At the sound of an order, Pigou and Lai San'er suddenly shouted in unison, "Array!"

In an instant, the shield soldiers rushed to the front row, and the big shields were erected one after another, forming an iron wall. After the shield soldiers, there were www.biquge.info cavalry of the sabers. After the cavalry, there were hoplites. The archers and crossbowmen were in the last row, all of them having their bows wound.

Seeing this, more than 100 people in Jinyiwei also drew out embroidered spring knives. As long as Qin Shuhuai gave an order, they were ready to climb over the small walled wall to seize the gate.

It was completely silent, and there was no more noise.

The veteran soldier on the lookout suddenly twitched when he saw the neat, high-morale and disciplined army of more than 1,000 people outside the village. After many years in the army, he could see at a glance that the combat effectiveness of this army was by no means comparable to the more than 2,000 brothers in the village.

Then he said, "General Qin, the brothers really can't help it. There has been no pay in the army for three months, and the brothers are all old and young, and if they do not have pay, not only are they hungry, but their families are also hungry! ”

Qin Shuhuai was gloomy and didn't say a word.

Meng Wei was afraid that Qin Shuhuai would really order an attack, so he hurriedly shouted to the veteran soldier Youzi, "Since you want General Qin to be the master, why don't you open the gate of the village quickly? General Qin is the emperor's special order of the Qincha, what should you be guilty of neglecting the Qincha?"

The old soldier Youzi was stunned, but he still had the courage to say, "General Qin is the emperor's envoy, and we will naturally open the door to welcome him!" ”

Meng Wei shouted, "Bold! What are you in the army? How can you bargain?"

The veteran soldier gritted his teeth, still refused to compromise, and said, "General Qin, please make the decision for us first, and then we can open the door!" The first of these two things is that the brothers are now hungry and the old and young in the family are starved of food, so General Qin is willing to make the brothers the decision, explain the truth to the imperial court, and ask for a salary? The second thing is that we are forced to make trouble today because we are helpless, and General Qin will be sympathetic to our compulsion? These two things only need the general to reply, and the brothers will immediately open the gate of the village to greet the king!

As soon as he finished speaking, another roar sounded in the camp, "Reply! Reply!"

The veteran Youzi's request is very simple, to put it bluntly, one is to let Qin Shuhuai agree to ask the court for salary, and the other is not to investigate them for the crime of making salaries.

However, this is very important for them, especially the second one, which is a matter of life and death for many people.

However, in the late Ming Dynasty, mutinies occurred frequently, and often because of the issue of salaries, and the imperial court knew that it was at a loss, so the implementation of this law was often discounted, and many of the organizers of the mutiny often took it lightly and reprimanded them.

Therefore, whether the mutiny is big or small depends on how the officials who handle it look at it. When the veteran soldier Youzi saw that Qin Shuhuai's subordinates had a strict lineup, he knew that he was a general with extremely heavy military discipline, and he was a little uncertain, so he simply asked Qin Shuhuai to promise not to investigate their mutiny.

Although Meng Wei had been in the palace for many years, he also knew that arrears of wages in the army were also a common phenomenon nowadays, so he was also sympathetic to these soldiers, so he whispered to Qin Shuhuai, "Lord Qin, look?"

If you stand from the perspective of a bystander, Qin Shuhuai is of course sympathetic to these soldiers, after all, it is a natural act to ask for wages in arrears. But the problem is that the nature of this matter now is that the army mutinied! If you sit down with them and bargain together, then as soon as this precedent is set, your own orders in the future will no longer be orders, but their bargaining chips, and this army will be completely abolished!

Thinking of this, Qin Shuhuai looked up at the old soldier and said coldly, "Today's matter, Ben will have its own judgment! Ben will only ask, will this door be opened?"

The veteran oil was shocked in his heart, it seems that the other party is not a good talker. If he is allowed in, he will not be able to escape death! In this case, it is better to draw his brothers together, grit his teeth and resist, and see who is harder than whom? Now that the enemy is present, does he really dare to fight his own people?

So he said, "General Qin, the life and death of the brothers are in your hands, if you don't agree, it will be difficult for the brothers to open the door! As a Ming soldier, I have never thought of fighting against the king, but now that the matter has come to this, the brothers only ask for justice, only for food and clothing, please General Qin be sympathetic to the helpless actions of the brothers!"

Qin Shuhuai's face became more and more gloomy, he raised his hand and said coldly, "The whole army is ready!"

Seeing that the war was about to break out, Meng Wei was anxious and said to Qin Shuhuai, "Lord Qin, wait for me for a while!"

After that, he jumped up from the horse's back with a rub, then stepped on the wall, jumped a few feet with the help of this force, and suddenly reached the middle of the lookout, and clicked twice on the stakes of the lookout, and then came to the top of the lookout.

The veteran soldier was so frightened that he took a step back, but at a height of more than ten meters, where could he retreat?

Meng Wei suddenly made a move, and with just one move, he grabbed the neck of the old soldier Youzi, and then shouted at the people below, "If you want to live, open the gate of the village quickly!

The eyes are slightly protruding, the teeth are bared, the murderous intent is awe-inspiring, and the anger is bursting, it is really like a killing god!

There was silence in the camp, and no one dared to move.

At this time, Li Jingting also gave an order, and more than a dozen brocade guards immediately climbed over the wall, went straight to the gate of the wall, and opened the gate.

The soldiers in the village did not dare to move.

Meng Wei breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately these people didn't move, otherwise a massacre would be inevitable.

Qin Shuhuai's face was dark, and surrounded by more than a thousand people, he rode slowly into the village. As far as his eyes passed, the momentum was like ice, and like the light of a sword, and the soldiers in the village all trembled slightly, and they retreated to both sides to make way for him.

"Lord Qincha, General Qin!"

At this time, a middle-aged man who was tied, ragged, and unkempt ran over, knelt under Qin Shuhuai's horse, and cried, "Lord Qincha, the subordinate is incompetent, and there is no way to lead the troops, beg the general to punish him!"

Qin Shuhuai glanced at him coldly and said, "Are you Zhang Yingyuan, the garrison of Jizhou?"

The man nodded and said, "It's the lower official! The lower official has no way to lead the troops, and he has the grace of the saint, and he deserves death!"

Although Zhang Yingyuan is a garrison in Jizhou, he is bigger than Qin Shuhuai according to his official rank, even if Qin Shuhuai is a messenger who has served Chongzhen's secret order, he doesn't need to call himself a subordinate official, and he is so low-voiced. However, when he saw Qin Shuhuai at this moment, it was like seeing a life-saving straw, and it was reasonable for him to be too excited and humble for a while.

Qin Shuhuai said gloomily, "Zhang Yingyuan, whether you have deducted military salaries or not is still to be investigated, but you have no way to lead the troops and are not strict in your management, so that the sergeants mutiny, but you will not escape the blame." Come on, pull out and take the thirty sticks heavily!"

"Obey!"

The two of them immediately came out of Qinglong Hall and pulled Zhang Yingyuan down. It didn't take long for Zhang Yingyuan to be pressed on a bench in public and beat with a military stick.

Qin Shuhuai hit Zhang Yingyuan first, firstly, to show that he had taken over here, secondly, to show that he would not protect the officials and officials, so that the soldiers in the village would believe that they would deal with it impartially, and thirdly, to release the signal that he would strictly enforce the law, no matter who he was, as long as he violated the military law, he would never let it go.

At this time, Meng Wei walked over with the old soldier Youzi.

The old soldier was indeed very slippery, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he cried heartbreakingly, knelt in front of Qin Shuhuai and cried about how the army was in arrears, how difficult life at home was, etc., which caused many soldiers to empathize with their eyes red.

Qin Shuhuai's face was expressionless, and he asked lightly, "Did you tie up Zhang Shoubei?"

The veteran soldier was stunned, hesitated for a long time, gritted his teeth and said, "Yes!"

"But there are still comrades?"

"It's gone!"

Qin Shuhuai said coldly, "You have thought clearly, if you dare to deceive the general, there is only one way to die." Ben will ask you again, but are there any comrades?"

The veteran soldier Youzi glanced at Qin Shuhuai's cold eyes, and sneered, "It turns out that I have been mourning for a long time, but General Qin is still ready to kill people! ”