Zhao Yucheng still remembered what the quartermasters said when they sent information to the peasant army.
They said that Shao Hongyuan and Qi Fang were at odds and had conflicts. Shao Hongyuan wanted to fight, but Qi Fang did not want to fight. This was why Shao Hongyuan was defeated many times when he entered the army alone.
Qi Fang had no intention of sincere cooperation with Shao Hongyuan at all, and there were many disagreements between the two.
According to the report of the secret agent who lurked into the Song Army, after Feng Shixing arrived as a supervisor, he teamed up with Shao Hongyuan to attack Qi Fang. He quickly seized Qi Fang's handle, captured Qi Fang, dismissed him, and quickly sent him to Lin'an to convict him. , resulting in established facts.
Then Qi Fang's die-hard cronies were also killed by Shao Hongyuan, quickly disarmed and captured.
The remaining tens of thousands of troops were leaderless and in chaos, but they were also very dissatisfied with Shao Hongyuan, who acted as a blackface, and there were faint signs of doing something against Shao Hongyuan.
At this time, Feng Shixing stood up to appease people's hearts, announced Qi Fang's guilt, and made a public commitment, deciding to only blame Qi Fang and his main cronies, not the entire army.
Therefore, Qi Fang's old troops did not cause rebellion, but chose to accept Feng Shixing's instructions.
In their view, at least Feng Shixing represented the Central Privy Council, was a civil official, and was a Jinshi among Jinshi - the number one scholar. He had a natural attribute to suppress this group of big soldiers, and it was natural to control them.
The blindness of the big-headed soldiers to the attributes of the central Jinshi and civil servants was created by the Song Dynasty court for hundreds of years. Not to mention that Feng Shixing was a scholar. Most of the big-headed soldiers came from the people. Out of the people's worship of [Wenquxing], they Of course there will be similar episodes of worship.
After entering the army, you will also bring this kind of plot into the army.
At present, this group of top soldiers is afraid of Feng Shixing, a civil servant of the Central Privy Council who was born as a champion, and dare not confront him.
They listened to whatever Feng Shixing said, and they believed Feng Shixing when he said he would not be held guilty. As a result, the army gained initial stability, and Shao Hongyuan was able to control the army with Feng Shixing's support.
Without Feng Shixing's appearance and statement, it would be too difficult for Shao Hongyuan alone to do this, and it would easily cause civil strife in the army.
Not to mention that he was defeated twice in the face of the peasant army. For now, he has no prestige at all.
Feng Shixing and Shao Hongyuan originally planned to slowly reorganize the army, disband and reorganize Qi Fang's old troops, so that they could directly command and reduce possible troubles in the future. However, Feng Shixing suddenly died of illness, and the reorganization of the army was suddenly stopped, and an embarrassing situation was born.
The only leader in the Song army was Shao Hongyuan.
Most of the 50,000 to 60,000 Song troops were Qi Fang's old troops. There were only a few thousand of Shao Hongyuan's trusted followers, which was a minority and could not represent the vast majority of Song troops.
In other words, the current Song army is actually unstable and uneven.
After some analysis, Zhao Yucheng found his deputy Du Qi, discussed with him, and analyzed the factional conflicts within the Song Army, and the two quickly reached a consensus.
Zhao Yucheng decided to spread rumors among the Song army that Shao Hongyuan did not intend to let Qi Fang's old troops go.
The reason why he said this before was just an expedient, to stabilize people's hearts and to plan for the future.
In fact, Shao Hongyuan hated Qi Fang very much for causing the death of thousands of his subordinates and many defeats. Now, although Qi Fang has fallen, Qi Fang's subordinates are also a group of people who directly caused Shao Hongyuan's losses, and they are also guilty.
Shao Hongyuan did not intend to let anyone go. Not only did he want to punish these people, but he also wanted to use war to send them into the mountains one by one to die.
In fact, Shao Hongyuan had no confidence that he could defeat the peasant army in Luoxiao Mountain. He just wanted to use the lives of tens of thousands of them in exchange for his victory and make up for the losses he had suffered before.
And if he wins, then Qi Fang's old subordinates who were lucky enough to survive after the war will also be purged by him. They will not receive awards at all, but will be killed by him for various reasons.
Because he is the general, he has this power, and he will make full use of this power to turn the army into his personal property.
After Zhao Yucheng made up this rumor, he felt that this was one of the possible methods for Shao Hongyuan.
The Song army was filled with factional, geographical, political, and other factional disputes. If two armies that were previously hostile were suddenly merged into one, there would inevitably be big problems.
Discord between two generals will inevitably lead to collisions and fights between armies, and they will become rivals. The hatred for the real enemy may not be as strong as the hatred for this opponent.
There are no instructors in the Song army who can teach everyone to put aside regional disputes and use class as the program. We are all hard-working cows and horses and should unite to fight against the superiors.
Based on this, the Ming army had a complete set of systematic ideological methodologies that could bridge the gap between soldiers from different regions, allowing them to quickly form mutual trust and form strong synergy and organization, thereby improving combat effectiveness. .
At least within the Ming Army group, everyone has a common identity, and the Luoxiaoshan Peasant Army, which is a branch of the Ming Army, naturally also has such an identity.
In the Song Army, there is no such precious identity, so the Song Army is destined to be unable to twist into a rope and become an absolute fighting force.
Therefore, it is absolutely feasible to use this method of attacking the Song Army's mind.
While Zhao Yucheng's attack on the heart was going on, Shao Hongyuan was still having a headache over Feng Shixing's death.
Feng Shixing originally shared the pressure of commanding the army with him and shielded him from the wind and rain. He was able to successfully complete the reorganization and reorganization of the army. After all, as a veteran general, he still had this ability.
However, once Feng Shixing died of illness, the military situation that had just stabilized began to become a bit turbulent again. Shao Hongyuan could clearly feel the change in the atmosphere in the army, with those hostile and suspicious eyes.
This made him very uncomfortable, so he naturally mobilized his troops to defend the surroundings of his general's tent, so that he could have some sense of security.
Then he tried to use rewards to stabilize people's hearts. He gave some military expenses to the army and spread a wave of money. Only then could he barely survive the first difficulty.
But the problems he faced were far from over.
I don’t know when, a rumor began to spread in the Song Army camp.
Regarding Shao Hongyuan's preparations to use the war to complete the purge of Qi Fang's old ministry.
The rumors made everything clear, saying that Shao Hongyuan had always been resentful that Qi Fang did not send troops to help him suppress the bandits, which led to his loss of troops, so he had always planned to take revenge on Qi Fang. Now Qi Fang has solved it, but Qi Fang's The accomplices have not yet been dealt with.
The so-called accomplices are, of course, their group of unlucky top soldiers and middle- and low-level officers. Shao Hongyuan believes that they are also Qi Fang's supporters and are not worthy of trust, so he is trying every means to get rid of them all to relieve his hatred.
The specific method is to use them to launch an attack on Luoxiao Mountain. As we all know, Luoxiao Mountain is so huge that throwing 50,000 to 60,000 troops is like spreading a handful of salt into Poyang Lake.
Shao Hongyuan himself knew that this kind of thing was completely impossible to succeed, but he knew even better that this matter would only bring benefits to him, and no harm.
Not only can he clean up the thief army, he can also consume Qi Fang's old troops, and use the blood of the thief army and Qi Fang's old troops in exchange for his own glory and wealth.
This is his wishful thinking.
There were even rumors that vaguely connected him with Feng Shixing's death, saying that Feng Shixing would not die of illness so quickly just after he came to the military camp. There must be something fishy in this.
Who caused Feng Shixing to die of illness so quickly?
