The Taipings' entry into the Balkans was initially very smooth, as these areas had not yet been attacked by the Ottoman Turkish army, and the Ottoman Turks had occupied only the independent Greek kingdom of Bulgaria in the Balkans.

Of course, the Kingdom of Greece and the Kingdom of Bulgaria no longer exist, and these two small states, which relied on the power of the Taiping Army, were destroyed less than three years after their founding.

With the exception of these two small states, which were completely occupied by the Ottomans, all the other small states retained a part of their territory, and several countries fought against the Ottomans.

However, the disadvantages of the Balkan countries are very great, and if the Taiping army does not intervene, it will not take two years for the entire Balkan Peninsula to once again become the backyard of the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

You know, the army of the Ottoman Turkish Empire that attacked the Balkans, if you don't count the messy slave soldiers and servant army, the regular army is more than 10,000 people!

Of course, the Ottoman regular army in Hong Tiancheng's eyes is a real Ottoman elite in the eyes of the Balkan countries, and as long as it is matched, it will definitely be defeated......

The reason is simple, these Ottoman Turkish regular armies are all reconstituted Ottoman new army, second only to the main force of the Ottoman Turkish Empire after the Sultan's personal guard!

By the end of 1683, the entire Ottoman Empire had trained just over 50,000 new Ottoman troops.

However, the original tradition of the old army and slave soldiers, the Ottoman Turkish Empire has not been revoked, not that the Ottoman Sultan does not want to cut this expenditure to form more new troops, but these old armies and slave soldiers involve the distribution of rights within the Ottoman Turkish Empire, even if it is the status of the Sultan, it cannot be easily cut down, otherwise, without the Taiping army to attack, the Ottoman Turkish Empire itself will fall apart!

More than 10,000 new troops attacked the Balkans with an incalculable number of slave soldiers, servant armies, and old armies, while more than 40,000 new troops and the Sultan's personal guard army all stayed in Istanbul to build fortifications day and night, putting on a stubborn posture......

The Ottomans are not stupid, millions of people have been defeated by the Taiping army, where do they not know that they are not the opponents of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?

Sending troops to attack the Balkan Peninsula was on the one hand to take revenge on and bully the scum of the Balkan states, and on the other hand, to expand the strategic buffer zone and prolong the time for the Taiping army to reach the city of Istanbul as much as possible.

A new batch of new Ottoman troops had been formed in Asia Minor, were being trained and equipped, and the longer they held, the more new Ottoman troops would be.

After the destruction of the million-strong army, the Ottomans suddenly woke up, and they no longer blindly worshiped the superiority of the sea of people, and began to pay attention to the quality of the army, and the new army was such a product.

The new army was trained according to the infantry discipline of the modern army stolen from the anti-Han League, and the Ottomans originally planned to steal the training methods of the Taiping army, but unfortunately, as soon as the Taiping army appeared, they were especially elite veterans, and they did not need training at all, and naturally there was no training method......

So, the Ottomans had to settle for the next best thing.

However, in today's world, in addition to the Taiping Army, the most effective thing to fight is the Anti-Han League that has been violently beaten by the Taiping Army for more than ten years, and their infantry drill is still very high.

If you lose a lot of battles, you will make great progress!

Now, the army of the Huihan League has fully entered the era of the skirmishing line, which is similar to the skirmishing line tactics during the Russo-Japanese War in history.

In addition, trench digging was included in the mandatory items for the training of recruits, especially with regard to the construction of anti-artillery trenches!

It can be said that the tactics of the anti-Han alliance army have been out of touch with the era of queuing and shooting, and the only thing that remains unchanged is the sea of people charging.

As everyone knows, victory can be achieved when the strength of the charge exceeds the density of firepower, and the Taiping army is only equipped with 200 Maxim heavy machine guns, which cannot be used in all of them on the same battlefield, so the British still firmly believe that the sea of people can exceed the density of firepower.

In fact, this is also the helplessness of the anti-Han League, if they don't rely on the sea of people to charge, how can they attack?

Do you kill all the enemies by shooting?

The crowd charge tactic is the only offensive tactic that the anti-Han alliance without firepower advantage can handle, if they have the opportunity to attack......

The Ottomans did not learn much about offensive tactics, and the Ottomans mainly learned defensive tactics from the anti-Han alliance and used them in the defense system of Istanbul!

After the Taiping army entered Serbia, they immediately took control of the Serbian government and executed all those who resisted, of course, most of them were still 'hearted' to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Then it was to send the Han Concord Army to garrison Serbia, and the main force of the Taiping Army continued to advance, eating locally along the way......

Thanks to logistical pressure, the Taiping Army's food problems were rarely supplied by the rear, and all of them were solved by the front-line troops themselves, and the Taiping soldiers were still very good at this.

The soldiers of the Taiping Army seldom selected ordinary poor people, who were so poor that they could not scrape oil and water, and even if there was a little ration left, it was not enough for the Taiping Army to stuff their teeth.

The Taiping army's favorite thing is to extort the big families and manors in the place, and everyone is happy to hand over the grain obediently, otherwise, a grenadier canister, a few cannons down, and a white flag will be raised inside......

Even small and medium-sized local nobles who own small castles don't want to escape the Taiping army's 'grain team', the grenadier is a curved weapon, and it is completely possible to blast into the castle from 200 meters away.

After a smooth takeover in the early stages, the main force of the Taiping army finally met the Ottoman army in the central part of the Balkans.

At that time, a pioneer battalion encountered tens of thousands of Ottoman slave soldiers and servants, and then a few hundred people in this vanguard battalion, using a Makqin heavy machine gun, spent half an hour to defeat more than 10,000 Ottoman scum......

In fact, after only one minute of heavy machine gun fire, the Ottomans on the opposite side collapsed, and all that remained was the process of capturing prisoners and chasing down the enemy, which the Taiping soldiers were very proficient at......

These more than 10,000 Ottoman scum are nothing in the eyes of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and they don't even need military salaries to maintain!

As long as the slave soldiers have a bite to eat, it is good, except in wartime, they can't eat enough!

The servant army brought its own dry rations, and relied on wartime allowances and looting as its source of power......

When there was no war, the Ottoman regime would disband most of the servant army, leaving only a small number of skeleton officers.

Slave soldiers, naturally, were Ottoman coolies in peacetime!

With such troops, it is not impossible for the Ottoman regime to pull out another million!

Interestingly, the Ottoman army of 10,000 people defeated by the vanguard battalion of the Taiping Army also included a large number of prisoners of war from the Balkan countries who served as pawns after surrendering, and the lifespan of this defeated army was no more than a year......