When Zhen Yuan in Chaisang City found out that those soldiers who had been released had spread their knowledge of Pengze at will because of the collapse of their faith, he finally panicked.

Di Yuan can also be regarded as a person who made a decision on the spot, and after discovering the clues, he immediately isolated all the monks and soldiers who were released.

But as long as there was evidence to prove that he had indeed chewed his tongue, he did not hesitate to take a heavy punishment, and harshly asked those people how they were corrupted and bought in Pengze County.

The tortured soldiers were not ambiguous, they had no intention of concealing it, so they confessed directly.

However, they insisted that they were not bribed by the enemy, but that they voluntarily gave up their faith in the Zheng family because they saw the family property of the wealth-collecting monks and officials, and also looked at the accounts calculated for them by the court generals, and saw that those monks and officials were filling their pockets in the name of the Bodhisattva.

Especially those monks and officials who were found to have filled their pockets, they died so miserably, and after being injured, they couldn't stop bleeding pus, and finally festered and died.

Even more festering than the normal wounded in battle, they completely believed that this was a curse, so they could not pass away solemnly.

This sentence was like a heavy hammer hitting the center of the circle, and his eyes were about to split, and he roared in a suppressed voice:

"Zhuge dog thief! How long the hell do your hearts grow! It's so vicious! Murder will also punish the heart, and harm people to ruin their reputation, and continue to splash dirty water after death. Our Zhen family and your Zhuge family will never die! Implacable! ”

After scolding, he had no other way but to low-key let the monks who were in charge of the torture just now kill all the prisoners who were tortured.

The people responsible for the torture all felt a chill in their hearts, but they did not dare to resist for the time being, after all, the Zhen family has been accumulating power for a long time, and more than three years of repeated brainwashing cannot be shaken by a temporary ugly behavior.

The torturers finally carried out the order, but as everyone knows, Zhen Yuan didn't trust them at all, and soon after, he ordered people to kill the torturers who heard the torture confessions—

Fortunately, there are only a few people in this batch of torturers, so there is no need to make too much murder. And in order to prevent the emergence of a cycle of "using new torturers to kill old torturers", this time Zhen Yuan took care of the "second batch of torturers": don't ask anything before killing, those first batch of torturers are ineffective and deserve death.

It can only be said that when an idea is generated, its spread is often more difficult to contain than the plague.

Rao is Zhenyuan made so many attempts, but in the end he still failed to block the hearts of the monks and soldiers in Chaisang City, and the hearts of the monks and soldiers in Chaisang City gradually wavered, and this kind of stormy state made him unable to sleep at night.

And Zhuge Liang obviously didn't intend to let these thieves fall asleep.

In the second half of the night, when Zhen Yuan, who had been sleepless for most of the night, was just dazed and sleepy, his henchmen and monks rushed into his bedroom and hurriedly woke him up.

"What's the trouble! You can't talk about it at dawn! I finally fell asleep! He was so angry that he almost drew his knife out of anger.

The monk shrank back a little, but did not dare to withdraw, and pointed to the sky in the courtyard with a fearful voice. Zhen Yuan had no choice but to rub his eyes and run to the courtyard to take a look, there were dozens of bright spots in the sky that were like ghost fires, but they were definitely not stars, because those things were moving.

"What monster? Don't panic! Even if it's a monster, it won't hurt us! He shook the guards and monks around him, and his words seemed to come true quickly, because before they had a cup of tea, they saw those ghost fires in the air, and two of them obviously fell.

These things, of course, are the "Zhuge Lanterns" created by Zhuge Lianggang "through the reminder of his eldest brother, and he reproduces himself".

Because only lightweight yarn is coated with wax to ensure airtightness, it is light, and the airtightness is better than that made of paper in a short time, but the durability is extremely poor.

Wax melts easily when exposed to heat, and even if it does not run down, it will be uneven due to gravity and wind, resulting in air leakage. The best quality of these Zhuge lamps can only fly half a stick of incense in the sky, and they will fall one after another.

If you really want to make Kong Ming lanterns that are so durable and do not need to be waxed in later generations, the key is to innovate and improve papermaking technology.

Relying on the best Zuobo paper of the Han Dynasty today is still not enough to create a Kongming lantern with excellent air tightness.

But in any case, this little movement tonight is enough to pretend to be a ghost and scare people.

As the Kong Ming lantern gradually fell, there were fires in several places in Chaisang City, all because the lamp happened to fall on the thatched-roof house, and it couldn't be taken off for a while, which directly ignited the roof.

One or two fires in one night may not cause panic, but three or five fires in a row or even more are enough to make people wonder if they have been cursed.

Just when Di Yuan's mouth was dry, and he personally ordered his own troops to assemble and patrol the city, soon new bad news and changes kept coming.

As soon as he inspected the vicinity of the south gate, he saw a junior colonel from a monk among the officers guarding the gate took a few silk silks and handed them to Zhen Yuan, saying that they had floated down from the fairy fire in the sky.

Di Yuan took a look, and suddenly his eyes darkened: Doesn't this make it clear that he is learning Chen Shi Wu Guangyu's abdominal ruler and pretending to be a ghost!

On those silk silks, there are very few words, either "Di Yuan is dead, Chen Hengsheng" or "Chen Heng is dead, Di Yuan is born", and they are all scared of blatant discord!

"Put it all away! Give it to me and burn it together! Don't look at it! ”

After some tossing, it is said that all the silk silks put on the sky lanterns were put away, and no one looked at them, but they were not real, so they could not be verified. The more he thought about it, the more he couldn't sleep, but he was helpless.

……

"It's almost time to persuade you to surrender again, right? If you can't do it, then attack? If you have to do it, I think that before the siege of the city tomorrow night, you can put another batch of lights, and take advantage of the fire to cause chaos among the soldiers in the city, which is enough to get twice the result with half the effort. ”

Zhuge Jin and Zhuge Liang, who were outside the city, actually didn't sleep well this night, but they were not because they were nervous, but because of excitement and a little nervousness in the excitement.

Zhuge Jin really wanted to confirm whether the Zhuge lantern that the second brother "copied himself" in advance could have the effect of hitting the enemy's morale and shaking people's hearts.

However, seeing the fires in many places in the city and the sound of boiling fires coming from afar at night, Zhuge Jin knew that he had reaped an unexpected joy.

He felt it was time to attack.

Zhuge Liang next to him also thought so, and also analyzed: "What the eldest brother has seen is very good, although our army can continue to besiege more to hit the morale of the enemy, but the enemy army in the city is estimated to think so."

And our army has been trying to persuade the surrender on a small scale for three days, and every day it is a little scolding and returning, and it is not in love with war, so the enemy army will inevitably form a habit.

I think that if we scold again tomorrow night, it will be nothing more than a repetition of the old tricks, and there will be no additional moves. We happened to be one of the nine falsehoods, and we were caught off guard by killing the enemy! ”

When Zhuge Jin heard this, he nodded with satisfaction, very satisfied with the rapid growth of his second brother.

But since he is still playing the role of a random inspection teacher at the moment, of course he is not satisfied with his younger brother's "conclusion is correct".

He also wanted to take the opportunity to investigate more in-depth to see if his younger brother knew what it was and why, and how thoroughly he grasped it.

So he asked knowingly, lightly, "But since the enemy has no countermeasures against our continued demoralization efforts, why can't we strike for a few more days?"

Then maybe you don't have to attack, or even if you have to attack, the resistance will get weaker and weaker, isn't that good? ”

Zhuge Liang smiled indifferently, pointed to the map and said the eldest brother's careful thoughts: "Of course, you can't wait blindly, although Xingba repelled an enemy reinforcement after two days of siege, but the enemy army has suffered a loss, and sooner or later it will come back in a different way."

The scale of their first wave of reinforcements was not enough, and they did not know the benefits of our water war, so they chose to advance lightly by water. After suffering losses, if the second wave of reinforcements comes, the scale will definitely increase several times. will also be steady and steady, take the Lushan land route, and no longer try to walk quickly on the surface of Peng Lize Lake.

Count the days, the reinforcements by water were defeated that day, and we could return to Haiduan County in two days, and then one day to reorganize the enemy's troops and horses, and three days to march, adding up to six days at the earliest, we could gather a large army to attack, and then we might have to suffer from the enemy on our backs. And now that we've spent another three days, we can't afford to risk any more.

The enemy in the city did not know this, and it was because our army had been so strong and had been very clean when it had routed its reinforcements. In the following days, I was idle, and I deployed tricks such as increasing the camp and increasing the stove, and letting the fleet return at night and by day.

These methods may make the thief army in the city misjudge the steady stream of reinforcements from our army, and feel that their reinforcements are no longer available. And if there are really reinforcements coming from Haiyang County, that reinforcement team will not be able to see these tricks of our army. ”

Zhuge Liang was methodical and reasonable, and analyzed the action speed and scheduling potential of the enemy's and our armies in a dignified manner, and it seemed that the day he gave to try to attack was not a random guess with the right answer, but a thoughtful one.

The means such as increasing the camp and increasing the stove he just mentioned are also the methods he has been watching the camp of the Ganning army with the army in the past few days, while learning the basic knowledge, and trying to use some ancient small tricks of the art of war to emphasize the large scale of the Zhuge army and further oppress the psychological disadvantages of the Chaisang defenders in the city.

For example, "let the warship secretly leave the water village at night and come back during the day", which is similar to Dong Zhuo's "letting the Xiliang cavalry quietly leave Luoyang at night and come back with great fanfare during the day" seven years ago.

These strategies are not particularly clever or uncommon, but for novices, they can be a good exercise and fill in the gaps.

So in the past few days, Zhuge Jin has also allowed him to explore and exercise on his own. As long as it is not too outrageous and there is no obvious risk, Zhuge Jin will not stop it.

After all, Zhuge Liang didn't have any military career before, he just watched the art of war, plus his own understanding, brain supplement, and listening to his eldest brother.

And the ancients before the Han Dynasty wrote the art of war, and it was very big and turned into a Taoist and unskilled.

Governing the army, marching, camping, besieging the city, all kinds of small knowledge in management practice and engineering application can only allow the generals with troops to slowly practice in things.

Who made the bamboo slips too troublesome to use, and the previous art of war was written by people in the bamboo slip era. In the hundreds of years after the invention of paper in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were almost no new works on the art of war in the world because there was no war.

Those ancient art of war could not be written in the same detail as the Song and Ming people, who had cheap paper and bad printing.

While the enemy is not strong now, let Zhuge Liang fully try, and low-cost trial and error is good.

……

Zhuge Jin saw that his younger brother had finally sorted out all aspects clearly, instead of the correct answer by chance, he was pleased to agree to his request and decided to put the Zhuge lantern again tonight.

Then take advantage of the same opportunity, and then last scold and persuade to surrender again,

And let the siege troops prepare siege equipment, ready to shoot at any time, lead but not fire.

Everything was progressing in an orderly manner, and the time soon came to the night of the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month.

A new wave of torture came on time again, Zhuge Liang, under the cover of Chen's round shield scolding array and crossbowman team, came to the south gate of Chaisang again, and shouted to persuade him to surrender, and the scolding array also accurately spread his words to the city.

There is no need to repeat the content of the shout, because most of it is similar to the rhetoric of persuading Pengze County to surrender that day.

The only additional new material is to emphasize that the generals of Zhengnan have a wide range of generals, and reinforcements continue to pour in Yuzhang, and they have taken other counties except Chaisang, Haidu, and Nanchang, and the remaining three counties in Zhirong's hands are already the turtles in the urn.

In addition, it is to continue to spread the ugly behavior of monks and officials in the Zhenrong army who have privately collected money in the name of Buddha, and the tragic cases of being punished by God. But this part actually doesn't need to be said, because Zhuge Liang released the prisoners of faith collapse in the city have already done it for them.

Zhuge Liang just couldn't accept the results, and he didn't know if they did a good job, so he could only talk about it with a match.

And whether it is Di Yuan or Chen Heng in the city, in the face of this kind of torture, there is endless inexplicable uneasiness in his heart.

They are very uneasy, but they can't tell where their uneasiness comes from, they just feel that anyone can be an enemy, and everyone can be suspicious of themselves and stab them in the back.

Zhuge Liang was still there to constantly persuade the county soldiers and officers, tearing up the relationship between the county soldiers and the monks, and the Zhuge lamps in the sky were still falling silk silks, or they fell directly out of control, causing fires.

Finally, when the nerves of suspicion collapsed to the limit, Chen Heng, the former general of the county soldiers in the city, finally couldn't hold back the psychological pressure, and took advantage of the opportunity to command the army to fight the fire, and launched a mutiny in the city!

Zhen Yuan had already suspected him before, and did not let his troops guard any of the city gates, which could be regarded as learning the lesson of Pengze County, ensuring that only monks and soldiers guarded the four gates, and the county soldiers could only serve as reserves.

But there are so many fires in the city, no matter how vigilant Di Yuan is, it is impossible to stop Chen Heng from fighting the fire. Chen Heng knew that the other party was becoming more and more suspicious of him, and finally didn't do anything, and abandoned his heart to the secret, no matter how successful the success rate was.

Listening to the prisoners who came back, the highest officer of the county soldiers in Pengze County was only a Qu military marquis, but after surrendering, he was not liquidated by the imperial court, and Captain Zhuge also promoted the other party to the military horse.

This news is very good for the former county soldiers who were coerced, and this thorn has been rooted for several days, and it has finally officially germinated at this moment.

As the fires in the city became more and more saved, there was also a shout of killing, and Zhuge Liang, who continued to scold the battle outside the south gate, immediately keenly grasped the situation.

"It must be the county soldiers who have abandoned the darkness and turned to the light! Or some of the monks and soldiers who have seen the true face of the Zheng family have figured it out! Xingba, quickly organize a strong attack, don't miss the opportunity! ”

With Zhuge Liang's order, Gan Ning was about to attack. And Zhuge Jin also found signs that the army was about to be dispatched, and hurriedly ran from the big tent of the Chinese army to remind a few words:

"Xingba can't be underestimated, looking at today's chaos, it is still worse than Pengze County a few days ago. On that day, the county soldiers were able to seize the door and open the door, but today it is estimated that it is only a chaotic battle in the city, and you still have to attack the wall first. ”

"It doesn't matter, whether it's rushing the door, or climbing the wall first, it's not too much worse - this wall is already in chaos, it's a big deal that we don't climb towards the tower guarded by the monks, and find the unappreciated wall sections in the corner of the city to climb." Gan Ning has good eyesight, and keenly observes the density of the torches on the wall in the dark, and judges the point suitable for taking advantage of the chaos to attack.

"Okay, Xingba be careful, if Chaisang wins it again, you will definitely be the first meritorious, and you will be promoted to the rank of lieutenant immediately. I made a guarantee first, and then I wrote to General Zhengnan when I went back, saying that I had already made a promise, and there was no reason to refuse it. Zhuge Jin also boldly promised.

Then, I saw that Gan Ning snatched one of the shields of the scolding hand again, and began to command the just-built ladder car to rush to the wall with double shields in hand-

Well, it may be a bit inaccurate to say that the hand is held, but it should be that the left and right shields are put on the crook of the arm with rope hoops, so that the palm of the hand is free, and it is good to climb the rungs that hold the ladder.

If you feel that this action is not intuitive enough, imagine the Draco Holy Clothes Shield of the Purple Dragon.

The thief army at the head of the city, seeing that the Han army began to attack, also hurriedly began to resist, but because of the infighting, the arrows were thrown sparsely, and the threat was greatly reduced than usual.

Only when the Ganning army broke through to the base of the wall did the defender's firepower density begin to increase, and rolling wood and rocks began to join the sequence of smashing down.

However, the Han army today also uses a sheltered ladder instead of a simple flying ladder, and the rolling wood is not enough to break through the protective wall of the ladder, and the gravel is too close to hit the main body of the ladder with a low slope.

Only a relatively light sheep's head stone, each no more than two or three catties, can be thrown far away, but also hard enough, and the soldiers who are hit by this kind of thing will suddenly break their heads and bleed, and at worst they will be killed on the spot, and even their helmets will be dented.

Fortunately, there are not many soldiers throwing sheep's head stones, and they are not as accurate as the players. After Gan Ning paid the price of three or five Jinfan thief robes and died in battle, he still spotted a gap and flew up to the wall.

"The general spares his life, we are county soldiers! We're fighting the monks! Don't get me wrong! ”

The city was in chaos, Gan Ning slashed and killed a monk and a few monks, and his hands were slippery, so frightened that the Danyang soldiers next to him hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy and gave way to avoid the impact, all emphasizing that they had abandoned the darkness and turned to the light.

After the initial chaos, Gan Ning finally organized the soldiers at the head of the city anyway, and when they were alone, they would not get in the way. Gan Ning himself took more and more soldiers who climbed the city and rushed towards the city tower.

The city tower was surrounded by monks and soldiers, and they didn't dare to deploy the original county soldiers at all. Zhen Yuan personally guarded the tower of the South Gate, and found that Gan Ning had broken through the wall on the flank and gained a firm foothold, so he had to bite the bullet and let the most diehard and lineage monks launch a counter-charge, and personally supervised the battle.

He was also afraid of death, but he knew that there was no way back, and once the South Gate Tower was taken, they would all be finished.

"There are not many enemies! Take advantage of their unstable footing, rush forward and push them off the wall! He shouted hoarsely, frantically brandishing his saber and urging the monks to rush forward and kill.

"How dare a thief do this! Death! Gan Ning saw this monk who commanded left and right in the crowd, and immediately became angry, it was these guys who bewitched so many people to do evil, and they were simply unpunished.

After a bloody hand-to-hand fight, Gan Ning still fought a bloody way, trampled forward along the wall at least a hundred steps on the city wall, and finally hacked Zhen Yuan to death under the knife together with the robes.

The monks and soldiers on the south gate of Chaisang were gradually killed and scattered. The Han army opened the city gate and welcomed the rear army into a swarmed in.

The rebelling county soldiers in the city, Sima Chen Hengbu, also had a great boost in morale, and brandished his sharp knife at the monks and soldiers who were usually powerful.

Two hours later, the sound in the city gradually subsided, and Chaisan was finally completely captured. There are only some scattered work left to search for and suppress the fugitives, and it is estimated that it will continue for a long time, but it will not affect the overall situation.