After defeating this group of rebels who seemed to be the most powerful, the next process of pacifying the rebels entered a kind of garbage time of fleeing from the wind and marching forward.

It is often as soon as the banner of the imperial camp army appears, those scattered soldiers who are busy robbing nearby villages and towns will go to the Shaolin salute or drill into the villages in despair. After being swept out again, it took some means.

Fortunately, they are still limited and obviously different from the locals in terms of skin color and appearance, and it is easy to search people out in the ditches, ridges, cattle sheds, and corrals.

In this way, I chased it all the way to the state city of Taiping Prefecture, located not far from Dangtu, on the edge of the Yangtze River, and only then did it slightly hinder. Because most of the local rebels are scattered into the urban neighborhoods, although the resistance to group resistance is small, it will take some effort and time to search and clear up.

At this time, we also benefited from encamping outside the city gates, and tortured and questioned the captives we had taken, so that there would be any unprovoked disturbances.

It's just that then, according to the successive confessions of these captives, the reason for this mutiny is very simple and speechless, but the reason behind it is complex and thought-provoking.

They were originally from the West Road, one of the three roads of Annan Province, and the plagiarism army stationed in the Tunbei Border of the Xixian Prefecture. Most of them were descendants of local naturalized and freed slaves, while the officers were mainly native to the nearby colonial towns.

Therefore, although it is called a feudal army, its equipment training is still higher than the basic level of most garrison troops, and it has always been known for its hardships and hard work, and it is very good at fighting in the mountains. Therefore, this time, there were about seven battalion heads, who were transported to Jiangnan by sea several times, and among them also had some kind of expectations and promises.

When they arrived at the port of Songjiang in Liangzhejiang, the battalions were attritional due to the hardships and illnesses of the sea. Therefore, the wounded and sick were left to recuperate on the spot, and the remaining troops were ordered to turn to the northwest and continue to march on foot to Gangdong Province. When they finally arrived at the Yangtze River, most of them were already exhausted and complaining.

The long journey coupled with the exhausting tossing and turning, so he was arranged in Taiping Prefecture and repaired for more than a month before he was able to barely recover. Because it was the first time to set foot in another territory of the country, the local requirements and restrictions on this foreign vassal army were very strict, and there were many contradictions.

But this is a trivial matter in normal times, as long as it can be pulled into the battlefield in time, the problem will naturally be solved.

However, as far as I know, at this time, some people in the DPRK and China raised the problem of adaptation and adaptability of these garrisons from overseas provinces, and advocated that these foreign troops should be stationed in the Jiangnan provinces, and that the local armies should turn to the north to attack the strategy, or support the central and western fronts, so that they can further exert their combat effectiveness. Then, after these guest troops have initially adapted to the local area, they will be used as reserve soldiers to supplement the sequence of going north.

At least this seems to be a lot foolproof, but the trivial things and the specific workload have suddenly increased a lot, but the opinion of the representative government hall in the base camp is obviously dissenting. Because this involves the rearrangement and large-scale adjustment of logistics supply and garrison distribution.

So the matter of whether they crossed the river to the north was delayed because of the dispute in the middle of the line. As a result, the efficiency of the logistics system has been affected, and there are even signs of chaos and disorder. Even the supplies here in Taiping Prefecture have become intermittent and unstable.

And the evil consequences of this accumulation suddenly erupted two days ago.

Because, the local plagiarism army routinely went to the state capital, and among the many ration food packages they received, they suddenly found that a large amount of moldy rice and old wheat were mixed in, so they endured a shortage for a period of time and they were not given to them in time, and they inevitably became restless when the battalion was agitated, and the crowd excitedly pleaded to the resident generals, and the chief officer of the battalion went out at this time.

The local governors and superintendents were forced to come out to give lectures, but because they couldn't explain clearly, they couldn't be satisfied, and they wanted to suppress the people with force, so as to suppress them, so after a short beating and blood, it turned into a large-scale riot.

Then the riot quickly spread from the soldiers who fled out of the camp to the other battalions, and it became that the imperial court wanted to cut off the supply of their vassal army, and use the moldy fodder that the cattle did not eat, to fool them with rumors and bad news.

Although these overseas feudal armies are known for their hardships and hard work, it does not mean that they can accept the humiliation of being treated as cattle, at least when they are stationed in Yanbian, it is not a problem to have a full stomach.

Then things became more and more out of control, and some long-complaining officers, led by some long-complaining officers, began to rush to the localities in droves, collecting food on the spot, and then, inevitably, in the spontaneous resistance of the local government, it turned into wanton looting and burning.

In the end, even the state city of Taiping Prefecture could not be kept and became a place where rebellious soldiers were raging. But after all, they were a disorderly blind movement that no one deliberately organized, and it was only after the love was vented that they remembered the severity and crisis of the commotion, and only then did they gather a considerable number of people under the summons of the highest-ranking officers to try to save themselves and find other ways out.

For example, after thwarting the crusade of the official army, they then hijacked the local government to talk to the imperial court in exchange for some kind of conditions and forgiveness. However, they didn't expect that this time the response from Jiangning was so fast, they hurriedly set up an ambush, and the crusading troops had already reached the territory of Taipingzhou.

They only had time to attack the follow-up infantry team halfway, but they were still defeated by these old troops who had participated in the Northern Expeditionary Army.

At this time, the horse team of the front army had already rushed to the outside of Dangtu City, and set up camp facing the three gates respectively, blocking the further flow of most of the chaotic army.

When the infantry team arrived one after another, and then marched into the city, the rest of the rebel army in the city reacted and found that they had become a turtle in the urn, but it was too late.

As a result, many of the scattered rebels were all taken prisoner in the city's homes before they even had time to gather to resist the news, or they were shown to the public in the stubborn resistance.

This also proves once again that the armed forces without ideas and pursuits, without medium- and long-term goals and plans, no matter how well-equipped and well-trained, are nothing more than a group of rabbles that rise and fall.

However, in just one day of turmoil, the damage and damage they caused in Taiping Prefecture has far exceeded the local wealth for more than ten years, and the local official and private savings have also been swept away or burned, and the agriculture in the grain-producing area has been completely wasted, leaving only a large number of local people who lack food and clothing, and need relief from the imperial court.

Despite this, there were still a small number of rebels who had fled from the west and north to the outer states. As a result, a team of horses from the former army was in pursuit and searching.

As the other side of the matter, it is the commander of the Chinese army and the commander of the front line of the division of the Dao, and suddenly took action on the charge of escaping from the battle and neglecting his duties, and arrested and took it down on the spot.

The follow-up instructions from the Jiangning side did not make us collect our troops and return from then on, but gave rare stern instructions: "Eliminate all evils and set an example", "Sweep up the nearest place with all the troops in the imperial camp, and do not let the remnants of the party poison the place", "Dispatch by the assistant department to pursue the local stakeholders, etc.", "Those who dare to disobey orders and pass the buck must not be slacking off in terms ......of military law"

Therefore, from these stern and abnormal instructions, even if I am in a foreign state and temporarily stay out of most things, I can also feel that there is obviously a political storm of no small scale that is being formed in the court of Jiangning.

Then, what happened in the next few days was both expected by me and quickly out of my expectations.

Qin Dingji, the superintendent of the army in the base camp, suddenly openly impeached Zhu Shiguang, the head of the household department, Wu Youliang, the ambassador of the southeast water and land transportation, and more than a dozen people under Cen Guang, the commander of the navy, formed a party for personal gain, and corrupted the state and many other illegal acts, please criticize it as collaborating with the enemy and treason.

This is undoubtedly like a big ice cube thrown into a pan of oil, which suddenly set off a splash of criticism and an uproar.

For example, Zhu Shiguang is the son-in-law of one of the elders of the Beiren Party, and Wu Youliang is the former third envoy and the chief protégé of Li Chong, the prince of Shen County.

With the heinous accusations and evidence, to the efficient excavation and the first to come out, another pile of piles to implement the specific head. But it is hard to imagine that the Beiren Party, which was once determined to forge ahead and promote the recovery of the Central Plains, has degenerated and corrupted in the south of the Yangtze River, to the point of being like this.

Obviously, after preliminary consideration, the Jianguo resolutely took advantage of this opportunity to launch a new round of crackdown and suppression measures against the Beiren Party, which had actually suffered the least and benefited the most after the defeat of the Northern Expedition. After all, many of these premeditated charges do not seem to have been newly collected, and can even be traced back to the preparation period before the Northern Expedition.

I can imagine that in the dark, there are already countless people running up and down, trying to take advantage of this situation to realize their selfish desires and demands.

But on the other hand, as the head of the southeast line of Sining, who also has a close relationship with the Beiren Party, my cheap brother-in-law who presided over the war at the front of the war has rarely maintained a certain silence and silence.

He did not take the initiative to attach himself to the actions of the prisoner, nor did he rush back to the rear to ask for an audience to try to redeem himself or do something. Even in terms of supervising the country, he was indifferent to this, and he did not issue an edict to appease or comfort him, this important minister of Fang Zhen, who was in charge of the frontier.

The weirdness and depression in it, even if I learned it indirectly through the channel of Guò Xie Mingxian, I can still feel it more clearly.

It's just that neither the Fifth Ping nor the Lu Wuguan are by my side, and they don't provide me with enough weight to judge and build. I'm also on the sidelines, and I can't get involved or meddle in anything.

Or is this one of the expectations of some people? Being in the army, I have nothing to do, and I even think the same thing.

Fortunately, most of the 500 people who were planned to be sent to the north for training had already been sent to my command and temporarily organized into a large group, which could be regarded as some kind of prior familiarization and running-in. In this way, my daily life in the army will not be too monotonous and boring.

Then, while holding the chicken feathers and arrows given by the imperial court, I thought of ways to toss and train these specially selected people, and occasionally taught some or their tactical foundations and basic principles to whet my appetite, so as to discover a few talents such as Yao Pingzhong, or the seedlings of objects worthy of attraction and investment.

On the other hand, he is slowly waiting for the dust to settle on the Jiangning side, and then be a good comrade who "resolutely supports whoever is in the Party Central Committee".