Krysztof Koniecpolski, who was wearing a 'general's version' of Polish hussar suits, put down his monoculars, the contempt in his eyes flashed, and he smiled: "This cult propagandist Hong Tiancheng is full of confidence in himself, and he actually sent thousands of people out of the city to line up, wanting to rely on that low city wall to fight.

Did he really think that the untouchables who were forcibly taken out would have the will to resist?

Hehe~~~"

"General, although most of the people lined up outside the city are untouchables who have taken up arms, but at the end of the formation is a group of great swordsmen wearing full-body plate armor, and there are a large number of untouchables in the array, and there are arquebusiers from the Taiping Army headquarters at the head of the city to suppress the formation, we should probably consume it first and then use the elite to attack."

After hearing the proposal of the generals close to him, Krysztof Koniecpolsky replied with a slight bow: "Yes, the Taiping army's tactics of ignoring the life and death of civilians are still a little troublesome, but unfortunately, after this battle, there will be rivers of blood again, and this area has been swept away by the locust-like Taiping army until now, and there is basically nothing left."

This Hong Tiancheng's approach is really even more hateful than those Cossack rebels! ”

"The general is angry, the Taiping Army is originally composed of Tatar alien races, of course, we Eastern European nations are not regarded as equal human beings, and the Crimean Khanate's perennial trafficking of slaves from our Eastern European population has confirmed everything."

"Hmph, sooner or later, my great Poland will step on the last remaining forces of the Mongol-Tatar remnants and completely wipe out the Crimean Khanate, these descendants of the invaders from the east should have withdrawn from the land of Eastern Europe a long time ago, although the Russians are barbaric and warlike, but their conquest of the various khanates divided by the Mongol-Tatar descendants is still admirable."

Krysztof Koniecpolsky turned to the herald and ordered: "Let the militia go first, the mercenaries will take line, and the cavalry will guard the flanks to prevent the enemy from counterattacking." ”

With the melodious sound of flutes and horns, the dense Polish conscription militia stepped out, these Polish militia from Zhytomyr City are different from the militia of ordinary small towns, because these big cities need more soldiers to garrison and maintain law and order on weekdays, and even go to the countryside to collect taxes, so this group of Polish militia is actually equivalent to a paramilitary organization, not like the Polish militia in the town, only to take up arms when fighting.

The Polish militia in the big cities often encountered tax-resistant towns and robbers along the roads, and it can be said that most of the Polish militia in Zhytomyr had seen blood and would maintain a certain military training, and the local rule of the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom, where the national standing infantry was scarce, was actually maintained by the militias recruited from these large cities.

Mercenaries are recruited on a large scale by the local nobles only when they are actually fighting, and the asking price of mercenaries is not low......

Therefore, many of the Polish militia of Zhytomyr City who went out into battle served as tax collectors, patrol soldiers, guard police units, city defense soldiers, etc., and some of them even went to the real battlefield, and the quality of the soldiers was still good.

This was reflected in morale, and the Polish militia in Zhytomyr were more focused than panicked when they stepped into battle.

The Polish militia in Zhytomyr formed a traditional formation, with arquebuses in front and pikemen in the back, somewhat similar to the Spanish phalanx.

Since the end of the Thirty Years' War in Europe, the Spanish phalanx has become a commonly used formation template for the entire European country, not that the Spanish phalanx is advanced, but because the Spanish phalanx has a higher proportion of cold weapons troops, it is suitable for those armies with low rate of firearms equipment.

For the elite troops with a high rate of firearms, the tactical phalanx invented by the famous Gustav the Great of the Kingdom of Sweden is used, especially the military reform of the Russian Empire, which basically copied the military tactics of the Kingdom of Sweden......

Since the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania is a country of cavalry, it does not pay much attention to the infantry tactical phalanx, and it does not massively popularize advanced firearms.

The line firing phalanx of the Kingdom of Sweden was based on the rate of fire of the early flintlock pistols!

The Polish militia of Zhytomyr formed a dense infantry phalanx and marched towards the Polish slave soldiers lined up under the walls of the town of Beshev......

It seems simple to walk in the queue, but on the real battlefield, if you want to get the queue out of the horizontal and vertical realm, in addition to the honor guard, it is the elite regular army.

"Stop moving! The musketeers come forward and shoot! ”

Under the orders of a large number of junior officers, the Polish musket militia took the lead, forming a horizontal firing array similar to a salvo of archers, stepping forward and protruding from their own formation, raising their guns and pulling the trigger on the Polish slave soldiers hundreds of yards away!

At the same time, the condescending senior musketeers of the Taiping Army and the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army, who had a faster rate of fire, also raised their muskets under the orders of the officers, aimed at the enemy troops in the distance below and pulled the trigger!

The lethal range of the musket can actually exceed more than 200 meters, the reason why the modern queue to shoot is the pursuit of close-range fire, mainly because of the inaccurate hit, the Europeans have tested the musket in history, more than 100 meters away from the musket is basically equivalent to hitting a bird, the hit is completely by luck, more than 50 meters away, the musket hit rate will drop significantly, so the best shooting distance is 50 meters, so that at least nearly half of the hit rate can be guaranteed, rather than wasting ammunition.

The inaccuracy of the hit rate here does not mean that the hit is inaccurate, but the degree to which it is easy to 'fly', which means that even if the front is densely packed with people, it is likely that one person will not be able to hit more than 100 meters......

With the escalation of the scale of the war, and the increase in the rate of musket equivalence, European countries have required infantry to enter a distance of 50 meters as a shooting range, some elite troops in order to pursue lethality, but also to shorten the shooting distance, this is undoubtedly the best to do the British, to 30 steps within a distance of more than ten meters and then fire, almost reached the realm of no bullets!

Of course, in the 17th century, the armies of the East and the West were the same, and the use of firearms was still in the exploration stage, coupled with the fact that the soldiers did not have the discipline and courage to 'get closer', they often fired within the theoretical maximum effective killing range of the musket, that is, more than 100 meters away......

One can imagine what a waste of bullets it is to fight such a war!

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