Chapter 9: The Rabble
For Heiwu, the belief in the witch god is very complicated, in the eyes of other people, the black fish is the witch god, and a person has attained the Tao, the chicken dog ascends to heaven, and even his disciples and guards are followed by the god position, the position of the legendary black fish ascending to heaven is also designated as a holy place, and even the witch god hall is built there. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
As a descendant of Blackfish, Heiwu believed in the witch god like everyone else until he was 25 years old, and he nearly broke down after his father told him the secrets passed down by the family patriarch before his father's death. The witch god is not his own ancestor, but someone else, and his own ancestors have been impostors for thousands of years! And the only one who has really ascended to heaven and become a god in the holy land is the witch god.
The big lie that was told in order to maintain the development of the church at the beginning, with the passage of time, the influence has become greater and greater, and it has gradually become the basis of the existence of the church, and now it has become a shocking secret that no one dares to know, once this secret is exposed, not only the status of the Blackfish family will collapse, but also the foundation of the entire witch religion will be shaken.
It is precisely because of this lie that a spy of another god disguised himself as the messenger of the witch god, but Hei Wu knew the truth and couldn't tell it because of his own reasons, although he also believed in the witch god, but only Li Cong, the closest partner in this world, knew that the witch god he believed in was different from others, and the belief and guilt of the witch god in Hei Wu's heart, these two contradictory moods were intertwined, almost making him crazy.
But now he has no choice but to take one step at a time and try to keep everything under his control.
On the other hand, the Witch Sect is also worthy of being one of the four religions in the world, and after deciding on the policy, it began to launch with all its might, and its own strength gradually came into play, as the orders of the Great Witches were passed out, teams of heavily armed warriors began to arrive one after another, and truckloads of supplies also appeared in the warehouses of the Holy City, and new warriors and new convoys appeared every day. The makeshift barracks outside the city were expanding almost at a rate visible to the naked eye.
As this army gradually grew, some unexpected problems began to emerge, the first of which was the problem of military fights in various places, and the rule of the Wiclay religion in the Bashu Basin was a relatively loose system of self-government, each city had its own independent government and army, which was similar to the Greek city-state system as a whole, but the simple city-states were slightly more closely linked.
These cities are large and small, the strength is different, and the troops sent are also more and less, but without exception they are the most elite part of their own cities, as the elite of their respective cities, not to mention the combat skills, pride and aggressiveness are certainly not lacking, these soldiers stay in a camp every day, and get along with their peers from all over the world, and contradictions and conflicts are inevitable.
Regional discrimination is very serious even in modern times, Taiwanese and Hong Kong people discriminate against mainlanders, mainlanders discriminate against Hong Kong and Taiwanese, urban people discriminate against rural people, Shanghainese and Beijingers discriminate against each other, and Tibetans, Uyghurs, Cantonese, Hubei, Northeast Chinese, and so on.
Even if they both belong to the Bashu Basin, the two cities of Chengdu and Chongqing, even if the distance has been shortened to less than 2 hours in modern times, they are still not pleasing to each other, and in this era, the exchanges between each city are even less pitiful than in modern times, and this kind of regional discrimination is even more serious.
And once there is discrimination, in the eyes of these soldiers, it can only be solved with fists, although for the time being, everyone still refrains from letting these conflicts go beyond the scope of the fight, but if this situation continues, it is difficult to ensure that those unexpected situations will happen.
This kind of discrimination is caused by factors such as regional cultural differences, unbalanced economic development, and human psychological activities, and there is no good way to solve it for a while. And there are no relevant organizations or institutions doing this effort, so the situation is getting worse.
As soldiers, it is their duty to obey orders, as long as there is a direct order from their superiors to restrain each other, and under the constraints of their respective officers, although it cannot be eliminated, the situation can be well controlled, but no such order is given.
Another problem that arises is the establishment of the army, it stands to reason that these armies that have been gathered one after another are all armed forces belonging to the witch cult, but because of the autonomy of various places, the establishment of these armies is different, some use the traditional establishment of the church, some use the army of the Shang Dynasty, some use the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, and some use the establishment of their own inventions, plus the number of troops sent by each city is more or less, and the establishment is even more chaotic.
At this stage, these two major problems are not too serious for the time being, but no one is trying to solve them, which makes the situation worse, and in the end, there is only one reason, that is, the army has not yet had a commander.
The barracks outside Ba City have gradually gathered more than 6,000 troops, and more soldiers are coming, and the soldiers in the barracks come from cities all over the country, more than five or six hundred, as few as two or three hundred, although the army of each city has its own leading officer, but there is no qualified commander who can command the army.
Commanding a few hundred people to fight and commanding tens of thousands of troops to fight are completely different concepts; as long as the former is brave, even if he has no organizational ability at all, he can barely be competent, but the latter requires very strong organizational and analytical skills, and even more needs to be able to suppress the prestige and achievements of his subordinates. And now, although there is no shortage of mid- and low-level officers in the Witch Cult, there is no qualified senior officer.
Although the army leader of Bacheng also commands a city defense force of several thousand people, Bacheng, as a holy city, has not seen sword soldiers for more than 300 years, and the army leaders here are not so much soldiers as civilian officials.
There have been no major foreign enemies in the Bashu Basin for thousands of years, and the location protects the entire basin, and the only enemy is only the Yi people who live everywhere, but these Yi people are weak, and the local military strength is enough to deal with it, and the Yi tribe that can allow the Wu Sect to gather a large army to deal with has not appeared for three hundred years.
As a sect that mainly develops medicine, the witch religion will not keep those military knowledge well in the absence of internal and external troubles, unlike those medical classics and the careful maintenance of the church's history, the military knowledge summarized by the predecessors can only wait to slowly decay, and now not to mention the actual experience of leading the army, even those with relevant knowledge are gone.
The soldiers who have gathered now, in skirmishes, may be considered a division of tigers and wolves, but they cannot form a joint force, strictly speaking, they can only be regarded as a rabble, and cannot be called an army, just as scattered bricks cannot be called buildings.
Now the upper echelons of the Witchcraft are discussing and trying to solve this problem.