Li Chengliang and Li Rusong may have never deeply studied the discipline of how to motivate people and boost morale, they may use it unconsciously, but they have not studied it deeply, and they do not understand the root cause and specific methods of doing so.

But when their subordinates were replaced by such a weak brigade with no fighting spirit, when their subordinates were no longer the powerful Liaodong Iron Cavalry, not even training soldiers, but a group of soldiers who would run away at any time and didn't even care about the general's life, they fell into danger.

Just like at the beginning, Qi Jiguang was almost killed by the old soldiers.

The path they chose was not the path that Xiao Ruxun chose now, but chose another source of high-quality soldiers, trained the troops from scratch again, and paid attention to their spirit and bravery into the soul of the new army, making this army a reliable army like a general's doppelganger.

And when there is not enough time at the moment, it is necessary to use another way.

If you say something good, it will inspire the morale of the army, and if you say something bad, it will be demagogic.

The two are only in one thought, but the feeling of saying it and using it is very different.

Some people will use it, but they use it unconsciously, and in the end they even believe it, while some people use it deliberately, purposefully and consciously, and they are still sober and not fanatical.

I remember that Chen Jinnan once talked to Wei Xiaobao that they wanted to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, but the smart scholars had been bought by the Qing court to work for the Qing court, and they were their enemies, and no scholar was willing to rebel with them, so they could only retreat to the second best thing and use stupid people.

How do you use stupid people?

To put it simply, it is to bewitch them, confuse them, hypnotize them in the form of religion, and make them agree from the bottom of their hearts that what they are doing is just, meaningful, and can realize the value of life, so they will scream and dedicate their lives to do those things that are extremely terrible in the eyes of normal people.

For the stupid people who have religious beliefs, it is necessary to hypnotize them with doctrines and other forms, so that they believe that this is the will of God, and the fear of death is covered by the devotion to religion, so that there are those religious armies that are extremely terrible in combat.

For stupid people who have no religious beliefs and have no way to have religious beliefs in a short period of time, they can only use money, women, bright prospects and impassioned principles to hypnotize them, so that they can believe that everything they do will be able to get a lot of things and realize the value of their lives in a short time.

Religious means are significantly more reliable than financial incentives.

Therefore, in ancient China, there were many rebellions in the cloak of religion, such as the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the farther afield, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the nearer form, all of which were cloaked in religion and hypnotized the congregation with the mode of religious belief, so that they could sacrifice their lives for the upper rulers in order to achieve the political and economic goals of the rulers.

Those people are stupid people, they don't read, they can't read or write, they don't know the reason, and they are also cowardly and small people, who are allowed to be oppressed by the Qing government, but why can they form a pattern of confrontation between the north and the south with the Qing government?

Quite simply, they were brainwashed, the fear of death and power was covered by religious beliefs, they were successfully brainwashed and became religious warriors who were not afraid of death at all, this kind of people, even in modern times, still existed, threatening the lives of normal people, but in their own eyes, this is God's will.

But where is there a god in this world?

The demagogic nature of China's native religion was guarded by the rulers after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and gradually lost its effectiveness.

Han Buddhism, on the other hand, is born without rebellious genes, and is also strictly controlled by the government.

Since the Han Dynasty, the Chinese government has been wary of religion, and in a sense has eliminated the possibility of Chinese being deceived by religion and rebelling.

As for the White Lotus Sect and the God Worship Sect, they are both foreign religions, which were originally used by foreign countries to facilitate the rule of the people, but who would have thought that their government would not be able to do anything, and they would actually be eaten up by religion, and they will be poisoned to this day.

Xiao Ruxun couldn't brainwash those soldiers in such a short period of time with religious forms, so he could only use women, money, cattle and sheep, hatred and merit to hypnotize them for a short time, so that they could have strong combat effectiveness in a short period of time, and Xiao Ruxun himself was very soberly thinking about the possibility of sealing himself as a wolf and living in Shi Yanran.

Looking at the fanatical soldiers, Xiao Ruxun knew that this battle could definitely be won, and his military goal was not limited to expulsion, he wanted to do absolutely nothing.

And Li Chengliang and Li Rusong were very surprised when they saw such a scene, they never thought of saving these guys who seemed to be not saved at all, because they were incorrigible and could only threaten with death, and what method did Xiao Ruxun use to make them scream?

Li Rusong was surprised, while Li Chengliang thought of a deeper place, and looked at Xiao Ruxun's eyes more and more wrong.

This is no longer within the military category, this is clearly a demagogic ability that makes the ruler extremely jealous!

Li Chengliang asked himself if he couldn't do this, although he knew it, although he sometimes wanted to use it, but he definitely couldn't let these cowards be bewitched to the point of losing his judgment.

Xiao Jixin!!

Li Chengliang looked at the general standing on the head of the city and drawing his sword to the sky, and suddenly felt a deep sense of jealousy.

This man is just terrible, terrible.

In fact, this kind of thing is already commonplace for Xiao Ruxun, and it is not strange at all.

He needs to survive with the surviving people in the apocalyptic environment, it is not enough to rely on personal charm and sufficient military strength, under the oppression of the general environment, people's will to survive is sometimes not so strong, especially in the last days when there is no future and hope.

Where is the way out? Where is hope?

Can we return to the civilized world of the past?

Does our fight make sense? Can we defeat the virus?

This is a question that no one can answer, of course Xiao Ruxun doesn't know, but he can't say that he doesn't know, and he can't even answer this question.

He can only hypnotize the survivors in various ways, and even use the form of religion to give them the belief in survival, and support the survivors to continue to fight, continue to fight for the recapture of civilization, otherwise he can only helplessly fall into the face of the growing list of suicides.

As for himself, he is still very fresh to realize that what he has done may be just a futile struggle, just a futile attempt to survive the remaining civilization, waiting for the unknown time when it will be completely swallowed by the virus, until he becomes one of them.

His despair was deeper than anyone else's, because he couldn't hypnotize himself.