The whole cottage was alive, and Zhu Yuanzhang ordered to take the initiative at this time and go down the mountain to fight a decisive battle with the officers and soldiers, which can be said to be extremely good at the timing.

First of all, the officers and soldiers attacked the mountain for several days in a row, and were smashed by the people on the mountain with rolling logs and stones, and the soldiers and people on the mountain had subsided a lot of fear when facing the officers and soldiers, and they used to think that the officers and soldiers of the imperial court were invincible at all, but now they already know that the officers and soldiers are also people, and they are also shoulders and heads, and if they are hit by stones, they will also burst into annoyance and die.

Again, the actions of the officers and soldiers to "kill and surrender" also made the people on the top of the mountain feel a sense of rabbit and fox sadness, they all felt that there was no way out, and they were instigated by Zhu Yuanzhang to burn down their household registration, and they had no way back.

This is the time when the army's heart is the most stable, and it is also the time when the army's heart is the most sorrowful. A leader of this rank like Zhu Yuanzhang will never let go of this opportunity, this is the best opportunity for a decisive battle with officers and soldiers, and if he misses it, he will never find it again.

Under Zhu Yuanzhang's order, the army began to reorganize, and there were originally 800 soldiers trained in the cottage, divided into eight brigades, each with 100 people, of which the first team and the second team were the oldest elites, and now they were led down the mountain by Wang Er and went around behind the officers and soldiers. There were still six brigades left, plus Zhu Yuanzhang's thirty-five henchmen guards.

The materials in the mountains were insufficient, and the six brigades were not well armed, each of them could only take a wooden spear, only a small number of human spears had iron spear tips, and most of the people's wooden spears were only sharpened wooden sticks, but this did not affect their determination to fight with the officers and soldiers.

Amid the gentle music played by the military band, the six brigades began to descend the mountain, and they lined up in a neat column and walked down the road in front of the mountain.

The officers and soldiers under the mountain soon discovered this action and immediately reported it to Yang Hong, who was thinking hard about a good strategy for attacking the mountain in the camp. As soon as he heard that the thieves took the initiative to go down the mountain, he was immediately overjoyed: "Great, these guys gave up the hard-to-attack cottage and took the initiative to come down the mountain. Don't attack when they are coming down the mountain, so as not to scare them back, let them come down the mountain and line up, and we will fight a serious battle with them, so that they know how powerful the officers and soldiers are. ”

Some officials may not understand, why didn't Yang Hong start fighting while half of the other party was going down the mountain? Wouldn't it be possible to kill the rogues while they were still in formation and only halfway down?

In fact, the so-called attack while the enemy army is half-crossing, most of them are used for defensive battles, and when the offensive has been adopted, it is very troublesome for the enemy to defend in a fortified city or a strong fortress. In order to prevent the enemy from retreating back to the fortified city, the attacker's generals will often condone the defender to go out of the city or down the mountain, and let the opponent set up a formation on the plains.

If you don't believe it, the officials can look at various examples of battles throughout the ages, the defender goes out of the city to set up formations, and the attacker never interferes, but is afraid that the other side will not come out.

The officers and soldiers received Yang Hong's order, retreated from the mountain pass, and retreated almost a mile, and then the officers and soldiers took the lead and began to line up, Yang Hong sat firmly in the formation, surrounded by his fifty family soldiers, then the military band, a bunch of flag soldiers and a hundred officers, nearly five hundred officers and soldiers lined up in front, of which three hundred people constituted the Chinese army, and there were one hundred people on the left and right wings.

After setting up the formation, Yang Hong smiled and watched the rogues go down the mountain, when he exterminated Zheng Yanfu last year, he also experienced almost the same scene, he set up a formation under the mountain, and then a group of rogues walked down the mountain, they were stupid and did not set up a formation, nor did they defend, they just shouted and screamed and rushed towards themselves, and then fell one by one under the spear array of officers and soldiers.

It's that easy to deal with a group of rogues! Yang Hong only felt that the whole person was a little upward, as if he had seen victory beckoning to him.

Although they were separated by a mile, the sharp-eyed scouts among the officers and soldiers could still see many details clearly, and from time to time some officers and soldiers with good eyesight smiled: "Look at the rogues on the other side, they have no armor on their bodies, and they are just wearing ordinary cloth clothes." ”

"It's normal to have no armor, when did you run into the other party's armor? But their weapons are too shabby. Another officer shouted.

"It's not a weapon at all, it's just a sharpened stick."

"Their rabble is even worse than last year's Zheng Yanfu and his gang."

"Yes, Zheng Yanfu and his gang still have maces and thick-backed knives...... Now these guys don't even have iron. ”

The ridicule of the officers and soldiers came one after another, in fact, when the army was marching and arranging, the soldiers were strictly forbidden to talk, but the military discipline at the end of the Ming Dynasty was corrupt, and Yang Hong's imperial majesty was not strict, and his army was so lazy.

However, after the officers and soldiers only laughed a few times, they began to laugh a little, and after the rogues came down the mountain, they did not stand in a mess like Zheng Yanfu and his group, but began to line up......

And this array is very lawful, row by row of spearmen in a horizontal and vertical queue, every hundred people form a small square, between every two squares, there will be a deliberately wide space, not long after, in front of the officers and soldiers placed six small squares, three of which form the Chinese army, corresponding to the three hundred officers and soldiers of the Chinese army array. There were two small squares on the side as the left and right wings, and one small square retreated to the end and did not join the formation.

Yang Hong, who has a little knowledge of military formations, knows that the last small square is called "reserve", if it is used in the words of later generations, it is called a reserve, and it is usually used for temporary emergency purposes, for example, when the 100-man team on the left wing is defeated by the enemy, this reserve can immediately replace the past and help the left wing re-stabilize the position.

This is an extremely neat military formation, and even the reserves are ready, which makes Yang Hong dumbfounded. He is also a military general with a bit of combat power in Xi'an Mansion, and it is not once or twice that he has suppressed bandits. This is simply ridiculous, and his current mood can be described as such an example.

Suppose you are a level member, good at programming, and can write some beautiful small programs such as sending and receiving emails. Then one day, you go to the kindergarten to play, and suddenly you find that there is a child in the kindergarten holding a notebook, programming, and programming no worse than you...... Do you say you're crazy or not?

Yang Hong rubbed his eyes to make sure that he was not mistaken, and the result was that he was really not mistaken, the military formation on the opposite side was just before the battle, which was not a joke.

"Hell yes!" Yang Hong cursed in a low voice: "What is the origin of this Zhu Ba? Why is there a military formation? ”

As soon as he finished scolding, he suddenly realized: "It must be a fugitive military household, maybe it is still a border army." ”

Military households, that is, those who have served in the army for generations and act as military errands. In ancient times, if a man's household registration book was written as a military household, it meant that he had to go to the army, and his children and grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren, all had to go to the army. Every time the state conscripts to deal with such and such an enemy, the military household must send a male to enlist in the army, what if you don't have a male in your family? The court doesn't care, anyway, you can go to the pit, cheat, steal, rob and adopt, and hand over a soldier to the court.

Isn't there a famous Mulan? Her family is a military household and wants to pay men, but her father is already a little bad, so Mulan pretended to be a man and joined the army! Of course, this is a beautiful talk, and from this beautiful talk, we can also see the disadvantages of the military household system, any person, even a woman with no combat effectiveness, will join the army when they say that they will join the army...... Can such an army have combat effectiveness?

It's far away again, and quickly pull it back, in the Ming Dynasty, the life of military households is very hard, and they often flee. Especially in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the flight of military households was very serious, and many soldiers fled to the people.

Here is an excerpt from a note written by Yang Sichang in the tenth year of Chongzhen: Wanli Jiwei (forty-seven years, 1619), Liaodong four roads marched into the army, and the three roads were defeated, so the soldiers of Juniper, Wang Xuan, and Zhao Menglin fled westward. At that time, Henan Fuchen Zhang I continued and Daochen Wang Jing invited him to attack Mengjin, beheaded more than 20 levels, and flew to the news. So he did not enter Tongguan, but went to Shanxi and Yansui, and did not dare to return to the army and fall into the grass.

This passage is translated, that is, in 1619, many soldiers who came to aid Liao fled, they fled to Henan, but they were caught by the local magistrate and beheaded, and other soldiers did not dare to take the road of Henan, so they ran through the mountains and west into Shaanxi, and did not dare to return to the army.

There is also a piece of historical data that can be used to corroborate, which is the description of Dai Li and Wu Zhen: Shaanxi soldiers in Wanli have not gone out of the four routes, and after the defeat, they returned to the west, and the governor of Henan, Zhang I, continued to intercept Mengjin and cut more than 30 ranks. The rest did not dare to return, in order to rob the border of Shanxi * West and Shaanxi * West. After that, reinforcements were transferred frequently, and the escape was repeated one after another, and the border soldiers became thieves.

In fact, we can also find an interesting phenomenon from these two historical materials, the former one said that he had cut more than 20 levels, and the latter said that he had cut more than 30 levels...... Very joyful! The author would like to remind readers here that history books cannot be trusted, and there are many untruths in them.

Yang Hong guessed Zhu Ba as a deserter, thinking that he had guessed correctly, but he was not so surprised in his heart, this Baishui Zhu Ba is very likely to be a fugitive military household, and he knows how to set up military formations, so it is not unusual. However, knowing how to set up a formation and knowing how to use a military formation are two completely different things.

Yang Hong didn't think that he was at the level of commanding the military formation, and he couldn't even catch up with a deserter.

The two sides didn't have anything to say, Yang Hong didn't bother to come out and talk nonsense before the dot array, he waved the flag slightly, and the military band behind him immediately turned the gongs and drums into play, and the military formation of officers and soldiers began to move forward slowly.

Zhu Yuanzhang on the opposite side also smiled slightly, unfurled his order flag, and the military command team around him also played gongs and drums, and the soldiers began to move slowly in the sound of drums.

The two armies were separated by a mile and began to squeeze into the middle, both sides walked extremely slowly, and it was said many times before that it was not advisable for the two armies to fight each other and rush over like a flight, and if the soldiers ran for a mile, their physical strength would be exhausted and they would not be able to fight. Therefore, when the army greets each other, they all walk very slowly, and the slower the better, the slower and more stable.

But this slowness also has a negative effect, that is, it causes great oppression to the psychology of the soldiers, especially the soldiers walking in the front row, they see the enemy array slowly pressing on the opposite side, and they inevitably have a sense of fear in their hearts.

The rogues are afraid, they are still afraid of the officers and soldiers!

The officers and soldiers are also afraid, although they are experienced veterans, but they are usually bullied by officers, and they are often deducted from military salaries by the imperial court, so they do not have the consciousness of working hard for the imperial court, and it is not worth dying for such a court! It's better not to die or not to die.

Both sides were afraid, and the army slowly approached with trembling formations......