Although the overall military quality of the main Polish army is much worse, their commander is also a battle-hardened aristocratic general, and after arriving at the battlefield, he immediately judged that the time of the convergence between his side and the Russian friendly forces had fallen behind a lot, and most importantly, the Polish army had lost contact with the Russian shooting army!

In the face of the Taiping army formation, the Polish commander, who had fought with the Taiping army for so long, was still a little forced in his heart, and very rationally canceled the plan to attack immediately after arriving at the battlefield, and formed a confrontation with the Taiping army from afar, waiting for the cavalry to send specific news from the Russian allies.

However, the commander of the Taiping army, Xiang Dongqiang, obviously would not just wait, and the plan of ambushing the jungle cavalry and attacking the two armies was terrible, but at the same time, it also brought an opportunity for the Taiping army to be eliminated once and for all.

Since the other party has already made a time mistake in 'cooperation' due to his own reasons, if Xiang Dongqiang does not seize the opportunity to expand the results of the battle, he is not worthy of sitting in the position of the Taiping Army's division.

With the order to attack to the east, the layers of the Taiping Army's horizontal formation suddenly sounded with the sound of drums, and the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army lined up the tactical phalanx of the large horizontal team brought by Hong Tiancheng from the experience of later generations, stepping on the drum beat and holding flintlock pistols to move forward step by step.

The movement of the march is as neat as the advance arrangement in the film studio of later generations, and the real battlefield is because of the fear of human beings and the recruits, the formation that comes out not only needs to be constantly shouted and adjusted by the officers, but the whole horizontal team will also walk out of the uneven twisted diagonal line, horizontal and vertical that is the stunt of the honor guard, and the soldiers on the battlefield are more thinking about how to keep themselves alive, rather than how to walk the queue well, and the slogan is shouted......

Of course, the ceremony of the honor guard in the 21st century was also born from the era of queuing to shoot, and this era was also the first time that the way of queuing up to carry guns was placed in the city.

Later, as the war gradually decreased, in order to continue to maintain the use of the military parade to invigorate the national feelings, the 'honor guard' was born as a professional soldier, although they are also soldiers, but they lack a trace of blood than the real veterans of a hundred battles.

Gradually, the honor guard that rarely goes to the battlefield or does not go to the battlefield at all has become the object of ridicule of the front-line soldiers, of course, the wartime country will not always use the honor guard to fill the scene, because the wartime country has elite veterans who can conduct military parades.

In the 17th century, the way of fighting in which the musket was carried straight and straight to the effective range of the opponent was cursed thousands of times by the soldiers and even the officers, and no one wanted to walk at a normal walking speed to shuttle through the rain of bullets, even if it could show how heroic they were, but life was only once for them!

Except for the truly fanatical religious maniac, no one wants to trade their one-time lives for a moment of bloom on the battlefield!

Since the Polish Corps arrived here on a hurried march, they naturally did not carry heavy weapons such as artillery, and during the Taiping Army's offensive advance, the Polish Corps directly opposite could only counterattack on the spot.

After all, the number of the Taiping army does not seem to be large, in fact, the strength of the main Polish army sent to flank the Taiping army this time is more than twice that of the Taiping army after removing the Lithuanian soldiers!

In the original plan of the coalition army, the Lithuanian militia was not taken into their eyes at all, no one would believe that a group of farmers who had just taken up arms would have strong combat effectiveness in an ambush war, and of course, with 40,000 people to flank more than 10,000 elite Taiping troops, they were still in the advantage of preemptive strikes, no matter how you look at it, they will not be defeated......

The commander of the main Polish army put out a standard three-front formation of this era, the first front mixed with a certain proportion of elite and more than half of the miscellaneous militia mercenary soldiers, the elite is mainly responsible for hand-to-hand combat, standing behind those miscellaneous soldiers, and the miscellaneous militia and other cannon fodder are holding muskets, bows and crossbows and other long-range throwing weapons to stand on the front line.

The use of muskets and artillery to consume the enemy's living forces, and then the hand-to-hand combat troops were the common infantry tactics of the 17th century in Europe, and of course, if there were cavalry, the advantage was even greater.

The cavalry units of the main Polish army, which had been hidden behind the flanks and could not be seen from the position of the Taipings, were interconnected with the cavalry of the Russian nobility, and would be thrown into battle when necessary, to save the crumbling lines of their own soldiers, or to break up the enemy's last resistance when they had the upper hand.

The second line of the Polish Corps was a reserve to make up for the gap in the first front, and the third front was the weakest in strength, a purely rear-force force.

Once the first two lines of troops used for battle avalanche, the third line of troops was the last means of self-salvation for the Poles, and although there were few but determined Polish nobles and knights to carry out the period, they would withstand the enemy's pursuit of the vanguard in a fatal moment, and buy time for the friendly army to flee for their lives.

The greatest casualties on the battlefield always occur in pursuit battles, even in the era of queue shooting, the large-scale use of muskets has led to a sharp increase in casualties during battle, and the majority of enemy soldiers killed and wounded during pursuit.

Because no army will hold out until the last moment in musket fire, generally speaking, it can hold out until more than half of the casualties, which is considered the elite of the modern army.

This casualty ratio was already terrible at the time, you know, the ordinary regular army in the ancient feudal era, often when the casualties reached one or two percent, there was a high probability that it would collapse, even if it was an elite army, at most it would persist until three or four percent of the casualties.

As the Taiping army gradually approached, it was the Polish corps that was the first to fire, and the Polish musketeers and crossbowmen who were on the front line stood next to each other, and pulled their bows and arrows to pull the trigger on the crowd of Taiping troops in a free fire manner.

Salvo is not available to all armies, salvo requires a perfect Western European officer system, good soldier discipline, the Russian Empire was also introduced a large number of Western European foreign officers, in the shooting army and other regular armies to popularize the salvo this combat method.

It is a pity that the Kingdom of Poland, Lithuania, which valued cavalry and neglected the development of infantry, apparently did not put the salvo skills of the army's infantry on point......

However, the lethality of free fire is also quite large, and free fire gives full play to the soldiers' 'flamboyant' projection ability.