"Stop moving forward !!"

When a large number of Lithuanian cavalry suddenly protruded from the formation, the drumbeat of the elite musketeers of the disciplined Taiping Army in the battle line suddenly stopped at the command of the officer, and the group of soldiers who had already formed an inertial thinking stopped their steps forward almost at the same time, and from a distance it seemed as if the entire line had been pressed the pause button.

This scene fell in the eyes of the generals of the Lithuanian aristocratic coalition army, which couldn't help but cause a cold gasp, even though the great aristocratic generals of the Lithuanian aristocratic coalition army had repeatedly raised the combat effectiveness of the Taiping Army in their hearts, this moment was still completely overturned The previous cognition, they are all veterans of a hundred battles, and they naturally know what it means for the marching infantry queue to suddenly stop!

Soldiers are not machines, but ordinary people with independent thoughts and emotions, can train individual individuals into a uniform military formation, which is easier said than done, but it is extremely difficult, and it is a bit appalling to stop collectively on the training ground to achieve the precipitation of maybe only training time, but to do this step on the noisy battlefield, it is a bit appalling.

It can be said that this unexpected order and prohibition caused the effect of the sudden charge of the Lithuanian cavalry to drop a level in an instant, because the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army who had stopped had already gathered and merged into a simple infantry phalanx in units of 100 men under the orders of officers at all levels.

It's not that the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army don't want to transform into a more effective hollow phalanx, but that the time and space of the battlefield cross-section are not enough, and the transformation from a thin horizontal formation to an ordinary infantry phalanx only requires the soldiers on the left and right sides to walk a few steps back and then retract to the left and right into the tail of the line, and the amount of movement is not large, what is needed is only the coordination of the soldiers and the proficiency of the queue phalanx.

But if you want to become a hollow phalanx, it will be a lot of work, even if the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army run to ensure that the formation is not chaotic, they will not be able to complete the establishment of the hollow phalanx when the Lithuanian cavalry rushes in front of them, and the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army who have no formation to speak of will only become stragglers slaughtered by the Lithuanian cavalry.

The simple infantry phalanx only deepened the depth of the infantry queue on the basis of the thin horizontal battle line, and there were more gaps between the various centurions that originally had no gaps due to the convergence of the soldiers, and there was not much difference other than that, which was equivalent to the traditional spear phalanx.

The only advantage is that it will not be pierced by the Lithuanian cavalry at the first time.

It's just that the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army can complete the change of formation with fast and crisp speed, and the Lithuanian cavalry that has begun to charge cannot change the direction of the charge, this is a 'pig rush' charge launched by thousands of cavalry, and any cavalry who wants to stop or forcibly turn the horse's head will cause a miserable impact and trampling.

Of course, the Lithuanian cavalry felt that there was no need to change the situation of the charge, and thousands of cavalry could not be defeated by a frontal assault on the infantry spear phalanx, let alone a group of infantry with muskets?

"Raise your gun! Fire!!! ”

In the face of the oncoming Lithuanian iron hooves, the Taiping Army officer raised the command knife in his hand and shouted and waved it forward, the Taiping Army musketeers in the first three rows completed the gun action in the shortest possible time, and fired the lead bullet, it was really too fast for the cavalry, the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army who had just completed the formation had only one chance to fire a salvo, and at the moment they pulled the trigger, the cavalry at the forefront of the Lithuanian cavalry was even close to a distance of thirty meters!

Bang bang bang......

A thick white smoke floated in front of the formation, and the Lithuanian cavalry who were screaming and wielding sabers and spears along the way suddenly ushered in a miserable howl.

At the same time, the cavalry and war horses knocked down by the lead bullet rush in front naturally became an obstacle for the subsequent cavalry, if the cavalry with excellent equestrian skills may be able to jump safely over the corpse in front of it or become a companion of the corpse by virtue of vertical leaps and turns, but these Lithuanian cavalry are not the elite hussars that once crisscrossed the Lithuanian plain, which are mixed with a lot of mercenaries, Cossack horse bandits, Tatar nomadic riders and other cavalry of average quality.

It is true that there are many equestrian masters among these guys who rely on 'horses' to eat all year round, but where there are masters, there will naturally be a large number of 'low hands', ordinary people in this world occupy the majority after all, not to mention that there are many riders who fish in troubled waters for high war commissions, and the Lithuanian nobles can be regarded as taking out their old books when they are living and dying, in order to make up the number of people, some details are naturally not too much, as long as they dare to work hard, they can basically enter this battle.

As a result, the rumbling Lithuanian iron hooves quickly caused secondary damage after a volley, and a large number of Lithuanian cavalrymen who were not strong enough to equestrian stumbled and trampled to death, and the originally imposing Lithuanian cavalry was forced to make a discount.

"Load your bayonets and prepare for hand-to-hand combat, the Taiping army will never give up! Long live the king!! ”

After the salvo, the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army did not have time to pay attention to the results of the battle, and the Lithuanian cavalry close at hand would not give them much time, under the order of the officer, the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army quickly stabbed the inserted bayonets into the muzzle, and the entire simple infantry phalanx turned into an infantry phalanx full of snow bayonets in less than a minute!

The Lithuanian aristocratic generals who were holding binoculars high in the rear and were paying close attention to the battle seemed to have felt numb to the high-quality movements of the Taiping Army, and they were very puzzled in their hearts - how did Hong Tiancheng train such an army that was forbidden in just half a year?

Everyone is a person who has trained in the army, and no one knows the difficulties and results? It can be said that the performance of the Taiping Army completely subverted the military views of the Lithuanian aristocratic generals in just a few minutes, and they even doubted their own military common sense, and had the urge to go home and relearn to overturn their decades of experience in the military career.

Is the pace of military change too fast or is it too lo yourself?

The progress of the battlefield did not give the Lithuanian noble generals much time to think, and during their shock, the Lithuanian cavalry, which had stepped over various 'obstacles' intact, crashed headlong into the not too thick Taiping bayonet phalanx!

The Lithuanian cavalry armed with a saber may not be a big deal, and before the saber could hit the head, the spear erected from below pierced the thick leather armor on the body.

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