillas, who are on the absolutely weaker side in the war, but it is also difficult for the guerrillas to achieve great things, unless the regular army itself has problems or is transferred.

The backwardness of science and technology has caused mankind's combat capability to decline geometrically under harsh conditions.

However, when accurate rifled guns become more common, jungle warfare will become commonplace, and while weapons serve the war, battlefield patterns will change as weapons advance.

The roaring artillery sound came and went, and the battle flags of the Taiping Army accompanied by the shouts of the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army resounded throughout the front.

The elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army would often fire a volley after entering the effective range at close range, and then launch a small sprint, throwing a large grenade in their hands and replacing it with a bayonet when they were on the verge of a fortification.

It's old-fashioned, but it's very practical!

As long as the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army withstood the casualties and approached the enemy's position fortifications, and threw the large grenades in their hands into the fortifications, the shrapnel from the explosion would sweep away the Mao Zi soldiers in the fortifications one by one, no matter whether you are a mud leg or a noble knight, you are equal in front of the bomb!

Immediately afterwards, the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army who rushed in crossed the obstacles and low walls, which was a hand-to-hand combat of courage and combat skills, which was not a difficult task for the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army who had been strengthened by bayonet hand-to-hand combat!

If it had been placed on the infantry of the Taiping Army in the past, such a large number of casualties would have inevitably suffered unimaginable casualties, and it might not have been able to win, but in the hands of the qualitatively changed elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army, the Taiping Army's offensive seemed to have become unstoppable.

Even if the generals of the Duma League noble coalition discovered the power of the grenades of the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army, they retreated the knights and veterans who were good at hand-to-hand combat on the front line, put the militia and conscripted farmers at the front and bombed them, and waited for the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army to rush in and then let the knights and veterans who were good at hand-to-hand combat be killed, it still could not change the tide of the battle.

The elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army, who did not know how to retreat, fought to the death were almost inexplicable, and the aristocratic coalition of the Duma League wanted to push the Taiping Army back, and there was only one way to kill all the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army who attacked them......

Obviously, this is not possible for the Taiping army, which is not inferior in terms of troops!

In the past, the Taiping army could repeatedly create miracles by fighting less and more, but now that it no longer occupies a disadvantage in terms of troops, how can it easily retreat?

One after another, the infantry regiments of the Taiping Army were thrown into the battlefield, and at the same time, the positions carefully built by the coalition forces of the Russian Duma League nobles collapsed!

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