Jian Yong looked at Liu Bei, Liu Bei looked at Wang Xuan, and Wang Xuan spread his hands...
"There is no point in looking for me. For this matter, you can either rely on Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping's horse trading channels. Then wait for the early completion of the shipyard in Taixiang. The best way is to go to Gongsun Bogui by sea and land. He has horses there.
It doesn’t matter whether we exchange cavalry, food, or anything else with him, the problem is that the ship must be built slowly!”
"These shipwrights have just finished learning from me how to build ships with a displacement of 500 tons. There are also ships with a displacement of 1,000 tons and higher. Even for a ship with a displacement of 500 tons, it is too much to transport 200 horses at a time.
After all, they are living creatures!”
"Two hundred, so much?" Jian Yong and Liu Bei looked surprised.
"What?" Wang Xuan glanced around, waved the others to disperse, and then whispered: "Why do you think I want a navy? There are twenty ships with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons, and we can go to them all at once.
Jizhou, Youzhou, Xuzhou, and Yangzhou transport 10,000 infantry and enough grain and grass supplies at once, and you can choose the landing place at will. Do you understand what this means?"
"No matter how many checkpoints you build, along the rivers and rivers, you can still deploy troops at will, whatever checkpoints, what food routes, wherever you want to attack!"
Liu Bei: "w(?Д?)w"
Jian Yong: "Σ(っ°Д°;)っ"
"Shhh!" Wang Xuan raised his eyebrows and patted the two of them on the shoulders, "If you don't move, it will be nothing. If you move, it will be thunderous!"
"Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin have asked me to send me back to the Yangtze River to recruit those former water thieves. We can get back as many as we can. They are all good at water and will be the seeds of the future navy army."
"In addition, I also asked Guan Hai to go to Donglai. We also have a big pirate in Qingzhou, Guan Cheng, who has many people. He mainly goes to Xuzhou to rob for a living."
"Get them all back, and you'll have a solid foundation for the navy."
Liu Bei and Jian Yong's eyes shone with excitement.
…
On the other side, Gan Ning set off with eight hundred brocade sail thieves, a dozen sailing boats, and fighting ships.
Among the water thieves in the entire Yangtze River, Gan Ning is considered to be the most well-equipped. After all, his family background is different. Gan Ning will never look down on civilian boats, boats, flat boats, canoes, etc. Although he is a thief,
You can see from the fact that the sails of his ships are hung with brocade and golden bells, that this guy is still very respectable and very coquettish. Even if he is a thief, he must be the most capable thief.
These dozen or so roving ships and fighting ships were basically snatched by the Jingzhou Navy!
Yes, the water thieves robbed the navy army... This is not surprising. The people in charge of the navy army under Liu Biao were Cai Mao and Huang Zu, but Cai Mao was basically in Xiangyang, and Huang Zu was in charge of Jiangxia to guard against Yuan Shu, but Jiang Shui
There are many cities above, and it's not like there are no naval troops stationed there. With Gan Ning's force, it would definitely not be possible to rob Huang Zu, but those small cities... Gan Ning is like a little girl in front of a master who has unleashed his power.
, we can only assume various postures and let Gan Ning take whatever he wants.
Therefore, in a small-scale battle, the eight hundred water thieves in Gan Ning's hands are really powerful.
Although Zhou Tai also has the realm of releasing Gang Qi, he is different from Jiang Qin and Jiang Qin's team of water thieves. Starting from Poyang Lake, they spread throughout the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Along the way, they have more than a thousand miles, many strongholds, and a huge number of personnel, tens of thousands of people.
In order to adapt to various narrow and complex terrains, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin's subordinates mostly used boats, boats, flat boats, light boats, urchins, and pontoons, and only a few battleships were used to suppress the situation.
In the field, his subordinates are usually fishermen along the way. When there is business, they will suddenly pull off their clothes, revealing their hairy chests and transform into bandits.
Seriously speaking, although Gan Ning's subordinates are called Jinfan thieves, they are more of regular troops trained by him according to the military manual. Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin are the correct Jiang Qin bandits. Gan Ning has absolute control over his subordinates, and
Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin...are the big leaders. Each stronghold below has its own leader. They only respect Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin as their master from afar.
Relying on their familiarity with the terrain, Gan Ning and his group of 800 people took advantage of the darkness to quickly cross Jiangxia and enter the territory of Yangzhou. Once here, even if the sky is high, no bird can cross it. Now Yangzhou is in chaos. In name, the imperial court accepts the fate of the Yangzhou governor.
It was Chen Wen, but Yuan Shaoyou accepted his fate and appointed his cousin Yuan Yi, the governor of Shanyang, as the governor. In fact, neither of them had any rights.
There was a war going on north of the river. Yuan Shu, with the little overlord Sun Ce as the vanguard and Zhou Yu as the military advisor, was fighting with his cousin Yuan Yi. Yuan Yi was retreating and had no intention of paying attention to the problems on the Yangtze River, nor was he able to pay attention to them.
The entire middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are basically in a state of self-control. The four major families in Jiangdong, led by Zhu, Yu, Gu, and Lu, are self-controlling. Their territories are intertwined and a balance is reached with each other. This makes the entire Jiangdong extremely closed and does not like to accept big men.
People from other places.
Even Zhou Tai and others were unable to eradicate Jiang bandits, let alone stop a small army like Gan Ning.
Sitting on the bow of the boat, looking at the simple map in his hand, Gan Ning fell into deep thought. He wanted to make a name for himself with Liu Bei. Isn't it a bit too much to just bring 800 people and a dozen boats by himself?
It was the first time he came to visit, although it wasn't a marriage proposal, but there was always a gift that could be used. But he was very particular about what he gave. His understanding of Liu Bei and the forces under his command was limited to what he learned from the Mi family envoys.
At this point, he needs to use his own brain.
While I was thinking about it, I heard a cry, "Brothers on the river, can you take my family across the river!?"
You must know that Gan Ning and his party were in the middle of the river at this time, at least two to three hundred meters away from the shore. The wind on the river was relatively strong, but the sound seemed to be ringing in the ears, which showed that the skill of the person shouting was really not low.
Turning his head and looking in the direction of the source of the sound, Gan Ning saw two carriages parked on the shore. A middle-aged man was standing on the shore looking over. Gan Ning raised his eyebrows and waved for others to stop. His boat turned towards
Go towards the shore.
The middle-aged man standing on the bow of the boat looking at the shore and shouting, the closer he got to Gan Ning, the more solemn his expression became. They were all martial arts practitioners. As long as they were not special like Zhao Yun, they could tell at a glance whether they were masters or not.
The pressure placed on Gan Ning by young people was unprecedented.
There were still dozens of meters away from the shore, so Gan Ning reached out and picked up his weapons, a short halberd in his right hand, and a short spear on his left and right sides. He stepped hard on the bow of the boat and jumped directly to the shore.
"I'm Jin Fan, Gan Ning, Gan Xingba, haven't you asked me for advice?" Gan Ning held his weapon upside down and saluted with cupped fists.
"It turns out that Jinfan Gan Ning is in front of me. The old man Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng have met the master. I wonder if I can ask the master to use a boat to carry my carriage and horses across the river. This carriage is a bit big and it is difficult for ordinary civilian ships to fit it." Huang Zhong
He claims to be an old man, but he is actually only in his early forties. With his profound skills, he does not appear to be old.
If it were anyone else, it sounds like they are a group of river thieves. How dare they let them drive him across the river? But for Huang Zhong, there is no danger at all. Even if there is, it is probably the other party that is more dangerous.