Three Kingdoms: At the beginning, Cao Cao assassinated Dong, and I was abandoned

Tang Mao recruited two new generals he had recently recruited, and said, "Dong Xi, Ling Cao, which of you two will protect Madam Gu and go to Jizhou?"

"Jizhou?"

The two were amazed. Jizhou was separated from Kuaiji by several counties.

Dong Xi said: "Prefect, to go to Jizhou from Kuaiji, you have to pass through Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Yangzhou, and Sun Ce's territory by land."

"Walking by water, you have to go through Jiujiang County, Wu County, Guangling County, Donglai County, Langya Country, and Donghai County,"

"This road is extremely dangerous, even if the last general goes there alone, it will be inconvenient, not to mention two women and children with him?"

Ling Cao agreed: "What the Yuan Dynasty said is true. The road is dangerous. It's not that I don't want to go. If something goes wrong on the road, I can't bear it."

Gu's brows furrowed involuntarily, what the two generals said was not unreasonable, the road was too dangerous.

Tang Mao also understood the worries of the two, and explained: "You don't have to worry so much. The Zhen Family's Chamber of Commerce in Jizhou sent a batch of war horses a few days ago. The caravan has not returned yet. You just need to follow the Zhen Family's Chamber of Commerce. There will be too much danger."

Dong Xi and Ling Cao looked at each other and said, "I'll go there!"

Now that the Zhen family caravan was used as a shield, they felt relieved a lot.

"Our cavalry still needs Yuan Dynasty training. Ling Cao, you choose ten elites to protect Mrs. Gu and go to Jizhou."

"promise!"

Chapter 142 "The water thief is coming!" Don't be afraid, take us for a ride, we are going to Jizhou to join the army

Cao Shuo sent [-] war horses to Tang Mao, and Shi A, the governor of Jinyiwei, personally escorted them.

Everyone knew that the Zhen family's caravan was Cao Shuo's private property, and no prince would want to offend Cao Shuo for such a little thing.

Moreover, the Zhen Family Chamber of Commerce has transactions with the princes, and they will more or less sell it to the other side.

Tang Mao called Shi A, the leader of the caravan, to the mansion and asked:

"Mr. Shi A, the mother and son of the Gu family have packed up. I wonder when your caravan will leave?"

"Since Mrs. Gu is ready, we can set off at any time. I wonder how the shipwright Tang Taishou prepared?"

Before Shi A came, Cao Shuo confessed that Tang Mao recruited three thousand shipwrights in Kuaiji County as an exchange for these war horses. Tang Mao readily agreed. After all, he didn't need to pay, he was just talking.

Tang Mao replied: "I have already recruited the three thousand shipwrights needed by Marquis Wei!"

"Thank you, Prefect Tang."

Shi A bowed, he had to respect Tang Mao's status, not because he was the former head of state, but because he was Cao Shuo's 'father-in-law'.

Although the relationship between the two was not made public, and Tang Mao didn't know that Cao Shuo was his son-in-law, Shi Ake was very aware of the relationship between Cao Shuo and Tang Ji.

"I don't know Mr. Shi A, how to transport these shipwrights back to Jizhou?"

"I don't need to worry about this. Our fleet is very empty, so it's no problem to carry thousands of people."

Escorting [-] war horses, using more than a hundred passenger ships, pulling [-] shipwrights, and [-] guards, is no problem at all.

"I wonder if Jizhou Mu has any other needs?"

"We need warships!"

According to Cao Shuo's order, Shi A bought four large ships and twenty warships from Tang Mao. No one would dare to intercept such a fleet on the sea.

Less than three hours after the caravan set off, Mrs. Gu asked again:

"General Ling, how long will it take for us to reach Jizhou?"

Mrs. Gu couldn't wait to see Lu Ji, and asked many times along the way.

"Madam Gu, we just passed Lou County!"

"what?"

Gu's face was terrified, she felt that it had been a long time, why hadn't she stepped out of Sun Ce's sphere of influence.

Ling Cao comforted: "Madam Gu, don't worry, in this coastal area, no one dares to intercept the Zhen family's chamber of commerce."

Mrs. Gu nodded. She has also heard about the strength and background of the Zhen family. Maybe nothing will happen. It would be great to arrive in Jizhou safely.

When the fleet arrived at Hailing Port, a strong wind suddenly blew up on the sea. Shi A had no choice but to sail into Guangling to avoid the hurricane.

The huge fleet of the Zhen's Chamber of Commerce, as well as its warships, attracted the attention of many people. Zhang Chao, the prefect of Guangling, deeply apologized for not paying the debts, and personally led people to protect these ships.

However, the fleet was still missed.

Two water bandit leaders, with a dozen or so subordinates, sneaked into the vicinity of the fleet and carefully observed the movement of the fleet.

"Brother, look, it's the Zhen family's fleet!"

A broad-shouldered boy of seventeen or eighteen years old was lying beside a bearded young man in his twenties, looking warily at the Zhen family's chamber of commerce.

The bearded man sighed with emotion: "This battle is not small!"

"Look at Zhang Chao, the prefect of Guangling, with a flattering expression on his face, as if he owed a debt."

"Don't tell me, he really owes money to Jizhou Mu, otherwise why would he be so flattering to Zhen's Chamber of Commerce."

"Brother, when do we start?"

"This hurricane will pass in two days, when we..."

"It's all up to my brother!"

The hurricane came and went quickly, and the fleet set sail again, heading towards Yandu.

"Report, Mr. Shi A, more than a dozen small boats were found one mile ahead, and the boats were full of water thieves."

"Ok?"

Shi A's eyes narrowed, there are really people who dare to come to die, a dozen small boats, dare to intercept more than 100 of their boats?

One of the water bandits, a burly man with a full beard, looked at a younger brother beside him and said, "Speak to them and let them know that we have no malicious intentions."

"I opened this mountain and planted this tree. If you want to..."

"Get the fuck out of here, can you talk!"

The strong man kicked him into the sea. He was almost pissed to death by these bastards. He robbed every day. Could it be that he regarded this as a profession?

A young leader next to the strong man said: "Hey, we are water thieves, and we have no malicious intentions!"

Water thief, harmless?

"Whoosh whoosh!"

What responded to him was countless arrows, but these arrows did not hit them.

I don't know if it was intentional, or the range was not enough, or I didn't eat in the morning.

"Our Zhen's Chamber of Commerce does not want to offend anyone, but we are not afraid of trouble, don't seek death!"

Four large boats and twenty warships directly surrounded them, and they were full of soldiers holding bows and arrows.

The water thief swallowed in fright, and looked at the surrounding ships in horror, for fear that they would attack again, otherwise, they would definitely be shot as hedgehogs if they were so close.

A fleet with so many guards, there is no one except the Zhen family.

The strong man hurriedly explained: "Don't get me wrong, we are on a boat!"

"Convex(艹盘艹)!"

Ling Cao was shocked, could he find a lower-level reason?The water thief blocks the way to take a boat, thank you for thinking of it.

A Jinyiwei Qianhu roared angrily: "Get out of the way, don't get in the way!"

"This general, we are really on board!"

"If you don't get out of the way, we will be impolite!"

Jin Yiwei Qianhu waved his hand, and the soldiers behind him pulled up their bows and arrows, aiming at the group of water thieves whose brains were starved of oxygen.

Ling Cao jokingly said: "Brothers, have you been in the water for a long time, are you crazy? Didn't you see that we are the officers and soldiers of Jizhou?"

The strong man replied: "It's not the official army, we won't stop it!"

"bump!"

Ling Cao jumped directly from the building boat to a small boat, shaking the water thieves on the boat to this side, Ling Cao's legs swayed, and all the water thieves on the boat fell into the sea water.

"Don't do it, we really have no malicious intentions!"

Ling Cao asked, "Then what do you want to do?"

"I heard that Cao Shuo, Mu of Jizhou, recruits and admires talented people. I think I'm a bit brave, so I want to join Mu of Jizhou."

"What?"

Ling Cao was dumbfounded, and so were Shi A and the two thousand Jinyiwei on the building boat. It turned out that the flood had washed into the Dragon King Temple.

The strong man said awkwardly: "Our boat has a long journey and cannot withstand the wind and waves, so we want to take the fleet of Zhen's Chamber of Commerce and rush to Jizhou!"

"Throw away your weapons and come aboard with us!"

"Did you throw away the weapon?"

Everyone, look at me, I look at you, this is a weapon, very valuable.

"Our army in Jizhou doesn't need such scrap metal."

"Dangdangdang!"

All the water thieves threw away all the weapons in their hands, what are they doing here?

The two leaders looked at the 'treasure sword' in their hands, and reluctantly threw it far away.

Broken metal!Broken metal!

Chapter 143 Do you call this a naval army?

"The names of several strong men?"

Shi A came to the side of the two bosses, looked at them, and felt that the martial arts of the two should be okay.

"In Xiajiujiang, Zhou Tai's character is Youping!"

"In Xiajiujiang, Jiang Qin's character is Gongyi!"

Several people exchanged pleasantries for a while, set up a banquet on the deck, and began to drink to their heart's content.

"Is this wine a famous product in Jizhou?"

Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin drank a few sips, terrified.

Ling Cao said, "It should be!"

"Should? Aren't you from Jizhou?"

Zhou Tai looked at Ling Cao suspiciously. Wasn't it rumored that he was an official in Jizhou and had enough drinks?

"I said Captain of Kuaiji County, follow Zhen's Chamber of Commerce to Jizhou for business!"

Then Ling Cao pointed to Shi A who was standing at the bow of the boat and kept silent, and continued: "He is from Jizhou."

"Oh!"

The two nodded. They didn't expect the Jizhou Army to be so strict that the leading generals could not drink alcohol when they were outside.

"drink!"

Before becoming a Jizhou army, get back the capital first, anyway, this wine does not cost money.

If Sun Ce knew that the two water thief leaders he was looking for traveled thousands of miles to Jizhou to throw himself into his arms, he would definitely die of anger.

When the fleet arrived at Haiqu Port, Shi A came to Gu's residence and said, "Madam Gu, we are about to pass through Qingzhou, I am worried that Yuan Shao will attack the caravan, so please trouble Madam Gu to go ashore and cross Langya by land. The country passes through Taishan County, enters Jibei Kingdom, and then transfers to Jizhou."

"Huh? Taishan County?"

Gu and Ling Cao were horrified at the same time, wasn't Taishan County occupied by Zang Ba and that Taishan bandit?Why did they go from here?

Shi A explained: "This is the secret of our army, so I can't disclose it. General Ling, please protect Mrs. Gu and go ashore. Taishan County has sent General Zhao Feng to come to meet her."

"Thank you, Mr. Shi A, for escorting me all the way."

Mrs. Gu bowed to Shi A, then got off the boat and got into the carriage prepared in advance.

At the same time, there were three thousand shipwrights who followed them off the boat.