Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 246 The Collaborative City

Yang Chao was always scruples about this, that's why he cared so much about casualties.

After all, Yang Chao didn't even pass his own psychological test, let alone these soldiers.

But Yang Chao still wants to do this, because Yang Chao knows in his heart that his starting point is different, definitely different from other officers. Soldier's life?

This is a matter of the big self and the small self. For the future of the nation, the small self must be sacrificed.

The truth is this, but why, why are these soldiers coming to die, what does the life and death of Haizhou people have to do with them, and what does the rise and fall of the nation have to do with them.

At this time, I suddenly heard Lu Mo say: "Why did you come to Haizhou, because the tartars have killed them in Haizhou, and we are ordered to rescue them. We are here to kill the enemy and serve the country. We are to save the people from danger."

The soldier said: "But can we really save Haizhou?"

Yang Chao suddenly felt relieved at this time. It turned out that the soldiers were not worried about life and death. When soldiers went to the battlefield, they were prepared to die in battle. What they cared about was whether they could save Haizhou, not just because they were afraid of dying in battle.

Soldiers are not afraid of death, at least not simply afraid of death, but afraid of meaningless, meaningless death, they are afraid that they will die in vain!
In other words, the soldiers want to see hope, not just the hope of surviving, but the hope of being able to complete the rescue. As long as Haizhou City can be saved, death is not unacceptable, because death is also meaningful at that time. He was killed in battle, but Haizhou City was still destroyed, which means he died in vain.

Soldiers need hope!
This made Yang Chao feel much better. His soldiers didn't blame him, and he didn't think that he was exchanging their lives for military merit. On the contrary, that was what Yang Chao thought all along, so he was always very sensitive to casualties. I don't even want to see a casualty, but is it possible that no one will die in a spiritual weapon duel?
It was very dark, and it was cloudy all day today.

But Yang Chao's heart suddenly brightened, and Yang Chao's mentality was shut down.

This kind of psychological barrier is hard to put into words, but he does exist, sometimes it’s like instinct, you know it’s reasonable, but it’s hard to accept, Yang Chao clearly knows that what he does is necessary and should be, But it was hard to accept.

Just like the Zhizhou of Haizhou, he knew that he would be beheaded after the war, knowing that he would be beheaded after the war, but he still fled. He couldn't accept the fear of the army of captive soldiers.

But once this threshold is passed, then I have fully adapted to the new environment and accepted it completely.

This was the case with Yang Chao. He knew rationally that he was doing the right thing, but emotionally he couldn't accept the death of a soldier who lived with him day and night. It was just a peaceful state of mind that didn't adapt to cruel wars.

This is also the reason why the army of farming peoples, as if there is no nomadic people with a poorer culture than them, is brave. It is definitely not because the people of farming civilization are cowardly, nor is there no gene of bravery in their culture, but because their lives are peaceful. construction, and the life of the nomads is full of war, killing and death.

Farming culture requires a switch between peace and war, while nomadic peoples do not need it from beginning to end.

Therefore, his opponent Man Qing would not consider the problems that Yang Chao encountered, because they would never encounter this problem at all.

Yang Chao suddenly said: "Go, go back!"

Zhao Kang also asked strangely: "Aren't we going to turn around anymore, my lord?"

Yang Chao shook his head: "No need."

After the psychological test was over, Yang Chao felt that he didn't need to hang around anymore.

Before he came out, he also told Zhao Kang that he must keep abreast of the psychological dynamics of the soldiers, and told him that the army is a complicated group. If one does not grasp it well, it may have an obvious advantage yesterday, but it will collapse today.

Yang Chao has always explained what he did to his subordinates, the purpose is to train these officers and improve the comprehensiveness of the officers' consideration of issues.

But this time Yang Chao really felt that it was unnecessary, and felt that he was making a fuss out of a molehill.

Soldiers are also human beings, with flesh and blood, brains, and thoughts. They can think about problems and judge right from wrong by themselves. They are far from blindly following what Yang Chao thought. The reason why Yang Chao has always been so sensitive to soldiers' psychology is that he himself is too Sensitive, because he thinks too much.

War is a test for soldiers, but it is also a test for officers.

Yang Chao withstood the test and suddenly felt that his way of thinking had changed a lot.

Trust them, don't doubt them.

Yang Chao believes that the soldiers he has trained for so long will not be defeated so easily. No matter how much they complain and fear, tomorrow they will still stand on the city wall and fight against the captive soldiers. Their discipline is Not so easily defeated.

That night, Yang Chao slept very peacefully. When he woke up at dawn, he didn't even have a dream.

On the second day, Yang Chao didn't even set foot on the city. He was completely assured that his officers would find the best tactics to deal with the captive soldiers, and the soldiers would completely obey the command of the officers and fight against the captive soldiers.

Therefore, Yang Chao's presence or absence in the city will not affect the battle at all. The commanding skills of officers like Wang Pu and Li Wuliu are not far behind Yang Chao's.

Just like in yesterday's battle, Yang Chao arranged for people to lurk on the crenels to kill the captive soldiers in Tengcheng one by one, but the first person who thought of this method was Wang Pu. Yang Chao just expanded the scale, and Wang Pu could only Three people were ambushed at a crenel, and Yang Chao directly let ten people be ambushed.

So what is missing on the city wall is not Yang Chao, but an officer who can take charge.

Where is another person, it may not be better than Yang Chao, but at least it will not be worse.

So today Yang Chao didn't go to the city at all, and gave an order for Li Wuliu to command the more than 300 elite soldiers in the city, as well as Li Rui's thousands of strong men.

Yang Chao himself began to think of ways in the city. Although he had accepted the concept that war would kill people and necessary casualties were unavoidable, it was still very necessary to reduce deaths.

Yang Chao had to find a way to dredge the moat again. He already had an idea in his mind, so he planned to try it.

The place where Yang Chao arrived was a workshop.

This is a workshop for making fireworks and firecrackers, but the owner of the workshop is not an ordinary craftsman, but a craftsman. Now he has been requisitioned to help the government make gunpowder under the order of the government.

Yang Chao came to him to see the gunpowder.

The owner of the workshop is a craftsman, so the gunpowder he makes is not ordinary gunpowder for firecrackers, but military granular gunpowder.

It's just that he doesn't have fine willow charcoal, so he can only use other charcoal instead. The gunpowder produced is not as powerful, but it is still stronger than civilian gunpowder.

Yang Chao saw that the craftsmen were working intensely and orderly with a few apprentices, and some of the finished gunpowder products were in good condition, much better than the gunpowder used for errands in the military battle bureau.

When the craftsmen saw Yang Chao approaching, they immediately stopped their work and knelt on the ground to salute Yang Chao.

Yang Chao immediately helped them up and told them that he wanted a batch of gunpowder and that he could pay according to the market price.

The craftsman refused Yang Chao's request. Although he had never met Yang Chao, the people around Yang Chao were all wearing armor, so he knew that Yang Chao was a general.

The craftsman said that all his gunpowder was made for the army, and the materials were all allocated from the government. He didn't spend a penny, so it was difficult to ask for money.

Yang Chao told him that he paid for the handwork, and at least he should charge some workmanship fees.

But the craftsman said, now that the Tartars are besieging the city, those who are strong and strong can go to the city to fight the Tartars. He is old and has no strength, but he has skills and cannot kill the Tartars. He makes some gunpowder for the military masters to fight the Tartars. It's a matter of course. If you want money, you have to poke someone's spine.

The words of the craftsman's house were very simple, and Yang Chao couldn't insist on it. He just looked at the gunpowder stock of the craftsman's house and told the blacksmith that he would find someone to move it in a few days and let him continue to manufacture. The more the better, the better.

Then go to a blacksmith shop.

This is the largest blacksmith shop in Haizhou City, and the blacksmith is not an ordinary person in Haizhou City, but also an ancestral craftsman.

Now it is urgently helping the army to build weapons.

There are still hundreds of such blacksmiths in the city at this time.

The entire Haizhou City was under heavy pressure and began to serve the military.

Song Lian did a good job at this point. Of course, after the grain is under unified control, he also has this condition, but anyone who does not cooperate with the government has to consider whether he can get rations.

Therefore, whether they are as conscious as the firecracker maker, or just for food, now they have to obey the government's arrangements.

Think about it, how tough it must be for a city of 10 people like Haizhou to go all out to serve an army of several thousand people. This is the most powerful force of farming civilization - collaboration!
Some experts in later generations admired the cooperative nature of hunting peoples hunting together since they were young. They believed that this kind of militarized cooperative nature was irreparable and was the bottom line of superiority. Groups of soldiers have a certain advantage in purely military nature, but when the world develops to a war involving millions of people, why do you lose the superiority of the hunting people? That is because when the war develops to a scale of millions At that time, the logistics alone required cities to serve. It was no longer a pure military comparison, but a competition of the entire comprehensive national strength.

Now Haizhou's cooperative nature has been mobilized by the fear of siege and food constraints, and it will soon show a huge advantage. Therefore, Yang Chao is now almost completely convinced that time is on his side, a month In the end, even if the captive soldiers still do not retreat, they should be able to counterattack.

Soon Yang Chao arrived at the blacksmith's shop. In this huge blacksmith's shop, dozens of blacksmiths gathered inside and outside, beating in front of several blacksmith stoves. Yang Chao also met an acquaintance, the old military craftsman .

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