On the west mountain, Chen Wang immediately piled up a mound for lookout in the camp of the Liukou.

When Li Yangchun first selected the site for construction, this observatory could see the three mountains and all the activities around it at a glance.

Chen Wang's gaze swept downward, and the thousands of ravines had still not been filled, and the layers of camp arrow towers were still standing in all directions.

In order to support each other, the Liukou did not set up a ravine on the mountain road, and Chen Gong led his troops to attack the mountain before, and it was along this mountain road that he went up and directly broke the surface with points.

If there were no cannons, no shield carts, no heavy armor, but only a forced attack on the mountain with infantry and light troops, at least 500 corpses would be left under these three camps.

"Only twelve of the vanguard armoured men were lightly wounded, none were seriously wounded, and only two were killed."

At this time, Chen Gong had already taken off the heavy iron armor on his body, changed into a light armor, and rode on a war horse.

He rode a horse and stood behind Chen Wang, reporting to Chen Wang on the situation of the attack on the mountain.

"The wounded among the light soldiers are still counting, there are forty-seven killed and about twenty seriously wounded."

Most of the casualties occurred during the final attack on the hilltop camp, where the enemy had a lot of elite cavalry.

Taking advantage of their superior position, these elite horsemen suddenly attacked from the flank, causing chaos in the light army.

"The casualties of the first soldiers were mainly after the camp was broken, and the old bandits in the camp did not suffer many casualties when attacking the village with the help of shield vehicles."

Chen Gong's expression was slightly heavy, and the two people who died in the last battle were said to be his command mistakes.

He didn't expect that Liukou would hide three hundred-pound Frankie machines behind the walled gate.

After crashing and breaking away from the village, he ordered to push the crash car forward directly, temporarily leaving the shield car behind.

As a result, the three Francos hidden behind the gate of the fortress fired in unison, and the two people who rushed to the front wore all their armor and were killed by shells on the spot.

"If I were more cautious......

Chen Gong's expression was gloomy, and his voice was low and lifeless.

Chen Wang raised his horsewhip and stopped what Chen Gong wanted to say.

The final casualties should be about 100 people, and it is completely acceptable to take the Xishan camp at the cost of only 100 casualties.

The light soldiers of the accompanying team were only changed twice, and almost two recruits were sent to the battlefield.

Chen Wang's original plan was to let the recruits of the Sixth Division of the New Barracks take turns to attack, but the battle went more smoothly than he imagined.

It only took more than an hour, and it was already broken through the three villages in a row and attacked the top of Xishan.

"No one is born to fight, and you've done your part."

Chen Wang glanced at Chen Gong.

Connected by blood and brothers, he sensed Chen Gong's loss.

"Eat a trench, grow a wisdom, people will make mistakes."

"You will make mistakes, I will make mistakes, even Mr. Cao will make mistakes."

Chen Wang clenched his fist and placed it on the left ventricle, and said in a deep voice.

"It is important that one cannot be defeated by the mistakes that have been made, and that one cannot remain immersed in the mistakes made in the past."

"Remember the mistakes, remember the reasons, and avoid them next time."

Now it is only necessary to transport the fire cannons to the top of the West Hill camp, and the other two mountains can be directly bombarded with artillery. ….

Chen Wangce immediately stepped forward a little, and set his eyes on the artillery unit that was slowly advancing on the mountain road.

The invention of firearms, especially artillery for long-range shooting, is changing the battlefield of this era.

The artillery that can shoot from a long distance has made the battlefield constantly innovate, and the high ground has become a battleground for soldiers.

In the early stage of the Songjin War, in order to compete for the ownership of Rufeng Mountain, the Ming and Qing dynasties automatically used thousands of large and small artillery pieces and tens of thousands of soldiers.

Then, in the ensuing fierce battle, the two sides continued to compete for the high ground around the city, and once they grabbed the high ground, they immediately set up artillery, dispatched troops, and controlled the place, and continued to see-saw.

There was a lot of artillery in this era

It is a solid bullet that fires, and although there are flowering bullets, they are far from the kind of damage that later generations of flowering bullets have.

The power of firing solid bullets is naturally not as great as that of flowering bullets, but the morale damage that solid bullets can cause is simply catastrophic.

Because in this era, the combat of the alternating period of hot and cold weapons, the two armies still need to be arranged in a tight formation.

Open a large formation, face the enemy, the soldiers are close, the array is close, and the swords and guns come and go, even if it is difficult to turn the head, let alone move around.

Once the solid bullet hits, it can easily plow a blood path through the crowd like a plow.

"The past is already a thing of the past, and regretting the past will only make you miss everything that is happening now."

Chen Wang raised the horsewhip in his hand and pointed at the marching soldiers at the foot of the mountain.

"I know things have changed a lot, and you can't get used to it for a while."

Just a few months ago, Chen Gong, Hu Zhili, and Hu Zhiyi, like Chen Wang, were just family members under Cao Wenzhao.

Although the battle formation is experienced, it is limited to fighting.

As for commanding the army, marching and fighting, it is almost ignorant of it.

Now he is in charge of the logistics of the two battalions and has assumed almost all the responsibilities of the deputy.

Just a few months ago, he was just a deputy hundred commanders, commanding a hundred people, but now he is in charge of the logistics and armament of thousands of people.

For a long time, Tang Shiping worked intensively and checked various related situations, and there was little time to rest.

Everything is because the status is climbing too fast, but the ability can't keep up, so it takes more energy.

I just remember the "Actual Record of Military Training" and "The New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness", with the knowledge of later generations, plus Cao Wenzhao's teachings and a period of adaptation, and the situation of someone to help.

Managing nearly 5,000 soldiers, Chen Wang is still a little weak.

Not to mention the two brothers Chen Gong and the Hu family, who can only fight with knives, have not read any military books, and have limited knowledge.

"There will always be deaths in war, and you and I both know very well that we were ready when we were selected to join the army."

After arriving in this era, Chen Wang not only has an excellent memory of the present, but also recalls the rest of the memories, and he feels that it is vivid, as if it is new.

Although the Chen and Hu families are not big families, they also have quite a lot of roots, and there are not only people who join the army, but also people who study and do business.

When you are a teenager, you have to make a choice, whether to join the army, or to engage in business, or to study and gain fame and go to the official career. ….

Both Chen and Hu have raised people, but the latest ones have been raised decades ago, and they have already been Zhishi.

However, he has a good way of doing business, so his family has a small amount of money, and some people are officers in the guards, and there are also people in the battalion who were originally thousands of generals.

Now Chen Wang can be said to be the person with the greatest authority and the highest official position among the Chen and Hu clans, and he is actually authorized to guerrilla and lead a battalion.

Chen Gong nodded, and there was a little more brilliance in his eyes.

He is a resolute person, as a family member, who is not crawling out of the sea of corpses and blood.

He just jumped from a family member to a military academy leading soldiers, and watched the soldiers under his command die because of his mistakes and wavered.

"I won't always be just a guerrilla, and you won't always be just a thousand presidents."

Seeing the change in Chen Gong's expression, Chen Wang's heart was slightly relieved.

The strongest ties of this era are undoubtedly connected bloodlines.

In this turbulent world, the fate of being wrapped up in the times can only rise and fall with the times, and it is extremely difficult to just survive.

If you want to get ahead and fight for a foundation, it is undoubtedly even more difficult and difficult to enter the sky.

The strength of one person is insignificant in the torrent of the times, and there must be fellow paths on the road.

There are not many people under Chen Wang's hands who can use it now, and Chen Gong, Hu Zhili, and Hu Zhiyi must now keep up with him.

This world is a real world, and he has no system to see the loyalty of others, and there is no way to summon any generals who are 100% loyal to him.

"Even if you have made a mistake before and caused serious consequences, what you need to do in the first place is to try your best to stabilize the battle situation first, and then think about how to make up for it, as for other things, wait until you withdraw from the battle formation before thinking about it."

This sentence was what Chen Wang heard from Cao Wenzhao, and now he said it to Chen Gong as it was.

Chen Wang turned his head again and looked in the direction of Zhongshan.

Some things just need to be clicked to the end, and it is not good to talk too much.

To be honest, Chen Wang is now crossing the river by feeling the stones.

Although he had hundreds of years of knowledge in his mind, it was only a theory, and it was only a text recorded in a book.

But now he had to ride his own horse and lead the army on the march.

There is a big difference between a soldier on paper and an actual leader.

No matter how seamless the plan is and how subtle the deduction is, there will always be many new problems that have not been considered before when it is actually implemented.

What is needed at this time is for the generals to come and make decisions.

Chen Wang has made many choices and mistakes along the way, and not all of his choices are correct.

As soon as you come into contact with military affairs, you can win battles, and you can continue to win consecutive victories, leading thousands, or even tens of thousands of troops, like an arm, with ease.

The recruits who have not trained at all and have been trained for several months can crush Houjin and the northern captives by relying on a gun formation and a few bird guns, or any Western-style tactics they adopt.

These things can only be said to be fantastical, and they only exist in them. ….

If the so-called Spanish phalanx was really that strong, why did Spain lose in the Thirty Years' War?

And how can the infantry only form a spear formation and a few bird-fired soldiers to stop the charge of the Houjin armor?

During the battle of the Hunhe River, the Sichuan soldiers held white poles and spears formed a military formation in the end could not escape the defeat, the Zhejiang soldiers' car battalion had hundreds of large and small artillery, and all kinds of guns were countless, but they were not able to win the war.

Only Chen Wang himself understood how difficult it was to train and lead troops.

He knew exactly what the soldiers under his command were.

The new recruit under his command has been training for a month, and the armament and the like are not much different from the configuration of the ordinary Ming army.

Such an army is more than enough to fight the rogues, that is, there is a risk of defeat when facing the rogue spirits in a battle to the death.

However, it will definitely not be its opponent when it is used to fight Houjin.

The old events of the Battle of the Four Cities are still vivid, and the military system of the Houjin soldiers is very simple, and it can even be said to be superficial.

But the organization of the Houjin soldiers is high and terrifying.

The Houjin soldiers can sweep around like a net, snatching everything they can see, and then regroup.

Chen Wang knew very well how many catties and taels the army under his command was.

"Winter!" "Winter!" "Winter!"

Just as Chen Wang was thinking about his future plans, there was a sudden sound of thick and then rapid war drums above the middle mountain.

Immediately afterwards, a deafening shout of killing swept from all directions and appeared in Chen Wang's ears.

Chen Wang dragged the restless war horse under his seat to walk on the mound, and at the same time set his eyes in the direction of Zhongshan and Dongshan.

The sound of the war drums was the signal for the rogues to attack.

At this time, on the east and southeast sides of the West Mountain, a large number of rogues had gathered together, and all kinds of chaotic flags were waving in the air.

Dense bandits fill the mountain path, and they seem to want to regain control of the western mountain.

"With so many soldiers, if they had come to support at the beginning, the camp on the top of the mountain would not have been easy to capture, why are these people only here now?"

Chen Gongce immediately took a step forward, looking at the situation down the mountain with some meaning

Outside.

"It's easy."

Chen Wang's gaze crossed the heavy crowd and fell to the top of Zhongshan.

At the top of the mountain, a large blue flag is fluttering slowly in the wind.

Around that azure blue banner were countless blue flags that were being displayed, and that was where Li Yangchun was.

"Because these people are cannon fodder......

Chen Wang's eyes narrowed slightly, and he was keenly aware of the real reason.

The reason why he knew it was precisely because Li Zicheng had done the same thing before he fled.

When the rogues wanted to flee, they would often give orders for their infantry and hungry soldiers to attack.

But behind the scenes, he secretly informed the horse army and elite cavalry under his command.

Let a small group of elite cavalry and horse army act as overseers and hold down the position.

When the Ming army and their infantry and hungry soldiers were fighting fiercely, and they had no time to separate, they took advantage of the chaos to lead the rest of the horse army and elite cavalry to flee.

"Li Yangchun is a smart man."

Chen Wang's gaze fell on the forests in the south of the mountain.

He surrounded three sides, but Shannan was left, and it was impossible for Li Yangchun not to see it.

Li Guo estimated that he also told Li Yangchun and Lin Shengquan about the general things before, and Li Yangchun and Lin Shengquan could also guess one or two reasons.

These people can become the leader of a battalion in Liukou, and they may not all be able to fight, but they are definitely human spirits, and their skills in oiling the soles of their feet are better than anyone else.

It has been eight years since Chongzhen, and those rogues who have no bright heads and can't escape have already been wiped out by the Ming army.

Chen Wang looked at the forest in the south of the mountain and said abruptly.

"Order the men on all three sides to hold their positions, and make sure not to let anyone go."

"Preparing good news, I remember that on the seventh day of the tenth month, our troops fought fiercely in the south of Ma Jiaoquan with the Four Heavenly Kings, the Heavenly Climbing King, and a Tiger, and the battle lasted for five days, and captured thousands of people......

"There are many enemy cavalry, there are tens of thousands of people, although our cavalry tried their best to intercept it, but in the end the enemy was outnumbered, although the upper and lower forces used their lives, but in the end they failed to do their best, and the thieves led the remnants to flee in the direction of Qishan......

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Luo Xiaoming