Liu Zheng opened his mouth to solicit Gan Ning, but Gan Ning agreed without saying a word.

"Thank you for your appreciation, I came this time to join Qu Shuai!"

"Okay, Zhou Cang immediately ordered to go down, prepare wine and food, and prepare to welcome Brother Gan Ning to join us!"

There was not even the slightest nonsense in the conversation between the two sides, and after Liu Zheng agreed to Gan Ning, he directly asked Zhou Cang next to him to prepare wine and food to welcome Gan Ning's joining.

Liu Zheng was so enthusiastic, Gan Ning naturally didn't have much to say, so he immediately began to enter the lobby in the cottage surrounded by everyone, ready to eat and drink.

Gan Ning and the others traveled a long distance from Jiangxia County all the way to Mingyue Cottage, and the time was also very hurried, and they didn't have a good meal in the past few days.

After a full meal, Gan Ning began to tell Liu Zheng about the relationship between these water thieves in the waters of Poyang.

There are dozens of major water thieves in the Dongting waters, but the water thieves in the Dongting waters are not united, scattered in various counties and counties, and rarely have contacts in ordinary times.

They are also in a hostile state with each other, but the water thieves in the waters of Poyang Lake are different, although they are also divided into different groups.

However, there was no direct conflict between each group, and on the contrary, sometimes in order to fight against the imperial court and the county soldiers who surrounded and suppressed the water bandits, these water thieves would cooperate with each other.

Therefore, if you want to deal with these water thieves in the waters of Poyang Lake, you must first break the connection between them.

Although Gan Ning and the others are not water thieves in the waters of Poyang Lake, they have also dealt with people from Poyang Lake water thieves, and occasionally there will be some small frictions.

As for the Jiang Tuesday thieves mentioned by Su Fei, in fact, the Jinfan thieves had some unpleasant conflicts with them before, but after all, they were all water thieves, and there were no irreconcilable contradictions between them, so there was no violent fighting.

Now because of Liu Zheng's matter, Gan Ning and the others began to talk about some of the situations they knew.

As far as they knew, although Jiang Tuesday's thieves were the worst among the four thieves in the waters of Poyang Lake, there were still quite a few thieves gathered under their command, with a total of more than 2,000 people.

These two thousand men were direct young and middle-aged laborers, and they were able to act as living figures when they got on the boats, as well as a dozen boats, and they traveled very fast on the water.

Speaking of warships, Liu Zheng was curious, he didn't know much about the ships in the south of the Yangtze River, and he didn't even know about horses.

At least Liu Zheng knew where the war horses of the Han Dynasty came from and what quality of war horses they were, but for ships, Liu Zheng had only seen some in the game.

I know some building boats, ship boats, red horse boats and other varieties.

But what the specific classification of these ships is, it's really unclear, so he immediately asked Gan Ning.

Gan Ning was not annoyed, and immediately explained to Liu Zheng about the classification of warships.

The Han Dynasty navy is mainly divided into four kinds of ships, a large ship, which is a building ship that can carry a large number of people, which is expensive and has a great role, not only can be loaded with nearly 3,000 people at a time, but also can be stable in the water as land, and is an ancient aircraft carrier.

And the other three are the main medium-sized combat ships of the navy. The warp is an assault ship, the main ship of the ancient navy. The hull is narrow and long, and it is highly maneuverable, which facilitates the conflict with enemy ships.

There are also small boats. The role of the Ship is similar to that of the Ship, except that it is smaller and faster, making it easier to attack.

And the last one is a yacht, a scout boat and something like that, which is smaller and is not used as a warship, but only for scout reconnaissance.

Of course, this is a ship used by the navy, and a civilian commercial transport ship is not included.

The ships used by the pirates are generally not large ships.

Large ships were too bulky to sail, and they were too large to hide their size, and at best, there were a few ships as the main battle vessels.

In fact, most of the water thieves used are boats, red horse boats, these ships are smaller, fast, and can quickly pursue enemy ships on the water, especially those merchant ships, found by these red horse boats and boats, it is difficult to escape.

It will not be long before the ships will catch up and loot.

Gan Ning's Jinfan thieves are not powerful water thieves, and there are not many of them. There are only seven or eight boats, and three or four yachts.

These ships, all of which were incorporated into Liu Zheng's command, immediately gave Liu Zheng's navy a prototype, but there were still too few ships, and if you wanted to form a powerful navy, these ships were completely insufficient, and it was not enough to deal with Jiang Er's thieves in Poyang Lake.

There are only seven or eight hundred Jinfan thieves, and counting some of the people who know how to work from Liu Zheng's command recently, they can barely make up two thousand people.

But these two thousand people, if they want to deal with Jiang Tuesday's thief, it is inevitable that there will be some naivety.

Fortunately, Gan Ning gave Liu Zheng an idea.

Since he was not in a hurry to eliminate those water thieves, Liu Zheng could train the water army first, and at the same time start collecting information on Jiang Er's thieves, and then send a small group of Jinfan thieves to create some trouble for Jiang Er's thieves.

Anyway, the time is also the end of November, and it is about to enter winter, Liu Zheng is really not in a hurry to eliminate those water thieves, so he will follow Gan Ning's method and let Su Fei and Gan Ning's deputy train two thousand soldiers and horses in the lake of Mingyue Cottage.

At the same time, let Gan Ning take his own seven or eight hundred water thieves to find trouble with Jiang Er's thieves.

In order to expose himself, Liu Zheng did not let Gan Ning put on the banner of a brocade thief, and took down the silk and copper bells of the ships under Gan Ning's command.

Then he used the scout boat to inquire about the news on the river in the waters of Poyang Lake, and at the same time went to Changsha County, found a shipbuilding master, and ordered several ships with a lot of money.

Gan Ning went to do errands, Liu Zheng was very relieved, and within a few days, Gan Ning's subordinates sent back the news, saying that they had some news about Jiang Er's thief.

The lair of Jiang's thieves is in the Fengshui River of the Poyang Lake system.

Fengshui, close to Nanchang City, the county capital of Yuzhang County, was called Fengcheng City in later generations, and there was another city called Jianyi.

Because during the Yongping period of the Jin Dynasty, Lei Huan of Fengcheng County dug out the sword of Mo Xie male and female in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Liu Zheng was originally a person in this area, and when he heard Gan Ning talk about Fengshui, he immediately thought of the two divine swords of the cadre Mo Ye.

But he just thought about it, and immediately shook his head. He didn't know where the artifact was buried, and even if he knew it was in Fengshui, he didn't know where to find it.