When the flintlock musket was fired, the white smoke from the incompletely burning black powder filled the entire battlefield with a faint layer of white mist, covering the front of the Swedish Legion in a natural area of vision.

This is also another major factor in the modern musket salvo always pursues the first shot at close range, the original European army soldiers themselves destroy the enemy's instinct to protect themselves from a long distance, often like to fire at the maximum effective range distance, the result is a thunderbolt is very lively, but not many people can be killed.

By the time the enemy approached, the front line had already been covered with gunpowder-smelling white smoke due to the previous volley, and even if the concealment effect was not as good as that of the smoke bombs of later generations, the musketeers on the front line had become half 'blind'.

Of course, in the original history, the early musket firing on both sides was like the soldiers of the late Qing Dynasty shotgun team, firing from a distance, so both sides would make their own front smoke miasma, and the actual lethality of the lively fight was very limited, which did not reflect the stupidity of this tactic.

It was not until later that some bold and careful commanders noticed this drawback, and boldly reformed the army, using the method of grassroots officers leading the advance to improve morale, and restraining the soldiers to repeatedly close the distance between the two sides before firing a salvo.

Naturally, the use of this close-range salvo tactic has worked wonders on the battlefield, causing European countries to follow suit and begin to shift their tactical focus to how to close the distance to engage in battle.

In fact, the reason why the Manchu army was beaten by the European army in modern history was not because the European white people were better at fighting, but because the European continent was in a state of war all the year round in modern times.

Thus, the tactic of lining up to shoot rose to an unshakable position in the blood of European soldiers, and helped European whites to almost dominate the world in just two hundred years!

A close-range salvo is not something that the commander can do with a single order, just like the current Swedish soldiers, even though Karl X knew through the previous Taiping army that the musket should be close to the salvo to better kill the enemy, but he could not force the soldiers to really brave the rain of bullets to walk in front of the opponent and then fire.

This involves all kinds of problems, the army that can shoot at close range is the soldiers who come out of the long-term targeted training and under the stick, if the tactics on the battlefield are temporarily changed, forcing the soldiers to go to the muzzle and fire, Karl X will only reap one result in the end - the Swedish musketeers who have not undergone similar training and are psychologically prepared will be quickly destroyed!

Soldiers are often more accustomed to their familiar ways of fighting, and any change in the way they fight will cause irreversible damage to morale, after all, soldiers are living people, and they will not watch themselves die under the command of 'stupidity'!

Soldiers are ready to die in battle, but everyone hopes to return to their hometowns alive in the end.

The Swedish Legion's firing queue was decent, the front row of volleys retreated and the second row stepped forward to continue the salvo, this way of shooting with a platoon of guns, in the era of mixed hot and cold weapons, was a very effective tactic, and each round of guns would bring great psychological pressure to the enemy soldiers.

From this point of view, the Swedish army was indeed at the forefront of the military changes in continental Europe in the 17th century, but unfortunately, they could only reach this extent, after the death of Gustav the Great, the Swedish legion became a stubborn spokesperson, immersed in the glory of the era of Gustav the Great, the Swedish military was not willing to change the tactical concept left by Gustav the Great in any way.

This is the reason why the Kingdom of Sweden was first strong and then weak after the death of Gustav the Great, until it was finally beaten back to his hometown by Peter the Great of the Russian Empire, completely ending the hegemony of the Kingdom of Sweden in Eastern Europe.

Of course, the Kingdom of Sweden that Hong Tiancheng faced at this time has not yet declined, and the tactical concept left by Gustav the Great has not yet become an old thing and a backward joke, among the three major powers in Eastern Europe, if you have to rank a military rank, the Kingdom of Sweden is definitely a well-deserved first, even if the territory of the Kingdom of Sweden is not as large as the other two countries!

In Eastern Europe in the 17th century, the Swedish musketeers could definitely be called the face of the elite.

It's a pity that they are now facing a group of die-hard fanatics who will not retreat at all!

The elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army stepped on the rhythmic drumbeat, held their heads up and walked forward, and the two horses walking in front of the queue held war knives, looking directly at the opposite side expressionlessly, and every once in a while, a round of fire roared.

At a distance of only 50 meters, hundreds of corpses were left behind by the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army, and the Swedish musketeers lived up to their elite name, and the replacement speed of the salvo was much stronger than that of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom and the Russian Empire.

This is the embodiment of the discipline of the army!

The three great powers of Eastern Europe, the Russian Empire relied on the sea of gray cattle and the deadly Ulla-style charge, the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania relied on the Polish hussars who regarded glory as their life, and the Kingdom of Sweden was the most brilliant with disciplined musketeers.

After advancing to fifty meters, the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army still did not stop shooting, which made the corners of the eyes of Karl X, who was holding a monocular in the rear, twitch involuntarily, and the unpleasant memories brought to him by the group of Han people who were not afraid of death in the Vilno Guard Regiment were once again presented in his mind.

"The Han people are not really all crazy people who are not afraid of death...... "In the soft murmur of Karl X, the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army finally entered the limit distance of 30 meters!

At this time, there was already a slight confusion in the ranks of the Swedish musketeers, and the increasingly dense white fog and the approach of the enemy's figure made the Swedish musketeers also have a little panic in their hearts.

At this moment, the Swedish musketeers on the front line vaguely heard the slogans of the Han officers opposite, they could not understand Chinese, but they guessed the next scene.

Many Swedish musketeers could no longer heed to obey the officers' orders to fire volleys, and after hastily pulling the trigger, they retreated, and for a while, the Swedish musketeers' firing line, which had been quite neat, became a free-fire queue clustered together......

Compared with the elite line infantry a hundred years later, the Swedish musketeers at this time were a little worse after all.

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