The officers and men under the mountain will definitely have to rest well today, drive away the fatigue of the long trek in the mountains, and then launch the offensive the next day. And Zhu Yuanzhang also decided to let the soldiers rest well, recuperate, and defend first. Although this will give the officers and men a chance to breathe, Zhu Yuanzhang knows that the officers and men are still at a disadvantage in terms of physical strength.

They have walked in the rugged mountains and forests for more than half a month, and they have been nervously beware of traps and hidden arrows, and the fatigue of both mental and ** is not something that can be recovered after a day or two of rest. On his own side, only thirty-five soldiers were as tired as the officers and soldiers, but the other soldiers had been waiting for a long time, following the desperate Saburo to practice using rolling logs and stones, the physical exertion was not large, and they were fully prepared for defense, no matter how they looked at it, they were all taking advantage of themselves.

In this case, as long as you don't make mistakes, don't take the initiative, and don't do stupid things to find a defeated battle, you can be invincible.

Although Wang Er still wanted to attack, he had always obeyed Zhu Buggy, and since he said that he would defend first, Wang Er had no opinion. He laughed twice and said with a smile: "Then I'll go back to take a bath and sleep...... I haven't taken a shower for more than half a month, and I stink like this...... Hahaha...... Brother Zhu, go back and rest, you're tired enough. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, waved his hand and let Wang Er go, but he was still not in a hurry to go back, dragged his tired body, took a big turn in the cottage, carefully checked every defense point, and all the armaments and materials, such as rolling wood, stones, bows and arrows, were inspected, and they must be done in great detail.

In the previous life, Zhu Yuanzhang was a person who had to do everything, and he had to deal with countless political affairs every day, big and small, and he had to manage all the details, so he was nicknamed "Model Worker Zhu Yuanzhang" by later generations, and in this life, although Wang Er, Desperate Sanlang, Li Chujiu and others around him were very loyal to him, but their ability was not enough, and he couldn't completely rest assured that he would hand things over to these people, so he had to be more pro-person.

And his attitude of being hands-on in everything feels extremely reliable in the eyes of his subordinates. You must know that young people are easy to make a mistake, that is, they are too ambitious, and they do not do small things, and it is difficult to achieve big things. Once young people are in high positions, they like to leave chores to others to do, and then because of their lack of experience, they are blinded by the people below.

For example, the young people in later generations always fantasize about making a lot of money in business, but when they really give them a sum of money to do business, they are often lazy to take care of it, and leave all kinds of things to the employees they hire to take full responsibility, and the result is that the business is getting worse and worse, and finally close down at a loss.

A diligent manager can often drive a whole team, Zhu Yuanzhang's conscientiousness and responsibility have brought huge positive energy to the cottage, even if the soldiers have prepared sufficient supplies, but when they saw the leader come to ask in person, they couldn't help but go to the cliff behind to pick up some stones to pile up in front of the mountain.

Everyone was full of energy, and a young man smiled at Zhu Yuanzhang: "Brother Zhu, don't worry, we will definitely defend the cottage, you said that if you lose this battle, you have to die, and all the men, women and children in the cottage will die, we don't want to die here!" Even if we die, the daughter-in-law we just married can't die, she already has my son in her belly, and we have to keep the cottage whatever we say. ”

"Just blow it!" The companion next to him laughed: "Your daughter-in-law has only been through the door for three days, and you know that she has your son?" Fools. ”

"Lao Tzu worked hard for three nights, and I said that she was pregnant, so she must be pregnant."

"You want your son to be crazy, right?"

"Haha!"

The soldiers are generally optimistic, but Zhu Yuanzhang can still hear a trace of unconfidence and fear from their laughter, and being an enemy of officers and soldiers is too difficult for ordinary people! Psychologically, this hurdle is very difficult to get by. This problem cannot be remedied by words or materials, and only if they have personally experienced a beautiful victory, will they dispel their fear of officers and soldiers.

After inspecting every corner of the cottage, Zhu Yuanzhang was still quite satisfied with the preparation of defense materials, and he couldn't help but think in his heart: After all, Desperate San Lang is a person who has died once, and he has learned to do things safely, and it seems that in the future, the defense matter can be safely handed over to him.

At this time, it was getting late, and a round of red in the west was slowly falling behind the mountain, Zhu Yuanzhang dragged his extremely tired body at this time, slowly walked towards his cave, and walked into the cave, Zhang Yingxian had already put down the grass curtain in the middle of the house, and the inside of the house was not lit, and it was dark.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, searched for a change of clothes in the dark in the house, and planned to go to the stream on the side of the mountain to take a bath. In the past, when he was a housekeeper in the Ma family, he could ask Akiba to carry a wooden bucket full of water to the house for him to bathe, but materials were scarce in the mountains, and there was no wooden barrel that could be used for bathing, so he could only go to the mountain stream to wash.

Just when he was looking for clothes in the dark, in the other half of the cave, Zhang Yingxian was lying on the bed nervously, holding Qiuye's arm tightly with both hands, and she didn't dare to breathe heavily, but Xin Zhuba walked to the cave on her side.

Zhang Yingxian is obviously used to the life of the cave with Zhu Ba, and rarely asks Qiu Ye to come over and live together, why is she suddenly nervous again? It turned out that it was influenced by the people in the cottage who were anxious to marry their relatives and daughters, since the news that the officers and soldiers were coming, the young men and women in the cottage were in a hurry to get married, and the men wanted to leave some blood for themselves before the war came, under this premise, Zhang Yingxian began to feel insecure again.

Zhu Ba is also a twenty-year-old young man, he is not married, he has no children, will he also want to leave his blood before the war comes? Zhang Yingxian couldn't help but think like this, the more she thought about it, the more afraid she became! So I called Autumn Leaves over to sleep with me again, and the heart that had been put down a long time ago rose to my throat again.

I only heard the slight sound of Zhu Ba rummaging for something on the other side of the grass curtain, and after a while, the sound stopped, he seemed to have found what he was looking for, and the footsteps went out of the cave again.

"He's gone? Call! Zhang Yingxian breathed a sigh of relief: "Autumn leaves, you go over and see what he was looking for just now, I'm afraid ......"

Qiu Ye obediently got up from Zhang Yingxian's bed, lifted the straw curtain and walked to Zhu Yuanzhang's side, and came back after a long time, and whispered to Zhang Yingxian: "He took a change of clothes!" I think...... Zhu Bugs went to take a bath. ”

"Take a bath?" Zhang Yingxian was shocked: "Why did he take a bath?" This...... Are you coming to me......"

"Miss, don't think nonsense...... Qiu Ye hurriedly comforted: "He has been working hard outside for more than half a month, playing hide and seek with the officers and soldiers, his body must be dirty, and it is normal to take a bath, after getting along for so long, don't you know what Bugling Zhu is?" ”

"If he is really good, how can he rob me to be the wife of the village?" Zhang Yingxian said bitterly: "Seeing that the officers and soldiers are coming, maybe I will be rescued tomorrow, if something happens at this time...... That's really wrong! ”

"Don't worry, it won't! If something really happens, the maid will definitely protect the young lady. Qiu Ye said very seriously, she suddenly lowered her voice, blushed, and said in a very subtle voice: "I asked Aunt Li a few days ago, and she told me...... After a man does that, he will be soft for a long time and can't do it a second time...... If Bugling Zhu wants to move Miss, and the maid serves him first, he won't touch Miss, even if he wants to touch it, he doesn't have the strength to do it. ”

Zhang Yingxian shook Qiuye's hand: "I'll rely on you!" If you can escape this time, I will promote you to be a big girl when I go back! Leave all the maids in the house to you. ”

Akiba sighed: "Miss, don't say such things, it's right for the maid to protect you." ”

The two women spoke cautiously for a while, only to hear footsteps in front of the cave, and Zhu Yuanzhang came back.

Zhang Yingxian's nerves suddenly collapsed again, her whole body stiffened, and Qiu Ye also listened nervously. I only heard Zhu Yuanzhang walk into the house and muttered: "This dress is dirty enough, Ming'er asked Qiuye to wash it." ”

"It's the clothes you changed in......" Akiba whispered.

"Hmm!"

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't light the lamp, the house was still dark, he was a very thrifty person, the materials in the mountains were not abundant, and when he could not light the lamp, he would save some lamp oil. Hearing his footsteps in the direction of the bed, both women breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.

Suddenly, the footsteps stopped, Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to think of something, and paused in the room, Zhang Yingxian's heart that had just been put down suddenly grabbed again.

The footsteps sounded again, this time it was actually in the direction of the grass curtain, Zhang Yingxian was shocked, and said urgently in Qiuye's ear: "Oh no, he came to our side......"

"Miss...... Don't be afraid...... Servant ...... The is here! Akiba was also nervous, she didn't really mind dedicating herself to Zhu Ba, because she really loved him, but ...... She was also worried that Zhu Ba didn't want her, but had to be Zhang Yingxian, and she didn't know what kind of mood she would be in at that time.

Zhu Ba's footsteps stopped on the other side of the grass curtain......

Zhang Ying's heart rose to her throat, and she could almost imagine that the next scene was that the man's hand lifted the straw curtain and walked over with a silver smile on his face, if Autumn Leaves couldn't protect her, she couldn't do anything but cry!

"Akiba, take off your clothes!" Zhang Yingxian ordered in a low voice: "Take off the dirty clothes and belly pockets on your body, if he comes, you immediately throw yourself into his arms, so that he doesn't have time to notice me......"