While the Julu Army marched northward, they left some backup arrangements in the rear.

As one of the backup arrangements, Li Mengxi left the grain and grass officer behind and ordered the grain and grass officer to continue preparing grain and grass in the rear. The grain and grass preparation work does not really involve collecting grain. You can find the granary in advance and find out the location of the big households in advance.

You can also spread the news about high-priced grain collection in advance, so that if there is a shortage of grain at the front, the rear can start collecting grain immediately.

The second reserve arrangement, troops, the main force of the Julu Army has already gone out. There is only one person left behind in each rural barracks. There is a shortage of manpower. It is very difficult for one person to take charge and only focus on discipline. There is almost no additional force to recruit and expand the army.

Just like food, soldiers do not have to be recruited immediately. Advance preparations can be made. For example, news can be spread to the countryside that the Julu Army will recruit troops again soon. The pay will be generous. If there is any interest, you can

Pay attention to the news and come to vote in time.

Under Li Mengxi's instruction, when disseminating news to the outside world, the treatment was said to be very generous, and the money and food were given to the outside world. Whether it was worthwhile to pay an exorbitant salary was another matter. In times of crisis, if the front was suddenly defeated, the rear

Immediately there were bee pupae coming to the soldiers who wanted to enjoy the benefits. When the military situation was extremely critical, it was worth exchanging gold at ten times the price, not to mention high benefits in exchange for soldiers.

The backup plan is just in case. If there is an emergency, if the backup plan can be used, no matter how much money is spent, it will be worth it.

The third reserve arrangement, ordnance, horses, vehicles and other combat preparation materials. In the one-month operation, the Julu Army almost exhausted all resources. In order to prepare materials, the army’s money was exhausted. In order to prepare materials, the Julu Army had previously

Food was bought by force from the big households, and weapons were raised from the government and the people. One thing can only be done once and two things cannot be done over and over again.

Regardless of whether it is a big household or a common people, the hearts of the powerful have been consumed. For the big households, the Julu Army just borrowed food once, and they can tolerate it. But if the Julu Army borrows food forcibly again, the powerful people will probably be intolerable; for the common people,

The common people will sell some grain to the Julu Army out of support for the protection of the environment. When the common people see that the Julu Army acts benevolently and righteously, they will respond to this benevolence and righteousness. The common people will also sell the Julu Army some grain.

In the early days when the Julu Army was stationed in Bohai County, it was relatively smooth to raise food. However, in the future, the big households had already forced levies once, and the common people had supported the Julu Army once. It was like a beggar. When a beggar came to the door for the first time, every household

Everyone is willing to give some food, but when a beggar comes to their door a second time, no matter how kind-hearted the villagers are, they don’t want to give anything.

This is the reason why the Julu Army has almost exhausted all its resources. The consumption of materials is one aspect, and the hidden resource consumption is another aspect.

The fourth aspect of the Julu Army’s reserve arrangements is management of people’s hearts. Management of people’s hearts mainly involves sending medical teams to do political propaganda.

When Li Mengxi sent his troops to leave, the queue of people from all over the country who came to seek medical treatment after hearing the news was still several miles long. Others came to ask for help, but they could not leave it alone due to emotions and reasons. The military doctors were completely unable to escape. Li Mengxi

So some military doctors were left behind.

There were about twenty military doctors left by Li Mengxi, including Tian Bu, the adjutant of the medical camp. The reason why Tian Bu was left behind was that management was a big problem with so many people coming to see the doctor. Management issues were more important than medical treatment. The military medical camp had

There are countless skilled doctors, but Tian Bu alone has the strongest management ability, so Tian Bu is left behind.

Where the medical camp is located, a large [Huitian] flag flutters in the wind. The background color of the flag is pure white, with a large light green gourd embroidered on it. The gourd pattern is simple, but vivid and vivid. In one corner of the flag, embroidered with

[Huitian] Two big characters, this is the flag of the Julu Military Medical Camp, Huitian Flag, commonly known as Yaolu Flag.

Under the banner of Huitianying, there are dozens of seats in a row. Each seat is occupied by a doctor. Just below the banner of Huitianying, Tian Bu is treating a patient. The people who come to see the doctor are several members of his family. Tian Bu

When the fortune teller was checking the old man's pulse, the naughty little boy curiously walked to the field and squatted down, staring at the field with wide eyes.

Tian Bu just thought that children were curious by nature, so he smiled at the baby, regained his composure and continued to take the pulse.

The little kid stared at Tian Bu's short hair again and again. He scratched his own hair, looked at Tian Bu, then looked at his parents and others. Everyone had long hair.

The curious little baby couldn't help but run back to her mother, pointed at Tian Bu's head and asked, "Mom, look, why doesn't he have hair?"

The woman had noticed the abnormality in Tian Bu's hair a long time ago, but she was too embarrassed to ask because her child was not sensible and spoke without restraint, which immediately made her look unsightly.

The civilian woman smiled awkwardly at Tian Bu.

When the child saw that his mother was ignoring him, he shook his mother's arm and couldn't help but ask, "Mom, look at it! He just has no hair, do you think that's right?"

The woman couldn't keep her face off. She gave her son a gentle slap and said, "Nonsense! Why don't people have hair? Isn't that what they have on their heads?"

"Then why is his hair so short? It's not as long as my fingers..."

Snapped!

"Ouch!" The child immediately received a slap from his mother.

The child's voice was so loud, how could Tian Bu not hear it? He had no choice but to pick up the helmet lying next to him and put it on his head. After covering his hair, he continued to feel the old man's pulse.

The old man didn't want to ask Tian Bu about his hair. He hesitated and hesitated, and looked at Tian Bu cautiously, "Young man, can I ask more, your hair was tortured, right? Who bullied you?

Or what?"

Tian Bu raised his eyes and glanced at the old man. Seeing the concerned look on his face, Tian Bu sighed and told his story to the old man.

Tian Bu said that he once treated a powerful man, but the patient was seriously ill and could not be cured. He was convicted by the powerful man and sent to prison and tortured, and all his hair was gone.

Hearing this, the old man became angry and cursed the unreasonable tyrant. On the side, other people who were waiting for medical treatment also followed suit.

"Master Jun, just tell me where he is and what his surname is. We, the fellow villagers, will go together to seek justice for you!"

"Yes! How can you bully people like this and not be moral?"

The common people were full of indignation and anxious about Tian Bu's personal vendetta, which made Tian Bu feel that there were many people helping him, and his heart felt warm. Tian Bu also knew that it was not the common people who wanted to help him, but the Julu Army who provided medical treatment.

The common people received help and showed mercy, so they wanted to repay the favor.

Tian Bu felt that he could only take the pulse and gave some medicinal materials. These kindnesses were reciprocated by the people's outpouring of gratitude. In addition to feeling emotional, Tian Bu was full of energy and continued to devote himself to diagnosis and treatment.

In front of Tian Bu, there is a long and endless queue for medical treatment, and the long queue has a tendency to gradually lengthen.

In addition to the headquarters, the Julu Army still has other doctors running around the countryside. These doctors are not large in number. In addition to treating diseases and saving people, they are mostly for political purposes. The publicity effect of medical support is very good. A military doctor arrived in a certain village.

, saw three or five patients, gave seven or eight pills, and then the military doctor left. After the military doctor left, the villagers were deeply impressed by Julu Jun's benevolence and righteousness. The news spread from ten to ten, and soon, the people in the nearby villages all

Knowing that a group of "Julu Army" was passing by, the Julu Army sent military doctors to help the village, and they did not charge a penny for medical treatment.

In the future, when the war situation was urgent and there was a shortage of soldiers, and the recruiting officers had to go to the countryside to recruit soldiers, when the people heard that they were from the Julu Army, they also thought of the Julu Army's previous righteous deeds of medical treatment and medication. In order to repay their kindness, they probably

Many common people would send their men to join the army on the spot.

Military doctors are becoming more and more important. They are so important that they are in an indispensable position. Medical assistance is the only thing that can provide assistance and achieve large-scale political propaganda.

People's livelihood needs include food, clothing, housing and transportation. Compared with medicinal materials, what the people need more is clothing, food, shelter, etc. If you give them medicine, they will be grateful. If you give them money, food and houses, they will simply give up. The problem is

, things like clothing, food, and shelter, which are good for a good return, are too expensive and cannot be provided. In comparison, medicines and medical aid are cheap enough. Because they are cheap enough and the cost is low, they can be used to spread blessings and benefits.

This is also one of the most important places for political propaganda.

Of course, the more widespread political propaganda can be, the better. Political propaganda can take many forms. One is that the government sends people to help a poor family to the government, providing them with food and drink. Then, what is the effect? ​​The effect is that the local government

This righteous deed will become a good story in the countryside, and the people will talk about it. But there is a problem. The government has done this good deed. Not many people have seen it with their own eyes, and not many people know the truth. Only hearsay

Not many people listened to the second message.

When the government helped a poor family, people in the same village saw it with their own eyes and believed it ten percent. Then, these people in the same village told their relatives and friends in the neighboring village. To the people in the neighboring village, the words came from the mouths of relatives and friends.

It happened in a nearby place, so the degree of credibility is still very high.

When the news continued to spread, people in the neighboring villages spread the information further, and the information was passed to three hands and four hands, passing it from hand to hand, and it became "My aunt, his second brother-in-law, his third uncle's family, the village, the government is like, like, like...

..." Look, how can such words be so convincing?

In addition, during the message transmission process, the information will gradually be distorted, lost, and confused.

When the news first came out, those who witnessed it saw the process with their own eyes and could describe every detail clearly and convincingly.

As the news continues to spread, the details become more and more vague, and less and less authentic and convincing. In the process, hearsay is bound to happen. Halfway through the news, the news is so vague that only a rough outline is left.

, when it reached this point, the only information left was the general information that "the government helped a poor family". Someone with a rich imagination took advantage of the situation and figured it out, and concluded that the government was interested in the daughter of a poor family, and she wanted to be an official.

Because of his kindness and righteousness, he took the entire family to enjoy the blessings.

This is not bad. When the news reaches the end, it can even completely distort the original meaning. The news will become something like "the government destroyed a poor man's family", "the government arrested the whole family", "the government will not let the poor

, whoever is poor will be arrested."

At this point, can the good deeds done by the government still bring some positive publicity? No, not only no, it will also have the opposite effect.

There is another propaganda method, which pays attention to the degree of penetration and never does sporadic face-saving projects, just like the Julu Army. The medical support of the Julu Army is very widespread. During the march, the Julu Army doctors can be said to be in every village.

Then, every village will not be abandoned. In this way, thousands of villages and households will see with their own eyes the benevolent and righteous actions of the Julu Army.

According to the information dissemination model, one or two face-saving projects built with a lot of money can only affect public opinion in one or two places.

And the Julu Army's support methods that bloom everywhere will make the countryside everywhere become a point of dissemination of public opinion. Every village that the Julu Army's medical officers arrive, every patient they diagnose and treat, and every pill they give are the original origin of information dissemination.

, Julu Army has visited a thousand villages, and each thousand villages are the origins of information. Julu Army has seen 10,000 patients, and has 10,000 information origins, and given 100,000 pills, there are 100,000.

an information origin.

Compared with other types of medical assistance, there is another advantage. As the saying goes, it is better to help the poor than to rescue the emergency. If we support the people with food, clothing and other things, although the people are not rich, they will still have some food and clothing at home, and they will not be in urgent need.

Medical assistance is different. The family is short of food, which is a priority. Someone in the family is sick, which is an emergency. Medical assistance is to relieve the people's urgent needs and save the people in emergencies. The people will definitely be grateful.

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Aid is also different from assistance. It does not mean that the more you spend on aid, the better the effect. Sometimes, it is better to help people with a bag full of food than to gain more gratitude by treating people when they are sick. The logic is strange, but it is correct.

During the march, Li Mengxi's troops marched on the main road. At the same time, there were other scattered manpower. The other scattered manpower included scouts, caravans, and military medical teams.

Scouts are needed for reconnaissance and guidance, caravans play a role in both supplying supplies along the way and promoting public opinion, while the military medical team only has the sole purpose of promoting public opinion.

During the march of the army, military medical teams would come back from time to time. The number of military doctors was small, and they could operate alone outside for ten and a half months with only a few grains and grass. The only factor that restricted the military doctors from operating outside for a long time was the medicinal materials.

The military doctors brought a large amount of medicinal materials with them every time they set out, but despite this, the military doctors were forced to come back frequently. This can only show that it is not that there are not enough medicinal materials, but that they are used too fast. From the side reaction, Julu Military Medical

The team's propaganda efficiency was extremely high. The military doctors distributed batches of medicinal materials, which quickly won over thousands of people's hearts and minds, which was equivalent to accumulating a popular advantage for future wars.

As for the advantage of people's hearts, how effective can it be? The effect can be as great as that. When both sides have suffered serious military losses and have to recruit troops on the spot, it will be much easier for the Julu Army who has managed the people's hearts in advance, and the balance of war will suddenly tip towards Julu.

The deer army tilted; or when the commanders of both sides were scattered in the wilderness, the common people saw the enemy commander and knew his identity, and directly smashed him to death with a hoe. When they saw the commander of our army, they thought of our soldiers.

Buying and selling is fair, and if our soldiers are so benevolent and righteous in their medical treatment, the common people will not do any harm, or even help them.
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