164 Lithuania out
After the battle entered the moment of melee, it lasted for most of the day, from the morning until the sun just set in the west, whether it was the Lithuanian cavalry or the Lithuanian infantry who rushed up, whether it was the children of the Lithuanian military nobles or even the knights who were serious, or the mercenaries who took money and sold their lives with good reputation, after such a long time of fighting, the mental and physical strength was consumed to a limit.
This is a scuffle Shura field, the soldiers on both sides who have lost the formation and echelon levels are only left with the instinct of small teams stabbing each other and even individuals, dozens of people fall every minute and every second, and the addition of a large number of muskets has greatly enhanced the killing efficiency between humans.
White smoke can be seen from time to time in the melee, accompanied by the roar of muskets, a soldier with more than ten years of combat experience wearing iron armor was easily knocked down, and the warrior who can continue to stand in the center of the battlefield with dozens of arrows can no longer be seen, the gorgeous general's armor will only become an endless stream of black gun targets, everyone in the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army has a musket, and the more brilliant the Lithuanian nobles who wear it, the faster they die!
This undoubtedly accelerated the speed of the collapse of the Lithuanian soldiers and the confusion of the formation, and this gap increased over time until the Lithuanian army was completely defeated!
This war is different from the Battle of Mozyri, Hong Tiancheng already knew the answer in his heart from the beginning, the difference in the number of troops between the two sides may not be large, if you count the bonus of cavalry, the Lithuanian noble coalition still occupies a certain advantage, and the Lithuanian noble coalition dares to go out of the city to fight, it is precisely by relying on the confidence of the cavalry.
But the gap in morale and equipment between the two sides is irreparable, and the Taiping army in the Battle of Mozyri has such a big disadvantage that it can turn defeat into victory, let alone face a weaker Lithuanian aristocratic coalition when it is stronger?
In the face of unscientific die-hard soldiers, the unpredictable war actually has a certain comparative value, because it is impossible for the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army to be defeated, so Hong Tiancheng can let go and directly use hard power to ensure that the trend of the war does not reverse.
The reason why accidents always happen in wars in history is that the commanders cannot guarantee that the soldiers' base is as perfect as a machine during the war, and any accident will cause the soldiers' hearts to collapse and the whole army collapses, and when the soldiers' morale dissipates, no matter how strong they are, they are just a bunch of lambs to the slaughter in front of the enemy.
So, in the melee in the face of the die-hard elite musketeers of the Taiping Army, the Lithuanian aristocratic coalition was defeated very completely, and the defeat was reasonable, Hong Tiancheng did not even have any waves in his heart when he won the game, as if he was a game player who cleared a simple level step by step according to the customs clearance strategy, everything happened like that...... Stand to reason!
The only ones who were frightened were the great noble generals in the coalition army of the Lithuanian nobles who had escaped in advance, they were panicked and at a loss, except for the horses with their attendants riding war horses and running to their territory with anxiety in their hearts, everything in the future became extremely dark in front of them!
The army was defeated, there was no suspense about the defeat, tens of thousands of elites were all done in less than a day, the Lithuanian region completely lost the ability to fight in the field, all that could be done was to shrink in the city and rely on a group of third-rate mercenaries and militia to support the city defense system, and a large number of military aristocratic knights died, so that these Lithuanian noble generals who stood at the top of the food chain lost all their confidence, and there were only two ways for them to consider next - surrender or exile.
In this battle, the Taiping army was no longer a crushing victory, when the Lithuanian army was defeated, 500 Swedish dragoons finally came in handy, they raised their horses' hooves to give full play to the advantages of the light cavalry troops, and followed the Lithuanian rout in pursuit, those fast-legged Lithuanian cavalry may not be able to catch up, but the two-legged Lithuanian infantry did not want to escape from this Shura hell.
Hong Tiancheng has always been ruthless in dealing with the enemy!
The most efficient time to make corpses in war is never the moment of fighting each other, but the pleasant time of chasing and killing the remnants of the enemy, killing from behind is many times easier than killing face-to-face, and killing an enemy who will not resist is even more effortless.
The defeated Lithuanian aristocratic coalition army could not even surrender under the pursuit of the Taiping army and the Swedish dragoons, and the Taiping soldiers who had been fighting for most of the day had already killed red eyes, and the Swedish dragoons, who felt superior to others, were as cold as a killing machine, and they preferred to pull the trigger or raise their sabers against the enemy below than listen to their cries of kneeling and begging for mercy.
No one will be pitiful on the battlefield, especially in the 17th century, when humanism was not yet in its infancy, and here, it was deserved to be hacked to death in defeat, because the moment you stepped on the battlefield, you had already stepped into the coffin board with half a foot, and the price of wanting to kill was to be ready to be killed at any time!
There is no benevolence and righteousness and the cherishing of life on the battlefield, there are only victories and defeats, and success and defeat are nothing more than that.
In the one-sided battle, the difference between people was once again reflected, the highest Lithuanian noble generals, the first time under the escort of the attendants rode the fastest fine military horses away, busy chasing and killing the routed Taiping army was powerless to stop them, followed by those Lithuanian cavalry who were qualified to ride horses, as long as they were not too bad luck and got out of the battle circle before they died, they could successfully get out with their speed advantage and pick up a life in this Shura field.
The most tragic thing is undoubtedly those two-legged infantry, they may have a respected status in front of the civilians, and even many of them unscrupulously oppress the common people on weekdays, eating and drinking for nothing with the weapons in their hands, but on the battlefield, they are the existence at the bottom of the food chain, and at the speed of the Swedish dragoons, even fleeing for their lives has become a luxury.
Hong Tiancheng did not issue any order to keep the prisoners, now he has the entire Polesier, tens of thousands of white officials and slaves who have committed 'crimes', he is not short of coolies, naturally there is no need to leave these soldiers with resistance to surrender, don't look at their existence on the battlefield is just slaughtered, if they are put to the people, at least they are also a good hand at beating two or three adult strong men!
This is also the reason why the phenomenon of killing and surrendering often occurs in this era, when the victor is unable to convert the surrender into his own soldiers, in order to avoid these surrenders from consuming their own supplies, or fleeing and rejoining the enemy army to become a warrior, they can only be hacked to death, and in the face of interests, no one will care about the lives of a group of losers.
This moment has only one meaning for Hong Tiancheng - from today onwards, Lithuania is no longer the opponent of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!
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