Chapter 64 Psychological warfare of the decisive battle
In the fourth year of Yonghui (653 AD), October 29th, the fourth hour of the lunar calendar.
On October 27th, both sides were exhausted physically and mentally. They had a tacit ceasefire and reorganized their own teams. What Wu Kang had to do was send the fallen soldiers home, properly arrange the wounded soldiers, mobilize military supplies and other logistics.
Alcohol disinfection, wound suture, and rescue a large number of wounded people. According to Dr. Hua, the infection rate is less than 10%. The minor injury was fatal before, but now the major injury is alive, and the soldiers are surprised. The facts are invisibly weakened. The soldiers' fear of injury may fight again and will be even more desperate.
If the morale and prestige before were 60%, then the battlefield medical team pushed the morale to 70%.
The alcohol explosion burned five hundred armored soldiers to death, and Wu Kang was deified again. At this time, the skill tree turned into: condensed water into ice, called wind and rain, and drove away thunder and fire. The boss had fairy skills and would be invincible. The morale of the army rose again, and the morale reached 80%.
When inspecting the military camp, whenever I listen to such rhetoric, I feel that I am cultivating my true feelings, and I have worked hard to break superstitions, but it has become the biggest superstition. But this is also good, I will temporarily play a guest appearance as a god to increase the morale of our army and attack the morale of the rebels.
The foundation of the Muzhou rebellion is corrupt officials; Chen Shuozhen is the foundation of the leader and relies on cults to deceive the villagers. The fire also burned the morale of the rebels, and the leaders of the officers and soldiers are also gods, and their abilities are higher than the queen. Can this battle be won?
Chen Shuozhen expressed dissatisfaction. In order to prove that he was better, he did nothing else in the past two days, and performed magic tricks in the rebel camp. Such as turning into a living person, taking objects from afar, etc., and improving morale like a monkey, it was simply a "magician" who was delayed by the "Queen".
After two days of deception, the effect was immediately effective and finally regrouped. However, this morning, the morale trough bottomed out again. Because the spy brought back the news, the dog official Jiang Hongzhu was cut down. Jiang Hongzhu was the governor of Muzhou and was notorious in Muzhou. The rebels who received the news came out to watch.
On the stone slate of Lanyin Mountain, two heads were hung with hemp ropes, one head and the other pig head, and a long flag was hung below. The literate rebels read aloud, and the pig head flag was written as "The head is returned to the pig's life", and the human head flag was written as "The Jiang Gou Official".
The rebels ran around and told each other, cheering, and some cried with joy. Jianggou officials deserved the crime. If it weren't for your harm and we had no way to survive, we wouldn't have taken the path of "rebellion" and no return.
In the northwest corner of the Fire Dragon Camp, the small barracks of ten people were also talking about this. The soldiers were spitting and staring, and they described it as Wu Ning interrogated the official Jiang Gou and introduced the beheading process. The vivid appearance made the comrades who were not aware of the truth think that he was in the scene.
After the story was finished, the comrades praised him and stopped. The rebel A said angrily: "The Jianggou official should be killed. We should not let us raise pigs. My big pig and sow were beaten to death by those gray dogs with water and fire sticks."
The comrades nodded repeatedly, and the rebel B complained: "There are no pigs at home, and there is not enough feces in spring, and it is not raining yet. The food collected in the fields was taken away by the dog officials. The villagers were hungry, and Yeah, they starved to death... They were all harmed by the dog officials in Jiang."
The rebel C-speaking: "If I have food and can survive, I will not rebel. Dear fellow villagers, there is a sudden problem... Jianggou official ruined our family and killed us, and we can't survive. Wu Biejia... Wu Yin chopped his head to avenge us?"
As soon as this statement appeared, everyone thought about it carefully, it made sense. Seeing that the comrades agreed, the rebel C whispered: "He is our benefactor, right? We will beat him now and even chop him up. Is it avenge you?"
After everyone thought about it, they felt it made sense. Rebel A took the speech: "Since I was a child, my grandfather said that repaying the grace of a drop of water will bring us a spring of water. My grandfather also said that repaying grace with grudges is a sin. The King of Hell must dig his heart, and he cannot bury his ancestral grave if he dies."
The atmosphere was a little depressed, and I was squatting in the corner, not intending to stop it. I slowly raised my head, closed my eyes slowly, and remembered my familiar face, and thought of "repaying kindness with hatred", and my heart was filled with turmoil: I have received the kindness of Wu Gong more than once.
I remember that last year, the gray dog in Zhishan County killed the sows and fifteen piglets from his sister's family, and injured his sister's family. A team of nobles passed by, gave his sister four taels of silver and said they would buy a dead pig. My sister moved to Hangzhou and relied on the four taels of silver to do small business.
I asked me to ask about my benefactor and said I wanted to repay the money to repay the kindness. I asked from many sources but failed. Until a few days ago, I finally saw my benefactor, and it turned out to be Wu Biejia. If my sister knew that I was fighting with Wu Biejia, I would be angry and crying if I was angry?
The rebel B came over and said with a pity, "Sanxi is the tallest person. I heard that Wu Bie Jia... Wu Ning is our Jishan Mountain native? He is two feet tall, green face and fangs, and eats people's hearts every day. Is it true? Xue Silang said, you were captured by the government army and saw Wu Ning, let me tell you."
Sanxi nodded and whispered: "Wu Biejia is from Wujia Village, more than 30 miles away from our village. He is nine feet tall, has no green face and fangs, and does not eat people's hearts. Those who were caught with me were not heartbroken."
Everyone was full of interest and immediately surrounded him. The rebel A continued, "Xue Silang also said, "Wu Biejia will treat your injuries and give you food. A cooked cake as big as a palm, a small half a pound, a large bowl of rice porridge you drank, or did Wu Biejia feed it?"
Sanxi's eyes were slightly red, and he looked at the broken right hand, and focused his head: "Wu Biejia said, give two cakes with minor injuries, and add a bowl of porridge if you are seriously injured. I didn't take the porridge firmly, and he served another bowl of it. It was full of thick rice, and I couldn't see the soup, so I fed it one spoonful of spoonfuls."
Everyone looked disbelief, and after a while, the rebel B said, "It turns out that Xue Silang didn't say nonsense. General Tong said that he... was cursed by Wu Yan, and it was nonsense, so he killed him to sacrifice the flag. Xue Si was wronged, don't you think so?"
The rebels agreed, and Sanxi smiled bitterly. Not only was Xue Si gone, but all the 300 people arrested together were gone. I was lucky, or unlucky, and I was attracted by that woman and went there to serve me every day. If not, I would have been organized into the Fire Leopard Camp and killed by the official army like them.
Later the woman said that those people deserve to die, and they promote the good of martial arts and slandering everywhere, and the evil words and confusing the morale of the army. But that's the truth, they really treat our wounds and give us food. And those wines, which were not cheap at first glance, even scratched our wounds...
The reverie was interrupted, and the rebel A said, "According to Sanxi's words, Wu Biejia is a good official! General Cheng said that the officers and soldiers were very bad and often killed good people and made contributions. But Wu Biejia is a good official for exchanging military merits for the people."
Rebel B said: "I think so too, only good officials will kill dog officials. I heard from the incompetent businessman Chen Liu that Wu Biezhu asked for rain and set himself on fire. God was moved and it caused heavy rain to Wuzhou. If he was the magistrate of Zhishan County, it would rain in Muzhou and we would have a harvest."
The words were firm, and everyone nodded and said yes. The rebel B snorted coldly: "What kind of evil have we committed? If we meet the Jiang Gou Guan, we cannot meet the Wu Biejia. If we can survive, we will definitely go to Wuzhou and live a good life."
The rebels who had been silent suddenly raised the question: "The leader of Xuannv said that the stolen officials harmed us, so they killed the stolen officials. Wu Biejia is a good official, why should he kill him?"
The problem was very profound, everyone fell into deep thought and their faces were quite entangled. More than ten minutes later, the barracks door opened, the leader’s personal guard came in, and waved to Sanxi.
Seeing everyone envious, disgust flashed in their eyes, Sanxi slowly stood up and left. The woman treated me as a plaything for her and her personal guards, and was willing to humiliate her. But it didn't matter. I found a big secret. I decided to confirm whether it was true tonight and found a way to notify Mr. Wu to repay his great kindness twice.
When he left the barracks, everyone immediately formed a group and discussed it in a vague way. We were so lucky that we could go to the queen's bed. We were so beautiful, and we heard the roar of the gang and wanted to fight with the official army again. We looked at each other for a moment, and disgust appeared in our eyes. The rebels even whispered: Damn battle...
If Wu Kang knows about their discussion, he will definitely be happy again. This is my plan, which makes you think that I am a good official and a benefactor to avenge you. Kidnapping your heart with morality will make you confused, guilty, and hurt your morale.
The word "分" has a lot of mystery. The previous time I jumped three feet away was when I learned about the rebels and saw Jiang Yuanzhu's head.
This move follows the example of Emperor Jing of Han killing Chao Cuo. Lao Chao suggested to reduce the vassals, and the vassal king led by King Wu, and the Qing dynasty killed Chao Cuo and launched a rebellion of the Seven Kings. In order to calm the anger of the vassal kings, Emperor Jing of Han killed Chao Cuo in half, but it was useless and the war still broke out.
With Jiang Hongzhu's head, he calmed the rebellion of Muzhou and his resentment and anger towards the officials. These two negative emotions are also closely related to morale. The smaller the emotions, the lower the morale. Wu Kang believed that it would be useful. Chen Shuozhen was not a vassal king and had the limitations of the small peasant's thoughts; the rebels were not the soldiers she raised, and they would not have the loyalty of the vassal soldiers.
Beheading the Governor Jiang: Yesterday afternoon, a meeting was held to interrogate Jiang Yuanzhu. Two major crimes were listed: the governance of Muzhou was ineffective, which led to the public's resentment and breeding the Muzhou rebellion; fleeing without fighting, causing the fall of the city of Zhou and causing Muzhou to fall into the enemy. Two hats were taken down and the Central Army was beheaded.
Of course, this is just a show-off. Jiang Hongzhu, who was interrogated, was indeed the governor of Muzhou; the heads of the rebels were beheaded. After all, the governor of Yizhou, even if he was guilty of great sin, Wu Kang would not dare to kill him without the imperial edict of President Li.
It is necessary to examine the governor of the true nature, because the governor of the Tang Dynasty did not have much airs, basically rode a horse but did not ride a sedan chair, and often appeared on the street. If you find someone casually, you will not be fooled by enemy spies.
After the interrogation, Wei Xiaobao followed the example of killing Feng Xifan, and used the prepared prisoner to remove Bao Jiang Yuanzhu. He tied his hair with a hemp rope and hung it on the stone rock. Wu Kang bet on Widow Chen and would not go up the mountain to check, but he really won the bet.
After many twists and turns, all the younger brothers, led by Di Renjie, opposed the trial of the governor. The newly issued "Tang Law Commentary" stipulates that all officials (local officials) who are on missions, including the governor, the governor, the Zhechong, the county magistrate, etc., will commit crimes locally and cannot be punished and interrogated.
Even if the big guys commit death penalty, the younger brothers can only be under house arrest and cannot be torture. They have to report to the leaders and wait for the leaders to make a judgment. The states of the Tang Dynasty are municipalities directly under the central government and are directly under the jurisdiction of the central government. No one can kill the governor except General Li’s imperial edict, otherwise it would be a crime.
According to the "Tang Law Commentary", those who commit this crime will be punished with a fourth-class penalty based on the crime of the boss. Jiang Yuan and Zhu lost the city and lost the land, and the punishment will be punished with a lawsuit. The punishment will be reduced by a fourth-class penalty, which means being exiled for two thousand miles. Go to Hainan Island to fish.
Wu Kang disagreed with the public, and my younger brothers knew Lao Jiang's great achievements, so they finally accepted it with a pinch of their noses. During the interrogation, Lao Jiang was extremely arrogant and the officials scolded him again. He thought that everyone here was not qualified to talk to him and shouted that he wanted to see the governor Cui.
Everyone was also angry, and Wu Kang directly ordered to find a pigpen and put it under house arrest in the pigpen. After destroying the rebels, he escorted the widow Chen and a group of leaders to Beijing and handed over to President Li for handling.
At this time, the battle started. Wu Kang sent Xin'an and Yongkang regiments, and Widow Chen sent Huohu and Huo Biao battalions to fight in real life. The two armies shouted like thunder and thunder, the fierce battle between you and you and you were tug-of-war. Frequent war reports came, so people relaxed. The rebels' fighting spirit and morale were far less fierce than they were two days ago. What does this mean?
This shows that the boss's plan has been put into effect. Poor Widow Chen, she did not send anyone to identify the head or take it off, thought it would improve morale. She was stupid. The younger brothers were promising, looking at the boss who was studying the sand table, quietly giving thumbs up.
Wu Kang's eyes were still staring at the black flag of the Yangzhou Army, and it was now inserted into the south of Fuyang County, Hangzhou (Fuyang District, Hangzhou Temple, Zhejiang Province). Half an hour ago, the scholar reported that the Yangzhou Army accelerated its march and walked eighty kilometers in two days.
They passed Yangpi Lake and entered Fuyang County; briefly cultivated and replenished supplies and passed the Fuchun River; they were only about ten miles away from Tonglu County, Muzhou, and about sixty kilometers away from the Sanhezhang position. In other words, before dusk the day after tomorrow, reinforcements from Yangzhou arrived.
Fang Renyu said in the letter: Brother Wukang, grit your teeth and persevere for another two days, and the brother will arrive soon. When I set up a camp to replenish my strength, we will launch an attack together at 5 o'clock in the morning of November (November 2). You will strike head-on, and after I encircle and cut off, we will cooperate sincerely and must wipe out the rebels.
Wu Kang happily agreed and asked his younger brothers to circulate, and everyone smiled. The big stone pressed on his chest was finally broken by an iron hammer. The scale of victory tilted towards the official army. The goddess of victory was smiling, and the promotion and wealth were just in front of him.
Seeing that the situation of the war was basically fine, Wu Kang slowly stood up, glanced at everyone and said, "My colleagues, savor the current situation, predict the direction of the battle, and imagine the results of the battle. According to this proposition, I will express my opinions, and I will listen carefully."
Di Renjie took the initiative and first supported him: "According to the battle report ahead, comparing the morale of both sides, he insisted on waiting for assistance, and basically announced his success. The officials believed that the turning point of the battle was the burning of armored soldiers two days ago. The rebels lost their elite troops, and they were left with mobs, and they could not break the Sanhe Shou, but..."
The flesh-and-hearted show was coming, and everyone was cheering up. Wei Dingzhou winked. Di Renjie ignored it and his words were strong: "The militia is the imperial army. Wu Bianzhu used his own money to reward the suicide squad. It was contrary to the law and would give people a handle. It was said to tie a limb knot and secretly tie a knot. Break trust in others will damage integrity and reputation. I hope Wu Gong thinks twice!"
This was being sprayed, and it was irrefutable to criticize Wu Kang. Cui Xiaoqing was not happy and wanted to support her lover, but was stopped by Wu Kang's eyes. Wife, don't be as knowledgeable as him. This guy is the stone in the pit, smelly and hard. He dares to be strong and Mr. Li, and he dares to spray Wu Zhaoyi, and I am no problem.
He squinted his eyes and coughed twice, and was about to speak perfunctorily, the scholar hurried over and immediately took the donkey down to inquire about the military situation on the front line.
When Wu Kang learned that the rebels were pressing on the entire line, he smiled and issued an order directly: order Jinhua and Lanxi Yu Hongzhi's troops, plus 4,000 reserve troops, to act as the main force of the central army, to resist the rebel Fire Dragon Battalion; Xin'an Cui Zhen's troops, the left wing launched an attack and attack the rebel Fire Tiger Battalion; Yongkang Jiang Wenjing's troops, and the right wing launched an attack and attack the rebel Fire Biao Battalion; Yiwu Linliwen's troops, to be responsible for the support of the rear guard.
After thinking for a moment, he ordered the scholar: "Notify all commanders and beat me hard. Who dares to take a step back and kill you without mercy!"
The scholar responded loudly and hurriedly stepped down and passed the order. Wu Kang led his younger brothers to the edge of the northern stands and looked into the front line. As the entire army attacked, the flesh and blood mill formed again, and Lanyin Mountain trembled. Everyone knew that the rebels were desperate to make a bet, and today they would not break the Sanhe Shijiao position, and they would die in three days.
No one dared to take it lightly in the battle that determined the situation and stared at it. From the sunset to the west of the mountains, to the vast starry sky, Wukang stood for a day without moving. He did not cheer with the commanders, nor patrolled with the soldiers, stood quietly, staring at the starry sky in a daze.
At some point, I heard familiar footsteps, smelling the aroma of rice porridge, and listening to the concerned words: "Erlang drinks some porridge, and the military officers said that the results of the battle were very good. The rebels fought to the death and only advanced three miles of the position, but were driven out by Yu Hongzhi."
Take the warm porridge bowl, taste the sweetness of rice porridge, and listen to Xiaoqing's report: "Just just now, Di Renjie said that the rebels suffered heavy losses, with only less than 30,000 left, and were exhausted. Chen Shuozhen wanted to gather his subordinates and launch a charge again, which would take at least two days. At that time, the Yangzhou army had arrived."
Wu Kang smiled, thinking that the overall situation was settled, so he raised his head and drank the bowl of porridge in one go. The bowl left his face and opened his eyes again. He suddenly found that a meteor was dragging his long tail and gliding in the sky. The target was Sanheshu. He immediately smiled and threw away the bowl in his hand and anxiously said: "Wife, make a wish."
Just when Cui Xiaoqing screamed, her voice was filled with fear, Wu Kang quickly turned around and saw her covering her mouth with her hands and staring at the sky in panic. She couldn't help but feel confused. What's the situation? Just a meteor, as for being so scared?
The meteor quickly slid down, and by chance, it landed in the rebel camp. Looking into the distance, I found the vague fire, and heard Yi vague screams. I was just wondering why, but I was scared by Cui Xiaoqing again. My wife screamed and threw herself into her arms.
Looking at the ecstatic pretty face, Wu Kang was confused again, dragged his face to face, and asked in confusion: "What's the matter with this big girl, she's surprised and happy, is she funny?"
His head was shaking into a rattle, and the situation became even more exciting: "Erlang is so good, we will definitely win. The plague fell into the rebel camp. God warned him that Chen Shuozhen was about to die. Good luck!"
Then I will eat chicken tonight, and Wu Kang was amused and cried. At the same time, he also recalled that meteors were plagues in ancient times, and God warned him. When King Jing of Song of the pre-Qin Dynasty saw meteors, he changed his arrogance, extravagance, and licentiousness; when the late President Li Er saw meteors, he changed his thoughts of becoming a militant.
The footsteps were heard, and Di Renjie's excitement came: "God helps our army, and the evil star will hit the rebels, and Chen Shuozhen will die. Please ask Wu Gong to order immediately, and all spies will spread... The evil star will fall, and Chen thief will die."
Wu Kang thought it was feasible, so he turned around and ordered: "You go and find a scholar to cooperate with you, and go now... I said Di Laoxier, why did you have a problem with the scholar? I also said behind my back... Get out!"
Chapter completed!