Luo Rong sent a scout to investigate what was happening in the direction of the Jianzhou Military Camp. What he found shocked Luo Rong.
The Jianzhou army camp was in chaos?
What was going on?
"It's true! I'm sure I saw it right! The entire Jianzhou army camp is in chaos. Many people are pushing and shoving each other. I even saw people being trampled to death and killed. It's like internal strife. It's definitely chaos. There's no mistake! "
The scout's determined tone made Luo Rong waver. After a while, he gritted his teeth and gave the order.
"Advance!"
Whether it was a scheme or not, if it could be done to this extent, he would accept it. How could the Jianzhou army be so organized to do such a thing to lure the Qin Army? He really didn't believe it.
Even with the high-intensity training and literacy education of the Qin Army, he didn't dare to use such a method to lure the enemy to attack, let alone a group of barbarians. There was no organization at all. How could an army that relied on burning, killing, and looting be organized?
Under Xiao Ruxun's leadership, the secretaries in the army instilled the idea of protecting the country to the grass-roots soldiers through literacy education. They instilled the idea that joining the army and participating in war was to protect the family behind them. Protecting the country and protecting the family were linked together, emphasizing the idea that without a strong country, there would be no safe family.
Xiao Ruxun felt that doing this, at least in this era, was unparalleled.
At least before this, the idea of all armies was not to protect the country. The founding army had the strongest combat power. Their idea was to conquer the world and marry their children. Later, the army of the dynasty was just to make a living and eat the royal rations so that they wouldn't starve to death. As for war …
That was the reason for asking for rewards and what they had to do.
For example, the armies of the late Tang and Five Dynasties would ask the emperor for rewards before going to war. After the war, they would hold the heads of the enemies and ask for rewards before stopping. Just like mercenaries, they fought for money and for their own enjoyment, not to protect the honor of the country.
This idea only appeared after the rise of nationalism and nationalism in modern times. The leaders of various countries gradually strengthened the ideological education of the military. Before that, the military was a violent machine that fought for money and had no other attributes.
The ideological education that Xiao Ruxun did for the Qin Army was undoubtedly ahead of the times. At least before this, no ruler had ever put forward the idea of participating in the national war and protecting their families, telling the soldiers that they joined the army to protect their families.
Xiao Ruxun did not tell them that he had joined the army to protect the country. In this era, people's concept of the country was very vague. What was the country, what was the court, and what was the emperor?
Some people thought that the imperial court was the world, some thought that the emperor was the country, some thought that the Daqin was everything, and some thought that the imperial court was made of iron. No one could give an accurate definition of a country.
There was a huge gap between the literate elites of the upper class and the illiterate commoners of the lower class. There might be some anomalies among the literate elites of the upper class who felt that protecting the country was their mission.
But the commoners of the lower class definitely did not. They didn't even have any thoughts about the change of the dynasty. They just wanted to live, have enough to eat, and pass on their descendants.
The conquest before modern times was only government against government. Basically, the commoners of the lower class did not participate. They were always forced to accept it. During the war of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, if the Manchu Qing government had not asked the Han people to shave their hair and clothes, there would not have been a large-scale resistance of the Han people. It was estimated that the Southern Ming Dynasty would not have been able to survive for decades.
People cared more about the tradition of thousands of years than the country.
Therefore, in order to let the illiterate soldiers of the lower class reach the same ideological consensus with the leaders of the country, so that they had the idea of patriotism and the spirit of dedication to the country, literacy education was necessary, and literacy education for the whole society was also necessary.
Patriotic education was vague, but the purpose of literacy education was very clear. No one would refuse to be literate. Everyone knew the benefits of being literate. It was just that they had no way to do it before. Now that they could be literate by joining the army, who wouldn't want to?
So it was reasonable to add some ideas of patriotism and protecting the country to literacy education.
For example, the words "patriotism" were directly taught to the soldiers, and then the words "protecting the country" were taught to the soldiers so that they would know the meaning. They would write it every day and recite it every day. After a long time, everyone would know it and subconsciously have this idea.
As for sacrificing themselves for the country, the ancient army probably did not have such an idea. No army had such an idea. Before they died, they definitely did not have the belief that they would die for the country.
However, even if the current literacy education was strengthened, the time was still relatively short, and the specific results had not yet been shown. Xiao Ruxun definitely did not think that his goal had been achieved.
Luo Rong also did not believe that the people of Jianzhou would use such a method to lure him. Therefore, he decisively ordered the army to advance and attack the Jianzhou army's camp. At the same time, he sent someone to send a message to Ma Chong to attack.
When Ma Chong received the news, the first thought that came to his mind was that Mao Wenlong had succeeded. Chu Ying also thought the same. Therefore, Chu Ying immediately impatiently asked Ma Chong to send out the troops. Ma Chong nodded and immediately ordered the whole army to get ready and attack with the main force.
Luo Rong had already charged over with 5,000 vanguard troops. The main force of the Qin Army, led by Ma Chong, followed closely behind. When they arrived at the Jianzhou army's camp, they found that Luo Rong had basically taken over the Jianzhou army's camp. Some soldiers reported that Luo Rong had already led the vanguard troops to Hetuala to pursue the remnants of the Jianzhou army.
The war was over.
The Jianzhou army collapsed on their own. They collapsed without any warning. Even Nurhachi and his three brave and intelligent subordinates did not expect it. They could not believe that the Jianzhou army, which had been very strong before, would collapse so completely and mercilessly.
But they still collapsed.
Luo Rong leading the army to charge over only accelerated the speed of this collapse. The large-scale attack by the Qin Army made the Jianzhou soldiers, who did not know the reason, even more certain that they had failed. Therefore, they did not resist at all. They either ran for their lives, or threw down their weapons and knelt on the ground, begging for their lives.
Luo Rong ordered that those who put down their weapons and surrendered would not be killed. The Qin Army did not care about the Jianzhou soldiers who knelt and trembled on the ground. Instead, they went after the Jianzhou soldiers who were still running away, or the few who still dared to resist.
Their other target was the Jianzhou Guard Head, Hetuala.
There was a small interlude in the process of the pursuit. A group of Jianzhou cavalry bravely charged up to fight Luo Rong. This surprised Luo Rong, but he quickly commanded the black armored cavalry to surround and annihilate the dozens of Jianzhou cavalry.
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