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To be honest, Huang Long has not been very happy these days. As a dignified General of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, he is very dissatisfied with his current life.
The tea is good, the wine is good, but the people are not good. At least in Huang Long's eyes, there is really no good person in front of him. For example, the few prostitutes he brought with him had already bored him, and for example, Kong Youde and his gang always made him dislike him, so Huang Long was very dissatisfied with his current life. Just having good tea and good wine, how could this be the life of a dignified second-rank general?
Huang Long had a bad temper, so when one of his men reported that a deputy general from Jinling had come to visit him on Pi Island, Huang Long simply asked the man if he had brought him any gifts. When the man said no, Huang Long dismissively waved his hand and said, "Damn it! He comes to my territory and doesn't give me a gift. I'll kick him out."
The subordinate responded seriously and went down to handle the matter. As a general in Jinling, although he was in the richest place in Dali, the court would hardly allocate funds to the army here because there was no war. The supplies for the military households here depended on the land they cultivated themselves and the local finances for some relief. Almost all the money from the court was paid to the border troops as military expenses. Without a large amount of military expenses allocated from above, the general would not have a lot of money to make. Therefore, the general in a place like Jinling was much poorer than the general of the border army, let alone a deputy general.
The biggest trouble of the generals in Dali was mostly sucking the blood of the soldiers. The poor Emperor Chongzhen had worked so hard to get some military funds, but most of them were embezzled by these generals. The poor Emperor Chongzhen knew that these people had embezzled a lot of military funds, but for fear of causing unrest on the border, he just turned a blind eye to these people.
However, although Huang Long, the general of Dongjiang, also belongs to the border army, the army he is in charge of is considered to be raised by a stepmother in the eyes of the court. The military funds allocated to them are always very small, which makes the greedy Huang Long very dissatisfied. After these military funds pass through Huang Long's hands, the salaries paid to his soldiers are even pitifully small, forcing these soldiers to rely on looting passing merchant ships to make a living.
Huang Long had never heard of Tang Tong, the deputy general of Jinling, so he naturally didn't care about him. If no gifts were given to him, Huang Long would not bother to respond even if the general of Jinling came.
Tang Tong's army was still ten feet away from Pi Island when it was stopped by the patrolling navy on Pi Island. Tang Tong kindly stopped and asked them to inform the then commander Huang Long. However, he waited for a long time, only to be told to leave immediately by the patrolling navy. This made Tang Tong somewhat annoyed.
Tang Tong was not very familiar with history, so naturally he didn't know what kind of person General Huang was on Pi Island at that time. All Tang Tong knew were people like Kong Youde who had defected to the Jiannu. Since Mao Wenlong's death, Mao Wenlong's men could be said to have fallen apart. The current group of people could not be considered a team of the Great Qin, but instead became a major accomplice in harming the Great Qin. According to historical records, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongqin, Shang Kexi and others defected to the Jiannu in 1634 AD. Not only did they bring the firearms manufacturing technology of the Great Qin to the Jiannu, they also spared no effort to kill the Han people. The Guangzhou Massacre in which Shang Kexi participated alone killed more people than the Nanjing Massacre.
Tang Tong thought that since they were all still members of the imperial court, in order not to leave a bad excuse for the court, he wanted to recruit people like Kong Youde into his own team to prevent them from defecting to the Jiannu and harming the Han people. However, General Huang attacked him without giving him any face. How could Tang Tong not be angry?
Tang's men had always won battles, and they were a group of arrogant and brave generals. Naturally, they were dissatisfied with their leader being offended. If it weren't for Tang Tong's strict military discipline, they would have shot those messengers into a hornet's nest.
"Sir, please allow me to duel with them." Li Kui, the deputy commander of the Japanese auxiliary army who has been highly valued by Tang Tong recently, has already regarded himself as Tang Tong's man wholeheartedly. How could he bear to see others disrespecting the great Lord Tang in his mind at this time, so he immediately knelt down and asked Tang Tong to fight.
The Japanese only obey the strong and care more about face. Once they obey, they are very loyal dogs. In their eyes, the master's face is their own face. They think that the other party's disrespect for Tang Tong is also a disrespect to themselves. What's more, Li Kui is a rough-faced but careful person who knows the importance of flattery. Naturally, he jumped out to express his loyalty, so as to gain more appreciation from Lord Tang.
Tang Tong shook his head and said, "Mr. Li, I appreciate your loyalty. However, they are now officers and soldiers of the Great Army. It is not your turn to kill them. Zhao Yapeng, I leave this matter to you. Damn it, kill some of them with artillery. These guys are troublesome anyway."
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