Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 724
The spring tide of the Huaihe River begins to rise in March, and in the midsummer of June, the river tide has reached its peak, and the open water surface is nearly double that of the dry season.Along the Huai River, there are military soldiers patrolling and watching, and idlers are strictly prohibited from approaching. The common people must also avoid this area when they are hunting, fishing, and hunting.

A few days ago, strange phenomena appeared on the river.Most of the floating boards flowed down the water, and on the floating boards, bamboo thorns were interspersed and hung with water vapor-soaked and swollen human heads.

When the dawn was faint, the sentry on the river discovered this phenomenon again, and they did not dare to neglect it, and reported it immediately.

After receiving such letters again, Shen Zhezi couldn't help but feel even worse, so he decided to go to the riverside to have a look in person.So Dang even left Shouchun City on horseback and headed for the nearby ferry under the guard of more than [-] personal soldiers.

Now that the battle is imminent, no matter the Huai River or the city defense, the laws and regulations are extremely strict.At this time, there were few pedestrians in the streets and alleys, and the only thing that could be heard was the sound of soldiers holding flags and passwords, and the sound of hurried horseshoes suddenly sounded, all passers-by inside and outside looked nervously.

Once the tense war atmosphere lasts for a long time, it will be a kind of devastation to people's hearts. Even if it does not affect normal production, it will make people sensitive and vigilant. There will be riots on a large scale.Even in the military barracks that have been honed by battles, there are occasional incidents of battalion screams, and the soldiers disperse in a hurry.

So morale is an illusory thing, but it really affects the combat effectiveness of soldiers, and even determines the direction and final outcome of the war.Especially in the case of a disparity in the strength of the enemy and the enemy, morale is the only way for the weak side to maintain cohesion.

The morale of the Huainan army is not bad. Before rectifying the countryside, a large number of tourists were naturalized and resettled in a centralized manner. There are almost no traces of people wandering between the city and the countryside.These people carry out concentrated labor, production and life under the organization and control of the army, and the rules are almost rigid.

Such strict personal control seems a little unreasonable.But the essence of war is to consume human lives to achieve a certain purpose, and the most irrelevant thing in the process is the so-called human rights, no matter ancient or modern, it cannot be excluded.

Of course, while controlling the human body, various methods must be used to maintain people's hearts and ease the atmosphere.For example, the reward and punishment system with clear and clear standards, whether in the army or civilians, sets reward and punishment standards based on a certain number of groups, stipulates the tasks that need to be completed every day, rewards for excellence, and punishment for lagging behind, so that personnel can maintain a positive attitude. An upwardly competitive atmosphere.Once this atmosphere is formed, it will greatly dispel some anxiety and fear in people's hearts.

Therefore, no matter whether you are an individual or a group, once you feel that the road ahead is gloomy and hopeless, then don’t think about anything, and don’t make any grand plans. You only need to bury your head in the matter at hand, set a clear goal that is within your ability, and concentrate on it Finish it.

The social nature of people determines that it is often necessary to accept the network feedback of the whole world at one point, but these feedbacks require self-rumination and judgment, and what can be felt in the end is a kind of subjective assumption, which is far from the truth.

When the world comes with help, the hero is not free when transported. The world is still the same world, and the hero is also the hero. When a person has lost the ability to judge rationally, the best way is to look around less and cut off the reception of external information. Focus on improving yourself.

Of course, it is easy to control the human body, but it is difficult to control the human heart.The Jienu army is a real and imminent threat, and Shen Zhezi can't erase this part of cognition from people's minds. What he can do is to try his best to erase the oppressive and dangerous nature of this message. You need to rely on propaganda.

Ever since he was a junior in Jiangdong and needed fame and fame, Shen Zhezi attached great importance to shaping and promoting his own image.Now what he has to do is not only to himself, but to establish the image of the entire Huainan Army.

In Huainan Town, Shen Zhezi has already organized a relatively professional publicity team. A group of aristocratic family members headed by Jiang Xie who hang out in the Shenyuan Zhaixing Building in the early years may not have the ability and courage to raise their bows and fight fiercely. , but in terms of manipulating public opinion and influencing people's hearts, with the guidance of Shen Zhezi and his own summary, he has already achieved quite a lot.

Under the conception and organization of these people, various brainwashing work in Huainan Town was carried out in full swing.The previous small victories of the Huainan Army in Huaibei were all embellished and artistically processed to tell the public.All kinds of folk songs that smeared Jiehu and praised the bravery of Huainan Army were also sung in distant villages and nearby towns.All kinds of passionate and heroic slogans were scribbled on every settlement inside and outside the city, which can be seen when looking up.

Shen Zhezi attaches great importance to the slogan.Because this slogan conveys the message, it is also a kind of literacy work. Even if it can’t be a long speech, so that everyone can read poems and books, but under the influence of the ears and eyes, it is not a problem to know some commonly used words, which can be regarded as a breakthrough from zero to one. .

Propaganda to the public must be deceptive to a certain extent, because the public itself does not need to face the issue of confronting the Jiehu head-on. Even if you tell them how strong the Jiehu is, it will not do any good except to make people more frightened.This has nothing to do with fooling the people or not, but the means that must be used to maintain an organization.The collapse of an organization, in addition to direct external blows, the emergence of internal hidden dangers is often not due to ignorance and inaction, but too much thinking.

Shen Zhezi doesn't have an exact idea of ​​how strong the Five Hus really are, but he can be sure that even in the chaotic times of the Three Kingdoms and the Eight Kings' power, no matter how many people died in the Central Plains, in terms of numbers alone, even the most numerous The sum of several tribes of the Xianbei people cannot compare with the number of Han people.

Why is this history so dark?The entire Han Chinese group has fallen into inaction, just because the mediocre is in power and there are too many incompetent?From the point of view of leaders alone, it is not that they lack abilities, but that there are too many self-righteous heroes.

Relatively speaking, the social relations of the Hu people are simpler, and they need to face fewer constraints and games in the process of rising, so they can devote more energy to seeking direct war victory.This has nothing to do with racial inferiority. Once the Hulu have grown to a certain scale, there will be no one who will not stage bloody and tragic mutual chokeholds.And these mutual chokeholds are more cruel and horrific than the other, and they don't even have another way to attack their opponents other than physical annihilation.

People grow up by lessons. Shi Le saw that Han and Zhao were destroyed by his relatives and relatives, but he was exterminated by his nephew.Fu Jian himself was the last victor of his brother's siege, and alienated his relatives because of the legal system, but he didn't understand that his mere Di regime was not as inclusive as the Han people, and even the Han people were backlashed by the Hulu. He was not defeated. In Feishui, he had grown crooked from the root. No matter how great Wang Meng's achievements in governing the country were, the hole dug for him would be as big!
The great misfortune of a world is not that it has been sunk for a long time but there is no savior, but that there are endless heroes.Shocking the world's prestige, all are the blood and tears of the people.

Maintaining morale is a different concept than inspiring.If these soldiers who need to face the threat of death are just empty words and boasting, they will inevitably become absurd, and they will lose their fighting spirit for a long time.They need tangible, tangible incentives.

Therefore, although Huainan's material resources are already very tight, all military merit awards will be implemented as soon as possible.Several towering large warehouses were built in Luocheng of Shouchun City, named Jiagong warehouses, all of which stored the money, food and salaries of the soldiers.And these warehouses correspond to the number of acres of farmland in Huainan. Once the invading strong enemy is defeated, Huainan will become stable.

In terms of money and food, Shen Zhezi is particularly generous and heroic, but he is extremely stingy when it comes to the distribution of production materials such as acres and people.No matter what use these acres of people are put to, ownership must be held in hand.At present, Huainan's foundation is still shallow, and he doesn't need to face too many problems of embezzling public affairs for private interests. If he waits for a while to consolidate his position, he will have enough ability to determine this situation in a decree.

So in terms of morale, Shen Zhezi asked himself that he had done a good job, but when faced with real challenges, he still felt powerless and didn't know how to face them.

Shen Zhezi once imagined that when the Jiehu army came to the south, what kind of posture would it appear in the field of vision of Huainan soldiers and civilians, whether it would be a thousand boat races, thousands of banners, or a light-packed assault on the fortress?But in the real situation, there is no fixed script. The first thing he saw was not the traces of the slave army, but the numerous crimes they committed!
When Shen Zhezi arrived at the riverside ferry, Zuojin had already been surrounded and protected by a regiment of soldiers. Several guards from Zuojin were all present. calm.

There are several large bamboo rafts on the pier, which are piled up with hundreds of heads that are wet and swollen from being soaked in the river water.At the same time, there were more than a dozen wounded Jinmin people who had their limbs cut off, or their ears and noses were cut off. Calling for forgiveness or cursing words, there is no response at all to the soldiers' questioning.

The Huainan army already knew the origin of these heads and wounded.Now that the river is so high, it is difficult to successfully send heads and the like to the other side with simple bamboo rafts, and most of them are lost on the way.But even so, the patrolling navy has found salvage on the river recently, and it is conceivable that the atrocities committed by the slave army in Huaibei are not limited to those in front of them!What the Huainan army salvaged and found was only a small part of it!

(End of this chapter)