"Fire !!"

The first row was half-crouching, the second row was standing, and the third row was standing sideways, and the three columns of the Taiping Army were shooting a salvo from the gap between the soldiers in the second row, and suddenly sprayed a rain of bullets.

I saw that the first two rows of the originally neat Swedish musket phalanx were like cutting wheat, and they were hit and fell to the ground!

The entire battlefield suddenly presented a strange scene of the shooting scene.

One volley, just one salvo, and the phalanx of the Swedish musketeers was all out of order!

They had almost completely lost their ability to fight back, the wails of the wounded were mixed with the frightened cries of the survivors, and many of the Swedish junior officers standing on the front line had been beaten into a sieve and fell to the ground spitting blood, staring blankly at the figure of the Taiping soldiers who were not very clear under the white mist.

The Swedish pikemen behind hurriedly rushed forward, and the Swedish musketeers retreated in horror, which was not a spontaneous action of the Swedish soldiers, but a regular combat routine of the Swedish army.

Because the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army after the first round of salvo shots once again stepped forward!

Although the Swedish musketeers also possess the ability to engage in hand-to-hand combat, hand-to-hand combat is mainly assigned to heavy armoured units such as the Swedish pikemen and the Swedish Great Swordsmen when it is not necessary.

When the distance between the two sides was close to more than 20 paces, the Swedish spear phalanx was lined up with a dense fire of guns, more than 20 steps is not far for an individual, a sprint can kill it, but for the army, it can't be done that.

Anyone with military knowledge knows that once a dash is launched, the entire military formation will disintegrate in an instant, the running formation will become loose, the speed of people will be different, the gap will increase, and a single human body will be like a moth to a fire, one after another crashing into the enemy's dense phalanx, obviously, that is no different from suicide......

This is the reason why in ancient battles preferred to lose speed and maintain a military formation, two armies against each other, and with the same morale, a dense military formation could always crush the loose charging infantry.

Of course, if the dense army is scattered and loose, then it will be no problem to charge again.

It's just that the horizontal phalanx of the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army who pressed up was dense and not chaotic, and there were bright bayonets stuck in each gun head, and if each Swedish soldier rushed up at least three bayonets and stabbed them, the gods would also be pierced into hedgehogs!

Therefore, the Swedish phalanx of pikes still maintained a uniform speed and dense military formation, and immediately after, rows of primordial large grenades emitting light smoke smashed in like stones......

"Oh! My God! It's a grenade......"

Boom, boom, boom......

The large primitive grenades thrown into the dense Swedish spear phalanx exploded one after another, blowing up the hand-to-hand combat formations of the Swedish soldiers, and no matter how heavy the armor, under the close explosion of this large grenade filled with black powder, it would really vomit blood.

The elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army threw grenades like a salvo, after the first row was thrown, the second row followed suit, followed by the third row, and then the first row had already lit the second grenade and continued to throw it forward, slowly advancing in formation as they threw it......

The first reaction of the dazed Swedish hand-to-hand soldiers who were blown up by the grenades was to flee backwards, because the large grenades that were emitting light smoke seemed to be endless, constantly smashing at themselves!

Behind the Swedish spear phalanx is a unit composed of hand-to-hand combat soldiers such as Swedish swordsmen, their original role is to effectively kill and injure the enemy in the melee after the front spear phalanx breaks through the enemy formation, and the Swedish two-handed broadsword is more suitable for melee hand-to-hand combat than the spear.

However, now the Swedish spear phalanx in front of them was directly shattered by the continuous blasting of large primordial grenades, and their follow-up footsteps involuntarily stopped.

When the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army held their bayonets to knock over the sporadic Swedish pikemen who had not been killed by the grenades, and walked out of the white mist created by the grenades like red demons, these Swedish swordsmen and hand-to-hand fighters fled backwards very wisely after glancing at each other!

At this time, the advantages of the bayonet were reflected, and the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army, who had no need for hand-to-hand combat, dismantled the bayonets in a neat time, loaded ammunition and shot at the back of the fleeing Swedish hand-to-hand combatants, easily creating results.

"Damn it!" Karl X angrily shouted to the herald: "Send reserves, let all the cavalry intersperse the enemy's flank, no matter what, you must disrupt the Taiping army's offensive ranks, and you must not let them break through our line!" ”

Soon, the rear of the defeated Swedish soldiers appeared again in a continuous Swedish formation, and the Swedish cavalry did not care about the threat of the platoon of guns, and launched a cavalry surprise attack on the flank phalanx of the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army.

At the same time, the Swedish artillery also began to bombard the ranks of elite musketeers of the Taiping Army, who had already broken through their own front.

Pieces of gunfire and the explosion of large grenades resounded on this battlefield again, even if the elite grenadier queue of the Taiping Army was partially broken through, it would be filled in time by the new force in the rear, this time it was a whole division of more than 13,000 Taiping Army, and no longer only more than 2,000 people of the Vilno Guard Regiment, the Taiping Army had the strength to fill the gap that was broken through and keep the battle line intact!

After half a day of fierce battle, the Swedish cavalry left thousands of corpses to be completely defeated, tens of thousands of Swedish legions were annihilated in formation, and the remaining less than 10,000 Swedish legions had no choice but to retreat.

The grenades were a great blow to morale and formation, and after a wave of grenade bombardment, the Swedish soldiers had no chance of winning against the elite grenadiers with hand-to-hand combat capabilities intact in the bayonet phalanx.

In this way, the self-righteous victory of Karl X was ruthlessly broken, and it turned out that even the legions of the 'recruits' of the Taiping army were no match for the Swedish legions......

The huge military defeat made Karl X begin to doubt his previous view: was fighting against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom self-inflicted?

With twice the elite of the enemy, he fought a field battle with a newly formed legion of the Taiping Army, but there was no suspense at all about defeat, and the spirit of Karl X suffered tons of critical damage......

After being defeated by the 5th Grenadier Division of the Taiping Army, the remnants of the Swedish corps were no longer able to break through the blockade of the Taiping Army, and at this time, Hong Tiancheng, who was pursuing in a rapid march behind, was gradually approaching.

In this desperate situation, Karl X's mentality could not help but undergo a subtle change.