Three Kingdoms: Madam, I am a decent person

Chapter 638: Jiangdong's Navy Forces Push Across the Yangtze River
When Xu Rong and Xu Dan heard what Zhang Liao said, their faces darkened.

The two men looked at each other and stretched out their hands to Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao held their hands and nodded heavily at them.

Perhaps, this is the last time the three of them meet.

Xu Rong and Xu Dan did not continue with Zhang Liao.

The two men rushed out of the general's tent, found their own troops, and immediately rushed to the place Zhang Liao mentioned.

Zhang Liao watched them leave without saying anything. Instead, he asked his personal soldiers at the entrance of the tent to watch over it while he lay down on the floor of the tent and fell asleep.

too tired.

He hasn't slept for two days.

He needs to put all his energy into this final battle.

Zhang Liao slept until early the next morning.

He had a long dream during this sleep.

In his dream, he returned to Yanmen with the soldiers who had died in the past.

Under the general's tent, Ding Yuan sat in the first seat, looking at him expressionlessly.

Next to Ding Yuan, stood Zhang Sui.

When he saw his old friend again, Zhang Liao burst into tears.

When he woke up, his face was covered with dried tear marks.

With two big hands, Zhang Liao wiped his cheeks vigorously to wipe away the tears, and murmured to himself: "Mr. Ding, I will come to you soon. When the time comes, I will serve you like a cow or a horse."

After saying this, Zhang Liao took his sword from the weapon rack and hung it around his waist.

Afterwards, he took off the ring-handled sword and wiped it carefully.

After wiping the ring-handled sword, Zhang Liao said, "Old friend, this is the last battle."

After saying that, he rushed out of the commander's tent with his ring-handled sword and shouted sternly, "Assemble!"

Shouts rang out throughout the camp.

In a short while, the eight hundred personal soldiers were lined up in front of him.

Among these eight hundred personal soldiers, only eight were veterans he brought with him from Yanmen.

The others were all Danyang elites selected by him from Xu Dan’s 3,000 elite troops.

Zhang Liao walked past these personal soldiers one by one, looking at their faces carefully, as if he wanted to engrave their faces in his mind.

The eight hundred personal soldiers also looked at Zhang Liao one by one.

Yesterday, Deputy Commandants Xu Dan and Xu Rong took away all the other soldiers and left them alone to garrison here. They knew what they would face this time.

This was probably the last time they spent time with Zhang Liao.

After Zhang Liao glanced at everyone, he jumped on his horse and rode away first.

None of the eight hundred personal soldiers spoke again.

Everyone followed closely behind Zhang Liao.

It was dusk that day.

Wujun.

The port of Qu'a was densely populated with Jiangdong soldiers.

Under command, these soldiers quickly boarded the ship.

At the end of these soldiers, a group of civil and military officials surrounded Sun Quan as he came out of the government office.

Zhang Zhao walked beside Sun Quan, constantly nagging him, telling him to proceed steadily, not to be reckless, and not to be war-loving.

Sun Quan was extremely upset.

Ever since his brother Sun Ce passed away, Zhang Zhao had been like an old woman, lecturing him every day.

Although I know that this is what my brother entrusted Zhang Zhao to do before he died.

But Zhang Zhao went too far.

Treat him like a child completely.

However, even so, Sun Quan still maintained a smile on his face, looking obedient.

It was not until they reached the warships on the shore that Sun Quan interrupted Zhang Zhao and said to him, "Mr. Zhang, this is it."

"Don't worry, old man. I will definitely be successful in this war." "After we take Guangling and Xuzhou, I will follow your will, develop Jiangdong well, manage Jiangdong, and let the people live and work in peace and contentment."

Zhang Zhao looked at Sun Quan. How could he not know what Sun Quan was thinking?
He is old and has seen too many people.

He sighed secretly in his heart.

He served the brothers Sun Ce and Sun Quan.

The two brothers have completely opposite personalities.

Sun Ce was violent and overbearing, but everyone obeyed his orders.

Sun Quan was gentle and submissive, but to him, it was only on the surface; in fact, he was very annoyed with him.

Looking at Sun Quan's smiling face, Zhang Zhao's expression became a little gloomy.

If your brother Sun Ce had not begged me repeatedly before his death, why would I be so stubborn in persuading you to do such a thankless task?

Even so, Zhang Zhao still said: "Although our army this time is nearly 100,000, we must not underestimate the enemy."

"The enemy is different from us. Although they have been trained, they are far inferior to us in naval warfare."

"But once on land, the Hebei troops were extremely brave."

"My lord, this is your first time leading an army alone. You must be very careful and take steady steps—"

Sun Quan interrupted Zhang Zhao and said with a smile, "Don't worry, Mr. Zhang, I've remembered everything."

"I've heard you say these things at least ten times."

"I'm not an eight-year-old."

After saying this, he bowed to Zhang Zhao and then boarded the warship surrounded by the generals.

Seeing this, Zhang Zhao could only look at the civil and military officials in silence.

As Sun Quan boarded the ship, countless warships sailed towards the Hailing Port opposite.

Sun Quan stood at the bow of the warship, looking at Hailing Port in Guangling County, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

Hailing Port has no defense at all!
Thinking back to when I followed Xu Kun and Zhou Yu to attack here, we encountered stubborn resistance from the Guangling defenders, which eventually led to defeat.

That time, my brother even blamed himself for the defeat.

now.

Look.

There was no meddling from Xu Kun and Zhou Yu.

The defenders of Guangling fled when they saw him!
As Sun Quan was looking at the defenseless Hailing Port with smugness, a soldier rowed a warship closer.

After jumping onto the warship, the soldier saluted Sun Quan and said, "The vanguard Ling Cao and Chen Wu have not found any enemy troops ahead. Please give us your instructions!"

Sun Quan waved his hand and said with high spirits: "In the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies and tricks are like jumping clowns."

"Go directly to the port, take over Hailing Port, and then head towards Shatou Town!"

The soldier responded, jumped off the warship, and rowed the boat quickly forward.

One hundred thousand naval troops crossed the entire river.

Zhang Zhao looked from afar at the 100,000 navy troops landing directly on the opposite bank and frowned.

Beside Zhang Zhao, Gu Yong, who was invited by Sun Quan to serve as a chief clerk last year, whispered, "Mr. Zhang, although you are young, you have experienced many wars."

“Stop worrying about it.”

"You have caused dissatisfaction among the lords by giving instructions like this."

"If you continue like this, be careful that the lord will rebel and resent you."

“Everything in moderation.”

"Not everyone is like Zhang Sui, the ruler of Hebei, who can tolerate the bad temper of Xuzhou Mu Tianfeng."

Zhang Zhao nodded, turned around and asked Gu Yong: "You know a lot about the general?"

Gu Yong smiled and said, "After all, he is the son-in-law of my husband, Mr. Cai. I have asked around a bit."

"But don't worry, Mr. Zhang. I can distinguish between public and private matters."

"I will not let my personal feelings for Zhang Sui interfere with my official duties."

"I only have one lord."

Zhang Zhao hummed and did not refute, but took the civil and military officials back to the government office.

(End of this chapter)