The plan went even more smoothly than expected.
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With just one charge, the enemy's entire army collapsed, and it was very chaotic, with mutual collisions and trampling. It didn't look like a feigned defeat at all.
Yang Shaohu took the opportunity to reprimand his subordinates: "Don't think that winning a few battles means you can get cocky. It's all thanks to Sheriff Lin's incredibly accurate intelligence. You are all essentially new recruits, and your tactical skills still need to improve. Look at the veterans who have been fighting for many years. This feigned defeat looks so realistic."
The second army led by Yang Shaohu was not only made up of new recruits, but the non-commissioned officers were also new. They really believed that high-quality professional soldiers were like this, able to stage such a chaotic and irregular retreat. Their inflated morale from the easy consecutive victories had diminished quite a bit.
The enemy abandoned a lot of military supplies, and the soldiers from Changshan County picked up so many firearms and ammunition along the way that they filled five trucks that came with them.
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