There is no doubt that the food at this time is the bait Li Zhen uses to steadily catch the refugee army, and it is also his second step of the plan: lure!
Attract all the refugees to him so that they can be used by him.
Of course, for something as difficult as rebellion, it is absolutely impossible to rely on these rioters alone!
Not to mention that they were simply attracted by the food. If they were to fight with all their might, they might disappear in a flash.
Even if these people are really willing to go to the battlefield, with their free and casual character, they will definitely not produce any combat effectiveness.
Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity to gather countless refugees around him, Li Zhen decisively adopted many of the most common methods used by the rebels, which was also his third step of the plan: create a god!
In ancient times, Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, killed a white snake and claimed to be the son of the Red Emperor.
Chen Sheng and Wu Guang proclaimed themselves king, and staged a drama of "Great Chu rises, Chen Sheng becomes king".
With such an easy-to-use method, Li Zhen naturally doesn’t want to fall behind others! The previous appearance of the Phoenix was the foreshadowing he had laid in advance.
Moreover, it is different from the previous rebel leaders who only relied on some small means and simply myths themselves.
He also simplified the family's method of cultivating dead soldiers, and then taught it to his close friends in the Li family, and then organized the refugees into teams, and let his close servants learn to brainwash them every day!
In this way, the effect will naturally be much faster and better than relying solely on word of mouth!
Finally, spiritual baptism alone is not enough! Li Zhen also provided real, visible and tangible benefits such as allocating land and distributing food.
Let all the refugees believe that only by following him, Li Zhen, can they live a good life with family and land!
Through this series of meticulous and bold actions, Li Zhen, the king of heaven, and the king's army under his command, gained a certain degree of combat effectiveness in a very short period of time.
This kind of fighting power brought about by ignorant beliefs is even more terrifying than the regular army that has been practiced for a long time!
Just think about it. On the battlefield, facing thousands of dead soldiers rushing towards them, let alone the regular army, even the Imperial Guards who are armed to the teeth will tremble in their hearts.
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"He actually calls himself the King of Heaven?"
While Li Zhen was still continuing his brainwashing mission, Xiao Han and Liu Hongji from Ningcheng were staring at each other.
Because after hearing this title, the two of them almost thought of Little Plum's title at the same time: Emperor!
"Hiss..." Xiao Han gasped as if he had toothache, and it seemed that he had already seen Xiao Lizi's face that was twisted as if he had eaten a fly.
Okay, I call myself the Emperor, but you actually call me the King of Heaven!
Is this me who wants to be me? ! But my lord, my lord, is still alive!
"Do you think the emperor will faint from anger? It's a good thing we didn't lead troops to suppress the rebellion, otherwise..." Liu Hongji smacked his lips, and a trace of luck appeared on his rough face.
Xiao Han also shook his head repeatedly and sighed: "Hey, I'm afraid Old Cheng will suffer an old sin now! Three seconds of silence for Cheng Pifu!"
Liu Hongji deeply agreed with this: "Hey, that's right..."
However, they said they were paying a moment of silence to their friends, but no matter how you looked at it, the expressions on the faces of these unscrupulous guys looked like they were gloating over their misfortune.
"Ahem...ok!"
After playing like this for a while, Liu Hongji finally remembered the business, coughed twice, and said seriously to Xiao Han: "But don't you think Old Man Cheng is a little strange this time? He has been wandering around here in Shandong for so long, not only The chaos has not been calmed down, but it has allowed the enemy to become a climate? Could it be that in these years, his reputation as the devil in the world has only been used to beat his colleagues? "
"Assaulting colleagues?"
Hearing what Liu Hongji said, Xiao Han's eyes suddenly became weird when he looked at him!
It seems that in total, shouldn't he and himself be the ones who have beaten their colleagues the most in the past two years?
"Well, we are helpless. Who told those bastards to be rude first? We are forced to defend, forced to defend!"
Perhaps because he was blushing at Xiao Han's gaze, Liu Hongji explained in a hushed tone. But as soon as he said those words, he suddenly remembered: Wasn't it all because of the bastard in front of him that he had been beating people in the past two years?
Therefore, Liu Hongji, who was still a little guilty just now, immediately opened his eyes wide again and glared back at Xiao Han: "Hey? What the hell do you mean..."
"It's boring! It's boring!" Seeing Liu Hongji's eyes suddenly widened as big as bells, Xiao Han quickly guessed what he was going to say, so he quickly interrupted him with a smile:
"What we are talking about now is Cheng Yaojin's counterinsurgency, so don't talk about anything else! Well, in my opinion, it makes sense that he can't put down the rebellion.
If you don’t believe me, look at it. He is using local soldiers to quell local chaos. Isn’t this just nonsense? When a fight breaks out between the two sides, it turns out that there are fathers, brothers, sons and nephews on the opposite side. How can we fight this battle?
Secondly, his so-called quelling the chaos has not found an accurate target at all from the beginning to the present!
What's the use of just bringing an army to capture some refugees? There are so many captured, there is no place to confine them, and we can’t cut them all down! We can only catch today and release tomorrow! But even if those refugees were released, they would still have no home and no way to make a living. In order to survive, what other options do they have besides causing chaos again? "
"So, Old Man Cheng, is he pressing down the gourd and raising the gourd?" Liu Hongji nodded thoughtfully after listening to Xiao Han's analysis.
"But we can understand this, there's no reason why Fairy Cheng can't understand it, so why is he busy all day long?"
"Him? He probably has long understood that this rebellion will not be suppressed for a while!" Xiao Han rolled his eyes and said disdainfully: "But what if he is not busy? Could it be that he is guarding the gate of the military camp and not going out? If he doesn't step forward at the second gate? Then he won't be scolded to death by the official!"
"Tsk tsk, that's right! Being busy, at least it means he is doing something!" Liu Hongji suddenly realized, muttered, and then spat fiercely on the ground. Regardless of Xiao Han's disgusted expression, he said hatefully:
"You still have the nerve to say it! What else do those bullshit civil servants do besides curse people all day long? This rebellion was not caused by their failure to manage the place well! Now it's better, pat them down one by one. Assholes, you dare to point fingers at our generals like a normal person, let’s see if I don’t smash their bad mouths one by one when I get back!”
Liu Hongji's words were sonorous and powerful, without any pretense.
This is also the long-standing tradition of military commanders and nobles. Although they usually like to disrupt each other and watch each other's excitement.
But when it comes to the issue of civil servants, all military generals will immediately unite the front and target the outside world!
