"Li Dingguo, you are a thief general who just surrendered, why do you have to abolish us?!"

"Let such a person be the coach? We are not convinced!"

“···”

Chinese army tent.

Hearing the faint shouting and cursing coming from outside, Li Dingguo didn't think anything of it and looked indifferent.

But his personal soldier Qian Zong Xu You couldn't help it, and walked in from the outside and said: "General Town, these people have gone too far. I will lead the troops to blow them away!"

Li Dingguo said: "Don't take action yet. Send someone to tell them that the imperial court will properly arrange for everyone to be reorganized. If anyone is dismissed, severance pay will also be paid.

After explaining clearly, ask them to leave. Then tell them that if anyone dares to make noise in front of the military camp, they will be dealt with according to military law."

"The general understands!"

Xu You responded and immediately left with the people.

Immediately, Zhang Hualong and Wang Fuchen came over again.

Wang Fuchen said: "Commander, these people are probably used by the military leaders to test us. We must not be weak, otherwise the training may cause trouble."

Li Dingguo nodded, "I know, but these people are just pawns. We must give them a chance after all."

Zhang Hualong said: "I went to see them. They are all **. If they were to be included in our current team, they would all be fired. Even if they were released, they would become a disaster. It would be better to kill them all."

After hearing this, Li Dingguo put down his book, looked at Zhang Hualong, and said seriously: "We are all generals of the imperial court now. We must have basis and measure in everything we say and do. We cannot act randomly like before."

Zhang Hualong sighed after hearing this and said, "Well, I understand."

Outside the camp gate.

Xu You patiently asked a few loud soldiers to explain the training clearly as Li Dingguo requested.

After listening, most people stopped shouting and started discussing with the people around them with doubts.

"Really or not? Didn't our general say we wouldn't give him severance pay?"

"Is there such a good thing?"

"I didn't want to be a soldier in the first place. It's a good thing to be dismissed and still get money."

"Isn't it possible? The imperial court couldn't even afford military pay before, so how can it still give us severance pay?"

"This is what the Chengdu court said. Maybe it is different from the previous Beijing court..."

The confidants of San Tan, Wang Xueshi, Hu Yunfeng and others were hidden in the crowd. When they heard that many people around them wanted to believe in the Chengdu imperial court, they suddenly became a little anxious.

The order given to them by the military commander was to try to force the court to give up on training, rather than to actually ask for severance pay from the soldiers.

So these military chiefs' henchmen immediately hid in the crowd and started shouting.

"How long has it been since the imperial court paid military pay? Will they still pay severance pay? What a liar!"

"Even if we were given a handout, we would definitely not be able to get much. Besides, money is worthless now. Even if we were given a few hundred wen, we wouldn't be able to buy much food. The imperial court is sending us away just to force us to die."

"Before, the imperial court had no soldiers, and we worked hard to suppress the bandits for several years. Now that the imperial court has surrendered Zhang bandit's troops, it wants to dismiss us. Isn't this just crossing the river and burning the bridge?!"

"We are not convinced!"

“···”

It has to be said that ordinary soldiers did have grudges against the imperial court.

The Ming court did not do well on the one hand. The military leaders usually embezzled military pay, but went to the lower level soldiers to do misfortune. On the other hand, they slandered the court.

In addition, most of the soldiers had little knowledge and were more willing to trust "our own people", so they were beguiled by a few words from the confidants of several military leaders. They no longer believed the explanations given by Xu You and others and continued to shout.

At the same time, people continued to gather in various local military camps, from a few hundred people to more than a thousand...

"The general is incompetent and failed to convince those people of our explanation. Please punish me, Commander-in-Chief!"

Xu You saw that more and more people were shouting outside and there was a possibility of losing control, so he hurriedly returned to the Chinese army's tent to report to Li Dingguo and plead guilty.

Hearing this, Li Dingguo closed his eyes and opened them after a few breaths, saying: "Let Tong Shuo lead the musketeers to suppress the formation, just in case.

You go over with your own soldiers and give another warning. If they don't disperse, we will arrest them all and whip them in accordance with military law."

"The final general honors your order!"

Xu You left in response and took 300 soldiers out of the camp.

The soldiers are all truly elite, and their armor is excellent. In Xu You's opinion, even if the opponent has thousands of people, he and 300 people can still suppress it.

Of course, he did not forget Li Dingguo's military order and called Tong Shuo on board.

Tong Shuo's chief musketeers all use Guangming flintlock rifles. Even local officers and soldiers like Kuizhou can handle it with tens of thousands of people.

When the shouting local officers and soldiers outside the camp saw Xu You, Tong Shuo and others coming out, they were restrained as expected.

After all, Xu You and Tong Shuo's teams can be seen to be very elite, both in terms of equipment and spirit.

Xu You immediately said in a loud voice: "Commander Li has ordered that you all return to the camp immediately. Anyone who makes noise in front of the military camp will be dealt with according to military law!"

Some timid soldiers really didn't dare to make trouble after hearing this, and turned around to prepare to return to the camp.

But those soldiers were not intimidated, and the military chiefs' confidants continued to set the pace.

"You haven't even been given an explanation, so why are you driving us away?"

"Are you feeling guilty? You really are not prepared to give us severance pay!"

"Brothers, you can't leave. Think about it, if you just leave like this, will you still have a way to survive after leaving the military camp?!"

“···”

So most of the soldiers stayed again.

Most of them were waiting and watching, but there were still several hundred people out of the one or two thousand people who were shouting, and the momentum was not small.

Seeing this, Xu You immediately became excited.

He didn't want these people to leave yet - if they were all gone, how could he let out the anger he had been holding back?

So he immediately ordered his soldiers to rush over and arrest him.

There is no need to bring a rope, just untie the belts of these local officers and soldiers and they can be used as ropes.

The soldiers are all brave and their physical fitness has been very good in the past two or three months. At this time, they are like tigers in a flock of sheep, one person chasing several people away.

Suddenly the shouts of these local officers and soldiers turned into screams.

Some people directly drew their swords to resist, but they were still no match for the soldiers - they couldn't even cut through their armor, how could they possibly win?

The confidants of the military leaders knew that the ultimate goal of the military leaders was to force Li Dingguo and others to retreat, so the bigger the trouble, the better.

I saw that the hundreds of soldiers led by Xu You were well-armed and as brave as tigers, but the thousands of people standing in front of the camp gate were only armed with muskets. They didn't even have swords, shields, or rake hands to match them. Soldiers with flexible brains.

The boss and confidants immediately had an idea.

"Don't get into trouble with them. Let's go directly to the military camp and ask Li Dingguo for an explanation!"

"Brothers, charge with me. There are fire rifle soldiers in front of us, they can't stop us!"

"Come on!"

“···”

Just like that, hundreds of local officers and soldiers, led by a few military leaders and confidants, rushed towards Tong Shuo's team.

Seeing this, Tong Shuo frowned slightly.

He knew very well that if these rebels dispersed his team today, he would be doomed as a Thousand President, and he might even lose his head.

So, seeing those people rushing to the position of fifty steps (more than 70 meters), he waved decisively and shouted: "Three-stage attack!"

Upon hearing Tong Shuo's order, the musketeers in the first row of the first sentry, who were already prepared at the front, immediately pulled the trigger.

Snapped!

There was a crisp sound.

In the white smoke, more than eighty lead pellets shot out.

Suddenly, the twenty or thirty rebel soldiers rushing at the front seemed to have hit an invisible wall, with blood splashing on their bodies, and they fell backwards.

The people behind were immediately stunned.

But he failed to stop and continued to rush forward with inertia.

The second row of the first musketeer sentry also did not stop. According to their daily training actions, they crossed the first row and stepped forward to pull the trigger together.

Snapped!

There was another crisp sound.

This time there were more rebels in front, and forty or fifty people fell down at once!

When the third row of musketeers came forward, the rebels who were rushing towards the camp gate finally realized what they were doing. They all screamed, stopped, turned around and ran away.

But the musketeer in the third row still pulled the trigger without hesitation.

Snapped!
To be continued...