The Three Kingdoms began with island farming

Chapter 625 Stable and Reliable
In the next few days, the three kingdoms and the Kushans engaged in frequent clashes.

Although the Tapti River Pass was narrow, the three kingdoms did not follow the style of the Great Qi Dynasty, building a strong camp and fighting a stupid battle. Instead, they set up camp and confronted Kumar head-on.

Kumar, who wanted to weaken the southern Kushan powers, fought with the three kingdoms several times and demonstrated his strong strength. Then he began to secretly force Deva to become the main force.

However, Deva was also a smart man. He had established connections with the Three Kingdoms early on, but he did not show it too obviously. Instead, he actually charged several times and achieved a "great victory."

The strength he displayed was not inferior to Kumar.

At the same time, with the secret help of Kumar, the spies arranged by Pang Tong and others also began to connect with the powerful people in the southern Kushan.

After the Three Kingdoms showed enough "muscle" to make the southern warlords completely give up the idea of ​​occupying Sindhu, the two sides naturally came together because of common interests.

Neither side wants to see both sides suffer losses.

The Han army did not care about the reputation of defeat, so there was a lot of room for maneuver.

Whenever the two sides fought, it seemed to be in full swing and fierce, but in fact there were few casualties, and in most cases it ended with the retreat of the Han army.

During this period, there were some powerful southern tyrants who wanted to take advantage of the situation, but after being beaten up a few times, they became completely obedient.

There was even a reputation that "the Han army cannot be pursued, and those who pursue will die."

The Han army was transformed into a cowardly turtle that was weak in attack but strong in defense.

It’s not that Kumar was unaware of the trick, but that he condoned it.

Because he thought it was a good thing.

Repeated defeats, with more defeats than wins, even if they are self-directed defeats, will inevitably have a negative impact on morale.

Over time, the Han army will inevitably shoot itself in the foot and fall into a real slump.

At that time, the opportunity to defeat the Han army will appear.

In the following dozens of days, the two banks of the Tapti River became a chessboard for a three-way struggle.

When Kumar went to the tent to review the troops every day, he would always see reports of "great victories" won by the southern warlords in the battle reports.

Today, more than a thousand Han soldiers were killed, and tomorrow, a hundred carts of food and fodder were seized, as if a great victory was just around the corner.

The number of Han troops who were "annihilated" alone was tens of thousands.

However, after several of his attempts, the morale of the Han army did not collapse as he had imagined, but instead became a little "strange".

It looks ordinary, but it's like a dormant volcano that's about to erupt at any time.

"How could this happen?" Kumar was puzzled and self-doubting in the military camp.

Although war is an anti-human game, it must follow the rules of humanity.

Everyone is afraid of death, but if you make good use of this fact, you can still achieve the effect of a "fight to the death".

However, Kumar was puzzled by the strange morale of the Han army.

Even if it was the royal guards under his command, after repeated defeats, they would at least fall into a state of loss, if not fleeing in disarray.

But these Han soldiers seemed to be fearless of death and had no sense of humiliation. Despite repeated defeats, their morale was still maintained at a certain level, and he even felt that he had hit rock bottom and was rebounding.

"How on earth did they do it?" Kumar pulled off his helmet in annoyance, letting the sweat drip down his chin onto the map.

The soldiers' celebratory singing could be heard outside the tent, but it sounded so noisy in his ears.

In the Three Kingdoms camp, Liu Bei and others looked at the recent battle reports and investigated the morale of the soldiers in the camp, and nodded slightly.

"I never thought that one day we would be able to fight like this!" Liu Bei couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the conversation records of the soldiers in his hands.

"What Tian Chengshou said about 'military spirit' and 'belief' are really good things!" Sun Ce also sighed sincerely.

They are all experienced soldiers, and they know the preciousness of the current military situation. It is difficult to build a strong army, but it is even more difficult to build an army with faith.

They had had this kind of army before, but it was at most just a small number of direct followers of each general and the military soul corps.

It is entirely maintained by the sense of belief in repeated victory and the village-party relations that are deeply bound by interests and emotions. It is impossible for it to last long.

The vast majority of soldiers fight just to make a living and do not have such noble beliefs.

When they arrived at the battlefield, the first thing they thought about was how to survive, how to earn military merit, and how to grab the spoils.

When the situation is going well, nothing can be seen, but once the situation goes wrong, one will immediately look back and forth, afraid to retreat.

This is a huge gap between them and the Qi army.

Even a ruthless man like Cao Cao, who detained the entire families of his soldiers as a threat and bribed them with benefits, was still far from the quality of the Qi army.

When a person dies, there is nothing.

Faced with the huge test of life and death, many people are reluctant to sacrifice their lives even for the sake of their wives, children and the elderly at home.

Besides, they were also clear about Cao’s army’s system.

Even if they died for Cao Cao, the ending for the whole family would not be much better.

Because according to the rules set by Cao Cao, the wives of soldiers who died in battle must remarry. Without the support of the elderly and children, how can they survive?
The seven kings had all studied the Qi army's military situation in depth, and all of them were drooling with envy.

With high upper and lower limits, morale can almost be locked at a certain level and there is basically no chance of collapse.

Tian Ze even had the energy to solve the problem of excessive ties between generals and soldiers, and the problem of self-reliance of troops, and to rotate soldiers.

But they really don't have the conditions.

Just the simplest and most critical issue of money and food was enough to make them give up completely.

The cost of maintaining the Qi army was simply unacceptable to them.

Because a soldier not only has to consider himself, but also his family.

Material care and assistance, elevated status, permission to exercise certain powers... there are too many hidden costs.

They were very envious, but absolutely reluctant to practice.

But over the past year or so, they have also become rich.

The cake of Sindhu was too big, so big that even Da Qi could hardly eat it, and it made the three kingdoms all fat and juicy.

With sufficient money and food, many long-desired things can naturally be put into production directly.

The three kings also began to improve the treatment of the troops, enhance their quality, and build their beliefs.

The amount of effort put into this is unimaginable.

They are provided with the most basic daily food, treatment, etc., and scholars are arranged to teach them literacy and instructors are arranged to give them lectures.

For these, the Three Kingdoms paid a large number of people to the Great Qi.

But the result is undoubtedly gratifying.

To be frank, the military strength of the Three Kingdoms has not increased much.

However, overall, the average combat capability has nearly doubled compared to when they first went abroad.

Moreover, it is stable and reliable enough.

(End of this chapter)