Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 1294 Zhang Liang Surrenders
In March in the south of the Yangtze River, warblers fly and grass grows.

The water of the Wusong River slowly surged and washed against the shore. Ospreys flitted across the river from time to time, catching underwater fish with their wings on the surface of the water, and then flapped their wings to fly high.

The wind in the river is warm, making people sleepy...

"I heard that the army rations have run out, and there is no replenishment yet?" A soldier lay lazily on the deck and muttered listlessly.

Another elderly veteran was brushing tung oil on the side of the ship with a brush, and he took off his upper body clothes, revealing his thin arms. Hearing this, he said in a muffled voice, "What do you do? Let's serve as soldiers and eat food. Just do a good job." That's right, that's something the commander-in-chief needs to worry about."

"Well, that's what I said, but people in the army are panicking and talking about everything. If we weren't all Xingyang soldiers who have followed the commander for many years, I am afraid that the army's morale would have been lost and there would have been deserters..."

The young soldier sighed and looked sad.

The veteran continued to concentrate on the work in hand, brushed the tung oil on the deck carefully, and said nonchalantly: "Do you still know that you are a Xingyang soldier? We Xingyang men all serve under the command of the commander. He Zeng, who was in the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood in Lihuo, frowned, now the world is peaceful, but there are so many complaints!"

"It's easy to say!" The young soldier stood up and said, "It's just us old and weak soldiers who lack supplies and armaments. When we go to the battlefield during the Eastern Expedition, don't we have to spend our lives in it? The commander has made meritorious deeds." , but we will be miserable..."

"To shut up!"

The old soldier put down the brush in his hand, gave the young soldier a hard look, and shouted.

Then he looked nervously at the empty pier, heaved a sigh of relief, and cursed in a low voice: "Fart your mother! How dare you say such nonsense? Beware of being overheard by others, it is a crime of disturbing the morale of the army. To beheaded!"

The young soldier shrank his neck in fright, and muttered in a low voice: "That's what it was, did you say something wrong..."

The old soldier snorted, wiped his sweat with his hands, looked at the bright sun above his head, took a drink from the water bottle beside him, then sat down next to the young soldier, and said, "You are a fool! We really Lack of supplies and armaments, not even a decent warship, but it is precisely because of this, how could it be our turn to charge? Why is the commander held back by that Fang Jun? Isn’t it because Fang Jun is unwilling to march eastward? The meritorious service was taken away by the commander! Just wait and see, during the Eastern Expedition, maybe we won’t even be able to take the job of escorting food and grass..."

"What?" The young soldier stared wide-eyed: "Impossible? Is the credit of the heavens slipping away for nothing?"

The veteran was so angry that he wanted to curse, but we old, weak and disabled soldiers, would we die if we went to the battlefield?

It is a great contribution, and one must have one's life to attain the Tao!
But before he could speak, he heard an exclamation from nearby.

"Mother! What is the Royal Navy doing?"

"Go to hell, isn't there going to be a war?"

There were exclamations from the warships nearby, and the veteran quickly stood up and looked towards the river.

The river is sparkling, the Yangtze River estuary is surging in the distance, and the sea and sky line.

I saw that the Royal Navy warships that were still testing the range of the artillery on the river had slowly gathered in one place, and the drums on the battleships were bursting, covering more than a dozen warships coming from the rear and heading towards the Canghaidao Wharf. Come.

The gunpowder smoke at the exit has not cleared away, drifting away with the soothing river wind...

There are only four or five old warships on the side of the Canghai Road docked at the pier waiting to repair the deck. Soldiers basking in the sun in twos and threes, chatting and chatting. When they saw something unusual, they got up and watched dumbfounded. At this time, the pot was blown!

Although Zhang Liang's side has been under pressure for a long time, the Royal Navy and Huating Town have been very close and ignored the Canghai Road side, but the two sides have never violated the river water and have never had any contact.

Looking at this menacing posture now, is it going to start a war?
But what the hell, we are all troops of Datang, okay...

Before Canghaidao can react, a new type of scissor sailboat has already come out of the Royal Navy. Its pointed bow cuts through the waves on the river. A white trajectory quickly approached the pier.

It seems that in just a moment, they have already arrived at the pier.

The soldiers on the pier swallowed, and looked nervously at the cannon on the prow of the warship, until the warship turned sideways and the black muzzle turned away, and then they breathed a sigh of relief.

It's so scary...

At this time, Zhang Liang came in a hurry with his helmet on and his armor on. Gongsun Chang beside him stepped forward and shouted at the warship docked on the pier: "Who is here, what is your business?"

A springboard hung from the battleship and was placed on the pier bridge, and a group of people strode off the battleship.

The leader was all in armor, with a scarlet cloak hanging behind him, and the red tassels on the iron helmet danced with his footsteps like flames, majestic and majestic.

When he came directly to Zhang Liang, the man clasped his fists and said, "Su Dingfang, the captain of the royal navy, has met Chief Zhang!"

It was Su Dingfang who came!

Zhang Liang frowned, and said sharply: "Su Dingfang! Don't think that being His Majesty's minion can show off your might in front of someone. What do you want to do when you drive a battleship into a certain dock? If you can't give a certain reasonable explanation, a certain I must read you a copy in front of His Majesty!"

It just doesn't make sense!
It’s nothing more than suppressing myself, but all the goods smuggled in Canghaidao privately have been blocked, even some well-connected Jiangnan gentry secretly subsidized some food for themselves, and these guys have been detained by these guys on the charge of "selling food". Openly driving a battleship to block the door of his house, how the fuck is it true that I am a vegetarian?

If a tiger doesn't show its power, treat me like a sick cat!
The soldiers behind him also stared angrily!

It's too much to bear, it's unbearable!
Su Dingfang waved his hand to stop the generals behind him from coming forward to scold, and said to Zhang Liang expressionlessly: "Jingzhao Yin Fangjun just sent a letter, asking the governor to transfer three thousand shi of military rations here. From now on, everything in Canghai Road The army rations, supplies and armaments are all provided by the Royal Navy first, and then they are settled with Huating Town, I wonder if Chief Zhang has any objections?"

Zhang Liang was taken aback for a moment.

Fang Jun asked Su Dingfang to send three thousand shi of military rations?
As soon as Jingzhong reached an agreement with Fang Jun, the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River had already gone back on their word. The rations and supplies that they had promised to themselves were gone, so Fang Jun sent them here...

Zhang Liang's mouth was full of bitterness.

Do you accept it?

If it is accepted, the lack of supplies in the army will be alleviated immediately, and even if some goods are smuggled in the future, the Royal Navy will inevitably turn a blind eye and close one eye, and open the net.

If they don't accept it, the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River will definitely send the luggage according to the agreement, but they will still face the investigation and interception of the Royal Navy, and the situation may not improve much...

Speaking of it, Zhang Liang is willing to accept the military rations in front of him.Although he took refuge in Fang Jun in name, he actually stood under the emperor's command, and there was nothing shameful about it.

But the problem is that once I accept Fang Jun's funding, it means that from now on all the troops in Jiangnan will be under Fang Jun's control... No matter who is the coach of the Eastern Expedition in the future, Fang Jun will not be able to get around A hurdle!

What's more serious is that since then, the Jiangnan gentry can no longer fight against Fang Jun, and all businesses will be placed under the management of Huating Town.

Witnessing with his own eyes that his rival Fang Junfeng has become the de facto controller of Jiangnan, this feeling is really hard for Zhang Liang to swallow...

He is deliberating, weighing, and unwilling to be reconciled here, but the soldiers under him don't think so!
They are all soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, so why are the Royal Navy and Huating Town full of food and drink, while my own lacks food and clothing, and even the weapons are rusty?The power that should have belonged to Canghai Road has been snatched away by Huating Town and the Royal Navy. Who can be reconciled?

All the soldiers looked at Zhang Liang eagerly, waiting for Zhang Liang to make a decision.

Looking at the pair of eyes full of where to go, Zhang Liang can only sigh secretly, if he continues to persevere, the situation is still so embarrassing and there is no improvement, will these his most loyal direct descendants still support him as always?
I'm afraid it may not be...

Everyone has the pursuit of interests, a coach who cannot be brought merit, wealth, and status by his subordinates, why should he ask others to work for you?
Recently, complaints from the army have been heard more than once. If it were in the past, Zhang Liang would have ordered a purge of military discipline long ago, and would have punished those who secretly complained.But now he has to consider whether this resentment will affect the entire army.

If the hearts of the people are scattered, the team will not be easy to lead...

That's it!

Even if it's for these subordinates who drove him all the way to kill him, why not bow his head once?
What's more, according to Fang Jun's intentions, as long as he bows his head, he should have a place in the navy when he marches east in the future...

It's just that those Jiangnan gentry are going to be sad, without their own resistance, Jiangnan is under Fang Jun's control, and all goods and breeding transactions have to go through Huating Town to peel off a layer of skin, which is enough for the Jiangnan gentry to die of pain!

(End of this chapter)