105 Hussar charged

"Attack! Offensive! Charge forward!! King Jan Kazimierz Vasa waved his battle flag and shouted loudly, he was deeply impressed by the musket volley of the Taiping army before, and he would not allow the precious Polish hussars to be held back by this group of few remnants of the Taiping army who were not afraid of death, so that the main force of the Taiping army could complete the transformation of the formation!

Under the urging of King Jan Casimir Vasa, most of the Polish hussars who had escaped gradually gathered around him, although many Polish cavalry and hussars were delayed by the desperate Shenji Battalion musketeers, but finally regrouped thousands of iron cavalry to step on the main force of the Taiping army that was completing the formation transformation.

At this moment, the efficient combat quality of the Polish hussars has been vividly reflected, their loyalty, glory, blood, ruthlessness, exquisite horsemanship and horse combat skills honed since childhood, even if those musketeers of the Shenji Battalion are almost entangled with the same method, they are still broken free by most of the Polish hussars!

King Jan Kazimierz Vasa was also a brave commander, and he stepped non-stop with the iron hooves of thousands of cavalry that had broken free and stepped towards the front row of Swedish senior musket mercenaries who had just gathered into a dense phalanx.

Because the Polish hussars broke free from the entanglement of the troops behind the palace in advance, the senior Swedish musketeers in the front row had not yet completed the firing formation, and the Swedish officers had no choice but to give the order to fire freely.

Veteran Swedish musketeers, either kneeling or standing with their backs straight, staggered across the line and fired at the onrushing Polish hussars.

A few hundred meters behind the Swedish veteran musketeer array, there were the musketeers of the Shenji Battalion who were about to complete the change of formation.

The advantage of free fire is that soldiers can shoot more bullets at the fastest speed, and at the same time, the dependence on formation will be greatly reduced, but the disadvantage is that they cannot shoot a rain of bullets in an instant, causing devastating casualties to the charging enemy in a short period of time, and crushing the enemy's morale!

The soldiers fell one by one when they charged, and a large number of them fell together with the charge, and the blow to their morale and formation was a completely different concept, no matter how elite the troops, most of the soldiers in the front row were emptied in a short period of time, and they would also suffer a fatal blow physically and mentally!

Even if they are die-hard Taiping soldiers, their morale may not be shaken, but this lack of moments will disrupt their battle rhythm, leading to the confusion of the formation and the embarrassing state of the soldiers having to fight separately.

In the case of cavalry charges, a large area of fire in an instantaneous attack will cause a large number of fallen allies in the front row, causing the cavalry behind to slow down and cross or turn around to avoid sudden obstacles.

If a cavalryman is killed one by one, as long as the morale of the cavalry unit is high enough, it will not affect the momentum of the charge.

During the First World War, there were many scenes of cavalry groups charging at machine gun positions, and not every cavalry charge was repulsed by machine gun crossfire!

In the 17th century, the system of the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania may have been very poor, and the aristocratic democracy made it impossible for the power of the huge Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania to be screwed together, but the combat effectiveness of the Polish hussars was recognized as the strongest in the whole of Europe!

Whether it was the Kingdom of Sweden, which was the first to carry out the reform of modern line tactics, or the Russian Empire, which made great efforts to develop firearms units and established a shooting corps with the civilian class as the main soldiers, their comprehensive military strength was much higher than that of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania.

The combined strength here refers to the average of forces and qualities!

However, these two countries were repeatedly overwhelmed by Polish hussars in the wars of the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom.

In the field, both the Swedish line tactics and the Russian archery army could hardly resist the charge of the Polish hussars head-on, but the only thing that limited the strength of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom was the small number of Polish hussars.

It takes more than ten years to train a Polish hussar!

However, a maximum of one year of training to train a marksman or a regular Swedish musketeer is enough to become a field unit.

Because of this, the war between the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom and the Swedish Kingdom and the Russian Empire was long and brutal, and the final demise of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom was mainly due to internal Cossack rebellion and external two-sided attacks.

Of course, King Jan Kazimierz Vasa was not deeply aware of all this at this time, and he also knew the fundamental weakness of the Sym Council in the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania that was too powerful and the veto power of the great nobles was too nonsense, but King Jan Kazimierz Vasa felt that this was not a fatal flaw, because he was still immersed in the glory of the Polish hussars in the past, and thought that the Polish hussars were the best cavalry field troops in all of Europe, and there was no one!

Most of the Polish hussars themselves thought so, and their high sense of mission and confidence in their own strength gave them the best morale of any Eastern European army.

The Polish hussars were constantly shot down and dismounted in the charging ranks, but their pace of charge did not stop at all, and every Polish hussar did not have any negative emotions such as fear and panic in their eyes as they jumped over the corpses of their compatriots, and they had only one target in their eyes, which was the position of the Swedish veteran musketeers who were constantly firing in front of them!

"Oh my God, are these Polish cavalrymen all madmen? They have already died so many people, why should they move forward?!!! ”

Swedish veteran musket mercenary commander Ibrahim. Rashino shouted in horror for Qi's eyes, as if venting his inner fear. It was too timid for Lasino, but the indomitable spirit of the Polish hussars was too terrifying, and this kind of morale was a good thing to put on his own allies, but it was terrifying to put it on the enemy......

Lian Yibu. The commander of Razino had become so panicked, let alone those ordinary Swedish veteran musket mercenaries?

The Swedish senior musket mercenaries panicked not because their military literacy was not high enough, but because they were all veterans of the war, they knew best what kind of blow the heavy cavalry troops rushed over in this state would deal to them!

This is no longer something that can be resisted by willpower!

Didn't you see that the thousands of musketeers of the Shenji Battalion behind the palace who were not afraid of death were instantly chiseled through and besieged?

Even if they were not afraid of death, at most they would have to delay the footsteps of such fearless heavy cavalry, after all, they did not have a spear as a weapon specifically against cavalry......

After paying the price of two or three hundred casualties, the Polish hussars trampled in under the desperate gaze of the senior Swedish musket mercenary, and slammed into a series of brilliant blood-colored light curtains!