The entire village became alive. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered an initiative to attack and go down the mountain to fight the officers and soldiers. It can be said that he had a very good grasp of the timing.

First of all, the officers and soldiers attacked the mountain for several consecutive days, but were smashed by the people on the mountain with rolling wood and rocks. When the soldiers and the people on the mountain faced the officers and soldiers, their fear had faded a lot. In the past, they thought that the officers and soldiers of the court were invincible at all, but now they already knew that the officers and soldiers were also human, and they were all on their shoulders and heads. If they were hit by the stone, they would also die of anger.

Again, the officers and soldiers' actions of "killing and surrendering" also made the people on the top of the mountain feel sad. They all felt that there was no way out. They were incited by Zhu Yuanzhang to burn their household registration, and they had no way back.

This is the time when the morale of the army is most stable and the time when the morale of the army is most sad. The so-called "worrying soldiers will win" is not a joke. A leader like Zhu Yuanzhang will never miss this opportunity. This is the best opportunity to fight the decisive battle with officers and soldiers. If you miss it, you will never find it again.

At the order of Zhu Yuanzhang, the army began to line up. The mountain village had originally trained 800 soldiers, divided into eight brigades, each with one hundred people. The first and second teams were the oldest elites. Now they have been led by Wang Er to go down the mountain and go around behind the officers and soldiers. The remaining six brigades plus Zhu Yuanzhang's thirty-five confidant guards.

The mountains were short of supplies, and the six brigades were not well armed. Each of them could only take a wooden spear. Only a small number of people had iron spear tips on their spears. Most of them had wooden spears just sharpened wooden sticks, but this did not affect their determination to fight with the officers and soldiers.

Among the gentle music played by the military band, six brigades began to go down the mountain, lined up in neat rows and walked down the road in front of the mountain.

The officers and soldiers at the foot of the mountain soon discovered this action and immediately informed Yang Hong, who was thinking about good plans for attacking the mountain in the camp. When he heard the bandits voluntarily go down the mountain, he was immediately overjoyed: "It's great. These guys gave up the difficult mountain village and took the initiative to come down the mountain. They are really asking for death. Send orders! Don't attack when they go down the mountain, so as not to scare them back. Let them go down the mountain to form a formation. Let us fight a serious battle with them to let them know how powerful the officers and soldiers are."

Some viewers may not understand why Yang Hong didn’t start fighting while half of the opponent went down the mountain? Isn’t this how to kill the bandits before they set up their formation and only half of them?

In fact, the so-called attack while the enemy is halfway through is mostly used for defensive battles. When the existing side adopts an offensive, it is very troublesome to defend the enemy in a strong city or a strong mountain village. In order to prevent the enemy from retracting from the city, the generals of the attacking side often indulge the defender to leave the city or go down the mountain, allowing the opponent to set up the formation on the plain. If you do not allow the opponent to set up the formation, but instead attempt to destroy the opponent's formation, the enemy is likely to retract back to the city or the top of the mountain and never come out again, which makes you face the difficult siege problem.

If you don't believe it, the officials can take a look at various battle examples from ancient times to the present. The defensive party goes out to set up a formation, while the offensive party never interferes, only for fear that the opponent will not come out.

The officers and soldiers received Yang Hong's order, retreated from the mountain pass, and retreated almost a mile. Then the officers and soldiers took the lead in forming a formation. Yang Hong sat firmly in the formation, surrounded by his fifty soldiers, followed by a military band, a bunch of flag soldiers and a hundred officers. Nearly 500 officers and soldiers lined up in front, of which 300 formed the central army, with one hundred people on both sides of the left and right.

After setting up the formation, Yang Hong watched the bandits go down the mountain with a smile. When he wiped out Zheng Yanfu last year, he also experienced almost the same scene. He set up a formation at the foot of the mountain, and then a group of bandits walked down the mountain. They were foolishly not setting up a formation or defending, and rushed towards him with a clamor, and then fell to death one by one under the spear formation of officers and soldiers.

It was so easy to deal with a group of bandits! Yang Hong only felt that he was floating upward, as if he had seen victory waving to him.

Although it was a mile away, the sharp-eyed scouts among the officers and soldiers could still see many details clearly. From time to time, the officers and soldiers with good eyes smiled and said, "Looking at the bandits on the opposite side, they had no armor on their bodies and were wearing ordinary clothes."

"It is normal to have no armor. When will you encounter the opponent's armor when you suppress the bandits? But their weapons are too shabby." Another officer and soldier shouted.

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

"Their mob is worse than Zheng Yanfu and his gang last year."

"Yes, Zheng Yanfu and his group have maces and thick-backed knives at least... Now these guys don't even have iron."

The ridicule of the officers and soldiers came one after another. In fact, when the marching and formation were deployed, the soldiers were strictly prohibited from talking. However, the military discipline in the late Ming Dynasty was corrupt and Yang Hong was not strict in his power. His army was so lazy.

However, after only a few laughs, the officers and soldiers began to laugh a little. After the bandits went down the mountain, they did not stand in a mess like Zheng Yanfu and his gang, but began to line up...

Moreover, the array was very strict. Rows of spearmen were arranged in a horizontal and vertical formation, and each hundred people formed a small block. A relatively wide interval would be deliberately vacant between each two blocks. Not long after, six small blocks were placed in front of the officers and soldiers, three of which formed the central army, corresponding to the 300 central army formations of the officers and soldiers. Two small blocks next to them were used as left and right wings, and one small block retreated to the end and did not join the military formation.

Yang Hong, who has some knowledge of military formation, knew that the last small block was called "Preparation Army". If it was used in later generations, it was called a backup, which was usually used for temporary emergency purposes. For example, when the left wing's 100-man team was defeated by the enemy, the reserve army could immediately replace it and help the left wing stabilize its position again.

This is an extremely neat military formation, and even the preparations are ready. This makes Yang Hong stunned. He is also a military general with some combat power in Xi'an Prefecture, and he has suppressed bandits once and twice. When have you ever seen bandits joining the military formation? This is simply a mess of the world. His current mood can be described with such an example.

Suppose you are a good at programming and can write some beautiful mini programs such as sending and receiving emails. Then one day, you went to kindergarten to play and suddenly found a child in the kindergarten holding a notebook and was programming, and the program he wrote was no worse than you... Do you think you are crazy or not?

Yang Hong rubbed his eyes to make sure he did not read it wrong. As a result, he did not read it wrong. The military formation opposite was just before the war, so this was not a joke.

"Damn it!" Yang Hong cursed softly: "What is the origin of this Zhu Ba? Why did he form a military formation?"

As soon as he finished scolding, he suddenly realized: "It must be a fleeing military household, maybe it's a border army."

Military households, that is, households that serve as military servants for generations. In ancient times, if a man’s household registration book wrote about military households, it means that he must join the army, and his descendants, great-grandchildren, great-grandchildren, all must join the army. Every time the country recruits troops to deal with a certain enemy, the military households must send a male student to the army. What if your family has no male student? The court doesn’t care. Anyway, you can go to 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 she has to pay a man, but her father is a little bit out of the way, so Mulan pretends to be a man and joins the army! Of course, this is a beautiful story. From this beautiful story, we can also see the disadvantages of the military household system. Anyone, even women with no combat effectiveness, will join the army if they join the army... Can such an army have combat effectiveness?

I went too far and quickly brought it back. In the Ming Dynasty, the life of military households was very hard and I often fled. Especially in the late Ming Dynasty, the escape of military households was very serious, and many soldiers fled and wandered among the people.

Here is an excerpt from a memorial written by Yang Sichang in the tenth year of Chongzhen: In the 47th year of Wanli (1619th year), the four Liaodong brigades advanced, and the three brigades were defeated. So Du Song, Wang Xuan, and Zhao Menglin's subordinates led the troops to flee west. At that time, the Henan politician Zhang Woxu, and the Taoist minister Wang Jing invited him to attack Mengjin, beheaded more than 20 levels, and the Feijie was heard. So he did not enter Tongguan, but went to Shanxi and even Yansui, and did not dare to return to the army and end up in the army.

This passage is translated, that is, in 1619, many soldiers who aided Liao fled. They fled to the south of He*, but were caught by local local officials and killed them. Other soldiers did not dare to take the road in He*nan and headed west. So they crossed the mountain and ran into Shaanxi*xi, and did not dare to return to the army. They became bandits.

There is another historical material that can be used to prove it. This is the description of Dai Li and Wu Zhu: Shaanxi soldiers came out from the four routes of Jiwei, Wanli, and returned westward after defeat. Henan Governor Zhang Wo continued to intercept Mengjin and killed more than 30 levels. The rest did not dare to return, and they robbed the border of Shanxi and Shaanxi. Later, they transferred frequent support and fled and defeated each other. The border soldiers began to become bandits.

In fact, we can also find an interesting phenomenon from these two historical materials. The first one says to kill more than twenty levels, and the second one says to kill more than thirty levels... It is very happy! The author would like to remind readers here that history books should not be believed in all their faults, and there are many untrue things.

Yang Hong guessed Zhu Ba as a deserter and thought he was right, but he was not so surprised. Baishui Zhu Ba was probably a fleeing military household. It was no wonder that he knew how to set up a military formation. However, knowing how to set up a military formation and knowing how to use a military formation are two completely different things.

Yang Hong did not think that he was in command of the military formation, and even a deserter could not catch up.

There was nothing to say on both sides. Yang Hong was too lazy to walk out and talk nonsense in front of the dot matrix. He spread the flag slightly, and the military band behind him immediately started to sing the gongs and drums, and the military formations of officers and soldiers began to slowly move forward.

Zhu Yuanzhang on the opposite side also smiled slightly and moved his own flag. The military command team beside him also sounded the sound of gongs and drums, and the soldiers began to move slowly amid the drums.

The two military formations were separated by one mile and began to squeeze into the middle. Both sides walked very slowly. As mentioned earlier, it was not advisable for the two armies to fight in a flew. If the soldiers ran for a mile, they would run out of their physical strength and could not fight. Therefore, when the military formations met, they would walk very slowly. The slower the better, the slower the better.

But this kind of slowness also has a negative effect, that is, it has great oppression on the soldiers' psychology, especially the soldiers walking in the front row. When they see the enemy array slowly pressing over from the opposite side, they will inevitably feel a sense of fear.

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

The officers and soldiers were also afraid that although they were experienced veterans, they were often bullied by officers and were often deducted by the court. Therefore, they did not have the awareness of fighting for the court. It was not worth dying for such a court! It would be better to be immortal.

Both sides were afraid, and the army slowly approached tremblingly...

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