Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 845

[Chapter 845 Psychological Warfare]

“Your Highness, this leaflet seems a little…”

Outside Jiangxia City, Chang Wei looked at the picture on the leaflet, his old face turned slightly red.

Because the pictures on this flyer turned out to be farming, coaxing children, eating, and celebrating the New Year in daily life, and it also included pictures of men and women.

Zhao Xu laughed twice.

The hot air balloon that just floated over Jiangxia came from Jingzhou.

Now, the newspaper offices of the Propaganda Department are all over Jiangbei, and they can be dispatched at any time.

Therefore, when he was in Anqing, he gave an order to the newspaper office opposite Jiujiang.

Let them print these leaflets and call in hot air balloons at the same time.

In fact, he did it on purpose in the “porn/erotic” part of the leaflet.

It is a psychological tactic designed to break the will of the soldier.

Using leaflets to wage psychological warfare is commonplace in modern warfare.

During World War II, countries threw leaflets at each other.

Most of the content of the leaflets involves pornography.

Because studies have shown that amorous feelings are the easiest to destroy the will of enemy soldiers, making them war-weary, miss their wives, and doubt the correctness of their actions and choices.

Especially this period.

In Dasong, men over the age of sixteen are basically married.

These leaflets have more impact on them.

And once their will is weak, it will be much easier to attack the city.

“Just get used to it.” Zhao Xu said, compared to Chang Wei, he was much calmer.

Then, he chatted with Chang Wei about the function of this leaflet.

Chang Wei looked surprised, and finally couldn’t help admiring.

“The six-day bombardment has already chilled Jiangxia’s powerful army. If this leaflet comes again, I don’t know how many soldiers will lose their fighting spirit.” Chang Wei laughed.

Zhao Xu nodded, “One more day of bombardment, and a full-scale attack will be launched tomorrow.”

One more day of bombardment will make it seven days in total.

He made up the auspicious numbers and took this Wu army in one pot.

Next, the two stared at the bombardment and the hot air balloon in the sky, looking comfortable.

However, compared to them, Liang Tong and other powerful generals were almost insane.

The moment the leaflets fell from the sky, someone delivered them to him.

Afterwards, the generals responded that the soldiers who received the leaflets either wept or looked depressed.

There were even more soldiers gathered around in twos and threes, discussing something.

Hearing this, Liang Tong crumpled the flyer into a ball and threw it on the ground, “Immediately issue an order that no one is allowed to pick up the piece of paper, or they will be killed without mercy.”

“Yes, General.” His order was issued, and the general went out immediately.

After everyone left, Liang Tong stared blankly at the piece of paper he was holding onto the ground.

He recalled the days when he was hanging out with his beautiful wife and concubine.

Then he was startled, and immediately shook off the picture in his mind.

“Today is the seventh day, and Changcheng’s reinforcements have not arrived for a long time. What should we do?” Liang Tong felt as if he was being held by someone, and his breathing was difficult.

I stayed up all night with confused thoughts.

In the early morning of the next day, the roar of the artillery stopped after only half an hour.

Then he heard the shout of “kill” like the tide.

King Yan’s army launched a general attack on Jiangxia.

He immediately boarded the city wall, dispatched soldiers into the trench, and fought to the death with the soldiers of King Yan.

But then, he saw the most terrifying scene in his life.

The gunshots rang out like a violent storm.

King Yan’s soldiers rushed towards their trench in a way he couldn’t understand.

Relying on the bomb crater in front of the trench, they actually shot and reloaded on their stomachs, and fired again, without needing to stand up at all.

Still others ran like snakes after coming within range of their flintlocks.

When in danger, they lie on the ground again, advance like a gecko, and shoot from time to time.

Approaching their trenches, the soldiers threw explosive firearms into the trenches.

Under such an offensive, their soldiers could not hold on at all.

Although their strength is eight or nine times that of the opponent.

However, it is simply impossible for so many troops to spread out on the battlefield at the same time.

The remaining soldiers can only be used as a reserve team, replenishing the trenches again and again.

Therefore, facing such a fierce attack suddenly, after the soldiers of King Yan jumped into the first row of trenches, their soldiers immediately collapsed.

The soldiers in the front row no longer resisted at all, but fled to the back row.

“Bastards, a bunch of cowards!” Liang Tong yelled anxiously, and he shouted: “Reserve team, go to the reserve team, we must block their attack!”

However, his roar was powerless.

The powerful soldiers in the trench were collapsing at an astonishing speed, as if they had lost their fighting spirit overnight.

Because during the shelling, they were still lucky, maybe they would not be killed by the bombing.

But now that King Yan’s army has launched an attack, they have no way out.

Either die in battle, or surrender.

Between the two, many low-level soldiers chose to surrender.

Although Liang Tong forbade them to pick up the paper, the paper still spread among the soldiers.

After all, on the boring battlefield where you could die at any time, the piece of paper itself can relieve boredom.

But in this way, the will of more soldiers was affected.

Furthermore, before the war broke out, the incidents in the three southeastern states had severely dampened the morale of the soldiers of the powerful clan.

The story of the division of fields in the three southeastern states has long been spread in the army.

Their generals have always denied the fact that Jiangbei divided the fields, but now they can no longer hide it.

“Kill!”

The roar of the soldiers of the royal family’s army became louder and louder.

They entered the second trench from the first trench, and occupied the third trench, getting closer and closer to the city wall of Jiangxia.

And under the seven days of bombardment, Jiangxia’s city walls have already collapsed a lot.

After chasing the defeated soldiers of the power clan to the city wall, the soldiers of the royal family rushed into Jiangxia city without hesitation.

(end of this chapter)