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Looking at the enlightened appearance of Youcheng, Zhao Wuxian patted him on the shoulder and explained carefully: "The Qin people are united, have simple brains, and think less, plus they have been obsessed with Hexi for generations, and they share the same hatred of the enemy, so their morale is extremely high, and the specific performance is that they are not afraid of death when fighting, and they are not easy to collapse." ”

"The Wei army is different, some of the things Wei 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. The ordinary conscripts did not have this expectation, and looking at the wolf-like Qin people rushing over, they were not thinking about desperately, but about protecting themselves, and it was strange that the right wing of the Wei army did not collapse. Thinking about it this way, Qin and Wei were both defeated, so there is nothing strange about it. ”

You Cheng admired it very much: "What the lord said, as his subordinates have seen and heard. ”

As Zhao Wuxian said, if you want to build a strong army, while emphasizing discipline, morale is also a crucial point, and the pre-Qin soldiers noticed this early, such as the "Sima Law" of Qi State: The way of war is not only to be angry, but also to make its government. Boost the morale of the soldiers as a must-do before going to war.

Sun Wuzi of the Southern Wu State also summed up the law of morale changes in wartime, he said: "It is the vigor that is sharp, the day is lazy, and the twilight returns, so those who make good use of the soldiers, avoid their sharpness, and attack their laziness, and those who control the qi are also ......."

Stepping on the shoulders of his predecessors, Zhao Jun also has a set of methods to boost the morale of the army, one of which is "etiquette", which requires the generals to be good at restraining themselves, so that they do not obey the fur in winter, do not wave the fan in summer, do not cover in the rain, and share the cold and heat with the soldiers; the second is "force", good at practicing and working with soldiers; The third is to "stop desires", restrain selfish desires, and be hungry with soldiers. Only when the generals lead by example, can the people of the three armies have the courage to fight, this point, the former Wu Jing, and Ran Qiu of Lu Guo did the best, and Zhao Wuxian also intended to shape them as models and call on the generals to learn.

Of course, the premise of all this is the already systematic system of awarding fields and knighthoods for military merits, and in this regard, the Zhao family is at the forefront of the times.

Sometimes war is a disaster that destroys civilization, and sometimes it is a motive for social development. In the brutal Jin Civil War, the large clans such as Fan, Zhongxing, and Handan, which were entrenched in the region, were destroyed and destroyed, and a large amount of land occupied by Shiqing was divided and given to the Zhao soldiers who had contributed to 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, and they are small officials in the army, and they are local small landlords with military merits in the counties and counties.

Quantitative changes led to qualitative changes, and these people gradually replaced Xiaozong and retainers and became the foundation of the Zhao clan's rule over Hebei, which was also the source of the contradiction between the Hebei and Jinyang factions of the Zhao military.

The Zhao family advocated "food is hard and meritorious", so Jinyang's old ministers, such as Youcheng and others, found that they could no longer rely on "relatives and reasons" to get promotion rewards. In addition to complaining about Shangqing's "latecomers prevailing" and nostalgic for the relationship between monarchs and ministers in the Zhao Wenzi and Jingzi eras, they also had to make changes, let go of their reserve and arrogance, roll up their sleeves, and participate in the pursuit of meritorious deeds.

Ordinary soldiers can be satisfied with cutting off a few heads and exchanging some fields and mansions and hooligans, but these higher-level people have greater pursuits.

Zhao's military law also stipulates this: if the army of the first division can kill and wound more than 200 enemies when besieging cities and towns, and if it can complete its tasks in field battles, and kill or capture more than 800 enemies, it is a complete achievement. All the troops who have made all the meritorious contributions will be rewarded to the whole army, and the reward will be divided into two categories according to the division of the doctors. For the lower lords below the doctor, only a few dozen acres of land, a few hundred dollars, and one or two slaves are given. But this is enough to prompt the poor common people to "be happy when they hear the sound of drums, and complain when they hear the sound of gold", to be able to scramble to climb the city when they are attacking, and to kill the enemy at the expense of their lives during field battles, and to consciously serve the Zhao clan.

The rewards for the high lords above the doctor's level are even heavier, and in addition to the normal official promotion, there are also "food and food" and "city tax". Zhao Wuxian also planned to use the vast land of Daijun and even Shangdi to be scattered and sealed out as bait to stimulate the enthusiasm of the doctors. This is not a false seal, but a real seal, Zhao Wuxian hopes that without spending administrative expenses, these wild Rongdi land will be turned into Chinese land. So after the lessons of the First Battle of the Dynasty, in this battle of Qin, the doctors and retainers in the Jinyang area became much more proactive.

However, in this way, the upper doctor, the middle doctor, and the lower doctor; The six-level titles of sergeant, sergeant, and corporal are already a little insufficient, such as Yu Xi, Mu Xia and other continuous battles, and those who have made outstanding contributions, it is easy to be promoted continuously, resulting in no promotion, Zhao Wuxian doesn't want to do something to kill the meritorious minister early.

"It seems that we still have to learn from Qin and Han, and get the twentieth rank as soon as possible......"

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

The Qin people had the same hatred and hatred of the enemy, and the courage to fight bravely, but in Zhao Wuxian's view, this kind of morale was not reliable, and it would disappear at any time due to changes in the battlefield situation, and it was impossible to expect everyone to have this kind of loyalty and courage.

It was not until after the Shang Dynasty changed the law, using the harsh laws and the "first gong" that the Zhao clan now used, to maximize this nature of the Qin people, that the Qin army was able to maintain high morale from beginning to end. The "Qin people donated armor to the enemy, carrying the head on the left and the captive on the right." He didn't want to meet a terrible army.

Fortunately, he came two hundred years earlier...... The Qin people without Shang Ying, in Zhao Wuxian's eyes, were still an immature army stuck in the Spring and Autumn Period, and they could defeat the Wei army of the Shanzhai Zhao clan, but if they ran into the Zhao clan's soldiers......

"Judhu Rong met the coward, pressed by gravity, Jugu Yezi and the baby!" Zhao Wuxian hopes that his army can do this, and when future generations comment on it, they will say this:

Qi Zhiyongjue's technical attack, Chu's Shen Xi Jing corpse, Qin's armor donation, and Wei's five formations of soldiers can't meet Zhao's warriors!

This is the victory over the system!

But what the effect is, you have to fight with real guns. It's just that Zhao Wuxian doesn't want to end up in person now, test new weapons in Shaoliang City, watch Qin Wei wrestle in the Colosseum, push this one, pull that, let them tire each other, and the Zhao family can benefit from the fisherman, isn't it wonderful?

However, counting the date, the time of the soldiers and Shaoliang has been more than half a month, and if they don't take it again, they are afraid that the soldiers will be tired, which will make Zhao Jun lose his sharpness.

Zhao Wuxian smiled, and taught Yu Cheng and the others a lesson: "What's more, sometimes, personal courage and morale that have been accumulated with great difficulty will become wiped out under the powerful force...... For example, the flood is monstrous, such as the collapse of the sky, such as the ...... A weapon that is desperately powerful! ”

Following Zhao Wuxian's fingers, Cheng Cheng was shocked to realize that in the past few days of his absence, the siege equipment outside Shaoliang City had been completely built......

Unlike the small trebuchets used in the Battle of the Song a few years ago, they are larger, a full three feet tall! The throwing arm was made from the trunk of a thousand-year-old tree, and was held with an iron hoop to prevent breakage, and there was no longer a cannon tip for people to pull, but instead a hopper filled with stones and earth, which was later heard by Lu Ban as a "weight box", or "heavy hammer".

In the morning sun, ten huge trebuchets stood side by side in the clearing outside the city, casting shadows above their heads, just like ten giant beasts standing, looking ill-willed towards the battlements of Shaoliang, which was slightly taller than themselves.

"I used the ten heavenly stems to choose names for them, Jiamu, Yimu, Binghuo, Dinghuo, Wutu, Jitu, Gengjin, Xinjin, Renshui, and Guishui......" Zhao Wuxian was a little proud of this epoch-making weapon, and looked forward to their performance and the shock it would bring to this era.

Historically, it would have to wait more than a thousand years for such weapons to be available.

They are an improved version of the pulling trebuchet, known in Western Europe as "counterweight trebuchets".

But in China, they have another familiar name, and the name of the defender of the city changes when he hears it.

Return to the cannon ......

PS: There is one more chapter in the evening

(To be continued.) )