The world of counterfeit magistrates competes in the world

Chapter 761
Therefore, Qu Xiong continued to persuade the generals, using all means such as Xiaozhi's emotional appeal, reasoning, coercion and temptation.After hearing Qu Xiong's words, everyone couldn't help but fell into deep thought.It is impossible to say that there is no feeling. As naval generals, they have suffered too much grievance and injustice, and they are also very at a loss about the future.If they were given a choice, the Tianhua Navy would undoubtedly be the best destination.It's just the loyalty in their hearts and their distrust of Tianhua that made them hesitate.

At this time, Lian Haiping looked at the crowd and said: "Everyone, I am deeply touched by your feelings. However, we have no choice. No matter what the outcome of this naval battle, our Haizhou navy will face the doom of the sea." Tianhua will never tolerate our vengeance against the king. Not only you, but also the soldiers below, as well as our family members, will all die. But is it worth it?"

Lian Haiping looked around at the crowd and said in a deep voice: "Nowadays, our naval division has been repeatedly compressed and its military salary has been in arrears. The soldiers and their families are waiting for food at home and living a difficult life. Once the war starts, there will be countless casualties. Soldiers died in vain, leaving their families without food and clothing, how should we explain to the dead soldiers and brothers?"

When everyone heard the words, their expressions couldn't help changing, and a sense of grief and indignation suddenly rose in their hearts.

"Now, the Tianhua Navy is returning from an expedition to Dongyang to clear the barbarians and bandits for us in the Central Plains. How can we do such an act of righteousness? Wouldn't it shame our ancestors?" Lian Haiping continued, "Now The Gu family stole Haizhou and supported the puppets to become self-professionals. They are just the second Cao family. My navy has the ambition to gallop thousands of miles up and down the sky, but I am confined to the rivers and rivers. Do you want to continue to waste your life here?"

"Lian Haiping, this is an act of rebellion. You must not trust him lightly." At this time, the general of the Gu family shouted immediately, "As long as we kill Emperor Tianhua, you will all be great heroes. Give a generous reward. Don’t be fooled by this traitor, as long as you invite Gu Jianjun, he can guarantee you.”

"Gu Jianjun?" Lian Haiping sneered, "Come here, bring Gu Jianjun in."

At this time, a person walked in from the door, holding a bloody human head in his hand, and placed it on the table.

"Here, at this time, Gu Jianjun, you, you killed him?" Seeing this, everyone couldn't help being terrified.

"That's right, this general has already executed Supervisor Gu." Lian Haiping looked at the crowd coldly, "Now this general gives you three choices. One, follow me and join Tianhua together. The other is to sit on the sidelines. This general Guaranteed, I will never embarrass you. But before that, this general must detain you and take back the power in your hands. After the matter is completed, you will be released. As for the third, that is death."

Everyone looked at each other, with sweat running down their foreheads. Finally, after the first person bowed his head and surrendered, the rest of the people followed suit and knelt down in front of Lian Haiping.As for the dozen or so generals of the Gu family, they stood there with livid faces, yelling and cursing.

"Very well, since you all choose to stand by this general, then show your sincerity." Lian Haiping smiled lightly, "I will leave these stubborn people to you to deal with."

Hearing this, everyone hesitated for a moment, gritted their teeth, pulled out their sabers, and walked towards the dozen or so generals of the Gu family.In an instant, dozens of knives fell on them one after another, and blood splashed all over the conference room.Now that they have made a move, they have no way out.They had no choice but to accept Lian Haiping's control honestly, and now their only way out was to seek refuge with Tianhua.

Afterwards, under Lian Haiping's planning, all the generals went to their respective fleets to clear the eyes and ears of the Gu family on board.Soon, chaos broke out on most of the ships. After a night of fighting, it finally calmed down completely, and Lian Haiping successfully controlled the power of the entire fleet.

In late April, in the sea area less than three hundred miles away from Yanzhou, the Tianhua Navy quickly spotted a shadow of sails coming from the south.

Liang Shicheng came to Lin Yifan anxiously and reported the situation to him.

Lin Yifan was also taken aback when he heard that, besides Tianhua, the only one who owns thousands of warships now is Haizhou in the south.But what is the purpose of this navy team coming here this time?

Liang Shicheng didn't dare to take any risks, and immediately said: "Your Majesty, the other party's visitors are not kind, and the last general will lead his army to stop them. You should leave immediately."

Lin Yifan snorted coldly, "You let me run away? I still have [-] warships and [-] soldiers and horses here. Why are you afraid of a mere thousand broken ships?"

"Your Majesty, you don't know that except for more than 200 warships in our army, the rest are all transport ships." Liang Shicheng smiled wryly, "The other party has at least six or seven hundred warships, and the situation is not good for our army. Your Majesty Wan Jin Do not put yourself in danger."

"Hehe, during this Eastern Expedition, which time was it not in a dangerous place?" Lin Yifan sneered, "Now that the entire army is preparing for the battle, I run away alone. In fact, what a gentleman did? What's more, I have confidence in our soldiers , will definitely be able to repel the enemy's invasion. General Liang, don't waste time here, go quickly to command the battle."

"This?" Seeing His Majesty's resolute face, Liang Shicheng knew that he couldn't be persuaded, so he had to compromise, "Well, if that's the case, Your Majesty will stay in the rear, and the general will escort His Majesty back safely."

"Well, let's go." Lin Yifan, knowing that he was not good at sea battles, immediately nodded and urged.

Soon, the Tianhua Navy formed a formation, stopped in front of the opponent, surrounded Lin Yifan's flagship closely behind, and sailed slowly towards Yanzhou.

At this time, the Haizhou Navy finally arrived at the opposite side of the Tianhua Navy. Seeing that the opponent was ready for battle, they immediately slowed down and lowered their sails to show that they did not intend to fight.

Liang Shicheng couldn't help being surprised when he saw this.Since they didn't come to start a war, why did the other party come to the waters of Yanzhou?

Not long after, they saw a fast boat coming towards them.Seeing that there was no trace of hostility from the other party, Liang Shicheng immediately asked people to pick up the people on the boat.

The person who came was Qu Xiong who persuaded him to surrender that day. When he saw Liang Shicheng, he immediately gave a Tianhua military salute and said excitedly: "General, the last general can be regarded as having found you."

"You are?" Liang Shicheng looked at him suspiciously, but he didn't know anything about the Shadow Guard's infiltration into the Haizhou Navy.

"General, the last general, Qu Xiong, is the dark son of the shadow guard who was placed in the Haizhou navy." Qu Xiong immediately took out a token, on which was written the word "shadow" in ancient seal script.

Naturally, Liang Shicheng recognized the token, so he didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly said: "So it's Brother Yingwei, but I don't know what you are here for?"

As he said that, the vigilance in his eyes remained undiminished. It was unimaginable that he would come from the other party's ship so openly.

Qu Xiong immediately said: "General, the last general is here to announce the good news to His Majesty."

"Announcement? Where does the joy come from?"

"General, look at the Haizhou navy on the opposite side. Now they have all lowered their sails and gave up their resistance. Isn't this obvious?" Qu Xiong pointed to the opposite ship and said proudly.

"You, you mean, the Haizhou navy wants to join me, Tianhua?" Liang Shicheng's eyes widened in disbelief.

So, Qu Xiong told him what happened that night.

Liang Shicheng was overjoyed, clapped his palms and said with a smile, "Okay, okay. I didn't expect that General Lian would be so enlightened. Our Tianhua Navy will add a good general."

(End of this chapter)