As the trilateral governor appointed by the emperor appointed by the imperial court, Li Wen was very resolute on the battlefield, and he was quite sharp in the face of the provocation of the Northern Prisoners.

And this time, before the battle, the rebels were demoralized, the non-battle losses were quite large, and the first battle was defeated again, and the morale of the army was extremely low.

"The rebels have sharp weapons, skilled tactics and strong combat effectiveness, they are not under our army, we have underestimated the enemy before, now, what other good way can you deal with those rebels? For example, to transport more muskets from the rear to attack the rebel hills? ”

Li Wen asked his subordinates.

Gao Staff, you look at me, I look at you, and they all show embarrassed looks.

"Governor, the sharpness of the rebels' firearms has surprised our army, and there is really no good way to deal with the enemy at the moment except for a frontal assault."

"Yes, Governor, the march is difficult and dangerous, our army is as light and simple as possible, there are very few large ordnance, even if we start to ask the rear to send more firearms now, it is estimated that it will be too late, so it is better to wait here, it is better to force the superior forces to impact."

"Governor, it takes time to reload the firecracker, and it is easy to overheat many times in a row, and the same is true for the bird, so the burst is limited, unless the rebels have more firearms and birds, it is impossible to fight for a long time, and in the end it is still necessary to fight on the battlefield with real swords and guns, our army has a lot of troops, as long as it resists the firearms attack of the rebels, it will definitely be able to meet the rebels in short arms, and short combat is the way to win."

"Governor, firearms little Doyle, it's not worth mentioning, the real important thing is the hand-to-hand hand, two thousand people can still rush up the hill and meet the rebels in hand-to-hand combat, the reason why the follow-up is weak when defeated, if the follow-up strength is enough, it is a trivial matter to deal with the rebels."

The senior staff members made theoretical analyses of the weaknesses of firearms and their strengths, which was praised by Li Wen.

"Well, it is reasonable, firearms are a trail after all, and they can't take on big responsibilities, if they continue to arrange for the army to attack, they will definitely be able to take down the hill and move forward! So much better! Come, give orders, and arrange a thousand troops to launch a continuous assault on the rebel hills, and the former army will be defeated by the rear army, and so on, the rebels will be defeated like a mountain! ”

Li Wen made up his mind.

The military order was issued, and the army began to organize a thousand-man stormtroop according to the requirements, to put it bluntly, it was a death squad, each with only a short weapon, and tried to use the shortest time to storm the hill in front of them, until the hill was taken, and then attack the next hill, in short, to break through the rebels' hill defense line anyway.

The several hills on the road in front of them are close to each other, and there are troops of the Zhennan Army fortified on the hills, and they can support each other, if they do not take these hills, they will not be able to further attack Liuba, and in the face of the commander-in-chief's order, the border army can only go into battle.

So the next day, the whole day, the two sides fought fiercely, and the artillery fire continued to be endless.

Once the border army approached the range of the artillery of the Zhennan army, the shells smashed down fiercely, wrapped in a scorching wave of air, and could take away many lives in an instant, which was a very big blow to the military formation, and the border army was not very accustomed to fighting with firearms troops, and it took a long time to find out the tactics of scattered attack.

In this way, the lethality of the artillery can be reduced, so that the casualties of the border troops are reduced, but when they rush to the hills, the people have to be concentrated, which becomes a live target for the birdmen.

The Zhennan Army's bird gunners were well-trained, and the speed of firing was extremely fast, and round after round of gunpowder smoke rose, round after round of lead was shot down, and the chest was hit in the head, and the arms were hit in the legs, and the blood flowed like an injection of stumps and broken arms flew wildly, and the border troops suffered heavy losses......

After an hour of fighting, two consecutive teams of 1,000 people were scattered, and they lost their combat effectiveness and ran back, and Li Wen, who was angry and went to the front line to supervise the battle, immediately organized his own guards to set up a supervision team, and ordered that if there were soldiers who ran back, they would be cut to death immediately and mercilessly, so as to stop the rout of the border army a little.

But what's the use of that?

Being defeated is the trend of the times, it really breaks up the morale of the army, no matter how many people there are, the overseer team can't bear the army running back, compared to the lethality of the bird gun and artillery, it is better to dodge with a knife, as long as there are more people, you can break up the overseer.

This forced Li Wen to organize more supervision teams, and when the deterrent power of the supervision team's knives even exceeded the counterattack of the Zhennan army, the 1,000-strong team of the border army finally stopped running back, they knew that they couldn't live if they ran back, so they simply died on the front line......

Their combat effectiveness rose sharply, and the Zhennan army was caught off guard, although it was still annihilated in the end, but the defense line of the Zhennan army was unstable, so before the third thousand-man team came up, the Zhennan army on the first hill finally chose to retreat.

Retreat to the second line of defense and continue to fight.

"Governor! The rebels withdrew! ”

A senior staff member pointed to the hill where the Zhennan army had retreated and shouted in surprise.

When Li Wen saw it, he was immediately excited, and immediately realized that such a tactic was effective, although the loss of the thousand-man team was a bit large, but as long as he could break through the defensive line, it was meaningful.

"Go on the offensive! Kill me!! ”

Li Wen commanded the border army to rush up the hill and kill the next hill.

He himself also led the high staff to step over the corpses and climb the hills, facing the remaining hills in front of him, his face solemn.

"If it continues, how many troops will it take to take these hills? The advantage of the rebels is too great, if our army wants to attack, the loss will not be small, and now Li Ruzhang's department has not yet arrived, our army must not lose too much! ”

A relatively calm senior counselor admonished Li Wen like this.

Li Wen thought for a while and shook his head.

"When the two armies fight, what they pay attention to is the momentum, the momentum is up, it must be like a bamboo, and the rebels also rely on a momentum, if we beat their momentum down, we can naturally win, and the rebels will be defeated like a mountain, so this breath must not be relaxed, otherwise it will be difficult to bring it up again."

Li Wen insisted on his judgment and continued to force the thousand-man team to charge the hill, ignoring the artillery fire.

In fact, he didn't really want to ignore those sharp firecrackers and birdshots, he really didn't have much of them, he wanted to keep his ammunition and firecrackers until the siege of the city, and now he ran out, what would he do if there was still a long way to go?

I have long heard that Xiao Ruxun is good at using firearms, and the firearms troops under his command are unique, but now it seems that it is indeed true, the sharpness of the firearms in Zhennan can be regarded as seeing it today, and I have also seen my own powerlessness, but there is really no way.

Li Wen looked up at the sky, hoping to see signs of rain, hoping to see a heavy rain fall to change the situation of the battle, but unfortunately, the sky is clear, the air is cold and dry, and there is little rain in winter.