The commander of the Russian ambush infantry corps who rushed to the front of the Taiping army's main formation, looked at the Taiping soldiers who were cleaning up the bodies of the Russian aristocratic cavalry with an embarrassed face, and the elite musketeers of the Taiping army lined up in battle, so he had no choice but to order to stop the hand-to-hand charge.

The plan to break through the Taiping army was shattered when the Russian aristocratic cavalry was disrupting the Taiping army's front.

Of course, the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force, which had carefully planned this battle, had a second step plan with the main Polish corps!

Once the Russian aristocratic cavalry did not play its due role, the ambushed tens of thousands of infantry regiments of the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force would form a two-sided angle with the main Polish infantry regiment, and use the defeat of the Lithuanian vanguard reconnaissance force to occupy the terrain advantage, and attack the Taiping army from both sides at the same time.

At that time, under the attack from both sides, there will still be a large number of Polish hussars and Russian cavalry eyeing for fighters, and the chances of victory of the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force and the main Polish force are still quite large.

In order to prepare for this ambush, the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force and the main Polish army even suspended the offensive on the city of Kyiv for a week, you know, at this time, the acropolis fortresses outside the city of Kyiv have all fallen, and there are only more than 1,000 Ottoman Sultan's personal soldiers and the incalculable number of local young militia in the city of Kyiv still have combat effectiveness.

If the Taiping reinforcements had arrived another month later, the city of Kyiv would have been properly taken by the main forces of the Russian Empire and Poland.

The reason why the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force and the main Polish forces dared to mobilize a large number of troops to carry out a decisive ambush and decisive battle against the main division of the Taiping Army from afar was because the city of Kiev had now lost all the ability to counterattack externally.

It's just that although the plan is good, there are always accidents when it is implemented, the quality of the Polish main army is even worse than the Russian commander-in-chief General Menderov imagined......

Fortunately, thanks to the close fast cavalry contact between the two sides and the setting of the signal to launch an attack at the same time, the Russian infantry regiment that came to the front of the Taiping Army headquarters did not rashly attack.

The Russian infantry corps that followed up discovered the Taiping Army's main formation, and Xiang Dongqiang, the commander of the Taiping Army's main formation, and the commander of the Taiping Army's First Division, naturally discovered the other party, and when he noticed that the Russian infantry who came to the front of the formation did not attack at all, but only confronted his own side in a defensive posture.

Xiang Dongqiang, who knew that he was likely to have fallen into the encirclement and the enemy's trap, made a decisive decision - to take the initiative to attack!

If the enemy doesn't want to fight, he takes the initiative to rush over and force them to fight with him, and doing what the enemy commander doesn't want to do on the battlefield is the best choice in a disadvantageous situation.

As for the small problem that the offensive will pay more casualties than the defense, it is nothing, the Russian infantry corps that followed up just put on a defensive formation, and there was no field offensive, in this kind of field battle, who was the Taiping army afraid of?

Under the sound of the arrogant snare drums, the Taiping army quickly put out two full infantry regiments, a division of the Taiping army has 5 infantry regiments, the previous elimination of the Russian noble cavalry is the result of two Taiping infantry regiments, these two regiments are recovering their physical strength to help the wounded because they have just fought, and the remaining one vital infantry regiment is guarding in the other direction.

The tens of thousands of Russian infantry in the defense are the Russian Shooting Corps under the Standing Army, they come from the elite of the local Shooting Corps, and they are definitely the backbone of the regular army in the land of Eastern Europe.

Most of the dead and wounded in the Battle of Kyiv were cannon fodder militia mercenaries and irregulars pulled from all over the territory by the Russian Empire, and the archery corps corps in the Imperial Expeditionary Force were only responsible for the final blow, and the losses were not significant.

As a result, the structure and the number of troops remain fairly intact.

Attacking the tens of thousands of Russian Imperial Standing Shooting Corps with less than 5,000 men is simply arrogant and self-inflicted in the eyes of the commander of the Russian Shooting Corps!

"Warriors of the Empire, the self-defeating Taiping Dog is coming to give us a head, are you ready to kill?"

"Kill all the Taiping dogs, long live the Tsar!"

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Amid the shouts of the soldiers of the Russian Shooting Army, the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army had already stepped into the effective range of the large-caliber arquebuses and smoothbore guns used by the Shooting Army in a large horizontal formation!

"For the sake of the Empire, fire !!"

Bang bang bang......

The Russian shooting army fired a neat salvo in orderly batches in front of the formation, and the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army in the advance were visibly brushed down layer after layer, but the dead gaps in the front row were quickly replaced by the people behind, although the horizontal column was thin, it always maintained the full number of people in the first two rows!

After several rounds of volleys, all the musketeers in the firing queue of the Russian Shooting Corps took turns to shoot once, according to the custom, they were fired by thousands of muskets in turns, and the loss of the opponent's troops of less than 5,000 people was nearly half, and the way forward was full of wounded and twisted human bodies and dead bodies, and it should collapse anyway......

It's a pity that the Taiping Army's pace of advance has not stopped at all, and even the drumbeat has not changed its tone!

In this way, when the soldiers of the Russian Shooting Corps were loading the complex large-caliber arquebuses and smoothbore guns, the queue of elite musketeers of the Taiping Army, who had advanced less than 30 paces, suddenly stopped, and under the saber brandished by the officer, a rain of bullets was fired!

In just a few seconds of pulling the trigger, the whole world seemed to be cleaned, the shooting soldiers in the front row were like puppets, with bright blood bursting from their bodies, and fell to the ground in disbelief, and the lucky ones who were not shot in the back row and left and right looked at their colleagues who had fallen in a large area with shocked faces, and it was the first time they had seen such a tragic scene in their military careers.

Fortunately, the Russian shooting army is an old regular army after all, although the Taiping army's close-range salvo is tragic, but it will not frighten them to collapse, under the pressure of the Russian officer's bullets, the soldiers continue to reload ammunition with a calm and expressionless face, only the trembling hands reveal the fear in their hearts.

After falling so many in the first round, will I be able to survive the next round?

Such an idea could not help but come to the mind of the Russian shooting corps soldier who was loaded with ammunition.

After the first volley of the Taiping Army was completed, it began to reload the flintlock pistol like a tight clockwork, and the Russian shooting army on the opposite side fired a few buckshot shots from time to time, and the shooting army was no longer able to carry out a uniform salvo!