Chapter 1416: 1417 The internal strife of the Qin army
Chapter 1416 Chapter 1417 Internal strife of the Qin army
"What are we doing here?" A young Qin soldier, carrying a weapon, asked his comrades around him nervously.
This assembly is completely different from the previous training, because bullets will not be given to them during training.
Now they were carrying rifles and weapons. The company's only machine gun was even carried out. The officers' faces were serious, and they looked different from usual.
Even, before setting off, they received some food. This made them happy because they hadn't had so much food in a long time.
“I heard that we were going to the 3rd Regiment of the 210th Division. The soldiers of the 3rd Regiment were instigated and rebelled.” The comrade heard about the rebellion of the 3rd Regiment from somewhere and said confidently.
"Huh?" The young man looked at his comrades in surprise. He really didn't expect that the first time he walked out of the barracks with a weapon was to beat his own people.
He could not believe it, but he sympathized with those who rebelled. They were starving before. If they hadn't been given a bite to eat when they came out, they would probably be thinking about rebellion now.
In other words, if they dare not rebel, they will scatter like birds and beasts. No one will do this kind of thing of risking their lives on an hungry stomach.
"Then let's go and attack our own people?" the young soldier lowered his voice and asked his comrades beside him. He also knew that the question he asked was very sensitive, so he was very careful.
"I don't know either. What if... a fight breaks out? It depends on the situation." The comrade obviously didn't want to shoot his own people, so he replied hesitantly.
In fact, they don’t know what happened. All the information is just hearsay. The only thing they knew was that they were pulled out of the barracks and given bullets and armed with such horrific things as machine guns.
"Brothers!" The officer standing on the side of the team finally spoke at this time. He pressed the pistol on his waist and shouted loudly: "Our food has been embezzled by the people above! If we continue to consume like this, All will starve to death!”
Hearing the officer's cry, everyone started talking. They had indeed eaten too little before, but now they knew that someone had embezzled their food.
"Death by starvation is death. We might as well go to those **** and ask for an explanation! Even if His Majesty takes the blame, we are justified! You tell me, right?" The officer encouraged all the soldiers with a sideways voice, and some people in the crowd began to agree. .
Obviously, this was planned. The officer's confidants were making noises in the crowd, and the atmosphere was quickly heightened.
“Stop beating your own people?” The young soldier still doesn’t know what happened. He just wants to know whether he will be given an extra piece of dry bread tomorrow.
Even though it doesn’t taste good, that piece of bread will definitely satisfy your hunger when you swallow it. If you only drink watery rice porridge, you will die.
"I guess we still have to fight...but the people fighting are different." The comrade was more flexible and immediately realized that the troops they belonged to seemed to be rebelling.
Rebellion is a terrible word. Their wives, children, family members, and elderly people are all in China. If something goes wrong, will their family members be affected?
As he was thinking this, he heard the officer over there continue to shout: "There is no food at the division headquarters, so let's go to the military headquarters to find it! If the military headquarters doesn't have it, let's go to General Chen and ask why he doesn't give us food!" "We are not rebelling, we just want to survive and have enough to eat! We join the army for the country, and even if we risk our lives for the country, why should we be starved?" He said, pulling out the pistol from his waist. Waving excitedly: "Brothers, are you right?"
"Yes!" Many people already agreed with the officer's point of view: indeed, they came to serve as soldiers and even risked their lives, but they were not even given food to eat. This was too bullying.
For such a long time, they had been shrouded in fear of going to the battlefield, and now they were tortured by hunger. These soldiers were already on the verge of breaking out. Now, they had a channel to vent, and they immediately became boiling.
"Whoever doesn't give us a place to reason, we will kill him!" The officer cut his arm forward and ordered loudly: "Follow me! Go to the military headquarters!"
“Go to the military headquarters!” Almost everyone shouted, and the long team took action again. Not far away, another military camp had become a mess, with dozens of corpses lying on the ground.
Several trucks full of soldiers were staggering forward on the road. Farther away, another barracks had been set alight by the rioting soldiers. Black smoke billowed into the sky, making the entire area look like a desert. the battlefield.
And this is the area controlled by the Qin State, behind the front lines of both sides, and where the Tang army has not yet arrived! But here, a new war seems to have broken out.
The 93rd Army's garrison was in chaos. Qin's rebels attacked their own military headquarters. The commander of the 93rd Army was killed in his headquarters, and his death was somewhat inexplicable.
It stands to reason that he had a chance to leave, but he just didn't leave. Logically speaking, he should know a lot of things, but he just didn't have the chance to say it anymore.
As for whether anyone actually contributed to the chaos and wanted to take the opportunity to cover up something, no one knows.
What happened next made Chen Li even more depressed. A mutiny eventually turned into a civil war between the Qin troops on the front line... Tens of thousands of people attacked each other, killing and setting fire everywhere. The Qin State mobilized two nearby armies, and finally Completely suppress the rebels.
But the whole process was really too bloody. The Qin army fought against its own people. For a while, they accused each other of being rebels. No one could tell who was the good guy. In the end, there were countless casualties and blood flowed into rivers.
Before the Tang army could attack, the Qin army itself suffered about 50,000 casualties. On Chen Li's paper, these soldiers should all be "available recruits who have undergone good training."
Now, these active forces that Chen Li had high hopes for, which can supplement the front line and allow the army to reshape its skeleton, have all been "internally consumed" in this chaos.
After finally calming down the chaos, Chen Li completely lost his ability to control the battle situation. He had to abandon Daxi Pass at the end of February and retreated to Shahun, which was backed by the Qin border.
That's right, if Shahun is lost again, then the Tang army on the northern front will invade the Qin mainland! What makes people even more desperate is that due to lack of preparation, Shahun's defenses were not completed, and the Qin army lost a lot of supplies they had hoarded at Daxiguan...
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