"Last month, the king sent an edict to Yangcheng, saying that King Jing offered Qingyang to the west, and he had made an appointment to attack my Nanjun, so he sent troops to punish ......him."

After talking about the incident of last month, Heifu said to Li You: "This matter doesn't matter to the soldiers of other counties, but the soldiers of our southern counties are different. When I heard that my hometown was in love, I couldn't help but be horrified. For more than a month, there have been constant speculations in the army, and the soldiers have continued to ask the hundred generals and the tun chief, and the hundred generals and tun commanders do not know the details, and then ask the rate chief and the five hundred masters, but they have not received a formal answer. ”

It's not that the commander and the five hundred masters didn't tell the soldiers the truth, these middle-level officers also didn't know much about what was happening at home and didn't dare to talk nonsense.

What happened to South County? Which counties were affected by the war? Are you okay at home? Except for Heifu and other officers, who can inquire layer by layer and get ambiguous information, most of the soldiers are still in a state of confusion.

These days, when you're away on the road, don't expect to be able to keep in touch with your family, and there's no newspaper news or anything like that that will keep you informed about what's happening thousands of miles away. Some officers even thought it was a secret and kept silent, which caused suspicion among the soldiers.

Heifu knows that Ji Ying often chats with people when he takes people out to chop wood, and when he comes back, he tells Heifu that the gossip in the army can't stop, and there is everything.

Some people say that several counties in Nanjun were destroyed by the Chu army, and their hometown was burned to the ground, and some people even added that even Jiangling had fallen......

This makes the soldiers of Nanjun even more like arrows, there is an accident at home, who still has the heart to fight outside?

"Therefore, if you want to ban rumors, you must first start by telling the soldiers the truth, and only the lieutenant can do this."

Li You, as a lieutenant sent by Xianyang, is a high-ranking officer, and his understanding of the overall situation of this war is, of course, the ratio is long, and the five hundred lords are much stronger. If he personally came forward to refute the rumors and tell everyone that there was nothing wrong with Nanjun, the rumors would be self-defeating.

"Good, I will immediately let the heralds go to each battalion to give orders, so that everyone knows that Nanjun is fine."

Li You wrote an essay on the spot, and after writing it, he also asked Heifu to read it through his eyes.

"Jing Guo is in Nanjun, such as the trouble of the henchmen, and like the courtyard and the wolf's den living next to each other, so if the Jing country is not destroyed, then the Nanjun County needs to be vigilant every year, and the father and elder of the second and third sons' hometown Lu will not be ......at peace."

After reading it, Heifu was immediately full of praise: "The article of the lieutenant is really wonderful, it not only calms the hearts of the soldiers, but also encourages everyone to fight for the defense of their homeland." ”

He is not simply a sycophant, because Li You's writing is really good.

Heifu knew that Li Si was not only a trusted minister of the King of Qin, but also a well-known calligrapher in the world, and wrote the famous passage of "The Order of Expulsion of Guests".

This Li You is worthy of being Li Si's son, he not only writes well, but the language of the article is not obscure and easy to understand. And it seems that every sentence is considered from the position of a soldier, and there is no empty word of "fighting for the king, fighting for the Qin State", but it has found a reasonable reason to fight for everyone: to defend the hometown and defend the southern county!

Li Youlet the heralds bring this document to the battalions, and call the soldiers in turn to read it, and those who dare to gossip in the future will be severely punished!

"That's a good idea." Li You praised Heifu and said: "When Captain Bendu first came to the army, he really didn't know what the soldiers were thinking, and he couldn't patrol the camp at all times. ”

Heifu didn't even dare to say it, and at the same time said with some hesitation: "However, this strategy can only make the soldiers no longer suspicious and let the rumors in the camp calm down." The subordinates also have an idea, which may be able to completely calm the hearts of the people, improve morale, and fight hard. ”

"Say it." After Li You sat back on the case, although this black man was young and had a low background, he looked like a rough man, and he had a lot of ideas, so it seemed that it was a wise choice to promote him to be a short soldier.

Heifu said, "The captain needs a lishi. ”

"Rees?"

Li You thought thoughtfully.

He remembered that "Wu Zi" once recorded a conversation between Wu Qi and Wei Wuhou.

Wei Wuhou asked Wu Qi, is it enough to be punished and rewarded?

Wu Qi replied that this is not enough to win, and only by reaching the three points of "giving orders and people are happy to hear about them, rejuvenating the army and mobilizing the people and people are happy to fight, and handing over the troops and people are happy to die" can we win the game safely.

If you want to achieve these three points, the method provided by Wu Qi is Lishi.

Let people with different meritorious deeds be rewarded with different titles of Tian Zhai, so that the families of the dead soldiers do not have to get nothing because of the death of their younger brothers, these things that are occasionally carried out by other countries, in the Qin State, there are already Qin laws to guarantee. Therefore, when there is a war, the Qin people will be happy when they hear the war, and when their parents and wives say goodbye, they also encourage them: "If you don't have a title, then don't come back!" ”

This was a recipe for the Qin army to win a hundred battles, so Li You, as the commander of the army, what he could do personally was nothing more than to follow the example of Wu Qi and Sima Sui Tho, personally inspect the camp, and treat the soldiers with meat and wine before the war, showing that he loves the soldiers like sons, nothing more.

The husband is drunk, rich and recuperating, not wanting to be drunk and full, so it is also ......

However, when Li You thought about ordering the soldiers to add food, Heifu shook his head and said: "The subordinates think that what the Nanjun soldiers need most now is not the gift of cattle wine......

The food encouragement must have had an effect, but Heifu felt that what the soldiers of Nanjun needed most now was spiritual comfort, something that could calm their hearts that were disturbed by homesickness.

After listening to Heifu's advice, even Li You, who was happy to accept it, frowned.

"Let the soldiers write a letter home?"

……

Li You did not immediately agree to Heifu's suggestion, but asked the heralds to go to each battalion to read out the rumor-refuting documents, and then summoned the commander and the five hundred lords.

Just when Heifu was about to say goodbye, Li You asked him to stay.

"You, the one who gave the advice, are gone, how is Captain Pontus going to discuss it?"

Heifu hurriedly said: "The subordinate should be on duty today." ”

"Let the other short-rangers do it for you." Li You had no doubt, and immediately recruited the five hundred masters who managed the short soldiers, asked him to adjust his defense, and asked him to replace Heifu.

The five hundred lords took the order and left, and when he announced the news, the four hundred generals who had given Heifu the nickname "Hundred Generals of the Hundred Guards" were all shocked by this order, and their hearts were jealous and jealous.

They have followed Li You for half a year, and the longest has been for a year or two, but they have never been treated like this.

Even Zhai Chong opened his mouth slightly, he didn't expect that when the hundred generals of the short army isolated Heifu and didn't play with him, Heifu had already relied on his suggestions and suggestions to join the military discussion that only the commander and five hundred masters could participate in.

Who is not looking down on whom? And who is left behind?

It's only been a few days since I've been here for a few days, and I've got it so much, and I'll be able to pay it back in the future?

After a while, the leader and the five hundred lords came to the big tent, and when they opened the tent door and saw that there was a small hundred generals standing at the end of the tent and waiting with a smile, they were also slightly stunned. Heifu's former boss, Cheng Wuwu, was even more surprised.

"Hef, aren't you supposed to be guarding outside the tent?"

Heifu showed an embarrassed smile: "Lieutenant asked me to stay and participate in the military ......"

Cheng Wuwu immediately looked Heifu up and down, as if he knew him for the first time, although he had a good impression of Heifu and knew that he was a subordinate who would come to things, but he didn't expect that Heifu would get the attention of Captain Li You so quickly.

Surprise is surprise, but this does not prevent the military officials from hearing Li You's advice and immediately take the case.

"Let the soldiers write a letter home? Not to mention that the war is imminent now, let's just say that it is difficult to make the whole song 5,000 people believe in one person. The lieutenant, in the opinion of the subordinates, this strategy is very absurd and must not be feasible. ”

One of the leaders was the first to criticize the suggestion as useless, and the others also bowed their heads in agreement, feeling that this idea was purely a snake to add.

After everyone finished refuting, Li Youcai nodded and signaled that Heifu could speak.

Only then did Heifu get up from the end of the tent, and after bowing to everyone, he said softly: "The subordinates are shallow and vulgar, I just want to ask you, in the past three months, have you ever written home to inform your family that you can't return home on time?" ”

The military officials looked at each other, and as officers, some of them had personal connections, and it was not difficult to ask an acquaintance, or to stuff their personal letters into the carriage of official mail and send them back. There is less than one letter from home, and most of them have already had a back and forth, and they have received winter clothes from home.

After receiving everyone's affirmation, Heifu asked again: "Dare to ask you, if there is no correspondence, you don't know about the affairs of your family, and your family doesn't know your life and death, can you be at peace in your hearts?" ”

The chief and the five hundred lords are a little embarrassed, in that case, the family members are about to die, and they can't feel at ease here.

Heifu smiled and said: "Most of our Nanjun soldiers were conscripted into the army from the first month (October), after the battle to destroy Wei, it was already May, it stands to reason that they will return to their hometown in June, and they will be able to return to Nanjun in July and August to help their families harvest the Mid-Autumn Festival." But halfway through, we were stopped by a new military order and told everyone to stand by and be told that there was a big battle to be fought. ”

"The soldiers are not without complaints, but they also know that military law is like a mountain, and if they flee rashly, they will affect their families, and they will stay in the camp honestly."

"But in Yangcheng, the hearts of the soldiers have already flown back to Nanjun, Nanjun was attacked by Jing State, is the family safe? Originally, the military period was only one year, but now I am afraid that it will be extended for several months or even half a year, and the family has not heard from them, and they are afraid that they are anxious. The titles and fields that the soldiers got in the battle to destroy Wei don't know if they got it at home? A thousand words, but they can only be separated by mountains and rivers, and they can't come and go, which is why the soldiers want to return......"

"In the past three months, many of the 100 people under my command have come to me and asked me if they could send letters to my home. I don't want to receive a reply from my family, but I want to send the letter I want to ask to Jianmu, so that the family knows that they are okay, so that they can have peace of mind for a while. ”

His voice slowly grew louder.

"Compare your heart to your heart, you kings, a hundred soldiers, and five thousand soldiers!"

After that, Heifu waved at everyone in the tent: "Therefore, this is not Heifu's whim, but the wish of the whole army!" ”

There was silence in the tent, and when it came to this, the chief and the five hundred lords had no reason to object, but there were still some objections to how to implement it.

"Each person has a slip, I don't know how much it takes to write a letter, and there are few literate people in the army, how can everyone write letters?"

Others were worried: "If the soldiers do not choose what they say, I am afraid that they will leak military secrets." ”

Heifu replied, "It will be a month or two before the letter arrives at home, and we will probably no longer be in Yangcheng by then." In addition, the soldiers who want to write letters and return home can prepare their own wooden slabs, in addition, every hundred, every hundred literate generals, tun chiefs must help their comrades write family letters, soldiers dictate, military officials ghostwriting. In this way, it only takes three days, and the letter can not pull five carts, so it can calm the hearts of 5,000 soldiers, so why not? ”

After that, he urged Li Youdao: "At that time, the lieutenant can also personally inspect the camp and write letters to several soldiers with his own hands." There is a saying in Anlu County, the beacon fire lasts for three months, and the family letter is worth 10,000 gold! Du Wei's move, in the hearts of the soldiers, is better than the gift of ten thousand gold! The soldiers will be grateful to Dade and die for the captain! ”

After listening to Heifu's words, Li Youyi was moved.

"The beacon fire has been in the rain for three months, and the family letter is worth 10,000 dollars? There seems to be some truth. ”

"In the past, Sima Sui Tho and Wu Qi were all personally inspired. Rise up as a general, lie down without a seat, do not ride, personally wrap to win food, and share the labor with the soldiers. Those who have disease will be sucked up, so the soldiers will not spin their heels in battle......"

"If I can personally write a few letters to the soldiers today, I may be able to have a similar effect, so that everyone knows that I love the soldiers, so that the hearts of the soldiers can be collected, and the soldiers can be used by me!"

The Art of War says that the pawn is regarded as a baby, so he can go to the deep stream with him; Treat the pawn as a beloved son, so he can die with him. It's easy to say, but it's hard to do, the soldiers are not stupid, and they can see the truth and falsehood. Therefore, even if many generals have the intention to follow suit, they will not be able to achieve the effect of Wu Qi and Sima Sui Tho.

But now, there is an opportunity in front of Li You, promising to let the soldiers write a letter, which can also prove that Nanjun is indeed fine, so that they can finish this battle with peace of mind.

So Li Duwei applauded: "I have made up my mind, this strategy is feasible!" ”

The commander and the five hundred lords saw that the captain had made a decision, and they could only make promises.

Seeing that the goal was achieved, Heifu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but laughed at himself in his heart: "In the future, my nickname is afraid that it will become 'a hundred generals in the family'." ”