By the time Lange reached the bottom of the mountain, his troops had already gone up the hill first, and had been fighting on the mountain for a long time. The more he observed below, he felt that something was wrong, and immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops.

If it is according to Shiertai's meaning, since the fight has begun, there is no reason to retreat. The Jianzhou Jurchen Eight Banners Army will always move forward bravely on the battlefield, it is glorious to die on the battlefield, and retreat is a shame. But this is not the case with Lange's thoughts, as a confidant who is trusted by Daishan, it is not enough to be brave, he spends as much time with his brain as he does with his hands.

His philosophy is that the soldier's vocation is to win the battle, and the general's vocation is to let the soldier win the battle at the lowest cost, and there is no point in sacrificing in vain.

Of course, a hot-blooded idiot like Shiertai with developed limbs and a simple mind can't understand this truth, but it was his subordinates who attacked the mountain, and he had the right to order the temporary withdrawal of troops. He knew that the attack was not going well, so he avoided the hard attack. But seeing the miserable image of the men and horses withdrawn from the mountain with crooked armor and oblique obliqueness, and then asking about the situation of the battle, really made his anger smoke.

"What? And firearms in the cottage? Could it be that the Ming army rushed to the mountains and failed to resist stubbornly? ”

The slave didn't know, but the slave vaguely saw that there seemed to be soldiers wearing Han clothes and armor on the mountain. The sound of the firearm was very similar to that of the firearm used by the Han army. ”

"The mountain road is narrow and dangerous, the Han soldiers refuse to defend it, and there are firearms to help, how can they attack!? What about the head of your Oxen? Tell him to come to me! Lange counted the number of people and found that 65 of the more than 300 people in a cow were wounded, and 41 were missing, and it is estimated that all of them remained on the mountain. Attacking such a bandit village with no strategic significance, more than a hundred people were caught up at once, and the green tendons on his head were about to jump.

"Back to the master, we are the real heads...... Seriously injured and unconscious......"

"What?" Lange was surprised and came to inspect it. I saw that the leader's eyes were closed, his teeth were clenched, his whole face was as pale as paper, a shuttle mark penetrated his right shoulder socket, and even the tough iron mesh cotton armor was pierced, and his whole body was already stained red with blood.

"At whose hands was he wounded?" Shiertai also came over, and his eyes lit up when he saw such a serious injury, like a thief cat seeing a stinky fish. As a general who commanded the army, he climbed to this position purely by force, and his martial courage was one of the best in the flag, and he knew at a glance that such an injury was done by a strong hand, and he immediately became competitive.

"I didn't see it clearly...... In the midst of the chaos, I saw a figure in front of me jumping up, and then he was hit. ”

"With such strong hands, even the best armor-piercing point steel plum needle arrows issued by a strong bow and crossbow may not be able to penetrate the human body, but this javelin thrown by hand can penetrate the iron armor. I heard that hundreds of years ago, there was a kind of giant crossbow in the Han army, which required eight oxen to pull the winding, and the crossbow arrows sent out could penetrate no matter how thick the iron armor was......

Lange muttered, suddenly a trace of murder flashed in his eyes, he pulled out the saber at his waist, and cut off the head of Niu Lu Ezhen with a knife in his hand, and blood spurted all over the ground. Everyone next to them was taken aback, thinking that they had lost the battle and were going to be executed by military law, so they suddenly knelt on the ground, their faces were like ashes, but no one begged for mercy.

Shiertai was also stunned next to him, as a general, he naturally knew the military law of the Eight Banners Army, and at this moment, Lange ordered all the others to be executed, and he would not object. He wondered that since you were going to enforce military law, why did you order a retreat just now, it was better to let them keep fighting.

"What are you doing here? If you want to kill him, why withdraw your troops? ”

"I killed him because he betrayed my trust, and in a different way, he wouldn't have had to kill so many people in the first place. But this minion is on the verge of underestimating the enemy, resulting in the loss of soldiers and the defeat of generals, and according to my rules, he should lose his head! This soldier must be withdrawn, this battle cannot be fought like this, fighting a war is not a bull fighting to the death, it is a brain. ”

Shiertai didn't bother to listen to Lange's words at all, anyway, it was your subordinates who killed them, that is, they killed all the people, as long as you don't care, why should I eat salty turnips and worry about it. You're willing to calculate and calculate all day long, and I won't dump you. In the final analysis, fighting is a white knife in and a red knife out, and whoever has the biggest fist wins. As long as you have overwhelming power, any trickery and cunning are useless.

He turned around and beckoned his men and horses to prepare immediately, and he was going to personally lead the team to attack the mountain. He was anxious to think that he would meet the group of Han bandits on the mountain, the Niu Lu who was killed just now really knew him, his martial arts were quite extraordinary, and he was actually injured like that, could it be that there was a hidden demon king among the weak and incompetent Han people?

"Wait! What are you going to do? Lange looked back and saw that Shiertai had picked up a huge cowhide shield with one hand, and a heavy crested iron axe in the other, and five or six hundred people had gathered behind him.

"What are you doing? Does this need to be asked? Naturally, he went up the mountain to catch the Han man named Yue Xiang. Hurry up and catch him and hand him over, so let's go to Tieling. Is it possible to stay overnight at the foot of this mountain? ”

Lange really didn't know what to say, his subordinates had just suffered such a big loss, and you didn't see it. Knowing that there is a pot in front of you or you are going to jump in with your eyes closed, you are satisfied if you suffer again in the same place? There is no way, some people just don't know how to learn from other people's experiences, and they don't know what a lesson is if they don't hit the south wall themselves.

But everyone is Daishan's subordinates, and for the sake of his master, Lange would not have watched Shirtai go up like this.

"Are you having a wrong brain? The art of war is cloudy, and knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will win all battles. You don't even know how many people there are on the mountain, who are the generals, how many bows and arrows there are, do you know? Besides, the mountain road is narrow and difficult to walk, no better than the land of Pingchuan. You can't show it even if you take thousands of troops right away, I just suffered such a big loss, do you think it's so envious? ”

"How do you know if you win or lose if you don't fight, and who have we been afraid of on the ground in Liaodong? The Jurchens are invincible to 10,000 people, and we have a total of 3,000 people here. Such a big city in Fushun has been captured by us, what is this small cottage? If it hadn't been for you, the pig's head, who ordered the withdrawal of troops, maybe the stockade would have been taken down by now. Besides, what are you afraid of death, our Jianzhou Jurchen warriors are not afraid of death! ”

Shiertai spoke impassionedly, and the bannermen under his command let out a majestic and impassioned shout in unison. Lange shook his head when he heard this, thinking that there were really some kind of generals, what kind of soldiers, and the idiot's subordinates were indeed all idiots. It's so bad that you're dying here before the fight starts, it's like you're not fighting to win, you're going to die. If you like to die so much, wouldn't it be nice to just jump into the Suzi River.

"You are the pig's head, this is a cottage attack and defense, not a field front. Now the cavalry can't go up the mountain, they can only attack the mountain on foot, which happens to be their own short attack on their own strength, and they fall into the trap of the Han army. There is a saying in the Han art of war called the army and the soldiers, the soldiers who surrender without a fight, and now this situation will definitely be able to fight hard, but if the casualties are too heavy, it is not cost-effective, in case the master asks us, I am afraid it is not easy to explain. ”

Moving out of the Buddha of Daishan, Shiertai naturally has to think about it. Also, Lange & Söhne is not a fuel-efficient lamp, don't look at this guy who likes to use his crooked brain all day long, but he is absolutely unambiguous when he really waits for a fight. The combat effectiveness of his armor is also counted among the Eight Banners, and seeing so many people killed and injured is enough to prove that this cottage is not easy to fight.

In fact, Shiertai is a character who does not believe in evil with iron teeth, and the harder the bones, the more they have to gnaw down. Second, he felt that since Lange's subordinates had gone up, he couldn't say anything if he didn't do it. Thirdly, it has been fighting for a long time, and the strength of the Han people on the mountain must have been weakened, and they just happened to pick up the cheap.

But he wasn't stupid either, and Lange's words made sense. I don't know anything about the situation on the mountain, in case there is really a thousand children and eight hundred who can't defend it, and it will eventually become a war of attrition for the number of people, and I really can't explain it in front of Lord Belle at that time.

"And what do you have in mind?"

"It's not difficult to do this, let's find out the reality of the cottage first." Lange said and asked someone to bring the villagers over, and the villagers saw that this man had just killed the leader of the Tartars with a knife like killing a chicken, and thought that it was a bigger leader, and they were scared and sweated all over their bodies, and they knew everything about his problems, and explained the situation of the Sifang Village inside and out.

"I see......" Lange touched his chin with his hand, his eyes rolling wildly, like a dog-headed military advisor.

"How? Tell me about your ingenuity. "Shiertai was about to order the slaughter of those villagers, but Lange stopped him. He crossed his shoulders and looked at Lange, he had just heard it clearly, there was only one way up the mountain, the other paths were impassable, and there were still people guarding the dangerous areas, and it seemed that there was only one way to go up the mountain.

"Hmph, I don't dare to be a clever plan. But you can draw a gourd in the same way. Lange's face was filled with a confident smirk, as if he were answering, as if he were talking to himself.

"Why do you draw a gourd like that?"

"You forgot how Fushun got down?" Lange's smile was even more treacherous, and Shiertai looked uncomfortable, and said angrily: "If you have something to say, just say it." Fighting Fushun was led by the Khan King himself, so he naturally came to capture it. Could it be that you still have to go back to Hetu Alla to ask the Khan to drive the royal conquest? ”

"I didn't mean that!" Lange deeply felt the pain of playing the piano with the cow, "The King of Khan is naturally invincible, but the first battle of Fushun was that we sent people to infiltrate Fushun City in advance, and we should cooperate with the outside to get twice the result with half the effort." Do you understand? ”

"Oh, you mean sending someone into the cottage?"

"The outside is a strong line of defense, so we have to start from the inside. Now that the cottage is surrounded by us, those Han people are forced to unite as one. As long as we can break down their cohesion, this village will fall without a fight. ”

"How to disintegrate, can you still send people to get in now? I'm afraid it's too late, right? ”

"If you want to create chaos within them, you don't have to send someone in to do it yourself, you forgot what the master told us. Our ultimate goal is to capture that Yue Xiang, not kill all the Han people in this village. I know best that these Han people are very united when there is a common external enemy, but when the external enemy disappears, they like to fight inwardly. As long as this is the case, are you afraid that they will not fight on their own? ”