They probably also noticed that the comparison between them could invisibly reduce the resentment of the army, and even reduce the internal friction of their own troops without worrying about mutiny, so the warlords had an idea.
The four warlords except Lu Yu, Zhou Qixiang and Hou Pu all asked their subordinates to educate the top soldiers - don't stare at Lu Yu's troops. What's the point of looking at them too much?
And if you want to take a closer look at Zhou Qixiang and Hou Pu's subordinates, and see how miserable their lives are, do you think the pigs you eat that make you shake your head and refuse to eat become sweeter and more delicious?
Do you feel that you are very happy?
Just be happy, how dare you not be happy?
Anyone who dared to be unhappy was killed.
You should see more people who are worse off than you are. See how miserable Zhou Qixiang and Hou Pu's men are, even starving to death. Look at us here. There are obviously fewer people who starve to death.
This is the advantage, this is happiness, and this is why we will definitely beat Zhou Qixiang and Hou Pu.
Through this series of words, the top soldiers of these four warlords really made less trouble, and even became a little more active when fighting. This surprised the four warlords.
Sure enough, comparing people to each other can irritate people to death. All the truth in the world actually lies in the word "contrast".
As for the fact that the four major warlords regarded themselves as a joke, Zhou Qixiang and Hou Pu, who were eating and drinking in a comfortable house and playing with women, also felt a great sense of shame and crisis.
As their army was starving to death due to lack of food and clothing, and with the help of [friendly forces] from various teams, they realized that if they continued like this, they would likely trigger a mutiny in the army before they could conquer Chengdu.
Once a mutiny breaks out, if you are lucky, you can suppress it. If you are not lucky, you may have to go to the underworld to meet Yama. Why do you want to kill the dog emperor or seize the bird position?
No, we can't continue like this.
We must find a way to change this situation.
Normal people know that dressing soldiers well and feeding them is the best way to solve problems, but how can warlords be normal people?
Therefore, it is impossible to improve the food treatment for the cattle and horses.
It's not that they don't have the money, it's mainly that they are reluctant and don't think they should use their own money to improve the treatment of the cattle and horses.
Cows and horses are born to endure hardships. How can we keep them fed and clothed?
This is not normal.
So in order to prevent them from feeling that suffering is wrong in itself, and in order to prevent them from feeling that food and clothing are what people deserve, we have to find another way.
Use spiritual victory methods.
They summoned mid-level and senior officers to teach them the method of spiritual victory, which is to find the weak points of the opponent and the good points of themselves. As long as they can find one place, it can be regarded as victory. As long as there is one outstanding place, they can win. Come out to generalize.
Anyway, the right to speak is in my hands, so it doesn’t matter what I say.
So they began to compare themselves to each other, and began to look for ways in which the other party was not as good as themselves.
It's certainly easy.
After all, Hou Pu's army was transformed from a regular army and had better weapons and equipment. So Hou Pu's army began to promote that it was better than Zhou Qixiang's army because their weapons and equipment were better and they had many good steel knives.
Many of Zhou Qixiang's troops even used wooden sticks with their heads sharpened.
Funny, right?
After such a comparison, the top soldiers under Hou Pu's command immediately felt an inexplicable sense of pride, and they suddenly felt that they were less resentful about not having enough to eat.
At least we have steel knives and weapons, and we can protect ourselves better when we kill the enemy.
And they are actually wooden sticks, hahahahaha!
After Zhou Qixiang heard about this incident, he was so angry that he scolded Hou Pu for being a bastard who was indifferent to human affairs and only looking for his own pain points, so he also tried his best to find Hou Pu's pain points.
Through careful investigation, Zhou Qixiang found that more people in Hou Pu's army starved to death than in his own army.
Only seven or eight people in his own army starved to death in one day, while Hou Pu's army suffered from starvation and disease, and more than twenty people were lost in one day without combat.
Isn’t this a huge victory?
So he seized on Hou Pu's pain point and publicized it in his army, criticizing Hou Pu's cruelty and unkindness, promoting his own benevolence and righteousness, so that the horses and horses in his army could feel proud and happy, thus increasing his safety factor.
Of course Hou Pu was even more angry.
So the two sides began to fight more fiercely.
As a result, a chain of contempt emerged in the army outside the city. Lu's troops despised the four warlords, the four warlords despised Zhou Qixiang and Hou Pu, and Zhou Qixiang and Hou Pu despised each other.
In addition to this main contempt chain, each warlord's troops will also have some auxiliary contempt chains.
Anyway, the warlord's troops are just as bad. You can always find the bad points if you look for them. There is no such thing as an invulnerable one.
For example, a relatively high-status commander under Lu He was as good as Long Yang. He often coerced his subordinates to provide services to him. The better the service, the higher his position.
Then during the siege, this situation was bumped into by other warlords when they came to visit, and it became a joke for a while.
The other major warlords immediately laughed at Lu? He was Long Yangjun, and said that he might as well change his army's military name to Longyang Army. Anyway, the officers were promoted based on this skill, and the entire army was solved internally. What is needed is simply a saint-level army.
An army that does not fight for women, O saint!
The remaining six warlords laughed at Lu Yu.
Lu He lost the face of his boss, and the morale of the whole army was greatly reduced. He could not hold his head up in front of other armies. In anger, Lu He directly chopped up the commander.
The situation outside the city is very bad, but should I mention that the only army among the seven is the Army? This one can barely be regarded as an army. The soldiers can basically eat and wear clothes, so they are more brave in fighting. The greatest pressure was placed on Chengdu during the siege.
The other six armies each have their own difficulties and their own points of laughter. They lack something here and there, and they can't keep up even with supplies.
If people really wanted to starve to death in large numbers, there would be no need to fight this war. So on the advice of their aides, the warlords were forced to spend money to buy it from the army, which had abundant supplies.
The military officially came forward to buy them, but the soldiers would also buy them privately with money, or exchange them with each other. The rest area of the military camp outside Chengdu became a vegetable market.
There are also quartermasters in some armies who have made a lot of money from this business, which has attracted many people to follow suit, so that there are more people who are serious about doing business than serious about fighting.
With the war fought like this, the progress can be imagined.
From the end of October of the seventh year of Hongwu to the beginning of December of the seventh year of Hongwu, more than 100,000 warlords' coalition forces were able to fill up the moat and began to roll out siege equipment to prepare for a direct attack on the city, preparing for ants to ascend the city and engage in hand-to-hand combat.
But the defenders of Chengdu are not a vegetarian. The advantage of the moat is gone, so they use the advantage of the city wall. They are full of all kinds of defensive equipment and the city is extremely full of supplies. Old farmers like golden juice are ecstatic to see strategic materials like hot water. The same goes down for free.
For a time, there was a strong atmosphere outside Chengdu in the cold wind that moved people to tears.
This strong smell brought a very high casualty rate to the troops outside the city, so whenever this familiar smell wafted out, the siege troops outside the city would always flee in panic.
Under the insistence of the Chengdu garrison, the battle had been going on for more than a month with little progress. According to the estimates of the social elites under the seven warlords, the battle would not be completed in a year.
Of course, this in itself is not a problem. It is normal to fight around a city for several years. It is just that at this moment, under the city of Chengdu, doing so is a bit problematic.
Because the threat from the Ming army is still there.
Especially when the news came that the Ming army had captured Chongqing Prefecture, there was panic outside Chengdu.
Luzhou was in danger, and Zhou Qixiang's and Zhu Liang's troops, whose bases were very close to Luzhou, could not sit still, for fear that the Ming army would come and directly overthrow their nests.
Although there was no news that the Ming army was dispatched for battle yet, in early December, the worried Zhou Qixiang and Zhu Liang had no choice but to withdraw from the finals of the Sichuan-Shu Emperor Competition and actively chose to become one of the heroes. rather than the emperor.
They have to go back to their old place and protect their roots.
Their withdrawal made the other five people very happy, because they felt that with Zhou Qixiang and Zhu Liang blocking them, they could seize the emperor's throne more easily, and the probability of becoming the emperor suddenly changed from one in seven to five. one part.
Beautiful.
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