"Your Majesty, in front of you is the interception force of the Taiping Army, who call themselves the Fifth Division of Elite Grenadiers." The aristocratic lieutenant on Karl X's side pointed to the Taiping Army's red line position in the distance and explained.

"The 5th Division of Elite Grenadiers? Hehe, Hong Tiancheng's magic stick is really interesting, at the beginning a number of ordinary Taiping Army divisions were established, and when they were exhausted, they abolished the establishment and reorganized the line infantry division, and now the line infantry division has been beaten and there is only a broken establishment left, and an elite grenadier division has been established.

Is that all that he likes to play with words? ”

Karl X's eyes were full of contempt, mainly because the Taiping Army's elite grenadier division was Hong Tiancheng's newly established unit in the eyes of the outside world, even if all the soldiers in it were rumored to be composed of Han Chinese, a natural fighting race, and underwent strict military training, but in Karl X's thinking inertia, the new legion was still mainly recruits after all, a group of recruits who had never been on the battlefield, no matter how good the training could be?

As for the remark that the 'Han people' are called a natural fighting race by those countries that have been defeated repeatedly, they are even more scorned by Karl X, who has never been in contact with the Han people, and there are many soldiers who dare to fight.

That so-called Taiping Sect is simply blasphemy against God!

It is true that the morale of the Han soldiers in the Vilno Guard Regiment who fought to the death shocked Karl X, but he believed that it was only the work of a few elites, and it was not without troops fighting to the death in the European continent, glory, religious fanaticism, family favors, etc., could cultivate a group of die-hard soldiers.

This kind of group of dead soldiers is not only possessed by the ancient countries of the East.

What's more, many military aristocrats who have been brainwashed by chivalry have unusually high morale.

As long as those military aristocrats think their sacrifice is meaningful.

On the European battlefield, sometimes a group of armies will lay down their arms en masse in despair because of a promise, and sometimes they will resist to the death regardless of the consequences......

Therefore, in the eyes of Karl X, the elite grenadiers of the Taiping army on the opposite side were nothing more than a group of Han Chinese recruits brainwashed by religious fanaticism, and no matter how long and strong the military training was, the veterans were also fought on the battlefield, not from the training ground.

In the whole world, only Hong Tiancheng, who has opened the all-out war system, can conjure up groups of veterans with rich battlefield experience out of thin air......

"Attack, let the warriors of the Kingdom of Sweden teach those Han dog recruits what real war is!"

Under the high-spirited order of Karl X, the field artillery of the Swedish Front took the lead in roaring, and at this point, the Taiping army can be said to be completely suppressed, because the elite grenadier division of the Taiping army did not have a single artillery!

It's not that Hong Tiancheng can't even pull out a single artillery, there are still a lot of captured old artillery Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but unfortunately most of them are fixed city defense artillery, transportation is a big problem, for a large-scale mobile field corps, this old city defense artillery is purely a burden.

The few captured field guns are also decades old, and there are no skilled gunners in the Taiping army, and transporting these chicken-like existences will greatly delay the speed of the march, so the Taiping army simply gave up transporting the artillery with the army.

If Hong Tiancheng exchanged for a light Napoleonic field cannon, these problems would be solved, and the professional artillery attached to it could also make the field artillery of the Taiping Army no longer a chicken rib, but unfortunately, the expensive price could not be exchanged for a few at all, and the number was less and useless, so Hong Tiancheng simply ignored it.

The Napoleonic field artillery was the product of more than a hundred years of technological leadership in this era, which is why it was expensive and impossible to imitate.

According to the tips of the Total War system, the exchanged Napoleonic field guns were a product of the beginning of the 19th century, the peak of the Napoleonic Empire in history.

There was not a single round of Swedish artillery roaring, which fully demonstrated the fact that the deterrent power of artillery is greater than the lethality of artillery in this era.

It is only in siege warfare that bombardment fixed and large target city defense buildings, and artillery also has a certain practicality.

After the routine artillery preparation was over, the infantry on both sides began to march forward under the rhythm of military music and drums, and the scene of the attacking artillery advancing while bombarding the infantry in later movies would only appear in the 18th century, because only the artillery technology at that time could ensure that the infantry attacked at the same time, and the rear artillery would not accidentally injure their own people.

Although the lethality of accidental injuries is small, the blow to morale is extremely great, so the commanders of the European continent prefer to send infantry forward after the artillery bombardment.

The Swedish army still followed the line tactics of the era of Gustav the Great, with pikemen in the center of each horizontal phalanx and musketeers on both sides, and since Karl X led the Swedish elite corps, the musketeers used all ferquebus modifications and newly produced flintlock muskets.

The pikemen are further back in line than the musketeers, and as the distance between the two sides approaches, the musketeers will pull out in front of the pikemen, and only when the two sides need hand-to-hand combat, the pikemen will come forward to form a phalanx of pikemen.

It looks similar to the Spanish phalanx, but the difference is huge, because the proportion of musketeers is much higher than that of pikemen, and every Swedish musketeer has a sword and sword for melee self-defense, even if it is close, it can be fought, in fact, pikemen are more used to defend against enemy cavalry raids.

The Swedish musketeers, who were mainly armed with one-handed weapons, would be slaughtered without resistance to the cavalry, which is why pikemen still exist.

As the Swedish infantry marched forward and the few Swedish cavalry flanked him, Karl X despised the Taipings, but he remained cautious in the battle.

The previous battle examples of the Taiping army were full of scenes of cavalry charging with volleys of guns and crying for their fathers and mothers, and Karl X did not want to repeat the mistakes of the past.

The Swedish cavalry waited for the battle to enter chaos or when the enemy fell to the upper hand in a counter-fire.

When the distance between the two sides entered about 200 meters, the Swedish military formation suddenly stopped, and under the command of the officer, the soldiers quickly discharged a horizontal formation of rows of guns and aimed ahead.

From this point, it can be seen that the quality of the soldiers of the Swedish Legion is indeed quite high, and it already has the basic discipline of the modern army.

After arranging the formation, when the Taiping army column entered a range of about 100 meters, a volley of guns suddenly broke out.

Karl X in the rear held a telescope and saw the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army stepping over the corpses with expressionless faces and making up for the front row, and his brows couldn't help but furrow, this scene he was very familiar with when he surrounded and annihilated the Vilno Guard Regiment.