065 The Ugliness of Human Nature

Street fighting, for most Polish soldiers, is very unfamiliar, because in this era of warfare few enemies will lose the outer defense system of the city wall, insist on continuing to fight between the houses and alleys, street fighting is a tragic attrition for the attacker, but for the defender of the city is not a bloody meat grinder?

What's more, in street fighting, the soldiers of the attacking side naturally have a psychological advantage, because they feel that the city defense has been broken and victory is close at hand!

On the other hand, the soldiers defending the city, when the city is broken, are fighting for the killing of one or several enemy soldiers in a panic, and there is no hope of victory.

Because of this, street battles in the city rarely occurred in ancient battles, and the weak defenders were often occupied in terms of troops, and the greatest morale depended on strong fortifications and tall walls, rather than rows of low houses!

It's a pity that the Polish soldiers didn't know that in the eyes of the Taiping soldiers, the psychological disadvantage in this regard did not exist at all, and the morale of the Taiping army was even higher than that of the Polish soldiers who were about to win!

Krysztof soon discovered this, and when he led his team from the main road to the central square of the town of Beshev, the brigade was always harassed from all sides, and the Taiping sergeants were armed with one or even two muskets, and in the street fighting, they could easily approach the Polish soldiers and open fire by relying on the view of the houses, which frightened the Polish soldiers.

Kresztof knew that in this state, even if the Polish hussars died, they might not be able to fully occupy the town of Beshew and completely annihilate the Taiping army, so he had no choice but to make the decision to burn the city.

The reason why the city will always be ignited in the major siege wars in history is not because the attacker likes to play with the house, but for the purpose of attacking and clearing the 'obstacles', although this method is inhumane, but it is effective, and this is enough!

The defenders of the city are generally aware of this, so they will often give up resistance and flee when the city is broken, so as to avoid the destruction of the home city.

Of course, the soldiers of the army who fought in other places had no scruples, it was not the compatriots of the same country who died, and the soldiers had no psychological pressure......

It is not enough to just burn down the houses, the Taiping soldiers are not fools, they know that the fire attack is not invincible, there are many things that the flame cannot ignite at all.

Therefore, Krysztof also had to send a large number of Polish infantry to attack the Taiping musketeers in other directions to curb the enemy's attempts to harass his main offensive line.

However, in this way, the number of troops that followed Krysztof to attack the center of the town of Beshev was greatly reduced, and in order to ensure the strength of the attack, Krysztof concentrated the vast majority of the Polish hussars around him to attack.

Due to the complexity and irregularity of the town's streets and alleys, the Polish soldiers were soon interspersed with the senior musketeers of the Taiping Army who were fighting in small groups.

The Polish women and children who had been living in the small town of Beshew finally met with their own disaster!

A group of dozens of foot soldiers, composed of Polish mercenaries and militiamen, armed with various weapons and headless flies, broke through to the complex where the Taiping army housed Polish military prostitutes, and after easily eliminating a few Polish traitors guarding outside, they found groups of Polish women wearing only a few pieces of cloth in several houses.

The Polish GIs, whose faces were covered in gunpowder smoke and dust, crowded one after another at the door, looked at the Polish women huddled together and shivering, their eyes full of strange and male instinctive longing.

The soldiers couldn't help but look at the junior officer who led the team, a veteran who was born as a mercenary, and the soldiers suddenly let out a longing appeal: "Sir, the town of Beshev is about to be occupied by us, according to the custom, these women have at least a share of our team, brothers have been fighting for so long, it is time to relax and relax." ”

"That's it, now there is no group of Tatar dog soldiers around, and when other troops come, we will have to line up, it is better to have fun while the early brothers are happy, anyway, these women have been plagued by the group of Tatars of the Taiping Army, and they are not bad at serving a group of old men."

"Sir, time is limited, should we hurry up and enjoy it?"

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In this era, the European continent, like the East, had a very low status for women, and the European continent did not have the Eastern Confucianism to bind women's concept of discipline, so it was more open, so these Polish soldiers did not think that humiliating these fellow women would make them worse off than dead......

In the chaos of war, it would be good to be able to save a small life, and many things have actually become the norm.

This mercenary leader is not a good person, he has been marching and fighting recently, not to mention women, he can't even see a sow, of course he is holding it tightly, under the clamor of the soldiers, where is there so much scruples?

"Good! Let's try it first, and when the other troops come, let them stand in the back and line up to watch the battle! ”

As soon as the words ended, a loud cheer suddenly broke out, and the Polish soldiers couldn't wait to strip naked and pounce into the group of screaming Polish women.

This kind of thing happened repeatedly to the Polish women who survived in the small town of Beshew, limited by the ideological 'consciousness' of the soldiers in this era, after confirming that there was no danger around, they were eager to vent instead of being a gentleman at the first time, after all, in this era, gentlemen belong to the title of high intellectuals and reserve civilian aristocrats, where does this group of big-headed soldiers know those etiquette?

They only possess the most primitive desires and impulses of human nature.

In a room ravaged by Polish soldiers, Kaspersky's headless corpse lay quietly on one side, its head rolling to the side, and its face happened to be facing the Polish soldier who had committed violence against Kaspersky's wife, and his two eyes were 'unblinking' watching the palace.

Kaspersky did not break his promise, he died in front of his own family!

In another house not far away, Hamsbond wept bitterly and was trampled on the ground by two Polish militiamen, who were not punishing traitors for the sake of justice, but simply enjoying the fun of beating and abuse.

When the two Polish militiamen were almost in a state of flux, one of them drew his dagger and plunged it into the back of Hamsbond's head with a pop, ending his life as a traitor......