Based on his own concise explanation and the supplements from the surrounding generals, Sun Jian learned that this young military general was a martial arts seedling accidentally discovered by his father, Sun Zhong, when he was expanding his business channels.
He did this several times, investing money to settle the life of Zhou Tai's family, hiring a martial arts master for him, and then left without asking for anything in return.
Those children or young people with various qualifications who were sponsored by Sun Zhong are likely to have exhausted their qualifications and returned to mediocrity before they grew up, becoming farmers and hunters. There are probably only one out of ten who can truly excel, but the lucky ones
Yes, Zhou Tai and Zhou Youping are one of them.
Zhou Tai's master is a ranger who is good at assassination, and his teachings to his disciples naturally tend to be in this direction. However, although Zhou Tai has mastered silent action, sneaking through shadows, etc., he does not like assassination or assassination with daggers or daggers.
The weapon used in the surprise attack was to find a blacksmith to make a strange curved single-edged sword, and named it "Xiao". After combining it with his own martial arts, it evolved into a weapon that would actively appear on the target.
In front of him was a majestic assassination technique.
The martial arts master lamented that the world was changing so fast that he could no longer understand it, and finally announced that Zhou Tai would become a master.
However, Sun Zhong did not come to recruit, and Sun Jian was not well-known at that time. Therefore, Zhou Tai had to continue to hone his martial arts on the East China Sea. Finally one day, he realized Wushuang. Although he does not know how to describe it specifically, he can even kill people with one swing of his sword.
The huge waves within the range temporarily froze.
At this time, a group of low-ranking Japanese warriors from the "Saito family" happened to pass by. They were so shocked that they insisted on becoming a disciple regardless of their age difference. Zhou Tai refused sternly. Unexpectedly, they came to watch and learn every day in the future.
Out of a certain sense of vanity, and because these martial arts were entirely his own creation, and there was no need to keep them secret, he did not stop them.
However, perhaps because their short stature is conducive to assassination, they actually learned a little bit about the frontal assassination technique. After that, their leader claimed that his sect was the "One-sword style", and imitated many arc swords and used them in the art.
Accept assassination missions all around the East China Sea.
Originally, these "Yidao Ryu" only caused trouble among the pirates, and Zhou Tai had no intention of taking care of it. But this time they had the courage to come and assassinate the imperial governor despite not knowing how much money they were promised, so Zhou Tai had to track down the pirates.
Several high-level officials of the "Yidaoliu" who could really cause harm to the governor did not want to happen to meet Sun Jian and Yiqian family generals.
"Please, young master, deal with it." Zhou Tai threw the Japanese man probably named "Saito Yi" next to the other prisoners, ignoring their desperate eyes, and said hoarsely.
"Not to mention other things, what's the reason for your voice, Youping? Have you asked a doctor to take a look at it?" Sun Jian finally couldn't help but ask this question.
"When I was young, I was fine." Zhou Tai shook his head, saying that he didn't know what was going on.
"Probably it's the negative impact that a powerful 'unparalleled' usually has." Cheng Pu guessed.
"Not Lu Bu." Sun Jian responded.
"Well..." This reason is too good to be refuted at all.
"Lu, Feng, first." Zhou Tai's hoarse voice carried a little fighting spirit. Obviously, even though he lived idle on the coast of the East China Sea, he had still heard of that man's reputation as "unparalleled in the world."
"The so-called invitation is worse than a chance encounter. Since I met the young master unexpectedly, let's go with us," Cheng Pu said, "Maybe I will have a chance to fight with that Lu Bu in the future."
"Even for Cao Cao and Liu Bei, it may not be impossible." Huang Gai continued.
"Wait?" Sun Jian was quite surprised. The martial arts of these two men were only mediocre.
"Zhou Tai, but Ping, drive." Apparently, the black-armored general understood what the two men meant.
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Since everyone in this "One Sword Style" can be said to be half of Zhou Tai's disciples, if they were really handed over to Zhu Bing, they would inevitably cause some trouble. Sun Jian finally decided to drive them all back to the East China Sea.
thing, since Zhou Tai has said "No landing again", perhaps the low-level assassins are dissatisfied, but Saito, who completely regards Zhou Tai as a god, will definitely obey orders strictly. As long as they do not set foot in the Central Plains again, even if they run back
It has nothing to do with the establishment of a sect on the main island of Dongyi.
Since the employer was very careful not to identify himself, these Yi Daoliu didn't know who was going to deal with Zhu Bing. Moreover, before they left Xuzhou, they also told some not-so-good news in Chinese with a strange tone.
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"Those aristocratic families hired more than this one to deal with Zhu Bing?" Zu Mao frowned and said, "But we did not find any other spies trying to sneak into the military camp, and there were no unusual appearances in the Chinese army's tent."
"And there is no visual communication. If one of them is wrong and the two sides fight..." Cheng Peng paused: "So, the other group of people will probably attack head-on."
"Attack tens of thousands of troops head-on?" Huang Gai mocked.
"No, they actually have the opportunity to 'attack head-on'," Sun Jian recalled a previous experience and cast his sights on the river not far away: "When the numerical advantage cannot work."
In the light rain, mist filled the Sishui River.
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After staying on the banks of the Surabaya River for a few days, the governor Zhu He ordered the entire army to board ships and head to the mouth of the sea.
Unsurprisingly, he ignored the warning that "walking by water may be attacked by water pirates", even though this warning came from one of his most trusted advisors.
Sun Jian guessed what he was thinking and found that there was nothing wrong in not knowing the inside story. After all, if those aristocratic families dared to attack the governor of the state and county head-on, it would be an act of rebellion with no excuse at all. Even if he tried to be suspected and took out
If Yi Dao Liu is used as evidence, he can only get a heroic statement of "Let them come."
However, the most critical problem is that when the Xuzhou Allied Forces took the waterway, their position at Pi Army was very far away from the Chinese military buildings and ships...
"Does this governor know how to look at people?" Even with Sun Jian's temper, standing on his walkway looking at the ship, he was a little bit angry: "Leave those wine bags and rice bags that I can hit five or six with one hand."
The truly powerful people around me don't even look at him. The most annoying thing is that if something happens to him, the first ones to be punished will be us, the guards who were farthest from him."
"Therefore, young master should establish his own business as early as possible to avoid being dictated by incompetent people." Cheng Pu took the opportunity to persuade.
"This matter will be discussed later." Just like the governor, Sun Jian obviously refused to listen to others on topics like self-reliance.
Ding bell——ding bell——
In the mist on the river, there was a faint sound of bells, and about 30% of the soldiers became nervous after hearing the sound.
"I seem to have heard that if you hear this sound on the river, you should immediately move to the shore to avoid it, but the reason..." Sun Jian frowned and thought hard.
Ding Bell - "Hahaha!!"
Before Sun Jian could think of anything, a strange fleet appeared directly in front of the Xuzhou coalition fleet. It was not painted with dark red paint or not like ordinary ships, but was painted with various colors of paint.
Green and green, the sails are not conventional white or yellow canvas, but made of fine Sichuan brocade.
Directly on the bow of the flagship is a tall young man with a shirtless upper body and dark red leather trousers. He has a bell tied around his waist, his hair is tied upright, and he is decorated with many bird feathers. His skin is like the hull of a ship.
Painted with weird patterns.
"Hahaha!" The young man continued to laugh, and his voice came from far away: "Old Man Zhu! I heard that you got a lot of property when you broke into those Taiping Road altars, so how about you give me some money to use?"
"Jinfan thief!" "It's 'Ling Zhi Gan Ning'!" "Why is Gan Xingba here!" The exclamations of the soldiers on each ship fully explained the identity of the other party.
"Young Master, although this man is a pirate, he has never killed innocent people indiscriminately, and all he has done is rob the rich and give to the poor." Cheng Pu introduced at the side.
"Why do I think he was taken care of by his father on purpose?" Sun Jian asked in surprise.
"That's not true, but young master, do you remember the pirate ship whose passengers were all seaweed more than ten years ago?" Cheng Pu said: "Their original owner was randomly thrown into the sea by Na Yuji, and wandered on a desert island for several years.
Only then could they leave, and Gan Ning and his men are their descendants."
"Oh...it's okay that they have a common enemy, but how to deal with the conflict between them and the governor?" Sun Jian did not hesitate to classify Gan Ning as "one of his own", although if he wanted to conquer him, he would probably still
You have to fight him.
During the conversation, Gan Ning also completed a meaningless dialogue with Na Zhu Bing, such as "Did you attack the imperial officials because you wanted to rebel?" and "Sir, I am a pirate, and I was born to rebel against you." Then the two ships
They joined the strings head-on, jumped to each other's backs, and then started fighting ping-ping-pong-pong. Several ships in front and behind the building rushed to the rescue.
Seeing this situation, Sun Jian also ordered to send out support, but at the same time he added: "Wait for the opportunity! Fish in troubled waters!"
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Xiapi, suburb of the city.
Yu Ji, who was just mentioned by Cheng Pu, was now being chased by the beast he summoned. Behind him, two young boys, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, were sitting on the back of a big tiger with an eye-catching white forehead.
Boredly, he directed the herd to pursue.
I have to say that his idea was not wrong. Ordinary people would be scared to death when they saw so many beasts, let alone two children. However, after these beasts discovered that the targets of attack were Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, they immediately pounced on them.
He came over faster and struck back at Ji. The immortal, who was confused and had his clothes torn again, could only turn around and run away.
"Let's not continue to circle around Xiapi," Sun Ce said: "My mother carried Quan'er and Shangxiang to the city wall to watch the battle, but I always felt that they were watching a monkey show."
"Okay then." Zhou Yu raised the short stick in his hand forward: "Dabai! Bite him!"
Phew! A big snow-white dog pounced on Yu Ji and bit him on the head. The immortal let out a roar, and fled towards the northwest with "Dabai" and the other beasts behind him.
"I think there seems to be something wrong with this name." Sun Ce said doubtfully.
