In the original history, the morale of the mature dense infantry of the modern 19th century was fatal, not to mention the 17th century 'dirt buns' who had never seen the lethality of the shrapnel at all.

The first appearance of any new and practical weapon on the battlefield will not only bring lethal deterrence to the soldiers, but also cause great panic in the hearts of the soldiers, and many people will come up with something like, 'The enemy has this kind of weapon, this battle will definitely not be won'...... and so on pessimistic thoughts, and the results speak for themselves.

The German allied musketeers are not Taiping soldiers who fight to the death, once there is no morale to maintain, the speed of collapse will definitely be shocking, not to mention, the Taiping elite grenadiers themselves attack the way they attack, in this era can be called terrifying!

At this time, the British island nation was still in the midst of reform and licking the wounds of the civil war, and shortly after the death of Cromwell's executioner, the British royalists regained the upper hand and were in the midst of a vacillation of whether to compromise with the bourgeoisie.

Naturally, the world-famous British Sequoia Army in later generations, colonizing the whole world and beating the elite of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there is no shadow yet!

Therefore, this tactic of the Taiping Army can be said to be unique, and it is also popular in the upper class of the European continent with a widely accepted saying: under the same scale of military strength, do not fight with the Taiping Army in the field, otherwise you will definitely lose!

Once, the unwilling Europeans tried to build the same army after the model of the Taiping Army, but after competing with the Taiping Army, they undoubtedly failed, because they found a key point that they could not replicate - the inhuman morale of the Taiping Army!

Therefore, with the rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, all countries in Europe began to pay attention to the morale of the army to varying degrees, except for the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which was corrupted to the roots, the European continent was not too difficult financially, and more or less began to improve the treatment of soldiers and officers, strengthen training and the subtle idea of loyalty to the monarch, and improve the morale of soldiers.

The German allied soldiers led by Frederick, in addition to the idea of loyalty, also have a combat ideology to defend the country, so the morale is still very good, which is why Frederick dared to compete head-on with the Taiping army.

He didn't want to lose East Prussia!

How could the Duke of Brandenburg be called the King of Prussia 'Energetic'?

The European aristocracy was very keen on titles, because it represented the highest glory!

It's a pity that now in Frederick's eyes, that good morale is like a joke, the first battle line that is about to collapse, and it repeatedly whips Frederick's cheeks!

Even in the first decisive battle between the main force of the German coalition army of the Holy Roman Empire and the Taiping Army, there was no situation of collapse in the early stage of the battle!

It also caused a lot of killings to the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army!

However, the number of casualties of the Taiping army that defeated the first line of the German coalition was probably less than three digits......

After realizing that he could not change the attack speed of his cavalry corps, Frederick could only reluctantly order: "Strengthen the defense of the second battle line, convey the power of the Taiping Army's new artillery, and let the officers be mentally prepared." ”

In order to prevent the Taiping army from breaking through one after another, the depth of the five battle lines reached several miles away, so the officers and men of the second battle line could not see the battle situation of the first battle line clearly, and could only hear the continuous sound of gunfire.

After the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army defeated the German coalition forces on the first line of battle, the 1,000 French chasseurs who had already been ready were like a whirlwind, involved in the rout of the German coalition army, setting off a bloody storm after storm.

Frederick held a telescope in his hand and looked at the light cavalry troops with a French face but working hard for the Han with an embarrassed face, and spit out two words with twitching at the corners of his mouth: "Scum!" ”

Subsequently, Frederick and a kind of German aristocratic generals, shifted the observation command point backwards.

Because Frederick did not dare to guarantee how long the second line of battle would withstand the offensive of the Taipings, he did not want to become a prisoner of the Taipings......

After arriving at the observation point of the third battle line, Frederick raised the monocular again, and by this time, the efficient Taiping army had completed a series of operations such as pursuing and defeating the enemy, regrouping the team, and entering the firing position of the artillery.

By the time Frederick and others began to observe, the Taiping Army had already targeted the German allied artillery bombardment on the second line of battle.

The shrapnel that drew a graceful arc in the air fell into the pile of the German coalition army again, and human life was like a humble ant, being harvested wantonly, and every shrapnel that fell into the pile or exploded above the head of the crowd could immediately knock down a large number of people and dismember the small phalanx!

Basically to the extent that a single shell destroys a company!

The most important thing is that the German coalition forces were bombed unilaterally, which is undoubtedly the most shocking......

Sure enough, the performance of the second line of battle was not much stronger than that of the first, and it soon fell into chaos, and then there was a copy of the first battle line, and the elite grenadier army of the Taiping army approached, shooting, throwing grenades, and charging with bayonets......

Immediately afterwards, the German coalition forces on the second line of battle collapsed......

Frederick's eyes twitched as he looked at the two battle lines that barely played a role in delaying, and the light cavalry of the Taiping Army who were wantonly chasing and killing the rout, and reluctantly issued a seemingly crazy order.

The German coalition forces on the third line of battle took the initiative to attack!

Since he has been repeatedly and quickly defeated by relying on defense, Frederick naturally can no longer watch the Taiping army break through, and it is impossible to retreat, otherwise the Taiping army with cavalry can crush all the German infantry!

At that time, the best-case scenario is probably for Frederick to flee back to Brandenburg with the remaining cavalry corps......

Moreover, it is also unknown how many cavalry can be taken away in the end, because Frederick has not contacted the three outflanking cavalry legions until now!

I am afraid that it will not be until the moment when the cavalry corps attacks that Frederick will not be able to see this well-prepared 'surprise army'.

Due to the distance, most of the German allied officers and men of the third line could not see how the first two lines were defeated, so they quickly marched forward in formation under the orders of Commander Frederick.

The artillery of the German coalition army also opened fire desperately under Frederick's strict orders, but the actual effect was better than nothing.

After the Taiping Army saw that thousands of German allied troops took the initiative to attack, they immediately set up 12-pounder mountain howitzers and bombarded the slowly moving German allied phalanx!

Frederick was slightly relieved to see the Taiping army who had finally stopped advancing, but the next scene made his face turn pale!