The ensuing battle was no longer in suspense, facing the elite musketeers with 2,000 shots lined up in the firing array, and the few hundred Polish hussars gathered together couldn't even rush through their firepower nets!

Hong Tiancheng, who attaches great importance to firearms, has long been implementing the line tactics of maximizing the density of firepower in the army under his command.

That is, under the traditional infantry formation, the firing surface is widened as much as possible by reducing the depth of the infantry line, and in the case of superior troops, a salvo killing surface similar to cross fire can be formed at a certain angle of inclination.

In Hong Tiancheng's army, the depth of the infantry firing array has completely become a formation that continues to shoot firepower, rather than the previous infantry phalanx, in order to improve the thickness of the breakthrough.

King Jan Kazimierz Vasa, who was busy assembling the Polish hussars under his command, had to recognize the reality that he had lost the battle after seeing the Polish hussars in front of him being killed and wounded under the progressive fire of the musketeers of the Shenji Battalion......

"Damn, these Taiping madmen, why are they so desperate! This time, I will remember the shame you have brought me, Hong Tiancheng, this Tatar god stick, I will never spare him! King Jan Kazimierz Vasa cursed as he gave an order to the Polish hussars beside him:

"Retreat !!"

At this time, the Polish hussars and Polish cavalry, who had already cleaned the Swedish veteran musket mercenaries, suddenly collapsed their morale when they saw King Jan Kazimierz Vasa turn back away from the main musket force of the Taiping Army.

No matter how fearless and heroic the Polish hussars were, they were only a product of the army of the feudal era, and most of their morale came from the commanders or kings they followed.

The Polish military aristocracy that made up the Polish hussars were not afraid of sacrifice, they were afraid of senseless death!

This is the 'strange' thinking of the military aristocracy of this era, who are willing to die in glory, even if they are defeated!

But they are not willing to pay for any war that has no glory to pay for it!

As for obedience, it is only because the commander or king to whom they are loyal is the master who gives them glory and land.

In this era, it was popular to learn literature and martial arts and serve them to the emperor's family. Rather than the so-called soldiers' lifelong mission to obey orders to defend their homes and country......

The meaning of the state appeared only after the idea of patriotism swept the European continent, and at the same time it also appeared nationalism, and the concepts of patriotism and nationalism, most realistically shouted out by the French, they also forcibly promoted it throughout Europe through the French Revolution, during the long Napoleonic Wars, and became a powerful ideological weapon to bury the imperialist political system after the end of the First World War.

Germany and Austria-Hungary, the main forces of the Central Powers defeated in World War I, were not defeated by the Entente attacks, but died in the revolution at home......

Even the Russian Empire, which was regarded as the steamroller of Europe, could not withstand the reversal brought about by the revolution, and for any power, the fatal cause of defeat was never from the outside, but from within, and this is also true in the 21st century!

Spiritual weapons are sometimes more terrifying than material weapons, because spiritual weapons are impossible to defend and can easily break through the enemy's fortress from within.

If Hong Tiancheng hadn't been a die-hard force with a full-scale war system, he wouldn't have dared to play the dictatorial tyrant model so blatantly on the territory of white Europeans, considering the people's livelihood and attaching importance to construction not because politicians are great benevolent people, but because they need to win over the people's hearts and bewitch public opinion, if they don't give any benefits, how can the people be willing to step on the battlefield as cannon fodder?

Sacrificing one's life for the country is just a slogan, and the real reason is that the common people who serve in the army feel that their families have hope for life in the motherland, so they will throw their heads and spill their blood!

People have hope after all, and if there is no hope, what is the difference between it and salted fish?

Oh no, salted fish also have dreams, but those dreams are difficult to achieve without special circumstances......

It was only when he retreated that King Jan Kazimierz Vasa realized that he had once again underestimated the desperate spirit of the Taiping bandits.

Although the Swedish senior musket mercenaries are gone, there are still some survivors of the Shenji Battalion Musketeers who were smashed by the breakthrough before, and King Jan Kazimierz Vasa was eager to attack the main force of the Taiping Army when he broke through their blockage, so he did not send anyone to clear the remnants of the Taiping Army.

Of course, this kind of scattered and sparse infantry intercepting cavalry, even if it is only a retreating cavalry, is undoubtedly dead, with the combat skills of the Polish hussars, one-on-one control of the war horse can easily send the scattered Divine Battalion musketeers into the sky.

It's just that it takes time to kill people, and the most important thing for the Polish hussars to retreat is time!

With every minute of delay, the front of the two thousand musketeers of the Divine Machine Battalion will shoot pieces of lead bullets!

As a result, after an hour of fierce fighting, King Jan Kazimierz Vasa tragically discovered that he had escaped with only 500 horsemen, including ordinary Polish hussars, who were not hussars, and it can be said that the cavalry unit under King Jan Kazimierz Vasa had been completely abolished......

And the losses of the Taiping Army are not small, those remnants of the musketeers of the Shenji Battalion who do not want to intercept them have been completely wiped out, and the senior musket mercenaries of Sweden have also become a thing of the past, and the main force of the Taiping Army only has about 2,000 musketeers of the Shenji Battalion to maintain combat effectiveness.

King Jan Casimir Vasa, who fled back to the main force of the Polish infantry with hatred, looked at the 2,000 or so Taiping musketeers who stopped advancing and lined up on the spot to defend the main Polish attack, and there was a rare color of struggle and hesitation in his eyes.

The phenomenon of the Polish hussars and Polish hussars who had been killed and wounded before, like lost dogs fleeing back to their own positions, had long been seen by the Polish infantry group that followed behind, most of these Polish infantry were ordinary young and strong, militia and mercenaries, and their morale itself was not high, so you can imagine what thoughts they would have in their hearts after seeing the end of the Polish hussars, who were regarded as the backbone......

However, there were only 2,000 Taiping troops left on the opposite side, and the Polish infantry group plus the young men with weapons had nearly 10,000 people......