The most important factor in the melee is undoubtedly the personal combat quality and courage of the soldiers, and the latter occupies a much higher proportion than the former, as everyone knows - the one who is afraid of death!

During World War II, the U.S. military was crushed from heavy equipment to the most basic individual rifles, but the U.S. military was always embarrassed in land warfare, and a small-scale Iwo Jima battle made the U.S. military deeply aware of the difficulties and dangers of capturing the Japanese mainland, and even the U.S. military command made the inference that it would take at least one million precious American GIs' lives to defeat the Japanese.

At that time, little Japan had already been affected by the compression of the battlefield and the blockade of materials, and the economic collapse and military industry stagnation, basically except for people, Japan at that time lacked everything, but such a small country that was about to finish its calf was given such a high evaluation by the US imperialism, which had an absolute advantage at that time, was not it because of the deadly style of play of little Japan?

World War II has raised the war from the courage of soldiers to the quality of equipment, and the absolute strength of war is no longer judged by how many troops and how many bayonets, but how many tanks, aircraft, artillery and even aircraft carriers!

Even so, the courage of the soldiers could give a headache to the American imperialists, who had superior equipment on the battlefield, not to mention the even more backward and barbaric 17th century?

The Maxine slaughter machine of World War I put an end to the wave of fearless charges, and the air-ground integration and steel torrents of World War II equated infantry charging with death, but until then, no military strategist of great standing could avoid a crucial factor in the war - morale.

It is precisely because the importance of morale has been repeatedly highlighted in the war that Marxism-Leninism and all kinds of nationalist ideas have been changed in a new way that Marxism-Leninism and all kinds of nationalist ideas have flourished, and the reason why the ideas of freedom and equality have defeated the feudal monarchy is not because of the collective benevolence of the upper ruling class, but simply because they realize that the people's army, armed with free ideas, will burst out with a force that makes them feel terrified!

The ruler may have a few brain deficiencies, but the entire ruling group, which symbolizes the elite level of society, has always maintained a calm and rational brain, and the ruling group will naturally change its previous ruling routine after realizing that the common people who were originally regarded as cattle have burst out tons of power under the advanced and easy-to-use firearms in frequent wars.

As a result, the explicit human hierarchy gradually became implicit, and the original famous families turned into ancient business tycoon political families, except for those who stood at the top, were slow to react or were targeted by a few ruling families who were overthrown at the moment of the rise of free thought, the vast majority of high-level aristocrats will eventually have a good identity change, after all, they have a lot of social wealth advantages, between talent and money, the victory will always be money.

The reason why self-made people are admired by everyone is precisely because of its extra difficulty and difficulty, among so many rich people in the world, how many people are really self-made by their own efforts?

Fortunately, in the 17th century, firearms were not yet widely available, and the ruling class was not really aware of the power of the people at the bottom, and even the mercenaries who paid for their lives could fight more than the militias armed by civilians.

The development of human civilization is accompanied by the progress of cannibalistic weapons, and at the same time, the advanced nature of cannibalistic weapons determines the trend of war, even if it is a high emperor, in the end, they have to succumb to the general trend of war, because there is not only one emperor in this world, there are many kings and rulers competing with each other, even if they know that simple and easy-to-use firearms will make the military aristocracy lose their greatest reliance, for the continuation of their own country and the continuation of power, they also have to be the driving force of the progress of this civilization.

The premise of the humanistic revolution is a military revolution, and the idea of national freedom will explode and sweep the whole world, not because the evolution of human ideology is too slow, but because it was not until the 18th century that the weapons of human civilization allowed civilian armed forces to rely on numbers to occupy a real advantage in war!

Even if the common people at the bottom cannot personally sit on the throne of the people, but the ruling class no longer dares to oppress the civilians as before, because their army is full of brothers and sons who are oppressed by the civilians.

The Sovietized Russian Empire is a prime example, and the Tsar's family was still dreaming of winning World War I, defeating Germany, and becoming the gendarme of Europe again, just before the uprising broke out.

Politics is not inherently hypocritical, but because the people have mastered the grassroots of the army and become an indispensable part of the war machine, so politics must be dressed in a false propaganda cloak in order to continue to survive, which is the embodiment of the collective wisdom of politicians, and those who do not think of this are basically eliminated by the torrent of history, unless they do not need the people to enrich their armies and defend their power!

The people are the masters of the country, which is never given by outsiders, but fought through blood and war, because the rulers are afraid of the power of the people, so the people are qualified to be the masters of the country!

However, Hong Tiancheng's all-out war system completely violates this law, he does not need to curry favor with ordinary white civilians in Europe, so he does not need to fear the power of the people, and most importantly, Hong Tiancheng has the morale of the soldiers is MAX, and the best mode of war for a die-hard army is not to line up in a neat phalanx to fight each other, but to test the most personal courage in melee hand-to-hand combat.

When the Lithuanian follow-up infantry rushed into the battle group, the elite musketeer reserve of the Taiping Army who had just eliminated the broken Lithuanian winged cavalry did not take long to rush in, and the two sides were leveled again in numbers, and the Lithuanian cavalry, which had lost its charging speed and group advantage, could no longer slaughter the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army on the battlefield, and the Lithuanian cavalry could only rush left and right scattered, obscured by the dust of the battlefield, and waved their sabers aimlessly until they were stabbed off by the enemy.

The addition of the Taiping Army's new force was not too prominent at the beginning, but when the corpses on the battlefield gradually superimposed, and more and more Lithuanian soldiers died, the Lithuanian cavalry with a speed advantage began to flinch and flee to the periphery of the battlefield, and then brought a wave of panicked rhythm, compared with the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army who were fearless in life and death, the morale gap of Lithuanian soldiers was too big.