Li Chengliang and Li Rusong might not have deeply studied the subject of inspiring people's morale. They might use it unconsciously, but they didn't study it deeply and didn't understand the root cause and specific methods of doing so. Of course, they didn't need to do that when they led the Liaodong Iron Cavalry to kill enemies.
However, when their subordinates were replaced by such a weak troop with no fighting spirit, when their subordinates were no longer the powerful Liaodong Iron Cavalrymen or even trainees, but a group of soldiers who would run away at any time and even didn't care about the lives of their generals, they fell into a crisis.
It was just like when Qi Jiguang was almost killed by the old soldiers.
The path they chose was not the one that Xiao Ruxun chose now. Instead, they chose another high-quality source of soldiers and trained them from the beginning. They focused their spirit and bravery on the soul of the new army and made this army as reliable as the clone of the general.
Now that there was not enough time, they had to use another method.
To put it nicely, it was to inspire the army's morale, but to put it bluntly, it was to bewitch people.
The difference between the two was just a thought, but the feeling of saying it and using it was like heaven and earth.
Some people would use it, but they used it unconsciously. In the end, even they believed it. Some people used it deliberately and purposefully, but they still remained sober and not fanatical.
He remembered that Chen Jinnan had once told Wei Xiaobao that they wanted to fight against the Qing and restore the Ming, but the smart scholars had already been bribed by the Tsarist court to work for them. They were their enemies, and no scholar was willing to rebel with them. Therefore, they could only settle for the next best thing and use stupid people.
How to use stupid people?
To put it simply, it was to bewitch them, confuse them, and hypnotize them in the form of religion. It was to make them believe from the bottom of their hearts that what they were doing was righteous, meaningful, and could realize the value of life. Therefore, they would scream and dedicate their lives to do those things that were extremely terrible in the eyes of normal people.
For fools with religious beliefs, they had to be hypnotized by doctrines and other forms, making them believe that this was the will of God. Their fear of death was covered by their religious devotion, and thus, these religious armies with extremely terrifying fighting power were created.
For fools who didn't have any religious beliefs and couldn't become religious in a short period of time, they could only be hypnotized with money, women, beautiful prospects, and impassioned doctrines. Only then would they believe that everything they did would bring them a lot of things and realize the value of their lives.
Religious means were obviously much more reliable than financial incentives.
Therefore, in ancient China, there were many rebellions in the guise of religion, such as the Yellow Turban Uprising and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. All of them were under the guise of religion. They hypnotized people with religious beliefs and made them sacrifice their lives for the upper rulers in order to achieve the rulers' political and economic goals.
Those people were all fools. They were illiterate and could not understand reason. Logically speaking, they were cowardly and weak people who could be bullied by the Qing government. But how could they form a confrontation with the Qing government?
It was very simple. They were brainwashed. Their fear of death and power was covered by religious beliefs. They were successfully brainwashed and became religious warriors who were not afraid of death. Such people still existed even in modern times. They threatened the lives of ordinary people, but in their own eyes, it was God's will.
But how could there be God in this world?
The bewitchment of China's local religions had been strictly guarded by the rulers after the Yellow Turban Uprising and gradually lost its effectiveness.
Han Buddhism did not have the innate rebellious gene, so it was also strictly controlled by the government.
The Chinese government had been quite vigilant against religion since the Han Dynasty. In a sense, it prevented the possibility of Chinese people being bewitched by religion to rebel.
As for the White Lotus Sect and the God Worship Sect, they were foreign religions. They were originally used by foreign countries to make it convenient for them to rule the people. In the end, no one expected that their governments were so weak that they were actually devoured by religion.
Xiao Ruxun could not brainwash those soldiers in the form of religion in such a short time. He could only use women, money, cattle, sheep, hatred, and achievements to temporarily hypnotize them, so that they could have a strong fighting capacity in a short time. Xiao Ruxun himself was very soberly thinking about the possibility of him sealing Wolf Juxu and selling Shi Yanran.
Looking at the fanatical soldiers, Xiao Ruxun knew that this battle could be won. And his military goal was not limited to driving them away. He wanted to do something more extreme.
When Li Chengliang and Li Rusong saw this scene, they were very surprised. They never thought that they could save these seemingly hopeless guys, because they were hopeless and could only be threatened with death. What method did Xiao Ruxun use to make them scream?
Li Rusong was surprised, while Li Chengliang thought about something deeper. The way he looked at Xiao Ruxun became more and more strange.
This was no longer within the scope of the military. This was clearly a bewitching ability that the rulers were extremely afraid of!
Li Chengliang knew that he could not do this. Although he knew and wanted to use it sometimes, he absolutely could not make these cowards be bewitched to the point of losing their judgment.
Hsiao Jixin!!
Li Chengliang looked at the general standing on the top of the city wall with his sword pointed to the sky. He suddenly felt a deep sense of fear.
This person was too scary, too scary.
In fact, this kind of thing was already common for Xiao Ruxun, and it was not strange at all.
He needed to lead the survivors to survive in the post-apocalyptic environment. Just relying on personal charisma and sufficient military strength was not enough. Under the pressure of the environment, people's will to survive was sometimes not that strong, especially in the post-apocalyptic world where there was no future and hope.
Where is the way out? Where is the hope?
Can we still return to the civilized world?
Is there any meaning to our battle? Can we defeat the virus?
This was a question that no one could answer. Xiao Ruxun of course did not know, but he could not say that he did not know. He could not even answer this question.
He could only use various methods to hypnotize the survivors, even using the form of religion to give them the belief to survive. He encouraged the survivors to continue fighting, to continue to fight for the sake of reclaiming the civilized world. Otherwise, he could only helplessly look at the increasing suicide list.
As for himself, he was still very clear that everything he did might be a futile struggle. He was only futilely trying to prolong the existence of the civilization, waiting for the virus to completely engulf them, until they became one of them.
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