Shrapnel exploded one after another over the attacking German horizontal phalanx, and a 'metal rain' immediately fell over the heads of the German line infantry regiment, and every explosion sounded over the infantry regiment, it would trigger a series of screams and wails.

Many of the German line infantrymen who were hit by shrapnel shells were not killed immediately, but clutched their wounded parts or lay on the ground wailing, or fled indiscriminately.

The miserable appearance of these soldiers was more demoralizing than the dead soldiers, and few of the uninjured soldiers around them were willing to continue the attack just by hearing the desperate screams of their colleagues......

Rather than suffer that kind of living sin, it is better to die altogether!

As a result, the attacking German line infantry phalanx, one after another to retreat, in the defensive state, there are the superintendent and officers at all levels in the back to closely control, but when attacking, there will be a huge space between each horizontal phalanx, and there will be dislocation of each other, when a certain horizontal phalanx collapses, other horizontal phalanxes in the offensive simply have no time to press.

In the end, under Frederick's desperate eyes, thousands of attacking German infantry retreated before they could touch the defense line of the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army!

The 12-pounder mountain howitzer appeared for the first time, and the blow to morale was beyond the imagination of the vast majority of people, even the commander of the Taiping Army did not expect the 12-pounder mountain howitzer to be so sharp.

Weapon innovation can sometimes really outweigh the impact of morale, especially if there is a generation gap in weapons!

During World War II, even the American GIs themselves admitted that the Japanese devils who had been brainwashed and washed into two goods by militarism did not want to die in the war, but even if the Japanese devils were ready to go to the battlefield with the idea of becoming a benevolent person if they did not succeed, under the various superior firepower and advanced equipment of the US military, they were still defeated again and again, and in the end they were even more obedient to the bombing of the two atomic bombs......

This is the power brought by the generation gap in weapons, the closer to modern times, the greater the generation gap in weapons, until the 21st century, regular combat, the factor of morale is almost negligible, and war has completely evolved into an asymmetrical situation.

No matter how war-weary the American GIs are, the US military, with its advanced weapons, can always win again and again on the battlefields of the 21 st century.

The current 12-pounder mountain howitzer owned by the Taiping Army is naturally not as big as that of the 21st century in comparison with the European countries, and even as long as the European power captures a 12-pounder mountain howitzer, it will not be long before it can be imitated.

Therefore, the Taiping Army has always concentrated 10 12-pounder mountain howitzers, and divided the strength of a whole infantry regiment to protect the safety of the artillery position, advancing with the 12-pounder mountain howitzers, even if the enemy's cavalry raids, they do not want to take the 12-pounder mountain howitzers in a short time.

It is difficult to guarantee that the musket is not lost on the battlefield, but the heavy weapon of artillery, as long as it is protected and not defeated on the battlefield, will generally not be captured by the enemy.

The Taipings, seeing that the attacking German troops were being crushed by 12-pounder mountain howitzers, immediately launched another offensive.

The main offensive force of the German coalition army, which was closely following the third line of defense, took the third moral will coalition defense line without damage, which was faster than the time consumed by the previous active attack!

This scene completely dispelled Frederick's hope of defeating the Taiping army on the frontal battlefield, and now all the future wings were left with only the three outflanking cavalry troops.

Of course, Frederick once again took the German noble generals and transferred the command post to the rear.

After taking the third line of defense, the Taiping army reorganized a little, and when the 12-pounder mountain howitzers in the back followed, they immediately launched an attack on the 4th Moral Will coalition defense line.

At this time, the Fourth Moral Will Coalition Defense Line had reached nearly 20,000 troops due to absorbing a large number of defeated troops from the first three lines of defense, and when Frederick had set up five lines of defense before, the forces were evenly distributed, and each place was less than 10,000 men.

According to the normal war situation, when the number of people increases, the combat power will be more or less improved, but those defeated soldiers have been frightened by the 12-pounder mountain howitzer, and at the same time, this sentiment has been carried to the follow-up troops, and the results are self-evident.

After the Taiping army opened fire, the fourth line of defense broke out in chaos far more than the original first line of defense, after the Taiping army's elite grenadiers lined up to attack, the nearly 20,000 people of the fourth line of defense, in addition to increasing the number of enemies killed by the Taiping army, did not play a benign role at all......

This time, Frederick simply retreated behind the fifth line of defense, ready to run at any moment, and he was already hopeless of victory.

The only insistence is to see if the three cavalry units can be inserted into the Taiping Army's offensive array as planned, but Frederick feels that even if they are inserted, it will not be of much use, and the soldiers of the fifth line of defense have been made panicked, and it is a question of whether they can launch a counteroffensive.

It was really the collapse of the four lines of defense in front of him too completely, which gave the soldiers of the German coalition army the illusion that the Taiping Army was invincible.

At the same time, the soldiers who retreated in front also publicized the explosive shrapnel fired from the 12-pounder mountain howitzer as the wrath of the devil of hell, and it was very superstitious that Hong Tiancheng had the support of Satan from hell, so he had that extremely inhumane weapon......

Of course, not many people believe this superstitious statement, but not believing it does not mean that the German soldiers were not afraid of that terrible shell!

If there is anything more terrible than death, it is definitely better to live than to die!

In the eyes of the retreating German soldiers, those colleagues who were not killed by shells were basically worse than dead......

Fortunately, the long-term training has made these German soldiers know the importance of obeying orders, and the middle and low-level officers who are nobles and knights also know that the Taiping Army is an enemy that harms their fundamental interests, and if the Taiping Army is really allowed to invade East Prussia, the entire East Prussian aristocracy will become nothing!

Even if he voluntarily surrendered to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he was just keeping his property and becoming a rich man, and he didn't even need to think about the privileges of the former aristocracy......

In the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hong Tiancheng was only allowed to have one privileged class, and that was himself!

The officials and the army from the system themselves are the existence of the exercise of power, so even if they do not have the privileges on the surface, they are superior in society, just like in the democratic and equal country of later generations, it is said that everyone is equal, but whether the officials and the ordinary people are really equal, everyone has a b number in their hearts!

It didn't take long for the Taiping army to launch an attack on the last line of defense of the German coalition army.