The first day of the offensive was declared a failure after two waves of attacks, leaving forty or fifty corpses on the mountain road. This is a very serious loss for a total of more than 500 officers and men, which is almost 10 percent of the battle loss rate, but in the era of cold-weapon warfare, reaching a 10 percent battle loss rate is a very serious loss, which is enough to shake the morale of the army.

Some friends who don't know much about war may think that the battle loss rate of Yicheng is nothing, because in those war movies and TV series, the righteous side has fought to the last soldier, and they have to hold a gunpowder bag and die together with the enemies who surround them! What is the number of people who have lost 10 percent?

Such a view is actually poisoned by war movies!

You must know that people's hearts are not cast of iron, when the real war starts, the sword mountain is in flames, people roar and neigh, every minute someone falls beside you, blood is flying, stumps and arms are broken, and people's heads are rolling around, in such an environment, you see your comrades-in-arms falling one after another, can you not be afraid in your heart?

If it is a tailwind battle, and the fallen are all enemies, then everyone's confidence will rise and morale will be like a rainbow, if it is a headwind battle, and the fallen are comrades-in-arms, then ...... Everyone will think in their hearts: if I fight hard, I will fall.

In the era of cold weapons, because the ideological quality of soldiers is generally not high, the level of education is not high, the orders of the boss can not be completely obeyed, and the general lack of a sense of honor, once you see the comrades around you keep falling, it is necessary to retreat, and one percent of the battle damage is usually the critical point, once an army has one percent of the soldiers fall, the other nine achievements will be stagnant.

Yang Hong saw that the two waves of attacks had failed, and the battle damage had reached 10%, and he also knew that he could not attack again, so he had to order the troops to be withdrawn, and let the officers and soldiers retreat from the mountain road and return to the camp. However, he was not discouraged, there were still nearly five hundred remaining soldiers, especially his most elite fifty soldiers, as long as he could catch the pigtails of the rogues, he was still confident of victory! What he needs to do now is to let the soldiers rest well, restore their morale, and continue to attack the mountain tomorrow!

That night, Yang Hong sent a team to pick up the corpses of soldiers who were stoned to death on the mountain road, and carried these corpses down to bury, the sentinels on the mountain saw it, but did not interfere, and let the officers and soldiers carry the corpses back.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was looking at Li Chujiu's grain account book in the cave, which recorded the distribution of grain in the cottage, and desperately San Lang was watching with him next to him, when the sentry sent the news that the officers and soldiers sent people to pick up the corpses, Zhu Yuanzhang smiled dumbly and said: "The sentinels are fooled!" ”

"Huh?" Desperately San Langqi said: "What's wrong with picking up a corpse?" ”

"When can't you pick up a corpse? During the day, they lost, and when they turned around, they sent a team to pick up the corpses, and we wouldn't stop them, why did they have to choose the third watch in the middle of the night, when the lights were blind? Zhu Yuanzhang asked with a smile.

"This ...... I don't understand. ”

"Ha, they are taking advantage of the cover of the night, while picking up corpses, while cleaning up the rocks and rolling logs on the mountain road, I bet with you, let's go over and light the torch now, you can see that the mountain road has been cleared, so that the officers and soldiers can continue to attack the mountain tomorrow." Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile.

"What?" Desperately Saburo was furious: "And this kind of trick? It is simply unreasonable to take advantage of even his own dead brother. It's disgusting to do this by giving them the opportunity to collect the corpses! ”

"No, it's nothing hateful! The so-called soldiers are not tired of deceit...... This is a very common method of employing troops. Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said: "Yang Hong deceived us that the cottage is a group of rogues, and he doesn't understand these tricks used by officers and soldiers, so he dares to use such a strategy." If you want to change to an experienced sentry, you will not let them pick it up, but throw a few stones down. ”

"Brother Zhu, where did you learn all this strange knowledge?" Desperate San Lang is really convinced: "When I was wandering around last year, I saw Brother Jiayin, the king of Fugu, he used to be a border army, so he also knows how to march and fight, when I saw his cottage, I was almost shocked, but I have been with you for a long time, and I feel that you know more than he knows." ”

Fugu Wang Jiayin, that was the early leader of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, what Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Wang Ziyong, were Wang Jiayin's subordinates in their early years.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said nothing, Wang Jiayin may be a powerful leader of the rebel army in the eyes of others, but in his eyes, it is just a small role, and he doesn't have to take it to heart at all.

Desperately Saburo said again: "Since the officers and soldiers have cleared the mountain road, we can't be idle, I will quickly bring some people to go and put the stones on the ......."

"Not necessarily!" Zhu Yuanzhang stopped: "If we build stones, the officers and soldiers will not attack the mountain, let them attack, if they don't attack, where will we have a chance to smash it?" It is very dangerous for us to let the officers and men maintain nearly 500 troops, and it is better to reduce the number of troops as much as possible. ”

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Sure enough, as Zhu Yuanzhang expected, the next morning, when the sky was bright, the soldiers in the cottage were surprised to find that yesterday they had smashed down a lot of rocks and rolling logs, and the mountain road that had become difficult to walk on had become refreshing today, and all the stones that blocked the road were removed by the officers and soldiers......

Last night, it was clear that only a small group of officers and soldiers were moving the corpses on the mountain road, how did they move and even the stones were removed in the end?

The sentries beat their chests and shouted, these rogues used to be ordinary villagers, and they really didn't understand that the officers and soldiers had such little tricks.

A group of soldiers couldn't help but laugh at the sentry, "How did you become a sentry? If the officers and soldiers had come up to the mountain last night and cut off our heads, you sentries wouldn't have known, would you? Ha ha! ”

"Talent...... Not really! The sentries blushed and explained, "They are few and they are carrying corpses, so we didn't call the police, and if they really wanted to touch the mountain, they would definitely not be able to escape our eyes." ”

"Blow it! I can't let you stand guard tonight, come by yourself! ”

Everyone's questioning made the sentinels very embarrassed, and several young sentinels were so aggrieved that they wanted to cry, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at all this with a smile, but he didn't go out to stop it. As the saying goes, shame comes courage, and after the sentinels have experienced such things, it will help them grow! In the future, when they are on guard, they will be more careful and more mature.

Not long after dawn, the officers and soldiers began to prepare for the attack again!

After a night's rest, perhaps Yang Hong has re-opened a higher reward, and the morale of the officers and soldiers seems to have returned to yesterday's level, and a large group of officers and soldiers are gearing up and beginning to eyeing the cottage again.

Soon, they began to assemble their formations again, a large number of iron shields were pushed forward, and the officers and soldiers once again stepped on the mountain road. The officers and men who were smashed by stones yesterday and cried for their fathers and mothers actually dared to walk on the mountain road today, which made the soldiers and people on the mountain unable to help but look at the officers and men with admiration.

The righteous Ming Dynasty, although farming for three hundred years, planted millions of male divisions into farmers, although due to the problem of military salaries, caused a large number of officers and soldiers to flee, although due to natural disasters [***], strong enemies took advantage of the weakness, and finally collapsed, but the army of the Ming Dynasty has a backbone after all!

Even Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but nodded, and sighed in his heart: Yang Hong is a good person! In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, generals like him who dared to face strong enemies again and again were quite rare. If you give this Yang Hong a decent army, instead of the group of shrimp soldiers he has now, maybe he can also become a strongman in his own right.

Zhu Yuanzhang is the person who believes in this sentence the most, he has always believed that as long as there is that amount of equipment, he can get the opportunity, there are many small people who can soar into the sky, such as himself, from a cattle herding baby to the emperor. For example, Xu Da has changed from a cattle herding baby to a super commander, and Chang Yuchun, from a reckless man to a monster of the three armies. There are many people, it's not that they don't have that strength, they just lack that opportunity.

Sighing and sighing, Zhu Yuanzhang was still merciless in dealing with Yang Honglai, his hand waved down the mountain, the military band played music, and the soldiers immediately picked up the stones at their feet and smashed them down at the officers and soldiers attacking the mountain.

Then there was another burst of people turning over on their backs, the stones were like rain, and the rolling wood and stones in the cottage were very well stocked, and there was no need to spare their hands when they smashed them, just pick up the stones and throw them down, and the offensive of the officers and soldiers was once again frustrated......

", don't be afraid! I don't believe that these rogues can really have so many supplies, rush me! Yang Hong shouted hoarsely at the foot of the mountain, but unfortunately this voice could not travel far before it was muffled by a large number of exclamations and shouts.

After leaving behind a dozen corpses, the officers and soldiers retreated down the hill again.

Then, just like yesterday, after a period of rest for the officers and men who had retreated, Yang Hong jumped out again and made all kinds of promises and gave all kinds of benefits, and the officers and soldiers once again mustered up their courage and came to attack the mountain again......

And then......

Under a burst of stones, he retreated again.

Looking at the unbreakable bandit cottage in front of him, Yang Hong's brows couldn't help but wrinkle deeply. This gang of bandits is really unexpected, why are there so many rolling logs and stones? It's not like a gang of bandits guarding a cottage, it's more like a regular army guarding a fortress! He had only seen bandits who liked to pile up gold and silver treasures in the cottages, but he had never seen stones and logs piled up.

can lead a group of ordinary rogues to do this step, that Baishui Zhuba on the mountain is definitely not easy to match!

It seems that a hard attack will not work, and you have to attack the heart!

Yang Hong sighed, and began to use the strategy of attacking the heart when the army had not yet taken advantage, which was not what he expected, because the more you beat the bandits, the easier it is to attack the heart. But now he hasn't taken advantage of the slightest advantage, so he uses a heart-attacking strategy, and the effect has to be discounted.