In 494 BC, the Jin Kingdom Qiyi. A big war is on the verge of breaking out.
One side is the Zheng ** team. This Zheng ** team has rich experience, they have basically fought with Jin, Chu, Qi and other big countries, and even Zhou Tianzi has been beaten by them. So it's a bunch of standard veteran oilers.
The other side was much more humble: they were the soldiers of the Zhao clan of the Jin Kingdom. Whether it is equipment, quality, or training, it is far from the national army. And the number of people is much smaller.
Seeing the Zheng ** team, which was black, well-disciplined, and armed to the teeth, the Zhao family soldiers couldn't help but gasp.
How should this battle be fought? Could it be that this is a war of eggs hitting stones for the Zhao family's soldiers?
At the critical moment, Zhao Ying, the commander of the Zhao family's soldiers, delivered a speech.
The soldiers of the Zhao family, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, miraculously won the victory.
This speech became a model for future generations of soldiers. Shang Ying was inspired by Zhao Ying's speech, and then established the military merit system of the Qin State.
Why is this speech so powerful?
Well-trained Zheng ** team.
This battle is very crucial.
In 493 BC, the state of Qi asked the allied state of Zheng to send troops to escort grain to the Zhongxing clan and the Fan clan. In this battle, if the Jin State can win the grain, it will be equivalent to breaking the blood of the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan, and the Jin civil war will be able to end early.
"The Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan violated the mandate of heaven, beheaded the people, and wanted to dictate the Jin kingdom and destroy the Jin marquis. Our monarch relied on Zheng Guo to be preserved. Now that Zheng Guo has no way, abandoning the monarch and helping his subordinates, a few of us have decided to obey the will of heaven, obey military orders, promote virtue and righteousness, and eliminate shame, and fight here. Zhao Ying said in his speech.He was sometimes impassioned, sometimes heartbroken. It's as if all the ** advantages are in your own hands.
The reason why the soldiers of the Zhao family were able to exert their strong combat effectiveness was inseparable from their righteous position. Behind the occupation of the moral high ground is the game between Zhao Ying and the enemy in "attacking the heart".
1. Handan Zhao, a long-planned betrayal
Handan is the most prosperous city in the Zhao fiefdom.
But what's worse is that such a good place is controlled by a small sect of the Zhao family, and it is getting bigger and bigger. In terms of scale, it seems that it is about to catch up with Jinyang, the location of the Zhao family's major sect. If it doesn't work out, the small sect will eat the big sect and stage a new round of "Quwo Daiyi".
Especially after the patriarch Zhao Ying's request to weaken Handan and transfer 500 households to Jinyang was rejected by Handan Zhao Wu, the Handan Zhao clan has already seen a momentum of tailing. To this end, Zhao Ying summoned Zhao Wu to Jinyang and killed him, and informed the Handan Zhao clan to establish a new lord on their own.
Zhao Ying's move can be said to be quite predictable. Because of the subsequent actions of the Handan Zhao family, it shows that he has long had the idea of betrayal: after the news of Zhao Wu's killing reached Handan, Zhao Wu's son Zhao Ji immediately launched a rebellion.
- Such a decisive response, such a quick organization, and such a thorough preparation. It can be seen that people have been planning for a long time. It's like someone saying, "If war breaks out, Japan will be able to build an atomic bomb in a month." "Why? Because there have been preparations for a long time.
Quvodai Wing. 2. Maintain moral superiority at all times
The patriarch Zhao Ying maintained the unity and stability of the clan and launched a crusade against the Handan Zhao clan. This is within the scope of responsibility, and there is nothing wrong with it.
But Handan Zhao still has foreign aid. He had a marriage with the Fan family and the Zhongxing family, and after the two families learned of Zhao Ying's intentions, they mobilized private soldiers to prepare to attack Zhao Ying.
In this regard, Dong Anyu, Zhao Ying's retainer, thought that it was better to strike first, and suggested that he should make a plan and prepare early.
But even though the mountain rain is about to come, Zhao Ying is still extremely sober"In the Jin law, it is said that the first person who is guilty of crime should be put to death. I'm going to wait and see what happens. ”
Sure enough, a month later, the Fan clan launched an attack on the Zhao family. Because of insufficient preparation, the Zhao family suffered a big loss in the early stage, and Zhao Ying had to flee from the capital of the Jin Kingdom and retreat to the Zhao family's base camp: Jinyang.
Fortunately, Jinyang City is impregnable under the management of Dong Anyu: in this city, the houses in the city are all built with copper pillars, not wooden pillars; The main body of the castle wall was built with rammed earth sandwiched with slabs, eggs and salt mixed with the earth, and the walls were made of tall and tough stems of plants such as Artemisia annua. Even though Zhao Ying was besieged by the Zhao family, the Zhongxing family, and the Fan family in Handan, his life was hanging by a thread for a time, but in the end he still held the city.
In this way, from beginning to end, Zhao Ying has maintained the character of a "victim". It is believed that he is the attacked, not the attacker. In this way, Zhao Ying stood on the commanding heights of morality.
This "preemptive strike" brought obvious benefits to Zhao Ying: later Jin Dinggong identified the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan as the culprits of the civil war, and demanded that other Qing clans encircle and suppress them. This made the Fan clan lose their minds in an instant, and directly turned to attack the capital where the Duke of Jin Ding was located, thus completely becoming a public enemy of the country.
Zhao Ying.
"If the enemy is defeated, the upper doctor will get the county, the lower doctor will get the county, the scholar will get 100,000 acres of fertile land, the common people can become officials, and the slaves can be freed. I, Zhao Zhifu, if I can defeat the enemy and avoid being asked, I ask the monarch to consider it. If I am guilty of defeat, I am willing to be hanged to death. After my death, I was buried with the rites of the next king, with a three-inch thick paulownia coffin, without a lining plate and an outer coffin, and transported my coffin with undecorated carriages and horses, and I was ashamed to bury my body in the cemetery of my ancestors! Zhao Ying said conclusively.Mastering morality is not enough to turn the scales of victory. Song Xianggong was stubbornly guarding the false name of benevolence and righteousness at the beginning, and was beaten by the Chu army.
Zhao Ying knew this very well, so he grabbed the "appetite" of the vast majority of people present and made an exciting promise, so that these family soldiers who felt that they were in danger of being catastrophied saw the dawn of life and did their best to fight for it.
1. Zhao Ying's "Exodus".
The book of Exodus is a classic scene in the Bible that tells the story of the Israelites, who escaped from Egypt and escaped from slavery under God's guidance. Under the leadership of the Israelite prophet Moses, they overcame many hardships and dangers to reach God's promised kingdom: the land of Canaan.
Why is the book of Exodus so memorable and a classic that has been passed down for thousands of years?
Just because the story fully satisfies people's psychological need to be saved.
When people are trapped by reality and see little hope. If suddenly there is a strong person, who comes up with a beautiful dream, promises to change all these dilemmas, and let people enjoy a life that they never dared to think of.
Like a light in the dark night, people's hopes are ignited. For the sake of this only hope, people in distress will be willing to give everything!
Zhao Ying and his troops were in such a predicament at that time.
As he said, his soldiers were already feeling the breath of death in the face of the powerful Zheng army. And if he Zhao Ying, once he loses the battle, he will also accept hanging and die in shame.
At this moment, the Zhao family soldiers are a group of mourning soldiers who are fighting against the water, and only by trusting Zhao Ying can they escape.
Exodus. 2. Make everyone feel motivated
How can we maximize the incentive effect?
In 1415, at the Battle of Agincourt in the Hundred Years' War between England and France, when 5,000 English longbowmen led by him faced more than 20,000 French cavalry, King Henry V of England issued a generous pre-war mobilization"All who shed blood with me today are my brothers! No matter how humble he may be, today's baptism will make him a true nobleman! ”
After that, the British army won a resounding victory in the Battle of AgincourtThe French army lost more than 10,000 people, while the British army totaled less than 200 people!
In addition to the suppression of cavalry by the English longbowmen, it was mainly Henry V who aroused the will of the warriors to fight. Think about it, every soldier after the First World War became the king's brother and became a true nobleman. This is something that a low-level soldier born in a peasant can never dream of. Now the king promised that their status would be glorious if they were victorious. Compared to the death after defeat, there is no place to bury. How can the soldiers not fire all their guns and fight for that incomparably bright future?!
Zhao Ying also promised the soldiers an incomparably better future.
The upper doctor has a county, the lower doctor has a county, the scholar has 100,000 acres of fertile land, the common people can become officials, and the slaves can be freed.
So that everyone can cross their own class and go one step higher. - For most people, this is something that they can't get after a lifetime of struggle, but now it's really there, and it's within reach. How exciting and ** is this?
There will be brave men under the great reward.
Battle of Agincourt.
3. Demonstration of typical examples
Although it is full of firm belief in victory.
Before the battle, seeing the dazed Zheng Jun, Zhao Jiajun couldn't help but shudder.
Zhao wanted to further strengthen the effect of incentives. He thought of using a typical demonstration.
"Bi Wan, the ancestor of the Wei family, was originally a man from a humble background. But he fought valiantly seven times in a row, capturing enemy soldiers, capturing horses, gaining a prominent position, and dying a good death at home. Let's work together, we really won't die at the hands of the enemy! ”
Now that we have the example of our predecessors, what is there to fear?
Zhao Jiajun organized a death squad and rushed towards the position of the Zheng army. Zhao Yingdu took the lead and rushed to the front. During the battle, Zhao Ying was shot in the shoulder by the enemy and fell on the chariot. The prince of Weiguo beside him, Kuai Chen, used Ge to set up Zhao Ying, and Zhao Ying stood up again and commanded the battle.
The soldiers saw that the commander was so not afraid of death, and everyone was enthusiastic for a while, morale was high, and the offensive became more and more fierceCut a hole in Zheng Jun's position, causing it to be in chaos. In the end, the Zheng army couldn't withstand the fierce attack of the Zhao family's army, and had to flee in a hurry.
In this battle, the Zhao Jiajun representing the Jin State won a complete victory.
The Zhao family army was invincible on the battlefield.
In the movie "Bloody Battle of Taierzhuang", there was a scene: in order to regain the lost position, the ** officer decided to give 30 oceans to each of the attacking daredevils. However, the daredevils said: Sir, we don't want our lives, what do we want to do with the ocean? So these daredevils threw away the ocean one after another and went to the battlefield generously.
It can be seen that what motivates soldiers at that time is not money, but morality and national integrity.
In the Battle of Tieqiu, Zhao Ying first occupied the moral high ground, giving the soldiers a psychological advantage.
Secondly, the incentives are a good fit for the soldiers' desperate desire to change the status quo of their lives. Thus, the infinite combat effectiveness of the soldiers was stimulated. As a result, most of the forward troops of the Zhao family army were killed in battle, and the Zheng army was defeated with the momentum of seeing death as home.
This classic battle of winning more with less and defeating the strong with the weak inspired Shang Ying. After that, Shang Ying used Zhao Ying's reward and punishment method to formulate a military merit system for the Qin State, which made the Qin army suddenly become a brave and warlike tiger and wolf army, and laid a strong spiritual pillar for the Qin State to unify the six countries.