With a whoosh, a fist-sized iron bullet just passed through the ranks of elite musketeers of the Taiping Army who were stepping forward in a row, and the round pointed iron helmet of the Taiping Army wearing on the head of an unlucky guy standing in the first row was like a layer of tissue paper, which was dented and deformed by the high-speed moving iron bullet in less than a second.

With the sound of a skull shattering, the concave and deformed spired iron helmet was instantly bound together with the soldier's head wrapped inside, and it was only 'embraced' together, separated from the neck connected to the body......

However, the power of this iron bullet did not consume much, and the head of the deformed helmet passed directly through the necks of the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army in the same row in the second row, and under the gushing blood, most of the soldier's neck was like broken tape, swinging on his shoulders and falling sideways.

It was only at this time that the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army, who had lost their heads in the first row, fell backwards under the action of inertia.

The iron bullet that killed the two people in a row did not stop its killing journey, and continued to move forward, sweeping through the chest, abdomen, crotch, legs and feet of the same soldiers in the same column behind, and bouncing on the ground a few times along the way, turning the elite musketeer of the Taiping Army in the last row into a disabled person in the blink of an eye......

Fortunately, the Taiping army lined up in a thin phalanx of six horizontal lines, and the shells that penetrated only made the six people lose their combat effectiveness, and soon as the queue moved forward, the gap that was hit by the shells was filled by the soldiers in the back row.

However, the loss caused by the cannonball is not large, but the scene is extremely terrifying, the death is extremely miserable, although the lead bullet shot by the musket can also kill with one shot, it seems that it only penetrates a hole in the human body, and there is no terrifying immediate visual effect, the cannonball is just the opposite, where it touches is a hole and a gap, rubbing to the edge is the end of the disabled, with the medical conditions of this era, the last elite musketeer of the Taiping Army who was lying on the ground with a broken leg and wailing, the end is definitely more miserable than the colleagues who died in an instant in front of them.

Because the medical level of this era could not provide him with effective life-saving measures, and even he could not even save him from bandaging on the battlefield, even a determined soldier would tear off a few strips of cloth from his body at most to tie up the wound, so that he would not bleed too much and die in a short time......

However, even if the probability of bleeding to death is avoided, the infection of the wound alone will cause the soldier to die a miserable death in pain for the next few days.

In ancient wars, not many people were directly killed on the battlefield, and most of the people who died in battle died of pain, infection, and hemorrhagic shock because they could not receive effective treatment after the war.

It is precisely because of this that in that backward era that there was a very inhumane practice of 'giving him a good time', in the eyes of later generations, this kind of behavior that treats human life as child's play does not conform to the moral code of the 21st century, but in that era, it is the relief that a soldier who has been tortured by pain most desires.

Life is worse than death, far more terrible than death!

Many strong-willed warriors are not afraid of the scythe of death, but they cannot survive the torture of all kinds of inhumane torture, which is the innate instinct of human beings.

The soldier who had a leg broken by a cannonball did not try to plug the wound, he knew very well the medical conditions of his own army, and the flesh wound caused by the sword may not be harmful, but the disability caused by this cannonball was incurable.

This elite musketeer of the Taiping Army, looking firmly at the line of the large army that was gradually moving forward in front of him, pulled out the short dagger he used to cut meat, endured the sharp pain in his legs, and looked at the Taiping Army Marshal Qi in the rear and shouted hoarsely: "Long live the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!! ”

With a snort, the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army, who were proficient in the vital parts of the human body, simply stabbed the short dagger into the fragile neck that was not covered by iron armor, killing him with one blow!

This is the Taiping Army's elite soldiers in the hopeless survival of the resolute approach, they are not afraid of death, but they also do not want to experience inhuman torture to die, the fear of death can not crush their will, so suicide does not have much of a burden.

Of course, no one will pay attention to this scene on the battlefield with the rumbling of artillery, and the layers of Taiping Army musket lines are enough to cover up this insignificant personal behavior, and even Hong Tian, who has a wide field of vision in the rear and has been observing the battlefield, did not see the heroic suicide of the soldiers under his command.

In the face of war, the behavior of individual soldiers seems so small and powerless, and the cries of the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army before death are just to let themselves die with peace of mind.

The thinking of fanatical people is incomprehensible to ordinary people, which is also the reason why fanatical armies always make the army composed of ordinary people feel terrified from the bottom of their hearts, because they don't understand, so they are afraid!

Just like the natural fear of ghosts, the unknown and incomprehension are the root of the human sense of fear.

The main coalition army, which gathered more than half of the military aristocracy of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom, had a lot of artillery, including the old existence of a hundred years ago, and even the city artillery in the city of Mozyr was dismantled and used in this battle.

On the contrary, in addition to the necessary troops to guard the rear road, Marshal Jan Skzhetusky mobilized all the weapons and equipment that could be mobilized, and the arquebuses that had been dusted in the warehouse for decades were all found by him, regardless of whether they could be fired or not, and they were stuffed into the makeshift patchwork of strong men.

Even if these arquebuses, which had long been corroded by time, could be fired, it would be worth it for Marshal Jan Skzhetusky, because he knew very well that it would be more reliable to let them shoot twice from a distance than to count on the hand-to-hand combat of the strong men who had been temporarily pulled up to take charge of logistics......

Naturally, these musket-wielding men and a large number of militia units and mercenaries who were somewhat arm-like were mixed and placed in front of the main front of the main force of the Polish-Lithuanian army, and they were driven as cheap musketeers to the front of the pikemen in hand-to-hand combat, and under the orders of the Polish and Lithuanian knightly officers, they were aimed at the elite musketeers of the Taiping army who were stepping in the standard mode of the Spanish grand package.

In the battle of tens of thousands of people, Marshal Jan Skzhetuski naturally did not have the brains to put all his forces on the front line, but laid out three fronts hundreds of meters deep, each with a two-layer Spanish large package phalanx.