The Zhuge brothers made a plan, and that night they ordered to reward the soldiers and rest well.

Take out the stock of wine and meat left by the thief army, and add food to the labor army.

Zhuge Jin didn't forget that he wanted to immediately reward those soldiers who abandoned the darkness and surrendered to the light, so he gave a few ingots of horseshoe gold to the Qu Junhou Li Yi and Li Wu brothers who surrendered to Cheng.

He also promoted Li Yi to the rank of military commander, and put him in charge of leading all 1,200 people in Pengze County to surrender the army, and did not dismantle their old troops or play with sand.

This is not the right thing to do in the art of war. Normally, the control of the surrender should be carried out more cautiously.

After Zhuge Liang heard about the eldest brother's decision, he also complained and reminded him in private, saying, "I will soon let these troops be put into a new attack, if they are not dismantled, I am afraid that the will to fight will not be firm in times of crisis", but he didn't force it, so he said so.

Because Zhuge Liang also knew that once the reward order was issued and then withdrawn, it would definitely provoke greater backlash and distrust.

He just euphemistically said that he hoped that the eldest brother would think more comprehensively in terms of rewards and punishments in the future.

And Zhuge Jin's proposal for his younger brother also holds the attitude of "I can't adopt it this time, but I still encourage you to put it forward", and patiently explained:

"It's not that I don't know the art of war, it's that the second brother you haven't been in contact with our army for a long time, and you don't know the composition of our army - don't look at Xuande Gong only gave us 4,000 reinforcements, and half of them are in Yunchang's place, but these are elite soldiers, and they are Danyang soldiers that were slowly saved from Tao Qian when he was in charge of Xuzhou many years ago.

Most of the Danyang soldiers were Shanyue people, and most of the county soldiers who were coerced by Zhenrong were local Han farmers in Guangling and Danyang. Scattering the county soldiers who were born as farmers into the Danyang soldiers will inevitably cause more trouble due to incompatible customs, so it is better to show trust and allow that Li Yi to continue to lead the old department.

Moreover, it's not that I didn't pay attention to the cage control at all, I have already knocked on the side to understand that Li Yi seemed to have a family in Guangling County back then, although I don't know if he is still alive now, but the clansmen must have it.

I also temporarily adjusted and promoted a few degraded officers just now, all of whom were concerned in Guangling. And Guangling is now under the rule of Xuande Gong, and it is weathered.

In the past two days, I have arranged for some Danyang soldiers who have lived in Guangling for a long time and are familiar with the current situation in the local area, to make friends with these officers who are concerned about Guangling, and to introduce the recent situation in Guangling a lot, which will surely be able to imperceptibly win the hearts of the army. ”

After Zhuge Liang listened, he nodded admiringly.

It turned out that it was not that the eldest brother did not know the art of war, but that the eldest brother knew the actual situation of this army better than him and had a purpose.

Of course, Zhuge Liang is not bad, he didn't expect this, it's not a matter of ability, he just saw his eldest brother's army today, and he didn't have time to understand the inside story.

However, this also buried another experience in Zhuge Liang's heart, or "precautions":

In the future, when leading troops, we must try to grasp in detail all aspects of the army, such as the place of origin of the soldiers, the composition of their backgrounds, and some other factors, and then we can manage the army in a targeted manner.

Zhuge Liang, who had just made his debut in actual combat for a day, grew up so rapidly and learned several valuable battlefield experiences, which were corroborated and combined with the art of war he originally obtained on paper.

If it weren't for his own brother teaching him and taking him to war.

If you want to rely on yourself to suffer losses and grope for groping, or watch others suffer losses and grope for groping, each of these experiences can only be found after several months or even a year and a half of running the army and leading the troops.

……

After a night of heavy pay and adequate rest, the army was remobilized the next morning.

Although there are more than 1,200 defection troops, it is impossible for Zhuge Jin to take them all.

Therefore, he left 600 Danyang soldiers to defend the city, and 500 people led by Chen Zhi to protect him, and continued to stay in Pengze County for a few days to create some means to attack the heart.

The remaining 3,500 people, led by Gan Ning, first crossed to Peng Lize by boat, preparing to besiege Chaisang and set up a siege camp first.

Calculating the time, when the troops arrived, the Chaisang defenders should also know the news of Peng Ze's loss, but they may not have time to react.

There are 3,500 people in Ganning, and they are definitely not afraid of the more than 6,000 people in the city rushing out to fight back in the field, let alone the defenders who open the water gate and take a boat out to fight in the water-

If that happens, Zhuge Jin will wake up laughing in his dreams.

The chaotic soldiers under the command of Xiao Rong dared to fight a water war with Gan Ning, who was born as a thief with a golden sail, even if he had several times the advantage of troops, he was looking for death.

Ganning appeared outside the city of Chaisang and surrounded the south side of the city, and after blockading the east side of the lake with warships.

The guards of the Chaisang Thief Army really became agitated, but they really didn't fight.

Gan Ning was quite satisfied with this result, so he maintained the siege pressure while building heavy siege equipment on the spot.

He previously learned from the mouth of the general: The current chief general of Chaisang is Zhenrong's cousin Zhenyuan; There is another deputy general, Chen Heng, who is the military Sima under the command of Xue Li, the former Danyang Taishou. These people are not very enterprising.

That Chen Heng also participated in the Battle of Danyang with Xue Li and Zhenrong at the beginning of last year, but was defeated by Sun Ce. Then he killed the master, and Chen Heng was coerced.

In terms of military ability, Chen Heng is definitely stronger, but his degree of trust is definitely not as good as that of his own family.

And that Yuan is actually not his real name, but similar to the "law name". After pretending to believe in Buddhism, the Zhenrong clan changed their names and used words like "Yuanrong Tongda" to make it appear that Buddhism is very profound.

It is estimated that the name of the Zheng family can be put together casually, and it can be used as a courier company brand in future generations.

Gan Ning built it steadily and steadily, and soon a few days passed.

The troops in the city were completely motionless, but the enemy in Haiyang County in the south had sent some reinforcements from the lake through the Peng Lize waterway, and wanted to know the current situation of Chaisang.

So the two armies fought a battle on the lake, and the result was naturally without suspense. The army of the Zheng family sent a few hundred more heads in vain, and more than 20 small boats and three or four hundred prisoners were captured.

There were more routs who were picked up by the Gan Ning army and jumped to the gang, and when they were obviously crushed in hand-to-hand combat, they chose to jump directly into the lake to escape, adding up to hundreds of people.

The casualties of the Ganning Department were only a few dozen in total, and it can only be said that the strength of the water battle of Zhenrong was too far worse than that of Ganning.

At such a small price, it wiped out the living force of one or two thousand people in the Zhen family's army, which has to be said to be very cost-effective.

Moreover, the waterway reinforcements who came from the sea dusk were beaten on the lake, and the thief army in Chaisang City also watched it, which was also a big blow to the morale of the thief army's garrison troops.

Since ancient times, there has been no more frustrating situation than seeing reinforcements destroyed.

The wavering accumulated bit by bit continued to promote the gradual collapse of the psychological defense line of the Chaisang defenders.

……

Gan Ning firmly tightened the siege pressure on the front line, and Zhuge Jin and Zhuge Liang in the rear certainly did not waste time.

In the past few days, they have all urgently deployed some tricks to undermine the morale of the enemy troops according to their own ideas.

Zhuge Liang took the lead in thoroughly investigating the property of all the captured thief officials in the city, looking for those thieves who were known for their piety, but were eventually found to have a large amount of savings.

Then they turned their greed for Buddhist affairs and money into all kinds of ironclad propaganda.

And Zhuge Jin also gave a little push when his younger brother was doing this.

Those thief army officials were originally with broken hair, so they were all pursued by the Ganning army when they broke the city, and most of them were wounded.

Those who are seriously injured are going to die, even if they don't die, with their crimes, they will definitely be beheaded.

Therefore, let them die a little more miserably, Zhuge Jin will not feel sorry for it-

He knew very well that those believers who were deceived by the Buddha's teachings believed that as long as they were pious, they would be blissful after death. I also believe that the death of a devout person will be more peaceful, just like a meditation and a death of nirvana, which seems very downcast.

In this case, Zhuge Jin used some common sense of infection medicine that he knew well to make these people chronically fester, filthy, and screaming when they died, which could also hit the faith of believers. No one would believe that someone who dies so ugly will ascend to bliss.

And Zhuge Liang, in addition to arresting these monks and officials for their different crimes, has also done one thing in the past few days, that is, under the inspiration and influence of his eldest brother, he finally used paper or waxed gauze and bamboo strips to create a "Kong Ming lantern".

You can use the heat generated by the small candles inside the lamp to float the lamp into the air. Although it can't control the direction, it can only float at will, and at most it will be extinguished and fall after a stick of incense, which is difficult to have practical value. But this kind of thing is very useful when it comes to "making miracles" and combating the psychology of fanatical and superstitious people, and it can be regarded as a professional counterpart.

Zhuge Jin also wants to give his younger brother his due results as soon as possible, so as to avoid being annihilated by his butterfly effect.

It's a pity that Zhuge Liang hasn't taken the word "Kong Ming" yet, so he can't be named Kong Ming Lantern, he can only be called "Zhuge Lantern", but anyway, Zhuge Jin didn't grab this name, and said that it was made by the second brother, which is enough.

……

The measures and techniques prepared by Zhuge Liang were carried out in an orderly manner, and Zhuge Jin was of course not willing to be left behind.

And a way that he naturally thought of to "show miracles and fight the faith of fanatics" was to take the Hiro vapor balloon that the Ptolemaic Empire used to open the temple more than a hundred years ago, and slightly recreate it.

To let Zhuge Jin build a steam engine in the Han Dynasty is obviously a fool's dream. Even the Newcomen steam engine of a more primitive era than the Watt steam engine is absolutely impossible.

However, it is really not difficult to just build a steam copper ball that sprays steam with a conduit. As long as the two approximately hemispherical copper pots are forged and fused together, it is enough to seal them as much as possible, and then open the holes to weld a few copper pipes.

And the reason why Zhuge Jin thought of creating such a "toy" is obviously because he knows:

Historically, the steam balls were first favored by the temple priests of the Ptolemaic Empire, who were willing to use this expensive, flashy, inefficient and uneconomical thing to show miracles.

The temple uses this copper ball of boiling water filled with water, and opens a deductor pipe at each end, and these two deductor pipes spray steam in the opposite direction, so that the copper ball can be driven to rotate with torsion.

The shaft of the copper ball is connected to the shaft of the temple gate, which can drive the temple door to open and close automatically without anyone pushing it.

To put it bluntly, using this kind of steam ball to open the door consumes at least 100 times more energy than manually pushing the door, and the energy efficiency is simply outrageously low.

But the display of miracles has never been economical. What the sacrifices want is the shocking effect of "without being pushed, the divine power can automatically drive the temple door to open and close", in exchange for a hundred times the devotion and worship of believers.

Just as Gutenberg printing was first invented, the first customers printed indulgences, the second printed playing cards, and the third printed indescribable things with color.

Superstition and gambling, coupled with another primitive need, are often the earliest investors and applicators of a new technology in its most inefficient and uneconomical embryonic period. Because these industries are profitable enough to withstand the huge costs of inefficient new technologies.

Zhuge Jin knows these general laws of the direction of human technological evolution, and it is normal to make such a choice.

……

Zhuge Jin's steam balloon plan, Zhuge Liang's Kong Ming Lantern project, and the thorough investigation of the evidence of the monk's accumulation of wealth were completed almost simultaneously, and it only took three days.

On the twenty-second day of the lunar month, the fourth day after the destruction of Pengze County.

More than 100 monks and soldiers who were about to be released were lightly wounded, and they were pulled to the newly built Garan in the city a year ago.

The monks were all terrified, and they thought they would be treated harshly.

When they entered the main hall, they saw that the statue that had been cast with thousands of catties of copper was actually covered by two paper doors. They all felt in their hearts, and thought that the bronze statue had been melted down by the officials and soldiers and taken back to mint money.

But that concern quickly dissipated. For while they were worried, there was a copper ball under each of the two paper doors, which made a whining sound and spun around.

At the same time, there are also auspicious clouds, diffusing bursts of fairy energy.

Although under the two copper balls, there is obviously a huge ever-bright lamp, and the flame is specially burned very large, but no one thinks of steam, and the common sense of science in this era is too lacking.

In particular, the air-conducting copper pipes on these two copper balls are completely different from the Hiro steam balls of the Ptolemaic Empire - the Hiro steam balls only have two reverse jet copper tubes, but these balls have four, which are distributed in a "swastika" shape, which just seems to match the beliefs of those monks and soldiers.

The end of the four strokes of the swastika spews out, and it doesn't just make the ball spin clockwise.

After the auspicious clouds swirled for a while, the paper door in front of the bronze statue was opened by the twisting force of the rotating copper ball, and the bronze statue was still golden and shiny in place, but there was an extra layer of clouds and mountain fog, so that the monks and soldiers couldn't help but kneel and bow.

At this moment, out of nowhere in the Buddhist hall, some ethereal voices suddenly floated - of course the people in the hall didn't know, this was Zhuge Jin's use of the echo principle in the past few days, and made some slight changes to the structure and display of the room.

Zhuge Jin doesn't know much about the design of the echo effect, but he at least knows the idea of "changing the furnishings and distance in the house can change the echo effect", and the rest is to let people try and make mistakes slowly, and they can do it to whatever extent.

Nowadays, the echo design of this room is still not good enough, but it is barely enough for the requirement of "hiding the original position of the speaker", and with a wooden horn as a "voice changer", and trying to pinch the throat to speak, it can definitely mislead those monks and soldiers.

Then, the ethereal voice enumerated the sins of those wealth-collecting monks, and said that the gods and Buddhas knew everything, and that they had long known about their greed and the accumulation of wealth in the name of gods and Buddhas, and that these people would go to hell, worse than those who did not believe.

In the end, a group of guards sent by Zhuge Liang took the captured monks' hidden property and brought them in to show the monks who were about to be released.

Then, a few festering, dying screaming and repentant people were brought in, and those people no longer had their usual solemnity, but cried and begged for a quick death and an end to their suffering.

These lightly injured monks were shocked, and the entire faith collapsed directly.

Then Zhuge Jin also sent someone to secretly observe, picked out the obvious collapse particularly thoroughly, and asked his soldiers to monitor and imprison a few warships, and prepare to shout to release the prisoners when they arrived outside Chaisang City.

If it collapses completely enough, it will continue to be closed and wait for transformation. And the fanatic, who did not collapse at all, were executed.

……

"For those who deceive the fanatics of others, it is not enough to destroy their physical bodies. They will also be remembered as martyrs.

Therefore, they must be ruined and filthy before they die, so that they can be regarded as annihilated and irretrievable.

In the future, this trick can be used for those fanatical people in the remnants of the Yellow Turban, as well as treacherous monks and rice thieves.

These bronze artifacts are really poorly made, the energy efficiency is too low, and there is nothing else, so they can only be used to pretend to be gods and ghosts, and defeat demons with illusions. ”

After completing all this psychological warfare, Zhuge Jin shared his experience with his younger brother in the final "Project Closing Summary".

This is not Zhuge Jin's unilateral teaching, it is more like the brothers brainstorming and inspiring each other, and each has matured.

After all, the means are still a bit ruthless, and Zhuge Liang's young mind is not suitable for experiencing too many extreme heart attacks.

Zhuge Jin carried most of the psychological pressure by himself, and Zhuge Liang did not participate too much in the process in the middle. He just summed up a few sentences at the end for Zhuge Liang to listen to.

After doing all this, the Zhuge brothers took five hundred guards, as well as the lightly injured captives who were about to be released and had their brains reformed, and crossed Peng Lize to the siege camp outside Chaisang County to join Gan Ning.

"Xingba, there is nothing dangerous about the siege these days, right? I heard that you also repelled an enemy reinforcement from Haiyang County? ”

When Zhuge Jin saw Gan Ning, while asking about the battle situation, he himself still had deep dark circles under his eyes, obviously he was too busy in the past few days, and he made various deployments in Pengze County.

Zhuge Liang actually has a little dark circles under his eyes, and Zhuge Jin also knows that young people shouldn't work too hard, and they are still growing their bodies. However, this kind of opportunity to make his debut in the first battle still has to seize the rapid experience.

After surviving the past few days, I will arrange some time for Ah Liang to rest and adjust, and combine work and rest.

When Gan Ning saw the tired appearance of the Zhuge brothers, he knew that he must have done a big job, although he didn't know the details yet, but Gan Ning's inner confidence had been inspired.

The trick that can make the Zhuge brothers spend so many brains and energy, the moment they really use it, don't they pit the enemy so that they can't find their pants?

Just such an idea of brain supplementation doubled Gan Ning's confidence.

"Captain rest assured, this Chaisang defender has broken his courage, and now he only dares to defend to the death." He patted his chest and promised.

Zhuge Jin nodded: "Then let's do it according to the plan, you go and let people shout and tell the guards that we want to release the prisoners, and they are monks." ”

Gan Ning was stunned for a moment, and didn't understand why he wanted to let go of those who died unrepentantly, but Captain Zhuge spoke, which must have made sense, and he still carried it out.

After Chen Heng at the head of Chaisang City heard the news, he couldn't believe it for a while, and asked his own soldiers to inform and ask for instructions, and the other party personally went to the city to check and confirm that it was indeed the captured Peng Ze monk who was pushed up by the official army, and a sense of uneasiness also rose in his heart.

However, it is very demoralizing to refuse to accept the prisoners who are released in public, not to mention that these monks and soldiers are still descendants.

In the end, without thinking about the enemy's intentions, Zhen Yuan still took everyone back.

As everyone knows, nothing happened on the first day. The next day, some gossip spread, but it didn't reach the ears of the higher-ups.

On the third day, when Zhen Yuan heard the wind that something was wrong, it was already too late, and he couldn't keep his mouth shut at all.

"What's going on? Aren't these people fanatical believers that my brother is a bodhisattva? How could they apostatize? That's impossible! What kind of demon method did those despicable people of the Zhuge family use! ”

After severely torturing a traitor who spread rumors, Zhen Yuan was so angry that his eyes went black, and he really couldn't figure it out.

And the Zhuge army outside the city, after these few days of attacking and besieging the heart, has obviously also prepared siege equipment, at least a few ladders have been built, ready to launch a strong attack on Chaisang.

Haiyang County did not send reinforcements again, I don't know if it was killed and broken, or there were no reinforcements to send, or it was entangled by Guan Yu.