Chapter 38 Hidden splendor in the chest and hidden mountains and rivers
Chapter 38
Li Xingzai was so choked by Cheng Dalei that he smiled awkwardly: "It seems like the master has some great ideas?"
"Actually, the army that fights for honor is not the strongest." Cheng Dalei said casually: "The stronger army should be for faith?"
"Belief?"
"Yes, faith! An army composed of thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people. Everyone has the same faith. They do not hesitate to die and are not afraid of failure. If one person dies, there will be thousands of others.
Such an army will naturally be victorious and invincible."
"Is there really such an army in the world?" Li Xingzai couldn't believe it.
"Of course." Cheng Dalei thought of the history he knew in his previous life.
Li Xingzai and Li Waner looked at each other, a little shocked in their hearts. Is there really an army like Cheng Dalei said in the world? What would it be like if such an army went into war.
Tonight, the two of them chatted casually and came up with a question that all famous generals have been thinking about throughout the ages:
How to make someone willing to die?
In the battle of the cold weapon era, you will face your enemy face to face, with blood on the bayonet, your comrades fall beside you, and the internal organs flow out of your stomach. The next person to die can be you, or anyone?
In this situation, people have no time to think about the tactical moves they have mastered, and can only rely on instinct to fight. At this time, everyone will think, why am I fighting?
There is only one life for everyone. Everyone wants to survive, but how can they survive? Turning around and running away, leaving the battlefield far away is almost an instinctive choice.
But once this is done, an army will be defeated, and the enemy will beheaded like a pig. Just like Black Rock City faced Toad Village, its will to fight was destroyed in the shortest time, so five people can win against a thousand.
All commanders have to face this problem. A real battle is not that when you wave your sword and say kill, the soldiers will rush over like machines. What really happens is that when you wave your sword and say kill, all your soldiers have already run away.
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Then, every commander must think about this problem: How to make your soldiers stop turning around, charge against the enemy's weapons, and use their only life to pave a path.
Survival, profit, honor, belief... can these be the real reasons?
In the earthen house, both Cheng Dalei and Li Xingzai remained silent, seeming to be thinking about this issue. Li Xingzai glanced at Cheng Dalei, who huddled up and leaned against the wall, sniffing mucus...
Li Xingzai thought to himself: I think this is natural. What on earth are you, a bandit, thinking about?
"Actually, the army united by faith is not the strongest. The strongest army is for survival." Cheng Dalei broke the silence.
"Survival?" Li Waner said, "Doesn't that mean everyone has become a deserter?"
"But escaping may not make them survive." Cheng Dalei stretched his body slightly: "Just like the battle between the Rong clan and the empire, why can the Rong clan win many battles, but the empire is defeated repeatedly?"
Li Xingzai became serious. This was also a problem that had troubled the empire for hundreds of years. The empire was far stronger than the Rong clan in terms of military strength, equipment, and military organization, but even with a ratio of ten to one in battle, they could not win.
"What do you think the master has to say?"
"We can't talk about Gao Jian, let's just say it casually." Cheng Dalei was very relaxed and asked: "Have you ever thought about why the Rong tribe invaded the empire?"
"This..." Li Xingzai was about to speak, but found that this question was not easy to answer.
"The empire and the Rong tribe are old enemies. They have been fighting each other for hundreds of years. Whenever the Rong tribe gets a chance, they want to invade the empire. They are cruel, rude, and uncultured... They are basically a group of bandits." Li Waner interrupted, finishing the sentence.
, she suddenly remembered that the man in front of her was also a robber, and she wisely shut her mouth.
"That said, the empire thinks that the Rong people are like demons. They have nothing to do all day long. When they are full, they want to attack the empire." Cheng Dalei shook his head: "Actually, the reason why the Rong people attack the empire is not because they are full.
It's just that they...don't have enough to eat at all."
Li Xingzai held his breath and listened carefully to Cheng Dalei's words. Every word from this bandit's mouth was like a key that opened up a new world for him, allowing him to think about issues he had never thought about before.
"The Rong people live on the grassland and make a living by raising animals. In fact, they have a harder time living than the people of the empire due to natural and man-made disasters. A white-haired wind can turn the grassland into a desert, and large areas of cattle and sheep will die. On the one hand, they cannot survive.
"Eating northwest wind depends on God's mood. Not far away from them, there is a colorful world like the Empire, where there are food, women, and silk and satin. If it were you, you wouldn't fight." Cheng Dalei hit.
He yawned and said slowly: "Death doesn't matter. After all, it's a death to return to the grassland. So I just tied my head to my belt. Everyone in an army is forced to die. In order to survive, they will naturally burst out into superhuman strength."
Strong combat effectiveness."
Li Xingzai was silent, and after a long time he said: "Thirty years ago, when the Rong people entered the empire, it seems that there was a rare drought. Not only the Rong people's grasslands, but also many places in the empire had no harvest. And so on.
Over the years, if the year is good, the commotion on the Rong tribe's side will be smaller; if the year is bad, the scale of the Rong tribe's invasion will be larger."
Cheng Dalei continued: "The Rong tribe holds the hope that everyone will die, but what are the defenders of the empire thinking? If the frontier cannot be defended, there is still a hinterland. If defeated, they can still escape. One side will starve to death if it cannot be defeated, and the other side will starve to death.
You can't die if you run away. How can the empire remain undefeated by fighting like this? Not to mention the various internal causes of intrigues in the army's court."
Li Xingzai chewed Cheng Dalei's words carefully, and suddenly received this new information, which he needed to digest. Since the founding of the empire, the Rong people have been fighting every year, but they have lost more and won less.
Everyone was wondering why this was the case, but today Cheng Dalei's few words directly pointed to the crux of the problem. But these precise words came from the mouth of a bandit.
"Mr. Cheng!" Li Xingzai suddenly raised his head: "Are you willing to follow me back to Jingzhou?"
Cheng Dalei was startled: "Why are we going back to Jingzhou with you?"
"Sir, you have a beautiful mind and hidden mountains and rivers. You really shouldn't be buried in the grass. If you follow me back to Jingzhou, you will have a great future!" Li Xingzai suddenly grabbed Cheng Dalei's hand.
Cheng Dalei was stared at by Li Xingzai, and he felt a little guilty: Could this kid have been deceived?
In the dormitory meeting in the past life, who didn't point out the country and scold Fang Qiu, who was a filthy man of ten thousand households? As for whether what he said was right or wrong... Hey, do you still have to be responsible for the trolls!
Today Cheng Dalei also said whatever he thought of, but he didn't take it seriously. Anyway, he didn't need to behead him if he said it was wrong. But depending on what Li Xingzai meant... he meant it.