However, everyone discussed for a long time, but they couldn't come up with a reason, and in the end, everyone could only pin their hopes on the general being tired and not paying the military salary until tomorrow.

With such good expectations, everyone spent the day like this.

However, the next day, things were wrong, because everyone saw that many families were happy to receive their salaries, but they waited anxiously for a long time, but they did not ask their people to receive them.

At this time, everyone couldn't sit still, so they all went separately to inquire, but in the end, they knew that all the generals, guerrillas, garrisons, hundreds of households, etc., their families had received full military salaries, but their ordinary soldiers did not have a copper plate.

Why not? It is said that the imperial court is in a tight situation, and only a part of the military salary has been paid this time, and their share will be paid down in a few days!

Now it's a fried pot, the so-called don't suffer from poverty, but suffer from unevenness, if everyone doesn't have it, then naturally there is nothing to complain about, but now their families are all paid by the military, why don't we have it!

Although everyone also knows that those family members are the baby bumps of generals, and the military salary is much higher than everyone's, but in the past, when they paid the military salary, they could also have a share.

So even if you are not satisfied with the treatment in your heart, you have to appoint it, who calls someone a family member!

But now that their family has been paid, but they don't have any sons, what is the reason, do they want to live, so we don't want to live? Could it be that our wives and children drink the northwest wind, then we can fight hunger!

Everyone began to be indignant and scolded.

Don't look at the barracks as a military place, it is forbidden to make noise, but it also depends on who leads the army, see what the situation is, if everyone collectively encounters any injustice, let alone the noise, it is a collective fight between each other, that is also a common thing.

Seeing that something was about to happen, at this time, the generals also had to stand up.

At this time, I saw that Mao Daxing, the general of Datong, came out with a group of officers, and after gathering the ordinary soldiers, Mao Daxing was kind to them and appeased, saying: "I will know that you are dissatisfied in my heart, and I know that you have grievances, but how can I feel happy in my heart!"

You are all my soldiers, and I want to see you suffer and be wronged! I'm angry with you, too! ”

"But now the world is not peaceful, there are Tartar slaves outside the customs, there are thieves and bandits inside the customs, there is chaos everywhere, the court is getting tighter and tighter day by day, and this military salary is becoming more and more difficult to raise, which is also a helpless thing!

At this time, we should also let go of the grievances in our hearts, and complain less about the court, the court is not not not paying military salaries, but it will be paid later, the commander said, when the bandits are leveled, the military salaries will definitely be paid to you at that time, you can rest assured! ”

Mao Daxing's series of bitter words, under his persuasion, the soldiers naturally did not dare to make noise anymore, but they were not convinced in their hearts, and there was no doubt about it!

This kind of persuasion scene is staged one by one in almost all the official and military camps today, but not every general is as good at persuasion as Mao Daxing, and some generals are too lazy to talk nonsense with those soldiers, and they just use knives.

For example, Zhang Xiangquan, the commander of the Pingyang Guard, directly cut off the heads of the three guards as soon as he came up, and shocked the people under him, so that those people dared to be angry and dare not speak!

In this way, under the persuasion of the generals or the strong bullets, there was no such thing as a mutiny.

At three o'clock in the evening, at about twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, many soldiers just secretly got up and ran away in the dead of night.

What I didn't say, for soldiers, as long as they cut off their rations or don't pay them, they are very easy to sneak away, which is no way.

You must know that for them, as soldiers eat food and exchange their lives for wages, every day they live is gambling with their lives, and no one knows what tomorrow will be like and whether they can survive it.

So they can't hide the money, if there is a family to support at home, then after the military salary, leave a little money to support the family, and the rest, how much is there, how much is used, no, maybe tomorrow it will be cheaper for others!

Rather than cheapen others, it's better to be happy yourself, have wine today and get drunk today, after all, this is your own money, you don't use it, it's not a loss!

It is for this reason that for them there is no ration to eat, no military pay, which is almost intolerable for them,

Let your good words go to heaven, but if you want me to sell my life, then you have to give me rations to eat, then you have to pay me military salaries, otherwise, Lao Tzu will not accompany me!

I think that the Tartar soldiers besieged the capital back then, and the Son of Heaven was in danger, but because the imperial court could not pay the military salary, many Qinwang troops immediately dispersed, and the rescue of the Son of Heaven was still like this, not to mention that this time it was just to encircle and suppress a local bandits, and no military salaries were paid, what did Lao Tzu do if he didn't run!

In this way, overnight, all kinds of armies added together, and at least 2,000 people ran away!

At this time, many generals just couldn't sit still, and once again gathered their men and horses, explained discipline, and declared that tomorrow they would want the army to march out, and if anyone dared to run away, they would be dealt with by military law, and they would not be tolerated!

However, this did not stop the soldiers from fleeing, and in the evening many soldiers ran away.

However, because the generals gave death orders to the generals who patrolled the night, and told them not to be careless during the night patrol, the number of people who escaped this night was only seven or eight hundred, which was also a lot lower.

Soon, the day dawned, and a new day came as usual, this day was August 13 in the fourth year of Chongzhen, Liu Yuliang gathered an army outside Yulin City and set out for the battle.

At this time, in addition to the army that did not come, and the more than 3,000 soldiers who fled in the past two days, the army of up to 80,000 people in total was ready to go.

These 80,000 people are like ants spread all over the earth, as the old saying goes, more than 1,000 people, standing on tiptoe and not seeing the edge, more than 10,000 people, leaning their necks to the ground and connecting to the sky, from this, you can also imagine that at this time 80,000 horses converge in one place, what a spectacular scene it is!

It was really as far as the eye could see, except for people, it was still people, densely packed with people, at a glance, there was no edge to be seen, as if the earth had been submerged by the sea of people, and there was no sparing at all!

"All the troops are leaving!"

Liu Yuliang gave an order, and the 80,000 army officially embarked on their journey.