The mountain road was densely filled with soldiers who had retreated. They were scared by cannons and muskets and retreated in disorganized manner. The archers and spearmen were all crowded together, pushing and pushing, and people fell from time to time. Fortunately, the soldiers in Huanglong Mountain Village were not so panicked that they stepped on their comrades. The fallen people would be quickly helped up and join the retreating team.

Wang Er looked at the soldiers who had retreated on the mountain road and shouted in shock: "Oh, the people from the No. 3 branch retreated? Why? If you can't stand the officers and soldiers, you should light the beacon and ask me to help, why did you retreat directly?"

He screamed and jumped up: "No, I want to take my brother down the mountain and take back the No. 3 branch."

Zhu Yuanzhang quickly reached out and pressed his shoulders, exerting a little force on his wrist: "Don't run around, I'll remind you again that the order you received was to stay in the main village. If you run out of the village without getting the order, it would be a violation of the military order."

"But...but..." Wang Er was anxious.

"Don't worry! Come with me, let's go to the gate of the mountain village to wait for Xu Renjie and Tsanlang to retreat up the mountain and ask them what happened to the No. 3 branch."

Zhu Yuanzhang pulled Wang Er and walked towards the gate of the village. He saw that the gate of the village was filled with soldiers. These soldiers were all under Wang Er and were responsible for staying in the main village. Like Zhu Yuanzhang and Wang Er, they saw the brothers from the No. 3 branch retreating. Everyone was shocked and wanted to know what was happening in the branch village as soon as possible, so they all piled up at the gate of the village.

There were also leaders such as Yingshanhong, Ma Xiaotian and others in the crowd. Everyone's necks were stretched long, looking at the situation on the side of the village.

"What the hell is going on?"

"So soon lost?"

"With Brother Sanlang's defensive ability, it's no reason to lose so quickly..."

"Why didn't the Grand Marshal ignite the beacon and ask us to go for reinforcements?"

The low-pitched discussion echoed among the crowd, and the soldiers seemed in a bad mood and their morale was extremely sluggish.

However, there were some calm people in the crowd, and they were not in panic like others. Several small leaders shouted: "Don't worry about the guards who are in charge of the arrow tower, go back to your defensive position. What if the officers and soldiers occupy the No. 3 branch of the village and advance to us immediately?"

"Oh, yes, the No. 3 branch has been lost, don't lose the main village again. Soldiers, go back to your position..."

A group of soldiers rushed out of the crowd in panic and climbed back to the arrow tower.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned. In fact, it was impossible for the officers and soldiers to march into the main camp immediately. Because after occupying the No. 3 branch, they needed a certain amount of time to rest and could not attack immediately. Even if the soldiers were not in the Arrow Tower, there was no big problem. However, these guards "left their positions without authorization" to watch the fun was something that an elite army would never allow.

Judging from Zhu Yuanzhang's usual training for soldiers, this situation generally did not happen, but now it actually happened. It seems that they were shaken by the loss of the No. 3 branch, making these guys forget that the most important thing in an army was discipline.

This is also helpless. Although they have been trained for several years, they also have human weaknesses. If they win in a row, they can maintain their combat power. Once they lose a battle, their hearts will no longer be as stable as before. This is also a problem that peasant uprising troops have to face since ancient times. At the beginning of the uprising, due to the large number of people and the powerful, they caught the court off guard. Therefore, no matter which uprising army it was, they often achieve certain results in the early stages. However, once the court begins to be serious, the uprising troops will often suffer great defeats, and a defeat is enough to completely collapse the morale of an uprising army.

The gate of the mountain village was chaotic for a while. After a while, the soldiers who had withdrawn from the No. 3 branch finally ran up one after another. As soon as the dozen people who ran the fastest entered the main village, they immediately fell to the ground with exhaustion. No wonder they ran all the way from the No. 3 branch village. The four-li mountain road was full of mountain climbing in the second half, so they were of course unable to support their physical strength.

As soon as these dozen people entered the camp, they immediately fell to the ground and shouted: "It's so terrible... the muskets and cannons... it's so terrible... it's simply invincible... We're done... I can't defend it, I'll definitely not defend it..."

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and ordered Ma Xiaotian: "Take people to carry them behind, don't let them yell here."

The dozen people had just carried away, and nearly a hundred people ran up one after another. Like the dozen people in front, these people were so tired that they were panting. They also shouted: "The officers and soldiers cannons are so powerful... The No. 3 branch was attacked in just a short time..."

"Stop talking, don't talk nonsense!" Wang Er rushed up, punched the people who were shouting hard, knocked them to the ground, and then ordered: "Old team, the people from the second team come over and drag these guys aside."

After connecting all the defeated soldiers, in the last wave of retreating, they finally saw Xu Renjie and Tsergeant Saburo. Both of them looked very embarrassed, their clothes and pants were covered with mud and sweat, and their heads were covered with sweat. They both looked very depressed and looked discouraged.

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang and Wang Er and other left-behind leaders standing at the gate of the village, Xu Renjie and Psychic Sanlang knelt down at the ground at the same time, crying: "Brothers, we are sorry for you... I lost the battle, the third place is divided into the village, and it is gone!"

Wang Er flashed his body, reached out and grabbed Sanlang's shoulders, and shook it hard: "Brother Sanlang, what are you doing? The No. 3 branch fell into the village for only half a day. Why are you so unsuccessful? Even if you want to lose, you have to stay for three or five days to lose..."

The desperate Saburo looked ashamed and dared not touch him.

Wang Er grabbed Xu Renjie's shoulder again and shook it hard: "Master Marshal, why don't you ignite the beacon fire and ask me to reinforce? If I brought a thousand brothers left behind in the main village to reinforce, I wouldn't have lost so quickly, right? What's going on?"

Xu Renjie also lowered his head and was ashamed to speak.

"What are you two doing in a daze? Say something!" Wang Er was furious, jumping left and right, and he was about to slam his fists and hit someone: "This is the first time we have been defeated since the uprising. You two unscrupulous guys. Brother Zhu... You handed over the command to the Grand Marshal, it was really a staggering... If you were in command, we would have beaten the officers and soldiers back to grandma's house long ago."

Wang Er was furious and vented his anger. Zhu Yuanzhang did not stop him. Xu Renjie and the desperate Saburo lowered their heads and dared not refute him. It was not until Wang Er had enough trouble that Xu Renjie said bitterly: "Brother Zhu, Brother Wang... I'm useless, I'm such a waste... Please take back my command... I... I'm not a rival to the officers and soldiers, I'm still enough to learn."

"Don't complain, let's talk about how to defeat me first!" Zhu Yuanzhang stood up after waiting for Xu Renjie to say the sentence "retrieve command power". The reason why he didn't say anything just now was that Xu Renjie had not said this, and he didn't want to take the initiative to jump out and deprive Xu Renjie of his command position, otherwise it would seriously hurt this promising general. But after he proposed it himself, Zhu Yuanzhang used the verbal question to ask, and there would be no problem.

Hearing that Zhu Yuanzhang's tone was still calm, Xu Renjie's fear was suppressed a little. He swallowed his saliva and said hurriedly: "As soon as the Shenji Battalion took action, our army's morale collapsed completely... The soldiers completely lost their fighting spirit and no longer obeyed the orders... I... I don't know what to do!"

When they heard Xu Renjie telling the defeated battle, the defeated soldiers at the gate of the village also began to gather here. They had already deeply realized the terror of Shenji Camp. As soon as they thought of fighting with Shenji Camp, their whole body trembled. Their fear and cowardice, combined with Xu Renjie's words, seemed to pierce the hearts of all the soldiers, affecting the soldiers left behind in the main village, and the morale of the entire village began to shake.

"I can't win!"

"We can't win the Shenji Camp!"

"I can't win the officers and soldiers!"

"The muskets and cannons are really amazing..."

The soldiers began to yell, and negative emotions continued to spread.

"Brother Zhu, I'm sorry for you... I feel that it's impossible to fight again under that situation, so I ordered a retreat... It's my responsibility to hand over the No. 3 branch to the enemy. I'll give the brothers an explanation!" Xu Renjie suddenly pulled out a knife from his waist and cut it down at his arm.

"Dang!" A crisp sound rang out, and the knife in Xu Renjie's hand was held back by Zhu Yuanzhang. It turned out that the moment he drew the knife, Zhu Yuanzhang also pulled out his waist knife at the same time, stopping his self-harm action.

"Why? I'm afraid of the officers and soldiers? I'm so scared that I don't even want my own arms?" Zhu Yuanzhang sneered: "Don't you want to make up for your merits?"

"Make up for the merits?" Xu Renjie was stunned: "I... I kept racking my brains on the way back just now, but after thinking for a long time, I still couldn't think of a way to deal with Shenji Camp..."

"Yes, I can't win!"

"There is no way to fight with that kind of thing!"

"Actually, the leader of the Marshal cannot be blamed for this defeat, but we have no tricks on cannons and muskets! We want to escape when we hear cannons and muskets... How can we fight?"

"I can't win!"

The soldiers around began to talk again, fear crawling all the defeated soldiers' faces.

"What are you afraid of? The Grand Marshal has no choice, but I have it!" Zhu Yuanzhang shook his body and said loudly to all the soldiers around him: "What are you afraid of? It's just a battle to lose! Just a small defeat, look at what you will become cowards? Don't forget that this is the first formation of the Grand Marshal's leader. He has no experience. What's so strange about a defeat? I am also Baishui Zhu Ba in Huanglong Mountain Village, and I'm just Shenji Camp, and I'll see if I break it in one fell swoop!"

"Ah?" Everyone turned their heads and looked at Zhu Yuanzhang.

The defeated soldiers were revived at the same time, yes! The only one who lost was the Grand Marshal leader! But the Bald Brother Zhu, who we admire the most, had never lost a battle. If Bald Brother Zhu came to command, maybe there would be a way to deal with the Shenji Camp.

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