Yang Chao often has scruples about this in his heart, which is why he cares so much about casualties.

After all, Yang Chao didn't even pass his own psychological level, let alone these soldiers.

But Yang Chao still has to do this, because Yang Chao knows in his heart that his starting point is different, definitely different from other officers, he is not only to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, he is for the righteousness, but for the sake of righteousness, do you have to sacrifice the lives of these soldiers?

This is a question of the big self and the small self, and for the sake of the future of the nation, the small self must be sacrificed.

The truth is this, but why, why did these soldiers come to die, what does the life and death of the Haizhou people have to do with them, and what does the rise and fall of the nation have to do with them.

At this time, I suddenly heard Lu Mo say: "Why did you come to Haizhou, because the Tartars have been killed in Haizhou, and we are ordered to rescue." We are here to kill the enemy and serve the country, and we are here to save the people from danger. ”

The soldier said, "But can we really save Haizhou?" ”

Yang Chao was suddenly relieved at this time, it turned out that the soldiers were not worried about life and death, the soldiers went to the battlefield, and they were prepared to die in battle, what they cared about was whether they could save Haizhou, not just because they were afraid of dying in battle.

Soldiers are not afraid of death, at least not simply afraid of death, but afraid of meaningless, meaningless death, they are afraid that they will die in vain!

In other words, the soldier wants to see hope, not only the hope of living, but the hope of being able to complete the rescue, as long as Haizhou City can be saved, death is not unacceptable, because death is also meaningful at that time, if the final battle is killed, but Haizhou City is still broken, it is equivalent to dying in vain.

Soldiers need hope!

This made Yang Chao feel much better, his own soldiers did not blame themselves, and they did not think that they were exchanging their lives for military merits. On the contrary, that is what Yang Chao has always thought in his heart, so he has always been extremely sensitive to casualties, and he doesn't even want to see a casualty. But can the Spirit Weapon Duel be immortal?

It was very dark and it was a cloudy day today.

But Yang Chao's heart suddenly brightened. Yang Chao's psychology has passed.

This kind of psychological barrier is difficult to say, but he just does exist, sometimes it is like instinct, you know that it is reasonable, but it is difficult to accept, Yang Chao clearly knows that what he does is necessary and should be. But it's hard to accept.

is like the governor of Haizhou, knowing that abandoning the city and fleeing to a dead end will definitely be beheaded after the war, but he still fled, and he couldn't accept the fear of being overwhelmed by the captive army.

But once this threshold is passed, it is completely adapted to the new environment and fully accepted.

Yang Chao is in this situation, he rationally knows that he is doing the right thing, but emotionally he can't accept the death of a soldier who gets along day and night, which is just a kind of peaceful mentality and inadaptability to cruel war.

This is why the army of the agrarian people. It seems that the reason for the bravery of nomadic peoples whose culture is more barren than them is definitely not because of the cowardice of the people of the agricultural civilization, nor is it that there is no brave gene in their culture. Rather, it is because their lives are built peacefully, whereas the lives of nomadic peoples are full of war, killing, and death.

Agrarian culture needed a shift in peace and war, and nomadic peoples never needed it.

Therefore, the problem that Yang Chao encountered, his opponent Manchu Qing would not think about, because they couldn't touch this problem at all.

Yang Chao suddenly said: "Go, go back!" ”

Zhao Kang also asked strangely: "My lord, let's not turn around?" ”

Yang Chao shook his head: "No need." ”

After the psychological barrier, Yang Chao felt that there was no need for him to wander around.

Before he came out, he also told Zhao Kang. It is necessary to always grasp the psychological dynamics of the soldier and tell him that the army is a complex group. If one is not mastered well, it may still have a clear advantage yesterday. It's going to collapse today.

Yang Chao has always explained what he has done to his subordinates, with the aim of cultivating these officers and improving the comprehensiveness of officers' consideration of issues.

But this time Yang Chao really felt that it was unnecessary, and felt that he was making a big fuss.

Soldiers are also human beings, flesh and blood, brains, and thoughts, they can think about problems themselves, and they can judge right and wrong, far from being so blindly obedient as Yang Chao thinks, the reason why Yang Chao has always been so sensitive to the psychology of soldiers is that he himself is too sensitive, and he thinks too much.

War is a test for soldiers, but it is not a test for officers.

Yang Chao withstood the test, and suddenly felt that his way of thinking had changed a lot.

Trust them, don't doubt them.

Yang Chao believed that the soldiers he had trained for so long would not be defeated so easily, no matter how much they complained, no matter how much fear they had, they would still stand on the city wall and fight the captives tomorrow, and their discipline would not be so easy to defeat.

This night, Yang Chao slept exceptionally peacefully, and he didn't even have a dream until dawn.

The next day, Yang Chao didn't even kick the city, he was completely assured that his officers would find the best tactics to deal with the captives, and the soldiers would completely obey the officers' commands and fight with the captives.

Therefore, if Yang Chao is not in the city, it will not affect the battle at all, and the command level of officers such as Wang Pu and Li Wuliu is not at all behind Yang Chao.

It's like yesterday's battle, it was Yang Chao who arranged people to lurk at the battlement to kill the captives in the city one by one, but it was Wang Pu who first thought of this method, Yang Chao just expanded the scale, Wang Pu was only able to ambush three people at one battlement, and Yang Chao directly let ten people ambush.

Therefore, what is missing on the city wall is not a Yang Chao, but an officer who can be in charge.

Where is another person, it may not be better than Yang Chao, but at least it will not be worse.

So today, Yang Chao simply didn't go to the city, and gave an order, let Li Wuliu command, and take charge of more than 300 elite soldiers on the city, as well as Li Rui's thousands of people.

And Yang Chao himself began to think of a way in the city, although he had accepted the concept that war would kill people and necessary casualties could not be avoided, but it was still very necessary to be able to die less.

Yang Chao had to find a way to dredge the moat again, and he already had an idea in his heart, so he planned to give it a try.

The place where Yang Chao arrived was a workshop.

This is a workshop for making fireworks, but the owner of the workshop is not an ordinary craftsman, but a craftsman, who is now requisitioned to help the government make gunpowder under the orders of the government.

Yang Chao came to him to see gunpowder.

The owner of the workshop was a craftsman, so the gunpowder he made was not ordinary gunpowder for firecrackers, but gunpowder for military particles.

It's just that he doesn't have fine willow charcoal, so he can only use other charcoal instead, and the gunpowder he makes is a little less powerful, but it is still greater than civilian gunpowder.

Yang Chao saw that the craftsmen and a few apprentices were working in an intense and orderly manner, and some of the finished gunpowder products were in good condition, much better than the gunpowder used to deal with errands in the War Bureau.

When the craftsmen saw Yang Chao coming, they immediately stopped their work and knelt on the ground to salute Yang Chao.

Yang Chao immediately helped them up and told them that his intention was to ask for a batch of gunpowder, saying that he could pay according to the market.

The craftsman refused Yang Chao's request, although he had never seen Yang Chao, but several people around Yang Chao were wearing iron armor, so they naturally knew that Yang Chao was a military general.

The craftsman said that his gunpowder was all made for the army, and the materials were all allocated from the government, and he did not spend a penny, so it was difficult to ask for money.

Yang Chao told him that he had paid for the handwork, and at least he should charge some manual fees.

But the craftsman said that now the Tartars are besieging the city, and the strong and powerful can go up to the city to fight with the Tartars, he is old and has no strength, but he has the skills to kill the Tartars, and it is a matter of course for him to make some gunpowder to fight the Tartars for those military masters, and if he wants money, he will poke people in the backbone.

The craftsman's words were very simple, and Yang Chao was not easy to insist, but he just looked at the gunpowder stock of the craftsman's house, and told the blacksmith that he would find someone to move it in a few days, so that he could continue to make it, and the more the better.

Next, go to a blacksmith shop.

This is the largest blacksmith shop in Haizhou City, and the blacksmith is not an ordinary person in Haizhou City, but also an ancestral craftsman.

Now urgently help the army to build weapons.

There were hundreds of such blacksmiths in the city at this time.

The entire city of Haizhou was under heavy pressure and began to serve the military.

Song Lian did a good job in this, of course, after taking charge of the grain, he also had this condition, but if he didn't cooperate with the government, he had to consider whether he could get rations.

Therefore, whether it is as conscious as the artisan who made firecrackers, or just for food, now you have to obey the government's arrangement.

Think about how strong a city of 100,000 people like Haizhou must be when it goes all out to serve an army of several thousand people, and this is the most powerful force of agricultural civilization -- collaboration!

In later generations, some experts admired the cooperation of the nomadic people who hunted together since childhood, and believed that this kind of militarized cooperation was irreparable, and it was the bottom line of superiority, which was simply a fart, and the cooperation of the superior and inferior nations was at best able to train a group of warriors, and had a certain advantage in pure militarity, but when the world developed to a war of millions of people, how could the superiority of the nomadic nation be seen, because when the war developed to a million scale, logistics alone needed cities to serve, It is no longer a simple military comparison, but a competition of comprehensive national strength as a whole.

Now that Haizhou's cooperation has been mobilized by the fear of the siege and the constraints of food, it will soon show a huge advantage, so Yang Chao is now almost completely convinced that time is on his side, and in a month, even if the captives still do not retreat, he should be able to counterattack.

Soon Yang Chao arrived at the blacksmith shop, a huge blacksmith shop, dozens of blacksmiths gathered inside and out, around several blacksmith furnaces to knock and beat, Yang Chao also saw an acquaintance, the old military craftsman.

―――――――――――― (To be continued).