There is often no clear turning point for an army to go from being strong to being defeated. Especially for an army that hastily pulled up like Yunyang, sometimes just a little change in the situation will produce a domino effect.
This change may be caused by the death of a beloved little boss, or by a few weak soldiers who could not bear the pressure and began to flee, or there may not even be a disturbance at all, it is purely because of the courage gathered before the war It's just exhausted. Staying on the battlefield itself is a very difficult thing. Put any person in a place where he may die at any time, he will feel desperate and want to escape, so the army needs the soul of the army, and it needs faith to support these heroic fighters. Soldier.
This kind of belief may be material rewards, religious beliefs, or a bright future like Yuxi City, but it must be there. The biggest problem with Yunyang's army is that they don't have this thing. Their courage is strong. Compared with "going to win", their state is closer to "I think I can win so I will fight", so once they encounter setbacks, they will be defeated very quickly.
In the beginning, a soldier from Yunyang fell to the ground and howled after being shot by an arrow. It stands to reason that this happens often, but he scolded him a lot. He also scolded the young man from Yunyang who forced himself into the army at the beginning. Going in, he scolded Lord Yunyang along the way, saying that he would never work for them again in his next life.
After this man fell to the ground, no one went to kill him, and no one came to rescue him. He cursed for half a minute before he died from being trampled. This dissatisfaction spread among Yunyang's soldiers like a plague. Three times the strength of the troops can't hurt the foundation of Yuxi City. In this stalemate, everyone is very irritable. The little boss with unclean hands and feet starts to beat and scold the soldiers who are not motivated, and the resentment of the soldiers is getting higher and higher. .
Later, when a certain Yunyang soldier died, he suddenly recalled something and said in a low voice:
"The stars are transposed..."
At that moment, everyone's hearts fell.
What the lord of Yunyang did well was to block the public opinion in time, so that his army would not be affected too much. If they were allowed to see what conditions Yuxi City offered to the soldiers, they would probably have bombed them long ago. But this kind of blockade of public opinion can only stay after Lord Yunyang wakes up. During the chaotic period before he woke up, Yuxi City still spread a lot of public opinion information.
Among them are the simplest nursery rhymes.
"The stars change positions, Yunyang changes hands", the power of just eight words in this era is incalculable. It happened that the two bright and dark stars in the sky switched positions that day, and the Anbu Organization of Yuxi City and the Propaganda Department of the Shaoyu Camp jointly released such news without hesitation, and it spread to the point where children on the street could sing.
This curse like a prophecy has always remained in the hearts of every Yunyang soldier. When they are in the period of indomitable charge, they will temporarily forget these things in public opinion, but once the attack is frustrated and they are in a period of confusion, these things are related to The information linked to destiny will be infinitely magnified.
The abandoned son who was kicked out, a dilapidated lonely city.
In just two years, the force has tripled...
Isn't this destiny
Naturally, the soldiers in Yunyang couldn't understand what the scientific outlook on development was, and they couldn't understand the inevitability of history. From their current perspective, it was God who wanted the lord of Yunyang to fall. Otherwise, why did the opponent's soldiers stand still with scars all over their bodies, and why did Fang Shisan still have a smile full of leisure on his face? Why did my hands start to tremble with fear, why didn't I have the slightest sense of security even though I was among the thousands of armies
It was Takis, the general of the southern frontier army in Yunyang, who first noticed the problem in the army.
Unlike Lord Yunyang, Takis watched the chaos in Yunyang develop little by little with his own eyes. In the past few months, he watched the fire from the other side, watched the flames burn more and more, and admired Yuxi City's methods. It is also for this reason that when Yunyang's army initially showed signs of collapse, Takis noticed it almost immediately. He realized that with the gradual exhaustion of courage, Yunyang's army had lost the motivation to fight , If it continues like this, there will be big problems.
Then, he hesitated, whether to tell Lord Yunyang about this matter.
In other words, should he try to save the already battered Yunyang
Yun Ye's words seemed to still echo in his ears:
— "Would the general be as loyal to Yunyang as Karpas was?"
Takis touched the long sword on his waist and narrowed his eyes. He is loyal to Lord Yunyang, but this loyalty has now had a very big conflict with his personal future. Lord Yunyang obviously didn't trust him anymore, and the two people behind him who were sent to monitor him stared at him very hard. The two lieutenants who used to be handy were arrested as soon as they arrived in Lingyun City. Was "suicide" in prison.
Takis understood the mood of the Yunyang soldiers very well.
What if we win? In his past life, he had both admiration and contempt for Lord Yunyang. He once bowed down because he admired him, and he was also indignant because of the serious shortage of military supplies during the war. But in general, he is loyal to Yunyang, just like Asilante and Karpass, both are loyal to Yunyang.
But he had never hoped that Yunyang would lose from the bottom of his heart like now, for the people of Yunyang, and for the 40,000 frontier soldiers he left in the south.
After thinking about it, Takis let out a long sigh, pulled out the long sword at his waist, and took a step forward. He was a soldier, not a hero. If he could really let go, he would have just stayed in the south and stood still. The bounden duty of a soldier is to obey orders, no matter whether the order is correct or not, and no matter who makes the order.
Takis didn't intend to tell Lord Yunyang about the army's problems, but he planned to lead his elite frontier army to launch another charge to boost morale. Now that the war has developed, Yunyang only has the advantage in military strength, which is obvious. In various places that the lord of Yunyang could not see, Yuxi City had already taken the lead by a large margin. This last desperate charge was the only thing he could do for Yunyang.
I hope that from now on, the two will not owe each other.
The sun was shining brightly, and the armies on both sides were still fighting mightily. The iron armor collided, and the sound of gold and iron seemed to burst the eardrums. The soldiers of Yuxi City began to show signs of becoming braver as they fought, because they carried heavier things on their shoulders, and because they believed that they had a clearer path and a brighter future.
Selaginella, the commander of Wangdong First Division, lowered his spear and wiped the sweat from his forehead. Takis was leading his bodyguards towards this side, and the two of them briefly glanced at each other across the long sea of people.