On the shining iron helmet of the excellent Taiping Army, a red ribbon fluttered in the wind, and the elite soldiers of the Taiping Army wearing half-body armor marched, and from time to time the unlucky egg trembled slightly, covering the injured part and falling to the ground in pain, and then the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army behind him hurriedly stepped forward a few steps to fill his vacancy.

Interestingly, many of the soldiers in the front line of the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army had an unequal number of arrows stuck in their bodies, firmly rooted in the busts of the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army, and the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army had no intention of pulling them out.

The elite musketeers of the Taiping Army wore half-length infantry cuirasses, which is commonly known as half-body plate armor, and the lethality of bows and crossbows was really good.

Even the Polish commander standing on a high place in the rear sighed helplessly to the other generals around him after seeing this scene: "In the future battlefield, bows and crossbows will eventually be eliminated by muskets." ”

In fact, in Western Europe, armor has almost disappeared from the regular army system, and only a few hand-to-hand soldiers such as pikemen need to wear half-body plate armor, which is mainly used to prevent sword slashing, not to defend against muskets.

The main reason why the armor of the cavalry did not disappear was that the speed of the cavalry was enough to easily pass through the musket strike zone and enter the hand-to-hand combat phase of close combat, and naturally, the armor became more useful.

The course of the battle was almost a copy of the Taiping Army's attack on the Russian Shooting Army, they stepped on the front step, withstood casualties, came to a distance of less than 30 yards, suddenly stopped, under the order of the Taiping Army officer, raised the musket uniformly, and then pulled the trigger!

The casualties inflicted on the Taiping by Polish projection infantry were not as great as those of the Russian archery army.

A stream of white smoke floated up, and looking down from the sky, the Polish military formation was almost directly cut off by one layer, followed by a second, and then a third......

In less than ten minutes, the front-row projection units in the first Polish front were crushed!

Even though they had already prepared for it, in the face of the current fast-paced progress of the war, the Polish generals still showed incredible looks.

Fortunately, they were defeated by the Taiping army many times, and their shock value was still within the acceptable range, and soon, one after another clear orders were issued, and a group of fresh Polish arquebusiers replaced the vacancy of the defeated and retreating Polish projection troops, and shot a lot of projectiles at the Taiping army.

The Poles were very strong in force and had a limited cross-section of the battlefield, and some of them had follow-up troops to shoot at each other.

In the queue to shoot, the casualties were mutual, even if the Poles were unable to fight back for most of the time because they were crushed, and were shot by the Taiping army like a target, the Polish fresh army that had just come up would cause a large number of casualties to the Taiping army.

In this way, after a group of musketeers in the Polish army formation was destroyed, another batch of long-range troops with a complete formation was systematically supplemented to shoot at the Taiping Army, and the Polish military formation completed the handover and exchange between the rout and the reserve through gradual retreat, and the Polish hand-to-hand combat elite in the rear did not dare to charge at all under the fierce firepower of the Taiping Army.

Naturally, there was also a steady stream of reserve soldiers on this side of the Taiping Army's military formation, and after the distance was extended, they would shoot forward to compress the enemy's military formation space, and then, the entire Taiping Army military formation also moved forward as a whole.

The situation on the battlefield was very obvious in the eyes of the commanders of both sides in the rear, the Polish long-range troops were constantly defeated, and the casualties were far greater than the Taiping musketeers who were constantly pressing, but the Taiping army moved forward as a whole due to the offensive advance, and it became more and more protruding.

Under the control of Xiang Dongqiang, the entire Taiping army formation continued to advance with the offensive situation, the strength of the two regiments as the main attackers of the front line, the strength of one regiment on the left and right flanks to escort it, and the thousands of Lithuanian militia were divided into two parts equally, and two 'human wall phalanxes' were set up on the periphery of the left and right wings.

Due to the large number of Taiping troops, the perimeter of the military formation is huge, and it is in a wide field of vision, if the enemy cavalry assaults from the rear of the Taiping army, it will inevitably be discovered in advance, and then the Taiping army on the left and right flanks only needs to be combined to form a guard rear force.

As time went on, the Poles had to abandon the first line of front, and all the hand-to-hand soldiers withdrew to the rear of the second front, and they found that the situation of the war seemed to make the position of the musketeers surpass the hand-to-hand soldiers.

Before the 17th century, hand-to-hand soldiers were often paid more than three times as much as musketeers!

After all, musketeers in this era had no obligation to engage in hand-to-hand combat, and there was naturally no danger of hand-to-hand combat from a distance.

Of course, this only applies to continental countries, and the Ottomans did not eat this set.

When the Taiping Army stepped on the first line of the Poles, they gave the Polish soldiers lying on the ground and could not retreat one by one, leaving a corpse all the way, and when the battle line was compressed to the second line of Polish positions, the Poles finally made a killer move!

Because anyone with a discerning eye knows that if you continue to line up like this and shoot you, it will be a matter of time before the Polish military formation will be destroyed, and there is a limit to the number of reserves!

The left and right wings of the Taiping army in front of the sudden rumbling sound of horses' hooves suddenly appeared, and under the gallop, a large number of cavalrymen holding high the Polish-Lithuanian banner and various aristocratic flags and Russian aristocratic flags rushed towards the left and right flanks of the Taiping army's front assault formation!

It has to be said that the infantry quality of the Poles is average, but the combat effectiveness of the cavalry is very powerful, and the individual combat effectiveness and equestrian skills of the Russian noble cavalry are also worthy of praise.

The reason why the Taiping Army sent the Lithuanian militia out to death was not simply to buy time for the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army to change formations, but also to draw out the real elite of the Polish Corps - the cavalry.

Because from the direction of the Poles, they could only observe the Lithuanian soldiers on the periphery of the left and right flanks, and they could not see the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army inside the Taiping army formation.

Although the Lithuanian militia's phalanx was crushed and slaughtered without much resistance, their sacrifice bought the Taiping army precious time.

When the Polish hussars and the Russian aristocratic cavalry broke through and crushed the Lithuanian militia, they were faced with a row of Taiping guns!