Wanli 1592

Chapter 869
Observing the battle situation in front of him, Li Wen had to admit that the Zhennan Army was not only superior to Ming Dynasty in its sharp weapons.

The cold weapons of the Zhennan Army are not inferior to their firearms in hand-to-hand combat. Moreover, they are well-equipped, with large shields and spears, and sharp machetes.

The frontier army rushing to the hills is almost at the end of their crossbows, but when the Zhennan army is defending, it is waiting for work to take the lead, not to mention that those bird gunners can shoot cold shots from time to time and kill one or two brave ones. The frontier army made the frontier army quite timid and afraid to throw off their arms and do a big fight, for fear that they would be killed.

After the war yesterday, the military doctor said that it was difficult to save the soldiers who were hit by lead bullets on their arms and legs, because the lead bullets could not be removed, and the bleeding would not stop. With fire poison, firearms are poisonous weapons, if hit, it is basically difficult to survive.

Therefore, the obvious loss on the battlefield is not the most terrible thing. The most terrible thing is that a large number of wounded soldiers died after the war, and it is impossible to save them. This will cause serious problems in the morale of the army.

Some people are worried about this, but Li Wen realized that instead of being worried, it is better to use the victory of the war to cover up this point.

So he became more and more stubborn and asked the army to fight bravely, break through the defense line of the hills and march to Liuba, destroy the rebels and reach Hanzhong.

Under his call, the frontier soldiers rushed to the hills wave after wave. Under the repeated attacks of artillery and muskets, and the assassination of big guns and machetes, they fell to the ground in groups and never stood up again. Can't get up.

The blood stained the bare mountain red, and I don't know when the blood red will disappear.

Li Wen doesn't care about these things. Years of military service have made his heart as hard as iron. He pays more attention to success or failure, the result, not the process.

The thousand-man team went out one by one, and the hills were also captured one by one. The artillery of the Zhennan Army kept firing until it overheated, and the bird guns kept firing until the enemy was completely close. The formation has been holding on until all the enemies in front of it are killed, and the two sides are fighting fiercely.

This fierce battle lasted for two days. On the morning of November 24, the four hills were occupied by Li Wen. The Zhennan Army withdrew from the hill area and entered the second line of defense. The battle entered the second stage.

Despite such fierce battles and victorious results, for Li Wen, this is not very happy, because the price paid to him has exceeded psychological expectations, but he just held his breath and kept pushing himself not to give up and not to relax , and finally broke through the hilly area.

More than [-] people died in the battle, and even more were injured. Under the attack of the superior firearms of the Zhennan Army, the disadvantages of the frontier army were clearly seen.

It is impossible to use the cavalry to confront the Zhennan Army, and it is impossible to use its strengths, and it is even difficult to bring out the superiority of troops. If it is not for continuous fighting, I am afraid that those hills will not be taken down at all.

Moreover, these few hills were taken down by the Zhennan Army's active retreat, and none of them were taken down abruptly by the total annihilation of the defenders, which gave Li Wen a bad impression.

It has to be said that the high-intensity fighting in the past few days has exhausted the army's physical strength and energy. Looking at the defense line built by the Zhennan Army behind the hill, they felt chills in their hearts. poured on them.

Li Wen also saw the exhaustion of the army and had no choice but to order the army to garrison in the hilly area. The attacking team went back to rest, and continued to attack with the part of the rest that had been rested before, in rotation.

Li Wen couldn't stop the offensive. Once it stopped, it would not be so easy to start it again.

The weather is getting colder, but the fighting is intensifying.

Deng Zilong and the generals were eating hot hot pot in Liuba City. They were not worried about the battle situation at all. In the short term, they only need to face Li Wen's troops.

And their prepared line of defense is enough to leave a deep and indelible impression on Li Wen's troops.

On the same day, in Nanzheng, Hanzhong, Ma Wei, who stayed behind in the town, received the two commanders of the three thousand white soldiers who came all the way to help the battle, Ma Qiancheng and her wife Qin Liangyu.

After all, the two chose to bet on Xiao Ruxun. After doing the ideological work of their family members, they arrived in Hanzhong with well-trained white soldiers to assist in the battle, officially joined Xiao Ruxun's army, and bet on their future. Regarding this, Ma Wei said Very welcome.

Ma Wei could see the wait-and-see attitude of these two people when they didn't fight him at the first time, and the wait-and-see attitude was more biased towards Xiao Ruxun's side, and they could fight for it. There are already benchmarks in front of us, and now we just need to put them into action.

"General Ma and Mrs. Ma understand the righteousness and contribute to Marshal Xiao. After Feng Tian's rebellion is over and when His Majesty is restored, Marshal Xiao will definitely repay the two of them with military merits, and they will definitely be rewarded generously!"

Ma Wei smiled and shook Ma Qiancheng's hand to welcome him.

Ma Qiancheng was much more modest, saying that he was frightened by the authority of the governor of Sichuan and had to lead his troops to stop it, and hoped that Marshal Xiao would not care about it. Ma Wei laughed and said that Marshal Xiao would not care about it at all, as long as If they are Feng Tian's partner, they will definitely be accepted by Xiao Dashuai, and the two of them don't have to worry at all.

After exchanging pleasantries, Ma Wei expressed his welcome, and after Ma Qiancheng expressed his willingness to seek refuge, the formal negotiation session began.

That is, what exactly do the white soldiers need to do to be officially included in the Zhennan Army system, and what kind of certificates the white soldiers need to pay to get real recognition, so as to get rid of the dilemma of both ends of the first mouse.

Of course, Ma Wei understands the needs of these two people. If they don’t assign tasks to them right now, they will doubt their performance. Arranging important people for them is the beginning of trust and acceptance for them, so Ma Wei decided to assign two very important tasks to them.

"Come on, General Ma, Mrs. Ma, please look here."

Ma Wei pointed out to Ma Qiancheng and Qin Liangyu the expected route of Li Wen and Du Tong's advance on the map.

"These two routes are the advance routes of Li Wen's and Du Tong's troops that our army speculated based on intelligence. At this moment, our army is also setting up defenses in Liuba and Lueyang, and the final plan is to gradually retreat. General Liu Ting's troops will withdraw to Yangping Pass for key defense, and General Deng Zilong's troops will retreat to Hutou Pass, Jitou Pass and even Baoxian County for key defense.

The purpose of our doing this is to lengthen Li Wen's transportation and supply line, making its food roads vulnerable and vulnerable. Li Wen's department was short of food because Sichuan was taken by our army, and Shen Yiguan naturally had no food. Can support, he hastily raised an army to attack just for food.

But right now, we need an elite army that is good at mountain warfare to go deep into the enemy's rear, to attack and destroy the food roads, so that the front line will run out of food and the front line will be uneasy. Dashan entered the pass! "

Ma Wei looked at Ma Qiancheng and Qin Liangyu.

(End of this chapter)