105. Engage the enemy

No one wants to die! If they could live, who wouldn't?

Since ancient times, all peasant uprisings have been because the poor people could no longer survive, and in order to survive, they were forced to take up arms and rebel, without exception!

In order to survive, human beings dare to face thousands of times more enemies, dare to call out to the huge state machine, dare to challenge any natural disasters and [***], overcome thorns and thorns, trek through mountains and rivers, and break through all obstacles. In the pursuit of the three words "live", Confucius will also become a brave man.

There is a saying: "Life is precious, love is more valuable, if it is for freedom, both can be thrown away".

Actually, this sentence is funny! The person who says this may not actually do it. People who agree with this sentence from the bottom of their hearts, at most only one out of a thousand people, and the other ninety-nine will turn this sentence upside down, put freedom at the lowest level, sacrifice their freedom for love, go into the cage of marriage, and find a woman or man to control themselves; For the sake of life, you can abandon love and freedom.

Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't need to use any promotions to make a fortune, reward silver and food and clothing to motivate his army, he only needs to ask him, do you want to live or die, that's enough!

This question made more than 200 henchmen under him, and even the 1,000 villagers behind him, suddenly wake up and realize in their hearts: Yes, we have no way out...... When we rise up and rebel, we have chosen a path with no way out, and if we lose, we will die! There's no room for turnaround.

The spears in the hands of more than two hundred henchmen were held tighter, and the green tendons on the backs of the soldiers' hands bulged out, obviously very hard, their expressions became solemn, and their eyes became sharp. The people who were standing behind the field also clenched their fists, and several of them squatted on the ground boldly, and when they stood up again, they grabbed two large stones in their hands......

Very good! Now that the will to fight is there, the next ...... What is needed is a clean victory to give them more confidence and courage. Zhu Yuanzhang secretly called luck in his heart, because for the first time his army really met the enemy, the enemy it encountered was not regular officers and soldiers, but the village warrior team organized by the gentry.

Although the more than 200 soldiers under his command have undergone more than half a year of training, they still do not necessarily have an advantage over the officers and men. First, the officers and men have been trained for a longer period of time, and they have experienced battles before, so their psychological quality is stronger. Second, there is also a gap in equipment, officers and soldiers have armor, although it is cotton armor, but it is also a soldier in armor, but these soldiers under him have no armor, and armor and armor are two completely different concepts. And the weapons of the officers and men were a little better, at least the spear had an iron tip in front of it, and the two hundred men under his command were only sharpened sticks.

If you run into officers and soldiers in the first battle, most of them will be defeated, and even if they can win, it will be a disastrous victory. Fortunately, the first battle was a Xiangyong team, and the opponent was also unarmoured, with chaotic weapons and untrained ordinary people.

Zhu Yuanzhang took a small waist drum from Ma Xiaotian's hand, which was the instrument he used to command the battle. He didn't have a serious military band, because it was impossible for private soldiers to make gongs and drums, so most of the time, he let the soldiers shout "hey, hey, hey" to control the rhythm of the formation, and occasionally when he wanted to give orders, he used a small waist drum.

The beating of this drum is very particular, and a long beat indicates a team of 100 people. A long knock is followed by a short knock to indicate the first group in a team. Through this combination of long and short beatings, he can keep every team on the battlefield under his control.

"Brother Zhu, you must hold on." Chongguang Dao took a mouthful of blood and shouted, "If you lose, we will all be finished." ”

"Don't worry, Brother Seed Light Dao, you can watch it." Zhu Yuanzhang's calm and comfortable attitude calmed down in Chongguangdao's heart.

At this time, the village warriors, who were tall soldiers, took the lead in the attack. They only defeated the rabble of the Light Dao, so they were not too afraid in the face of Zhu Yuanzhang's troops, thinking that this army was not much different from the Light Dao. There was still a mile away, and the villagers began to charge, making the same mistake that Zheng Yanfu's rebels had made back then.

Running a mile with a weapon, where is the strength to fight after running? Although this principle is simple, it is easy for the village warriors who have not undergone training to make this mistake. Because human beings are easy to get into the brain, they get excited when they experience a battle, and when they start a war, they like to use running, and they can't feel the momentum when they walk. Don't say that the people's wisdom has not been opened in the last era, even in modern times, the gangsters are fighting by the river, they are a mile away, and they are shouting and rushing with watermelon knives and machetes.

The villagers rushed to this point, and Zhu Yuanzhang's subordinates gasped together, and they who had never been on the battlefield were a little timid in their hearts. This is a very normal phenomenon, and it would be strange if there was no such cowardice.

"Don't be afraid! Steady! Zhu Yuanzhang shouted while tapping the small waist drum on his waist and ordered everyone to stand still. At this time, no one could hear the shouting, and the hundreds of township warriors on the opposite side let out a huge shout, and the 1,000 people who were stationed behind Zhu Yuanzhang also began to let out some exclamations such as "coaxing", "ah", and "whoa".

All kinds of noises filled the battlefield, making the two people standing together talk, and the other party might not be able to hear clearly, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that the township warriors on the opposite side had lost their command system. Obviously, it is impossible for Xiang Yong to be trained to listen to the conductor of a military band, and he certainly has not been trained to read the "flag order", and the conductor can only use words, but ...... When the battle formation is combined, the language loses its effect, so the village warrior team will inevitably lose its command and become an army of chaotic war.

But Zhu Yuanzhang relied on the small waist drum in his hand, but he could easily use the drum sound to easily pass through the noise of the battlefield and convey the order to the ears of every soldier.

"Knock...... Boom...... Knock ......" The slow drum sound means that the soldiers are not moving, the soldiers looked at the Xiang Yong who rushed from a distance, sweat oozed from the tip of their noses, the enemy has already begun to charge, why does Zhu Bugling still let us hold our troops? They had doubts in their hearts, but because of their trust and respect for Zhu Bugs, they still adhered to Zhu Yuanzhang's orders and did not move.

The two armies are getting closer and closer, and the Xiangyong team has entered a distance of a hundred paces, if there are archers in the army, Zhu Yuanzhang will order the arrows to be released, but ...... There were no archers in either army, and Zhu Yuanzhang continued to maintain the drumbeat of his troops.

Chong Guangdao beside him was a little scared: "Brother Zhu, will you fight?" Why are you still standing? Waiting for someone to kill? ”

"Shut up!" Zhu Yuanzhang snorted.

At this time, the Xiangyong team had already entered the distance of fifty steps, a smile flashed at the corner of Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth, and the waist drum in his hand slammed into ......

When more than 200 soldiers heard this drum sound, their spirits were immediately lifted, and they had been waiting for this order for a long time, and their suppressed enthusiasm burst out the moment they heard this drum sound.

"Raise your spear! Advance! The squad leaders and squad leaders began to shout loudly, but in fact, their shouts were also drowned out in a cacophony, and the soldiers could not hear them at all, they just followed the instructions of the drums, raised their spears in their hands, and began to move forward.

Then, the rapid drum beat fluttered from Zhu Yuanzhang's small waist drum, and it conveyed a message to all the soldiers...... Rush!

Rush!

Come on!

"Shout the trumpet, keep your steps in a hurry!"

"Pay attention to the formation!"

"Hey-ha, hey-ha!"

The soldiers adjusted their paces in a neat hey, kept the entire formation neat, and began to move forward.

After more than a year of training, it was not given in vain, and the spear phalanx composed of more than 200 people was not chaotic at all.

The soldiers rushed forward, the township warrior team was already close in front of them, the soldiers in the first battle were still very nervous in their hearts, many of them were sweating, they were frightened by the tension of the battlefield, they didn't have time to think about anything else, reflexively, put the spear in their hands, according to the method that Zhu Baba had taught them, and stabbed forward...... He didn't have a lot of guts, and he even closed his eyes after poking out the spear.

"Ahh

"Ugh!"

"Ouch!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's subordinates stabbed the spear with their eyes closed, feeling that the spear in their hand seemed to have stabbed something, but they didn't feel that a knife or gun was stabbed on their body, and when they opened their eyes in surprise, they found that the enemy had been pierced by their own spears, but the knives and hoes in their hands fell to the ground weakly.

This is the inevitable result of the stragglers fighting against the military formation, and the military formation full of spears is not just a random countryman, and he can rush to win with any swords, knives and guns. Rushing into the military formation without organization and unplanned, the result is that they are picked on the tip of the spear, without exception!

"Wow, what Bugling Zhu said really works!"

"I wasn't hurt, but I killed the other party!"

"Haha, our brothers are almost unscathed!"

"I can win! We can win! ”

"I feel like it's okay to fight several times as many enemies!"

The cheers erupted from the military formation in an instant, and the morale soared, and the soldiers' belief in Zhu Yuanzhang immediately rose another step.

Standing beside Zhu Yuanzhang, Chongguang Dao looked stupid...... Although he didn't have much knowledge, he received the enemy cleanly this time, and instantly put down a large number of Xiangyong, and he could still understand it. These Xiangyong beat him all over the ground not long ago, he knew the strength of the Xiangyong team, but he didn't expect to meet Zhu Yuanzhang's subordinates, just a face, and he was beaten like this......

The first wave of Xiangyong fell, and the Xiangyong behind were startled, why did they catch the enemy and the front one fell? They polished their eyes and took a closer look, obedient to my mother, the enemy's spear array was full of the corpses of their comrades...... Some people were throwing the corpses off the tips of their spears, and the blood-red spears looked extremely hideous.