The Phoenix Spirit Guard's small Military Exercise, held once every half month, did permit deaths—but the death rate had to remain below one in ten thousand.
In today's small Military Exercise between the Fifth Guard and the Seventh Guard, the total number of participants from both sides had only just exceeded ten thousand.
In other words, under the official rules, the number of permitted deaths in this small Military Exercise was one!
And now, Ye Zhen had taken out three in one go.
Without a doubt, under such circumstances, there would definitely be an investigation after the battle.
Thus, after saving Ding Chi, Ye Zhen made a few arrangements. He had the heavily wounded Ding Chi leave the battlefield first, and with just a single sentence, he turned public opinion around.
Inside the Military Exercise battlefield.
After Ye Zhen killed Zi Qi and two other Phoenix Spirit Guards from the Fifth Guard Fourth Brigade, both the routed soldiers he had saved and the thirty-two elites he had brought along—including the two squad leaders—were utterly stunned. Beyond being convinced, they could only be convinced by Ye Zhen.
Ye Zhen's prestige was completely established in that instant.
When the news reached the main force led by Captain Qing Zhao, the soldiers were thrilled, and their admiration for Ye Zhen deepened even further.
The few discordant voices within the unit vanished completely.
Very quickly, Ye Zhen laid out a new strategy.
He had Qing Zhao's main force lure Zi Du's main force in a roundabout path toward their position.
Then the two forces would strike Zi Du's main force together and surround and annihilate them.
On Ye Zhen's side, counting the routed soldiers he had rescued earlier, he now had seventy-three Phoenix Spirit Guards under his command. Once they were gathered together, they