The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

As for stealthily doing this kind of villainous behavior, naturally only Jiang Zhou Zhou was the thief. Although he hadn't confirmed it yet, Zu Lang had already placed the suspect in Jiang Zhou Zhou's person, and he immediately took the three thousand people in the water village with him. The soldiers and horses directly killed Jiang Zhou's thief's lair.

Although Liu Zheng knew that Jiang Zhou's bandit was questioned by Zu Lang's man Ma Xingshi, Liu Zheng didn't know exactly what happened between them.

He could only wait for the matter between the two of them to end, and then find someone to inquire about what happened in the village.

Two days later, news came out, and this news immediately made Liu Zheng happy and smiling.

Zu Lang brought 3000 people to Fengshui to find trouble with Jiang Zhou Zhou's thief. Although Jiang Zhou Zhou's bandit was weaker than Zu Lang and did not have as many troops as Zu Lang, they were not vegetarians, and insisted that Zu Lang did it on purpose. Come to trouble them.

Zu Lang said that Jiang Zhou's thief swallowed Zu Lang's goods, Jiang Zhou's thief explained that there was no, Zu Lang planted and framed them, and wanted to snatch them because he was interested in their territory.

The two sides insisted on their own opinions, and finally quarreled and fought.

Zu Lang led people to a fierce battle with Jiang Tuesday's thief directly in the lair of Jiang Zhou's thief.

Although Zu Lang has more people and stronger strength, he still has not completely defeated Jiang Zhou's thief in the territory of Jiang Zhou's thief. , escaped from the lair.

However, this is also the price of Zu Lang losing more than 1000 horses to completely drive Jiang Tuesday's thief away from his lair.

After Liu Zheng heard the news, he knew that although Jiang Zhou's thief had not been completely wiped out, he was chased away by Zu Lang. Without Jiang Zhou's thief, the waters of Poyang Lake have changed from the previous four water thieves to the top three. The water thief is gone, and the change of power must be good news for him.

The sphere of influence of Jiang Zhou's thief happened to be close to Yichun County. Without Jiang Zhou's thief, Liu Zheng's merchant ships would be able to travel between Yuzhang County and Changsha County without hindrance.

At the same time, without the thief Jiang Tuesday, Liu Zhen can insert his newly recruited Jinfan thief Dunn into the waters of Poyang Lake to replace the former thief Jiang Tuesday, and become the new four water thieves.

The battle between Jiang Zhou's thief and Zu Lang happened suddenly, and the change of the situation made Liu Zheng unexpected.

Originally, Liu Zheng just wanted to cut off contact between Zu Lang and Jiang Zhou's thief. After Liu Zheng raised his troops to deal with Jiang Zhou's thief, Zu Lang would not take the opportunity to fight from behind to reap the benefits of the fisherman.

But what Liu Zheng never expected was that the four major water thieves in the Poyang water system were not monolithic. He easily planted the blame, which directly caused a fierce battle between Jiang Zhou's thief and Zu Lang, and made Jiang The strength of the people on Tuesday was greatly reduced, and they were almost wiped out by Zu Lang directly.

The defeat of Jiang Tuesday's thief caused Liu Zheng's original plan to lose its effect. Some of the two thousand soldiers and horses he had trained so hard were useless.

Just when Liu Zheng thought that there was no need to use force to solve the problem, Yuan Zhou stood up and said that he had a plan.

"My lord, what happened in the waters of Poyang Lake exceeded our expectations. I think this is an opportunity!"

What Yuan Zhou said was so sudden that Liu Zheng didn't think of what he wanted to say, so he asked Yuan Zhou immediately.

"Mr. Yuan Zhou, what do you want to say?"

"My lord, our original plan was to deal with Jiang Zhou's thief, but now that Jiang Zhou's thief was directly defeated by Zu Lang, we can turn our target on Zu Lang. You know, even without Jiang Zhou's thief, Poyang Lake The right to rule the waters is still in the hands of Zu Lang."

"If our merchant ships want to communicate in Yuzhang County, they will inevitably be robbed by Zu Lang's ship. Instead of bowing to Zu Lang and offering tax money, we should take this opportunity to directly eliminate Zu Lang. Now Zu Lang and Jiang Tuesday The thieves have just finished fighting, and their forces will definitely be greatly reduced, as long as we find Zu Lang's lair, and then unite with Brother Gan Ning's troops, it may not be impossible for us to fight!"

What Yuan Zhou thought was to take this opportunity to directly eliminate Zu Lang, let Liu Zheng's forces defeat Zu Lang in one fell swoop, and replace Zu Lang and Jiang Zhou's thief in the waters of Poyang Lake.

As soon as this plan was mentioned, Liu Zheng's eyes immediately brightened.

That's right, he had been focusing on Jiang Zhou Zhou's thief before, and he didn't think too much about Zu Lang, but now that Jiang Zhou Zhou's thief is gone, then Liu Zheng's forces must have a direct relationship with Zu Lang. confrontation.

With Liu Zheng's character, he will definitely not be inferior to Zu Lang. There will definitely be a battle between the two sides at that time. Instead of waiting for Zu Lang to become bigger and then fight again, it is better to take this opportunity to eliminate Zu Lang in one fell swoop.

However, with Zu Lang's strength, he has been operating in Poyang Lake for so long, and the number of water thieves under him is still 5000. Even in the battle with Jiang Zhou's thieves, there were many casualties, but the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse.

It's not that Liu Zheng can deal with more than 2000 water thieves now.

"Mr. Yuan Zhou, although your idea is good, our men are far inferior to Zu Lang. If we fight rashly, we may not be able to win against Zu Lang."

"Regarding this, my lord can rest assured, I still have a plan, which can definitely resolve the gap in strength between us and Zu Lang."

"Oh? What plan, tell me?"

When Liu Zheng saw Yuan Zhou saying that he had a plan, he immediately became interested, and hurriedly looked at Yuan Zhou, waiting for Yuan Zhou's answer.

"It depends on that thief Jiang Tuesday."

Yuan Zhou said a word softly.

When Liu Zheng heard that Yuan Zhou's words referred to Jiang Zhou's thief again, he frowned, and suddenly smiled.

"Wonderful, really wonderful!"

Chapter 173 Another Plan

Yuan Zhou did not reveal his plan, but only said a few words about Jiang Zhou's thief.

Liu Zheng had already thought of what Yuan Zhou's plan was.

They were originally going to deal with Jiang Zhou's thief, but now there was a fierce conflict between Jiang Zhou's thief and Zu Lang. Not only was their old nest taken away, but their strength was also severely damaged by Zu Lang.

If at this time, Liu Zheng sent people to contact Jiang Zhou Zhou's thief and invited them to deal with Zu Lang together, the two naturally had no reason not to agree.

Liu Zheng originally had only two thousand sailors himself, including Gan Ning's Jinfan bandit, it was less than three thousand soldiers, and Jiang Zhou's bandit had several hundred men. Combined, there were nearly 4000 troops.

Zu Lang must have lost some soldiers and horses after the battle with Jiang Zhou's thief, and the number must not be many, and now that Zu Lang has occupied Jiang Zhou's thief's lair, he will definitely send people to garrison, and will not give up Jiang Zhou's thief's territory easily. There were not many people in the first place, and it was necessary to divide the troops to garrison, which naturally gave Liu Zheng an opportunity.

Liu Zhengzai shared his thoughts with Yuan Zhou's, and the two hit it off.

Immediately began to send people to contact Jiang Tuesday thief.

Although it was said that the Jiang Zhou thief escaped from his old lair, he had nowhere to escape. He just ran from Yuzhang County to Changsha County, and naturally he had to pass through Yichun County.

Liu Zheng's spies sent him news not long ago that a fleet of ships had appeared in the Yuan River Basin. Liu Zheng guessed that these people were Jiang Zhou's thieves.

Yuan Zhou volunteered, saying that he was going to surrender Jiang's thief on Tuesday.

And Liu Zheng didn't refuse. Now, there is really no counselor around him who can be reused, so Yuan Zhou, a half-assed, can only get involved in everything.

Liu Zheng told Yuan Zhou, remember not to hurt peace with Jiang Zhou's thief, if you can talk, talk, if you can't cooperate, forget it.

Anyway, Liu Zheng didn't expect Jiang Tuesday's thief to join him directly. If he couldn't cooperate, Liu Zheng could think of another way to deal with Zu Lang.

Yuan Zhou nodded again and again, and made a promise with Liu Zheng that after recruiting Jiang Zhou's thief, he would take people away.

In fact, Yuan Zhou volunteered to go there this time, and he wanted to make up for the embarrassment of being robbed of the goods by Jiang Zhou's thief. Now, taking advantage of the other party's distress, Yuan Zhou can finally walk in front of them proud .

Liu Zheng didn't wait in Mingyue Village foolishly. Now that the battle was imminent, he also came to the reservoir of Mingyue Village, wanting to see the sailors he was training in the reservoir.

Although it has only been training for more than half a month, Liu Zheng's navy seems to have taken shape.

These soldiers and horses under Liu Zheng's command have also followed him in the South and North Wars for half a year.He already had a lot of combat experience, and besides, the two thousand soldiers Liu Zheng specially selected from the army were all warriors who were familiar with water skills.

The speed of the formed navy is naturally faster. They only need to be familiar with the combat methods on the water under the guidance of Gan Ning and others, and can quickly adapt to become a viable force of the navy.

Now half a month has passed, and although the water army formed by Liu Zheng has not yet entered the battle, it seems to have taken shape. It is in line with the few walking boats purchased from the Changsha shipyard with a lot of money a few days ago. , Liu Zheng's navy has been well trained.

It can completely satisfy him, even if Gan Ning and others come to see him, they can be called a regular army.

Another two days passed.

Yuan Zhou, who went to recruit Jiang Zhou's thief, hurried back to the cottage to report his achievements to Liu Zheng.

Just as Liu Zheng expected, Yuan Zhou really lived up to expectations, and actually persuaded Jiang Tuesday's thief to cooperate with Liu Zheng to deal with Zu Lang.

Although Jiang Zhou's thief did not directly join Liu Zheng, but he was able to send troops with Jiang Zhou's thief to deal with Zu Lang, which made Liu Zheng very satisfied. After all, Jiang Zhou's thief had some unpleasant friction with him before, so let them put it down. It is somewhat unreasonable to directly come to Liu Zheng with a face.

And if Jiang Tuesday's thief would take refuge in Liu Zheng, he would not have robbed Liu Zheng's merchant ship in the first place.It is precisely because they don't have much admiration for Liu Zheng.That's why they won't take refuge directly, instead it's just a cooperative relationship.

But this is enough for Liu Zheng. As long as he can unite with the hundreds of water thieves of Jiang Zhou Zhou's bandit and let Jiang Zhou Zhou's bandit hold back some of Zu Lang's troops, Liu Zheng's troops can directly kill Zu Lang's army. Lao Chao took advantage of the trend and took Zu Lang to a pot.

Liu Zheng ordered Gan Ning and Yuan Zhou to talk to the traitor Jiang Zhou Zhou to formulate a strategy on how to fight against Zu Lang.

A few days later, Gan Ning and Jiang Zhou's thief finished the discussion, and decided to take action against Zu Lang's men the next time Zu Lang set off from his old lair to rob other merchant ships.

Big water thieves like Zu Lang don't need to rob merchant ships at all.

In many cases, although many merchant ships voluntarily hand in some money as a monthly payment, this part of the money is not enough for them to support thousands of soldiers and horses under their command, especially during the winter.

Now that it's winter, fishing in winter is not very easy. If there is not enough food stored, these water thieves will naturally only come out to move around.And Zu Lang just had a big battle with Jiang Zhou's thief, although he robbed Jiang Zhou's thief of a lot of resources and a lot of money.

However, Zu Lang himself was killed or injured thousands of horses, and a large sum of money was spent on pensions for the families of these thousands of horses.On the surface, it seems that he has won, but in fact, for Zu Lang, he has lost a lot of money.

In addition, several merchant ships looted by Liu Zheng, because they were not protected by Zu Lang, refused to make confessions to Zu Lang again, which caused Zu Lang to have a bad winter.

There was a shortage of money and food, so Zu Lang had no choice but to come out again to snatch the passing ships. Anyway, these water thieves have no faith at all.

It was this idea that Jiang Zhou's thief and Gan Ning fought.

As long as Zu Lang's soldiers and horses come out of their lair, Liu Zheng's men and horses can divide into two groups, one to Zu Lang's lair, and the other to kill the pirates who robbed the merchant ships.

In this way, the soldiers and horses under Zu Lang's command can be completely defeated, so that Zu Lang has no place to stand up.

In the past two days, Jiang Tuesday's thief has also been paying close attention to the dynamics of Zu Lang's men and horses.

They are more anxious than Liu Zheng, and they are more concerned about Zu Lang's dynamics. After all, they have just been defeated by Zu Lang, and they are eager to find some sense of presence in Zu Lang.

In less than two days, they received the news that Zu Lang had come out of his lair and robbed merchant ships in the northwest of Poyang Lake.

After receiving this news, Liu Zheng immediately followed Gan Ning and led his two thousand newly trained water troops from the Yuan River area to quickly sail towards the waters of Poyang Lake.

The several walking boats purchased from Changsha County can be regarded as officially coming in handy.

Chapter 174

It only takes half a day.

Liu Zheng led Gan Ning's men and horses, and a total of [-] sailors joined Jiang Zhou's thief.

This was also the first time Liu Zheng met Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai.

In fact, when Liu Zheng first heard the name of Jiang Zhou's thief, he had already guessed in his heart that these two people should be Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai, the generals of the state of Wu in history.

Both Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai were generals in the Sun Quan period of the Eastern Wu Dynasty and one of the Twelve Tiger Ministers in Jiangdong.He took refuge in Sun Ce in his early years, and then followed Sun Ce to fight in the north and south, and even Zhou Tai was used by Sun Quan later.

They are one of the rare generals in the Wu Kingdom.

However, when Liu Zheng saw Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai now, they were just like Gan Ning, they were not very old, they looked like they were only in their twenties, Jiang Qin was a little older, and there was a bruise on his face. A few looming scars.

It seems that it is also the scars left by the bandits in this Poyang Lake all year round, fighting on the battlefield.

"The two are Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai?"

Liu Zheng looked at the two strong men in front of him. Although they were young, they looked like strong and muscular men, which made Liu Zheng know that they might have extraordinary martial arts skills.

Of course, compared to Gan Ning who is beside Liu Zheng, he is still a bit worse.

"Exactly, your Excellency is Liu Zheng, commander-in-chief of the Yellow Turban Army?"

Jiang Qin raised his head and glanced at Liu Zheng. They only heard some rumors about Liu Zheng, but they didn't think much about him.

After all, where Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai are located, the Yellow Turban Army is not rampant, so they don't have much affection for the Yellow Turban Army, and they are bandits themselves, living a life of licking blood with a knife, and they pay attention to strength.

I don't really care much about reputation.

Jiang Qin's slightly contemptuous expression saw Liu Zheng, and Liu Zheng didn't have any opinion on Jiang Qin. After all, he had not shown his strength in front of Jiang Qin, so let the other party despise him.

"Well, that's right, this time we will cooperate to fight against Zu Lang, please do your best. In a few hours, I will give you all the power in the northern part of the Poyang Lake waters. I only need the western area."

Liu Zhengxian expressed his thoughts, and Jiang Qin didn't refuse, and agreed with all his mouth.

"No problem, as long as I can defeat Zu Lang, even if it's the territory of Poyang Lake, I don't need a single point, as long as I kill that guy!"

When Jiang Qin said the name Zu Lang, some murderous intent of hatred flashed in Jiang Qin's eyes. It seems that this time Zu Lang and Jiang Zhou's fight has really formed a lot of hatred.

Jiang Qin really didn't think too much about territory. He originally had more than 1000 water thief brothers, but after the battle with Zu Lang, there were only more than 600 people left, and more than half of them were lost.

The people who lost were all the brothers from the same village who came out of Jiangqin Village to ask for a living. They were people who had played together since they were young. They had deep feelings. Revenge for them is naturally the most important thing.

If it were Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng would definitely take revenge as his first goal.

"Very well, now that we've settled the matter, let's go."

Liu Zheng chatted with Jiang Qin, and Jiang Qin was also worried about Zu Lang, so he agreed to set off, and the person in charge of intelligence quickly passed Zu Lang's soldiers and horses over.

Zu Lang also had 500 troops. This time, Zu Lang personally led people out of his lair to plunder merchant ships in the Poyang Lake area. Seven or eight walking boats and three barges were left behind, leaving only 1000 troops. Many people stayed behind in the lair.

Originally, Liu Zheng planned to let Jiang Qin deal with the soldiers and horses in Zulang's lair. After all, there were only more than 1000 troops in Zulang's lair, and the 600 men led by Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai were enough for a battle.

With 2000 troops led by Zu Lang, Liu Zheng decided to deal with Gan Ning himself.

But Jiang Qin said that he wanted to deal with Zu Lang himself, and wanted to kill Zu Lang himself.

Avenge your dead brother with your own hands.

Liu Zheng wanted to persuade Jiang Qin. After all, Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai only had more than 600 men left, while Zu Lang led [-] troops out.

With 600 people against Zu Lang's 2000 people, it is like a mantis arm blocking a car and hitting a rock with an egg. Not to mention that he will definitely lose, it will definitely be a difficult battle.

Liu Zheng persuaded him a few words, but Jiang Qin still insisted on dealing with Zu Lang by himself.

Liu Zheng saw that he didn't seem to want to change his mind, so he didn't say much more.

In the end, Liu Zheng decided to divide his troops into two groups.Let Zhou Cang and Yuan Zhou lead 1000 of them to Zu Lang's lair to temporarily besiege those Zu Lang's troops who stayed behind in the lair.