Chapter 693: Dispute
With each officer returned, Turshan's face darkened a little.
There was little good news, and most of the officers were ignorant of what was happening in the camp, and they were more alarmed than the soldiers when their own orders were ignored.
This kind of thing should not happen and cannot happen, in Beiting military orders are as heavy as a mountain, and the close service army is a model of strict military discipline, in the face of such open disobedience, the officers have nothing to do, and they can't think of any experience that can be used for reference.
Turshan looked at the aristocratic officers who had swarmed back, and felt disgusted, but he had to listen to their reports.
"The soldiers went crazy and refused to carry out the order. ”
"Running around and not knowing what to do. ”
"King Yao's soldiers were almost killed. ”
"I saw with my own eyes that a centurion was killed, and he clashed with soldiers......"
"The 100,000th Army...... I don't know where to go. ”
Only a few officers were flexible, and when they found that most of the soldiers did not obey the order to "stay put," they immediately summoned the obedient soldiers to gather at the main tent.
Turshan realized that he had made a mistake, if he had ordered the soldiers to assemble at the beginning, there might have been a little more people coming, but now there were only a thousand people, and in front of him, there were still soldiers who changed their minds and turned to join the out-of-control crowd.
He felt a hint of fear, almost all the officers gathered around him were nobles, and there were not many officers from the ranks of soldiers, and it was even rarer at this time, and most of them joined the soldiers.
Why was there no warning of such a great and obvious split? Why did no one report to him? Wasn't he the general who was most loved and respected by ordinary soldiers?
In the face of fear, Tu Ershan's instinctive reaction was to meet him, so he laughed a few times, turned to several princes and said: "It seems that someone doesn't want me to be a captain, I don't care, it's a big deal to go home and herd sheep, but my temper is strong, and I look down on the villain who puts the secret arrow, so I have to pull him out." ”
The princes have their own thoughts, they have not yet felt the danger, and like the Shadow King, the first thing they see is an opportunity.
At this point, there was no need to disguise their relationship with each other, and the king of the Holy Sayings stood side by side with the Turshan, and first said to the kings: "Don't think that a small mutiny can turn things around, for the Turshan is the result of all the officers' choice." ”
Then the king turned to the group of officers, "This is your captain, does anyone have an opinion?"
A cold voice came from the crowd, "I heard that there is an extra piece of blood sheepskin, is it true?"
"Lies!" said the Holy King, in no uncertain terms.
A young prince interjected inappropriately and said, "But this is indeed true, let's count the blood sheepskins." ”
King Yao's accusations did not disappear because of his assassination, but the impact was even greater.
Victory was slipping through his fingers, the Holy King had to do something, he did not respond to everyone's questions, but suddenly said loudly: "Dragon King, it is the Dragon King who is a ghost, he planned a conspiracy in the camp, and as soon as the mutiny happened, he ran away, and dragged the Shadow King, the Shadow King is the mastermind, everyone has seen it." ”
The panic is getting stronger and stronger, and any accusation, as long as no party comes forward to refute it, will almost be accepted by everyone, and the transfer strategy of the Holy King is almost successful.
"Who said we ran away?" "The Shadow King squeezed out of the group of officers, sweating profusely, but his expression was extremely calm, "Saint King, you are an elder, there is not much left of the older generation of princes, you have to be responsible for what you say." ”
The Holy King's face turned red, but he refused to admit his mistake, "What about the Dragon King, where are you hiding to engage in conspiracy?"
"I'm here. Gu Shenwei said in the crowd, "I'm engaging in a person's 'conspiracy'." ”
Someone laughed, the accusation of the Holy King was not rigorous in the first place, and no one believed it at this time, Azheba said what most people thought, "The Dragon King is a foreigner, how can he instigate soldiers to disobey?"
The king of the saint said that he still wanted to speak, but Tuershan stopped him, he was the captain of the close army, and he encountered this kind of thing on the first day of his tenure, he had to rely on himself to turn the tide, "No matter who is doing the ghost first, he will definitely find out in the future, the top priority is to stabilize the morale of the army, who can tell me, what is going on with his grandmother? What do the soldiers want? Who do they want to kill?"
The officers could not answer the question, and the few soldiers who had been ordered to arrive looked so frightened that they could not speak at all.
The Shadow King coughed, stood in front of the Saint King, and said to the crowd instead of Turshan: "I have already investigated, this is not an ordinary mutiny, there is no need to bother looking for the commander, because the commander does not exist at all, if there must be one, it is the old Khan King and the former Grand Captain." ”
The two dead men, the half-joking words of the Shadow King startled everyone, and dozens of soldiers even knelt down on the spot, bowed their heads and whispered prayers.
"The soldiers are dissatisfied. The Shadow King said loudly, knowing that his every word was important, "They are dissatisfied with the fact that the body of the old Khan has not been properly buried so far, they are dissatisfied with the inexplicable assassination of the Grand Captain, they are dissatisfied with the cold attitude of the close servants towards the assassination, in a word, they are dissatisfied with everyone." ”
The audience was silent, only the sound of fighting in the distance was heard, and the Shadow King pointed to the place where the killing took place, "Tosai's silver-armored army is about to be wiped out, once the soldiers kill the red eye, no one can control it, I suggest that all the officers return to their teams immediately and ask the soldiers about their wishes, all the kings are here, and they will be able to give a reply immediately." ”
Nearly a thousand officers were talking to each other, the Shadow King's suggestion was a bit dangerous, and now the soldiers in the battalion were no longer the obedient ones they were familiar with, but a group of silent disobedient ones, and returning to their own team meant scattering, and the result of dispersion could be broken by each one.
The person who feels the danger the most is Tuershan, there is no position of the new Grand Lieutenant in the suggestion of the Shadow King, he smells the challenge and the smell of **, so he glanced at the Saint King beside him, and also said loudly: "Don't panic, who else knows the close servants better than us? They are all prairie men, who will bury their dissatisfaction in their hearts? They must have been provoked, let them kill people first, and I will personally go into the middle of the brothers later, find out the provocateurs, and everyone will wake up and obey the order again." ”
The Shadow King and Turshan had a public argument.
Gu Shenwei stood in the crowd and listened quietly, the Shadow King's words were conclusive, the information he had was actually pitiful, most of it was speculation, but it could be very accurate, based on his observations, the soldiers' behavior was more like spontaneous than someone directed, although the actions seemed to be orderly, more like an instinctive reaction to strict training.
He remembered that General Zuo Duguxian said that the Beiting army was not the same as the Central Plains and the Western Regions, the soldiers had been hunting on horseback since childhood, and military training had begun since then, and everyone knew the duties and positions, and the commander only provided the direction of travel, and the specific tactics had long been engraved in the hearts of every soldier.
But Turshan's guess was probably correct, it was one thing for the army to be unstable, but it was another thing to transform into the unanimous disobedience of the whole battalion, and it was hard to imagine that no one among them was indulging.
Gu Shenwei slowly moved among the officers, and found that there would be more people supporting the Turshan, he was the new Grand Lieutenant, he was familiar with the officers, and most importantly, his plan did not seem to require the officers to take risks.
The latter believes that the former is the mastermind of the mutiny, and presents one piece of evidence after another, and even hints that the other party is related to the death of the former Grand Captain, "Since you became the Shadow King, you have been trying your best to curry favor with the Grand Lieutenant these days, and you have to come to the military camp almost every day, what is your intention?"
Turshan was fat, and when she got angry, she seemed to have gained weight again, and her words were full of weight.
The Shadow King was not an easily provoked person, but he was never timid, and he was waiting for Turshan to bring up the topic, "Do you also know that the Grand Captain died in an unknown manner? yes, why did he go out at night for no reason, with only five guards with him?"
"Of course, there is someone who instigates the Grand Lieutenant to do this, and then leaks the news, and this person must have won the trust of the Grand Lieutenant. Turshan looked at the Shadow King with disdain, and convicted the other with a look rather than a word.
The Shadow King felt that the time had come, and pulled out a folded note from his wrist armor, which was the evidence given to him by the Dragon King, which was enough to completely defeat the fat man in front of him, "This is the last order of the Grand Lieutenant before his death......"
"Revenge!" someone shouted, and then the three soldiers drew their swords and rushed towards the Shadow King.
Gu Shenwei had been pacing slowly in the crowd, keeping a distance of fourteen or fifteen steps from the Shadow King, and he was already ready to save people.
But instead of the three soldiers, he was holding back the Assassins behind the Shadow King.
No one knew where the assassin came from, and judging by the direction in which he appeared, it was possible that he was a member of the entourage of a certain prince, and strangely no one had an impression of this ordinary face.
Drawing the knife and drawing the knife, Gu Shenwei completed his task in an instant, jumped in front of the Shadow King, and stood with a horizontal sword.
The three soldiers failed to rush to the Shadow King, and were pushed to the ground by a group of officers and captured alive.
The assassination began and ended quickly, and before most people could react, the Shadow King had already seized the opportunity and said loudly: "This order was written by the Grand Lieutenant himself, saying that the enemy is likely to send assassins into the camp, and asking the Captain of Gulun to take strict precautions, look at this sentence 'Ten Thousand Commanders Ucuo has come up with a clever plan......"
Turshan let out a thunderclap roar, "It's you!"
Ucuo was stunned, his body was short, and he almost sat on the ground, "It's not me, it's obviously ......"
Turshan drew his knife and slashed at Ucuo, and Gu Shenwei waved the knife away, "Leave your mouth alive." ”
As if feeling thirsty, Wucuo scratched his throat a few times with his hands, and suddenly his eyes showed a fierce light, and he threw himself at the prince who was standing closer, and opened his mouth to bite.
Gu Shenwei jumped up, smashed the handle of the knife on the back of Wucuo's head, and then took out a pill and stuffed it into Wucuo's mouth.
The lotus girl left a lot of pills, and Gu Shenwei always carried them with her.
Wucuo was still in a coma, and Shangguan Fei ran from a distance, shouting loudly: "The Silver Armor Army is dead, the Silver Armor Army is dead." ”
Behind him, a crowd of black-pressed people was slowly pouring towards the main tent, walking in unison, expressionless, many with blood stains on their knives.
(To be continued)