After three years of waiting, he finally ushered in his own opportunity, Li Yu was very excited, and his passion was burning like fire. But excitement is not the same as impulsiveness, let alone blind movement, Li Yu, who has just taken office, did not wait to enter the battle, but set out to start another more important job, wiping his ass and wiping his ex's ass. His two predecessors, Gao Xiayu and Yuan Zi, were not very clean, and they teamed up to leave Li Yu with a rotten mess that couldn't be worse. If you want such a force to become an invincible army of tigers and wolves, Li Yu, you still have a long way to go. First of all, it is necessary to wipe the ex's ass clean. Li Yu did not complain, in fact, he did not have time to feel sorry for himself, he quickly analyzed the current situation of this army, and keenly found two crucial problems: First, the morale of this army is very problematic. Due to the successive defeats, the Tang army on the Western Road at this time was like a defeated quail and a defeated chicken, and the frosted eggplant had no wind flag, which can be said to have no morale at all. Such a team, not to mention destroying cities and villages, cutting off banners, even if the enemy is standing in front of them, they may not have the courage to raise the swords and guns in their hands to cut and kill. Second, the tension between cadres and the masses is not an ordinary tension, but a special tension. Those generals, big and small, are not very good at fighting, but they are proficient in eating, drinking, and having fun, and they also like to engage in specialization, and life is called a luxury. This has naturally aroused dissatisfaction and indignation among the officers and men at the grassroots level, and there are many contradictions between the soldiers and the generals, and there is a great tendency for them to erupt, and there is a possibility of a mutiny in the army at any time.

What is in front of Li Yu is such a mess, and the problem seems to be very tricky, but these are not difficult for Li Yu, he has enough psychological preparation and coping strategies. Now, Li Yu has to prescribe the right medicine: First, cancel the special treatment of leaders at all levels. Li Yu knew very well that the biggest leader of this army was himself, so he had to lead by example and take the lead: he wore the same clothes as the soldiers; He ate the same meals as the soldiers; He offered his cordial condolences to the wounded soldiers and genuinely cared about their wounds; He took out a lot of money to support the families of the fallen soldiers; As soon as he had free time, he went to the grassroots level, chatted with the lowest soldiers, and had fun together. At the same time, Li Yu ordered the cancellation of the bands reserved for the generals, and ordered the cessation of all kinds of extravagant banquets. People's hearts are flesh and blood, with such an approachable and sincere leader, how can the soldiers not be grateful and swear allegiance?

The relationship between the cadres and the masses was eased, and Li Yu began to teach the soldiers. He laid out the facts, reasoned, broke up and analyzed the current situation, and had only one purpose, that is, to instill in the vast number of officers and men a belief in victory. He told them that Wu Yuanji, who was fangs and claws, had made a mistake, a fatal mistake, from the very beginning of the war, because he did not understand the principle of the people's will. When he openly argued with Chang'an, when he burned and looted everywhere, and when he was rampant in Huaixi, he had already lost one thing, the same thing that determined the outcome of the war, the people's heart. Therefore, from the very beginning of this war, Huaixi has already lost; He told them that the rebel commander Wu Yuanji was a mediocre and incompetent man, a stubborn man, a short-sighted man, who had no clear purpose or outside support, and therefore defeat was a matter of time. Li Yu's speech was very convincing, the officers and men of the Tang Army all changed their old appearances, their heads were lowered, their cold hearts were warmed, and their stiff faces were smiling.

It seems that it is time for a life-and-death showdown with the rebels, no, not yet, because Li Yu is not Li Guangyan, he doesn't like to come hard, but likes to play yin. He doesn't like the kind of stalking that hurts a thousand people and hurts himself 800, but likes to avoid the real and attack the weak, avoid the heavy and light, and fight more and less. Therefore, before the start of the fight, he had to transfer the main force of Huaixi. But how to transfer the main force of Huaixi seems to be a difficult problem, and Li Yu is not Wu Yuanji, how can the Huaixi soldiers listen to his dispatch? But this problem is not a problem at all with Li Yu, because he has a trick and shows weakness.