As the closest big city to Hungary before the Ottoman Turkish Empire, Budapest has always served as an important transit hub in the Ottoman Turkish Empire's war against Central Europe.

Such an important city was naturally guarded by a large number of troops deployed by the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and Budapest can be said to be the most important thing connecting the hundreds of thousands of main forces of the Ottoman Turkish Empire in Central Europe with the Ottoman Turkish Empire itself!

Once Budapest falls, the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Ottoman Turkish Empire in Central Europe will fall into a shortage of war materials, even if they will not be completely cut off from logistics routes, and will no longer be able to let themselves go as they are now, wantonly slaughter and suppress the infidels in Central Europe, and beat them with the armed militias of Central Europe.

Although the progress of the main army of the Ottoman Empire in Central Europe was slow, it always had an absolute advantage, after all, the army system of the Ottoman Turkish Empire was not as efficient as that of the Taiping Army, and it was natural that the resistance to advance was not fast.

However, even the regular army of the Ottoman Empire, with its rotten system, could completely bulldoze a devastated Central Europe if it had enough time.

Even if Central Europe is now out of the control of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the whole political system cannot be organized, and the vast majority of resistance groups are spontaneously gathered in various cities and regions, with outdated weapons and equipment and lack of training, and if it were not for the massacre of infidels by the Ottoman Turkish Empire, these Central European mud-legged armed forces would not be able to resist the Ottoman attack at all.

Budapest was so important that it naturally became the first target of the Taiping army.

The Taiping Army, which was divided into two divisions and regiments, was not at all able to resist the tens of thousands of second-rate troops of the Ottoman Turkish Empire arranged on the outer defense line of Venice.

Although there were various accidents when the Anti-Han League took over the French mainland, not only did there be two factions of French local forces within the Anti-Han League, but there was also a Lindenwan armed force on the French mainland, and under the concern of the Anti-Han League to avoid civil war, a situation of three kingdoms was formed.

But France itself is the richest and most developed region in Western Europe, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom said that the amount of gas that was thrown away really surprised the Ottoman Turkish Empire, you know, even if Central Europe was slaughtered by the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and it has long been destroyed by the war, the Ottomans are still tirelessly attacking the land of Central Europe, and not letting go of a city!

Even if the locals of these lands were almost slaughtered, the Ottoman Turkish Empire could resettle the followers of Allah and redevelop the area, and religious expansion was not only a conversion of the local population, but also the slaughter of pagan immigrants to the local religion.

Otherwise, thousands of nations would not have perished in history.

This kind of war immigration Christianity has also done a lot, the four crusades of the year, not only soldiers, but also civilians and soldiers' families with the army, basically a piece of land will be divided into a piece of land, otherwise, the Europeans are not stupid, why should they go thousands of miles to fight?

On the political level, the expedition is to glorify and spread the glory of the Lord, but for the soldiers at the bottom, fighting a war is a robbery for food, money, and land!

Therefore, the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which penetrated deep into Central Europe, also had this purpose, which is also a fine tradition of the European War.

On the contrary, it was the Taiping Army's behavior of taking the initiative to give up a large area of land at once, which makes people feel incomprehensible, you know, the Taiping Army withdrew from France mainland when it had an absolute advantage and the anti-Han alliance was unable to fight back!

In the eyes of the Ottoman Turks, this is simply a fantasy, if they have such a big advantage, even if they die, they will not be able to spit out the meat in their mouths!

It's a pity that the Ottoman Turks would never have guessed that Hong Tiancheng was not land and population at all, but the support of the all-out war system, and it was Hong Tiancheng's fundamental strategy to feed the war with war!

As a result, the Ottoman Turkish Empire did not have time to withdraw the hundreds of thousands of main troops that had penetrated deep into Central Europe, and Budapest, the transit base camp in the rear, fell into the siege of the Taiping army.

At the same time, another Taiping army also attacked the city all the way, cutting off another logistics line of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, but compared with Budapest, the other logistics routes were mainly auxiliary.

The Ottoman Turkish Empire attached great importance to Budapest, and while strictly ordering the more than 100,000 Ottoman Turks to send half of their main forces in Central Europe to help, while increasing the number of Budapest's defensive forces.

Even when Budapest was approaching, the Ottoman Sultan did not abandon his plans to occupy Central Europe!

The strong combat effectiveness of the Taiping Army, in the offensive and defensive battle of Budapest, once again shocked the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

The vast majority of the defenders in Budapest were second-line regular troops of the Ottoman Empire, with only a few temporary reinforcements of the Sultan Janissaries fighting well.

Although there were more people than the attacking Taiping army, and a large number of artillery pieces were deployed to defend the city, the soldiers' will to fight was far less than the hundreds of thousands of Ottoman elite main forces deep in Central Europe.

The Taiping army's siege routine was very simple, with the powerful firepower of Hanyang-made rifles, they lined up in a dense queue of guns, and suppressed the batteries at the head of the city from four or five hundred meters away.

The Taiping Army, which had Hanyang-made, could easily slaughter the forts at the head of the city with a large number of breech-loading rifles with a range similar to that of enemy artillery, until no enemy dared to approach the forts and open fire......

With the same range, dozens of artillery pieces could not fire at thousands of breech guns, and the city defense batteries in Budapest were completely paralyzed without killing a few people.

The rifle superiority of the Taiping army was so great that on the battlefield of the 17th century, it was almost completely possible to ignore the influence of enemy artillery, giving the illusion that artillery was inferior to rifles......

The Taiping Army, which has broken through the barriers of science and technology, can play like this......

After abolishing the local forts, the Taiping army continued to maintain a complete platoon of guns, gradually approaching the city wall, and while advancing, they used their firepower to suppress and kill the defending soldiers on the city's defenses, which was a completely one-sided slaughter!