Zhang Yu raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this, as if he was thinking about something.

Seeing this situation, the crowd inside the fence seemed to be encouraged. With the recommendation of another group of people, another person stepped out. He was a young man who had been promoted to a reinforcement soldier, who set out today carrying a ladder and then came back alive.

Unlike the middle-aged man on the ground who seemed cautious but was actually at ease, the young man obviously flinched for a moment, but still reluctantly knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Captain, we...we actually want to go back and be civilian laborers...Today, we went out with the ladders, and there were a team of 100 people, but only more than 80 came back alive, and more than a dozen were shot and injured. If this continues, we will not be able to survive with just a piece of wood. If we were civilian laborers, we would have let many of them go when we saw the government troops on the city wall."

Zhang Yu turned his head to look at the dazzling sun, touched the tattoo on his chest, and then nodded: "What you said makes sense and is true... When going into battle, the government troops will naturally shoot arrows at the soldiers first, and farmers and merchants who have become soldiers will not kill people. Even if they really carry a ladder to the top of the city, they will just be killed by the government troops with a knife."

The two people below kowtowed repeatedly, and the two large groups of people behind them who saw hope also knelt down and kowtowed.

"But there's nothing we can do about it." Zhang Yu suddenly sighed loudly. "If you were soldiers at the beginning, wouldn't it be enough if you could kill people? At the very least, you could be craftsmen, you wouldn't have to go into battle, and you could still eat and drink well... But you are just farmers and merchants! In this world, what's the point of being a farmer and a merchant?"

The two men below were about to speak, but Zhang Yu suddenly became serious: "I have a plan. It can help you quickly become soldiers. You will no longer be afraid of fighting in battle. You may even make contributions and become officers... Surround these two leaders!"

The two men below looked at each other, and in an instant, dozens of soldiers came out and surrounded the two leaders. They were obviously familiar with the situation. At the same time, the people outside also retreated in a hurry, but soon there were soldiers who surrounded them from behind.

"Get up!" Zhang Yu didn't care about these, but raised his hand and shouted at the two people in front of him.

Both of them had shaking hands and legs. The young man even reached out to help the middle-aged man, and they managed to stand up together.

"Tell me your names." Zhang Yu asked with narrowed eyes, but suddenly pulled out a dagger, which was sharp in the sunlight. "What's the name of the young man? What's the name of the middle-aged man who's pretending to be so pretentious? Where are they from? What do they do?"

"I am from Zhengzhou, and I own a shop in the city. I was named Ma Fei because I was a little fat when I was young." The middle-aged man trembled. "The governor must forgive me."

"Zhou Bin, a man of iron... from Ruzhou." The young man was also shocked for a moment. "He was originally a scholar."

Zhang Yu nodded, and suddenly threw the dagger in front of the two men, in the middle of the armored soldiers, then smiled and said something casually: "It doesn't matter whether you are scholars or businessmen. I will blow a whistle later, and you two will start fighting, but only one can survive... In this way, the winner will be considered as a killer, and can be promoted to a higher level. A stick man will become a supplementary soldier, a supplementary soldier will become a regular sergeant, and a regular sergeant can be promoted to an armored soldier. The loser is destined to be useless in this world, it is better to die early!"

Everyone around was shocked, but Zhang Yu suddenly whistled on the fence.

The two people who were surrounded looked at each other instinctively, and almost at the moment their eyes met, the young man, Zhou Bin from Ruzhou, suddenly grabbed the dagger on the ground. Seeing this, the middle-aged businessman Ma Fei turned around and tried to escape.

It happened in a flash. Seeing Ma Fei running away, Zhou Bin just stepped forward with all his strength and knocked him down from under his feet. Then he stood up and pounced on him, and finally stabbed the dagger directly into Ma Fei's neck.

Ma Fei lay on the ground with his head raised, and he struggled a few times before he stopped moving. However, although he was dead, the blood from his neck was still spurting out, dyeing half of Zhou Bin's face and chest blood red. But Zhou Bin didn't dare to get up easily, and could only cry while letting the blood splatter.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Yu applauded and laughed: "Although your movements are sparse, you are very fast. You killed someone in the battle today, right? And today you couldn't even find the government troops, you must have killed your own people while fleeing, right?"

Zhou Bin, covered in blood, looked up blankly, but nodded without saying anything.

"It's okay, it's okay." Zhang Yu, who was sitting on the fence, shook his head and laughed. "This world... When I was in Tokyo, I didn't get along with a commander named Wang Shan. That guy was born in Hedong, and he often bullied me because he had more soldiers. But he often said something very good, and I remember it clearly... He said that when the world is in chaos, it is the time to redefine the rich and the poor, the noble and the humble! Scholar, remember, from today on, scholars will be trampled under the feet of us tattooed thieves! And since you have made a good start today, I will make an exception and give you the treatment of a soldier, give you a dagger, and let someone tattoo a flower on your body to determine your status! From now on, you will also be a superior person in troubled times!"

Zhou Bin was still confused, but was dragged away by the soldiers around him.

After Zhou Bin left, Zhang Yu continued to look down at these men with sticks and reinforcements who were already horrified, but no one dared to look at them.

“Now that these two groups of birds have come out, none of them can escape. Let them fight each other to decide the winner… As for the rest, use a ruler to measure them. Select the taller and stronger ones, and organize another 3,000 of them. If that’s not enough, send someone to tell the rear camp to go to the surrounding villages and towns to fetch some people.” After Zhang Yu said this, he jumped off the fence and went back to the military tent with his bare chest as if nothing had happened.

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