The biggest gap between recruits and veterans is their mentality.

Just like Li Hui, generally speaking, when recruits first arrive on the battlefield, they will be frightened by the crazy aura on the battlefield, and then their limbs will stiffen due to fright, so that they will die in vain.

The root cause of this is that such recruits are unable to overcome their fears.

Veterans are different, because they have already seen the tragedy of the battlefield, so before the battle starts, they will silently adjust their mentality, move their limbs, these good little habits, will help them survive the brutal fighting.

In the final analysis, the perception of recruits and veterans lies in whether the former can take that step, just like the leopard.

Le Leopard is a new recruit like Li Hui, but Li Hui survived by luck because of the timely rescue of Ran Teng, a thousand people, while Le Leopard survived by killing the enemy with his own hands.

As for a man like Yang Wu, who has only relied on a shield and an iron sword to guard the city wall at a distance of one zhang wide, and has so far hacked down at least five or six enemy soldiers, it is enough to be called an elite soldier.

This is also the reason why after the threat was lifted, thousands of people looked at Yang Wu differently.

"Boy, you're not a recruit, are you?"

Thousands of people looked Ran Teng up and down at Yang Wu, who was covered in blood, and asked in surprise.

"Ah, I enlisted in the army last April." Yang Wu looked back and saw that the lives of his two companions were worry-free, so he said with a smile.

"Last April?"

Thousands of people looked at Yang Wu again.

You must know that in April last year, the war had not yet broken out in Chu and Wei, in other words, the soldier in front of him, this veteran who had experienced the "Chu Wei War", was a tragic battle in which only more than 50,000 people survived from 160,000 people.

On average, a team of five soldiers will die more than half after the war.

Those who can survive are not lucky enough to describe it.

"Not bad." Ran Teng nodded, then his face changed, and he slapped Yang Wu on the back of the head with his hand, and scolded: "You fucking looking for death!" One person dares to guard a gap one foot wide? ”

But having said that, he admired Yang Wu very much in his heart, because if it wasn't for this soldier desperately plugging the gap, there would have been more slave soldiers pouring up the city wall from this gap.

The reason why he said this was just that he hoped that such a brave soldier would not be so reckless in the future, after all, their merchant and water army had not been established for a long time, and what they lacked was this kind of fierce soldier who was likely to grow into the backbone of the army in the future.

At this time, Le Bao and Li Hui also returned to their posts, and seeing that Ran Teng, a thousand generals, was still glaring at Li Hui, Le Bao diverted the topic and asked: "Thousands of generals, it seems that the enemy has climbed the city wall, is the enemy retreating?" ”

Thousands of people shook the blood on the blade of the sword, took it back into the scabbard, and said lightly: "That group of slave soldiers was coerced by the Horn people, and the Horn people did not withdraw their troops, how dare they retreat?" As he spoke, he pointed in the direction of the city gate and said casually: "In order to relieve the pressure of your recruits, General Wu Ji ordered the city gate to be opened, and those slave soldiers all flocked to the city gate. ”

Hearing this, Yang Wu was shocked and said in amazement: "How could General Wu Ji order the city gate to be opened? This...... So many enemy troops poured into the city, is this worth it? ”

"What's the hurry?" Ran Teng glanced at Yang Wu and was about to explain, but he heard Le Leopard ask in a low voice: "In the city, is there a repeater crossbow?" ”

"......" Ran Teng glanced at Le Leopard with a little surprise.

As a thousand-strong general, he knew the tactics that Zhao Hongrun explained to the general Wu Ji: dump oil in the suburbs outside the city in advance, and when the Qianjiao people drove the slave soldiers to consume the physical strength of the Shangshui soldiers, he saw the opportunity to ignite the oil outside the city with fire arrows, cut off the large number of slave soldiers, and take the opportunity to eliminate some slave soldiers.

That is, the slave soldiers of about 20,000 or 30,000 people who were cut off by the sea of fire.

As for how to destroy this slave army quickly, effortlessly, and efficiently, all you need to do is open the city gates.

Because once the city gate is opened, those slave soldiers will naturally rush into the city, and when the time comes, the crossbows deployed on the inside of the city gate can quickly kill most of them.

Even if you are lucky, or if those slave soldiers don't know what the repeater crossbow is, they still don't know whether they want to break in, and the merchant soldiers in the city who are responsible for firing the repeater crossbow are not impossible, even if they destroy these twenty or thirty thousand slave soldiers in one go.

However, unlike Zhao Hongrun's tactics, Wu Ji, as the general of the Shang Shui Army, delayed the time to order the city gate to be opened, and deliberately allowed those slave soldiers to climb the west city wall and fight with the soldiers on the city wall.

Yes, in fact, the scene of the scene where the short soldiers on the city wall were not in Zhao Hongrun's tactics, but Wu Ji's own considerations.

Because he wanted to take the opportunity to train his troops, he took this opportunity to let the recruits of the merchant and water army under his command feel the atmosphere of the battlefield.

As for the root cause, it is nothing more than that there are many recruits like Li Hui and Le Bao in the Shangshui Army who have just enlisted in the army and have not yet seen the battlefield.

Of course, this kind of deliberate training could not last too long, so with just half a pillar of incense, Wu Ji quickly ordered someone to open the city gate, relieving the pressure on the soldiers and soldiers on the city wall.

And in order to achieve the effect of military training, these things are unknown to the ordinary soldiers of the Shangshui Army.

Even the wooden walls on the city wall that are not solid are also Wu Ji instructed some thousands of generals like Ran Teng to deliberately do it, which is to train these merchant soldiers to adapt to emergencies, and hope that they can burst out with amazing will like Leopard in a crisis.

Of course, there are not many wooden walls that are not strong like that, but only a dozen of the hundreds of wooden walls.

After all, it is for military training, otherwise, such a major event as reinforcing and raising wooden walls is related to life and death, victory or defeat, which merchant and water sergeant would dare to be lazy from it?

At this time, there were unimaginable dense screams from the direction of the city gate, as if countless slave soldiers were dying at the same time.

The dense howl before death made the recruits on the city walls feel only their scalps tingle.

"Here we go, repeater......"

Walking to the edge of the inner city wall, Le Leopard looked in the direction of the city gate, in fact, because of the distance, he did not see it very clearly, but he could only vaguely see the approximation, watching those slave soldiers pour into the city like ants, and then under the strong power of five hundred repeating crossbows, they fell to the ground one after another, one after another, endlessly.

"What, since there is such a tactic, it should be used as soon as possible, and we are also responsible for guarding the city wall." Yang Wu also walked over and complained dissatisfiedly.

Hearing this, Le Leopard touched the bite mark on his neck and muttered: "If this strategy had been used earlier, it would not have been effective in training." ”

"Training? What kind of soldiers to train? Yang Wu asked puzzled.

"Of course it's training us...... Forcing us to kill the enemy in order to survive at a critical juncture......" Le Leopard glanced at his hands, and he felt mixed feelings when he thought that they had just killed a living person like them.

"This kid...... That's a lot of ideas.'"

Ran Teng, the general of the thousand people, glanced at Le Leopard, and did not hide it, nodded and said in a deep voice: "That is General Wu Ji's good intentions!" …… On the battlefield of your life and death, if you want to survive, the only way to survive is to kill the enemy in front of you, those cowards who are stiff because of fear and fear, and dare not kill, will not live long on the battlefield. ”

Hearing this, Yang Wu and Le Leopard were stunned, and looked at their companion Li Hui in unison, but saw that his face was pale at the moment.

They wanted to comfort and comfort their partner, but they didn't know what to say, because what Ran Teng said was the truth on the battlefield: either kill the enemy to survive yourself, or give your life to keep the enemy alive.

Probably thinking that the atmosphere of the topic was too heavy, Yang Wu and Le Bao glanced at each other, coughed, and diverted the topic and said: "Cough, by the way, our army's repeater crossbow is really powerful...... I'm afraid the slave soldiers at the city gate are almost dead, right? Tsk, we worked hard and worked hard to kill so many people, and the brothers in the city easily killed several times our enemies......"

"It's not just a few times, I'm afraid it's more than a dozen times." Leopard said.

But unfortunately, their good intentions to divert the topic failed to restore Li Hui's face to blood.

In fact, not only Li Hui, but also the recruits on the city wall who only cared about cold hands and feet because of fear, and did not play any role from beginning to end, their expressions at this moment were just like Li Hui, and they were defeated.

Not surprisingly, this is a psychological obstacle that most recruits encounter when they first enter the battlefield, and only when these people are enlightened can they be considered a real soldier and have a chance to survive on the brutal battlefield.

And this kind of thing, only by relying on oneself to make realization, it is difficult for outsiders to help much.

As for saying to your companions on the battlefield, 'It's okay, I can protect you', it's not actually helping the other person, but harming the other person, protecting? How long can a soldier protect another soldier?

In many cases, the most common is that after several battles, two people die together.

The kind of soldiers who dare not kill the enemy are just a burden on the battlefield, and they will kill others, which has long been known to the veterans.

Therefore, Yang Wu and Le Bao did not persuade Li Hui, waiting for the latter to come to his senses.

"Huh? The brothers in the city went to drag the corpses? It seems to be over. ”

"yes, it's over......"

"Tsk, those slave soldiers are stupid, aren't they? That's a repeater, a repeater that shoots a crossbow bolt that doesn't have a problem shooting through several people at all! Don't they know that they can't rush through? ”

"Because they don't know, they're all dead." Le Bao said lightly: "It's worthless to die...... Those guys who use the Horn people to consume the physical strength of our army, purely to send them to death......"

"Ahh Yang Wu muttered.

At the same time, on the tower of the West City Gate, General Wu Ji looked expressionlessly at the Karma slave soldiers in the western suburbs outside the city who were blocked outside the fire, and then turned his eyes to the main formation of the Karma Army in the distance, and looked at the place where the Karma Battle Flag was fluttering.

"I'm not going to stop there, Kakaku. …… Obviously lost twenty or thirty thousand slave soldiers, but he was indifferent. And I didn't seem surprised by this...... Strange, could it be that the people of the Horns have already learned about our army's repeating crossbows and fierce fire oil?'

Looking at the unexpectedly quiet cavalrymen outside the city, Wu Ji frowned. (To be continued.) )