Chapter 351: False Report to the Soldiers of the Prancing Horse Town

There is no airtight wall in the world, not to mention that last night's Mi Yang glass of wine to release military power was done in public.

Perhaps under Mi Yang's behavior last night, the commanders and colonels of Liangzhou Central School have handed over their military powers, but it has always been a tradition for generals to let their cronies take charge of the troops.

Therefore, after a night of fermentation, in the early morning of this day, the middle-level generals and colonels of the Han army camp outside the city, who were close to the main generals of all parties, learned about this incident.

When this incident spread in the Han army camp, it instantly caused a lot of waves in the Han army camp.

If Mi Yang only collects the military power of the generals, with his prestige and his dominance, this matter will not cause much commotion.

Because it doesn't hurt their interests.

However, a group of middle-level generals learned from their chief generals that the reason why Mi Yang wanted to collect all the military power was to refine the army.

When a group of middle-level generals and colonels in the Han army camp learned about this, some of them immediately became like poisonous snakes that had been caught seven inches, and their hearts began to be afraid.

Everyone knows that if Mi Yang wants to refine the army, the first step he has to do is to take back the military power, and the second step must be to sort out the actual situation of the soldiers in each battalion.

And it is precisely this that scares that part of the colonels the most.

Because in the past days, this part of the generals and colonels had the behavior of falsely reporting the number of soldiers and eating empty salaries.

False reporting of soldiers and empty salaries is a chronic disease that cannot be eliminated for a long time in the ancient army, and this phenomenon is not to say that it is in the Han Dynasty, but also in the armies of the other two families.

There is no one who does not abhor this phenomenon.

This is because if this phenomenon is not curbed, it will not only seriously affect the combat effectiveness of the army, but also greatly increase the financial burden of the state.

However, from the pre-Qin period to the present, and even in the thousands of years of later generations, this phenomenon has not been cured.

The root cause of this is that this kind of behavior is an important way for some generals to seek benefits for themselves.

Compared with killing the enemy on the battlefield, it is faster and safer to obtain benefits by falsely reporting the number of soldiers and eating empty salaries, how can this not make some generals rush to it?

But the generals who did so knew that their behavior was strictly forbidden by military orders.

So after learning of Mi Yang's intentions, some of the generals in the camp began to get nervous.

The strictness of Miyang's military law is known to the whole world.

If Mi Yang learns of their empty salary, then their best fate will be to be removed from the military, and they will even be beheaded by Mi Yang to show the public.

Driven by fear in their hearts, some generals and colonels with ghosts in their hearts began to spread a rumor in the Han army camp.

This rumor is about Mi Yang's intention to completely eliminate the tens of thousands of troops that originally belonged to Hanzhong County, and then use the large amount of grain and grass saved to feed his descendants' army.

This kind of rumor undoubtedly misinterprets Mi Yang's original intention, and even if you scrutinize it carefully, there are still many loopholes.

But what are the rumors, which ones can stand up to scrutiny.

But as long as it is spread well, then the lethality of rumors is very great.

Tens of thousands of Han soldiers were almost all illiterate peasants, and many of them had no opinions of their own.

In addition, it was their superiors who spread this rumor, so this rumor spread in the Han army camp at a very fast speed.

When this rumor slowly fermented in the Han army camp, it immediately caused panic among many Han soldiers.

In troubled times, everyone is in danger, and in this situation, many people join the army, in order to have a fixed place to survive.

Now under the influence of rumors, many Han soldiers think that Mi Yang wants to cut them all out and let them fend for themselves, which is absolutely unacceptable to them.

Fortunately, Mi Yang's current prestige is enough to have a powerful deterrent effect, and there are still a large number of generals and colonels in the Han army camp who are not involved in this conspiracy.

Therefore, the Han army camp did not immediately have a camp roar, which was something that anyone in charge of the army feared.

It's just that as time goes by, once more and more Han soldiers believe this rumor, then even if there is no such thing as a camp roar in the Han army's camp, it will definitely cause a mutiny.

And this is exactly the result that some of the generals with ghosts are looking forward to.

In their hearts, they didn't want to rebel against Mi Yang.

They just wanted to spread rumors to cause unrest in the Han army's camp, and then use this to force Mi Yang to give up his plan to check the soldiers of each battalion.

Therefore, when they saw the situation in the Han army camp and slowly developed towards their expectations, they were secretly happy in their hearts.

But what they didn't know was that outside the Han army camp, a part of the elite soldiers was rapidly approaching here.

This part of the elite soldiers was led by Wei Yan and other generals.

The establishment of the Han army camp outside Nanzheng was used to defend Nanzheng City at the beginning, so the Han army camp was not far from Nanzheng City.

In addition, Wei Yan and other generals were anxious, so they came to the Han army camp only half an hour later.

When Wei Yan came to the outside of the Han army camp, he immediately discovered something unusual.

The military camp in front of him, which covers a large area, was built by him when he was the governor of Hanzhong.

After the construction of this barracks, in order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army, he once issued a strict order that the non-commissioned officers in the camp should start training at dawn on the fifth day of every month.

Today is the day when tens of thousands of Han soldiers in the Han army camp start training.

Now the sun in the sky has hung high, but in the large camp with tens of thousands of Han troops, there is no shouting of any training, which is very suspicious.

In this case, there are only two possibilities.

One possibility is that Wu Yi later canceled the training system he had set, but Wu Yi was also a soldier who knew the army, and there was no reason why he would do so.

Then there is only one possibility.

An accident was brewing in the Han army's camp, which prevented tens of thousands of troops from successfully training.

After realizing this, Wei Yan immediately informed Ding Feng and the others beside him of this guess in his heart.

And Ding Feng and the others all had heavy looks on their faces after knowing Wei Yan's guess.

As Lu Yi said, Wei Yan knew the army of Hanzhong best.

Therefore, when Wei Yan said this kind of speculation, Ding Feng and others believed this speculation about Wei Yan in their hearts.

Ding Feng and the others looked at the thousands of elite soldiers brought behind them, and thought that there might be an accident brewing in the camp in front of them, among them, Fu Yan took the lead in suggesting to Wei Yan:

"If, as the general said, there is already unrest in the camp, then it is useless for us to go there now.

I can quickly return to Nanzheng to report the matter to the state pastor, and wait for the state pastor to make a decision. ”

After the end of the Xiangfan War, Fu Wei cheekily took the initiative to visit Mi Yang and seek a military position for his son Fu Yan.

Mi Yang, who knew history, had a good impression of Fu Wei and Fu Wei, and he readily agreed to Fu Wei's request.

Fu Yan is now the Sima of the other department directly under the command of Mi Yang.

Fu Wei has been taken by Fu Wei to exercise since he was a child, and he has been influenced by Fu Wei, and his personality has a calmness that does not match his peers.

In addition, Fu Yan had seen turmoil in the military camp, which was extremely dangerous for anyone.

So he will make such a proposal.

But after Wei Yan listened to Fu Yan's suggestion, he shook his head decisively.

Compared with Fu Yan, Wei Yan, who climbed up step by step from the bottom, is very experienced.

He carefully observed the periphery of the Han army camp with a pair of tiger eyes, and he saw that the outer defense measures of the Han army camp were still very complete.

Coupled with the fact that there was no loud shouting of killing in the camp, he quickly came to a conclusion.

He raised the horsewhip in his hand and pointed to the Han army camp in front of him and said:

"I don't think the situation in the camp is too bad now, otherwise if there were a large number of rebels in the barracks, the camp would not be so quiet, and the gate of the camp would have been destroyed by the rebels."

"And though I suspect that there may be some unrest in the camp, I believe that most of the soldiers in the camp are reluctant to rebel.

It's just that they must be undecided now, and they should take advantage of their hesitation to hurry up and pacify.

"What's more, the governor sent me and others to come, didn't he imagine in advance that there would be some turmoil in the camp, so let us solve it?

If we go outside the camp and ask the state pastor for everything, not to mention the big things, what else does the state pastor want our subordinates to do?

If I can't put down the rebellion, or if I'm in trouble, then I'm doing my duty! ”

After saying this, Wei Yan resolutely slapped his horse and continued to approach the Han army camp.

Wei Yan's bold words and his indomitable actions greatly inspired Ding Feng and the others behind him.

Ding Feng and other generals were originally bold, and even Fu Yan would only suggest such a suggestion to Wei Yan out of prudence, which did not mean that he was timid.

Therefore, encouraged by Wei Yan's words and actions, Ding Feng and the others immediately led more than a thousand Han troops behind them and followed closely behind Wei Yan.

Soon after, Wei Yan had already ridden his horse to the outer antlers of the Han army's camp, and when he arrived here, there were soldiers on the barracks outside the Han army's camp to stop him from continuing his advance.

Blocked by the arrows, Wei Yan stopped the horse's hooves.

After Wei Yan stopped, an inquiry came from the barracks more than ten steps in front of him.

When he heard the inquiring voice asking for proof of identity, Wei Yan took out the document that Mi Yang gave him in his arms.

On the other hand, he reached out and took off the helmet on his head, revealing his appearance to the eyes of the soldiers on the barracks.

Wei Yan came from a humble background, so although he did not get along with most of his colleagues, he was very good to the ordinary soldiers under his command.

Wei Yan did not serve as the governor of Hanzhong for a long time, but in just a few years, he had absolutely no low prestige in the army of Hanzhong with his style of loving nurses.

The most important thing is that of the tens of thousands of troops in Hanzhong, many people have seen Wei Yan.

So when the Han soldiers on the upper floor of the camp saw Wei Yan's appearance, their minds immediately came to mind the things that Wei Yan loved and cared for them in the past.

"It's Du, it's the former governor who is back!"

Soon, this kind of joy resounded on the barracks of the Han army.

After hearing these voices, a smile appeared on Wei Yan's face.

He held up the documents in his hand and shouted to the soldiers on the barracks: "On the order of the state pastor, Yanlai is in charge of the army in the camp, and you don't want to open the door quickly!" ”

When Wei Yan's shout reached the camp tower, the soldiers led by Ding Feng and others also came behind Wei Yan.

Among the thousands of Han troops standing in rows behind Wei Yan, there was a guard of honor dedicated to Mi Yang who was tied up high.

Champion Hou, Liang Zhoumu, General Zuo, and each of Mi Yang's positions have their own honor guards.

And when so many honor guards representing prominent power appeared in the eyes of the soldiers on the barracks, their gaze towards Wei Yan became more and more awe-inspiring.

The guard of honor is here, just like Mi Yang coming in person.

This is Mi Yang's worry about the turmoil in the camp and an insurance policy for Wei Yanshang.

Now this insurance has worked very quickly.

After seeing this scene, although the Han army on the camp was also affected by the rumors in the camp and had other thoughts in their hearts, they quickly replied to Wei Yan's words with actions.

A moment later, the camp gate, which was originally closed to Wei Yan and his party, was opened to Wei Yan and the others with the joint efforts of the soldiers on the camp floor.

As soon as the camp gate opened, Wei Yan couldn't wait to lead the thousands of people behind him and rushed into the camp gate.

As time passed, the unrest at the center of the camp was becoming more and more uncontrollable.

More and more soldiers gathered in the school grounds under the influence of rumors.

They were supposed to train today, and they all carried weapons with them.

And above the sloppy soldiers, there are still many generals with evil intentions who are spreading rumors.

"The governor is wise, and he is only deceived by the villain to give such orders."

"We have been in the army for many years, if one day we are disarmed and return to the field, where will we go?"

"In order not to let the state pastor be blinded, and for the sake of our future, we cannot sit idly by."

"We might as well rush out of the camp and go to the outside of Nanzheng City to cry to the state pastor, and let the state minister make the decision for us."

The demagogic words spread among the many soldiers, which soon affected the hearts of many soldiers.

Those generals are still smart, they didn't directly say that they should let the soldiers raise troops against Mi Yang, otherwise, with Mi Yang's prestige, I am afraid that more than half of the soldiers present will disperse in an instant.

These words can not only prevent the many soldiers from disperse, but also greatly encourage their rebellion.

Under the demagoguery of those generals, there were indeed many soldiers who began to be eager to try.

Of course, as Wei Yan said, most of the soldiers present have not been bewitched by those generals for a short time, but as time goes by, it is impossible to say.

The people present were not only non-commissioned officers, but also many generals and colonels who did not participate in the demagogy.

After the majority of the generals noticed this, their faces were full of anxiety.

It's just that because the two sides are of equal rank, and the other party's words are obviously more demagoguery, they can't do anything for a while.

Just as the situation in the school yard was becoming more and more dangerous, a hurried sound of horses' hooves sounded around the school yard.

Not long after, Wei Yan, who was sitting on a tall horse, jumped on his horse and appeared in the eyes of everyone on the periphery of the school field.

When they saw Wei Yan's appearance, many soldiers showed joy on their faces, and the crowd began to riot involuntarily.

And their governors returned.

And after Wei Yan came to the school and heard those ridiculous words, he angrily pointed at the generals who were spreading demagogic words on the high platform with a horsewhip, and shouted at them:

"The villain in your mouth, do you mean me Wei Yan!"

Wei Yan's voice was like a bell, and the angry rebuke he made with all his strength quickly spread all around.

At the same time, his rough face also revealed a devouring look like a tiger and a leopard!

Wei Yan's sudden appearance and his current angry demeanor immediately frightened those ill-intentioned generals.

(End of chapter)