The rebels outside the city attacked for a day, and even the moat was not broken, so they were smashed back by a catapult, and it was not until sunset that Fang La was unwilling to withdraw his troops.

Seeing that Fang Laming's troops were collected, the generals came to the Liangzhejiang Road Establishment Division without rest, and reported the battle situation in front of Lotte.

"Master Hou, this Fang La really doesn't take the lives of his brothers seriously, today he ordered his soldiers to attack the stones smashed by our catapults for a whole day, this is to let those people send us to slaughter!" Song Jiang couldn't help but sigh.

Wang Ziwu also nodded and sighed: "Some of the bodies of those chaotic soldiers who attacked the city were smashed in half, and some were directly smashed into pulp, and there were countless missing arms and legs, and the losses of the chaotic army when guarding Xiuzhou were not so miserable, and the last general couldn't bear to look at it!" ”

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After reporting the battle situation, the generals remembered the bloody scene in front of the battle today, and couldn't help but sigh.

Liao Chengshu, the commander of the Biandu Forbidden Army, wiped his hands and saluted Lotte and asked: "Master Hou, these chaotic troops still dare to rush forward knowing that they can't attack the city, aren't they really afraid of death?" ”

When Commander Liao asked questions, the generals also set their eyes on Lotte, hoping that Lotte could give an answer.

In his previous life, he had seen too many examples of being brainwashed, so Lotte naturally knew how to explain it, and asked: "Have you ever heard of people who believe in Buddhism taking several years to walk thousands of miles to Wutai Mountain for pious worship?" Have you ever seen a gambler gamble with red eyes, gambling until his family goes bankrupt, gambling to sell his sons, daughters and wives, and hate to take all his pants as a trouser and borrow usury?

You will think about them and understand why Phalans and the Manichaeans are so persistent! ”

The generals under his command woke up.

Song Jiang suddenly realized something, and said: "The Taiping Dao of Zhang Jiao in the late Han Dynasty and today's Luni Sect are both used to confuse the people, and there is no difference in the essence of rebellion. ”

"No wonder, all dynasties and dynasties only recognize Buddhism and Taoism, and strictly control other sects!" The crowd will be stunned.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Taiping Dao, the Manichaeism of the Fang La Incident, and the Red Turban Army of the Mingjiao Rebellion under the pseudonym of Manichaeism overthrew the Mengyuan Dynasty, and until the worship of the Emperor of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in later generations, they were all based on religion as a link, and the development of the context formed a climate rebellion before raising troops to rebel, and even the revolutionary army that overthrew the Manchu Dynasty had a lot to do with the transformation of the Ming Religion into the Tiandihui, which was later renamed a certain sect.

But Lotte also knows that although the Manichaean members of the Fang La Rebellion are the main elements, the people who are dissatisfied with the court and are bewitched by it to vent their anger still occupy the majority, as long as some means are appropriate, these people want to either surrender or disperse, in short, they can cause fewer casualties to the people of Liangzhejiang.

Thinking of this, Lotte said: "Order people to print more than 100,000 copies of the persuasion and pacification letter distributed by Xiuzhou and the scattered army, and send people out of the city every night after printing, and shoot to the camp of the chaotic army!" ”

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"Master Hou, there are a large number of bandits in Qibao Mountain and Ziyang Mountain in the south of the city to carry out earthwork work, it is estimated that there are tens of thousands of people, according to the general's guess, these bandits want to pile up soil to build a wall in the south city to attack the city!"

At that time, when Lotte was about to rest, Wu Jiaqiang, the commander of the southern city, hurriedly came to see him.

Lotte disagreed: "The thunderbolt cannon you brought when you left Biandu hasn't been used yet?" ”

Commander Wu hurriedly said: "Master Hou did not order to use it, and the last general and others did not dare to use it." ”

Because of the rebellion of the two Song Dynasty, the production method of thunderbolt cannon in the Song Dynasty has long been lost, but the principle is nothing more than the earth bomb loaded with gunpowder in later generations, which is regarded as common in later generations, but gunpowder in the Song Dynasty has just been used in the military, obviously the highest and most sophisticated thing, regarded as a state secret.

Lotte nodded and said, "Greet those bandits when they get close to our army's effective firing range!" ”

Commander Wu hurriedly saluted and said, "The last general will be ordered!" ”

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The next day, the rebel army's shallow attack stopped, obviously the offensive was not as fierce as yesterday, Lotte Xin understood that at this time Fang La was just feintifying, obviously focusing entirely on building an earthen wall in the south of the city to attack the city.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang have been weak since ancient times, when the Northern Song Dynasty opened the country, the Song army captured Jinling and captured the queen Li Yu, the Southern Tang Dynasty fell, and the king of Wuyue, Qian Yu, was even more to return to the Song Dynasty, and there was no resistance at all, so that Jiangsu and Zhejiang achieved a peaceful transfer of political power, and there was no war in this land for more than 200 years since the end of the Tang Dynasty, and the common people had never seen bloody slaughter.

The battlefield has been tragic for two consecutive days, so that some of the people who have just joined the righteous army feel throbbing and shocked, seeing one by one their former acquaintances die under the stone cannons of the official army, the heart is more and more afraid, and the city that has been attacked for two days in succession is a fluke to live today, and tomorrow I don't know if I will die under the stone cannon bows and arrows of the official army.

Because of the huge casualties, the fear began to spread like a plague in the rebel army, and in the two days since the siege of Hangzhou, thousands of rebels have died at night and quietly thrown their weapons and deserted.

This time to attack Hangzhou again, although there are 300,000 people under his command, but half of them are the people who came from Fang La's temporary patchwork, and they didn't even have a good record of the roster in a hurry, in addition, the generals under their command are all half-hangers, these people spread Manichaeism to demagoguery, and as for marching and fighting, camping, they almost don't know anything, and even the soldiers don't know the generals and the generals.

At night, a letter of persuasion was shot by the Song army to the camp of the righteous army, and the letter clearly stated that the Son of Heaven dismissed Huashigang, abolished the Suzhou and Hangzhou Creation Bureau, and the Ying Gong Bureau, and the relevant officials were all removed from their posts and investigated.

In addition, these letters of persuasion also have the "black materials" of the generals of the righteous army, how much money did General So-and-so rob, how many concubines did so-and-so take, what happened to So-and-so, everything was said to have noses and eyes, and these people are not relatives of the Holy Father, but their own family, and they are no longer unusually close.

Fang La learned that the official army had sent a letter of persuasion to confuse the army, and immediately sent someone to confiscate it in the army, but no matter how it was collected, the letter of persuasion had spread among the righteous army, that is, the letter of persuasion was confiscated, and the content of the letter of persuasion was also passed on by word of mouth among the soldiers and soldiers, and it could not be stopped.

The Chinese nation is the most endurance of the nation, the people's ideas are very simple, just want the wife to live peacefully, who is the emperor The people never care, the people think that as long as the court does not harm the people, they will pay taxes as usual, only the bullied can no longer bear it, will rise up, now the court knows that it is wrong, the Son of Heaven is even more guilty of his own edict, what is wrong with this, why fight and kill.

And there are things about the high-level generals of the righteous army, which makes these righteous soldiers feel cold, it turns out that these people are no different from those officials of the imperial court, and they are all greedy for wine, sex, money, and gas.

Some of the contents of the letter of surrender are true, and some things are made up. With the soul of future generations, Lotte knows that if the public opinion war is used well, it will be used with tens of thousands of troops, so the position of public opinion war must not be lost, like the Yanhuang Daily in Biandu.

Since Lotte led the troops to the south, in addition to reporting the daily military situation to the imperial court, he did not forget to pass a copy to the Yanhuang Daily, of course, he had to grasp the proportions properly, otherwise he would leak the secrets and be blamed by the Son of Heaven for not tasting loss.

After reading the content of the letter of persuasion, I remembered that Tong Ze, who died miserably during the siege of the city, threw down his weapons and fled at night, but in three or five days, he had already taken ten people to one, removing casualties and deserters, and there were only 25 or 60,000 people left under Fang La's command.

If this continued, the soldiers under his command did not run out, and Fang La was furious and ordered his soldiers to step up the construction of the earthen wall in the south of Hangzhou City to attack the city.

In a few days, the outline of the earthen wall of the southern city was first seen, and hundreds of steps away from the southern city of Hangzhou were separated from each other.

In order to further disintegrate the morale of the righteous army, every day, the people of Hangzhou took the food city to comfort the officers and soldiers, and sewed clothes with the officers and soldiers.

The scene of the people in Hangzhou condolences to the officials and soldiers fell in the eyes of the righteous soldiers, which made the volunteers more and more suspicious that they were deceived by Fang La and others, and came to be the cannon fodder for these people to win wealth and wealth, and secretly slipped away and became deserters while standing guard at night.

There were more and more deserters, so much so that Fang La had to promulgate a system of continuous sitting, and if one soldier escaped, all the soldiers would be punished, and if one team escaped, the whole team would be punished.

In this way, the desertion of the soldiers intensified, and after a few days, the entire rebel army was reduced to just over 200,000 men.

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Although trapped in the city, the Imperial City Division Yu Yi Jun also has an eyeliner, through a secret way with a flying pigeon to pass the book to Lotte's hands, Lotte just smiled, the effect of this public opinion war is really good, deserted more and more righteous soldiers, and soon can achieve the goal of surrendering without a fight.

When Fang La was angry and angry, news came from the south of the city that the Song army in the city threw many round things to the newly built earthen wall with catapults, killing and injuring countless soldiers who were under construction of the earthen wall.

Hearing the news, Fang La almost blew up his lungs, but there was nothing he could do, and the whole person was in a state of irritability, which made people dare not approach.

There was really nothing to do, so Fang La had no choice but to summon a group of generals under his command to ask for advice.

I feel that the general trend is gone, and the generals are also helpless.

When no one spoke, General Lu came out and said: "Holy Prince, now that the official army is strong, our army has many deserters, and it is no longer advantageous, the only way to avoid the front of the official army, join forces with Lu Shisang and Zheng Demon King, and gather superior forces to fight to the death with the officials and soldiers of the imperial court, and we will definitely be able to turn things around in a battle." ”

Seeing that it was General Lu, and listening to General Lu's words, Fang La was furious: "You were the one who persuaded the Duke to withdraw from Hangzhou at the beginning, and now it is you who persuade the Duke to withdraw from the army, can't you come up with some good ideas?" ”

Hearing this, General Lu was silent, bowed to Fang La, and retreated to the class to stop talking.

Everyone understands that Fang La has lost his temper, and what General Lu said is very reasonable, now the morale of the army is low and the people are fleeing, and the official army is already strong, and it is defending the city, and the official army will take the initiative to attack in the future, and it will be a dead end if the army does not retreat.

All the generals of the righteous army understand better that today Fang La is out of shape and angry, and General Lu, who is the most strategic in the righteous army, is afraid that he will not admonish him again in the future, in fact, all the generals know that since Fang La captured Hangzhou, he is no longer the Fang La before.

In Fang La's view, this battle is really too bad, and there is no official army at all, and his own soldiers will flee and flee scattered, when he climbed high and raised his arms, a few days of the scene gathered more than 10,000 people, a battle of Qingxi, the team was pulled to more than 100,000, and only a month, there are millions of people under his command, but if there are fewer and fewer subordinates, this makes Fang La have a sense of doubt about himself, and the successive setbacks and defeats have made the whole person's mental state appear in a kind of irritability.

Unconsciously, a rift appeared between Fang La and the rebel generals.

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