The defeated soldiers were revived, 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.

The large group of decadent defeated soldiers turned their heads and looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with expectations, and his low morale was also boosted!

This is the benefit of Zhu Yuanzhang's arrangement for Xu Renjie to defeat him. If Zhu Yuanzhang was in command at the beginning, the soldiers were frightened by the Shenji Camp and their morale would fall into an irreversible situation. Huanglong Mountain Village would lose consecutively and eventually fail to recover.

But the defeat in the first battle now belongs to Xu Renjie, not Zhu Yuanzhang. Although the soldiers of the soldiers were severely defeated, as long as they think that there is Brother Zhu to bet the formation behind, their morale will be saved.

"Brother Zhu, do you have a way to deal with Shenji Camp?" The defeated soldiers started shouting.

Xu Renjie and Tsang Sang, who were kneeling down on the ground in dejectedly, crawled with their knees for a few steps, and came to Zhu Yuanzhang to listen to him.

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw that everyone's attention had turned, he stretched out three fingers and said seriously: "Sense of distance!"

"Sense of distance? What does it mean?" Everyone was unaware of it.

"Cannons and muskets are very powerful, right?" Zhu Yuanzhang did not answer what the sense of distance was, but suddenly said something else.

Everyone didn't know what he meant, but since he was asked, of course he had to quickly talk about his thoughts on his musket. A group of defeated soldiers shouted in a hurry: "The musket is so powerful... the wooden shield can't stop it!"

"The cannon is also very powerful. When the cannon sounds, the rocks and rocks are cracked. Our flesh and blood cannot be stopped..."

"And they hit far..."

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "Although the cannon is powerful, it can only be used to deal with arrow towers. It is basically impossible to hit a living person. As for the musket..." He suddenly paused and smiled: "Although its power is very great, compared with bows and arrows, it has a very huge disadvantage, that is, the sense of distance."

"Brother Zhu, we don't understand, don't keep it..." Wang Er screamed.

"Simply put, the musket must be within a certain distance to be more accurate. If it exceeds this distance, the musket will not hit people... It is different from bows and arrows. Archers can accurately grasp where their arrows will shoot, but the musket soldiers cannot. They can only ensure that the hit rate of the musket is relatively high, but if it exceeds that distance, they will completely lose accuracy." Zhu Yuanzhang stretched out his hand and pulled: "After than 150 feet, the hit rate of the musket will begin to drop significantly. When reaching a position of 300 feet, the musket will not hit people at all. In fact, the Shenji Camp that came to attack the mountain this time only brought one cannon, less than 200 muskets. When attacking the mountain, they had to avoid our bows and arrows, so they had to fire bullets at a long distance and did not dare to fire near. Under such conditions, it is impossible to cause too much casualties to us, and it can only play a role in destroying morale."

The soldiers were confused and still couldn't understand it very much. No wonder they were all rural villagers, with short-sighted knowledge and a little more complicated one would have to say it repeatedly to understand it.

Seeing that everyone's faces were filled with incomprehensible expressions, Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said, "Tell me the order that the guards who were withdrawn from the No. 3 branch will immediately call the number and count the accurate casualties for me."

"Name?" The leaders were stunned. Xu Renjie was the first to react. He was still kneeling on the ground and did not dare to get up, but he was already shouting: "Yes, how many casualties are? We retreated too embarrassingly, and we even forgot the count of casualties. It's too inappropriate..."

"Quick, re-name and count casualties!"

"The soldiers returned to their direct captains, reorganized the queue, and called for the number!"

"one two three……"

"The first team of the third brigade has been named... no casualties!"

"The seventh team of the fourth team has been named... a brother is slightly injured!"

"The fifth team of the third team has been named... A brother was killed and a brother was slightly injured!"

Each ten-person team first conducts statistics, and then reports the casualties to the 100-person team as a unit. Since Zhu Yuanzhang's army has been hard-working for several years, the soldiers are doing small things like calling for a name and counting. In a short while, the casualties are counted in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Report to Brother Zhu, there were originally one thousand brothers guarding the No. 3 branch. At this time, the statistics were re-counted. There were 988 people present, only twelve brothers died, and twenty-five were injured. Except for two people who were injured by muskets, the rest were all injured when retreating..."

As soon as the report came out, the leaders and together, even Xu Renjie raised his head in disbelief: "We have such small casualties?"

"No way, why did our army collapse and flee with such a small casualties?"

"This is too strange... I heard the sound of cannons in front of me, and the sound of guns was dense, and I thought my brothers were seriously injured. How could it be..."

Everyone couldn't believe their ears.

In fact, such casualties were already expected by Zhu Yuanzhang. The defenders of Huanglong Mountain Village faced the firearms for the first time and would be scared by the two new weapons, muskets and cannons. The soldiers were about to collapse at once, and most of them did not fight with the officers and soldiers at all. Before suffering huge losses, the army was so scared that they ran away. The casualties must be a very small number.

"Do you understand?" Zhu Yuanzhang shouted: "Must guns and cannons are all fooling things, and they can't hit anyone at all... You didn't lose to must guns and cannons, but to your own timidity and cowardice!"

There was a sound of swallowing saliva from all around, and the defeated soldiers were speechless by Zhu Yuanzhang. Indeed, most of them were frightened by the rumbling cannons and the sound of guns. Some people were scared away when they saw the cannons breaking through the rocks, and some people were scared away when they saw the muskets pierce the wooden shield in the hand of a soldier... The reason for their escape and retreat was not that the enemy had already been killed in front of them, or that the defeat was irreversible, but that the fear was insurmountable when facing mysterious and unknown weapons.

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw the soldiers speechless, he knew that they had been shocked by him, but this was not enough. Doing so would only make them feel inferior, but it would not be able to revitalize their morale. To bring back the sluggish morale, it is necessary to light up their passion after inferiority, so that the inferiority complex can be transformed into anger and willpower.

He shouted: "Let's do it, let's not talk about it. If you look at it with your eyes, I'll let you see it with your own eyes. The musket is not scary at all."

He suddenly waved his hand and shouted to the soldiers around him: "Reorganize the army, and the soldiers who have withdrawn from the No. 3 branch, plus the 1,000 guards left behind in the main camp, let's go down the mountain to attack the officers and soldiers' camps!"

"What?" Everyone was shocked. Xu Renjie shouted with a whisper: "Brother Zhu, our army is newly defeated, so it is not appropriate to attack at this time... we should defend and reorganize our team."

Tsang Sanro was also shocked and said, "Go to attack the camp at this time? Although the officers and soldiers' cannons and muskets...uh...but..."

"There is nothing to be afraid of!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "The officers and soldiers have just captured the No. 3 branch. It is impossible to withdraw all their forces from the branch. This will not be meaningful to attack the village! With Du Wenhuan's experience, he will definitely judge that the most correct way is to let all the officers and soldiers station in the No. 3 branch, condescending, and then attack the main village. However, the Shenji Camp became a burden for the officers and soldiers at this time. It would not take a moment to get the Qianjin Folang machine cannon to the mountain. Therefore, the officers and soldiers had to leave the cannons in the camp at the foot of the mountain. In other words, the Shenji Camp had to stay. In order to protect the Shenji Camp and the camp at the foot of the mountain, the officers and soldiers had to divide the troops into two, half of them stationed in the No. 3 branch, and half of them stayed in the camp at the foot of the mountain."

Zhu Yuanzhang pointed his hands: "The result of doing this is that both the officers and soldiers have only half of the strength of the troops on and off the mountain... In this case, I suddenly sent troops to attack the camp at the foot of the mountain. The officers and soldiers did not dare to come out to fight anyway. They would guard the camp and wait for the officers and soldiers on the mountain to come down to reinforce..."

This is a psychological factor, which is actually easy to understand. Suppose you brought three thousand people to fight the enemy. When all three thousand people are around you, if an enemy who is weaker than you comes to provoke, you will definitely dare to fight head-on. But if you divide the three thousand people into two halves for some reason, the enemy suddenly comes to provoke. No matter whether the enemy comes to the enemy is strong or weak, even if the enemy who attacks you is weaker than half of your troops, your first reaction will be to be unaware of the battle! Because you obviously have three thousand people, why should you use half of the people to fight? A fool is doing this! It is better to defend for a while, wait for the three thousand people to come together, and then kill the opponent with a storm.

Zhu Yuanzhang decided to attack the camp where the officers and soldiers stayed at the foot of the mountain at this time, and saw that the officers and soldiers could only defend and not come out to fight. He could use this to implement a plan to revitalize morale.

In short, the order was issued and the soldiers began to move. The morale of the 1,000 left-behind soldiers led by Wang Er was not bad, and they quickly completed the entire line and planned to set off at any time. However, the 988 soldiers who had just been defeated from the No. 3 branch were a little timid and looked like they were afraid to go out.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that such a thing would happen, so he didn't care. He asked Wang Er to lead his troops in front, and desperately Sanlang walked behind with his defeated soldiers, crawled out of the main camp, and walked towards the officers and soldiers camp several miles away. He himself grabbed Xu Renjie, and while walking, he wanted to say something to Xu Renjie.

Xu Renjie couldn't help but ask: "Brother Zhu, let's give up the easy-to-defense and difficult-to-attack counterfeits and take the initiative to provoke the officers and soldiers... Is this really a combination of military tactics? I've been defeated for a while, so you must not lose again... Otherwise, our counterfeit is really over."

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled faintly: "I'm not going to fight with the officers and soldiers. I took these two thousand people over here, just to let them watch a play. After watching this play, Shenji Camp is no longer worth worrying."

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