The Three Kingdoms

"Of course I am confident. It is you who are not confident now."

Sun Quan smiled faintly, raised his head, and looked at this young man, dressed in simple civilian clothes, eight feet tall, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a little dark skin, and said: "It's ugly to be a thief, but you don't even have the confidence to be a thief. What do you call Jiujiang thief, dominate the Yangtze River, Lao Zhou, you let me down a bit."

"Hmph, what nonsense, I, Zhou Tai, why don't you feel confident?" Zhou Tai's eyes widened, he looked at Sun Quan, his eyes burst out with fierceness, and he said coldly.

"I'm afraid of losing!" Sun Quan squinted his small eyes, looking at the future famous Jiangdong Huchen.

Zhou Tai, whose style name is Youping, was born in Xiacai, Jiujiang. Because he offended officials, he fled in the early years. A gang of water thieves.

This group of water thieves was on the Yangtze River, specializing in robbing officials and merchants. They were prominent for a time. Both Jiujiang County and Danyang County sent troops to kill them, but they failed every time. Jiujiang thief.

In Sun Quan's memory, Zhou Tai should have three or four years before surrendering to Sun Ce with Jiang Qin, but now that he has met him in advance, don't be polite, and let him be under his command first.

This is a fierce general on the battlefield, and he is especially familiar with water warfare, just in time to build a navy for Jiangdong.

In Runan, after Sun Quan and Xu Shao Xi Zhicai had a night of cooking wine and green plums, they left directly the next day without seeing them again, and then entered Jiujiang County, intending to cross the river from a ferry in Jiujiang County However, after entering Danyang, and then returning to Wujun, the boat was taken into a blunt robbery by this guy on the surface of the Yangtze River.This guy is really good at martial arts, and he has definitely been promoted to the first-class peak. Even Zhu Zhi, a veteran in the battlefield, is not his opponent.

"Hmph, am I, Zhou Tai, afraid of losing?" Zhou Tai sneered at himself, showing arrogance in his words.

"Old Zhou, why don't we take a gamble, and if you lose, give me... the horse?" Sun Quan said with a smile.

"You want me to lead the horse for you? What a big tone, what are you betting on?" Zhou Tai narrowed his eyes, looking at Sun Quan's small body, he couldn't see through this little gentleman, few people he saw could be in a den of thieves Even calmer than this young lady.

"Isn't your martial arts the best, then I bet you can't beat my brother." Sun Quan was very confident in Sun Ce's martial arts.

"What if you lose!" Zhou Taiyi became interested when he heard this, and he is also very confident in his martial arts. He may not be the opponent of the Jiangdong Tigers, but Sun Ce is just a boy, still young, no matter how brave he is, he can be strong Where are you going?

"I lost, that's up to you!" Sun Quan shrugged without worrying at all.

"Do you want to talk about Sun Ce's martial arts? What if Sun Ce dare not come?"

Zhou Tai asked suddenly.

"What if my elder brother really came?" Sun Quan's eyes lit up, and he asked instead.

"Hmph, let's talk when we're here!" Zhou Tai heard a gleam of hope in his eyes.He has never met Sun Jian, but he has learned the courage of Second Young Master Sun. Now let's look at the skills of First Young Master Sun, who is known as a brave young man in Jiangdong.

"Old Zhou, you are still in a state of turmoil in your heart. Is my Jiangdong Sun family not worthy of your support?" Sun Quan looked at Zhou Tai, the corners of his mouth slightly curled up, showing an optimistic smile, and asked, "Or do you want to live forever?" Be a thief?"

"I don't want to be a thief for the rest of my life, but I can't trust you guys." Zhou Tai said after a moment of silence.

If you have money, no one likes to be a poor man. If you can cleanse yourself of being a thief and be an upright person, few people are willing to be a thief for the rest of your life. The Jiujiang thief said it sounds good, but in fact, few people really take it to heart.

However, there is a gap between officials and thieves. There is basically no place to dare to use them if they are born as thieves. Last year, under the lobbying of an official, there was a powerful water thief on the Yangtze River who agreed to submit to Jiujiang Governor Zhou Ang. As a result, he was deceived to the shore, and was beheaded in public in two or three strokes, in order to uphold the law of the Han Dynasty.

So Zhou Tai didn't dare to surrender casually.But after getting along for a few days, under Sun Quan's persuasive lobbying, he really moved to join the Jiangdong Army.

Sun Jian is well-known in Jiangdong for his bravery, and he shocked the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Since he led his troops to defeat Dong Zhuo, his reputation has flourished. Now he leads his troops back to Jiangdong. Many people are optimistic that he can achieve Jiangdong hegemony.

"Brother Zhou, here's a message!"

At this time, a young man in blue walked in quickly from outside, his eyes were a little excited, he looked at Zhou Tai, and said: "Yesterday we sent the letter to Sun Ce who was stationed in Qu'a. Sun Ce seems very nervous, my brother. We set off without further ado, and we should be able to reach our water village in Xiangwu today."

"How many soldiers and horses did he bring?" Zhou Tai stood up, raised his eyebrows, and asked.

"I didn't bring any soldiers and horses, I came here alone!"

"Alone?" Zhou Tai looked at the young man in blue, stared at him, and asked cautiously: "Gongyi, did your spy see clearly?"

This young man in blue is Jiang Qin, styled Gongyi.In history, he and Zhou Tai were the Twelve Tiger Ministers of the Eastern Wu. The Twelve Tiger Ministers of the Eastern Wu were not only talking about martial arts, but also the ability to lead troops.

Jiang Qin may be a step behind Zhou Tai in terms of martial arts, but he is familiar with military books, and he is still better than Zhou Tai in terms of fighting.

In the past few years, he and Zhou Tai joined forces to rule the roost on the Yangtze River and command hundreds of water thieves. Thousands of soldiers came to encircle and suppress them, but they were defeated. Both of them were born in Jiujiang, so they are famous as Jiujiang thieves in the Yangtze River two places.

"See clearly, there is only one person!"

The young man in blue nodded affirmatively: "He has just returned to Jiangdong, and his men are all cavalry, without a boat. He went to the ferry in Jiangcheng County. They circled the Yangtze River a few times, and there was absolutely no one following behind them, one shot at a time, with extraordinary courage."

Little Sun Quan was moved a little when he heard it.Sun Ce was willing to enter the den of thieves alone, and came to rescue him, taking a great risk.

"Good! Good! What a Sun Ce, the tiger father has no dogs and sons, he has the domineering spirit of his father, since he dared to come here alone, I would like to meet him for a while." Zhou Tai's expression flashed a little bit, and his fighting spirit emerged.

Habitual water thieves like Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin, free and unrestrained wild people on the Yangtze River, if they are not deterred by peerless force, they will not be able to recover.

People who were born in the green forest all advocated force, without the deterrence of force, Sun Quan might not be able to make them surrender even if he said that he broke the sky.

Now that Sun Ce has come, Sun Quan has a plan in mind to regain the two of them.

[Text Chapter 36: Sun Ce vs. Zhou Tai]

A small boat sailed down the river. Sun Ce's tall and straight body stood on the deck. He was a young man with a jade crown in a bun, dressed in black, with a heavy burden on his back, and a spear in his hand. He was very imposing.

Behind him stood five or six Jiujiang thieves in charge of the boat, separated by a long distance, not daring to approach at all.

The small boat first circled the Yangtze River a few times, and then went down the Yangtze River. After walking for a long time, turning seven turns and eight bends, I finally saw a water village. The water village was built on a small island. Difficult to attack.

When Sun Ce's boat arrived, the gate of the village was already wide open, but there were more than 100 water thieves standing densely on it, lined up, holding spears or bows and arrows, dozens of boats lined up on both sides, and hundreds of fierce water thieves stood on the left and right. The water thief, with the tip of the gun facing each other with a cold light, the bow and arrow full of strings, the momentum is awe-inspiring, filled with a murderous aura, shocking people's hearts.

At this time, Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin and little Sun Quan stood in front of a window on the tallest log cabin in the water village, staring at Sun Ce on the river beyond the gate of the village.

"Master Quan, do you think Sun Ce dares to walk in alone this time?" Zhou Tai was very satisfied with his navy formation, raised his eyebrows, looked at little Sun Quan, and said braggingly.

"Idiot! You can't even scare me with your strength, and you still want to scare my brother."

Sun Quan looked at Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin, immediately rolled his eyes, shook his head and said speechlessly: "Old Zhou! It's a bit too sad for water thieves to do what you do. If it were me, there would be at least a few thousand people lined up left and right." , the first row of vertical spears, the second row of arrows, and then dozens of heavy crossbows, so that he can't escape, this is the only way to scare people."

"Young Master Quan is Young Master Quan, and you can scare people better than us water thieves!" Zhou Tai's smile froze on his face when he heard it, and he could only say in a dejected way in the end.

Jiangdong's tens of thousands of elite soldiers can really put on this formation.

Black lines also appeared on Jiang Qin's forehead, his face flushed with shame, and he thought to himself: If there is such a big battle, we will still be used as water thieves, go ashore directly, and separate ourselves.

"Mr. Sun, please!" A leader of the water village stood up, looked at Sun Ce on the small boat, and shouted loudly.

"Sun Gongzi, please!"

Hundreds of capable water thieves shouted in unison at the same time, with a strong murderous aura in their voices, shocking them for miles around.

When Sun Ce saw this formation, he was not afraid, but just let out a cold snort in his heart, as a sign of contempt, his expression remained unchanged, and his eyes were calm and cold.

At Sishui Pass, he could calmly face tens of thousands of people confronting each other, riding a horse and fighting alone, coming and going freely. Compared with the depressing aura on the battlefield, this aura is simply the difference between a firefly and a bright moon. , didn't even jump up his interest.

"Where's my brother?" Sun Ce strode up from the small boat to the wooden platform, walked along the water bridge promenade, faced hundreds of heroes, walked directly into the water village without fear, and asked in a cold voice.

"Young Master Quan is at the school grounds, this way please!" The murderous aura exuded by Sun Ce shocked the water thieves around him, and led him directly to a school ground on the small island.

The school field is in the center of the island, it is very big, it can accommodate four to five hundred people to practice at the same time, and there are rows of weapons on both sides, most of them are wooden spears, big knives, a little shabby.