After a night of bluffing, when dawn came the next day, Shen Xi asked people to light firewood and grass, and it didn't take long for the mountain to be shrouded in smoke, and it was impossible to see the situation under the mountain clearly, as if a thick haze was laid around the cottage, and this dense fog was very choking, making people cry. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The thieves looked down the mountain from the top of the camp wall at the top of the mountain, and could see at most a dozen meters away, and they couldn't see it any further, relying only on sound to distinguish it...... At this time, the officers and soldiers should still be two or three miles away, because the sound seems to be a little far away from the cottage.

After inspecting the situation outside, the thief's face changed, and he went down the city wall with a bitter face, and went to take care of himself, and some people couldn't stand it, and even squatted down on the spot to solve the "difficulty".

In fact, there are not many arrows, rolling logs and stones stored in the thief's cottage, because the resources on the island are quite limited, and the defensive measures in the cottage are only aimed at the local guards, and they did not expect that the imperial court would send an army of thousands of people to encircle and suppress them.

If Shen Xi can pay the price of sacrificing hundreds of people and send a group of people to act as a death squad, the follow-up men and horses can rush to the top of the mountain within a day and kill the thieves in the stockade without leaving a single piece of armor.

Shen Xi has not launched a large-scale attack in the past few days, mainly because he has a variety of intelligence sources in his hand, and under the false rumors, he can't figure out the details of the thieves, and at the same time, he doesn't want the soldiers in the army to lose too much for no reason.

Always being a nanny, sometimes Shen Xi will feel that he is too soft-hearted, "Ci is not in charge of the army" is an ancient training for the army. But when he looked back, he was relieved...... He has no right to send soldiers into this situation of nine deaths and one life, everyone is raised by their fathers and mothers, and it is not appropriate for anyone to take the lead, but it will make the soldiers under his command deviate from morality because of fear.

So Shen Xi could only use this kind of trick.

Just when the smoke was around the cottage, Shen Xi had already prepared four hundred households as a commando. These four teams will go up the mountain under the cover of smoke, and their purpose is to send explosives bag throwers to 20 meters below the camp, and throw the "explosive bags" into the thief camp, causing chaos inside.

The division of labor among the four 100 households was clear, and the officers and men were each given a wet towel, and arrangements were made in advance for who was responsible for opening the road, who was responsible for carrying the road, who was responsible for setting up shields and covering, and so on.

Even if there is smoke blocking the view, the road up the mountain is extremely dangerous, Shen Xi gave them a certain convenience, that is, after breaking through the cottage, as the first batch of officers and soldiers to kill it, they have the right to dispose of the loot in hand.

Some people said that this was the smoke that Shen Xi invited from the heavenly court with the "immortal method", because Shen Xi led people to search everywhere two days ago, preparing to dig up the water veins on the mountain, and many people rumored that Shen Xijing was good at driving gods and ghosts and feng shui.

The officers and men were driven by interests, and at the same time, it was difficult to disobey military orders, and if they did not want to go up, they could only charge up the mountain.

"My lord, it is more appropriate to lead the charge with the lowly position!"

Jing Yue had tried to attack the Yangyu Mountain Bandit Village before, but the result was that it collapsed at the first touch, and then he did not dare to take the initiative to ask for help, but he was well-informed, and heard that Shen Xi had put laxatives under the water source, and when he saw the smoke on the mountain, he knew that the meritorious service was in front of him, so he took the initiative to run to Shen Xi to ask for battle.

"Want to go? It's late, and the official has already made arrangements, and he can't make any further changes to the plan. You bring a hundred households, and see the situation for reinforcements! ”

Shen Xi had asked Jing Yue to lead a thousand households before, but now he was demoted to let him lead a hundred households.

Jing Yue is a deputy thousand households, high or low, and in terms of authority, he may not be as good as a hundred households, which makes him very depressed...... Looking at this posture, it is clear that he is going to lose Shen Xi's trust!

In fact, the war began on the night of 24 April, but that night was only a bluff, and the officers and men thought that they would leave Nanao Island the next day, and they worked harder than usual by beating drums and blowing gold and horns.

As for where he followed Shen Xi in the future, how many captures he would make, and how much military merit he earned, they didn't care too much, and the most important thing was to grasp the existing merits in their hands.

If it weren't for Shen Xi's insistence on mobilizing the three armies to go up and down to engage in some "tentative attack before parting", the soldiers might have been holding a celebration banquet at this time...... Even if there are thousands of thieves on Yangyu Mountain, there are 4,000 officers and soldiers under the mountain, do those thieves dare to attack the camp?

The soldiers are all triumphant, look at the embarrassment of you thieves when you go to grab water during the day, as if you have never drunk water in your life, if it weren't for the fact that the governor was in a hurry to go back to hug his wife and children, the master was willing to stay and accompany you, boil until you run out of water and food, and cut off your heads as war merits.

The soldiers thought that today was just a feint, but when they received the latest order, they wanted to make the "feint" more thorough, braving smoke and getting as close as possible to the thief village.

Didn't you say that the bluff went through the motions?

Those generals in the army said this before, why is the order conveyed today different from yesterday's?

However, when the officers and soldiers saw the smoke on the mountain, they thought that they were attacking the camp with fire and smoke as they had done on the island!

"You don't know, it's a fire ordered by the Governor."

The 100 households who received the military order talked endlessly to the officers and men under their command, but in fact they themselves did not understand what was going on, "The southwest wind is blowing today, and the smoke is drifting up the mountain, and every 100 households must go up the mountain to practice their courage, and they will only rush to about 200 steps outside the camp and then retreat......

"It's still a charge based on hundreds of households, and if there is a deserter, it will be counted as a full deserter, which rabbit cub dares to escape, and he will directly break his dog legs!"

When the soldiers heard such a strange "courage training", they couldn't help but be stunned, and when they discerned the direction of the wind, they found that the day was clear and windless, and they wondered how the conclusion of the "southwest wind" came about.

In the past, they would rather choose not to accept this kind of military order, isn't it just a little reward, and most of it was deducted by the commander, peeled off layer by layer, and only a little hair was left on their hands.

But this time it's different!

The goods stolen by his hundreds of households were all remembered by the quartermaster, and before he returned to the land, these goods were not sent to his hands, so how could he rest assured if he did not leave his pocket?

Seeing the smoke on the hill and the blurred façade of the cottage, the fear was not so strong. And after all, he is not a pioneer battalion, it is someone else who rushes to the front to die, and he just follows to join in the fun.

The fire was set on at the hour, and after about two quarters of an hour there began to be rolling logs and large stones falling on the mountain, but they were only a few, and by the end of the hour, the rolling logs and rough stones on the mountain had been sparsely scattered, and the general attack was launched.

There were four hundred houses as death squads, covered by heavy shields and wooden fences, and they rushed up the hill while setting up obstacles along the way.

Shen Xi has high requirements for the route of travel, the wooden fences and shields set up are not stout at first glance, and some obstacles simply nail iron forks directly to the ground, no matter how you look at this level of obstacles, they can't stop the logs and big stones rolling down the mountain.

But when there were really rolling logs and rolling stones falling on the mountain and smashing on these iron forks and obstacles, they knew the importance of Shen Xi letting them set up a "barrier".

The biggest advantage of these obstacles is not to stop the stones directly, but to change the trajectory of the rolling wood and the stones, so that they deflect, and at the same time weaken the strength of the roll, and after touching the obstacles several times in a row, they almost stop halfway and become a new obstacle.

In this way, the officers and men of each hundred households basically advanced up the high slope according to the plan, nailed iron forks every few steps, set up wooden fences and shields, and fixed the rolling logs and stones that had fallen down, so as to block the subsequent rolling logs and stones. (To be continued.) )