Zhang Ba was stunned when he heard this and hurriedly ordered Huang Cai to check it out. Later, he hurriedly returned to the account to report. To everyone's surprise, the two veterans who were leading the trouble were actually two ordinary team leaders. But they seemed to be very appealing and actually gathered thousands of people.

"Do you know the details of these two people?" Zhang Ba was very surprised. Just two veterans were able to summon thousands of them to cause trouble, and asked again.

"There are so many troops in the army, and my subordinates don't know each other!" Huang Cai shook his head and said bitterly. The troops in the army are soldiers and generals, usually in charge of three groups, and there are hundreds of them among the Eighth Army. On weekdays, each army is stationed in various places, how can it be recognized clearly?

"There must be a commander behind the scenes, otherwise how could he respond with one call!" Zhang Huai looked at his colleagues around him with a bad expression.

"I thought it was not the case. I had no intention of rebelling when I heard his call, but hoped that the current war could be ended as soon as possible." Ma Ling thought for a while.

"What's the relationship between this? Ma Duzhuan thought too much!" Zhang Huai said with a sneer.

"What do you know?" Ma Ling snorted coldly, "Your Majesty has issued many orders to urge our army to capture Xiangyang as soon as possible, but our army has repeatedly delayed it. After serving military affairs, Zhang Dushou took the strategy of long-term siege to break the city. Such a war will surely last for a long time. It has been nearly a year since the soldiers went on the expedition, and all holidays have been cancelled, and they will definitely feel resentment, so they will be anxious to welcome Your coming to Xiang and end the current war and return home as soon as possible."

"Well, General Ma's words are reasonable, but they all think it is?" Song Lian said.

"It seems to be some truth!" Zhang Ba responded vaguely, but he believed most of the time. He has been in the army for many years, and from the time of being a soldier to the governor, he naturally knows what the soldiers at the bottom are thinking and want. The homesickness of the army is by no means a simple personal emotional issue, but a major event that directly concerns the cohesion and combat effectiveness of the army. If he handles it poorly, it will cause changes.

Of course, Zhang Ba also knew that this had been put into practice in all dynasties. Although the problem was not fundamentally solved, it more or less alleviated the homesickness problem of expedition soldiers.

One is the family members living with the army, which was already available in the Han Dynasty. The soldiers guarding the frontier in the Han Dynasty not only had their wives and young people to follow the army, but also their parents, brothers and sisters. In order to ensure basic life, the Han Dynasty also set up special grains to supply the soldiers' families. This is to ensure the long-term combat status of the Huns and the Western Regions, so that soldiers can join the battle without any worries.

The Tang Dynasty opened thousands of miles away, and there was a situation similar to the Han Dynasty. Similar policies were adopted. It was even more generous than the Han Dynasty. In addition to the fields, houses were also given to the border guards and their families for a long time. It was indeed a once-for-all resettlement method. However, the policy was a policy, but the actual situation was not satisfactory. The production and living conditions in the northwest border were far inferior to those in the mainland, and it was extremely difficult to live for a long time.

After entering the Song Dynasty, because it adopted the recruitment system, once it joined the army, it would be a soldier for life until it retired at the age of 70. Therefore, the Song army could bring their families to the army and would build houses in the military camps for their families to live in. However, the border guard adopts the wheel garrison system, and soldiers can be rotated for two years. Therefore, the Song Dynasty was not allowed to carry their families when they marched and fought.

The second is that the family members marched with the team to fight. However, it is only a temporary measure to solve the problem of homesickness by the family members accompanying the army. After all, the army is very mobile and they are not allowed to live a home life like civilians. During the Song Dynasty, some armies also implemented the policy of family members accompanying the army. However, because the war was extremely frequent and the troops were very mobile, they often went out to fight, so the family members were placed in the base area and returned to reunite after the army was over.

The Yue family army adopted this model. Yue Fei placed the base camp in Ezhou, and most of his family members lived here. Because the family and local residents had been in a long time, some scandals also occurred. Once the Yue family army went north to fight and returned to Ezhou, a military academy named He Sheren came to sue his wife for adultery with a monk in a temple. Yue Fei was furious and immediately interrogated the monk, preparing to punish him strictly.

As a result, the monk Panjie said that all the famous monks in the temple had hooked up with a soldier's wife as a traitor. Yue Fei was furious and wanted to thoroughly investigate the matter. Later, after being persuaded by his aide Xue Bi, he only dealt with the person involved and did not magnify the situation. However, this matter was widely circulated in the army, so that more than a hundred years later, Zhang Ba heard about it when he joined the army.

Of course, there are some troops without bases. The main type of rebels, most of them carry their families with the army at all times. Wherever the troops go, the families follow them, and the benefits of fighting are never separated. The disadvantages of this model are that they are too heavy to be burdened and too high to be dangerous. Some enemy troops even use this model to attack the family of the Song army during combat, resulting in defeats from the war, and the shortcomings of the family dragging down the battle are also exposed.

In addition, if the family members do not meet the conditions for their families to follow the army, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, the army will set up a camp to alleviate the homesickness of soldiers. However, this method also leads to frequent incidents of violations of military discipline in the army, including plundering civilian women, privately acquiring wives and concubines, hiding in the camp, etc. It cannot completely solve the problem.

As for Zhang Ba's army, the court was declining and the power of the border generals became increasingly popular. The court no longer cared about the violation of military discipline, which led to the destruction of the army, and the fact that it was common for the army to carry family and privately acquire wives and concubines, and it was even more common for each army to go to war to abduct civilian women.

After the young emperor formed a new army, he strengthened his control and restraint and gradually improved. Qiongzhou was small, and the young emperor took the initiative to find the family members who were lost in Jiangnan. When he was reunited in Qiongzhou, there was no mutiny caused by homesickness. After returning to Jiangnan, the military system was rectified again. Although soldiers and low-level officers were not allowed to take their families with the army, it stipulated that the policy of retiring for seven years was to be retired and returned to their hometowns after serving for three years. The court could pay the travel expenses to return to their hometowns to visit relatives at a foreseeable period.

It has been nearly a year since the expedition, and many soldiers are unable to return home to visit their relatives on schedule. It should be noted that it took Mongolia to destroy Xiangyang for seven years, so the strategy of long-term siege led to the end of the war and it was not impossible to cause dissatisfaction among soldiers. The reason why Zhang Ba believed it was because he knew that the "Guilin Mutiny" in the Tang Dynasty was also caused by similar situations.

In the ninth year of Emperor Yizong of Tang Dynasty, the court recruited 3,000 people to conquer Nanzhao in Xuzhou, of which 800 people remained in Guilin to guard the garrison. The court had the old rules that the soldiers were guarding outside for three years and could return home after the period was over. The soldiers of this unit had been guarding Guilin for six years, but because of the tight war, the court "had a shortage of military force and difficulty in sending troops" and asked these soldiers to stay for another year. The Xuzhou soldiers who could not bear it would rise up and rebel, kill their generals, and led the judge of the grain department Pang Xun, and robbed the treasury and left. This was the famous "Guilin Mutiny".

This matter is not just a mutiny. "New Book of Tang: Biography of Nanman" says: "The Tang Dynasty was destroyed by Huang Chao, and the disaster was based on Guilin." The soldiers of the Pang army did not survive like Huang Chao and rebel. The original intention of the mutiny was to go home and reunite with their relatives, but the officials were arrogant and improper, which caused the Tang Dynasty to lose its fortune because of the small loss.

It can be seen that although homesickness belongs to the spiritual realm, it is more powerful than any power when it really occurs. Zhang Ba naturally dares not ignore it anymore. He knows very well that this cannot be solved by controlling the chief generals of each tribe. When the soldiers start to make trouble for the generals, he and the generals in the tent are all burned. If the mutiny is in trouble, if the camp is affected and the Majesty is in trouble, he, Zhang Ba, is a sinner for the ages and will be unable to redeem it even if he dies for hundreds of times...

"Welcome the Holy Driving and Break Xiangyang!"

"Welcome the Holy Driving and Break Xiangyang!"

"Please lead the crowd to welcome the sages!"...

"What's the situation?" The cry outside the tent came out again, more majestic than it had just happened, like a tsunami. Zhang Ba's face changed again, and he asked with a steady mood.

"Report to the Du Shu, there are even more troops joining each other, with no less than 10,000 people, and there are still people joining. They asked Du Shu Shu to come out and answer, and we... we are powerless to stop it!" Huang Cai said in a trembling voice.

"The generals are the generals, and they need to make a decision early. If the generals get up, they will not be able to deal with it!" Song Lian also said with a blue face. Although the truth is unclear, he already understood that this was probably the spontaneous act of the soldiers, otherwise he would not have no news. He could only target all the generals in the tent. Once the soldiers lose patience and launch a mutiny, they will not be spared.

"Master, the army may not have any malicious intentions, but they just have some misunderstandings, just explain clearly!" Ma Ling felt panic as he heard the louder the outside of the tent. Now the situation has been established, and strong suppression will only backfire. He said with concern.

"You go and ask Mr. Xie Duyu to take charge of military affairs. I will go and see them!" Zhang Ba pondered for a moment and stood up and said.

"Du Shuai, I hope to follow Du Shuai to apologize!" The generals in the tent looked at each other, and they saw Du Shuai's meaning and bowed in unison.

"No need, everything is due to my selfish intentions. I should bear it. Don't act without any action. Cooperate with Du Yuhou to restrain their respective responsibilities!" Zhang Ba waved his hand and then walked out of the tent.

"Don't clamor, I am here!" Zhang Ba came out of the tent and saw the army standing in the school ground and divided into two camps. On one side, there were many people, mixed numbers and flags, but the order was in order and there was no chaos. On the other side, the number was slightly inferior, but he was nervous and was on guard.

"The last general is Hu Decai, the 7th team of the 1st Battalion of the Third Division of the Imperial Army, the 8th Army, to see Du Shuai!"

"The last general is Qi Chong, the fifth team of the 2nd Battalion of the First Infantry Regiment of the First Division of the Eighth Army of the Imperial Army, to meet the Du Shuai!"

After Zhang Ba finished speaking, two veterans walked out of the queue and issued a silence order. The call stopped. They walked forward in unison to the tent and stood attentively saluting, and reported their military names to their own. He was surprised to see the two veterans with calm expressions. It was hard to imagine that they were the ones who made such a big scene, but their surprise flashed and asked in a deep voice: "What do you want to incite the troops? Are you going to mutiny?"
Chapter completed!