After a few loud bangs, the Vilno city wall, which had been stormed for a week, was finally blown out of a hole that was enough to be cleared, and it was a small section of the city wall that the Taiping army had just taken, and a large number of explosives were planted to blow it up by means of advancing inside and out, so that the Taiping army no longer had to climb up through ladders and siege towers, but only needed to rush up along the gap.

After the eleventh smash order, the private soldiers of the nobles who were cornered had no choice but to show their real skills to act as cannon fodder for the forwards, and as a result, the casualty rate of each day from the fourth day was twice as high as the sum of the first three days!

The eleventh smash order at the end of the siege every day has become the blade of Damoris hanging over the heads of these private cannon fodder, and they will die if they fight the front line, and they will die if they can't break through the city, so they can only fight hard.

However, as Zhang Juzheng said, the unconcerned warriors were often a group of extremely unstable factors, and after the punishment of the eleventh smash order was ended on the fifth day, those noble private soldiers who surrendered to Cheng finally couldn't bear to launch an unsuccessful mutiny, and under the suppression of the Taiping army with superior forces, their measures were naturally unsuccessful......

On the sixth day, the surviving private soldiers of the Toucheng nobles were taken up as the vanguard of the guard, followed by a thousand Ottoman Sultans who chanted the slogan of Allah's holy war.

After the real elite of the Taiping army came into play, the offensive posture of Vilno City finally showed progress, and the siege battle on the sixth day was also extremely tragic, not only the noble private soldiers who were forcibly driven to mutiny were killed and wounded, but also more than half of the 1,000 Ottoman Sultan's own soldiers who attacked.

However, the results of the Taiping army were also good, they forced out hundreds of real elites in Vilno City for the first time, and killed more than 300 people, which greatly damaged the morale of the defenders of Vilno City.

There are not many people who are willing to bury the territory of Grand Duke Janusz Rajvir, most of the defenders are mercenaries and militiamen who pay for their lives, and there are even young citizens who have little combat experience, they can persist in fighting not only by relying on the so-called Lithuanian national slogan, maybe on the first day they will have high morale because of the so-called slogan, but after several days of high-intensity and tragic siege battles, after understanding the cruelty of war and the fragility of life, how many people will fight with their lives because of a few slogans?

The low-level commoners of this era have not spread because of the idea of enlightenment and freedom, and the thousands of years of European feudal aristocracy have made the lower class people full of servility, and they may rise up to resist because of oppression and inability to live, but they will never resist to the end!

When they realize that fighting is equal to death, they will naturally choose the option of survival, they are not great heroes, nor are they *******...... In their eyes, surrender is not even a word 'shameful'.

Therefore, after the defenders of Vilno were frightened by the cruel reality, the only people who really maintained their morale in battle were the private soldiers and knights who were genuinely loyal to the family of the Grand Duke Janusz Rajvir, and the number of these people was too small for the entire city of Vilno, and each death would weaken the morale of the Vilno defenders' resistance.

After the first 5 days of attrition, the elite attack on the sixth day surprised the defenders of Vilno City, who had adapted to the rhythm of the vanguard cannon fodder battle, and at the same time, they almost lost their ground, and finally had to send the core elite Grand Duke Janusz Rajvir's private soldiers and knights to kill all the Ottoman Sultan's own soldiers who attacked the city.

However, on the seventh day, the rising sun, the Ottoman Sultan's own soldiers and the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army who rushed up completely flooded a section of the city wall of Vilno City, and blew it out of a large hole.

Once again, the Taiping Army illustrated the truth that no matter how strong the walls were, it was always the people, not the dead, who won the ultimate victory.

If the elite private soldiers and guardian knights of Grand Duke Janusz Rajvir had not suffered heavy losses, coupled with the cooperation of a large number of militia and mercenaries, the Taiping army would undoubtedly have to pay a great price if they wanted to take Vilno City, and they might not be able to break the city, but for Vilno City, which only had a few hundred elite left, it only took a week to break the city and the lives of a large number of cheap cannon fodder.

The real losses of the Taiping army were nothing more than the 1,000 Ottoman Sultan's own soldiers.

They were the most fanatical religious elite soldiers, and they did not take a step back when attacking, but fought to the death of the elite of Grand Duke Janusz Rajvir in Vilno, and after the city was broken on the seventh day, the remaining strength of the Ottoman Sultan, who was the vanguard of the front row, was less than a hundred, and most of them were lightly wounded.

Even so, they did not retreat from the front line, in the Taiping Army, the tradition of combat is that as long as there is action and physical strength, they will not go down the front line of battle, which is also the reason why the veterans of the Taiping Army are eliminated too quickly.

However, Hong Tiancheng did not try to change this tradition, after all, driven by this tradition, even if it is not a die-hard lottery, the lottery will fight to the greatest extent under the leadership of the Taiping Army, as for the mass death of veterans, it is not a problem for Hong Tiancheng, who has a comprehensive war system, anyway, the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army exchanged in the all-out war system are themselves veteran elites, and they do not need to be trained on the battlefield to be qualified elite soldiers.

Because of this, the Taiping Army's frantic combat tradition can only be maintained by relying entirely on an open-minded all-out war system, and the combat effectiveness of the normal army has long been greatly reduced due to the lack of a large number of veterans.

Having lost the outer city wall defense system and the last elite Vilno City, even if there were still inner cities and even fortress defenses in the city, there was little resistance under the attack of the surging Taiping army, and everywhere the Taiping army passed along the way, there was a rabble of armed men who had lost their fighting faith, mainly composed of the young militia of the citizens of Vilno.

The offensive and defensive battle of Vilno City was doomed in the eyes of the heads of other powers, no matter in terms of troops, morale, weapons and equipment, and even the quality of officers, the Taiping army could crush Archduke Janusz Rajvir, to be precise, the Taiping army could crush the Lithuanian region that had lost most of its military strength at this time, not to mention a single Grand Duke Janusz Rajvir.

Therefore, the fall of Vilno was only an expected outcome.