My reborn husband and son are thinking about how to kill me every day.

Military Advisor Jia spoke first: "General, I believe we should send troops to annihilate that soldier surnamed Lu and avenge the men of our Great Qi."

"Our great Qi's upright and honorable men have been killed and then humiliated in this way; it is truly outrageous! We should take advantage of the soldiers' hatred and kill him in one fell swoop!"

“No, no!” said strategist Guo. “As far as I know, that soldier surnamed Lu is just an unknown soldier. To spend a lot of troops to kill an unknown soldier is putting the cart before the horse. This is not the way of the army.”

"You mean... we're just going to let this go like this?" Strategist Jia said, his face flushed and his neck bulging. "If we don't make the Zhou Kingdom laugh at us, will our Qi army be considered cowards?"

Guo Junshi said coldly, "Zhou's actions this time may be part of their conspiracy to provoke us. They may have already set a trap and are waiting for us to take it."

"So what if it's a trap? Can't we just break his trap?"

As Jia Junshi spoke, he stood up, cupped his hands in a bow to General Yao, and said, "General, I believe that if this drags on any longer, it will be detrimental to our army."

We are now not only short of supplies, but the prolonged fighting in a foreign land has also exhausted our army. We should take advantage of our soldiers' burning hatred and seize the Great Zhou in one fell swoop.”

Guo Junshi also stood up and bowed deeply to General Yao, saying, "General, this is not advisable. We haven't figured out what secret weapons the Zhou army is hiding, and it would be disadvantageous for our army to advance rashly."

Moreover, Zhou Jun also keeps tigers. In my opinion, Zhou Jun's actions are intended to provoke us, hoping to force our army to act rashly.

"Is it because we haven't figured out what secret weapons Zhou Jun is hiding that our army has been hiding here like cowards?"

"I don't mean for our army to be cowards. I just think we should know ourselves and our enemy, and at least find out what the secret weapon in Zhou's army is."

……

As usual, the two strategists started arguing again, each holding their own opinion.

General Yao felt that both of their considerations were reasonable, and after careful thought, he decided to reconcile their opinions.

He summoned the Director of the Armory and asked, "Has there been any progress recently?"

Cai Huanzang said with shame, "This humble official still doesn't understand what kind of weapon it is."

A flicker of disappointment crossed General Yao's eyes, but after a moment he said, "If you saw it with your own eyes, could you figure out what that weapon was and how powerful it was?"

Cai Huanzang said, "If I had seen it with my own eyes, I would surely have been able to see the reason behind it."

"Alright, you'll come with us this time." General Yao walked to the battle map and began to consider the upcoming troop deployment.

The two strategists, Jia and Guo, glared at each other, then put aside their dissatisfaction and helped General Yao come up with a plan.

On the other side, Lu Yinheng was leading his soldiers to transport supplies to the army.

Their harvest this time was quite good; they not only killed a large number of Qi soldiers disguised as bandits, but also seized a considerable amount of weapons and clothing.

Looking at the cart full of old clothes, Wei Shen asked, somewhat puzzled, "Master, what are we going to do with all these Qi army clothes?"

The Qi soldiers disguised themselves as bandits, but the clothes they wore were not their actual uniforms, and they did not wear armor. In Wei Shen's view, if they had worn the Qi army's original uniforms, they could have used them to infiltrate the Qi army's camp, and they could have used the armor as weapons.

What use are these clothes used to disguise themselves as bandits?

Lu Yinheng said, "Take it back first, we can't leave it to the Qi army anyway."

Having memories of his past life, he naturally knew how difficult Prince Rui's current situation was.

Not only did the imperial court not support them, it also created obstacles for them at every turn.

They had to find their own food, clothing, weapons... in the army.

He remembered one year, in the dead of winter, the new recruits didn't have winter coats to keep them warm, and many soldiers fell ill from the cold.

He initially thought that Prince Rui, like other powerful nobles, only cared about his own enjoyment and deliberately withheld military pay, which almost led to a conflict with him.

He later learned that it was not that Prince Rui intentionally withheld military pay, but that someone had controlled the cloth merchants and prevented them from transporting cloth and cotton to Jiangzhou.

Prince Rui had no choice but to try to find a solution in Jiangzhou.

In order to gather enough cotton-padded clothes for the soldiers, he ordered all his officials to go to merchants' homes to solicit donations.

When the donated fabric and cotton from the merchants' homes were still not enough, they went door-to-door to collect donations.

Many ordinary people donated their cotton-padded clothes to support the soldiers in the army.

Thinking back to that scene, Lu Yinheng felt uneasy.

Although that incident happened several years later, and this life is very different from the previous one.

However, he still planned to collect these clothes, just in case.

If it's not needed in the military, using it to help the poor is also a good deed.

Wei Shen nodded, "Yes, we can't let Qi Gou get away with this."

The soldiers all thought that Lu Yinheng stripped the Qi soldiers naked and burned them because he hated the Qi army.

In fact, Lu Yinheng did this mainly to prevent the plague.

In their past life, war raged everywhere, leaving corpses strewn across the land, with no one to clean up the mess. Later, a massive plague struck, adding insult to injury for the people of the Great Zhou, who had already endured the ravages of war.

Many of the soldiers' relatives and friends died in the plague. Given a second chance at life, he wanted to avoid these calamities as much as possible.

However, seeing the angry soldiers, he did not offer any further explanation.

Wei Shen joined the soldiers in their indignation, cursing the Qi army for a while, and then muttered to himself, "I wonder if Miss Shi has settled down in Hongdu yet. We should be able to see Master when we go back this time."

Hearing him mention Ji Yunshuang, Lu Yinheng's thoughts drifted far away. Where had she been all this time? What had she been doing?

He found her to be like a mystery; he could never figure her out. The more he couldn't figure her out, the more he couldn't help but think about her.

Meanwhile, Ji Yunshuang, whom Lu Yinheng was thinking about, was dressed in black and wandering through the streets and alleys of Ningcheng.

There were even more soldiers patrolling the city tonight than the day before, and many officials were also carrying blueprints and black cloths, inspecting each house one by one.

It seems they intend to search every part of the city.

Ji Yunshuang originally wanted to find a suitable opportunity to capture An Yi and interrogate him to find out about the Heart-Eating Worm.

Unexpectedly, An Yi did not act alone that night. Instead, she was always accompanied by a group of soldiers coming and going in Ningcheng. She followed her for a long time but could not find a suitable opportunity to make a move.

But to her surprise, instead of finding a suitable opportunity to make a move against An Yi, she saw Han Dian taking advantage of his position to bully a young girl.

Seeing that the girl was only twelve or thirteen years old, Ji Yunshuang's anger flared up.

That scumbag!

If she lets him off this time, she'll be doing a disservice to her breasts!

She was about to make a move to trip him up when she suddenly realized that this place was not far from where Su Muchen hid the Han and Xu families.

Her eyes darted around, and a brilliant idea suddenly popped into her head.