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"Kill !!"
The surging shouts of killing sounded under the city of Moziri, and the Taiping army, which had the advantage of muskets, according to the previous tactics, immediately used thousands of flintlock pistols to suppress the Polish defenders at the head of the city from raising their heads, and at the same time, the senior Lithuanian musketeers carrying the ladder rushed forward with shouts.
Hong Tiancheng's Han nationalist mentality once again troubled him, and he always let the lottery mercenaries who were not of the Han ethnic group play the vanguard in every battle, and this time he attacked his headquarters Taiping Army personal guard battalion without a single person.
The firepower suppressed the veteran Russian new army musketeers and the Ottoman Sultan's own soldiers, and the hand-to-hand combat was the Lithuanian veteran musketeers armed with various cold weapons.
At this time, this group of Lithuanian senior musketeers is no longer the leather robe and hat when they were just redeemed, in the battle that annihilated tens of thousands of Polish-Lithuanian coalition troops, the Taiping army captured countless iron armor, even if most of the iron armor has been damaged, but it is enough for Hong Tiancheng to put all the 3000 mercenaries under his command with iron armor, and the Lithuanian senior musketeers who are responsible for hand-to-hand combat are replaced by a small number of winged cavalry elite knight half-body armor.
It's not that Hong Tiancheng doesn't want them to change into knight's full-body armor, but that thing is too heavy, just wearing half-body armor already affects their mobility a lot, and if they wear full-body armor, the senior Lithuanian musketeer will even have a hard time walking......
The Taiping army now dragged hundreds of transport wagons with the army, on which were placed a large number of captured iron deck armor and other sophisticated equipment, which these armored infantry did not need to wear on their bodies on weekdays.
It is precisely because the transport horse convoy occupies a large number of horses that Hong Tiancheng has not formed a cavalry team so far, but the cavalry is not enough to have war horses, and infantry need to be trained for a long time if they want to become mounted infantry, let alone become horse warriors, so Hong Tiancheng did not cherish those captured war horses, all of which were used to pull the spoils......
At this time, the main task of Hong Tiancheng's personal guard battalion is to protect a large number of booty and grain and grass in the camp, and the battle to annihilate the main force of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army In addition to the rewards of the all-out war system, the material benefits are also very gratifying, especially for Hong Tiancheng's army of only 4,000 people, it is simply inexhaustible!
However, Hong Tian became a preparation for a large-scale expansion of the army in the future, and looted all the spoils that could be used, after all, the riot ability of the all-out war system is very powerful.
When a large number of Lithuanian senior musketeers wearing half-body plate armor and even hussar armor rushed up, the eyes of General Mihau, who was hidden at the battlements of the city, were immediately filled with blood, and Mihawu, who had a lot of military knowledge, could judge at a glance from the armor of the Taiping army in the offensive echelon how badly the main force of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army was defeated!
You must know that in the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army, the vast majority of infantry have no money to wear iron armor, and even many cavalry ordinary servants can only put on a piece of iron-inlaid armor, coupled with the loss rate of armor on the battlefield, if the enemy army only relies on post-war looting to form an ironclad army, it can be said that the essence of the main force of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army has been gone......
Since all the artillery in Mozyri City had already been carried away by the main force of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army, and all of them were destroyed in the final stage of the battle, there were only a few musketeers and even rarer crossbowmen at the head of Mozili City, and there was no artifact to defend the city - artillery!
Coupled with the lack of moats and other city defense facilities in the European continental city, the Lithuanian veteran musketeers only paid the price of hundreds of people, and set up dozens of ladders under the cover of friendly fire.
Today's Taiping Army is no longer a novice, even if the newly drawn system soldiers have not experienced 'real' siege warfare, but after all, they are all veterans with rich 'combat experience', and under the words and deeds of the veteran officers of the Taiping Army in the personal guard battalion, it is easy to understand some experience in attacking Polish cities.
To sum it simply, reaching the top of the city means that the battle is coming to an end.
Mozili is not a capital-level city like Kyiv, there is only a row of horse rejection pits under the city wall, and the city wall is more than 5 meters at most, and there are no convex battlements, and there are just a few more arrow tower shooting positions.
Naturally, it is impossible to have the star fortress and the like that were prevalent in later generations, the star fortress is powerful in modern times, but the cost is also high and scary, and it has to pay a lot of manpower and material resources for a long time to maintain, and the European continental powers will build a few star fortresses in the capital and strategic places at most, if each city builds a set of star fortresses, it will go bankrupt without the enemy attacking its own finances.
The veteran Lithuanian musketeers who had just ascended to the city were indeed not hindered too much, and the Polish defenders guarding the city walls were either killed by the fire of the Taiping army or retreated to the back, and there were not many people waiting for death there.
However, the senior Lithuanian musketeers who climbed to the top of the city and killed them inside ran headlong into the elite of the headquarters led by General Mihau himself, the ironclad warriors and hussar knights of Yishui!
Thus, the tragedy of the veteran Lithuanian musketeer ......
Although the Lithuanian senior musketeers occupy the advantage of troops, they are not at all opponents of the hussar knights who have trained killing skills since childhood, and those Miha'u private soldiers are also all professional killers, killing this group of Lithuanian senior musketeers who are only equivalent to regular troops.
It's just that the senior Lithuanian musketeers did not climb to the top of the city together, but climbed up the siege ladder in waves, and looked under the city, the head of the city had been occupied by the Taiping army......
It wasn't until all the senior Lithuanian musketeers had ascended to the top of the city that Hong Tiancheng and other high-level people who couldn't see the battle scene behind the city walls realized that something was wrong, and when the second batch of senior Russian new army musketeers boarded, they had an extra flintlock pistol.
In fact, the sacrifice of the Lithuanian veteran musketeers was not meaningless, they forcibly consumed the elite of Miha'u's personal guards to double digits, and everyone was injured and exhausted, and cutting people was a hard job!
When the new new army, the veteran Russian new army musketeers with big axes on their backs, rushed forward, even the tenacious General Mihau knew that the tide was unstoppable......
The veteran Russian new army musketeers looked at the staggered corpses of the veteran Lithuanian musketeers everywhere, and did not rush forward to hand-to-hand combat at the first time, but raised their guns at the remaining dozens of exhausted remnants and raised their flintlock pistols in unison.
At this moment, General Mihau suddenly burst out and shouted: "Wait! I have something to say! ”
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