Chapter 863: Psychological Warfare

"Your Highness, this leaflet seems a little..."

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

Because the pictures on the leaflet were actually pictures of farming, coaxing children, eating, celebrating the New Year, etc. in daily life, and also included pictures of men and women making love.

Zhao Xu chuckled twice.

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

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

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

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

In fact, he deliberately put the "erotic" part in the leaflet.

This is a psychological tactic aimed at destroying the will of soldiers.

It is very common to use leaflets to launch psychological warfare in modern warfare.

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

And the content of the leaflets mostly involves eroticism.

Because research shows that lust is most likely to destroy the will of enemy soldiers, making them tired of war, miss their wives, and doubt the correctness of their own behavior and choices.

Especially during this period.

Most men over the age of 16 in Dasong are married.

These leaflets have a greater impact on them.

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 more indifferent.

Then, he and Chang Wei talked about the role of this leaflet.

Chang Wei was surprised, and finally couldn't help but admire.

"I'm afraid that the six-day bombardment has already made the powerful army of Jiangxia frightened. If this leaflet comes again, I don't know how many soldiers will lose their fighting spirit." Chang Wei smiled.

Zhao Xu nodded, "One more day of bombardment, and launch a full-scale attack tomorrow."

One more day of bombardment, a total of seven days.

He put together a lucky number and wiped out the Wu army.

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

But compared to them, Liang Tong and other powerful generals were almost going crazy.

As soon as the flyers fell from the sky, someone delivered them to him.

Later, the generals reported that the soldiers who received the flyers were either in tears or depressed.

Some soldiers gathered in groups of three or two, discussing something.

Hearing this, Liang Tong crumpled the flyers into a ball and threw them on the ground, "Immediately issue an order, no one is allowed to pick up the paper, otherwise they will be killed without mercy."

"Yes, General." His order was issued, and the generals went out immediately.

After everyone left, Liang Tong stared at the paper he had crumpled on the ground in a daze.

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

Then he was startled and immediately threw away the picture in his mind.

"Today is the seventh day, and the reinforcements from Changcheng have not arrived yet. What should I do?" Liang Tong's heart seemed to be held by someone, and his breathing was not smooth.

He spent another night in chaotic thoughts.

The next morning, the roar of the artillery lasted only half an hour before it stopped.

Then he heard the shouts of "kill" like a tide.

The Yan Wang army launched a general attack on Jiangxia.

He immediately climbed the city wall and dispatched soldiers into the trenches to fight to the death with the Yan Wang soldiers.

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

The gunshots rang out like a storm.

The Yan Wang soldiers rushed to their trenches in a way he couldn't understand.

Relying on the shell craters in front of the trenches, they actually lay down to shoot and reload, and then shot again, without having to stand up.

Some soldiers ran like snakes after entering the range of their flintlock rifles.

When they encountered danger, they lay on the ground again, moving forward like geckos, and lying on the ground to shoot from time to time.

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

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

Although their troops were eight or nine times that of the enemy.

However, so many troops could not be deployed on the battlefield at the same time.

The remaining soldiers could only be used as reserves and added to the trenches again and again.

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

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

"Damn, a bunch of cowards!" Liang Tong cursed anxiously, and he shouted: "Reserve, go to the reserve, we must stop their attack!"

However, his roar was powerless.

The soldiers of the powerful families in the trenches were disintegrating at an alarming speed, as if they had lost their fighting spirit overnight.

Because when the artillery bombarded, they still had a fluke, maybe they would not be killed by the bombing.

But now that the King of Yan's army launched an attack, they had no way to retreat.

Either die in battle or surrender.

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

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

After all, on a boring battlefield where you can die at any time, pieces of paper can also relieve boredom.

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

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

The news of the land distribution in the three southeastern states had spread among the army long ago.

Their generals had always denied the fact of the land distribution in Jiangbei, but now they could no longer hide it.

"Kill!"

The roars of the soldiers of the royal palace became louder and louder.

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

After seven days of bombardment, many parts of the Jiangxia city wall had collapsed.

Chasing the defeated powerful clan soldiers to the edge of the city wall, the royal palace soldiers rushed into Jiangxia city without hesitation.