Yang Rong Gui smiled and said with profound implication, "Master Xu has said too much, how could an underling dare to entertain the idea of rebellion? But the Emperor has already been killed by a Dong Ying assassin. At present, the country is in danger, the Crown Prince is still young, us subjects have to make such a decision, inviting Your Highness to ascend the throne.”

Notes:

*More about Sun Erniang, in Water Margin, she and an accomplice operated a tavern and targeted travellers, making them unconscious then robbing and killing them, and sometimes used their flesh to make fillings for steamed buns which they then served to other unsuspecting customers. The Sun in her name is the same with Boss Sun.

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Whether it was Gu Yun, Zhong Chan, or even the entire Great Liang Army, no one had absolute confidence about naval battle, thus they must bring out their best to respond. First, they followed the young genius Ge Chen of Ling Shu to dismantle the Western Dragon. From the aspects of speed, defense, artillery, and Ziliujin carrying capacity, they analyzed the operational habits of the Western Navy from beginning to end and the possibility of changes they might have on the battlefield.

When the two armies came into an unavoidable confrontation, there were thousands of large and small Dragons. It was quite different from when they fled on the river with twenty people. Anything was possible.

How to fight in certain situations, many things seemed to require only flexible reactions during battle, but in reality, these were all dependent on the innumerable experiences and efforts of the commander from behind. Moreover, they must also discuss the direction of development of the Great Liang Navy in the future, how to prepare, what kind of warship should they request from Ling Shu Institute, how to train the soldiers, how to distribute Ziliujin, so on and so forth.

Gu Yun's situation here was a little more complicated. He was ordered to command the four borders. Besides the battlefield in Jiangnan, he had to consider many other aspects.

Every day, he followed the patrol station around Liangjiang to feel the situation of the battlefield. At night, he returned to alternatively discuss with either old General Zhong or Mayor Yao. Since Chang Geng left, he had always been on the move, busy to the point of not having a moment to drink water.

Today, as Gu Yun stood up to say goodbye to Yao Zhen, his legs suddenly became numb, his body swaying and his heart beating like a drum. Yao Zhen quickly supported him: "Marshal, what's wrong?"

"It's all right, just hungry," Gu Yun said with a slight self-mockery, laughing at him. "To tell you the truth, right now if you were to bring me a pancake as big as a cart pulled by a donkey, I could still swallow it whole."