King Jan Kazimierz Vasa looked up at the burning city of Kiev in the distance, and it was obvious that the fierce infighting in Kiev had not yet ended, which also became the last straw in King Jan Kazimierz Vasa's heart.

"Pass the order, the whole army will set up an offensive formation, and prepare for a full-scale attack on the Taiping army's position!" King Jan Kazimierz Vasa added: "Bring up all the artillery and aim it at the main force of the Taiping army!" ”

The artillery carried by the Polish army was all old-fashioned bronze cannons, which could only fire spherical iron bullets, which were mainly used for siege and deterrence, and their lethality in field battles was extremely limited.

On the one hand, because the cross-section of the enemy's position in the field battle is far inferior to the width of the city wall, the two sides are not comparable at all, and the towering and vast city wall has a huge target, and it is not difficult to hit even the old bronze cannon with a low hit rate.

On the other hand, because the frequency of the old bronze cannon is very slow, the enemy soldiers in the field are not fixed city walls, when they are bombarded by artillery, they can temporarily move the formation to avoid the adjusted landing point of the artillery, although the bulky old bronze cannon has a long range, it is not easy to move and readjust the firing angle.

For the old bronze artillery, the difference is a thousand miles, and the only way to make the old bronze artillery play the most lethal is to let your own infantry attack together when the artillery is bombarded.

In this way, the enemy soldiers did not dare to easily move the front, preventing confusion and gaps during the movement from being broken by the attacking enemy.

This is why the role of field artillery in the 17th century was not so high, and it was not the number and caliber of artillery that determined the outcome of this era, but the final duel between cavalry and infantry.

It wasn't until the invention of a special field gun that was light and easy to move and had a higher hit rate that artillery became the god of war in the true sense of the word!

The original artillery was also more useful for defending and besieging cities.

Hong Tiancheng seized the city of Kyiv, he did not need the assistance of the main force of the Taiping army outside the city at all, the elite musketeers of the Taiping army exchanged for the evil value of the internal flowering were enough to occupy the city of Kiev, and the main force of the Taiping army outside the city The main task was to intercept and eliminate the main Polish force as much as possible, and they would never be allowed to interfere in the street battles in the city of Kyiv.

Therefore, there was a scene where the main force of the Taiping Army deliberately lured the Polish hussars and light cavalry to pursue, even if all the Polish iron cavalry was not left, the basic combat mission of the main force of the Taiping Army reached more than half.

Without the cooperation of the Polish hussars, the king of the field, the nearly 10,000 Polish troops were nothing more than seemingly scary empty shells.

Fighting a war is not a matter of who has more people who is powerful, and the peasant rebel army in history, when was it not ten times as many officers and soldiers as at its climax?

Wasn't the result that they were extinguished and strangled again and again by officers and soldiers whose numbers were much smaller than those of the peasant army?

There is still an essential difference between the army and the armed mob.

In the earth-shattering artillery fire, the first infantry cluster charge of the main Polish force began, and they faced the musketeers of the Ming Army's Shenji Battalion, who were drawn out by Hong Tiancheng, fearless!

Half a day later, the fighting in Kiev had subsided, Hong Tiancheng, who was staying in the church, came to the window, listened to the gradually thinning gunshots outside, looked at the church square, a large number of Kyiv militia and a few Cossack soldiers who were escorted over, and said with emotion: "The battle is finally over." This Kyiv city is much larger than Zhytomyr, and the population is not comparable to Zhytomyr, which is worthy of being the largest city in the middle and lower reaches of the Dnieper River basin! ”

"Report!"

"Come in." After Hong Tiancheng heard the shouts outside the door, he replied in an indifferent and calm tone.

Zhao Remnant was wearing a new military uniform that had just been changed, and his whole body exuded the smell of gunpowder smoke that had not dissipated, and he stepped in on his high-top military boots, and after saluting the Taiping Army, he reported: "General, the city of Kiev has been fully occupied by us, the resistance of the Cossack rebels has completely collapsed, eighty percent of the Kiev militia surrendered, twenty percent of the Cossack soldiers laid down their arms, and one percent of the remnants of the soldiers were taken out of Kiev by Colonel Bogon, and they all had horses, so we didn't catch up......

The main force of our army outside the city and the main Polish force fought several battles, and fought for most of the day, under the desperate attack of King Jan Kazimierz Vasa, they were finally outnumbered, but the original Polish main force of tens of thousands also suffered heavy losses, and under the attack of the elite musketeers of the two battalions of our army out of the city, it collapsed, and the whole army was scattered, and King Jan Kazimierz Vasa escaped with less than 100 horses.

Our army is full of foot soldiers, so it is difficult to catch King Jan Kazimierz Vasa and others who escaped on a war horse, and ask the general for forgiveness. ”

After Hong Tiancheng heard that the two battlefields had won decisive victories, he naturally did not blame the loyal Zhao Yan, as for the destruction of the main force of the Taiping Army outside the city, Hong Tiancheng did not feel too sad.

How can there be immortals in war?

Hong Tiancheng has a total war system, this time he won two major battles, and also captured the capital-level big city of Kyiv, he will definitely get a lot of army rewards, but his enemies are just a group of fewer dead!

The Cossack rebels, who did not have much money, can be said to have been completely removed from the military forces of the Dnieper River after this battle, and became a group of third-rate bandits rather than the so-called rebels.

Although the foundation of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom is thick, it is not all the family of King Jan Kazimiir Vasa, who was a close confidant of the king and lost all his money in this battle, and Hong Tiancheng can imagine with his ass, what kind of 'fair' treatment King Jan Kazimierz Vasa will receive after returning to the Council of Sem after returning to the Council of Sem.

I am afraid that the few military powers of King Jan Casimir Vasa will also be greatly weakened, and those great Polish nobles who are very independent are most keen to weaken the power of the king and increase the autonomy of the fiefdom.

It can be said that the losses in this battle are completely worth it in the eyes of Hong Tiancheng, the Cossack rebels have been unable to make waves, and the prestige of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania has been lost.

Although the musketeers of the Shenji Battalion are also die-hards, they use bird guns (arquebuses improved by the Ming Kingdom) instead of flintlock pistols, and their combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army.

"Zhao Remnant, how are the casualties of our headquarters?" Hong Tiancheng asked.

"The personal guard battalion suffered large losses in this battle, with more than half of the casualties, but the casualties of the later seven full battalions were extremely small, with only about 300 casualties."

"Well, Zhao Yan, you performed well this time, pick out the missing soldiers from these 7 battalions and add them to the personal guard battalion, according to the scale of more than 500 people in the ordinary battalion, the 7 battalions will be reduced to 5 full battalions, and the rest will all be filled into the personal guard battalion and expanded to a thousand people!"

Soon after Hong Tiancheng gave the order, the reward of the all-out war system also arrived as scheduled.