Chapter 83: The Southern Dilemma (4)

Sure enough, Zhang Zhihao and the others were quickly escorted to an independent courtyard next to the palace and imprisoned.

Zhang Zhihao and Yang Xiong were very calm, and directly fell to the ground and closed their eyes to recuperate. Among the six people, Yu Liang was the only one who was uneasy, and couldn't stop sighing that he had bad luck this time.

At lunchtime, Zhang Zhihao got up again, but kicked away the rice and pickles sent by the Ma Yi soldiers, and then turned around and fell to sleep again. When it was time for dinner, Yang Xiong also sent a majestic gesture, kicked and smashed the soup bowl that was sent, and the white rice soup was spilled all over the ground.

Zhang Zhihao glanced at Yu Liang, who was still leaning against the wall with red eyes and was silent, and said softly: "General Chen, they can be said to be the most elite soldiers in the whole world, and they will come over tonight at the latest!" Rest assured, we will give you a compensation for this one-day trip to Mayi Prison! Hurry up and go to sleep, we probably won't be able to sleep in the second half of the night! ”

Yu Liang grinned, revealing an expression that couldn't tell whether he was crying or laughing.

The night is as quiet as ink, as quiet as water. I don't know how long it took, Zhang Zhihao sat up, leaned to the window, and listened to the movement outside.

Yu Liang also came to the window, staring at the unusually bright and clean night sky of the South China Sea with a bitter face.

"General Chen, they're here!" Zhang Zhihao suddenly whispered.

Yu Liang listened with all his strength, but did not hear any unusual movements.

"Alright, wait!" Zhang Zhihao turned around and went to the cell door, sat down and waited.

Yu Liang's eyes widened, and his hands grabbed the window lattice hard, feeling as if time had frozen.

I don't know how long later, a scream suddenly came from outside the house. Immediately after, the cell door opened, and the heavily armed Chen Shengfang strode in, threw a few blood-stained steel knives into the ground, and said with a smile: "Let everyone wait for a long time!" ”

"Are there any casualties?" Yang Xiong asked anxiously.

"Of course not!" Zhang Zhihao hurriedly answered, smirking proudly.

"Only two brothers who got on the boat in Quanzhou were injured!" Chen Shengfang also smiled and replied disdainfully, "These soldiers of Ma Yiguo are too weak, let's just slaughter chickens with cattle knives!" ”

In the process of walking out, Chen Shengfang briefly introduced their day's actions: first ambushed 30 "Ma Pole Soldiers" who were about to return to the palace not far from the coast, followed by killing a horse gun, and swept away the 60 or so Ma Pole Soldiers who had already boarded the ship, and then escorted two prisoners to this place overnight, attacked from the so-called periphery of the palace, and then attacked from the north gate, and now all the Ma Yi State officials in the palace who stayed overnight have been captured, and more than 100 soldiers have been captured.

The group walked quickly to the original "palace". At this time, the Nangong Gate and several palace walls have been torn down, and there are dozens of "hemp soldiers" underground, and a group of brothers are cleaning up the battlefield; At the main entrance of the main hall, the thin black man and the five officials they had seen in the morning knelt there, and fear made their little black faces even more distorted and ugly.

Zhang Zhihao and Yang Xiong walked up to the black and thin old man, shook their heads and said nothing.

The black thin old man trembled, and immediately knelt over, hugged Zhang Zhihao's left leg, and shouted urgently.

Yu Liang came over, looked at Zhang Zhihao very respectfully, and translated: "He's saying that he is blind and has offended the great power envoy, please forgive him." ”

Zhang Zhihao pulled out his left leg, walked up to the other five, and said in a cold voice: "Which of you has the right to inherit this king?" ”

When the five people heard Yu Liang's translation, they looked at Zhang Zhihao in extreme horror, and two of them couldn't help but look at a middle-aged fat man in the middle. The fat man trembled like chaff, his upper and lower teeth touched, and there was a soft and crisp sound of "Dede", but he couldn't utter a word.

Zhang Zhihao knew this, picked up a knife from the ground, and slashed at the neck of the frightened black thin old man. The black and thin old man immediately shrank to the ground, and his body instantly burst out of a pungent stench, and the person convulsed twice, and he ran out of breath!

In this way, the dignified generation of King Mayi didn't even remember his name.

Zhang Zhihao turned around with the bloody knife again, pointed at the fat man and said coldly: "In the future, the king of this Mayi country will be you!" Say, how do you compensate us? ”

After hearing these words, the fat man's face flashed with a hint of surprise, and he kowtowed three times in a row, and said quickly and loudly.

"He said, "Let the treasures of the treasury be taken by the angel of God, and the rest shall be decided by the angel of God." Yu Liang translated briskly and abnormally, I really couldn't believe that Ma Yiguo was easily copied by this group of people, and there was another king!

Zhang Zhihao's face was like frost, and he shouted coldly: "Tell him that in the future, the country of Mayi will be a subject country of the Tang Dynasty, and we can protect them from foreign bullying, but they will pay a thousand taels of gold and silver to the Tang Dynasty every year, and the Tang Dynasty has the right to give priority to mining any mine in the country of Mayi, and the commercial tax of all Datang merchant ships shall not be higher than one-thirtieth!" ”

When the fat man heard these conditions, his whole body trembled again, but he looked around at the corpses of the soldiers and the former king, and immediately nodded again and again.

"You immediately copy down the agreement just now, and write it in Chinese and Ma Yiwen respectively!" Zhang Zhihao commanded Yu Liang, threw the knife in his hand aside, took two sharp breaths of air, and suppressed the nausea feeling that had surged to his throat under the cover of night.

No way, this is Zhang Zhihao's first time killing people, a rookie!

Zhang Zhihao bent down to help the new king of Ma Yiguo, and the fat man followed behind Zhang Zhihao in fear, obviously thinking of himself as a junior.

Zhang Zhihao completely changed his face at this time, asked his name with a pleasant face, and then walked in front of the more than 100 captured "hemp soldiers".

Zhang Zhihao pointed to the corpse of the old king underground, and then pointed to the new king Chachai, and roared: "Anyone who dares to offend my Tang Tianwei will be punished even if it is far away!" The corpses on the ground are proof of this. Now, who wouldn't agree with Tsachai being king? Stand up?! ”

The group of soldiers who had long been frightened looked at each other, and no one said a word, and they all subconsciously shrank back. The three soldiers standing in the front row inadvertently turned around and found that they had actually broken away from the group, and immediately jumped up in fright, turned around and rushed into the ranks of the unrighteous brothers.

Zhang Zhihao held back a smile, politely asked Chachai to sign the agreement between the two parties, and then took Yang Xiong and Chen Shengfang to visit the treasury of Ma Yiguo.

Although the three of them had tried their best to lower their psychological expectations, the dignified warehouse of Ma Yiguo still shocked them: in the big room of the three rooms, there were only a few hundred bags of rice and a dozen boxes, and then, there were no more!

Then, Chachai opened all the boxes as if offering treasures, which were weapons, pearls, gold and silver nuggets and other things.

The three of them lowered their heads and discussed, only taking a pair of Ma Yi Guoyu maps, a box of pearls, and a box of gold and silver.

Zhang Zhihao carefully observed the map, and found that this country of Mayi had flat terrain, ordinary production, and sparse villages, but he really didn't find anything outstanding, and asked a little excitedly whether to continue the journey.

Yang Xiong and Chen Shengfang also had this intention, and immediately went out to reorganize their troops and prepare to set off.

On the afternoon of 2 October, Chachai and other Ma Yiguo's "new leading group" sent Zhang Zhihao and his men to the coast, and at their request, transferred two small boats full of food and fresh water and dozens of sailors to the southbound fleet.

In the same blue color of heaven and earth, the sea expedition team, which had expanded to five ships, set off again.

However, when the people and horses on the east coast easily crossed an adventure small checkpoint, across the wide South China Sea, the overseas team of Jia Yuhang, Yi Wuxian and others who went south along the west coast faced real difficulties.