And Zu Lang naturally targeted Jiang Er's thief under the questioning and investigation of several major merchant ships.

The brothers sent by Gan Ning soon sent news to Liu Zheng and them.

It is said that a few days ago, Zu Lang had gathered his subordinates and went to the Fengshui Valley to find trouble with Jiang Er's thieves.

When this news reached Liu Zheng's ears, it immediately attracted Liu Zheng's attention.

Liu Zheng immediately ordered Gan Ning's people to pay close attention to the dynamics of Jiang's thief on Tuesday.

As Liu Zheng expected, after robbing the fleet under Zu Lang's command several times in succession, Zu Lang finally thought that the people who robbed his fleet were the ghosts of Jiang Tuesday's thieves.

First, there is the water system of Poyang Lake, and most of them know the number of water thieves. At the same time, the only ones who are close to Zu Lang's sphere of influence are Yan Baihu and Jiang Er's thieves, and Yan Baihu is strong and can't look down on those ships, even if Yan Baihu did it, he won't be so sneaky. It must be an upright robbery, and Zu Lang didn't dare to say anything.

And secretly doing this kind of villain behavior, naturally there is only Jiang Er's thief, although it has not yet been determined, but Zu Lang's heart has put the suspect on Jiang Erren's body, he immediately took the three thousand soldiers and horses in the water village, and directly killed Jiang Er's thief's lair.

Although Liu Zheng knew that Jiang Er's thief was questioned by Zulang's man Ma Xingshi, Liu Zheng didn't know what happened between them, after all, he didn't plant spies in Jiang Er's thief's water village.

can 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 look happy and smile.

Zu Lang took 3,000 men and horses to Fengshui to find trouble with Jiang Er's thieves, although Jiang Er's thieves were weaker than Zu Lang's, and there were not as many soldiers and horses as Zu Lang, but they were not vegetarians, and they were sure that Zu Lang deliberately came to trouble them.

Zu Lang said that Jiang Tuesday thief swallowed Zu Lang's goods, and Jiang Tuesday thief explained that no, it was Zu Lang who framed them, and he took a fancy to their territory and wanted to rob it.

The two sides insisted on their own words, and in the end there was a big fight.

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

Although Zulang has many people and is stronger, but in the territory of Jiang Er's thief, he still did not completely defeat Jiang Er's thief, and after a battle, although Jiang Er's arrogance was suppressed, he still let Jiang Er's thief escape from his lair.

However, this is also the price of Zu Lang's loss of more than 1,000 horses to completely knock Jiang Tuesday's thieves away from his lair.

After Liu Zheng heard the news, he knew that although Jiang Er's thief was not completely eliminated, he was driven away by Zu Lang, and without Jiang's Er's thief, the waters of Poyang Lake would have changed from the previous four major water thieves to the three major water thieves, and the change of power would definitely be good news for him.

Jiang Er's area of influence happened to be close to Yichun County, and without Jiang's Erbian thief, Liu Zheng's merchant ships would be able to travel between Yuzhang County and Changsha County without any hindrance.

At the same time, without Jiang Tuesday's thief, Liu Zhen can insert his newly recruited Jinfan thief Dunn into the waters of Poyang Lake to replace Jiang Tuesday's thief's former position, as if he was the new four water thieves.

The battle between Jiang Tuesday's thief and Zu Lang took place somewhat suddenly, and the change in circumstances was unexpected for Liu Zheng.

Originally, Liu Zheng just wanted to cut off contact between Zu Lang and Jiang Er's thief, and after Liu Zheng raised troops to deal with Jiang Er's thief, Zu Lang would not take the opportunity to kill him from behind and make a profit.

But what Liu Zheng never expected was that the four major water thieves in the Poyang water system were not monolithic, and he easily planted the blame, which directly caused a fierce battle between Jiang Er's thieves and Zu Lang, which greatly reduced Jiang Erren's strength and was almost directly eliminated by Zu Lang.

Jiang Tuesday's thief's defeat caused Liu Zheng's original plan to lose its effect, and some of the 2,000 soldiers and horses he had worked so hard to train 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.

"Lord, what happened in the waters of Poyang Lake is beyond our expectations, I think this is an opportunity!"

Yuan Zhou's words were said suddenly, so that Liu Zheng didn't expect what he wanted to say, so he immediately asked Yuan Zhou.

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

"Lord, our original plan was to deal with the Jiang Tuesday thief, but now that the Jiang Tuesday thief was directly defeated by Zu Lang, we can turn the target to Zu Lang, you know, even if there is no Jiang Tuesday thief, the ruling power of the waters of Poyang Lake is still in Zu Lang's hands."

"Our merchant ships, if they want to communicate in Yuzhang County, they will inevitably be robbed by Zulang's ship, instead of bowing to Zulang and offering taxes, it is better to take this opportunity to directly eliminate Zulang, now Zulang and Jiang Er's thieves have just ended the war, and the forces will definitely be greatly reduced, we only need to find Zulang's lair, and then unite the men and horses of the Ganning brothers, it may not be without the strength of a battle!"

What Yuan Zhou wanted was to take this opportunity to directly eliminate Zu Lang, so that Liu Zheng's forces could defeat Zu Lang in one fell swoop and replace Zu Lang and Jiang Er's position in the waters of Poyang Lake.

As soon as this plan came out, Liu Zheng's eyes immediately lit up.

That's right, he has been focusing on Jiang Er's thief before, and he didn't think too much about Zulang's guy, but now that there is no Jiang Er's thief, then Liu Zheng's forces will definitely have a direct confrontation with Zulang.

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

It's just that Zu Lang's strength has been operating in Poyang Lake for so long, and the number of water thieves under his command is four or five thousand, even if he fights with Jiang Er's thieves, there are many casualties, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse.

It's not that Liu Zheng can deal with more than 2,000 water thieves now.

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

"Regarding this, the lord can rest assured, I still have a plan, and I will definitely be able to resolve the strength gap between us and Zulang."

"Oh? What's the plan, let's hear about it? ”

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

"It's up to that Jiang Tuesday thief."

Yuan Zhou whispered a word.

And as soon as Liu Zheng heard Yuan Zhou's words and talked about Jiang Zhou's thief again, his brows furrowed, and suddenly his face burst into laughter.

"Wonderful, really wonderful!"