With several loud bangs, the walls of Kleva were suddenly blown out of several gaps, and the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army, who had already been prepared, burst into a cry and poured their flintlock pistols up the pile of rubble at the gap.

At this time, the soldiers of the Christian Brotherhood at the head of the city of Kleva had already been suppressed by the superior firepower of the Taiping army, and in the face of this rabble with citizens and peasants as the main members, the Taiping army only needed to suppress the city with simple muskets, deter artillery fire, and plant explosives.

The whole battle lasted only half a day, and most of the time was consumed by the continuous bombardment of gunpowder and artillery.

This is the reason why the nobles and kings of various countries in this era have extreme contempt for the peasant uprising, weapons and equipment can be obtained by plundering and even foreign smuggling, but courage and honor can not be established overnight, even if the peasants who have not enough to eat are forced to rebel, it is their nature to be afraid of death, when they are really close to the battlefield, in the face of the scene of stumps and broken arms and corpses all over the field, they can even choke on the most basic courage to maintain.

Hunger may drive people crazy, but it can't make people fearless about life and death.

In the simple choice between dying immediately and dying a few days later, even though the vast majority of people know that the outcome is the same, almost all of them will choose the latter, which is also human instinct and has nothing to do with right or wrong.

Of course, it is precisely because of this human instinct that the knightly class, which puts honor first, stands out extraordinarily, even if their combat skills are mediocre, and that courage alone can defeat the peasant rebels!

It was not until the development of firearms to a certain extent that the cluster charge launched by courage turned into a suicidal death in a different direction, that the brilliance of honor faded, such as the later Battle of Bali Bridge, even if those elites of the Eight Banners who were willing to work for their hardcore crops rushed towards the enemy in groups, in front of the artillery and platoon gun phalanx, they were just a group of slightly tragic live targets.

It can be said that the development of science and technology has changed the way of human warfare, thus replacing the class attributes of human political structure and social distribution.

Fortunately, the European firearms of the 17th century were far from advanced enough to replace courage, and although the peasants and knights were equal in life before the muskets, it was almost impossible to reverse the outcome of a real army formed with chivalry against an ordinary peasant rebel.

The only thing missing is that the knight's supplement is rare.

It's just that today's muskets are eliminated by elite heavy infantry such as foot knights, and the elite knight troops on war horses still firmly control the position of the dominant force on the battlefield, and the Polish-Lithuanian hussars were defeated in the battle with the Taiping army, but because of the unscientific morale of the Taiping army, it is impossible to fight to the last person in any normal elite army, and it is already world-renowned to be able to hold on until more than half of the casualties!

It can be said that the Taiping Army did not have a great advantage over the regular army of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania at the level of tactics and weapons, and the decisive factor that could really achieve victory with less was morale!

Morale created the miracle of war again and again for the Taiping army, which developed from an obscure bandit army to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which annexed nearly half of the territory of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania.

This is also very understandable why the surrounding forces of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania regard the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as their primary goal, such a country with strong combat effectiveness and soldiers who are fearless of life and death will sooner or later be a big problem for the surrounding countries, of course, it must be erased before the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom really grows.

The elite musketeers of the swarming Taiping army stepped through the gaps in the walls with little resistance, and it was not until they entered the walls that they encountered the soldiers of the reorganized Christian Brotherhood of Kleva.

However, to the amuse of the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army, this group of troops composed of the poor people at the bottom did not have any tactical movements at all, and the only way they were good at fighting was to rush out of the tunnels after the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army entered the city wall, and the people were next to each other holding all kinds of weapons high, and under the leadership of some small leaders and other officers, shouting some "metaphysical" slogans.

All the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army needed to do was to line up in a simple horizontal formation, and then under the unified order of the officer, they pulled the trigger and fired a salvo one by one, and the three-stage salvo slaughtered the blood of the live target general Christian Brotherhood soldiers rushing up in front of them!

Under the continuous sound of gunfire and thick white smoke, the large-scale counteroffensive organized by the Christian Brotherhood in the city of Kleva was shattered......

The surviving members of the Christian Brotherhood soldiers were completely frightened by the corpses lying on top of each other, and they cried and threw away all the weapons and equipment and markings that represented their identities......

The battle with the Taiping army made these rabble really understand what war is, and at the same time, they also clearly realized that the previous uprising battle with the territorial nobles who did not have many guards was at most the level of 'playing family', and they could win the uprising, not because of how strong their own strength was, but because the enemy's strength was too weak......

The bloody facts were in front of them, vividly recognizing their own inadequacy to the members of the Christian Brotherhood in Kleva City, and the inability of the Taiping army, so that the collapse was inevitable, and for the rabble, the speed of the dispersal of emotions was unparalleled, and even the leaders of the uprising fled, so what reason did the others have to continue fighting?

The only difference is that the past deeds of the Taiping army were so brutal that the members of the Christian Brotherhood in the ragged city of Kleva would rather break their legs and waist than surrender to the Taipings......

You know, anyone who 'forced' resists the laws of the Heavenly Kingdom in the occupied areas of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will be executed to the public, not to mention their blatant rebels?

It doesn't work here in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they are foreign invaders, so they don't care how big the number of white deaths is!

The harsh laws created the 'harmony and stability' of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's occupied areas, and the Taiping Army's strong tenacity in defying war was the cornerstone of this set of cruel laws!