"I just said, he didn't dare not give us military salaries, you see that I was right."

Zhang Yaoyang rode on a tall horse and said shyly.

His men led his horses and walked in the middle of the procession with torches.

"Yes, that's what Lord Banner said.

But the little ones don't understand why this chief soldier wants us to go to collect our salaries at night. ”

Zhang Yaoyang's subordinates asked puzzled.

"You know a, that's because he's afraid that we'll mutiny, and this kind of thing hasn't happened before."

During the Chongzhen period, because the treasury was empty, the imperial court could not pay military salaries, and soldiers from all over the country often mutinied.

In the first year of Chongzhen, on July 20, the Jimen garrison burned and looted gunpowder due to hunger and demand, and was disbanded after many measures. By the beginning of August, the governor of Suncheon asked for the first three months of arrears to appease the army.

It is known as the Jizhen Mutiny.

In the first year of Chongzhen, on July 25, the Sichuan and Huguang soldiers in the Ningyuan Army of Liaoning Province mutinied due to a shortage of pay for four months, and the remaining thirteen battalions rose up to respond, binding the governor Bi Zisu, the chief military officer Zhu Mei, the general sentence Zhang Shirong, and the push officer Su Hanchun on the upper floor.

In early August, Yuan Chonghuan conspired with Guo Guang, the deputy military envoy, to trap their leaders Zhang Zhengchao and Zhang Sishun, beheaded 15 people, and put down the mutiny.

History is known as the Ningyuan Mutiny.

There was also the Guyuan Mutiny that was ahead of schedule.

The border soldiers stationed in Guyuan were short of pay, and the soldiers took advantage of the outbreak of the peasant uprising to rebel together and loot the Guyuan Prefecture treasury.

Governor Hu Tingyan and Governor Yue of Yansui passed the buck to each other, and most of the mutinous soldiers joined the peasant uprising.

It was precisely because of these people who had made trouble that Zhang Yaoyang dared to contact the sergeants of Huoludun in various forts to organize this bargaining.

"That's, that's what the general flag said."

As soon as Zhang Yaoyang's subordinates finished speaking, a huge wind blew on the grassland.

The wind was so strong that the marching ranks came to a standstill.

Zhang Yaoyang rode on the horse, squinting his eyes and blocking his front face with his arms.

"Fuck, what the hell is this weather?"

Zhang Yaoyang complained, and the wind blew even more violently.

The torches held by the border soldiers in the ranks were extinguished one after another.

The wind lasted for dozens of breaths before stopping.

"I don't light the torches at night."

The night is not closed, the Ming Dynasty border guard in the sentry or spy of the unique title.

"Night" is also known as "sentry night", "night does not collect", "direct dial", specifically refers to those who "can go deep into the camp sentry to detect the truth", that is, the sentry who can go deep into the enemy's territory to carry out reconnaissance activities, because its action is far away from the pier platform side fort, so it is also called "far sentry night does not collect", sentry spy, spy, sentry night spy, night sentry and so on.

During the Ming Dynasty, due to the lack of pay and food for the border army, malnutrition and night blindness were often caused.

However, this is not the case with night closures.

Those who can stay overnight do not have night blindness.

Ye Bushu in Zhang Yaoyang's team just took out the fire fold and was about to light the torch, when suddenly he threw away the fire fold, pulled out his saber, rolled on the spot, and slashed and slashed.

Zhang Yaoyang didn't know what was going on, when he heard screams.

"Fuck, what's going on? The ignition is not closed at night... Oops..."Before Zhang Yaoyang could finish speaking, the horse under his seat fell.

Zhang Yaoyang fell to the ground and saw a little spark, which should be a fire fold that was thrown away at night.

Zhang Yaoyang grabbed the fire fold and lit the torch.

There was a sudden silence around him.

Two wolves were crawling under the belly of his war horse, eating the intestines in the horse's belly, and he did not accept the shield in his left hand and the knife in his right hand as a defensive gesture in front of him.

There was chaos all around him, some of the frontier soldiers were fighting the wolves, some were dead, and some were frightened and ran out in a panic.

Zhang Yaoyang watched several border soldiers who ran away being thrown to the ground by the wild wolves, and let out a scream that was not like a human voice.

As soon as he was excited, he drew the saber at his waist.

Just as his hand touched the hilt of the sword, the two wild wolves under the belly of his war horse instantly pounced.

"Ahh Help me, save me..."

Two wolves, one biting his torch-holding hand, the other biting his hand holding the hilt of his sword.

Ye Bu glanced at Zhang Yaoyang, and stared at the wild wolf staring at him in the distance, he didn't save him at the first time, but slowly moved and retreated to safety.

Because he knew that if he went to save Zhang Yaoyang, he wouldn't survive. Nuwa Library

The team of more than 30,000 people stretches for many miles.

The wolves that came to attack were only a few hundred, and it was impossible to eat everyone in one go.

Under the organization of the wolf king, they attacked the head and tail and the middle of the team respectively.

Zhang Yaoyang was unlucky, they happened to be in the middle of the team.

If you don't leave at night, no one will be able to save Zhang Yaoyang.

Zhang Yaoyang was ruthless in his heart, he knew that if he didn't save himself, he would die in the hands of wolves today.

"Ahh Go to hell. ”

Zhang Yaoyang, who was in a desperate situation, opened his big mouth and bit the wolf in his hand.

At this time, the team was divided into several sections by the wolves.

The border soldiers in the head and tail and the middle have been dispersed, and the border soldiers in other parts know that something is wrong, so they lit the torches as soon as possible, lined up for the enemy, and looked nervously at the surrounding situation.

"What's going on?"

"What happened?"

"Do you see anything?"

"What's that? What the hell is it? ”

They were surrounded by blood, except for the severed limbs and stumps of the border soldiers.

These people are afraid.

Wild wolves come and go, their paws trampling on the snow

"Wolves, wolves."

A man with a mouthful of wolf hair and blood, and a broken left hand, limped towards the procession.

"Yo, isn't this Zhang Zongqi of Datong Right Guard, why did he become like this in the blink of an eye?"

Zhang Yaoyang actually survived from the trap of two wolves.

Since the two usually don't deal with each other, at this moment, the general banner of Datong Zuowei looked at the embarrassed Zhang Yaoyang and became sarcastic.

"It's a wolf, a dog."

Zhang Yaoyang pushed aside the crowd and came to the side of Datong Zuowei Zongqi, first sighed weakly, and suddenly burst into trouble.

Zhang Yaoyang bit the neck of Datong Zuowei Zongqi and pulled it hard, biting off his blood vessels.

"Hmph, it turns out that people are like wolves, and their necks are all weaknesses."

Zhang Yaoyang vomited a mouthful of blood.

The border soldiers of the left guard of Datong were frightened by him, and they all clenched their weapons and aimed them at him.

"You fools, this is the trick of the Shanxi General Army, he doesn't want to pay us at all, he wants to kill us with the hands of the wolves.

We've died so many brothers, can we swallow this breath?

Can you? ”

Zhang Yaoyang was crazy, he bit the general banner of Datong Zuowei and was not afraid at all, but began to bewitch them in the crowd.

"Let's pin our heads to the waistband of our trousers, kill Tartars, guard the border, and live a life of licking blood from the edge of the knife.

But what did the court do to us?

The court doesn't pay us salaries, so we have to ask for it.

If you come here, forget it, still calculate us, and want to kill us here.

Brothers, tell me, can you swallow this breath? ”

Lack of pay is the pain of all border soldiers, and Zhang Yaoyang moved them in a few words.

"Brothers, don't be afraid, there are many of us, and we will definitely be able to walk to Naturalization City alive.

But I have heard that the current naturalized city is rich in oil, where there are thousands of cattle, sheep, and horses, and where the silver is piled up into mountains.

Brothers, don't you want to beg for money?

Now take up the weapons in your hands and follow me to the city of naturalization to seek justice. ”

"Seek justice, seek justice."

"Seek justice, seek justice."

The border soldiers put away their weapons and no longer pursued Zhang Yaoyang for killing their general banner, but followed him to prepare to go to Wang Zezhi for justice.

This is because what the border soldiers said about seeking justice was just a reason, and their real purpose was to rob Guihua City.