Spring and Autumn I Am King

"Husband battle, courage is also, what Cao Gui said is absolutely correct."

Seeing Youcheng's comprehension, Zhao Wuxi patted him on the shoulder and explained in detail: "Qin people are united, their minds are simple, they think less, and they have been obsessed with Hexi for generations. Under the same hatred, the morale is extremely high, and the specific performance is that he is not afraid of death in battle, and is not easily broken."

"The Wei army is different. Some of the things the Wei family has done in the past few years, such as blatant betrayal on the battlefield, actually have a blow to the morale of their own soldiers. I can still make merit and be promoted, so I do my best to fight. Ordinary conscripts don’t have this expectation. Watching the wolf-like Qin people rush over, they don’t want to fight hard, but to protect themselves, so that the right wing of the Wei army does not collapse. Strange. If you think about it this way, Qin and Wei are both hurt, so it's not surprising."

Youcheng admired it very much: "What your lord said is just like what your servants have heard and heard."

As Zhao Wuxi said, in order to build a strong army, while emphasizing discipline, morale is also a crucial point. Pre-Qin military strategists have noticed this early. For example, the "Sima Law" of Qi State said: The way, not only for its gas, but also because of its government. Make **** morale a must-do before going to war.

Sun Wuzi of Wu State in the south also summed up the law of morale changes in wartime, he said: "It is because the vigor is vigorous, the qi in the daytime is lazy, and the qi in the evening returns. Therefore, those who are good at using the army should avoid their strong qi and attack their sluggish qi. This is to control qi. Also..."

Stepping on the shoulders of his predecessors, Zhao Jun also had a set of methods to boost the morale of the army. One of them was "ceremony", which required the generals to be good at restraining themselves, so that they did not obey the fur in winter, did not wave their fans in summer, and did not open the cover in the rain. The second is "strength", which means that he is good at physical practice and labors together with the soldiers; the third is "stopping desires", restraining selfish desires, and sharing hunger and fullness with the soldiers. Only when the generals lead by example can all the three armies be brave enough to fight in public. In this regard, the former Wu Jing and Lu Qiu did the best. Zhao Wuxi also intends to make them role models and calls on all generals to learn from them.

Of course, the premise of all this is the established system of military merit awarding fields and titles. In this regard, the Zhao clan is at the forefront of the times.

War is sometimes a disaster that destroys civilization, and sometimes it is a driving force for social development. In the brutal Jin civil war, the big clans such as Fan, Zhonghang, and Handan were destroyed and perished, and a large amount of land occupied by Shiqing was divided up and given to Zhao soldiers who were successful in the war. After five years of training, the grassroots officers who have risen step by step from the ranks have spread all over the Zhao army. They are minor officials in the army, and local military meritorious small landlords in the county.

Quantitative changes led to qualitative changes. These people gradually replaced Xiaozong and retainers and became the foundation of Zhao's rule of Hebei, which was also the source of the conflict between the Hebei and Jinyang departments of Zhao's military.

The Zhao clan advocated that "the food is hard work and the salary is rewarded", so Jinyang's old vassals, such as Youcheng and others, found that they could no longer obtain promotions and rewards by relying on "kinship and reason" alone. In addition to complaining about Shangqing's "later to come first" and missing the affectionate relationship between Zhao Wenzi and Jingzi's monarch-subject relationship, they also had to make changes, put down their restraint and pride, rolled up their sleeves, and participated in the pursuit of meritorious deeds go.

Ordinary soldiers can be satisfied with cutting off a few heads in exchange for farm houses and rogue servants, but these higher-level people have greater pursuits.

Zhao's military law also stipulated this: if a division army can kill more than 200 enemies when sieging cities and besieged cities, and if it can complete the task in field battles and kill and capture more than 800 enemies, it is full of success. All troops who have made all-out achievements will be rewarded to the entire army, and the rewards are divided into two categories according to the division of the doctor. For the low-ranking nobles below the doctor, only a few tens of acres of land, a few hundred dollars, and one or two slaves are given. But this is enough to make the poor commoners "happy when they hear the sound of drums, and resentful when they hear the sound of gold".

The rewards for high-ranking officials above the doctor are even heavier. In addition to the normal promotion of official positions, there are also "giving food towns" and "giving city taxes". Zhao Wuxi also planned to use Daijun and even the vast land of Shangdi to be scattered and sealed as bait to stimulate the enthusiasm of the doctors. This is not a false seal, but a real seal. Zhao Wuxi hopes to turn these barbarous lands of Rong and Di into the land of China without spending administrative expenses. Therefore, after the lessons of the first battle of the attacking generation, the doctors and retainers in the Jinyang area became more proactive in this attack on Qin.

However, in this way, the six-level titles of high doctor, middle doctor, low doctor, sergeant, sergeant, and corporal are not enough for promotion. For example, Yu Xi, Mucha, etc. who have fought continuously and made outstanding achievements can easily be promoted continuously. , resulting in no promotion, Zhao Wuxi didn't want to kill the meritorious minister early.

"It seems that I still have to learn from Qin Han, and get a 20th-class noble earlier..."

Thinking of this, Zhao Wuxi couldn't help but feel sorry for the Qin people of this era.

Qin people have the morale to share the enemy, and have the courage to fight bravely, but in Zhao Wuxi's opinion, this kind of morale is not reliable, and it will disappear at any time due to changes in the battlefield situation, and it is impossible to expect everyone to have this kind of morale. Kind of brave consciousness.

It was not until after Shang Yang's reform, that the Qin army was able to maintain a high morale from beginning to end by using the cruel laws and the "Shangshou Gong" currently used by Zhao to maximize the Qin people's nature. He didn't want to meet that terrifying army that "the Qin people donate their armor and disciples to chase the enemy, with heads on the left and prisoners on the right."

Fortunately, he came two hundred years earlier... In the eyes of Zhao Wuxi, the Qin people without Shang Yang are still an immature army in the Spring and Autumn Period. They can beat the Wei army of the Shanzhai Zhao clan and lose both, but if they encounter it. The words of Zhao's military pawn...

"Judu Rongzhi meets a cowardly husband, and the force is pressed against each other by gravity, Yugu Yezi and the baby!" Zhao Wuxi hoped that his army could do this, and when future generations commented, he would say:

Qi Zhiyong's martial arts, Chu's Shen Xijing's corpse, Qin's donated armor and sharp soldiers, and Wei's five-array soldiers can't meet Zhao's military pawns!

This is called victory over the system!

However, what the effect is, we have to fight with real guns and real swords. It's just that Zhao Wuxi didn't want to go off the court in person. He was experimenting with new weapons in Shaoliang City, watching Qin Wei wrestle in the Colosseum, pushing this one, pulling that one, so that they tired each other, and the Zhao family could win. Isn't it wonderful to be a fisherman?

However, counting the date, it has been more than half a month since the soldiers were killed. If they don't win, I am afraid that the soldiers will be tired and Zhao Jun will lose his spirit.

Zhao Wuxi smiled, and then taught Youcheng and the others a lesson: "What's more, sometimes, personal courage and morale that has been accumulated with great effort will be wiped out under powerful forces... , such as the collapse of the earth, such as... a weapon that is so powerful that it makes people desperate!"

Following Zhao Wuxi's fingers, Youcheng was shocked to realize that the siege equipment outside Shaoliang City had been completely built during the few days he was away...

Unlike the small trebuchets that were used in the Battle of Chaoge a few years ago, they are even bigger, reaching a height of 30 feet! The throwing arm is made of the trunk of a thousand-year-old tree, and is hooped with iron to prevent it from breaking. There is no longer a cannon tip for people to pull, but a hopper full of stones and dirt~www.wuxiaspot.com~ later mailed Chengcai heard from Lu Ban that it was a "weight box", or "heavy hammer".

Under the rising sun, ten huge catapults stood side by side in the open space outside the city, casting shadows on their heads, just like ten giant beasts standing up against the Shaoliang battlements slightly taller than themselves. look out.

"I used ten days to name them, Jiamu, Yimu, Binghuo, Dinghuo, Wutu, Jitu, Gengjin, Xinjin, Renshui, Guishui..." For this epoch-making weapon, Zhao Wu Xie is a little proud, looking forward to their performance and the shock they will bring to this era.

Historically, it took more than a thousand years for such weapons to appear.

They are an improved version of the drag catapult, known in Western Europe as "counterweight catapults".

However, in China, they have another familiar name, and the defenders of the city change their names when they hear it.

Back to the gun...

ps: there is another chapter in the evening

(To be continued.)