Pang Wen, the owner of Pangjia Zhuangzi in Hanshou County, is a famous local landowner and a well-known good man.

But those who know the details know that this well-known person is actually the most powerful water bandit leader on Dongting Lake, with thousands of water bandits under his command, rampaging through Dongting, and his people colluded with the local government to hide their true identity very well.

"Pang Yuanwai, have you made up your mind about this matter?"

The person who asked the question stood on the top of the steps, and judging from the official robe he was wearing, it turned out to be a real county magistrate. And this person is indeed Han Zhike, the county magistrate of Hanshou County. And in the courtyard, a person who fought bare-armed, held a knife in both hands, and danced vigorously was none other than Pang Wen, the water overlord of the West Dongting.

The two of them are bandits, one is an official, but the official has no temper at all in front of the bandits, as if the other party is his boss.

Pang Wen shouted, split Huashan with a force, split a wooden stake with the thickness of a bowl in front of him, and stood with the knife for a moment, then slowly put away the style, stood up straight, casually threw the knife to a servant beside him, went up the steps, and walked straight to the house, and Han Zhike also followed him into the house.

Lifting the kettle on the table, he tilted his neck and poured a few big sips, then he paused the teapot on the table, turned his head to look at Han Zhike, and sneered: "Those who are officials are not good goods, Qian Feng was not a thing before, but now that Zhu Youzhen has been replaced, it is a thing?" Lao Tzu is very happy now, why should he be recruited by him to be his lackey? ”

Han Zhike is an official, and naturally he is also a member of Pang Wen's mouth, but in front of Pang Wen, he has no temper at all, but said with a smile: "Pang Yuanwai, this world is going to change, don't you know?" His Royal Highness the Third Liang, how can it be compared to Qian Feng? With all due respect, if you don't like to hear it, being a bandit on the water is indeed happy and free, but it is always unsightly. Just like you are in Hanshou County, aren't you trying your best to hide that you are doing this business? You don't care, but you can't always be like this with your brothers and sisters, right? What a great opportunity now, it's time for you to clear your name. ”

"Hehe, do you think I don't know? Zhu Youzhen took a fancy to the one hundred and ten boats in my hand, thousands of children on the water! Pang Wen sneered.

"Learn to become a literary and martial artist, and sell it to the emperor's family!" Han Zhike pulled a chair and sat opposite Pang Wen: "Now is the time. It is precisely because Your Royal Highness needs you that you can get a good price! As far as I know, the Huainan Water Division, which His Royal Highness originally wanted to rely on, was defeated in the Battle of Yangzhou, and almost the entire army was wiped out. ”

"If you serve someone's bowl, you have to be managed by others, this official is not so easy to do, you have to fight with your life!" Pang Wen snorted.

"You have to fight in life!" Han Zhike stared at Pang Wen and said: "Pang Yuanwai, in the past, you didn't sell yourself to Qian Feng because you couldn't sell it at a high price, but His Royal Highness Zhu San is different, where he is, you can sell it for a good price." Maybe it is not uncommon to be crowned as a prime minister in the future, this third highness, I am afraid that he will sit on the throne in the future. ”

"He's the third!" Pang Wen laughed.

"But now he's the strongest!" Han Zhike said: "You see, from Wuning to Huainan, and now it is Eyue, but it is the territory of the Three Highnesses, if you can join, the Three Highnesses will have a water Snapdragon again, and it is even more Tiger Wings, who is the emperor, doesn't it look at whose fists are harder?" ”

"It makes sense." Pang Wen pulled a long shirt and put it on his body. "But Dongting Lake is not just me, did he only offer me a price?"

Han Zhike said with a smile: "Pang Yuanwai is the most powerful, and if His Royal Highness wants to choose, of course, he will choose the most powerful." As for the rest, can't Pang Yuan take care of it? ”

Pang Wen rolled his eyelids, "I not only want the position of the commander of the water division, but also the Yiyang Zhizhou, this point, the Third Highness may agree?" ”

Seeing Pang Wen relieved, Han Zhike was overjoyed, "What's wrong with this, it's just Yiyang Zhizhou." Pang Yuanwai, since this is the case, I will send someone to reply to His Royal Highness. ”

"Alright, so be it!" Pang Wen waved his hand and said. "Old Han, you work hard for the Third Highness like this, what kind of official did he promise you?"

"Han didn't dare to be greedy, he just wanted to be the deputy of Pang Yuan, and he was satisfied." Han Zhike said with a smile: "In these years, having soldiers in your hands is the last word, these eight hundred miles of Dongting are the world outside Pang Yuan, I don't have any great skills, the thighs of the Third Highness can't be hugged, you can only hold Pang Yuanwai's thighs." ”

Pang Wen laughed loudly: "Old Han, what you said is straightforward, but it is also the smartest way to do it, you and I know the roots, and I can rest assured that you are the second." That's it, if the Third Highness gives me Yiyang, I will be the Zhizhou, and I will let you make a long history. ”

"Han will definitely do his best to serve Pang Yuanwai." Han Zhike happily clasped his fists and saluted, but he was too busy to leave.

A few days later, Pang Wen left Zhuangzi and returned to his lair, gathered more than a dozen leaders under his command, threw a stack of farewells to them, and laughed: "Everyone, from today on, we are no longer Dongting water bandits, we are the sailors of the Great Liang Imperial Court, I am the loyal general of Zhengsipin, and the youngest of you is also a Dingyuan general, hahaha!" ”

The leaders found their share from the confession, and each of them was overjoyed. In their opinion, Zhu Youzhen defeated Qian Feng and swept Eyue, and it is naturally a happy thing to be able to hug such a thigh at this time and wash his past cleanly.

"Brother Pang, in this way, we can swagger ashore in the future?" A man with a scar on his face was so excited that his face shook again and again, and the scar was even more conspicuous under the light.

"Of course, Lao Tzu is also the Zhizhou of Yiyang, and in the future, not only Dongting Lake is Lao Tzu, but even Yiyang is Lao Tzu." Pang Wen smiled and said: "In the future, if His Royal Highness Zhu San becomes the emperor, I will mix a town in one place, and you can all get a Zhizhou to do it!" At that time, you didn't have what you wanted. ”

The whole room burst into laughter.

"Brother Pang, Dongting is not the only one of us? What about Zheng Wenchang in East Dongting and Pan Shan in South Dongting? The other leader stood up.

"Well said. We want to dominate Dongting, of course, we have to take them first, Pan Shan in South Dongting is not strong, we will go to clean him up first, tomorrow, we will all go out, it is best to force land on Pan Shan, and then wrap up Pan Shan's department, and go to East Dongting to clean up Zheng Wenchang together. Pang Wen's eyes showed a fierce light, "In the past, we were well water and did not interfere with river water, and with them, they could also share the attention of some officers and soldiers for us, but now, Dongting is Lao Tzu's, next to the couch, how can they be allowed to sleep soundly, Dongting will be ours in the future, Yiyang, Yueyang, Changde, and Lao Tzu will all eat it." ”

"Eat, eat, when the time comes, the boss will also be a festival envoy, and we can also be a governor of the state and the county." The room full of bandits was shouting with excitement.

"Okay, now is not the time to be happy, today everyone immediately go back, gather all our ships, mobilize all the people who can get on the ship, tomorrow, start our journey!" Pang Wen slapped the table and shouted loudly: "Usually some of you hide it, but if anyone still does it tomorrow, be careful that Lao Tzu cleans you up first." ”

"Boss, don't worry, tomorrow as long as we are individuals, we will pull it out. If you can't fight, it's always okay to let them row. The bandits laughed and scattered, and hurried back to their stations to gather men.

The next day, Pang Wen sat on the bow of his three-masted ship, watching the fleets gather from all directions, and in an hour's effort, nearly two hundred ships, large and small, were gathered.

"This is the power of my Pang someone!" Pang Wen looked up to the sky and laughed, Huo Ran stood up, raised his head and shouted at the herald above Diao's head: "Give orders to all departments, go." ”

In the midst of the flag exhibition, Pang Wen's ship took the lead and sailed out, and behind him, a huge fleet formed a three-way column, sailing forward mightily.

Their target is Hengling Lake, a component of South Dongting Lake, where the nest of the South Dongting Water Bandit Pan Mountain is located. Compared with Zheng Wenchang in East Dongting and Pang Wen in West Dongting, the strength of Pan Shan's department in South Dongting is much worse, and the total number of boats is only fifty or sixty, and the entire team of water bandits is only four or five hundred people. In the past few years, the reason why he has been able to live unharmed is really because he is a buffer zone between the two big bandits, and because of his existence, the East Dongting and the West Dongting have also tacitly agreed to use this as a boundary and not invade each other.

When Pang Wen's fleet was killing all the way over, Panshan's water village had already exploded, and the entire water village was in panic, because almost at the same time, the two major gangs of East Dongting and West Dongting were moving towards Hengling Lake where Pan Mountain was located at the same time.

Looking at their appearance, they are all coming towards Pan Mountain.

No matter who it is, Pan Shan can't afford to provoke it, not to mention that now the two of them are coming together.

"What the hell are they trying to do?" Pan Shan looked at his men in despair, and his men were just like him at this time, staring at their leader with pale faces.

"Tell all the brothers, prepare for battle!" Pan Shan swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "Even if Lao Tzu's strength is not good, it's not that they want to bully them, even if Lao Tzu dies, they have to break a few of their teeth." ”