After a bluffing night, when dawn came the next day, Shenxi asked someone to light firewood. Not long after, the mountain was covered with smoke, and it was impossible to see clearly the situation at the foot of the mountain. It was like a thick smog was laid around the mountain village, and the thick fog was very choking, making people cry.

The thief looked down from the top of the camp wall at the top of the mountain, and could see at most ten meters away. No matter how far away, they could not see it. They could only rely on the sound to distinguish... The official army should be two or three miles away at this moment, because the sound seemed a bit far away from the mountain village.

After exploring the situation outside, the thief's face changed, he got down the city wall with a bitter face, and went to work on his own. Some people couldn't stand it, and even squatted down on the spot to solve the "difficulty".

In fact, there were not many arrows, rolling wood and stones stored in the thief's village, because the resources on the island were quite limited, and the defense measures in the village were only targeted at local garrisons. I never expected that the court would send a large army of thousands of people to encircle and suppress it.

If Chen Xi could pay the price of sacrificing hundreds of people, he would send a group of people to serve as suicide squads, and the subsequent troops could rush to the top of the mountain within one day, killing the thieves in the village without leaving any armor.

Chen Xi has not launched a large-scale attack in the past few days, mainly because the sources of information in his hands are diverse, and the rumor is spreading, and he cannot figure out the details of the thief. At the same time, he does not want the soldiers in the army to lose too much without reason.

Always be a nanny, sometimes Chen Xi will feel that he is too kind and ruthless. "Be kind and not in charge of soldiers" is the ancient saying of commanding soldiers. But when he turns back, he feels relieved... He has no power to send soldiers into such a life-and-death situation. Everyone is raised by his father and mother, and it is not appropriate for anyone to take the lead. Instead, it will make the soldiers under his command become disloyal because of fear.

So Chen Xi could only use this kind of secret trick.

Just when the smoke was shrouded around the village, Chen Xi had prepared four hundred houses as commandos. These four teams would go up the mountain under the cover of smoke. Their purpose was to send the explosive package ejector twenty meters below the camp and shoot the "dynamite package" into the thief camp, causing chaos inside.

The four hundred households have a clear division of labor. The officers and soldiers are all equipped with a wet towel. Whoever is responsible for opening the road, who is responsible for carrying, who is responsible for erecting shields and covering, etc., are all arranged in advance.

Even if smoke blocks the view, the road to the mountain is extremely dangerous. Chen Xi gave them some convenience. After breaking through the clan, they, as the first batch of officers and soldiers to break in, have the right to deal with the spoils they obtained.

The officers and soldiers of these four hundred households looked up and saw smoke everywhere on the mountain. Many people didn't know where the smoke came from. Some people said that this was the smoke that Chen Xi used the "Immortal Art" to invite from the Heavenly Court. Because Chen Xi led people around to search two days ago, preparing to dig the water veins on the Broken Mountain. Many people rumored that Chen Xi was good at driving gods and ghosts, feng shui and geomancers.

The officers and soldiers were driven by interests, and at the same time, the military orders were difficult to violate. If they didn't want to go, they could only bare the bullet and charge towards the mountain.

"Sir, it's more appropriate for Hu Yi to lead the troops to charge!"

Jing Yue had tried to attack the Yangyu bandit village before, but it was about to collapse. He did not dare to volunteer, but he was well-informed. He heard that Chen Xi had laxatives at the water source. When he saw smoke rising on the mountain again, he knew that making achievements was right in front of him, so he took the initiative to come and ask Chen Xi for battle.

"I want to go? It's too late. My official has made arrangements and cannot make any changes to the plan. You can bring a hundred households and provide reinforcements depending on the situation!"

Chen Xi asked Jing Yue to lead Qianhu House before, but now he was downgraded to let him take Baihu House.

Jing Yue is a deputy family member, and he is not as good as a low family member. In terms of authority, he may not be as good as a hundred households, which makes him very depressed... Judging from his attitude, he is clearly going to lose Chen Xi's trust!

The war actually started on the night of April 24, but it was just a bluff that night. The officers and soldiers thought they were going to leave Nan'ao Island the next day, and they were working harder than usual. They had already grabbed enough money before, and the next step was to go back and enjoy the spoils.

As for wherever Chenxi goes, how many seizures will be made and how much military merits will be earned, they don’t care much. The most important thing is to take the existing merits in their hands.

If Chen Xi hadn't had to mobilize the three armies to come down to carry out "temporary attacks before parting", the soldiers might have been holding a celebration banquet now... Even if there are thousands of bandits on Yangyu Mountain, what if there are four thousand official troops at the foot of the mountain, will those bandits dare to attack the camp?

The soldiers were all proud. Look at you thieves who were so embarrassed when you went to grab water during the day, as if you hadn't drunk water in life. If the governor hadn't been rushing to go back and hold your wives and children, I would have been willing to stay and accompany you until you had no food and cut off your heads as a military merit.

The soldiers were full of thought that today was just a feint attack, but when they received the latest order, they wanted to do the "feint attack" more thoroughly, and approach the thief village as much as possible in the smoke. Some people were already wondering in their hearts, should the "feint attack" be done so realistically?

Didn’t it mean that the bluff is a formality?

The generals and officials in the army said this before, why did the orders conveyed today are different from those yesterday?

However, when the officers and soldiers saw the smoke on the mountain, they thought they used fire attacks and smoke attacks to attack the camps as if they were on the island of Viazhou!

"You don't know, this is the fire ordered by the Governor."

The hundreds of households who received the military order talked endlessly to their officers and soldiers. In fact, they themselves did not understand what was going on. "Today, the southwest wind was blowing, and the smoke was floating up the mountain. Each hundred households had to go up the mountain to practice courage. They rushed to about 200 steps outside the camp and retreated. Whoever didn't go up would have to deal with it according to military law, and deducted 100% to 30% of the previous income at one time..."

"It's better to launch a charge based on the Hundred Houses. If there is a deserter, it will be calculated based on the deserter. Whoever dares to escape will be directly interrupted by the dog's legs!"

When the soldiers heard such a strange "stimulus practice", they couldn't help but feel scared. After identifying the direction of the wind, they found that the day was clear and windless, and even more doubted how the conclusion of the "southwest wind" was made.

In the past, they would rather choose not to accept such military orders. Isn’t it just a little reward? Most of the commanders were deducted from them, peeled off one layer after another, leaving only a little hair on their hands.

But this time it's different!

The goods stolen from the hundreds of households were all recorded by the junta officers. Before returning to the land, the goods were not sent to their hands. How could they be at ease if they were not put into the bag?

Seeing the smoke on the mountain and seeing the vague exterior wall of the mountain village, the fear was not so strong. And after all, I was not a pioneer camp, and it was someone else who rushed to the front to die, so I just followed me to join in the fun.

When Chen Shi set fire, it took about two quarters of a minute before rolling wood and large stones fell down on the mountain, but they were all a few. By the end of Si Shi, the rolling wood and raw stones on the mountain had already sparsely dropped, and the general attack was launched.

Four hundred households acted as suicide squads, using heavy shields and wooden fences as cover, rushing up the mountain while setting up obstacles along the way.

Chenxi has high requirements for the route of travel. The wooden fences and shields set up do not look thick. Some obstacles simply nail iron forks to the ground. No matter how you look at this level of obstacle, you cannot stop the logs and big stones rolling down the mountain.

But when there are really rolling wood and rolling stones falling down on the mountain and hitting these iron forks and obstacles, they realize the importance of Chenxi asking them to set up a "barrier".

The biggest advantage of these obstacles is not to directly block the stone, but to change the trajectory of the rolling wood and the stone, let it deflect, and at the same time weaken the rolling force. After touching the obstacle several times in a row, it almost stopped halfway and became a new obstacle.

In this way, the officers and soldiers of each hundred households basically advanced to the high slope as planned. Every few steps, they nailed iron forks, set up wooden fences and shields to fix the rolling rolling wood and stones, forming a barrier to the subsequent rolling wood and rocks. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!