Chapter 392
It was late summer, it was getting dark late, and even after dinner, the light was still brighter. This naturally gave Xiang Guan and others time and opportunity to make careful preparations, so as not to act hastily and cause unexpected complications.

Not only that, there are two very important situations that greatly relieved Xiang Guan and others. The first is that Zhou Yin did not temporarily adjust the order, and indeed arranged for Xiang Guan's best friend Wu Su to lead the team to be on duty at night to prevent the Han army from sending troops at night Sneak attack, this allowed Wu Su's troops directly under the Western Chu Army to lay down and rest in the Western Chu Army, justifiably wearing armor and maintaining a state of combat readiness, which naturally helped Xiang Guan and others to launch a mutiny and seize power.

The second point is more important, that is, the scouts of the Western Chu Army have basically confirmed that the two major corps of the Han Army have not shown any signs of preparing for war during this period. A large number of troops came to take advantage of the fire to loot. After Xiang Guan and other soldiers became their hands, they naturally had enough time to take over and control the Western Chu army, make adjustments, and successfully survive the chaotic period of the Western Chu army's change of command.

The fact is exactly the same. According to the plan, the Han army who took Julu City two days ago originally planned to rest for another day and launch a full-scale attack on the Chu Qi army camp the day after tomorrow. The third step of the strategy, in order to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop the day after tomorrow, really did not make any preparations for the sudden disturbance of the Western Chu army.

Today's luck is indeed on the side of Xiang Guan and others. Although Zhou Yin, who is in a state of vacillation, discovered the secret gathering of Xiang Guan and others in advance, and flatly rejected Xiang Guan's invitation to the banquet for his own safety, Zhou Yin is still dreaming What I didn't expect was that Xiang Guan and others would make up their minds to attack themselves so quickly, so when it was getting dark, after all the battalions of the Western Chu Army lit torches and bonfires one after another, Zhou Yin still followed the habit and led a The soldiers of the 50-man team walked out of the camp of the Chinese army, ready to inspect each gate of the camp one by one, and check the preparations of the night army.

Hiding in the camp of the Wu Su army, with the last light before the sky was completely dark, Xiang Guan just saw Zhou Yin's flag leaving the camp of the Chinese army, Xiang Guan knew that his plan had been more than half successful, excited in his heart, Xiang Guan hurried After handing a handwritten letter to one of his soldiers, Xiang Guan's soldiers immediately left the camp from the east gate of the camp with the letter, and rushed to the vicinity of the Qi army camp to wait for action-this is what Xiang Guan and others said. The plan was very important, and the generals of the Western Chu Army guarding the east gate of the camp had been informed in secret long ago, so naturally they would not prevent Xiang Guan's personal soldiers from leaving the camp, let alone report the situation to Zhou Yin.

The critical moment to determine the fate of the Western Chu Army’s Northern Front Corps gradually approached. After leading fifty soldiers around the camp quickly, according to the usual practice, Zhou Yin led the soldiers directly to Wu Su’s camp again. They didn't know that Xiang Guan and others had already set up a net in front of them, and when they entered Wu Su's camp, they immediately launched an ambush to catch themselves in the urn.

It's a pity that Xiang Guan, Wu Su and others underestimated Zhou Yin's vigilance. He was able to climb to the high position of Da Sima among the fierce generals of the Western Chu Army. Next to Wu Su's camp, Zhou Yin, who has rich military experience, vaguely noticed something was wrong, and secretly said: "What's going on? Why is Wu Su's camp so quiet?"

This is also the only negligence of Xiang Guan, Wu Su and others. In order to facilitate the sudden attack, apart from Wu Su's personal soldiers who were preparing to take part in the capture and killing of Zhou Yin, kept quiet and ready to go, other generals under Wu Su's command were also beaten. He greeted them, asked them to restrain the soldiers, no matter what happened, they were not allowed to make noise, and could only obey the orders of their superiors. As a result, under repeated emphasis, all the soldiers of Wu Su's army naturally stayed in the military tents and waited for orders, even talking to each other. They all consciously lowered the volume, making Wu Su's camp very quiet.

On the contrary, the other Western Chu army camps next to it are the same as usual. The voices of soldiers before falling asleep can be heard everywhere, or they are talking in daily life, or fighting to exchange sleeping positions, or fetching water for bathing. It was difficult to calm down for a while when I heard the laughter and the scolding voices of the generals at the grassroots level.Contrary to these normal camps, Zhou Yin subconsciously felt that something was wrong with the obviously too quiet Wu Su Army camp.

This also led to the failure of Xiang Guan and others. Subconsciously, they stopped and stopped outside Wu Su's barracks to observe for a while. After reconfirming the abnormal signs that Wu Su's barracks was too quiet, Zhou Yin of course remembered Wu Su this afternoon. At that time, there was a secret meeting with Xiang Guan and others, so it was just a little calculation, Zhou Yin changed his mind, and ordered to his own soldiers: "Go alone, and call Wu Su out to meet this commander."

The soldiers took the order, stepped into the camp immediately, and went directly to Wu Su's sleeping tent to pass the order. Wu Su suddenly knew something was wrong, so he could only find an excuse to walk into his sleeping tent and tell the hiding place. Xiang Guan, who was in his account, was shocked when he heard that, and hurriedly asked: "What went wrong? Why didn't Mr. Zhou Yin come into your camp, but asked you to go out to meet him instead?"

"The last general didn't know there was a mistake there." Wu Su replied nervously: "The man has clearly arrived next to the last general's camp, but he doesn't know why he doesn't come in, but the last general goes out."

Zhou Ji, Dongfang Luo, Pang Run and the others were restraining the army in their camp. Xiang Guan couldn't find anyone to discuss with, and time was running out, so he could only make a hasty decision and hurriedly asked Wu Su He ordered: "Then you go to see him, see what's going on, and then find a way to lure him in, and act according to the original plan."

"What if he doesn't come in?" Wu Su hurriedly asked.

Xiang Guan gritted his teeth, and said in a low voice viciously: "Zhou Ji and Dongfang Luo have already made preparations. There are already many people who know the situation. We have also sent messengers to contact the Qi army. The news may leak at any time. We have no other choice, if he insists on not coming in, you can kill him directly!"

After all, he is Xiang Guan's best friend who is famous for his bravery. Although the risk of assassinating the coach is extremely huge, after listening to Xiang Guan's request, Wu Su still didn't even blink his eyelids. Leading a team of Shiren personal soldiers to meet Zhou Yin, Xiang Guan immediately asked several of Wu Su's trusted subordinates to accept his command instead, and made other contingency preparations without mentioning it.

Not to mention, Xiang Guan's impromptu decision also played a big role. Seeing that Wu Su really came out of the camp to meet him, Zhou Yin's suspicion immediately dissipated a lot, and he almost thought that he had misunderstood Wu Su , So when Wu Su came to salute in front of him, Zhou Yin also took the initiative to say: "It's nothing, I just want to patrol the camp and pass by here, by the way, I would like to ask about the situation of the army under your command. How is it, the military tent is not crowded yet. Squeezed?"

"Reporting to Commander, it's not as crowded as before." Wu Su replied: "Two days ago, in order to rescue the Qi army, we lost a lot of soldiers and freed up a lot of military tents, so it's not as crowded as before. .”

Zhou Yin, who was just looking for something to say, nodded casually, and casually asked some details about Wu Su's army, and then yawned and said: "Okay, General Wu, please go back and rest, it's late at night, and this commander also Time to go back to sleep."

"Big Sima, don't you want to go into the last general's camp to take a look?" Wu Su became anxious when he heard this, and hurriedly said, "According to the usual practice, you have to personally inspect our night duty army every day?"

Blinking his eyes, he took a closer look at Wu Su by the light of the torch, and noticed the tension in Wu Su's expression that could not be completely concealed, and Zhou Yin became suspicious again, and said, "No need, I can trust you, today is too late. It's late, and I'm too tired, so I'll go back first."

Wu Su was startled when he heard this, but he couldn't force Zhou Yin to enter his camp, so he gritted his teeth quickly, raised his head suddenly, looked behind Zhou Yin in astonishment and said, "Huh? What is that?"

Responding naturally, Zhou Yin subconsciously turned around to look at the situation behind him, and his own soldiers did the same. Wu Su saw the opportunity, and the sword in his waist was clattered out of its sheath, and he stabbed Zhou Yin's chest with both hands, shouting loudly ,"die!"

Unlike Song Yi, the champion of Xiang Yu's assassination of Qingzi in history, Song Yi became the commander of the Chu army all by his mouth. It's no surprise that Xiang Yu easily killed him.Zhou Yin was different. He became the Great Sima of Western Chu by helping Xiang Yu raise troops in Wudi to accumulate military exploits.So when he turned his head, there was nothing unusual behind him, and when he heard the sound of Wu Su's sword being unsheathed, Zhou Yin immediately understood that something was wrong, and immediately dodged subconsciously...

There was a plop, because Zhou Yin dodged in time, and Wu Su stabbed with all his strength, only stabbing Zhou Yin's right arm. Although he successfully brought up a stream of blood, he didn't stab Zhou Yin's fatal vital point. While shouting in pain, his soldiers came back to their senses one after another, and shouted in surprise: "Wu Su, what are you doing?"

Of course Wu Su didn't make any reply. He retracted his sword to see Zhou Yin, and stabbed out with all his strength. Zhou Yin, who reacted quickly, rolled on the spot like a lazy donkey, and once again dodged Wu Su's crazy stabbing, roaring. Said: "Protect me!"

Finally, Zhou Yin's soldiers reacted, stabbing Wu Su with a halberd in the chest, Wu Su swung his sword away, caught up and stabbed Zhou Yin who was rolling on the ground, his soldiers also rushed up immediately, Zhou Yin's soldiers, each with weapons, fought against Zhou Yin's soldiers who responded one after another, buying time for Wu Su to assassinate Zhou Yin.

These few seconds are definitely the most critical seconds in Zhou Yin's life. Facing Wu Su's sword stabbing one after another, Zhou Yin fell to the ground, not to mention drawing his sword to fight back. Even if he wanted to parry, he had no chance. It could be that he kept rolling and dodging on the ground, and was stabbed and injured by Wu Su's sword one after another. The panic shout in his mouth was hardly human, "Help! Help me! Protect me!"

With a crisp sound of clang, a sudden stabbing spear finally temporarily blocked Wu Su's sword. Wu Su's eyes were red with anxiety, and he also exerted his force to the limit. The neck of Zhou Yin's personal soldier who was holding back the sword was broken, and the blood rushed to the sky. However, taking advantage of such a slight delay, Zhou Yin had already got up with both hands and feet, and frantically rushed to the other nearby Western Chu army camps, saying Shouted hoarsely, "Help me! Help!"

When things got to this point, Wu Su had no choice but to chase Zhou Yin with all his strength, and Zhou Yin's personal soldiers also hurriedly followed. A group of people yelled and chased each other continuously. When Wu Su made a move, Xiang Guan rushed out of the camp with Wu Su's direct troops who had been prepared for a long time, and chased after him roaring, "Kill the thief! Kill the national thief!"

At this time, seeing the chaos in the army camp, Xiang Guan's soldiers who had left the camp before also immediately acted according to the order, and rushed to the Qi army camp to present Xiang Guan's letter, asking the Qi army to send troops to help immediately, resistance will definitely take the opportunity The traitors of the Han army who sent troops to take advantage of the fire.

The scene turned back to Zhou Yin. Maybe Zhou Yin deserved his bad luck. After rushing into the camp of other Western Chu troops nearby, he cunningly rushed to the soldiers of the Western Chu Army who were patrolling the camp with torches, shouting Shouting for them to protect themselves, but because the incident happened so suddenly, the patrol team of the Western Chu Army was so frightened that they completely forgot to step forward to intercept and protect Zhou Yin, and just watched Wu Su helplessly. Chasing Zhou Yin and rushing past them, he didn't understand what happened for a long time.

Fortunately, Zhou Yin was still smart. Seeing that the call for help failed, Zhou Yin became wise and rushed into the tent of a Western Chu soldier. The soldiers in the tent got up to check the situation, but they couldn't find Zhou Yin immediately, so Zhou Yin took the opportunity to grab a handful of weapons in the tent, and directly fought Wu Su in the tent.

The long-lost luck returned to Zhou Yin at this moment. It took only a moment to resist and fight, and Zhou Yin's soldiers had already chased the scene with torches, pulled open the curtain and stabbed Wu Su randomly. Poor Wu Su had nothing to do. He was full of martial arts, but he couldn't use them in the narrow tent, but he was stabbed by Zhou Yin's personal soldiers one after another in a short time, and he fell into the pool of blood with an unwilling roar. As soon as he started the battle, he stabbed at Wu Su's head, piercing Wu Su's head alive!
At the same time, the Western Chu army in this camp was of course in chaos. Xiang Guan also rushed in with Wu Su's army. He fled for his life, and at the same time sent someone to send an order to the general of the Western Chu Army in charge of the camp, telling him to immediately lead the army to stop the rebels and buy time for himself to command the suppression of the rebellion.

The matter is not over yet. At the same time, in other camps of the Western Chu Army, seeing the chaos on Wu Su's side, the soldiers of the Western Chu Army have also got up to prepare for the battle. Of course, the troops of Pang Run, Zhou Ji, and Dongfang Luo who had prepared in advance The move was the fastest, but the assembly was completed in a short time, and at the same time, he quickly announced Xiang Yu's order to ask Xiang Guan to kill Zhou Yin, and then immediately brought the army to reinforce.

The chaotic camp helped Zhou Yin a lot. He cunningly led his soldiers not to take the main road in the camp, threw away most of the torches and lowered the flags to avoid exposing the target, and went directly through the various military camps in the Western Chu military camp. The soldiers of the Western Chu army in the battalion covered themselves, and fled straight to the camp of the Chinese army while walking in a straight line. Zhou Yin's move really received a miraculous effect, and in just a moment, Xiang Guan, who was chasing after him, could not find the target to kill, so he could only be Hurry back to Yingzhong Road, and rush along the road to the camp of the Chinese army that Zhou Yin is bound to flee back to.

In this way, Zhou Yin, who took a straight line and a short cut, naturally fled outside the Chinese army camp one step earlier than Xiang Guanjun, who took a long detour. Then Zhou Yin didn't even dare to leave the camp gate, so he climbed up to the Chinese army camp with the help of his own soldiers and returned. battalion, yelling constantly, "Quick! Quick! Close the gate of the Chinese army camp immediately, and no one is allowed to approach. All soldiers, stand up and fight against me!"

The emergency response of the soldiers of the Western Chu Army once again helped Zhou Yin a lot. Hearing the loud noise from the outer camp, even without the commander Zhou Yin in charge, the most well-equipped soldiers of the Western Chu Army had already stood up and put on their armor. Armed with weapons, they went out to assemble and wait for orders. At the same time, the soldiers of the Western Chu Army who were guarding the gate of the Chinese army camp also immediately closed the gate of the Chinese army camp, and at the same time made preparations for guarding the gate. After being hit head-on by the soldiers of the Western Chu Army, Zhou Yin's direct generals immediately brought troops to reinforce them, temporarily blocking Xiang Guan's attack.

At the same time, in the camp of the Qi army, Xiang Guan's personal soldiers had also presented the letter to Tian Bu, the commander of the Qi army. In the letter, they saw that Xiang Guan was ordered to kill Zhou Yin to seize power, and heard the news from the Western Chu army camp. The loud noise made Tianbe anxious and angry, and he roared directly, "Are you all crazy? What time is it already? Are you going to have internal strife and mutiny? Isn't this for nothing? What is it?"

"General, the situation is critical, and we, General Xiang, have no choice but to do it." Xiang Guan's soldiers hurriedly said: "Now, please, general, prepare your army for battle immediately. If you see the traitors taking the opportunity to send troops, please also immediately Send troops to fight and buy us time, as long as our General Xiang successfully captures and kills the Zhou Yin rebels and takes over the army, we will immediately send troops to help you."

Considering that our own army and the Western Chu army were at odds with each other, once the Han army took advantage of the opportunity to send troops to take advantage of the fire, our own camp not far from the Western Chu army's camp would definitely be unlucky. Tianbe still yelled helplessly: "Order the whole army to get up immediately!" Prepare for battle! Hurry up and prepare dry food, drinking water and torches, we have to fight tonight!"

On Zhou Yin's side, Zhou Yin, who managed to escape back to the Chinese army's camp by relying on the deadly battle of the army directly under his command, finally got a chance to breathe. To report, first it proved that Xiang Guan was leading the army to attack the camp of the Chinese army, and then reported that several of Xiang Guan's cronies had led the army to join the battlefield. Outside the secret meeting, he yelled again: "Xiang Guan, are you crazy or stupid? Xichu is the Xichu country of your Xiang family. The enemy is now, what kind of mutiny are you going to do for me?"

"Great Sima, could it be that Xiang Guan is greedy for glory and wealth? Is it going to make you surrender to the traitors?" The captain of the guards raised a possibility.

Zhou Yin was stunned for a while, and even though he still didn't understand why Xiang Guan initiated the mutiny, he found that there was such a possibility. Xiang Guan was only superficially tough, but in fact he was just like himself. Xiang Kang rewarded the promised glory and wealth, that's why he made such a trick for himself...

(End of this chapter)

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