Zhuge Dan's expression became increasingly serious. This situation was unexpected. Although there were occasional deserters in the Huainan army in the past, it was just an individual phenomenon and would not affect the overall situation at all.

But now it is completely different. Even if Zhuge Dan suppressed the soldiers who had fled back, it would be difficult to stop the deserter tide that had already formed a climate.

At first, deserters were a personal behavior or three or five soldiers agreed to escape together. Later on, the Huainan Army fled in an entire system, and all the troops disappeared. One night, the whole song team would abandon the city and retreat. Even if they encountered a patrol team, they would dare to resist openly and fight with weapons. The situation in Shouchun gradually felt out of control.

This is obviously not only because the families of these soldiers were threatened, but the greater reason is that the Huainan army has lost confidence in Zhuge Dan. Now Shouchun has become a lonely boat in the vast ocean, and it is in danger of overturning at any time. These soldiers follow Zhuge Dan and cannot see any hope, so they develop a sense of rebellion. After all, ants will cherish their lives. As living people, how could they jump into the fire pit when they are on the verge of despair?

Moreover, the Huainan soldiers will look at each other. If there is the first one to eat, then the second one and the third one will inevitably appear next... The more people flee, the more uncontrollable the situation will become.

Zhuge Dan's method of killing a warning to all seemed to be ineffective. Although he would execute the captured deserters every day without exception, the deserter wave seemed to be unable to be restrained at all. More and more soldiers joined the ranks of escape. Not only did they use ropes to leave the city at night, they even dared to secretly open the city gate to escape. If Sima's army launched a sneak attack at this time, wouldn't it be a big deal when the city gate opened?

The patrol team was Zhuge Dan's personal soldiers and soldiers. Only they were loyal to Zhuge Dan. They patroled all night and caught countless deserters.

After these deserters were caught, they knew that they were not immune, so they all looked at death as if they were taken to the execution ground. When they were taken to the execution ground, they stretched their necks and were waiting to be killed. In their opinion, escaping was a way to die, and staying in the city was a way to die. Anyway, it was better to try to escape. It would be impossible to die if they were taken to escape by chance. But if they succeeded in escaping, they could save their lives!

Zhuge Dan's original intention of killing deserters was just to kill chickens for the monkeys. Now the monkeys don't care at all, so what's the point of killing chickens? What's more, when executing deserters every day, although the soldiers below were silent, they could not hide their anger. Zhuge Dan wanted to use the method of killing deserters to shock those soldiers who still had bad intentions, but the result was likely to be counterproductive.

Zhuge Liang saw that something was wrong, so he urged Zhuge Dan not to act impulsively. The more people he killed, the more grievances he accumulated, which may cause a large-scale mutiny. At that time, he was afraid that the situation would be more difficult to deal with.

But now Zhuge Dan is difficult to get rid of the tiger. If these deserters are not punished, they are afraid that more people will escape. However, if they are dealt with according to military law, the resentment will be deeper and the contradictions will be even more irreconcilable, and the situation will only get worse and worse.

Previously, Zhuge Dan disagreed with Sima Lun's strategy of attacking the heart, but unexpectedly, this pediatric trick caused such a large-scale substantial damage to the Huainan Army. In just over a dozen days, tens of thousands of people fled, which made Zhuge Dan fall into a deep passiveness.

The failure of the Battle of Yingshang had already damaged Zhuge Dan's vitality. The battle with Wu's Shouchun made Zhuge Dan worse. Not only did he lose thousands of people, but he also lost this powerful support from Wu. Zhuge Dan had to face Sima Lun's 150,000 troops independently. Now Sima Lun uses the attacking technique of defeating others without fighting, which has caused the Huainan Army to lose many people and the morale of the army to be greatly impacted. The slogan of holding Shouchun to fight to the death has long been turned into clouds and smoke. The pessimistic and desperate emotions spread in Shouchun City. There is no way out or hope. The whole city is like a dead city.

The rains over the past few days caused a small collapse in the northeast corner of Shouchun City, which made Zhuge Dan furious and called Jiang Ban Jiao Yi, who was responsible for the defense of Dongcheng and Beicheng, and asked him why?

Zhuge Dan was determined to build a city that was as solid as a rock, but he didn't expect that Shouchun City would collapse on its own before the enemy attacked. How could Zhuge Dan accept such a tofu project? In addition, the morale of the Huainan army is unstable now. If there is a problem with the city walls they rely on for perseverance, then how can they fight if they come down?

Jiang Ban and Jiao Yi also looked helpless. Although they were responsible for guarding the north gate and the east gate, the quality of the city's project had nothing to do with them. After all, the city wall was not supervised by them, and since the beginning of winter, the rain has not diminished. The low-lying part of the city has been soaked in heavy water, and collapse is inevitable. Now Zhuge Dan wants to hold them accountable, Jiang Ban and Jiao Yi can only be whispered, not knowing how to explain.

Zhuge Dan was furious and ordered Jiang Banjiao Yi to behead him and made public.

Jiang Ban Jiao Yi was so scared that he was out of his mind. They didn't expect that Zhuge Dan was really angry this time and quickly knelt down and begged for mercy.

Zhuge Liang, Wu Gang and others also stepped forward to ask for them. Wu Gang said, "Grandmaster, this is the time to use people. It is not good for the general and the morale of the army in the last battle. Please think twice."

Zhuge Dan's face calmed down a little, but his anger did not fade away. He said in a deep voice: "If the generals had not pleaded for you, you would have to cut off your head today. However, the death penalty could be avoided, and the living penalty could not be escaped. If you drag it down, each of them would be given fifty whips to be punished!"

The personal soldiers dragged Jiang Ban and Jiao Yi down. After a while, the execution was over and they dragged them back. After the fifty whips, the two generals' backs were already covered in flesh and blood. However, Jiang Ban and Jiao Yi could only endure the pain, kneel in front of Zhuge Dan, and kowtowed to thank him.

Zhuge Dan snorted coldly and said, "These fifty whips are just punishments. After you go back, you will be limited to three days to repair the collapsed city wall as before. If you can't do it, the two sins will be one and they will be killed without forgiveness!"

Jiang Ban and Jiao Yi felt very miserable, so he could only respond submissively.
Chapter completed!