"Speaking of this, I want to ask, it is rumored that the original right guard of the Central Army no longer exists, how did you survive and keep more than 80,000 soldiers and horses?"

"This starts with the turmoil in the Central Army more than a year ago. Ding Xiaolong sighed and told about this unbearable past.

More than a year ago, in the cold winter of Layue, when Hang Xiao's father Hang Lu was still in power, due to the deficit of the treasury of the Rui State year after year, hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers of the Central Army were owed military salaries for several years. Ding Long, the commander of the Central Army at the time, negotiated with Zhao Rong, the commander of the former Emperor Hanglu and the Internal Affairs Department, many times, saying that he had to find a way to solve the current urgent need no matter what.

The quarrel is over, and things are just beginning. When Ding Long left the palace to appease the mood of the guards of the Central Army, Zhao Rong gathered the henchmen of the DPRK and China and insisted that Ding Long deliberately stirred up the dissatisfaction of the Central Army regardless of the overall situation and the danger of the country. Suspicious of dark ghosts, Hang Lu didn't think about this matter every day, and was very worried that if the matter was not resolved, hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Central Army would collectively make trouble, and Zhao Rong and they were buzzing in their ears every day, which made Hang Lu even more upset.

At this juncture, the Ruiguo Intelligence Office received news that the Emperor of the Long Kingdom, Murong Kuo, had mobilized 400,000 troops to commit the Juling Pass, which was expected to arrive around Chinese New Year's Eve. Hang Lu hurriedly convened the civil and military generals to discuss the matter of galloping to the aid of Juling Pass, and Ding Long said that there was great dissatisfaction within the central army, and he must stay to appease the troops to avoid the situation from continuing to deteriorate.

Zhao Rong and others immediately besieged Ding Long, saying that Ding Long ignored external troubles in a vain attempt to stir up internal troubles, so a court discussion turned into a fierce quarrel. Ding Long said that if the problems within the Central Army cannot be quickly resolved. It is really possible that things will cause internal and external troubles, after all, Long Guo chose to attack at this time, and it is estimated that he has heard some rumors. When Zhao Rong and others heard this, they angrily accused Ding Long of using external troubles to blackmail the saint, and some also said that Ding Long was a spy of Long Guo, first stirred up dissatisfaction within the Central Army, and then released a rumor to Long Guo, so that Long Guo would attack at this juncture. The two sides quarreled so much that Hang Luzhong was shocked and angry when he heard it, and immediately ordered Ding Long to be sent to the prison pending trial, and then ordered Chen Ruoping to lead the left and right guards of the Central Army to rush to the aid of Juling Pass.

Word spread out of the palace. Hundreds of thousands of officers and men of the Central Army were in an uproar, and in this unstable atmosphere, Chen Ruoping led the ten cavalry battalions of the left guard to march from the garrison to Juling Pass, and the ten cavalry battalions of the right guard of the Central Army also began to pull out the camp one after another. Since the right guard was not the unit directly commanded by Chen Ruoping, the connection was not as fast as the left guard, and the left guard walked for five or six days before the right guard began to set off. In this superficial calm, the generals of the Central Army's avant-garde, central guard, and right guard collectively conspired to discuss a plan, and the ten cavalry battalions of the right guard of the Central Army, which had just been drawn out of the camp, turned their horses and plunged towards the capital. The Ruiguo Intelligence Department noticed the situation and quickly reported it to Hanglu, so that Hanglu could urgently deal with the mutiny. Hang Lu urgently ordered the central guard of the Central Army to guard the city gate and not let the right guard come in, and at the same time ordered the central army avant-garde guard to rush to the aid of the Beijing Division.

As a result, the things that followed were even more lively, the right guard of the Central Army came to the city, and the brothers of the central guard opened the city gate without saying a word. Together with the soldiers and horses of the right guard, they first smashed the prison of the Criminal Department and rescued their commander Ding Long, and then slaughtered towards the palace, and Hang Lu must give an explanation. More than 200,000 troops of the Central Army gathered in the capital at once, and surrounded the palace guarded by 120,000 forest guards.

At this time, Zhao Rong had already heard the wind and hid in the palace. kept chanting in Hang Lu's ears that Ding Long was indeed a thief, Hang Lu was angry and anxious, and could only wait for the arrival of the soldiers and horses of the front and rear guards of the Central Army. Cooperate with the palace's Yulin Weili to quell the rebellion. As a result, the vanguard of the Central Army came, and after coming, they joined forces with the right guard of the Central Army, and the Central Army in the city suddenly surged to more than 300,000. There were only six battalions of cavalry in the rearguard, and it was a complete fool's dream to rely on these six battalions to attack the capital guarded by more than 300,000 central troops, and the six battalions of the rearguard of the central army had no choice but to set up camp more than 10 miles away from the capital and wait for the infantry to arrive and wait for the situation to develop further.

Seeing that the situation was out of control, Hang Lu had no choice but to negotiate with the Central Army besieging the palace, saying that he would order the Internal Affairs Department to urgently allocate money, so that everyone could receive the arrears of military pay and send it home for a good New Year. Everyone was not so easy to fool, and they all said that with a corrupt official like Zhao Rong in charge of the Internal Affairs Department, the treasury could only be empty year after year, and the military salary or something was completely a fool's dream. Now that the matter has reached this point, Zhao Rong must be beheaded by raiding his house, and the gold and silver collected must be converted into military salaries and distributed to everyone urgently. Zhao Rong'er heard the shouting and killing sound on the side of Qingjun, and immediately frightened his farts and urine, and kowtowed to Hang Lu again and again to beg for mercy, saying that he was loyal to the monarch and the country, and he was willing to take out all his family property to solve his urgent needs, but begged Hang Lu to spare his life.

At that time, the New Year was approaching, and in a few days it was Chinese New Year's Eve, but the capital, which should have been full of flavor, was in chaos, and the people in the capital did not dare to go out on the streets with their doors closed and their windows closed, and rumors were still circulating in many places that sergeants were killing people and stealing things indiscriminately. While dealing with the generals of the Central Army besieging the palace, Hang Lu secretly dispatched troops through the network of the intelligence department. After some superficial maneuvers, especially the seizure of Zhao Rong's family property, and the copying out of a lot of gold and silver treasures, and then everyone saw that the emperor was really moving, and the silver would soon be available, and many people finally breathed a sigh of relief.

On the afternoon of Chinese New Year's Eve, the palace sent some fine wine and food and other rewards, saying that military salaries were being raised, so that everyone could spend the New Year in peace first. Everyone is still very cautious, and they used various methods to test that there is no poison before they start to eat it with confidence.

On the evening of Chinese New Year's Eve, Ding Long was discussing with his righteous son Ding Xiaolong, his righteous daughter Ding Xiaofeng, and some senior generals of the Central Army about how things would end. According to their speculation, Hang Lu has a hard and stern temperament, and he will definitely not give up when such a big thing happens, even if the law does not blame the public for letting go of hundreds of thousands of ordinary sergeants, the officers and generals who take the lead are very likely to suffer, so many things need to be prepared in advance. While everyone was discussing, Ding Long suddenly heard a movement near the camp, so the generals went out to inspect one after another, but they found nothing.

When I woke up, it was already the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the palace sent a lot of food and wine as usual, out of caution, everyone still began to eat and drink with confidence after testing the poison, and it was not until the morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year that many people found out that they were inexplicably poisoned. The symptom of poisoning is diarrhea, and more than 200,000 people are all weak in their hands and feet, not to mention getting on the horse, and even getting into bed is difficult. Ding Long waited for some generals to come over to report the situation on the right guard, but he didn't wait for one of them, so he felt that something was wrong, so he hurriedly sent someone to check, and at the same time asked the right guard to prepare for a breakthrough. The scouts who had been sent out soon came back to report that there were a large number of gendarmes and Yulin guards in the camp of the other guards, but the men and horses of the other guards did not know what they were doing, and not even a single sentry could be seen.

"That's weird, how did those people get poisoned? Could it be that the water source is poisonous?" Mo Cong thought to himself that the food had been tried repeatedly and was not poisonous, so it should be a problem with the water source of the camp.

"Your Excellency's expectation is good, but later we learned that the soldiers and horses of the entire gendarmerie system were secretly transferred back in a few days, and 400,000 gendarmerie troops gathered inside and outside the capital for a while, plus a total of more than 500,000 Yulinwei, if you add the central army rear guard and some local army troops outside the city, the total strength is close to one million, Hang Lu is determined to deal with this mutiny hard. And the reason why the central guard and the avant-garde people were poisoned was that Hang Lu spent a whole day poisoning the water source of the Central Army camp on Chinese New Year's Eve, and the reason why the right guard of the Central Army escaped was because my righteous father had a good ear, and Hang Lu had just approached the camp when he heard the movement. Ding Xiaolong said with a sigh.

"So that's the case, then you only have a total of ten cavalry battalions, how did you break through the blockade of nearly a million people?" Mo Cong asked.

Ding Xiaolong and the others briefly talked about the situation at that time.

Ding Long found that the situation was different at that time, and immediately made a decision, ordering the right guard to quickly pull out the camp and rush out of the capital from the two city gates of the west gate and the north gate. 100,000 horsemen rushed to the north gate of the west gate in two ways, but found that the guards on the city gate had changed from the central guard to the military police unit, but the military police force seemed to have just taken over the city defense, and the troops had not yet been fully arranged. For a time, crossbow arrows flew everywhere on the city wall outside the city, and before the military police troops had time to go up the city wall, the soldiers and horses on the city wall attacked the right guard of the central army who was leaving the city from both sides, trying to stop and cut off. The unobstructed right guard was attacked overhead and on both flanks, and for a time suffered heavy casualties.

At this time, a strange wind suddenly blew in the sky, and the stone throwing machine on the city wall was sparsely rotten, and a lot of sawdust and gravel were swept by the wind and smashed towards the military police troops in the city, and many people were blown down by the wind and fell off the city wall. The pressure on the right guard was light, the heavy cavalry guarded both sides, and the light cavalry rushed forward in the center, rushing out along the two city gates, and all of them withdrew from the capital in more than half an hour. (To be continued......)