The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms
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"Liu Zhengqu is handsome, please speak up!"
Zhou Tai said something to Liu Zheng.
"I think you have heard about my recent news. Now I occupy the entire Jiaozhou, and I don't want to stop here. Sooner or later, I will use the terrain of Jiaozhou to attack the Central Plains and annex Jingyang. At this time When I was short of manpower, I think you two are also capable people, if you can rely on me and make contributions with me, wouldn't it be a good thing?"
Liu Zheng's words have been made very clear. Although he has not yet expressed his intention to become emperor, but he has made contributions and annexed Jing Yang with a few words, expressing his ambition. The brothers who fought together, if he wants to join Jing Yang in the future, his status will be different.
Although what he said was straightforward enough, Liu Zheng was still worried about whether Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai understood.
However, Liu Zheng underestimated Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin. In history, Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai were able to join Sun Ce's command as water thieves, help Sun Ce conquer the north and south, and successfully become important ministers of the state of Wu. It is conceivable that their desire for fame and fortune is much higher than that of Liu Zheng.
So after hearing Liu Zheng's words, Jiang Qin took the lead in expressing his opinion.
"That's great. If Liu Zheng and Qu Shuai are willing to take in our brothers, we will naturally follow Qu Shuai's lead!"
Jiang Qin himself has a good impression of Liu Zheng. From the time Liu Zheng solved Zu Lang's matter for them, what Liu Zheng did has given Jiang Qin a lot of good impression. Now Liu Zheng has shown a courtesy, corporal, The appearance of emphasizing love and righteousness naturally made Jiang Qin have a great affection for him.
So Jiang Qin, who didn't want to be a water thief for a long time, immediately agreed to join Liu Zheng when Liu Zheng said this.
In fact, Jiang Qin didn't come up with it on the spur of the moment, but the current life of a water thief is indeed not easy to do.
A year ago, the imperial court was relatively relaxed towards these water thieves, and did not have enough troops to encircle and suppress them. As long as the water thieves did not rob houses and disturb the lives of the local people, the prefects and magistrates of counties and counties generally would not go after the water thieves. Trouble.
However, after the imperial court implemented the state pastoral system, local water bandits and bandits, these existences would pose a serious threat to the state pastoralists, and after they became a thorn in the side of the state pastors, their lives would be difficult.
As soon as Liu Yao, the shepherd of Yangzhou, took office, he quickly and gradually deployed troops to suppress the water thieves in the waters of Poyang Lake. It was Liu Yao's high-pressure policy that made Yan Baihu and others resist, and Jiang Zhou's thief did not have a good time.
Now Liu Zheng can find another way for them. For Liu Zheng, Jiang Tuesday can still trust them, so after Liu Zheng opened his mouth, Jiang Qin agreed without hesitation.
"Okay, as expected of Brother Jiang Qin, if you understand what is the future, it's better to follow me than to be a water thief here. If I can prosper in the future, you will definitely rise to the top along with me."
Seeing that Jiang Qin agreed immediately, Liu Zheng was actually happy.
However, Jiang Qin agreed, but Zhou Tai on the other side was lost in thought. Liu Zheng was not in a hurry, but shifted his gaze from Jiang Qin to Zhou Tai.
While Zhou Tai was still thinking, he asked Zhou Tai a question.
"Brother Zhou, what about you, what are your plans? If you have your own ideas and don't want to follow me, I won't force it. After all, not everyone is willing to think about things like overthrowing the dynasty and establishing achievements. , to do, some people, the first thing is to live a peaceful life without waves."
Liu Zheng knew some history. In history, Zhou Tai worked harder than Jiang Qin in the Wu Kingdom. Under Sun Quan's command, he always acted as Sun Quan's guard, and his status will be higher than Jiang Qin in the future.
Regarding Zhou Tai's memory, Liu Zheng only remembers that he and Jiang Qin robbed the river for a living at first, and later surrendered to Sun Ce, and helped Sun Ce sweep Jiangdong. When Sun Ce captured Wu County, Sun Quan loved Zhou Tai and asked Sun Ce to send Zhou Tai returned to his command.
Later, Zhou Tai and Sun Quan guarded Xuancheng, when bandits came to attack the city, Zhou Tai was stabbed 12 times to protect Sun Quan, and was seriously injured. Fortunately, the famous doctor Hua Tuo saved his life.
After that, he fought many times, and Zhou Tai made great achievements in the crusade against Huang Zu.Later, Zhou Yu and Cheng Pu rejected Cao Cao's army in Chibi and attacked Cao Ren in Nanjun.Cao Cao came out of Ruxu, and Zhou Taiyong fought back Cao Cao.
So he left the governor Ruxu and worshiped the general Pinglu.At that time, Zhu Ran, Xu Sheng and others were Zhou Tai's subordinates, and they were dissatisfied.Sun Quan specially met the generals, served wine to Zhou Tai's seat, and ordered Zhou Tai to take off his clothes. Sun Quan pointed to his scars and asked the cause of the injury. Zhou Tai recalled and answered them one by one; convinced.
This is a rather legendary story about Zhou Tai.Even Cao Cao once sighed: I don’t want to have such a powerful general in the hometown of splendid articles.In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhou Tai rushed to kill Gan Ning after Sha Moke killed him.
I have to admit that Zhou Tai is one of the most brave and resolute generals in Soochow. His bravery is not inferior to Gan Ning. So in the middle and later period, there are actually limited generals of Eastern Wu, and most of them are second-tier generals, such as Zhu Huan and Lingtong. However, it seems that Zhou Tai, Gan Ning, and Tai Shici are the only real generals who can reach the first-tier level.
From Liu Zheng's point of view, compared with Jiang Qin, Zhou Tai is more aggressive and has the ability to be a commander. Although Zhou Tai is more brave, he is cautious. Among the water thieves led by Jiang Qin, He has always been suppressed by Jiang Qin's ability. In fact, it's not that Zhou Tai's strength is weak, but that Zhou Tai can't show his strengths in front of someone like Jiang Qin.
Zhou Tai was still considering it, but after hearing Liu Zheng's questioning, he still made up his mind.
"I would also like to follow Qu Shuai, but Liu Zheng and Qu Shuai, although there is some chaos in the court, can you fight against the court's million-strong army with just your little manpower?"
When Zhou Tai doubted, it wasn't that he had any resistance to Liu Zheng, he was just hesitating whether Liu Zheng's strength could overthrow the imperial court.
After all, the current imperial court is not the melee of the princes when Sun Ce came out of the mountain in history. Although the imperial court has implemented the state animal husbandry system, the state animal husbandry obviously still obeys the emperor's orders.
Unlike in history, the imperial power fell to the side, and the princes from all over the world fought for themselves.
"Don't worry about this, I was very confident, but now with the help of your brothers, it will be even more powerful."
Chapter 322 Aspiring
For Liu Zheng to form a water army, it is not enough to have Zu Lang alone. Although there is Gan Ning, Liu Zheng wants to form two water armies, one to operate on the river, and the other to A navy that aids ocean transportation.
So they alone are not enough.
This is also the reason why Liu Zheng values Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai. Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai are not only handsome talents who are good at commanding soldiers and horses, but also generals who are good at fighting. They also know water warfare, so Liu Zheng recruited them. is very necessary.
Ever since Liu Zheng first met Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai, Liu Zheng wanted to recruit them, but at that time, Liu Zheng did not have a large enough territory for himself, and secondly, he was completely incapable of supporting a navy, so for them Speaking, it is not very attractive, and the solicitation may not be successful.
It's different now. One year later, Liu Zheng's status has undergone earth-shaking changes. His subordinates now have territory and money. For better development, it is natural to recruit more elite soldiers.
As Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai, who were suppressed by the imperial court and whose life was getting worse and worse, it was only natural for them to join Liu Zheng.
After Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai were settled, Liu Zheng was overjoyed, and by the way, he brought the remaining troops of the two of them under his command, but Liu Zheng didn't let them join Zu Lang's men.
The feud between them still exists, and that kind of estrangement cannot be eliminated with a few words from Liu Zheng.
After Liu Zheng settled Jiang Qin, Zhou Tai brothers and others.So he sent back a few people under Yan Xing's command and asked them to get the ransom, and they were released within a few days.
Yan Xing's people came here with three thousand dollars in exchange for Yan Xing.
After receiving the ransom, Liu Zheng didn't make it difficult for Yan Xing, after all, this guy is still useful to Liu Zheng.
However, they did not release Yan Xing directly, but asked Yan Xing to send someone to negotiate with his elder brother Yan Baihu, saying that Liu Zheng would take Yan Xing to visit Yan Baihu in a few days.
The reason why Liu Zheng didn't let Yan Xing go directly is also because if Yan Xing was let go so simply, Yan Xing might not learn his lesson. Accept his kindness.
Then Liu Zheng can propose cooperation with Yan Baihu in Yangzhou. Of course, if Yan Baihu is not willing to negotiate with him, Liu Zheng doesn't care. With Zu Lang's 3000 people, plus nearly a thousand remnants of Jiang Zhou's people soldiers and horses.
Liu Zheng was also able to form a 4000-strong army. Although a mere 4000 men could not defeat Yan Baihu, Liu Zheng was still confident of retreating from Yan Baihu's territory.
Although Yan Xing didn't understand why Liu Zheng wanted to see his elder brother, but because of Liu Zheng's identity and his consciousness of being a prisoner, he followed Liu Zheng's instructions and sent someone to find Yan Baihu.
A few days later, Yan Baihu also sent news to Liu Zheng, willing to meet Liu Zheng.
There was no way around this, after all, Yan Xing was in Liu Zheng's hands, so Yan Baihu still wanted to give Liu Zheng some face.
After getting Yan Baihu's answer, Liu Zheng first took Yan Xing to Mi's house, asked Yan Xing to apologize to Mi's house, and then gave part of the compensation that Yan Xing brought over to Mi's house, and the other part to Mi's house. It was given to Brother Jiang Zhou. After all, Liu Zheng promised them before that he would give some pensions to Brother Jiang Zhou who died.
After these things were settled, Liu Zheng took Yan Xing and a group of Yan Xing's subordinates to the army and came to Kuaiji County, near Wucheng County.
This is Yan Baihu's lair.
Wucheng County is named after Wushen and Chenglin two families who are good at brewing wine. Although the county seat has only been established for a few hundred years, it is still relatively famous in Yangzhou.
Liu Zheng didn't know much about Wucheng County, but he knew that Sun Jian, the famous Jiangdong Tiger in history, was named Marquis of Wucheng, and he wanted to come here to be Sun Jian's fiefdom.
But today's Sun Jian should still be in his hometown of Fuchun.
Wucheng County was indeed under the jurisdiction of the imperial court a long time ago, but since it was occupied by water thieves, Yan Baihu has regarded it as his lair, and even several nearby counties were occupied by Yan Baihu. Baihu's strength has skyrocketed a lot.
On Liu Zheng's side, after arriving in Wucheng County, he was received by Yan Baihu very quickly.
In an official residence of the original imperial court, Liu Zheng met Yan Baihu, the strongest water thief in history.
Although Liu Zheng always knew that Yan Baihu was a water thief in his heart, when he actually saw Yan Baihu, Liu Zheng's impression of Yan Baihu changed a lot.
Yan Baihu is not the kind of big and thick guy that Liu Zheng thinks of, the style of a bandit king. On the contrary, after meeting Yan Baihu, Yan Baihu is actually handsome and well-dressed, not to mention gorgeous, but he is also a bit of a general His demeanor looks like a handsome general.
And looking at his age, Yan Baihu doesn't seem to be very old, he is less than 30 years old. He has already become the strongest water thief at this age, which somewhat surprises Liu Zheng.
"Your Excellency is Yan Baihu?"
"My name is actually Yan Hu, and Bai Hu is just what others call me. If you like, you can also call me Bai Hu."
When Liu Zheng saw Yan Baihu, he took the initiative to ask questions. Yan Baihu was very calm, sitting on the main seat in the mansion, looking at Liu Zheng with great interest.
He never took the initiative to speak to Liu Zheng, but waited for Liu Zheng to say something, and he replied.
"The next meeting is a thick-backed, five big and three rough people. I didn't expect that he is quite handsome, and he has the appearance of a white-faced niche."
"Shuai Liu Zhengqu, you are also an eye-opener for me. It is rumored by outsiders that the hero who killed Emperor Han and captured Jiaozhou is so young. It looks like he is a few years younger than me."
While Liu Zheng was surprised by Yan Baihu, Yan Baihu looked at Liu Zheng a few times, and was also very surprised by Liu Zheng.
"Those who have aspirations don't grow old, and those who have no ambitions live a hundred years in vain."
Speaking of age, although Liu Zheng is young, Liu Zheng doesn't value age.
"That's right, those who have aspirations are not young. I don't know what Liu Zhengqushuai's ambition is?"
"Me? Haha, I don't have any big ambitions. It's nothing more than to let those who follow me no longer go hungry when they are hungry and thirsty, and no longer suffer from cold when it is severe cold. They have a house when they sleep and fields when they wake up!"
"It's simpler to say, that is, two acres of land and one cow, and the wife and children are hot on the kang!"
Liu Zheng met Yan Baihu and chatted with Yan Baihu for a while, but he didn't dislike Yan Baihu too much, so he couldn't help saying a few more words.
Chapter 323 Invitation
After Liu Zheng finished speaking, at the beginning, Yan Baihu heard it and didn't reveal anything, but when Liu Zheng said the more common words, Yan Baihu laughed.
"Wife and children are hot on the kang. It's interesting. You are really straightforward, but your ambition is too lofty. It is not easy to realize it."
Of course Yan Baihu could hear what Liu Zheng said. At a small scale, it means occupying one side, being a local emperor, and enjoying himself for a while. At a high level, it means wanting to overthrow the rule of the Han Dynasty and compete for the world. .
"I don't have as much ambition as you. I just want to get a living in the Yangtze River Valley, but it's getting more and more difficult."
What Yan Baihu said was of course that Liu Yao, the shepherd of Yangzhou, has been sending people to attack him recently. Although Yan Baihu and Liu Yao did not show signs of defeat in the battle, they did not take advantage of it. Liu Yao's side Although they attacked Yan Baihu's troops several times in succession, not only did they fail to defeat Yan Baihu, but instead allowed Yan Baihu to dissipate his wealth and recruit more people.
The counterattack became more and more intense, which made Yan Baihu's sphere of influence bigger for a while, but Yan Baihu himself was not happy about this.
Because there were more people at the bottom, in fact, the stall became bigger. When there were more than [-] people, Yan Baihu was able to control it, and he didn't even worry about the problem of eating for his subordinates.
But now the number of soldiers and horses has increased several times, and the money and food they support has also increased greatly. Some of the military rations prepared before are not enough to eat. He spent a lot of means to buy food, and the money he saved is like running water at this time. Spread out.
In fact, the soldiers and horses of the imperial court have not changed much. Yangzhou Mu Liuyou can continue to recruit people from other counties and counties to continue to encircle and suppress Yan Baihu.
Although Yan Baihu will not be afraid in a short time, but after a long time, Yan Baihu has no source of income and cannot last long.
"Let's not talk about this. I have heard Liu Zhengqu's handsome name for a long time. I admired you when I saw you today. My younger brother Yan Xing offended me a lot before, and I didn't know that Mi's family was Qushuai, so I still look forward to seeing you." I'm so sorry."
Yan Baihu didn't want to offend Liu Zheng. Since the people sent by Yan Xing had told him that the matter had been resolved, and Liu Zheng didn't seem to intend to pursue it, Yan Baihu planned to make the big and small things smaller with Liu Zheng. .
"The matter of Yan Xing is not serious. Since I have already compensated the loss of the Mi family, I will not continue to pursue it. In fact, I came to look for Brother Yan this time, and I actually heard about Brother Yan's strength. There is one thing, I want to talk to Brother Yan."
Yan Baihu seemed to have known for a long time that Liu Zheng came here for other purposes, so he was not surprised when Liu Zheng said such a thing.
He just said something to Liu Zheng in a very flat manner.
"I still want to talk about it in detail."
"I know that Yangzhou Mu Liuyou is currently using troops against you, brother Yan. In fact, it's not just you, even I was attacked by his [-] army a few months ago. If I wasn't strong, I'm afraid it would have been true that time." Unexpected events will happen, Liu Yao has great hatred for you, brother Yan, and me. As the saying goes, the enemy of the enemy is a friend. I came to see brother Yan just to make peace Brother Yan cooperates to deal with Liu Yao."
"Liu Yao's 3 troops? Brother Liu, are you talking about that Zhang Ying? A few months ago, Liu Yao's troops mobilized and assembled [-] troops. Later, he went to Jiaozhou. At first, I thought he had assembled The soldiers are going to deal with me, so I also recruited soldiers and horses vigorously at that time. I didn't expect that he was going to deal with you."
Yan Baihu originally only had more than 1 people. It was Liu Yao who recruited [-] soldiers and horses to support Zhu Fu's request for help. Yan Baihu quickly recruited tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.
"I wiped out all his [-] soldiers and horses, but in this way, Liu Yao will definitely hate me to the bone, and sooner or later he will fight me again, so instead of waiting for him to attack me, it is better for me to take the initiative to deal with him!"
When Yan Baihu heard that Liu Zheng was here to deal with Liu Yao, the expression on his face immediately became better.
"It's no wonder that he has been more honest recently, and he doesn't have the feeling of pressing every step at the beginning. It turns out that it is like this. He lost [-] soldiers and horses. If he wants to deal with me again, he needs to start from other places again." The local government recruited soldiers and horses, which gave me a good respite."
"However, I have news. I heard that he recently met with a man named Sun Jian in Fuchun, and that Sun Jian is gathering troops. I think he is coming for me."
Although Yan Baihu hadn't fought intensively with Liu Yao's men recently, he still sent people to inquire about Liu Yao's situation.
After hearing the news about Yan Baihu, Liu Zheng had a slightly surprised expression on his face, but there was not much surprise in his heart, because Liu Zheng seemed to be able to guess this matter.
Liu Yao is low-handed and lacks a strong general, and Sun Jian is a strong general. Although Sun Jian who escaped from Changsha was defeated by Liu Zheng, Sun Jian's bravery is still very famous in Jiangdong, especially Sun Jian followed Zhu Jun. Zhonglang general During the Southern Expedition and the Northern War, Liu Yao also heard about it to some extent.
In addition, Sun Jian was defeated by Liu Zheng, and Liu Yao's people were also defeated by Liu Zheng, so they had a common enemy. When Liu Yao approached Sun Jian, Sun Jian naturally had no reason to reject Liu Yao.
"It's not what I expected for the two of them to mix together, so I came to you, Brother Yan, how are you, are you interested in cooperating, we will deal with Liu Yao together, after this is done, all over Yangzhou, How about you and I split half?"
What Liu Zheng valued was Yan Baihu's [-] soldiers and horses, and his ability to restrain Liu Yao for Liu Zheng for a while. Although Liu Zheng didn't know Yan Baihu's true strength, as long as he could restrain Liu Zheng for Liu Zheng It is not impossible for you to give Liu Zheng some time to train and train troops, and then march from Jiaozhou to Yangzhou.
"What kind of cooperation law?"
After hearing Liu Zheng's words, Yan Baihu was silent for a while, still attracted by what Liu Zheng said, and asked the question he wanted to ask.
"It's very simple. Jiaozhou and Yangzhou are connected. As long as we send troops at the same time, if you hold Liu Yao in check, my troops can quickly reach Yangzhou. When you and I attack back and forth, Liu Yao will definitely not be able to take care of both left and right, and will be defeated by the two of us." , it’s just a matter of time.”
Chapter 324 Returning to Jiaozhou
Liu Zheng didn't go into too much detail, because it's impossible to go into details about specific things. You only need to tell Yan Baihu the general content. With Yan Baihu's mind, he can naturally figure out whether Liu Zheng has the ability to unite him to deal with Liu Zheng. forced labor.
Although Yan Baihu didn't know Liu Zheng's strength, but Liu Zheng was able to rely on his own troops to take down the entire Jiaozhou. No matter how he looked at it, Yan Baihu felt that Liu Zheng's strength was much stronger than him.
After all, although Yan Baihu has been fighting against the imperial court in the past six months, he has just used soldiers and horses to take down several counties in Kuaiji County. It is still a dream come true to want to occupy the entire Yangzhou.
And Liu Zheng was able to take down the entire Jiaozhou. Although Jiaozhou could not be compared with Yangzhou, it was something that even Yan Baihu felt incredible.
After pondering for a moment and carefully calculating Liu Zheng's strength, Yan Baihu still decided to cooperate with Liu Zheng.
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