Zhang Ba was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly ordered Huang Cai to go to check, and later he hurriedly returned to the account to report. To everyone's surprise, the leaders of the trouble turned out to be two veterans, and their positions were not high, they were just ordinary two team leaders. But they seem to be very appealing, and they actually gathered thousands of people.

"Do you know the details of these two people?" Zhang Ba was very strange that only two veterans could summon thousands of his people to make trouble, and asked.

"There are so many people in the army that my subordinates don't know each other!" Huang Cai shook his head and said with a bitter face. The team is in the army, that is, the head and tail of the soldiers, generally in charge of three groups, in the Eighth Army there are as many as hundreds, and on weekdays, the various armies are stationed in various places, how can they be recognized.

"There must be a mastermind behind the scenes, otherwise how can you respond to all calls!" Zhang Huai looked at his colleagues with an unkind face.

"I don't think that's the case, but I hope that the current war can be ended as soon as possible." Ma Ling thought for a moment.

"What's the matter, the Ma Du system thinks too much!" Zhang Huai sneered.

"You know what?" Ma Ling snorted coldly, "Your Majesty has repeatedly issued orders urging our army to conquer Xiangyang as soon as possible, but our army has repeatedly delayed. And Zhang Dushuai took the strategy of besieging the city for a long time after carrying out military affairs. Such a war will inevitably be protracted, the soldiers have been on the expedition for nearly a year, all holidays have been canceled, and there is no time to return home, and there will inevitably be resentment, so there is a call to rush to welcome His Majesty to Xiangxiang and end the current war as soon as possible and return to his hometown. ”

"Well, the Ma Du system is reasonable, what do you think?" Song Lian said.

"Seems to make some sense!" Zhang Ba answered vaguely, but he already believed most of it in his heart. He has been in the army for many years, and he has risen from a small soldier to the capital, so he naturally knows what the low-level soldiers want and want. Homesickness is by no means a simple matter of personal emotions, but a major event that is directly related to the cohesion and combat effectiveness of the army. If it is not handled well, it will provoke change.

Of course, Zhang Ba also knew that all dynasties had put a lot of effort into this matter, and although it did not fundamentally solve the problem, it more or less alleviated the homesickness problem of the expeditionary soldiers.

One family members lived with the army, which had existed in the Han Dynasty. In the Han Dynasty, the soldiers of the army guarding the border fortress could not only accompany their wives and children, but also their parents, brothers, and sisters. In order to ensure the long-term combat status against the Xiongnu and the Western Regions, so that the soldiers can enter the battle without any worries.

The Tang Dynasty had a situation roughly similar to that of the Han Dynasty, and adopted similar policies. Moreover, it is more generous than in the Han Dynasty, and houses are also given in addition to the fields so that the border guards and their families can live for a long time, which is indeed a resettlement method once and for all. However, policy is policy, but the actual situation is not satisfactory. The production and living conditions in the northwest frontier are far inferior to those in the interior, and it is extremely difficult to live for a long time.

After entering the Song Dynasty, because of the conscription system, once enlisted, he would be a soldier for life until he was seventy years old. Therefore, the Song army can bring their families to join the army, and will build a special house in the barracks for their families to live in. However, the border area adopts a rotation system, and soldiers can be rotated after two years on the border, so the Song Dynasty is not allowed to carry family members when marching and fighting.

The second is that the family members march with the team to fight. But it is only a stopgap measure to solve the problem of homesickness for soldiers by using their families to accompany the army, after all, the army is very mobile and does not allow them to live at home like civilians. During the Southern Crossing of the Great Song Dynasty, some armies also implemented the policy of family members accompanying the army, but because the frequency of wars was extremely high at that time, the mobility of the troops was very strong, and they often went out to fight, so their families were uniformly placed in the base area, and they returned to reunite after the army was over.

Yue's army adopted this model, and Yue Fei placed his base camp in Ezhou, where most of his family members lived. Due to the fact that the family members and local residents have been living together for a long time, there have also been some scandals. Once the Yuejia army returned to Ezhou from the north, a military academy named Heshe came to accuse his wife of adultery with a monk of a certain temple. Yue Fei was furious and immediately interrogated the monk, preparing to severely punish him.

As a result, the monk bit other monks and said that all the famous monks in the temple had hooked up with a sergeant's wife as a concubine. Yue Fei was angry and wanted to investigate the matter thoroughly, but later, after the persuasion of his staff member Xue Bi, he only dealt with the parties involved and did not expand the situation. But this matter was widely circulated in the army, so much so that more than 100 years later, Zhang Ba heard about it when he joined the army.

Of course, there are also some armies that do not have a base area, and most of them, with the rebel army as the main type, carry their families with them full-time with the army. Wherever the troops go, their families follow, and when they fight, they are no exception. The advantage of this model is that it will never be separated, and the disadvantage is that it is too burdensome and too dangerous. There were even enemy troops who took advantage of this model to attack the families of the Song army during the battle, which led to the defeat of the war from time to time, and the shortcomings of the family members dragging down the battle were also exposed.

In addition, if there are no conditions for family members to accompany the army, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, the army will open a camp to alleviate the homesickness of the soldiers. However, this method has also led to frequent incidents of violations of military discipline in the army, such as the robbery of civilian women, the keeping of wives and concubines, and hiding in the camp. It doesn't solve the problem completely.

As for Zhang Ba's time as a soldier, the imperial court was declining, the military generals in the border towns were becoming more and more powerful, and the court could no longer take care of the violations of military discipline, which led to erosion in the army, bringing family members, and privately keeping wives and concubines It was common, and it was even more common for the armies to go out to kidnap civilian women.

It was not until the little emperor formed a new army that he strengthened his control and gradually improved. The place of Qiongzhou is small, and the little emperor took the initiative to find the family members of the soldiers who were lost in the south of the Yangtze River, and received Qiongzhou for reunion, but there was no mutiny due to homesickness. After returning to Jiangnan, he once again rectified the military system, and although soldiers and low-ranking officers were not allowed to bring their families with them, they stipulated the policy that they could be discharged from the army and return to their hometowns after seven years of service, and also stipulated that after three years of service, the imperial court could pay the travel expenses to return to their hometowns to visit relatives, so as to ensure that the morale of the army would not be disturbed for a foreseeable period.

It has been nearly a year since this expedition, and many soldiers will not be able to return to their hometowns to visit relatives on time, and you must know that it took seven years for the Mongols to break Xiangyang, so it is not impossible to adopt the strategy of encircling for a long time to lead to the indefinite end of the war, which caused dissatisfaction among the soldiers. And the reason why Zhang Ba believed it was because he knew that the 'Guilin Mutiny' in the Tang Dynasty was also triggered by similar circumstances.

In the ninth year of Tang Yizong's reign, the imperial court recruited 3,000 people in Xuzhou to conquer Nanzhao, of which 800 stayed in Guilin to defend it. The old practice of the imperial court was that soldiers were stationed abroad for a period of three years, and they could return to their hometowns at the end of the period. The soldiers of this unit had been stationed in Guilin for six years, but because of the tight war, the imperial court was "short of troops and it was difficult to send troops", and asked these soldiers to stay for another year. The unbearable Xuzhou soldiers rebelled, killed their generals, and pushed the grain department judge Pang Xun as the leader, and robbed the treasury, which was the famous "Guilin Mutiny".

And this matter is not just as simple as a mutiny, "New Tang Dynasty Book: The Biography of the Southern Barbarians" said: "Tang died in Huangchao, and the disaster is based on Guilin." "Pang Bu's soldiers are not like Huang Chao who can't survive to raise troops and rebel, the original intention of the mutiny is just to go home and reunite with their relatives, but the officials are arrogant and mishandled, so that because of small losses, it has become the cause of Tang's death.

It can be seen that although homesickness belongs to the spiritual realm, it is more powerful than any force when it really attacks. Zhang Ba naturally didn't dare to ignore it anymore, he knew that this was not something that could solve the problem by controlling the commanders of the various departments, the soldiers were in trouble, and he and the generals in the tent were all burned. And the mutiny, if it affects the camp and His Majesty, he Zhang Ba will be a sinner for the ages, and it will be difficult to redeem him after dying a hundred times......

"Welcome the holy drive, break Xiangyang!"

"Welcome the holy drive, break Xiangyang!"

"Please lead the crowd to welcome the holy car!" ……

"How's it going?" The cry outside the tent rose again, more majestic than just now, like a mountain roaring out of a tsunami. Zhang Ba's face changed again, and he asked with a steady emotion.

"Yu Du Shuai, all ministries have joined more people, no less than 10,000 people, and there are still people joining. They asked the marshal to come out and answer, and we ...... We are powerless to stop it! Huang Cai said in a trembling voice.

"Du Shuai, you still need to make a decision early, if there is trouble, it will not be able to clean up!" Song Lian also turned blue. Although the truth is unknown, he has already understood that this is likely to be done spontaneously by the soldiers, otherwise he would not have known the news at all, and it could only be aimed at all the generals in the account. And once the soldiers lose patience and start a mutiny, they will not be spared.

"Du Shuai, the army may not have malicious intent, but there is a misunderstanding, just explain it clearly!" Ma Ling listened to the louder the call outside the tent, and his heart was also panicked, now that the situation has been completed, strong bullet pressure will only backfire, he is not without worry.

"You go and ask Marquis Xie Duyu to preside over the affairs of the army, and Ben Shuai will go to see them!" Zhang Ba pondered for a moment and stood up and said.

"Du Shuai, the last general is willing to go with Du Shuai to ask for guilt before driving!" The generals in the tent looked at each other, and they saw the meaning of Du Shuai, and saluted in unison.

"No need, everything is due to the selfishness of the marshal, when you have your own marshal to bear, don't act without permission, cooperate with Du Yuhou to restrain their respective belongings!" Zhang Ba waved his hand, and then strode out of the tent.

"Don't make a noise, Ben Shuai is here!" Zhang Ba came out of the tent, only to see the army standing solemnly on the school field, divided into two camps. On one side, there were many people and flags were mixed, but there was order and there was no confusion. On the other side, the number is slightly inferior, but they are nervous and on full alert.

"The seventh team of the first battalion of the baggage regiment of the third division of the eighth army of the forbidden army is Hu Decai, see Du Shuai!"

"The fifth team of the first regiment and second battalion of the first division of the eighth army of the forbidden army is Qi Zhong, see Du Shuai!"

Zhang Ba said, only to see two veterans walk out of the queue, give a silent password, the call stopped, they marched forward in unison to the front of the tent to salute, self-reported to the military horn belonged. He was very surprised to see these two veterans with calm and indifferent expressions, and it was hard to imagine that they were the ones who made such a big scene, but his surprise flashed away, and he asked in a deep voice: "What do you want to incite the army, do you want to mutiny?" ”

"Yudu Tong, the last general made an oath from Jiazi Town to join the army, loyal to the Great Song Dynasty, loyal to His Majesty, and never betrayed the country and betrayed the king, but I just want to wait for the army to ask the commander, the holy car is close to Fancheng, why do you refuse to meet it, what is the reason?" Hu Decai asked in a loud voice......

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