If you want to build an indestructible steel army, in addition to the need for excellent military quality, a good military discipline and military style, you also need to add the attitude of "loving soldiers like sons".
Looking at ancient and modern China and abroad, all the generals who can build elite divisions can basically achieve strict discipline and love soldiers like sons, such as the protagonist of today's story, Wu Qi in the Warring States period, his love for soldiers is also like a nephew, and even drugs sores for soldiers.
However, the soldier's mother was greatly moved, and told the little soldier that General Wu was not good for him, but wanted his life.
What does this mean? Could it be that Wu Qi is putting on a show?
There is no hurry, let us break through the fog of history and explore the causes and consequences of the event together.
Tragic experience
Wu Qi's childhood was actually very happy, born in a rich family, and the history books record that his family was "a family of tens of thousands of gold".
However, wu Qi did not want to run the family's property when he became an adult, but was obsessed with political development, so he did not hesitate to scatter his family property, and eventually found nothing.
The family wealth was scattered, and there was no official position to lean over, and the anger in Wu Qi's heart could be imagined. As a result, several townspeople who did not have long eyes laughed at him as a loser, and Wu Qi, in a fit of rage, killed all the people who laughed at him, and then fled with the last bit of money.
After he fled, he went to Confucianism to study confucian classics.
As we all know, Confucianism is based on filial piety, but Wu Qi was indifferent after receiving the news of his mother's death, which is obviously contrary to the spirit of Confucianism.
The master, in anger, severed the master-apprentice relationship with him.
After that, he studied military science, and after completing his studies, he happened to hear that Lu Guo was recruiting talents to deal with qi guo, which always bullied Lu Guo.
Although Wu Qi was full of confidence, he was once again rejected, on the grounds that because his wife was from the State of Qi, it was not possible that Wu Qi was a traitor sent by the State of Qi.
Wu Qi could no longer afford to fail, and this time he decided to kill the killer and kill his wife directly, and then raised his wife's head to the face of the Lu monarch to show his loyalty.
We see that Wu Qi himself is a very purposeful person, which can be seen from his act of scattering his family wealth to seek officials.
After that, because of the long time, coupled with being ridiculed, he suffered a huge blow in his heart, which further strengthened his desire to achieve his goal, and he became extreme, becoming a ruthless person who was not filial piety and benevolence.
But don't look at Wu Qi's ruthlessness and fierceness, but he is very kind to the soldiers.
Ruthless and sentient
According to the Records of History, Vol. 56, Wu Qi later defected to the State of Wei, and was subsequently appointed as a general by the King of Wei and arranged to fight against the State of Qin in the Hexi region.
In order to build a powerful army, in military training, Wu Qi is like a strict father, and in ordinary life, he is like a loving father, not only amiable, but also eat and live together, without the appearance of a great general.
Once a small soldier had poisonous sores on his arm, and Wu Qi did not hesitate after seeing it, and directly sucked it.
Where xiao Bing had received such a favor, he was extremely grateful in his heart, and wanted to wait until his illness was cured, and he vowed to follow General Wu to the death.
However, because he was in pain, General Wu allowed him to go home and recuperate completely before returning to report.
With a feeling of gratitude, the little soldier immediately told his mother about this matter when he returned home.
Unexpectedly, after listening to it, the mother cried and said to her son: "Son, this is your life."
It turned out that Xiao Bing's father had also had poisonous sores before, and it was also General Wu who sucked it, and as a result, Xiao Bing's father was grateful, and after that, he would rush to every battle, and it didn't take long to die.
The above passage is from the "Chronicle of History", and the original words are as follows:
"Whoever has a sick gangrene starts to suck it." The mother of the pawn sniffed and cried. Man knows: Zi Zi Ye, and the general sucks his own gangrene, why cry? Mother: Not really. In previous years, Wu Gong sucked his father, and his father did not fight and died in the enemy. ”
Ponder behind your back
In fact, if you think about it carefully, how can Wu Qi, a person who is not filial to his mother, unkind to his wife, and unscrupulous means to achieve his goals, be sincere to ordinary pawns? Isn't it to win people's hearts and minds to fight for him and help him defeat the enemy?
The mother of the little soldier mentioned in the "Chronicle of History" may not have realized this problem at first, but after the same situation was played out on her son, the old mother suddenly realized and said such a paragraph.
Looking back at Wu Qi, he experienced nearly eighty battles in his lifetime, of which more than sixty were victorious, which shows that his military ability is indeed extraordinary.
But behind his success, how much life is paid, and how many wives and mothers cry in the night, which may not be thought of.
The sentence of the old mother in the "History" not only shows the strategy of the ancient generals to lead the troops, but also reflects the cruelty of war to the fullest.
In the face of a ruthless war, even if Wu Qi was sincere about treating soldiers? In the end, it is not "white sends the north wind to call, the loess buried bones in the sunset crying".
Reference: Chronicle of History