How did Di Qing stabilize the morale of the army?

In the Northern Song Dynasty, the agricultural intellectual of Guangyuan Prefecture in the south rebelled against the imperial court and sent general Di Qing to quell the rebellion.

After Di Qing left Guilin with a great army, some soldiers deserted because of the difficult mountain road. Besides, desertion becomes more and more serious at sunset and sunrise every day. Even if heavy punishment is imposed, it will have little effect. Di Qing had a resourceful counselor named Liu Yi. Di Qing asked Liu Yi for countermeasures, and Liu Yi racked his brains and finally came up with a clever plan.

A few days later, the army rested on the road. Di Qing called the soldiers around him and said to them, "The expedition mountain is high and dangerous, and the road is bumpy, and good or bad luck is unpredictable. No wonder the brothers deserted. Now I want to use immortals to test my luck. I threw 100 copper coins into the sky and waited for them to fall to the ground. If they all face up, it's good luck and we'll move forward; " If a copper coin doesn't face up, it's fierce, and we'll move our troops back to the DPRK. what do you think? "All the soldiers said" yes "with one voice.

Di Qing told Qin Bing to bring a bag of copper coins. Di Qing reached out and grabbed a handful from his bag, counted 100, and held it in his hand. Then he closed his eyes and prayed devoutly: "God bless! God bless ... "

The man stared at Di Qing.

Suddenly, Di Qing opened his eyes and threw 100 copper coins into the air. When the copper coins landed, the soldiers rushed forward to watch-100 All the copper coins were facing up! Suddenly, the cheers of "God Bless" shook the valley, and all the soldiers of the three armed forces rejoiced.

Di Qing bowed down to heaven, and then ordered someone to bring 100 nails, nail 100 copper coins to the ground, cover them with green gauze, and seal them in person. Finally, he prayed again: "When the army wins, we must pay a generous tribute to the gods and get these copper coins back!" "

In fact, this is a "trick" of counselor Liu Yi to stabilize the morale of the army with the help of soldiers' superstitious psychology-because this 100 copper coin is all up and down, and the copper coin and the "soldiers" are carefully arranged in advance.

Sure enough, after Di Biao threw a copper coin, morale was high and no one deserted again. Di Qing commanded the three armies to go south quickly, and put down Nong Kochi's rebellion in one fell swoop.