294 Fall of the Swedish Legion

"Soldiers, the Taiping Han dog doesn't give us a way to live, and they don't even want to give us a chance to surrender, they want to kill us all, what do you say?!"

"Kill all the Taiping dogs and fight with them!"

"The Han people are not good things, they don't let us live, and we also drag them to hell together!"

"Sir, give the order, it's better to die on the battlefield than to be a prisoner and tortured to death by a Han dog!"

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Karl X, who was standing not far away, looked at the Swedish soldiers who were instigated by his officers, and his eyes did not show the slightest look of relief, but he repeatedly asked himself in his heart: "It seems that I am really wrong in this war, these young lads could have stayed at home and lived a peaceful life, but they died in a foreign land for my ambition, God, please forgive your people and accept my confession." ”

However, although Karl X regretted it very much in his heart, he still pretended to be tough and indignant on the surface, because he had been forced to a dead end by Hong Tiancheng, and unconditionally surrendered and became a prisoner of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Once Karl X is captured, not only will he be ruined and nailed to the pillar of shame in Swedish history, but his family's reputation in the Kingdom of Sweden will also plummet because of his capture, and even affect the inheritance of his royal family!

Therefore, it is not that Karl X really wants to fight to the death, it is just that he has to make this choice.

Fortunately, he did not have no chance, the thousands of troops left behind lived up to the expectations of Karl X, and successfully delayed for several days, leaving a large number of holes in Hong Tiancheng's encirclement, although these holes were filled by the Fifth Grenadier Division of the Taiping Army with a small number of troops, but it was no longer an insurmountable gap for the remnants of the Swedish legion.

Now Karl X still has nearly 10,000 troops in his hands, and most of them are veterans who have experienced a hundred battles, and these veterans have become a group of 'mourning soldiers' under the statement that the Taiping army that Karl X can distort does not accept surrender, and the desperate morale has reached an unbelievable level.

When one thinks one is going to die, it's easy to hold a deep grudge against the enemy who caused the situation, especially for a bloody soldier!

They themselves are ready to die, and naturally they are not willing to kneel and let the enemy kill!

Sometimes, the difference in will between soldiers and civilians is really big.

Soldiers who are accustomed to seeing dead people or killing too many people, in a sense, can be said to suffer from mild mental illness, of course, this is judged by the standards of the 21st century, in the 17th century, this mild mental illness is the favorite soldier of the commanders of various countries!

Later generations popularly referred to him as a 'sensible madman'.

Soon, the soldiers of the Swedish Legion, having eaten a full meal, launched a surprise attack on the encirclement line of the 5th Grenadier Division of the Taiping Army.

The breaching side has always had a big advantage, they can pick any point to break through, while the encircling side needs to divide their forces to defend, leaving at most some mobile reserves to plug the gap.

This is the reason why the encircled side often needs more troops than the encircled side, but unfortunately, the main force led by Hong Tiancheng has not yet arrived, and the Fifth Grenadier Division lost more than 3,000 people when it was facing Karl X before, and the number of troops is comparable to the remnants of the Swedish Legion.

Under the selfless shouts of the Swedish soldiers, they showed far more courage than before, and rushed to the front of the opponent's line of guns and grenades against the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army, and directly entered the tragic hand-to-hand combat.

Because Karl X knew very well that the Swedish soldiers who lined up to shoot in the field were not the opponents of the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army at all, to be precise, Karl X believed that all the national armies in the whole of Europe, in the field with the same number of people, were not opponents when they played with the Taiping Army in a field battle face to face!

In order to minimize the number of volleys fired by the Taiping platoons, Karl X had to launch his soldiers to charge directly in hand-to-hand combat, which was previously resisted by the Swedish soldiers, and it was almost impossible for the men in the front row to survive in the face of a rush charge......

But now, in desperation, the Swedish soldiers decided who was in the front row of the charge with a simple draw of lots, and launched a fearless sprint, quite in the style of a Russian gray animal.

The disciplined Swedish soldier was pushed to such an extent that it was unique.

This is mainly due to the fact that the Taiping army is famous for its ferocity, and after the Swedish soldiers heard the news that the Taiping army did not leave prisoners as propagated by Karl X, not many people even doubted its accuracy, and the history of the Taiping army was basically a history of massacres, coupled with the alien identity of the Han people of the Taiping army, the Swedish soldiers easily accepted the lie that the Taiping army tortured and killed prisoners.

The front broken through by the Kingdom of Sweden had only one battalion of elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army, and even if the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army in this battalion did not take a step back and were proficient in bayonet hand-to-hand combat, they were quickly wiped out like melting ice and snow under the frantic attack of the Swedish soldiers ten times their size.

Fortunately, the Taiping army has always acted very efficiently, and after the Swedish legion launched an attack, the Taiping military battalions stationed around immediately rushed over with all their men and horses, and successfully joined the battle to intercept the Swedish legion that had just broken through the defense line again.

As a result, the scuffle continued to stalemate.

In this way, with the destruction of one Taiping army camp after another, the speed of the Swedish army's breakthrough was repeatedly delayed, and the Taiping army camp and mobile reserves in the distance smashed into this battlefield one after another as if adding fuel to the tactics.

Of course, the other lines of defense did not evacuate all the Taiping soldiers, and each line of defense left a 25-man guard led by Liang Sima to set up a guard post to prevent Karl X from leaving his army and fleeing.

The tragic attrition hand-to-hand combat reached the setting of the sun from dawn, and with the tactical support of the refueling tactics of the 5th Grenadier Division, the desperate breakthrough of the Swedish regiment was finally disintegrated, to be precise, there were too many dead people, and the ability to continue the breakthrough was lost......

In just one day, thousands of people lay on the battlefield, many of whom did not die completely, and they had to endure poor medical conditions under the torture of their wounds to fight for the one percent hope of survival.

Of course, the defeated Swedish soldiers did not have this opportunity, and the Taipings did not leave prisoners, whether they were slightly or seriously wounded!

The two sides have completely killed at this time!

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