The remnants of blood like the sun, the roars, the screams, the roar of muskets, the sound of swords entering flesh had been going on for hours, and as dusk approached, the victory that Hidalgo and the others had expected seemed to be fading away!

Hidalgo can be said to have gathered all the backbone of the rebel army, and most of the white soldiers who swore to the Han Empire, with the advantage of terrain, far more than the strength of the Polish hussars, to carry out a surprise attack, but the current situation of the scorching battle!

In addition to the fact that at the beginning, Hidalgo's men and horses took advantage of the ambush to disrupt the formation of the Polish hussars with earthen cannons, used musket salvos to kill and wound a large number of fearless Polish hussars, and even interrupted the charging momentum of the Polish hussars with homemade black powder explosives packs!

Even so, the elite of the rebel army, who were in full battle, almost failed to stop the Polish hussar charge, which had been weakened several times!

Although the initial battle was thrilling, Hidalgo finally achieved his tactical goal, intercepting the charge of the Polish hussars and dragging them into a melee phase!

This undoubtedly annihilated the greatest speed advantage of the cavalry troops, and created an opportunity for victory for the much larger rebel army!

However, after being caught in the melee, Hidalgo was horrified to find that even if the Polish hussars had to dismount and engage in hand-to-hand combat, they could suppress the elite of the fighting rebels!

What are Polish hussars?

Why are there so many lancer units in history, but the Polish hussars are unique and so famous?!

Because they perfectly combine the skilled individual martial arts of the medieval knight class with the collective discipline of modern times!

In large-scale warfare, the Polish hussars relied mainly on steely willpower and uniform discipline in action!

But in the melee, they also have their own advantages!

Every Polish hussar was born into a knightly aristocratic family, at a time when muskets and artillery were just in vogue, and the chivalric style of the Middle Ages had not yet been completely destroyed in backward Poland. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

As a result, Poland has a large class of aristocratic knights, who uphold the tradition of rigorous personal martial arts training for the male members of the family from an early age!

More than ten years of combat skills training is not comparable to those line infantry who have been trained for several months to a year, of course, this refers to melee hand-to-hand combat!

It's just that with the large-scale deployment of muskets and artillery, the war has become more brutal, and often a battle will be completed, even if it is the winner, the battle damage can reach the point of three or four percent!

The knightly aristocratic class, which consumes a lot of resources and time, simply cannot adapt to such a high-intensity consumption, even if the countries still retain the glory of the noble knights, after a few battles, the knights who can really fight are almost dead......

This is why the soldiers of war gradually declined to the peasants and freemen, and the power of muskets and artillery completely shattered the nobles' pursuit of honor, and they would rather become synonymous with depravity with fat brains than take up arms to fight with such high losses!

In front of the musket, even if you are a martial arts master, you will be treated equally!

This phenomenon has led to the decline of the mercenary system and the rise of the national standing army!

The aristocracy naturally changed from the main force of the army, retreated to the rear to become commanders and middle and senior officers, and if the title was too low, they could only become the grassroots officers of the first line......

The army was filled with a large number of noble officers, and it also made Europe form a rule that could not be put on the table, and it was forbidden to deliberately fire at officers in battle!

A ridiculous but realistic unspoken rule, this rule was subsequently broken by the Washington-led Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, because of its weak combat effectiveness, in order to pursue a shortcut to victory in battle, regardless of the unspoken rules of the battlefield, specifically shot at aristocratic officers......

That is, from the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, countries found that the army that lost its officers could easily collapse, and then, even the officers in the army were no longer safe, and in addition to the real military aristocracy, the junior officers began to be replaced by the civilian class!

The enrollment conditions of military academies also began to be lowered, and the people began to learn how to fight because of the greed for life and fear of death of the nobles!

Under Napoleon's rule, the gap between the nobles and the commoners of the conquered countries was infinitely narrowed, laying the fuse for the outbreak of nationalism and large-scale peasant uprisings in various countries!

However, although the number of Polish hussars is difficult to replenish, more than ten years of martial arts tempering have allowed them to show a huge advantage in hand-to-hand combat!

It often takes more than 3 ordinary people to parry the hand-to-hand combat attacks of the Polish hussars with full armor!

If it weren't for the fact that these rebel elites were equipped with a large number of muskets, if they didn't know that once this battle was lost, they would always live under the crotch of the Han people, and never turn over, these white rebel armies would have been routed long ago!

Encouraged by the personal participation of the various white leaders, the rebels barely supported the brutal hand-to-hand combat with the Polish hussars, and at every moment there were people screaming to death, and the entire ambush site was completely stained red with blood!

Due to the initial carelessness, the Polish hussars were killed by the rebels' earthen artillery musket grenades, etc., so they were at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, although they relied on superb martial arts to save the decline, but Hidalgo and others also wanted to annihilate the Polish hussars, just like that, they fought until dusk was almost dark, and the two sides had not yet decided the winner!

Before the sun set, Hidalgo finally had no choice but to withdraw the remnants of the army, and they discovered for the first time that the Han Empire was far stronger than they imagined, and these Polish hussars really fought to the death!

Hidalgo clearly saw that when they retreated, the Polish hussars who could still stand on the battlefield would definitely not exceed 200 people!

And all of them lost their mounts!

The essence of the rebel army also suffered great losses in this battle, but the greater defeat was the morale blow than the battle loss in numbers!

The Polish hussars seemed to give them the illusion that the Han army was an existence that could not be defeated!

Hidalgo knew that this sentiment was fatal to the rebels, and it was not the Indian untouchables who had this idea born, but the white core!

If even they gave up, wouldn't the Han Chinese be able to easily annex Mexico?

How could Hidalgo, who had been fighting for the cause of independence for most of his life, endure such humiliation!

That night, despite the low morale of the rebel army after the retreat, he personally led the remnants of the white rebel army in a desperate attempt to launch an attack on the camp where the Polish hussars were resting!

Hidalgo has gone completely insane, he is not willing to kneel to the Han people in humiliation, he would rather die for the last hope!

A chaotic night battle, in the final struggle of Hidalgo, broke out!