Five people form a squad, five squads form a row, ten rows form a regiment, and sixteen regiments form a camp. Basically, people in a row are all fellow villagers, and ten out of ten in a squad are neighbors. In addition to preventing deserters, this system also has a "rotational rest" system. One person in a row can not go to the battlefield at a time, just in case everyone dies and there is no one to report the death. In the previous failed siege, Zhou Jilun didn't care about anything else and rushed all his troops. After the disastrous defeat, he counted the number of people and found that two rows were actually killed.

"Our battalion was at the back, so we didn't suffer much loss. I was unlucky. I was hit by a stone thrown by a catapult on the city wall, which caused my arm to break and some blood coming out of my internal organs. My neighbor next to me, named Zhuzi, was only fifteen years old. He was hit right on the spot and turned into a pulp." The militiaman still had the fear of war in his eyes. Compared with the soldiers from military households, these recruited militiamen should actually do more logistics work rather than go to the battlefield. Although they have some training, there is a big difference between professional and non-professional.

The militiaman's story did not touch others more, because in the eyes of these military households, there is no war without death. The companions they know also died one by one, and then there will be new ones constantly added. Death is too common in their eyes.

The wounded soldiers in the camp were all in a bad mood, but they couldn't say more complaints, because Zhou Jilun's personal soldiers would not go to the battle, but they were good at finding faults in the team and telling tales on weekdays. Once the complaints were heard by Zhou Jilun, they would be accused of disturbing the morale of the army, and either be punished with 80 strokes of the cane or be arrested and directly imprisoned in the prisoner camp.

As they talked, they felt boring, and all of them were listless and lay down to rest with worry.

You Hongyin looked at this situation and thought about it.

Half a month passed in a flash. Four days before Zhou Jilun prepared to attack Yingcheng, You Hongyin's injuries were all healed. He walked around the camp a few times and found it funny.

Let's not talk about other things. Zhou Jilun's plan to attack Yingcheng had already spread throughout the military camp. The battle had not started yet, but the battle plan was spread everywhere. What was there to fight? Did they really think there were no enemy spies among these 20,000 people? Unless Zhou Jilun was openly going to attack Yingcheng, but in fact it was a false news, and there was another battle plan. But You Hongyin felt that he didn't have that brain. In this person's mind, the failure to capture Yingcheng was not because of the wrong method, but because the soldiers in the team were greedy for life and afraid of death, and were unwilling to sacrifice their lives for the country. Yes, in his opinion, everyone should be loyal and serve the country, and he, as a member of the royal family, represents the country.

"Well, no matter what Yan Xingyun thinks in his heart, it should be right to achieve success in military merit." You Hongyin began to think about how to get ahead quickly and how to achieve military merit without losing his life.

"Alas, if it is not the lowest-level soldier, but a counselor and military advisor, it would be much simpler." You Hongyin sighed and returned to the tent where his original team was located, and officially returned to the team.

But when he entered the tent, he found that Zheng Fuyuan was gone.

Because they had been recuperating for the past two days, they did not need to fight or train, and the soldiers who did not need to patrol were only provided with one meal a day, which was still porridge and one steamed bun per person.

So when You Hongyin came in, everyone was weak, and they lay listlessly on their bedding to conserve their energy. They just casually greeted You Hongyin's arrival.

"Where is Yuan Ge'er?" You Hongyin asked.

The sergeant of the squad he and Yuan Ge'er were in, that is, Yuan Ge'er's uncle, said: "Xiao Yuan is gone." This person said with a numb face: "Because he was caught by General Zhou for not taking it seriously during the morning training, he was punished with fifty military sticks as a punishment."

He didn't say the rest, but You Hongyin knew what he had not finished, so he naturally couldn't stand it and left.

You Hongyin was so sad that he grabbed the sergeant and said: "Uncle..." He choked with sobs and couldn't say anything else.

"Xiao Yun, don't cry. Military households fight for their lives. If they win, they can survive. If they can't win, they will be reincarnated and start over. There's nothing to cry about." The sergeant touched You Hongyin's shoulder and comforted him.

"Uncle, let me think about it carefully, let me think about it carefully. We can't just die like this. We should all go back alive." You Hongyin said.

The conversation between the two attracted the attention of others, but almost no one cared. Originally, Yan Xingyun was a newcomer in the army. He had hardly participated in any large-scale battles. His performance and skills were average on weekdays. It was almost impossible to convince everyone.

But You Hongyin didn't need everyone's conviction. He just needed people in his line to obey his orders.

In the past two days, You Hongyin has practiced his skills a little. To be honest, he hasn't used his hands for a long time, so it's still difficult to get back to the feeling. He just practiced a set of common swordsmanship.

Nowadays, most infantry are equipped with broadswords, and only cavalry are equipped with long/spears or long halberds. However, the cavalry of the Southern Zhou Dynasty is precious, and it is impossible to configure light cavalry in this team of 20,000 people.

The day before the attack on Yingcheng was decided, it was the turn of You Hongyin's team to patrol. In the middle of the night, they caught an "assassin" who sneaked into the commander's tent. There was a lot of noise at the time. The assassin cut into Zhou Jiluan's tent and stole the map, but was discovered by Zhou Jiluan. He fled in a panic and ran to the tent of Zhou Jiluan's aide, Mr. Jiang Wang, and was caught by a patrolling soldier.

Under such public scrutiny, even Jiang Wang saw it with his own eyes. The assassin was revealed to be one of General Zhou's personal guards, and the one he trusted the most.

Chapter 33: The Mountain Pass is Difficult to Cross (IV)

Zhou Jilun chased out and saw this scene, so he was naturally embarrassed. He didn't even try the man. In order to show his fairness and justice, he directly ordered the man to be executed. The other personal guards who had a good relationship with this man were too late to avoid suspicion at this moment, so they naturally said nothing and just watched their former colleague's head being chopped off.

You Hongyin mixed in the team and poked the president of their bank. The president was named Xu Dali. As his name suggests, he was extremely strong and generous. Although he was illiterate, he was very skilled, so he became the president.

Xu Dali quickly understood: "General Zhou," he said hesitantly, as if he was not sure, "This person usually gets a lot of intelligence. It seems that he is a spy of Xifan. I am afraid that the siege plan set by the general earlier has been discovered by Xifan. This matter must be prevented."

Zhou Jilun thought about it and seemed to be so. He pointed at Xu Dali and said, "You are not bad. I am short of a personal guard now. You can fill in."

Xu Dali's face froze. You Hongyin rolled his eyes and realized that he could not think about Zhou Jilun, an idiot, with a normal person's thinking circuit. At this time, he hurriedly reminded Xu Dali: "President, such a good opportunity, why don't you thank me." He said in a very low voice: "Otherwise you will die. Don't worry, I will try my best to take good care of the people in the whole team."

Zhou Jilun executed his personal guards, indicating that he did not want to continue to investigate the matter. It has been concluded that there was a spy around him. And Xu Dali's words also made him change his mind and decided not to attack Yingcheng so hastily.

During the patrol shift change, one of their people returned to the camp. The sergeant Zheng Shu ran over and said, "What should we do? Xu Dali has been promoted to a personal guard. Will he betray us?"

"Betray? What will he betray?" You Hongyin reached into his lapel and touched the map, saying, "What I told the president before was that the personal guard was indeed a spy, and I have already discovered him, but I just don't have any evidence. I finally caught this man tonight, so how can I let him go? Don't worry, Uncle Zheng, this personal guard likes to tell tales and frame others on weekdays, and he rides on the heads of ordinary soldiers like us and bullies us. It's not just the two of us who resent him."

Zheng Shu was speechless and did not expose You Hongyin's abnormal behavior of disappearing and reappearing during the patrol. Anyway, he covered it up, and others would not notice it. He was sure that what happened tonight was related to Yan Xingyun, but he still didn't understand it, so he asked in a low voice: "How did you do it?"

You Hongyin also whispered: "He is indeed a spy, but he should not be from Xifan."

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Zheng Fuyuan was punished because of this snitch, and thus lost his life.

After going around in circles, Uncle Zheng still didn't hear the details, so he could only go to bed with a lot of questions.

After sending Uncle Zheng away, You Hongyin sighed.

It was very rare that his plan this time was not perfect.

In fact, he didn't know whether the personal guard was a spy. The reason why You Hongyin chose him was purely to make the people in their team share the same hatred and make it easier to act. Well, he admitted that he also disliked the personal guard.

This time the plan was not complicated. He found out the whereabouts and habits of the guard. He knocked him unconscious on the back of the neck while he was on his way back to the camp after a shift change. He also changed him into a set of black clothes, covered his face, stuffed him with a replica of a map that looked like the real thing, but in fact the content on it was all wrong, and hid him next to the tent of his staff member Jiang Wang. Then he wore black clothes under his coat and went on patrol with others openly. He told Xu Dali at the right time that he had discovered the whereabouts of the guard, and instructed Xu Dali and his team to search around the camp, ran away halfway to steal the map from Zhou Jilun's tent, and then led Zhou Jilun to the originally scheduled location. He quickly put on his coat, returned to the team under the cover of Uncle Zheng, and continued to guide Xu Dali and his team to find the lying guard. So in fact, what Xu Dali and his team found was just an unconscious black assassin. But this action was only seen by their patrol team. Others who saw this person unconscious thought that they had subdued him at most.

Before Zhou Jilun came, he suggested Xu Dali to Zhou Jilun that the information was leaked and it was not appropriate to attack the city, mainly to stop Zhou Jilun from continuing to commit suicide, because You Hongyin himself was not sure that he could save his life on the battlefield.

There was a reason why he dared to use this flawed strategy.

You Hongyin observed for a long time and found that the servant was like the master. Zhou Jilun was a person with a problem in his brain circuit. The guards around him were not smart people. To be honest, stupid people almost have poor reaction ability. Only those with extraordinary talents are the kind of geniuses who are seemingly stupid but have quick reaction ability. There is no such talent among Zhou Jilun's guards.

That’s why You Hongyin dared to take the risk alone and break into the big tent at night, because at that time, the guards of the big tent were all Zhou Jilun’s personal soldiers, and these personal guards had no training on weekdays, and their past foundation and ability were average. They had been pampered in the palace for many years, and they were always in the safest rear when they went to the battlefield. Whether it was vigilance or combat effectiveness, it was almost zero. It was better to say that they were lackeys than personal guards. Although You Hongyin had only resumed practicing his skills for a short time, he was absolutely sure to complete the planned series of actions.

Zhou Jilun’s personal guards were a microcosm of the Southern Zhou army. The imperial guards were almost the same. They drank and played with women on weekdays, but they were actually abandoned in this environment and their combat effectiveness declined greatly.

Taking all aspects into consideration, Zhou Jilun’s siege plan was changed, and the latest military map was obtained. At the same time, he avenged Zheng Fuyuan and won over his colleagues around him, especially Zheng Shu, killing several birds with one stone. But he didn't expect that Zhou Jilun was a guy with a strange way of thinking. He actually thought that Xu Dali, who made the suggestion, was smart and intelligent, so he transferred him to be a personal soldier.

"Alas, it's a pity. Xu Dali has good potential." You Hongyin couldn't guarantee Xu Dali's loyalty. He originally took a fancy to this person and wanted to train him a little. Now in this situation, he had to give up.

You Hongyin waited until everyone fell asleep before getting up, lighting the oil lamp, and carefully reading the map, comparing it with the map in his memory, and then memorizing it firmly in his mind, and then setting it on fire to destroy it. If this kind of thing is kept by your side and is found out, you can't escape, and he won't leave such a loophole.

When You Hongyin

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