Chapter Forty-Nine: The Army's Mind Changes (Seeking Collection)
It's been three days since he came to Chizhou, and Li Yu is sitting in his room, his brows furrowed deeply. Zhao'an's letter has been sent, but there is no movement.
Not to mention that there was no reply, not even the person who sent the letter did not come back.
originally thought that it was a safe thing, but it turned into a joke, which could not help but make Li Yu, who was full of confidence, shake his confidence a little.
Just as he was about to go out of the room to find Lu Jiang to discuss it again, the door was pushed open.
"Sixth Highness, the situation seems to be a little wrong, something has happened in the army." Tang Hong stepped in, looking a little anxious.
"What's wrong?" Li Yu frowned, stared at Tang Hong and asked.
"I went to the school just now and found that many sergeants were restless, as if someone was encouraging the army to mutiny." Tang Hong pondered for a while, and finally said what he thought in his heart.
"Does General Lu know about this?" Li Yu was stunned for a moment, and asked straight to the point.
"General Lu went out of the city to inspect, and he shouldn't know about this situation." Tang Hong took a sip of the tea handed over by Li Yu, and then finished speaking.
|“ Let's go, let's take a look. "Li Yu is well aware of the danger of a mutiny in the army.
As a team, if it is not united, it will inevitably cause trouble, and the most important thing is that once the team mutinies, it will greatly damage morale and have a far-reaching impact on the future march and battle.
On the other hand, it can be alluded to the level of an officer with troops.
If a commander is unable to command his own troops, he is an incompetent general, as the so-called general is incapable of exhausting thousands of troops.
Lu Jiang is a very good handsome talent, Li Yu knows this, but he doesn't know why such a thing is happening now, so he needs to see it for himself.
The school field is not too far from where Li Yu lives, and it is only two teas away from riding a horse.
When the horses came to the school yard, Li Yu turned over and dismounted, and at this moment he had already seen that the school yard was in chaos.
Some soldiers wanted to leave, but some of them did not allow them to leave, and the atmosphere was extremely tense for a while, and there was a big fight on the school ground.
"Tang Hong, go and beat the drum for me." Li Yu frowned and stepped onto the stage.
Tang Hong saw that His Royal Highness the Sixth had a majestic look, and he did not hesitate, and quickly walked to the big drum in the school field on the side, picked up the drumstick, and beat it violently towards the war drum.
The drums were pounding, and no one noticed them at first, but after a little longer, the drums intensified, first the people who were close to the drums were the first to keep silent, and then the others looked in the direction of the drums.
The drum rumbles, and when the war drum sounds, it indicates that something is going on, and the war drum is not beaten at random, how many hits, how many passes, are all clearly exquisite.
Nowadays, Tang Hong's drumming is based on the Jujiang drum as the standard, so each drum is extremely dense and loud.
Many sergeants had already looked intently at the general's platform at this moment, and saw a young man standing there, looking at the audience with sharp eyes.
People no longer quarreled, and there was no longer any movement, just looking at the young people on the stage, because some of them recognized Li Yu, the sixth highness of the current Southern Tang Dynasty.
Seeing that Tang Hong's drumming was effective, a smile appeared on Li Yu's lips, and then he waved his hand at Tang Hong, signaling him to stop fighting.
Tang Hong saw Li Yu waving his hand and immediately stopped beating the war drums.
Seeing that Tang Hong was no longer beating the drum, Li Yu hugged his fist at all the sergeants, "Brothers and soldiers, if you know me or not, I will report my name and life experience next." ”
Li Yu stood on the platform, although he felt that he was a little nondescript now, but he knew one thing, today's mutiny must be stopped.
"My name is Li Congjia, and I am the sixth son of today, some people call me His Royal Highness Sixth, you can also call me Sixth, Sixth Brother, or Sixth Brother, anyway, I am ranked sixth." Li Yu smiled at the soldiers below.
"I don't know what the brothers are leaving, and I don't know if you really want to mutiny, I just want to ask you, is your home in Nantang, are you my people in Nantang?" Li Yu raised his voice and shouted out such a sentence in his biggest voice.
At this moment, Li Yu really understood why human beings would use microphones.
Facing the scene of tens of thousands of people in the school field in front of him, there is no microphone that can be heard by everyone, he feels that it is really a regret, but also a kind of powerlessness.
However, most of Li Yu's words were still heard.
"Your Royal Highness Six, we are not mutinied, we are just not convinced, why does the imperial court not pay us food, we eat two soldiers, in order to protect the Southern Tang, but now we can't even supply our rations, why do we have to guard the Southern Tang Dynasty?" At this moment, a veteran in his forties stood up and shouted at Li Yu on the stage.
Li Yu frowned slightly, groaned slightly, and cast an inquiring look at the veteran, "The imperial court has food and salary, how can there be no military salary from you?" ”
"We haven't been paid for three months, and if this continues, we might as well go home and farm." At this moment, a young man in his twenties also stood up and shouted angrily.
"Yes, we also said the same, the court doesn't care about us, so what are we doing here?"
"That's it, it's better to go home, at least with the girls and the baby, it's better than being hungry here and having no food."
The soldiers began to talk again, this is a team of tens of thousands of people, more than half of them said this, and for a while, the school field was like a boiling pot, and it was chaotic again.
When Tang Hong saw this scene, he couldn't help beating the drum again, making the school field calm again.
Li Yu furrowed his brows.
Of course, Li Yu would not think that Lu Jiang would deduct military salaries, because Lu Jiang is a person who knows how to use soldiers very well, and he will never be mean to his soldiers and put their food and salary into his own pockets.
So, since it can't be Lu Jiang, who could it be, he was so bold as to deduct the army's salary.
Thinking in his heart, after there was no more chaos in the school field, he raised his voice and asked, "Which general in the army is the one who has not received the salary?" ”
"I'm a soldier under General Lu."
"I am a soldier under General Lee."
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For a while, the whole school was in chaos again, and they reported the names of their generals, and these people looked quite angry, it seemed that they were indeed because they had been deducted from their salaries, and they had great disgust with the court and the entire army.
Seeing such a situation, Li Yu's eyes shrank suddenly, and he had a hunch that these generals who withheld military salaries might have other plans, and it seemed that now these generals seemed to be hiding, and they had come to himself and Lu Jiang with an "empty city plan".