411 Siege of the Taiping Army
"Allah, attack!"
"Long live the jihad!!"
A group of turban-clad slave soldiers, wielding cold weapons such as swords and shields, flocked to the improvised strongholds in front of them to launch a crowd offensive supported by fanatical religious beliefs.
These thousands of Ottoman Turkish Empire slave light shield soldiers attacked this Taiping stronghold on the border, and there were only a few hundred!
The ratio of forces has reached tens to 1!
Even so, there were thousands of real regular troops armed with muskets in the rear of the Ottoman Turkish Empire.
Hundreds of soldiers belonging to the Central European Guard Legion, originally the Heavenly King's Guard, armed with Minnie rifles and breech-loading Hanyang-made rifles, stood in a horizontal line behind the improvised wall, and kept pulling the trigger to reload the bullets.
There were so many enemies on the opposite side that they didn't need to aim at all, as long as they put their guns flat into the pile and pulled the trigger, someone would fall.
However, the lethality of a mere hundred rifles against thousands of slave light shield soldiers who had been brainwashed by fanatical religion was no different than a drop in the bucket, and less than 100 people fell out of thousands of people in a single salvo, which had little effect on the entire charging procession.
The Central European Guard Corps of the Taiping Army was reorganized by the remnants of the Taiping Army who originally used Mini rifles or even flintlock pistols, although the Hanyang-made rifles were re-armed after the battle damage of the breech-loading rifle infantry division on the front, but because the Hanyang-made rifles also had a lot of loss rates on the battlefield, it was impossible to arm all 37,000 people, after all, the soldiers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's native guard corps also needed to give priority to arming Hanyang-made rifles.
As a result, many of the soldiers of the Taiping Army of the Central European Guard Regiment still had mini rifles in their hands, but even then they were far more advanced than the bayonet flintlock pistols commonly used in the Ottoman Empire.
Although the Ottoman Turkish Empire received the covert support of the anti-Han allies in the later period and introduced the mini rifle production line, with the productivity and administrative efficiency of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, there are not many mini rifles installed today, and only the most elite core of the Sultan Janissary Guard is barely equipped with mini rifles.
As for the other troops of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, there is not much change in weapons at all, the speed of the rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is too fast, and the speed of weapon changes is even more dizzying, even if the Ottoman Turkish Empire has the heart to catch up, the technology tree will not be able to be lit for a while......
Even if the Ottoman Turkish Empire has obtained a sample of the Hanyang-made rifle, with the research and development level of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, it will not be imitated for more than ten years.
Compared with the Mini rifle, which is not much different from the flintlock pistol, Hanyang-made is a qualitative leap in the history of rifles.
Although Hanyang was a very backward weapon in the 20th century, it was only a working rifle imitated and improved by Westerners after selling the obsolete garbage to the Manchu government, but in the 17th century, it was indeed a cross-era product, and the difficulty of imitation was many times higher than that of the Mini rifle!
After all, the Ottoman Turkish Empire of this era did not even begin the first industrial revolution!
As a result, the Ottoman Turkish Empire drove a large number of cold weapons troops to launch a fierce attack on the border stronghold of the Taiping army.
Although the Ottoman Turkish Empire was thrown eight streets away by the Taiping Army in terms of weapon generation, the huge Ottoman Turkish Empire had an advantage comparable to the peak of the Anti-Han League, and the Taiping Army had endless troops!
In the early years of preparation, hundreds of thousands of troops were deployed on the Sino-European border, and when the Taiping army defeated the anti-Han alliance, the Ottoman Turkish Empire was also fully prepared for war.
As for the Cossack United Emirate, which Hong Tiancheng used to contain the energy of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, it had already returned from defeat, and the main energy of the Russian Empire was involved in the newly occupied Swedish and Norwegian regions, and it was busy suppressing the guerrillas to control the newly occupied areas, and there was not much force to be mobilized to engage in large-scale wars with the Ottoman Turkish Empire.
As a result, the well-prepared Ottoman Turkish Empire, as soon as it struck, it was a thunderbolt sweeping the hole, and took out all the capital and smashed it on the head of the Taiping army!
Hundreds of Taiping defenders, having killed several times their own enemy, had to put their bayonets in their bayonets and engage in hand-to-hand combat with thousands of Ottoman Turkish slave light shield soldiers rushing forward.
More than a hundred people were soon submerged in the sea of people, and the crescent moon flag was planted on this stronghold of the Taiping Army's border.
Within a month, this kind of fighting broke out almost simultaneously in all the defense areas of the Taiping Central European Guard Corps, large and small, and the Ottoman Turkish Empire, including slave soldiers and client state troops, gathered a million troops to launch a full-scale attack on the Taiping defense line of only 37,000 men.
And use the advantage of troops to occupy small strongholds of the Taiping Army on a large scale, and horizontally surround the large strongholds of the Taiping Army!
As for coming out to fight in the field, it is even more foolish for the Taiping army, which has an absolute advantage in troops, and has long been well-prepared, the main force of the Ottoman Turkish Imperial Army, has been staring at the main force of the Central European Guard Corps of the Taiping Army, as long as they dare to come out to rescue other directions, more than 300,000 people will immediately surround them in all directions......
The Ottoman Turkish Empire's style of play is to set up a position and drown you with the advantage of the sea of people!
During this period, the Central European Guard Corps of the Taiping Army also won many decisive victories with advanced weapons and tenacious fighting will, annihilating hundreds of thousands of troops of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, however, the Ottoman Turkish Empire did not care, they just wanted to consume the strength of the Taiping Army little by little.
The Taiping Army, which had won several battles, suddenly sent the most elite Sultan Janissaries with a serious shortage of troops, and then, with the cooperation of a large number of ordinary regular troops, surrounded and annihilated the main force of the Central European Guards of the Taiping Army, which had long been exhausted and did not have many troops!
The battle for the border between the two sides lasted for more than three months, and more than 800,000 troops under the command of the Ottoman Turkish Empire were defeated and scattered, and the Central European Guard Corps of the Taiping Army was completely wiped out, and not a single one of the 37,000 people survived......
Although the losses of the Ottoman Turkish Empire were very heavy, the losses of the Sultan Janissaries, the core of which were not large, and most of the troops who were routed and scattered were slave soldiers and the army of the client states.
Since then, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Central European occupation zone has been opened, and it can no longer stop the invasion of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the European continent have been shaken!
Even the countries of the anti-Han alliance did not expect that the Ottoman Turkish Empire would be able to explode so many troops to besiege the Taiping army at once......