Many people have seen Jiang Wen's "Let the Bullets Fly", in which Zhang Mazi, in order to mobilize the common people to rebel against Huang Silang, successively sent money and guns to the people, but the common people were forced by Huang Silang and several large families to hand over the money and guns, but in the end, under the guidance of Huang Silang, the people still took up weapons to resist Huang Silang.
Film and television is a portrayal of reality, and this plot in the movie was really staged in the Warring States period more than 2,000 years ago. In 280 BC, zhao hao, the general of the state of Zhao, was ordered to attack the state of Qi and surround the city of Maiqiu. However, Maiqiu City was strong and grainy, and there were Mo family disciples who were good at defending the city in the city, and Zhao Hao besieged it for a long time and still did not attack Maiqiu.
The impatient King of Zhao issued an urgent order demanding that Zhao Hao must take Maiqiu within a month. Zhao Hao, who received the death order, ordered a siege of the city, and the Zhao army attacked several times without success, and also lost many soldiers in vain. Zhao Hao learned from the captured Qi army that although there was not much grain and grass in the city, all of it was controlled by the Qi army, and relying on this, the Qi army could resist for several months, but the people in the city had long run out of food and had reached the point of "eating people".
Knowing this news, Zhao Hao was happy and anxious, happy that the Qi army was almost unable to hold on, and it would be possible to take Maiqiu in a few months, and the urgent thing was that there were no days away from the urgent order of the King of Zhao, and after the consumption, the city was not breached, and he may be recalled to Handan by the King of Zhao.
At this time, Zhao Hao's men gave an idea, and Zhao Hao listened to a hundred unwillingness in his heart, but there was no other way but to act according to the plan. Zhao Hao first gave preferential treatment to the captives, so that they could eat and drink well, and then released them again and gave them enough food. After these captives returned to Maiqiu, they went around publicizing that Zhao Jun was a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, and they ate and slept soundly at Zhao Jun's place. Although the Qi army quickly controlled these chaotic prisoners, the military and popular sentiment in the city had been shaken a little.
Then, Zhao Hao asked the troops to throw grain into the city with trebuchets, and so on every day. Qi Jun also understood that this was a battle of attack on the heart, and ate the grain of the Zhao Army, and this battle could be lost without fighting, so he sent someone to collect all the grain and send it back to the Zhao Army. This made the people in the city miserable, and when they saw that the grain in their hands was gone, their hearts gradually became angry. On the other hand, Zhao Jun continued to throw grain into the city, and no matter how the Qi army reacted, it was still unmoved.
On both sides, one has been thrown, the other has been handed over, the people in Maiqiu City have been repeatedly rubbed between hope and disappointment, and finally the anger in their hearts overwhelmed the fear, and the people in the city killed the Qi general who was defending the city and opened the door to offer the city. King Zhao, with minimal losses, obtained the city of Maiqiu.
Whether it is Zhang Mazi or Zhao Hao in the movie, in fact, they are all masters of psychological warfare, who fight their hearts and provoke and exploit the anger of the people, and finally dare to stand up and resist.