The optimal firing distance for muskets was 50 meters, because only at this distance could soldiers with flintlock muskets aim at their targets with some certainty without knowing where the bullets would fly after firing.

However, at a distance of 100 meters, the lead bullet can already be fired into the human body to cause fatal injuries, which is also when the musket has just become popular, the musketeers who spare their lives will often stand at a distance of 100 meters away and raise the gun to shoot, and the result is that the number of dead and wounded on both sides is extremely limited for half a day......

The premise of being able to kill people is, first of all, to be able to hit people......

Of course, human beings will learn and progress, and the commanders of the European continent who frequently fought soon discovered the inefficiency of this way of fighting, and began to gradually shorten the combat distance, until the 18th century, when the development of line tactics reached its peak, and the 50-meter combat distance became the consensus of European countries, except for the special exception of the British that did not follow common sense to play cards and desperately advance at gunpoint, most countries would line up to shoot at a distance of about 50 meters.

At this time, the Poles did not yet have the concept of 50-meter shooting, but only used the theoretical maximum effective killing distance of the smoothbore gun as the standard, so the Taiping Army pulled the trigger as soon as the battle line entered the 100-meter line.

The crackling of muskets and the playful firing of Polish soldiers with crossbows and crossbows were boringly prepared with bows and crossbows showed that the First Army was indeed a far superior force to the other newly formed standing armies.

At the very least, the soldiers were able to adhere to battlefield discipline, which seemed simple, but in the 17th century, when the feudal color had not faded, it was not an easy thing to do, and only the elite of various countries could generally do it.

The shooting at a distance of 100 meters only caused double-digit casualties to the Taiping army, which can really be regarded as a drop in the bucket for a battle line advanced by thousands of people.

After a free fire, the Polish musketeers behind the bunker began to busily reload their ammunition, and their movements were full of strange 'accidents' due to nervousness and unskillful operation.

As a result, more than 10 percent of the musketeers failed to get the buckshot out of their chambers during the second shot, and many of the musketeers even repeated the previous reloading action after pulling the trigger and not firing, instead of checking the chamber......

It is foreseeable that these Polish musketeers will never think about firing their smoothbore guns in this battle!

This is the norm in the era of queuing to shoot, and it is also the reason why the British army attaches great importance to the first salvo in history, no matter how elite the musket privates, only the first salvo is the most neat, and the subsequent loading is on the battlefield scattered with the breath of death, and the soldiers are prone to make mistakes under various negative emotions, and as a result, various accidents occur and cannot be fired.

This probability occurs after each salvo, and humans are not robots after all, which leads to a vicious circle, with the more salvos fired, the fewer smoothbore guns that can fire in the same cross-section......

This situation is of universal significance, the elite troops can only reduce this probability and can not eliminate it, even if it is a Taiping soldier, there is no nervousness, there is a very small probability of a mistake under multiple loading, only one mistake, loading ammunition needs to be reloaded, it is obvious that in the battlefield that race against time, most soldiers do not have the patience to slowly re-empty the chamber loading.

Therefore, the line infantry of the Taiping Army also paid attention to the quality of the first few salvos.

They did not fire at a distance of 100 meters, they still stepped on the drum and kept their heads up, eighty meters, seventy meters, sixty meters, fifty meters!

At a distance of less than 50 meters, the infantry of the Taiping Army line could finally aim at the target, so the battle line of the Taiping Army stopped, and the soldiers in the first row stood and raised their guns to aim in one go, and then pulled the trigger in the command knife commanded by the officer.

Patches of lead bullet flipped Polish soldiers with half of their bodies or heads exposed, and many Polish archers who were throwing bows and arrows fell limply on their bunkers, dark red blood soon dripping all over the surrounding mud.

Although crossbows and archers joined the attack sequence, the damage to the Taiping army was not as terrible as expected.

The volley of muskets knocked out many Polish soldiers who wanted to shoot arrows, greatly reducing the fire projection of the Poles.

After the first row of Taiping line infantry finished firing a salvo, they loaded ammunition on the spot, and the second row of line infantry took two to three steps forward, and raised their guns to aim and shoot under the order of the officer!

In less than 10 seconds, another rain of bullets smashed down on the Polish line, and even though they had cover, most of the lead bullets missed the target, leaving the Polish soldiers who were half exposed and their heads shooting dead and wounded.

The bunkers only lowered the area where the Polish soldiers were attacked, not completely covered them.

After the salvo, the third row of Taiping line infantry followed, walked to the front of the queue, and fired a third salvo!

At this time, the soldiers in the first row basically completed the loading of the flintlock smoothbore guns, and continued to step forward under the orders of the officers.

Advance while firing, suppress enemy fire with firepower, and gradually close the distance.

The Polish soldiers of the First Army relied on their bunkers to withstand the rain of bullets, looking at the Taiping Army battle line that was getting closer and closer, and their hearts couldn't help but waver.

At this time, the rear of the defensive bunker was already full of wounded people who had been hit and were rolling on the ground and wailing, which was a great blow to the morale of the Polish soldiers.

But the reality was that most Polish soldiers did not dare to shoot with their heads out at all, or after one shot, they were trembling and lying on their stomachs behind cover, not knowing whether their legs were weak or their hands were weak, and they could not get up from the muzzle of a gun facing direct fire anyway......

This led to a significant reduction in the counter-fire of the Polish front, and the bunkers could protect the soldiers, but at the same time gave the soldiers a shelter to fear death, unlike in the open field, where the soldiers had no choice but to reload their ammunition and shoot as much as possible.

Therefore, bunkers are not a good thing for soldiers who do not have enough courage to face death.

Gradually, the line infantry of the Taiping Army has approached to a distance of less than 30 meters, and within this distance, the lethality of the flintlock smoothbore gun can be said to be fully exerted, and the line infantry of the Taiping Army can almost achieve a hit rate of more than ninety percent, and the casualties of Polish soldiers have skyrocketed!

At this time, the string in the hearts of the soldiers on the positions of the 1st Polish Army Corps had jumped to a critical point, and it was not far from collapse......

However, at this critical moment, the junior officers of the small aristocracy behind the bunker suddenly burst out into a frenzied shout, launched a counter-charge, and took the lead in jumping out of the bunker, brandishing cold weapons to kill the infantry of the Taiping Army line, which was not far away!