Yang Hong is coming!

This news is really a few happy and a few worried, Zhang Yingxian is the one who is happy, and Saburo is the one who is worried.

For Zhang Yingxian, this person is a savior. For the desperate Saburo, he is a disaster star!

Desperate Saburo still clearly remembers that more than a year ago, his name was Zheng Yanfu, and at the foot of the Dongzi Cliff, hundreds of his subordinates with the same number of officers and soldiers lined up in battle formations to confront Yang Hong, but they were easily and effortlessly broken. Later, he used a strategy to attack the heart, lightly took the cottage, and slaughtered all the hundreds of brothers.

No one knows better than the desperate Saburo the horror of officers and soldiers! It is not a rogue, it is not a village warrior, it is a regular army of the imperial court, with strong combat effectiveness. They looked weak, ragged, and disheveled, but they could easily break through the rogue and village warrior armies several times their size, and even without too many casualties.

This is an almost impossible opponent to defeat!

"Brother Zhu, what should we do?" Desperate Saburo couldn't help but get anxious: "Let's escape!" ”

"Can't escape!" Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head: "Our grain is all here, and it is not easy to carry so much grain." And the brothers finally settled down at home, and if they changed places, the hard work of the first few months would be in vain. ”

"But...... Originally...... When the officers and soldiers dealt with me, didn't you persuade me to flee? ”

"Hahaha, this time, that time." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "My cottage is the same as yours, can it be the same?" I advised you to flee because I felt that you could not defeat the officers and soldiers, but there was no need for me to flee because I had no reason to lose to the officers and soldiers. ”

"This ......" desperately Saburo was a little unconvinced.

"Let's go, come with me to the training ground on the top of the mountain!" Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand, and walked out with the desperate San Lang and Ma Xiaotian, the three of them walked a few steps, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly felt that someone was dragging his arm, followed closely, and when he looked back, it turned out to be Zhang Yingxian.

I heard that a few men were going out, Zhang Yingxian was also anxious, she wanted to know what their plans were, because it was related to whether she, a little woman, could get out of her life, so she also wanted to go to the training ground on the top of the mountain to have a look, but the footcloth had not been removed for a long time, the calf had not yet recovered into natural feet, and it was still a little difficult to walk, so how difficult was it to keep up with the steps of a few men? She had no choice but to care about her face, stretched out her hand and grabbed Zhu Yuanzhang's arm, and helped him walk forward!

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at her deeply, her careful thinking did not escape Zhu Yuanzhang's sharp eyes, but he didn't care, she wanted to escape, this is normal, if you don't want to escape, it's really weird. Anyway, she is just a weak female streamer, and Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't think she can do anything, so it's okay to leave it alone.

The four of them arrived at the top of the mountain together, the cold mountain wind was blowing, and the eight hundred soldiers were training in the military formation under the leadership of Wang Er, and the eight hundred people were divided into eight brigades, which were numbered as the first team, the second team, the third team, and the fourth team...... Each team is divided into 10 groups of 10 people.

On the edge of the training ground, there are fifteen middle-aged men, holding gongs and drums and other musical instruments, forming a military band, these men used to be well-known musicians in the countryside, and occasionally appeared in the funeral and family procession, the kind of gongs and drums, after coming to the cottage, they were selected by Zhu Yuanzhang and turned into a military band.

You must know that with the continuous expansion of the scale of the cottage and the increase in the number of the army, it is impossible to continue to rely on Zhu Yuanzhang to play the waist drum to command, and it is imperative to compile a military band. And...... When the number of people in the team exceeds 1,000, every 1,000 people have to be accompanied by a military band.

The soldiers have been training for several months, and compared to last winter, they have improved a lot, at least they will no longer be crowded around, they already know how to follow orders to move forward and backward, and it is not a problem to rotate left and right, and they can also carry out simple formations, and many tactical formations can be carried out without enemy interference.

Their weapons were also unified, and each of them carried a wooden spear of exactly the same length in his hand.

After entering the mountain, Zhu Yuanzhang specially made uniform wooden spears for them, which were made of the best wood in the mountains. As for the tip of the spear, this is a little more difficult, when they defeated the Xiang Yong Army, they snatched a lot of weapons such as Pu knives from the Xiang Yong Army, burned them, and remade them into more iron-saving spear tips.

At this stage, it is unrealistic to mine iron ore by himself, Zhu Yuanzhang must make reasonable use of the resources at hand, iron is not enough, so he melted a lot of plowshares, hoes and other agricultural tools, and even used up a few iron pots, so that the army of 800 people was equipped with spears with iron spear tips. This has affected the lives of the villagers in the cottage to a certain extent, but fortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang's reputation is relatively high, and the villagers obey him, and the requisition of a few plowshares and iron pots has not been hindered by the eldest lady.

Zhu Yuanzhang walked to the edge of the training ground and stopped, and said to the desperate Saburo: "You must be thinking that the training time of this army is too short, and it can't compare to the officers and soldiers." ”

"Hmm!" Desperate Saburo nodded.

"So do you know how much training the officers and soldiers have undergone?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked with a smile.

"I don't know!"

"I know!" Zhu Yuanzhang was very serious and said very seriously: "My guards in the Ming Dynasty, every year, only two months are used for training, and the other ten months are used for farming. ”

"It's only been two months?" Desperately Dalang was shocked.

"That's still an optimistic estimate." Zhu Yuanzhang sighed: "In fact, the training of many soldiers has been less than two months, they are eight into agriculture and two into soldiers, and only two percent of the time in a year is used for training, but because of the military system, in fact, it is already nine into agriculture and one into soldiers." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to the soldiers in the training ground and said with a smile: "How long have our soldiers been training?" ”

Desperately Saburo pinched his fingers and calculated: "We have been practicing for almost four months since we entered the mountain last winter, and now it is the end of spring, and as for the more than 200 soldiers you brought out first, they have been practicing for more than a year. ”

"That's right!" Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "According to this calculation, our worst soldiers are equivalent to soldiers who have trained for two years, and the more than 200 soldiers in the core are equivalent to veterans who have been trained for six or seven years." Moreover, we must know that training troops is like training boxing, and if we do not train our hands for three months, officers and men will only practice for two months after resting for 10 months, and the results of the training will not be consolidated, so four months of military training can be worth four years of training for officers and men. ”

"I see!" Desperate Saburo suddenly said: "In other words, our soldiers are no worse than officers and soldiers." ”

"No...... Something is missing! Zhu Yuanzhang sighed: "Poor battlefield experience, but also poor confidence!" From the bottom of their hearts, they still think that they are anti-thieves, and they don't have the confidence to fight......"

"And what about this?" Desperate Saburo asked.

"Use the momentum of fighting against the odds and dying if you don't win to offset the difference in confidence." Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously: "Although the officers and soldiers occupy the righteousness, they will not die if they lose, and they can live a good life when they return to Xi'an, but our soldiers can't afford to lose, they only need to lose a battle, and they will end up in a different place, about this...... I hope you can figure it out. ”

"Me?" Desperately Saburo was puzzled.

"Well, that's you!" Zhu Yuanzhang whispered in his ear: "From tonight, you go to the soldiers and tell the soldiers about the process of the destruction of your cottage, of course, you don't need to say that you are Zheng Yanfu, just say that you are Zheng Yanfu's subordinates. Remember, don't say how powerful the officers and soldiers are, just say how cruel the officers and soldiers are, don't frown when they kill people, and add fuel to the fact that the officers and soldiers attacked Zhao Yu's camp at night and killed all the villagers who surrendered, the more exaggerated the better. ”

"I see!" Desperate Saburo is not stupid, you will understand this as soon as you hear this, this is to give the soldiers a blow in advance, tell them that it is not possible to surrender, and it is not possible to defeat the battle, if you fight with the officers and soldiers, you must win the battle, and if you lose, you will never recover.

Zhu Yuanzhang patted him lightly on the shoulder and said seriously: "If you recognize your heart, we will definitely win!" There are three reasons for this. ”

Desperate Saburo's confidence increased greatly, and he asked, "Which three points?" ”

"The first point is that the officers and soldiers are not familiar with the terrain, and it will take a month to find us just after entering Huanglong Mountain, and we will be tossed half to death by the terrain when we start a battle."

"Reasonable!"

"The second point is that it is impossible for a thousand officers and soldiers to reach 1,000 troops, in fact, at most 500, and we have an advantage in troops."

"Well, that's right, Yang Hong did only bring five hundred soldiers last time."

"The third point, and the most important one, is also the most important one." Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly smiled calmly, and he said in a deep, confident, and persuasive voice: "The commander on our side is me!" ”

What a "it's me"! Sonorous and powerful, full of confidence, desperately Saburo heard this, and I don't know why I felt that there was no trace of doubt at all, because when Zhu Baba said this, his expression was so natural, his tone was so calm, and his whole body did not tremble at all, as if he was talking about something very ordinary, very ordinary, and very natural.

His confident attitude also infected Desperate Saburo, which made his heart settle down a lot. He couldn't help but recall the bits and pieces that had happened since he met Zhu Ba, the man in front of him had never made a wrong judgment, and every word he said was in one sentence. Everything he did, he handed in the perfect answer.

"I believe you, Bugling Zhu!" Desperate Saburo couldn't help but respond.

Ma Xiaotian next to him couldn't help but show admiration in his eyes.

Of course, there is one exception, Zhang Yingxian couldn't help but think next to him: Blow, you just blow hard! No matter what you have three heads and six arms, you can't beat the officers and soldiers, and when General Yang Hong enters the mountains, I can regain my freedom......