In the camp of the Zhou army, in the tent of the Chinese army, several men in ragged clothes were saying something to Yang Ji, the chief general of the Zhou army and the head of the march, and they were babbling Lingnan slang in their mouths, which Yang Ji couldn't understand at all, so he could only rely on the general affairs on the side to translate. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

These men, sneakily came to the outside of the Zhou camp in the middle of the night, and were discovered and caught by the secret sentinel, thinking that they were Chen Jun who came to spy on the military situation, but after the locals hired by the army talked to them, they learned that the other party was a deserter from the Chen army.

Specifically, it was the slang soldiers who had escaped, and the reason why they came here was because they were arranged by the leader to do coolies, and they were tired and tired every day, and they couldn't eat enough, and they couldn't stand it and escaped.

After escaping, I don't know where to go, I want to run home, but the family is so poor that I can't open the pot, and if the leader sends someone back to arrest him, it will be a catch, and a few people will be combined, so I feel that it is better to defect to the Zhou army.

If they defect to the enemy, what will happen to their families? It doesn't matter, it's better to die than to live anyway, and it's not bad to exchange a secret for plenty of food and clothing.

What's the secret? That has to be said to the commander of the Zhou army in person.

These slang soldiers want to see the main general and tell the secret in person in exchange for benefits, which sounds like a surprise for the Zhou army, but the Zhou soldiers are not so confused:

You said you'll see it? What if you are an assassin sent by Chen Jun and take the opportunity to meet the main general and suddenly assassinate you?

Therefore, these slang soldiers were carefully searched by the soldiers, and their hands were tied behind their backs, before they were taken into the Chinese military tent to meet the main general Yang Ji.

Because the two sides did not understand the language, the conversation needed to be conveyed through the matter, so after tossing for a long time, Yang Ji figured out what the so-called secrets of these slang soldiers were, and the secrets brought by the other party were related to the hidden dangers of Zhenyang City.

Zhenyang Castle is located on the north bank of Zhenshui, which is advantageous for defending against enemies from the south, but once the enemy comes from the north, Zhenshui, which could have served as a moat, is useless.

Therefore, in order to defend the Zhou army, Chen Jun organized manpower to dig trenches in the north and east of the city, and introduced Qinshui and Zhenshui to make it a moat.

Especially in the northwest corner of the city wall in the north of the city, the trench dug there leads the water into the city, and when the water flows from north to south enters the ditch, the river washes the northwest corner of the city wall.

Zhenyang is near the mountain, so the city wall is made of stones, after hundreds of years of wind and rain did not see a major problem, as a result, the ditch actually cracked after the water was diverted, which shows that the ditch is too close to the city wall, and the introduction of river water leads to soil softening and makes the wall foundation unstable.

This kind of problem can be big or small, and the problem of the northwest corner of the north wall of Zhenyang City is particularly serious, which can already be described as crumbling, so the defenders requisitioned manpower and strengthened the wall foundation at the expense of human lives.

A few of the slang soldiers who fled to the Zhou camp were arranged to strengthen the foundation of the wall, and erected wooden stakes in the mud under the wall base to hold the wall against it, where the conditions were so bad that most of the wall foundations were suspended in the air and could collapse at any time.

No one dared to take the risk of reinforcing the foundation of the wall, but if they didn't do it, they couldn't do it, and they would die if they didn't do it, so a few people were ruthless, and they slipped out of the city directly from the tunnel under the wall foundation and defected to the Zhou army to save their lives.

Yang Ji was very interested in hearing this secret, and with the help of the general affairs as an intermediary, he carefully asked the slang soldiers about the city wall, and after confirming that the northwest corner of the city wall in the north of the city was indeed crumbling, he asked the other party if he wanted to make a great contribution.

If you want to make great achievements and get rewards, you have to take advantage of the night to return to Zhenyang City immediately, and when the Zhou army sets up a formation to attack the city the day after tomorrow, they collapse the city wall and make a gap, and there are many rewards after the city is broken.

After hearing this, several slang soldiers shook their heads like rattles, and Yang Ji said that he promised a reward of women, money, food, and fields, so that these people made up their minds and were willing to rush back to the city immediately, continue to repair the city wall as if nothing happened, and wait for the day after tomorrow to "open" the city wall for the Zhou army.

Let the slang soldiers retreat, and a person was transferred out of the back of the tent, but it was Murong Sanzang, the head of the march, and he had heard the conversation between Yang Ji and the slang soldiers word for word, and also observed the expressions of several people through the small hole.

"General Murong, what do these people think of what they just said?"

"Manager Yang, regardless of the truth or falsehood of what these people said for the time being, but when they speak, their breath is steady, and they don't look submissive, they can't see their stage fright at all, they don't seem to be people from humble backgrounds, not to mention that they unknowingly reveal flaws...."

"What does General Murong mean?"

"I look at his demeanor, every time Manager Yang says a word, he doesn't need to turn it into slang, and these people already show a look of understanding, but they have to wait for the general matter to say it in slang before answering, that is, they can understand Chinese, but they have to pretend not to understand!"

"Acting like this, the saying that the city wall will collapse must be false, it must be Wang Meng who sent them to make our army attack Zhenyang, why did he send someone to lie and say that there is something wrong with the city wall? It's just a cover-up! ”

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Late at night, in Zhenyang, several "deserters" who had just returned from the Zhou camp outside the city were reporting to the Lang lord what they had seen and heard, who was their Lang master? Of course, Chen Fozhi and Feng Xuan are here.

"The little one saw with his own eyes that the grain in the Zhou military camp was piled up, and the grain and grass were counted there in the middle of the night, and the amount of grain said was 60,000 hundred."

60,000 Hu, enough for 10,000 people to eat for three months, which shows that the Zhou army has enough food, but Chen Fozhi did not show a surprised look, he opened his mouth and asked: "Did you see it with your own eyes and hear it with your own ears?" ”

"Yes, the little ones can understand Chinese, they speak Chinese and slang, and the number is indeed 60,000."

"Stand down and get some sleep."

Several slang soldiers retreated, leaving all the thoughts of the three people in the hall, and Wang Meng, who was sitting at the top, asked, "What do you two think?" ”

Chen Fozhi sneered: "Dadu Governor, they want to cover up!" ”

Feng Xuan on the side nodded, these people they sent out were actually trying to deceive the Zhou army to attack Zhenyang, but they found out an important news: the Zhou army was short of food!

The people they sent successfully entered the Zhou camp and lied to the commander about the military situation as deserters, saying that the northern wall of Zhenyang City was soaked in water, which caused the soil under the base of the wall to be soft, and the city wall was cracked and crumbling.

If the other party believes this kind of words, then a few "deserters" will inevitably return to the city to lurk, and when the Zhou army attacks the city, they will collapse the city wall, and they must be allowed to come back that night, so as not to find that people are missing from Zhenyang, and prepare in advance.

That is to say, as long as General Zhou is tempted, these deserters will definitely be able to come back, no matter whether the Zhou army attacks the city next or not, it is an excellent opportunity for these people to walk around and be able to spy on the reality of the Zhou camp.

And now it has really been discovered: the Zhou army is short of food!

Whose barracks counted food in the middle of the night? And specially let the slang soldiers who had just entered the camp to tell the whistle hear and see? I'm even afraid that these people won't understand and use slang to say the number, don't they just want them to go back to the city and say that the Zhou army has enough food?

The reason why they did not kill them on the spot, and let them 'inadvertently' see and hear the Zhou army counting the grain, and then let these people return to the city, just to let the defenders know that the Zhou army was not short of food.

If you want to cover it up, in fact, what the chief general of the Zhou army did just shows that the Zhou army is short of food!

During the Liu Song Dynasty, the general Tan Daoji led the troops to the northern expedition to the Wei State, after the defeat of the Song army on the flank, he was alone in the grain and grass and could not continue, and the Wei army that was about to surround received a report from the surrendered soldiers that the defenders had no food, and sent a fine work to sneak into the Song camp late at night to listen to the truth.

Tan Daoji ordered his soldiers to weigh rice with sand and sang loudly to confuse the Wei army, so that the Wei army mistakenly believed that they had enough food and were ready to hold the camp and wait for reinforcements, so the siege was slower.

As a result, Tan Daoji took the opportunity to lead the Song army to retreat safely, which is an allusion to singing and measuring sand, Wang Meng, who is a general of the Southern Dynasty, is of course familiar with this allusion, Chen Fozhi and Feng Xuan have read books, and of course they also know this allusion, so Zhou Jun's clumsy trick of painting cats and tigers was seen through by them at a glance.

"The Zhou army is short of food, I'm afraid it won't last long, Zhenyang City is worry-free!"