The Era of Generals

While everyone was thinking, Chen Ming came back.

After realizing that there was a difference, of course Chen Ze would not do nothing, but quietly let Chen Ming find a free time to leave the team while the army was passing through the city.

"My lord, just as you imagined, the people in the entire Xichuan City are restricted!"

As soon as he entered the camp, Chen Ming couldn't wait to report to Chen Ze.

"My subordinates searched the city and found that there are at least a thousand patrol teams wandering in Xichuan City. The places where they are most heavily guarded are the places where the common people live in the city!"

"As for the military aircraft department, there are heavily guarded guards, and there is no way to sneak in to check the situation inside."

"And the subordinates spent a lot of effort to sneak into the residence secretly, and the information they got back was extremely limited."

Speaking of this, Chen Ze suddenly interrupted: "Wait, the patrol team you mentioned, how many people are there in each team?"

Chen Mingdao: "Ten people, but the distribution is very close, as long as there is a commotion in one place, or around ten breaths, nearly a thousand people will gather around!"

"Ten people, that is, the number of people exceeds 10,000?"

Chen Ze pondered for a moment, then nodded, "Go on."

Chen Ming frowned and said: "My subordinates inspected three houses, and according to the people inside, they didn't know what happened, they only knew that an army entered the city the day before yesterday, and then the whole city was declared martial law, no one is allowed to Active in the city!"

Chen Ze frowned, "Is there an army entering the city? Did you say how many troops it is?"

"Not really."

Chen Ze shook his head and said: "The army has been mobilized frequently in the city these days, and most of the people have the idea of ​​not causing trouble, so they will not approach the army."

After thinking for a while, he said: "Maybe someone knows, but they are not among the three households investigated by my subordinates."

Chen Ze nodded to express his understanding.

There are tens of thousands of dwellings in this city, it is really not easy to find a needle in a haystack and find someone who knows the truth.

"Brother, what do you think?"

After listening to Chen Ming's report, Meng Yang and the others looked at each other in blank dismay, confused for a moment.

Chen Ze frowned, and said coldly: "The rebels!"

"Rebel... army?"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone's expressions changed drastically, and Xu Qing, who had the highest military rank among them, couldn't help exclaiming: "No way?"

Chen Ze glanced at him and knew why he couldn't accept it.

This world will be separate.

No matter how high your military rank is, at most you will only have entourage disciples who have worshiped the entrance court, and the main source of troops is still in the barracks under the unified management of the Military Aircraft Department.

In other words, this time you receive 10,000 soldiers and horses, it may be a wave of people, and next time you receive 10,000 soldiers and horses, it may be another wave of people.

This place will not be like Chen Ze's previous life, where the Yue family army, Yang family army, etc., do not exist.

The purpose of doing this is that there are many more generals on the Haotian Continent than in the previous life. If everyone has their own private soldiers, there will not be so many soldiers to distribute to them. Therefore, most low-level generals , Even mid-level generals will become bare commanders and fall into a situation where they have no soldiers to use.

In addition, for safety reasons, you are not given the opportunity to support your own self-respect. Every time you borrow troops, you have to pay them back after the war is over. It's about the empire, after a battle, the soldiers will no longer obey you, and instead feel resistant to forcibly preventing them from returning.

After all, soldiers are also people and have family members. Wherever their bonds are, people will naturally return there. Unless you get all the bonds of soldiers out, don’t even think about it.

In addition, although the Military Aircraft Department has the right to manage and dispatch soldiers, it does not have the position of marching and fighting, so it is impossible for the chief officer of the Military Aircraft Department to personally pull up an army to fight on the battlefield.

That is to say, those who have ideas have no soldiers under their command, and those who have soldiers have no ability to lead them. As for the soldiers... as long as they are not squeezed too much, everyone is doing nothing, so who can rebel?

So, rebels?

Xu Qing really hasn't heard this word for a long time.

"I can't think of any other explanation than that."

Chen Ze shook his head, seriousness written all over his face.

"You can think about it, if it wasn't for the empire's own army, how could it easily enter Xichuan City without being blocked?"

"The patrol teams in the city add up to nearly 10,000 people. With so many soldiers, even if some of Xichuan City's own troops are included, that's not a small number!"

Xu Qing opened his mouth, but found that he couldn't refute.

"Don't forget, City Lord Zheng passed through Xichuan City twice not long ago. If there is any sign that this city has been attacked, he cannot fail to notice it!"

"So these troops entered the city without bloodshed, or in other words, the defenders of Xichuan City let them in. Why did they let them in?"

After a slight pause, Chen Ze said word by word: "Because these people are clearly allies, so the defenders of Xichuan City will let them into the city directly!"

silence.

The five people present, including Chen Ming, all admired Chen Ze's wise plan, otherwise they would not have obeyed him faithfully.

Moreover, his analysis is not without reason.

"actually……"

After Chen Ze thought about it, he frowned again and said, "It's not accurate to say it's the rebels, because most of the soldiers probably don't know what they are doing."

"Look at the order and not the person. Before the soldiers receive an order that clearly violates the interests of the Qingyang Empire, of course they will only obey the order of the commander."

"At the moment of war, the complexity of the situation is beyond the imagination of the soldiers. They will not be able to tell whether the orders issued by the above are tricky or not. It is not impossible."

"Then..." Meng Yang looked at him fixedly, scratched his head and said, "Then what shall we do now?"

Chen Ze looked at Xu Qing and asked, "You said just now that you used to go to Xichuan City to do business, so how much do you know about the soldiers here?"

Xu Qing was slightly stunned, and hesitated: "The resident force of Xichuan City is about 100,000, and I only know a small number of soldiers in the city defense force."

Chen Ze asked again: "But when you were at the city gate before, you didn't know any of the soldiers there, right?"

"This..." Xu Qing recalled again, nodded and said: "I don't have any impression, so I was surprised at the time, because the soldiers of the city defense force are not included in the barracks, so basically those who are in charge of the city defense are those Soldiers, every time you come, you can always see one or two familiar people."

"But this time, there is none!"

With Xu Qing's confirmation, Chen Ze turned to Chen Ming and said, "Go to the city again with Xu Qing, this time you don't have to disturb the people, just take him to hide in the dark."

"And what you have to do is to observe secretly and find out who you know among the thousands of patrol teams!"

The latter sentence is a task for Xu Qing.