Attacking the area of East Prussia were the 1st and 2nd Grenadier Divisions of the Taiping Army, as well as 10 12-pounder mountain howitzers and 1,000 French chasseurs.

In order to completely annihilate the invading Taiping army, the Prussian king Frederick made a good start for the German alliance against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that he formed, and did not defend the city.

As the saying goes, offense is the best defense, and only the less powerful side will choose tactical defense.

After all, the attacker can choose any point to attack, but the defender can only be tired of coping with it, dividing the troops to guard, and even if the defender has a geographical advantage, it will be unable to figure out the attacker's offensive focus, resulting in the dispersion of troops.

On the other hand, the attacker can concentrate all his strength and smash it into one place without any scruples, which is the biggest advantage of the attacking side in the war, and the advantage of the defender is the convenience of mobilizing troops on the inner line.

It was not until the mass spread of machine guns that the defensive firepower network exceeded the crowd density of the attacker, which gave the defender an advantage over the attacker.

The high-spirited Prussian king Frederick stood on the high ground of the front line, looked at the Taiping army lined up opposite with a telescope in hand, and confidently said to the surrounding German nobles and generals: "This time, we will never make the same mistake again, even if the Taiping army is not afraid of death, it will never break through our encirclement." ”

Frederick pointed to the continuous defensive line behind him and said to the crowd.

The defeat of the German coalition in the last decisive battle of the Holy Roman Empire with superior forces was considered by Frederick to be a mistaken tactical idea in a hurry.

This time, he divided the troops facing the middle of the Taiping army into five lines, and no longer took the initiative to attack, but waited for the Taiping army to attack him, and on both flanks were a large number of German light cavalry and musketeers who made a wide range of flank detours.

The infantry held the middle road and dragged the Taiping army, and after falling into anxiety, the cavalry outflanked and attacked the Taiping army from three other directions in a large area, which was Frederick's plan for the Taiping army's courage to fight to the death.

Due to the extremely fast speed of the lightly armed cavalry, if they encounter the flank of the Taiping army during the detour, they can quickly maneuver around it, and will not encounter the situation that they cannot break through or even be dragged in the last decisive battle.

The Taiping army is not afraid of death, so it's okay to bypass and not fight you!

In this way, the coalition army commanded by Frederick can flank the main force of the Taiping army in the center in all directions, even if the Taiping army is really not afraid of death, it will be extremely heavy to be attacked by superior forces on all sides.

Frederick admitted that the morale of the Taiping Army was terrible, but no matter how high the morale was, it was also a physical body, and if it was hit by lead bullets, it would also die, and it would also die if it was chopped with a saber!

The most important thing is that Frederick has an absolute superiority in strength, which is enough for Frederick to form several attack clusters to take turns to consume the Taiping army's fresh force until he kills all the Han soldiers!

As long as the Taiping army launches an attack, a large number of cavalry on the side of the German coalition army will set off, with the mobility of the cavalry, the Taiping army will inevitably be 'exploded' by the cavalry corps that detoured past before breaking through the fifth line of defense!

This tactic was mainly set for the Taiping Army, and the pursuit of fighting in this era was to defeat the enemy in one go, and the main forces were placed on the first and second lines, and at most three fronts were very conservative.

Only in this way can we concentrate more forces on the front line to attack the enemy, and we must not feel that we cannot defeat the enemy head-on before the war has started.

And now Frederick, it is this kind of 'you can't fight without a war' mentality, facing the Taiping army head-on, he has never burst the hope of victory, the purpose of the middle road is not to defeat the Taiping army, but to drag them down, so that the Taiping army into a melee to facilitate the cavalry raid.

Frederick saw that the Taiping army was in good formation, and after slowly moving forward, he said to the noble generals who commanded the cavalry raid next to him: "Next, it depends on your performance, I will stand here and wait for you to return to the battlefield." ”

As the noble generals departed, almost all the German cavalry raised their hooves and galloped towards the periphery of the battlefield.

Without the burden of armor, the cavalry galloped very quickly.

Frederick looked at the departing cavalry group on both flanks, turned his gaze back to the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army, which were still advancing, and directly ignored the ten artillery pieces that moved forward with the Taiping infantry.

With the performance of artillery in this era, on a battlefield of tens of thousands of people, let alone ten artillery pieces, even if it is multiplied several times, it will not play a big role.

What's more, the German Allied soldiers trained in the new line tactics have already experienced anti-artillery and psychological reinforcement, and it is impossible for them to be deterred by artillery.

However, the battle line of the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army was still hundreds of meters away, and the ten artillery pieces of the Taiping Army were set up to bombard here.

The rumbling cannons did not attract Frederick's attention at first, and the German coalition also had more than a dozen artillery pieces bombarding it non-stop.

But when a graceful parabola exploded just above the head of the infantry phalanx of the first line of the German coalition army, knocking down dozens of German musket privates standing together below, Frederick was not calm for a moment!

With just one shell, the horizontal phalanx that was hit was already showing a tendency to collapse!

A horizontal phalanx totaled less than 100 people, and a single shell directly knocked down more than 20 people, causing great panic to the German soldiers who had never seen such shells!

A full 10 rounds of shrapnel only had a 20% hit rate, but the entire two horizontal phalanxes collapsed on their own without firing a shot!

If it weren't for the neat military formation around them, those soldiers in the horizontal phalanx who were hit would have fled a long time ago!

Before the phalanx of the German horizontal team hit by the grenade shells could return to stability, ten more grenade shells fell on the first line of the German coalition army!

A shrapnel is a shell with a time-delay fuse, which is filled with small metals such as iron nail marbles, and once it explodes, the shrapnel and the metal inside will scatter in all directions, causing damage to enemy infantry within a few meters of the surrounding area!

Due to the different lengths and angles of the time-delay fuses, some shrapnel will explode in mid-air, while others will smash into the pile of people, and with a bang, flesh and blood will fly!