The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Zu Lang and Xu You began to calculate for Liu Zheng what happened in Yangzhou during this time.

"This guy Yan Baihu, if this incident hadn't happened, he would actually be someone we can use, what a pity."

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Speaking of Yan Baihu, Liu Zheng actually knew something about it. After all, he was a relatively famous prince among the later Three Kingdoms, and he also existed in the Yangzhou area for a while.

His name is not Yan Baihu, but his real name is Yan Hu, and he is from Wucheng County, Kuaiji County.

In history, Yan Baihu had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command, occupied several counties to fight against the imperial court, and was at ease for a while.

However, when Sun Ce inherited his father's behest and led troops and horses to conquer Jiangdong, Yan Baihu was the first to fight Sun Ce and was defeated by Sun Ce.

Later, he couldn't beat Sun Ce, so he could only surrender to Sun Ce, but was killed by Sun Ce, and he ended up dead.

But there is a big difference between today and history.Because the appearance of Liu Zheng has changed history.Yan Baihu not only has [-] to [-] more soldiers than in history.Moreover, he also sent his younger brother Yan Xing to continue acting as a water thief to collect money and strengthen himself.

All this is due to the early emergence of the state pastoral system, which made those state pastoral governors assigned to various places want to wipe out the thieves everywhere as soon as possible.It made the thieves from all over the country who didn't have much sense of crisis become more afraid of the court, so they recruited people to fight against the court.

Yan Baihu has grown rapidly during this period of last year, expanding from more than 3 people to [-] people today, and directly launched a confrontation with the imperial court to occupy several counties in the east of Kuaiji County.

In Liu Zheng's earliest thoughts, although Yan Baihu's strength is not very good, he is still a prince, with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command, so he can be regarded as a person who can make him make friends with some thought.

After all, if Liu Zheng wants to get his hands on Yangzhou, cooperating with Yan Baihu can have some unexpected effects.

But now Yan Baihu actually intercepted his merchant ship, which made Liu Zheng a little embarrassed.

If he still wants to form an alliance with Yan Baihu, then there must be no way to explain this matter to the Mi family.

But if he gave the Mi family an explanation and had to offend Yan Baihu, then Liu Zheng would lose an ally he could ally with in Yangzhou.

"My lord, what should we do next? Should we take someone directly to kill Yan Xing or something?"

Now that the matter has been investigated, the truth has come to light, but Zu Lang did not decide to deal with the matter on his own, but came to Liu Zheng and asked Liu Zheng's attitude. After all, he still had to follow Liu Zheng's opinion on this matter.

Liu Zheng said what to do so that they can make the next decision.

"Although this Yan Baihu cannot be eliminated for the time being, it is more beneficial for us if he is alive, but the hundreds of brothers who died have to take revenge."

"In this matter, let's deal with Yan Xing first. As for Yan Baihu, if he is sensible, this matter will be written off. If he is not sensible and insists on fighting with us, we don't have to be afraid of him. After Yan Xing is resolved, we will go Deal with him!"

Now Yan Baihu is fighting against Yangzhou Mu Liuyou.Because of the presence of water thieves such as Yan Baihu, Yangzhou Shepherd Liu Yao did not divide his troops to deal with Liu Zheng in Jiaozhou. Otherwise, he would kill his general Zhang Ying and lose [-] elite soldiers because of the festival between Liu Zheng and Liu Yao. It is impossible for you not to report.

If Liu Yao defeated Yan Baihu.Wouldn't it be possible to free up your hands to deal with Liu Zheng immediately?

If Liu Zheng fights Yan Baihu, the two tigers will fight against Liu Yao again.Such a smart person as Liu Zheng would naturally not do such a stupid thing.

Now that he decided to deal with Yan Xing, it was impossible for Liu Zheng to be unprepared.

He first asked Zu Lang to bring all the soldiers and horses to continue dormant here, and then sent someone to inform the Mi family.Let the staff of the Mi family disguise themselves to form another caravan, and pretend to be loaded with important goods on this merchant ship, which is worth a lot of money.

Through the value of this cargo ship, send people to spread the news to Yan Xing.

Liu Zheng guessed that as long as Yan Baihu was short of money and food in the recent period, Yan Xing would definitely continue to rob ships on the river.

Then, with the appearance of the fat sheep of the Mi family, Yan Xing will definitely be fooled again.

The reason why Liu Zheng didn't directly lead people to kill Yan Xing's lair.First, he was worried that Yan Baihu would lose his mind, and he would directly bring people to fight him.Secondly, it is also to lure Yan Xing out, which is much less difficult than dealing with him in Yan Xing's lair.

According to Liu Zheng's information, this guy Yan Xing has six or seven thousand soldiers in his lair, and if he goes out to plunder the passing ships, he will only bring four to five thousand people, and there will definitely be some people left to guard the house. .

In this way, Liu Zheng's chances of winning are even greater.

Two days later, the boats of Mi's family were ready, so Liu Zheng ordered Zu Lang to hide all the more than 3000 soldiers under his command in the cargo ship, and began to sail the cargo ship full of people and horses on the river. .

In order to be realistic, Liu Zheng also deliberately dispatched [-] soldiers and horses to escort the fleet around, making people think that there are valuable goods in the fleet.

In this way, the fleet sailed on the river, heading towards Jingzhou.

However, after three days, there was no change. Seeing that the fleet was about to reach the Jingzhou area, there was still no movement.

Zu Lang, Liu Zheng and others sat in the cabin, looked at each other, and even had some doubts whether Yan Xing had seen through his plan.

"My lord, Yan Xing should have known about our news this trip, but why hasn't the other party responded after three days?"

"Could it be that the other party already knows our plan?"

Zu Lang had some doubts, and watched Liu Zheng raise his own doubts.

Liu Zheng and Xu You shook their heads at the same time.

"No, our plan is very strict, and it is unlikely that the wind will leak out. It may be that Yan Xing is too cautious and will not make a move easily."

"I guess they didn't attack when we were delivering, but instead looted when we were going back."

"why?"

Zu Lang didn't know why, so he asked curiously.

"You are stupid, when you rob when you leave, at most you can rob some goods. If you can rob the merchant ships that go back, you can not only rob some of the goods that are loaded back, but you can also take the money for those goods when you go. , serve multiple purposes."

Liu Zheng spoke out what was in his heart, Xu You nodded, agreeing with Liu Zheng's idea, while Zu Lang, who was beside him, immediately nodded and understood.

"My lord, shall we go back now?"

"No, you have to do enough acting. Let the fleet go to Changsha City to stay for a day, and then turn back."

Liu Zheng was not in a hurry to go back. Since he was going to deal with Yan Xing, he was also worried that Yan Xing would send someone to follow him, even though there were no ships around.But there may be secret work hidden in the distance.

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Liu Zheng led the fleet and arrived in Changsha on the fourth day. Because Changsha was originally Sun Jian's territory, but it was later occupied by Liu Biao. The person in charge is now Cai Mao.

So Liu Zhengcai is not worried that he will reveal his identity here.

At the same time, Liu Zheng is only outside the city now and does not intend to enter the interior of Changsha City, so there is nothing to worry about.

One day passed quickly, Liu Zheng and all the soldiers and horses did not disembark, but just moved some wooden boxes they put on, and more than 3000 soldiers and horses were still on board.

On the fifth day, the return journey began.

But this time, when passing through Yichun, Liu Zheng deliberately took a detour and went in the direction of Jiang Zhou's thief.

The Jiang Tuesday thief, since the festival with Zu Lang before, although the two sides have not fought again for the time being, there are still some festivals in private.

There has been no contact, but this time, Liu Zheng intends to use their strength. ,

After all, he might have to face Yan Xing on the return journey, and the thousands of Liu Zheng's men might not be able to completely suppress Yan Xing, so if he could get Jiang Zhou's thief to help him, his chances of winning would be greater.

The old lair of Jiang Tuesday's thief has been destroyed. During this period of time, Jiang Tuesday's thief re-established a water village in another place.

Although it is not as good as the previous water village, it is not bad.

Liu Zheng has always had some contacts with Jiang Tuesday's thief, so he knows where their lair is.

After dressing up in disguise, Liu Zheng brought a few of his men to Jiang Zhou's thief's lair. After letting someone in to inform him, he soon met Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai under his leadership.

"Liu Zhengqu is handsome, it's you, why are you here!"

People like Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai were very surprised when they saw Liu Zheng.

After all, some recent deeds of Liu Zheng have gradually reached their ears. They are not very far away from Liu Zheng's Mingyue cottage. It is normal for them to know some things about Liu Zheng.

Especially recently, Liu Zheng's reputation has become very popular in Jiaozhou. In addition, Liu Zheng's attack on Changsha City made his reputation spread in Jingzhou in one fell swoop.

"Brother Jiang, Brother Zhou, I haven't seen you for a long time, don't come here to be safe."

Liu Zheng is acquainted with each other. Although he and Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai have not met many times, they can still be regarded as people who work together, and their friendship is still good.

"Shuai Liu Zhengqu, shouldn't you be in Jiaozhou at this time, why do you want to appear in our small place?"

Regarding Liu Zheng's appearance, Jiang Qin still had a lot of doubts. He couldn't figure out why Liu Zheng appeared here.

"Passing by your territory, I happened to have something to ask of you, so I came here to display it, and I hope Brother Zhou and Brother Jiang will help me."

Liu Zheng didn't hide anything, and asked for help when he came up.

But just saying that made Jiang Qin even more surprised. He didn't understand how else they could help Liu Zheng.

"Liu Zhengqu Shuai, please speak clearly, how can we help you, you are now a strong man occupying a huge Jiaozhou, and we are no longer at the same level as us."

"Actually so"

Liu Zheng then told about the boat robbery incident that happened in this river course of Mi's family.

Of course, Liu Zheng didn't tell Jiang Qin that there were more than 3000 soldiers hidden in his cargo ship. He just asked Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai to send their pirate escort fleet for revenge.

He is willing to pay thirty gold for such a trip.

As soon as he heard that there was money to take, and it was Liu Zheng who asked in person, Jiang Qin naturally had nothing to refuse, so he immediately agreed.

In fact, there were only a few hundred people left under Jiang Qin's command. After more than a year of development, he has now recruited a lot of people, growing to more than 2000 at one point.

But this time the escort, it is naturally impossible to dispatch all the staff, only half of the staff will be dispatched, 500 people will escort Liu Zheng's fleet to Xuzhou.

After Jiang Qin agreed, Liu Zheng directly ordered someone to take out [-] gold and handed it over to Jiang Qin first.

After that, he stayed here for half a day, waiting for Jiang Qin to gather his men. After Jiang Qin had gathered all his men, he led the fleet and continued to sail in the direction of Xuzhou.

In fact, Liu Zheng could have returned directly, but for the sake of safety, he decided to come to Jiang Tuesday's thief.

Firstly, with the help of Jiang Tuesday's thief, Liu Zheng has a greater confidence in dealing with Yan Xing. Second, the delay of a trip here can also make Yan Xing and others think that the value of the goods in the fleet is not enough. Fei.

Coupled with the manpower and tight guards of Jiang Zhou's thief, Yan Xing will understand that the value of the cargo ship is really great.

Only then will there be more impulses to come to rob the ship, so that they will be fooled, and Liu Zheng will have more chances to destroy him.

With the escort of 500 water bandits under Jiang Zhou's bandits, the size of the fleet is large, with more than ten ships of all sizes sailing on the river.

From the territory of Yichun County to the surface of Poyang Lake, it was still peaceful, but after entering the river surface of Jiujiang County, there were some waves on the entire water surface, and the sky also had a spring rain at this time.

The spring rain is continuous, moistening things silently.

Although the river is very calm, but Liu Zheng is returning, and Yan Xing's men have quietly followed them, and they can appear at the next corner of the river at any time.

Not long after, when Liu Zheng's fleet arrived at a relatively small river, several huge wooden stakes appeared in the river.

These wooden stakes are scattered in all directions, combined together, like carbine-repelling guns, intercepting in the water.

"Slow down! Slow down!"

After the helmsman in charge of the navigation discovered the problem on the river, he immediately yelled at the man at the helm inside.

Liu Zheng and others who were hiding in the cabin were also attracted by these voices.

Liu Zheng walked on the deck with Xu You, and when he saw the wooden posts in the distance, his face immediately sank, but he was overjoyed immediately.

The purpose of the appearance of these wooden posts is actually very simple, it is to intercept the boats on the river, and Liu Zheng and the others didn’t have them when they passed by before, but now they come back, there is no doubt that they are to stop the boats of Liu Zheng and others .

"Attention everyone, Yan Xing's people are likely to come soon!"

Liu Zheng understood, and immediately yelled at the people around him.

Just after he shouted loudly, a group of soldiers and horses quickly appeared on both sides of the river, appearing from both sides in black.

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There are not many people and horses appearing from both sides.

It seems that there are only 2000 people.

But these men and horses all had weapons in their hands, and as soon as they appeared, they immediately attacked Liu Zheng's fleet on the river without saying a word.

This group of water thieves was unambiguous at all, and directly raised their bows and arrows, or weapons such as javelins used for throwing, and shot at the ships on the river from both sides of the river bank.

After a face-to-face encounter, thousands of arrows landed on the river, making a popping sound.

Because the distance was not too close, these arrows could not completely hit the ships. Although some ships were hit by the arrows, there were not many people on board. Such an attack could not attack Liu Zheng's fleet in a short time. cause effective damage.

But it made the people on Liu Zheng's side panic, and the moment they were attacked, they were thrown into chaos.

At the same time, while the troops on both sides were attacking Liu Zheng's fleet on the river, another fleet appeared behind Liu Zheng's fleet at this time.

This new fleet is only seven or eight warships, but the equipment on board is excellent. Not only are they equipped with a large number of long-distance projectile weapons, but also fast navigation devices, which can accelerate in a short time and chase Liu Zheng. .

These equipments are the necessary equipment for the water thieves who have been on the river all year round. Many water thieves have this kind of equipment on their boats. They are made of a lot of wood pulp, which can be quickly accelerated by paddling in a short time.

In addition, at this time, it was going down the river, so these ships approached Liu Zheng's fleet very quickly, at the moment when Liu Zheng and the troops on both sides of the strait launched an attack.This new fleet has also reached Liu Zheng's rear.

"Listen to the boat in front, we are water thieves on this river. I advise you to put down your weapons and surrender immediately. We can spare your life, otherwise you will only die if you continue to resist pointlessly!"

A threatening voice came from far behind.