Marshal Jan Skrzetuski thought that the most reliable General Michau was arranged to the city of Mozyri, which was related to the rear of the army, and after serving as a general defending the city, Jan Skrzetuski, who had no worries, led all the Polish-Lithuanian combined forces to face the main force of the Taiping Army led by Hong Tiancheng.

As the saying goes, the number of people is boundless, and naturally, tens of thousands of troops are marching in a hurry, as long as they have the basic battlefield scout ability or the local people's tips, they can deduce the approximate march route.

After all, tens of thousands of troops are not small number of travelers, it is nothing to cross mountains and mountains and step through the jungle, and you can walk out of a road without a road, as long as you think, your whereabouts are difficult to determine.

But the army is different, the army is not a row of soldiers in a row of troops can walk over, so the huge army consumes an astronomical amount of grain and grass every day, so the army is accompanied by a large number of pack horse transports to walk with the army.

Soldiers may endure hardships and spend a little more time crossing the jungle, but those pack horse convoys can't take that route, and every day the army consumes marching time, it consumes more food and grass, which is definitely a logistical tragedy in the era when there are no railway lines!

Therefore, the march of the army is either to take the 'official road' that is convenient to repair, or to move forward in the relatively flat plains and fertile fields, and crossing the mountains and mountains will not only increase the demand for logistics, but also produce a large number of non-combat attrition, even in the 20th century in the era of the outbreak of science and technology, the non-combat attrition in the Long March is also very terrifying, of course, it is precisely because of the difficulty of the Long March that it is worth preaching and praise.

As for the question of the dead...... How can there be immortals in war?

As long as they can win, they are martyrs!

Hong Tiancheng is the decisive battle to determine the outcome of the decisive battle, naturally there is no need to hide the traces, the choice is the fastest process of the 'official road', of course, the scout of the main force of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army wants to find the main force of Hong Tiancheng's Taiping army is not a difficult thing.

On the contrary, it was easy for the scouts of the main force of the Taiping Army to find traces of tens of thousands of people in the main force of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army.

If you want to hide tens of thousands of people, that's not something ordinary people can do.

Even if General Mihavu's headquarters is removed, the main force of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army, including the logistics miscellaneous soldiers, has more than 50,000 people, of which the real elite number is only a little more than the main force of the Taiping Army, less than 20,000, and the rest are basically full militia, city defense battalions and mercenaries.

These troops are okay to fight a fixed pattern of offensive and defensive battles and downwind battles, but their morale is very sad, as long as the battlefield situation takes a sharp turn for the worse, they are the first to collapse, and if the front is broken, they are also prone to being engulfed in an avalanche.

However, for the morale problem of this third-rate cannon fodder troops, European generals have long had a relative solution, it doesn't matter if it is easy to collapse, let them be divided into pieces and stand in a fixed combat formation, when the time comes, the officers will tell them word by word what to do, and then use elite troops to divide them, so that when a certain point or line is broken through, the elite troops can fill in the past in time, ensure the stability of the entire front, and give those third-rate cannon fodder soldiers enough confidence to continue fighting.

This is the reason why ancient wars often arranged troops at multiple levels, and the simplest military formation layout would also be divided into three formations: front, middle and rear.

Marshal Jan Krzetuski and Hong Tian became better opponents, and they unanimously chose the time of the decisive battle on a sunny morning and set up their positions.

The main force of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition led by Marshal Jan Skrzetuski laid out the standard Spanish phalanx, and although the Maurice phalanx fought many classic battles against the Spanish phalanx, the applicability of the Maurice phalanx was far inferior to the Spanish phalanx.

To put it simply, the Spanish phalanx is a simple infantry formation that can be put on by any trained army, while the Morris phalanx requires the infantry to have higher military literacy and discipline.

The Maurice phalanx can shine on the battlefield, mainly because in the war of independence between the United Provinces of the Netherlands and the Kingdom of Spain, the Dutch soldiers fought for the independence of their homeland and fought against the cruel exploitation of the Spanish royal family, so the morale was very high.

The results of the Maurice phalanx have been imitated by continental European countries, but they are rarely effective, the reason is simple, the Dutch army is lean and high-quality, but the European continental powers have a large number of troops and extremely poor quality of soldiers!

In the 17th century in continental Europe, the literacy rate of soldiers was even less than one percent!

In other words, there may not be one literate soldier in a hundred......

What is even more frightening is that the grassroots officers in many countries are all 'illiterate' who are serious and well-educated, and all of them command with battlefield experience......

Fortunately, middle and high-ranking officers need to be able to read basic military texts and military maps, and basically be literate......

Literacy was also a major factor in the monopoly of the officer group by the European aristocratic class at that time, not that the kings did not want to promote the low-level commoners to strengthen their own centralization process, but that the low-level commoners simply could not afford to support their children to go to school and read......

With such a low level of cultural literacy, of course, it is difficult to train real elite soldiers, so the European continent powers simply continued to use the simple Spanish 'big package', until the same simple and more practical line tactics were popularized, and the Spanish 'big package' was completely eliminated.

Line tactics were popular in the late 17th and 18th centuries, and in the mid-17th century, due to the lack of full installation of flintlock pistols, the use of the 'big package' in Spain was quite high, especially for the relatively backward Eastern European countries.

In the modern history of the European continent, from the perspective of cultural and technological processes alone, Western Europe is ahead of Central Europe, and Central Europe is ahead of Eastern Europe, and the concept of devolution to ordinary people is that the rich Mediterranean Europeans and Western Europeans look down on the native hats in the interior of Central Europe, and the native hats in Central Europe have always regarded the whites of Eastern Europe as barbarians, and then the Eastern European countries regard the Russians as barbarians among the barbarians, and the Russians regard the Tatars, who are further east and more backward, as inferior people......

After the two sides lined up the array, it was not Hong Tiancheng's Taiping Army that took the lead in attacking, but the artillery team of the main force of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army!

Old guns of various calibers were pushed to the front line by manpower and animal power, and 5 behemoths were particularly eye-catching!