"Aim, fire!"

Under Erdore's commanding knife, the musketeers once again fired a fairly neat volley, and the first platoon of the elite grenadier battalion of the Taiping Army, which was closer to the front, was cut by seventy percent almost at once!

Erdore looked at the thinner Taiping army column, his eyes revealed a fierce color, and he ordered loudly: "The first two rows are free to fire, and the last two rows are ready!" ”

The battle queue of the German musketeers was adapted from the Taiping army formation, generally four rows, the first row half squatted and the second row stood during the salvo, or fired alternately or together, and the last two rows served as substitute reserves.

The reason why the German musketeers did not shoot in rotation was mainly because of the example of the Taiping Army, and the most awe-inspiring thing about the Taiping Army was the rows of volleys, not the rotational fire!

To be precise, in field battles, the Taiping army rarely carried out rotational firing, and at most carried out a forward forward shooting in a cyptic alternation to compress the enemy's living space.

Naturally, the European royal families and nobles who were humble in learning also completely abandoned the rotation in the field battle, and the kings of all countries were the masters of seeking truth from facts, and the Taiping army always used salvo fire instead of rotation in the field battle, and they naturally did not bother themselves.

The main advantage of salvo fire over rotation is that soldiers need to move positions each other during the rotation process, and on the battlefield where bullets and bullets are rained, this large-scale front and rear swap between soldiers is easy to be crowded, and then beaten into a string of meat sauce by the opposite row of guns, and this alternating exchange will also consume a lot of valuable time.

The most important thing is that the Taiping army pursues a close-range salvo in the field, and at such a close distance, it is almost a gun into the flesh, and it doesn't take a few rounds to hit the enemy on the opposite side and basically die or retreat, and naturally there is no need to replace each other to consume time.

Even the Taiping Army, which had strict military discipline, abandoned the tactics of in-situ rotation in field battles, and the German musket formation, which had learned from the Taiping Army, naturally did not make such a mistake.

The white Europeans, who had been educated on the battlefield by the Taiping Army for several years, had already understood that in the tactics of lining up to shoot, a few rounds of melee charges were the key to victory!

In this way, the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army withstood the continuous casualties and narrowed the distance to within 30 steps!

Immediately, it was the standard three-column salvo!

The burst of lead shot made the well-informed Erdore twitch the corners of his mouth, and with just one volley, the soldiers in the first two rows were almost emptied!

At this time, Erdore had only one thought in his heart: fortunately, I still reserved the last two platoons of reservists and did not fire!

Then, under Erdore's order, the two rows of musketeers who had already been ready fired a volley at the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army who were close at hand, and then drew their sabers and killed them!

It is true that the German musket phalanx, modeled after the Taiping Army, caused a large number of casualties to the Taiping Army, and the tactical progress made the gap between the elite of the white men and the Taiping Army rapidly narrowing.

It's a pity that the German musketeers who rushed forward were soon blown back by the grenades of the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army!

Erdoret tightened the frightened war horse, commanded the spear phalanx behind him to go up, to be precise, after seeing the power of the dense grenades of the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army, he directly ordered the spear phalanx to launch a charge and abandon the array!

Obviously, Erdore's approach was correct, because the pike-phalanx of officers of his rank was being thrown on their backs by grenades thrown by the elite grenadiers of the Taiping army!

The scattered pikemen made the lethality of the grenade explosion of the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army much less effective, but then the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army charged with bayonets and quickly routed the small number of German pikemen again!

With a bang, Erdore rode a war horse to kill the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army who rushed to the front, and then galloped to the rear without looking back!

Then, Erdore heard scattered gunshots behind him, and after a wail from the German military horse under his crotch, he rushed forward and fell to the ground, and the embarrassed Erdore couldn't look for his valuable bearskin hat, spread his legs and ran backwards, at this time the arrogance in his eyes had long since disappeared, and only the attachment to life remained......

The entire front line of the German army was defeated, just like many enemies of the Taiping army, the Taiping army was basically invincible in the field, the only difference was how many people the Taiping army would die.

Unlike front-line officers like Erdore, who fled in a hurry, Leopold I in the rear did not panic when he saw that the first line of battle was routed, but gave a series of orders without changing his face.

Soon, the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army, who were pursuing behind the German rout, heard the rumbling sound of horses' hooves, and the German heavy cavalry in helmet and armor hurled up with spears and sabers, charging up from both sides of the rout!

"The Taiping Army's past examples have taught us that using cavalry to storm a well-packed infantry phalanx is no different from suicide, but it is very useful to charge a scattered enemy in pursuit." King Frederick of Prussia, who was watching the battlefield with a telescope in the rear, smiled and said to the people around him.

What if you can't stop the Taiping Army?

The German states of the Holy Roman Empire had cavalry, and they could launch a counter-charge of this scale countless times, and when the time came, how many of the Taiping troops could afford to die?

The galloping German heavy cavalry ignored the accidental injury of their own routers, and swept past the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army who had no time to stop in pursuit.

However, the expected collapse of the enemy army in the German heavy cavalry did not appear, and the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army, even if they did not have a military formation to support them, were wantonly slashed and slaughtered under the sudden attack of the rushing cavalry, they still had no intention of retreating.

Soon, the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army stepped forward, raised their guns, and pulled the trigger on the German heavy cavalry who were slaughtering their compatriots!

The battle situation once again fell into a climax, and the battlefield was full of gunpowder smoke and spit buckshot!

Of course, the German coalition forces with superior strength did not show weakness, and the new German musketeers seemed to be endless, stepping on the gap rushed out by the German heavy cavalry, running forward to join the battle, and the opponent's formation with a phalanx, and the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army who came up after played in line and shot!

For Leopold I, the battle was just beginning.