The elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army stayed outside the effective range of the German battle line, silently watching their 12-pounder mountain howitzers, shelling the battle line of the German coalition army one after another.

One or two shots, or even ten or twenty shrapnel shells smashed into a battle line of thousands of men, would not cause much of a stir, after all, this was a modern infantry carefully trained by Frederick and the nobles of the German states to imitate the tactics of line formation.

The soldiers are all honest serfs and ordinary civilian families, and the vast majority of the officer class are former members of the knightly class and minor nobles.

The knight class and the small aristocratic class, who have accepted the patriotic idea of loyalty to the monarch since childhood, still have a strong willpower to fight, although there is no shortage of people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, but under the support of the so-called 'great righteousness' and the restrictions of traditional knightly treaties, they are still trying to maintain the stability of the military formation and fulfill their obligations.

However, as the 12-pounder mountain howitzer continued to rain down one hownel after another, seemingly endlessly, killing German musketeers in large numbers, the battle line of the First Moral Will coalition became more and more chaotic.

Although the artillery of the German coalition army was also trying to fight back, the solid iron bullets used in the 17th century were not as good as the later Napoleonic guns, and if you wanted to hit the enemy, you really needed to look at the face, and the air tightness of the artillery was also extremely poor, and the firing range was not high.

Just when the officers and soldiers of the first battle line of the German Allied Army were unilaterally bombarded with shrapnel bombardment, and from time to time some people were blown up and fell to the ground, the army formation of the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army began to stride towards here.

As the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army approached, the artillerymen of the 12-pounder mountain howitzer began to extend the shelling distance backwards to prevent accidental injury to friendly troops, after all, in this era, the engagement distance of the flintlock pistol was really too close, even if the parabolic 12-pounder mountain howitzer could theoretically jump over the friendly soldiers in front of them and hit the enemy troops further ahead, but in case of mistakes, wouldn't it be embarrassing?

No matter what era it is, accidental injury is not uncommon in large-scale wars, even if the Taiping soldiers are not afraid of death, they are also a living person, they are human beings, and there will be times when they make mistakes!

When the 12-pounder mountain howitzer extended back to bombard the second half of the first line of battle of the German coalition army, the German musketeers in the front row finally relented, and they began to hurriedly reorganize the battle line under the orders of the surviving officers.

In fact, as long as the phalanx hit by the shrapnel is basically disintegrated as an organization, and the surrounding horizontal phalanx soldiers, because of the tragic situation of the friendly troops, will begin to subconsciously lie on the ground to avoid the shelling, or run around trying to dodge the shells, and the officer's bullet pressure is just to keep the soldiers from fleeing the battle line.

Now the 12-pounder mountain howitzer is looking at the rear, and the horizontal phalanx soldiers in the front row must be re-lined up.

It's a pity that the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army, who have been advancing, do not intend to give them this opportunity.

Taking advantage of the gap between the German coalition musketeers to regroup, the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army quickly narrowed the distance between the two sides, and there was no uniform horizontal phalanx, and the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army only encountered scattered musket fire after entering the effective range of the enemy, and the soldiers in the front row of the first battle line of the German coalition army could not fire a salvo at all!

So, the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army came to a distance of less than 30 paces, stopped, and under the unified order of the officers, fired a three-column salvo!

Immediately afterwards, after the battle line of the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army moved forward a dozen paces again, rows of primordial grenades burning with arquebuses smashed into the group of German musketeers on the first line of battle, which had been again confused by a round of three volleys.

Boom Boom Boom ......

A series of explosions of black powder, accompanied by choking smoke and splatters of dirt and blood, enveloped the German soldiers in the front row of the first battle line.

"For the sake of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, kill the enemy !!"

Before the smoke cleared, the bayonet jungle charged by the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army slammed into the first line of battle of the German coalition army!

At this time, the 10 12-pounder mountain howitzers in the rear had stopped firing and were slowly moving forward under the tow of artillery and pack horses.

The reason is very simple, the German coalition troops on the first line of battle were instantly destroyed when the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army launched a bayonet charge!

According to the normal law of battle, even if the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army are not afraid of death, the battle line of the German Allied Army will put up some resistance, but now that they have experienced a large number of shrapnel bombardments, the German Allied soldiers who have hardly made any effective counterattack against the attacking elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army have long since collapsed in their mentality, and even those knightly officers who praised themselves as 'firm in faith' were also frightened and dared to flee when the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army charged with bayonets!

In this way, Frederick and the German states, the line of infantry defense, which had been carefully trained for more than two years, was gone......

The Taiping army's offensive routine was nothing more than an artillery bombardment, plus the traditional close-range salvo, throwing grenades and bayonet charges, a set of tactics that seemed tired of being played in the past, but at this moment changed dramatically.

The only difference is that the new cannonballs that will explode and shoot 'small objects' and cause massive lethality!

Frederick looked in disbelief at the wrong side of the first battle line that basically collapsed without resistance, swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, and then frantically shouted to the people next to him: "Quick! Quickly send someone to inform the cavalry legions that are circuitous, and attack immediately!! ”

"Your Majesty, the cavalry corps has already set out, and it is difficult for our people to find their traces on time......"

The aristocratic general on the side replied with an embarrassed face.

The cavalry corps' detour is not a fixed route, this is the strong mobility of the cavalry, without a fixed route, the Taiping troops on both wings will not be able to stay in the vital places to guard, so there are loopholes everywhere, as long as the detour is far enough, it is easy to find a breakthrough and rush into the battlefield.

However, after seeing the power of the Taiping army's new artillery, Frederick felt that it might be difficult for him to survive the time when his cavalry made a detour and flanked the surprise attack......

The kind of shells that will explode are a blow to the morale of the army, beyond imagination!