Two days after Xiao Rui lived in Sichuan Jianguo's manor, Zhang Liang got reliable news from Sichuan Jianguo, Liang Haonan's father-in-law Liang Zhenggang suddenly returned to Beijing and said: If anyone dares to hurt his righteous son, he will track down the murderer even if he dies! So hurry up and release his son!

The attitude is very arrogant, and he has a very good appetite for Xiao Rui!

So Xiao Rui asked Xiang Dianwei: "What about people?" ”

"Buried!" Dian Wei replied.

Xiao Rui said again: "Dig it out at night and send it to the door of the Liang Mansion." ”

"Okay!" Dian Wei responded.

It can be regarded as letting their father and son meet again, a kind person like Xiao Rui is really hard to find.

I can't ask for clues from Liang Haonan, so what happened back then, it seems that I can only ask Liang Zhenggang, a participant, but Xiao Rui is not stupid to do it now, it is more likely that he will be exposed now, and Xiao Rui is busy with other things now.

Gan Ning introduced through a letter from the spear falcon that when he returned to Qijiang, he attracted more than 100 people, all of whom were friends of the rivers and lakes when he was young, and then robbed more than a dozen boats, regained the former title of "Jinfan Thief", and then attacked at night, successfully captured the lair of a water thief and took it for himself, and after accepting most of the personnel and materials from the other party, the name of Gan Ning's Jinfan Village was upright.

During this time, the Jinfan thieves began to expand and were about to swallow another gang of water thieves, but the other party was more numerous and stronger, and Gan Ning had calculated several plans, but he couldn't take the other party, so he had no choice but to send a letter to ask for help.

Xiao Rui was also very bored staying in the imperial capital, the plan to kill Emperor Zhao was underway, and the gunpowder was being transported into the palace little by little, so he couldn't come in a hurry, and he couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry.

So now Gan Ning asked for help, and after Xiao Rui discussed with Guo Jia and Zhang Liang, he immediately left the capital with Dian Wei and Yang Youji and rushed to Qijiang County.

Three days later, the three of them revisited their hometown and returned to Qijiang.

After contacting Gan Ning through the Spear Falcon, it didn't take long for Gan Ning to personally come by boat to greet him.

"Young Master!" Seeing Xiao Rui, Gan Ning jumped ashore and hurriedly saluted.

Xiao Rui smiled: "It took more than a month to play Mingtang, it's really you, I didn't misread you!" ”

Gan Ning smiled modestly: "Hehe, it's still the brothers, the young master, please get on the boat, I will take the young master to the base camp of Jinfan Village!" ”

"Good!" Xiao Rui got on the boat, and then the three small boats sailed into the river.

The boat went south for more than ten miles, and both sides of the Qijiang River were steep cliffs and dense trees. As he walked, the boat suddenly left the river channel and entered a river channel, which was six or seven meters wide, with dense trees on both sides, and the river course had nine bends and eighteen bends, and there were many forks in the road, and if you didn't remember the road, you would immediately get dizzy.

Two quarters of an hour later, there was a cottage at the end of the river, and Xiao Rui knew that they were going around and around, in fact, this cottage was very close to the Qijiang River, and under the cliff in the west was the Qijiang River!

Gan Ning asked with a smile: "Young Master, you might as well guess, how many water thief gangs are there on the four hundred miles of river road in Qijiang County alone?" ”

Xiao Rui naturally didn't know, so he simply guessed: "Ten? ”

Gan Ning said: "Twenty-eight water villages! ”

Xiao Rui was stunned: "So many! The entire Qi River is thousands of miles, isn't there hundreds of water thief leaders? ”

Gan Ning shook his head and said: "From Qijiang County to the south, the water is turbulent, the drop is large, and the merchant ships are large, which can withstand the impact, but the water thieves are all small boats, which are very dangerous, so there are not too many water thieves to the south of Qijiang County, but there are also ones, and they are all relatively powerful." On the river north of Qijiang County, because two of the three major water camps of the Zhao army are located upstream, deterring water thieves, there are very few bandit gangs. On the contrary, the river surface in Qijiang County is gentle and the danger is small, so a large number of water thieves gather here. ”

Xiao Rui nodded and said, "There are so many water thieves, how can there be so many merchant ships for you to rob?" ”

Gan Ning continued: "Transportation through the Qijiang River is three times faster than land transportation, and even if there are many water thieves on the river, many merchants are willing to take risks, and it is a big deal to recruit guards. When Great Xia did not conquer Zhao, when it was prosperous, the river was full of merchant ships, densely packed, but now that Great Xia's soldiers and horses have hit Lingshan County, many merchants have stopped trading, and even if the transportation is short-distance transportation, this has also indirectly led to the livelihood of the water thief gang being hit. Now the water thieves in Qijiang County have begun to change careers, not only hijacking ships, but also acting as bandits, robbing merchants on the road. Or maybe it's black eating black. Besides, what bandit doesn't have a small treasury, even if he doesn't rob for a year and a half, it's enough to eat. ”

Speaking of food, Xiao Rui asked, "Chang Shenghou has provided you with weapons and grain and grass, right?" ”

Xiao Rui asked Gan Ning to pull up the team of water thieves, saying that he would let him start from scratch, not to give people, not to give boats, at least to give him a knife!

Gan Ning nodded again and again, and said with a smile: "Master Hou directly gave me the most advanced standard blade in Great Xia, as well as bows and arrows and crossbow arrows, which are definitely the most well-armed in the water thief gang in Qijiang County!" At the same time, enough food was delivered. ”

Xiao Rui smiled: "Originally, I wanted to send you some troops from Chang Shenghou, but then I thought about it." Not to mention how watery they are, if they are discovered by the Qijiang camp, it will be a catastrophe. The Qijiang battalion can tolerate the existence of water thieves, but it absolutely cannot tolerate the Great Xia soldiers being water thieves in the Qijiang River. ”

"Haha, what the young master said is that Xingba will not disappoint the young master, and he promises to pull up a strong naval army." Gan Ning said confidently.

While speaking, everyone had already come to the cottage.

The scale of the cottage is acceptable, that is, the buildings are a little simple, they are all houses made of wood, walls and sentry posts, only the middle room is built of stone, which is the Juyi Hall of Jinfan Village.

Xiao Rui came to the main hall and sat down, Gan Ning introduced his two good brothers to Xiao Rui, these two are Gan Ning's friends, and they are also brothers of the same clan, one is called Gan Xin, the other is called Gan Xing, the two are also water-based, they have always been a water thief, and now they are Gan Ning's right-hand man.

After a brief rest, Xiao Rui did not forget the purpose of this trip, and asked Gan Ning about the specific situation of the water thieves he wanted to deal with.

"To deal with is the water village, in the south thirty miles away from the west of the river, but also hidden in the mountains, during this time I asked Gan Xin and Gan Xing to search, and finally found the specific location and specific route of the other party's water village, but the other party has nearly three hundred water thieves, we are one hundred and twenty people, to attack more with less, and to attack the opponent's water village, the strength disparity is large, can not be taken at all." Gan Ning introduced.

Xiao Rui pointed at Dian Wei and Yang Youji, and said, "I brought you these two people, do you think it's okay?" ”

"Xingxing, a six-grade master, a sharpshooter, everyone is one against a hundred, if you can't take the water again, then your subordinates are pigs." Gan Ning had seen the power of Dian Wei and Yang Youji, and it was a great honor to be able to dispatch such a master to deal with Shui Sha Zhai, and the other party was killed.

"When to do it?" Xiao Rui asked.

Gan Ning said: "It's better to choose a day than to hit the sun, in the early morning of tomorrow, while the other party is asleep, his subordinates will take people to take down the Shuisha Village, and when His Highness wakes up, you can go directly to the Shuisha Village to enjoy the spoils." ”

Xiao Rui nodded, naturally there was no objection.

The water village was simple, Xiao Rui made do with it all night, and before dawn, Gan Ning set off with Dian Wei, Yang Youji and others.

By the time Xiao Rui slept until three o'clock in the morning, Gan Xin had already returned.

"How's the battle going?" Xiao Rui asked.

Gan Xin said with a smile: "Brother Dian Wei and Brother Yang Youji are too fierce, they directly killed the three leaders of Shuisha Village, and the others resisted for a while, and then they all surrendered and were subdued by us." ”

"Take me to see it!" Xiao Rui went to Shuisha Village with Gan Xin.

Like Jinfan Village, Shuisha Village is hidden deeper, around and around, and when it comes to a small island, Gan Ning is already waiting at the dock, and when Xiao Rui goes ashore, he introduced: "Young Master, we have injured more than a dozen brothers here and broken three people, but after killing the leader of Shuisha Village and more than 40 people, all the others surrendered to us. There are more than 30 ships in Shuisha Village, the most precious of which are two building boats! It should be robbing the Qijiang camp! Although there are weapons in the village, they are all shoddy, and there are many silver and two jewels in the treasure house. ”

Xiao Rui asked: "I didn't know about the situation on the Qijiang River at first, so I asked you to be a water thief first to accumulate strength, but now it seems that whether it is Jinfan Village or Water Evil Village, they all rely on the terrain to hide their locations and hide in the mountains and forests, and the pattern of water thieves is too small, do you have any better plans in the future?" ”

Gan Ning immediately cheered up and said: "Your Highness is right, the pattern of water thieves is too small, even if there are more than 1,000 people, they are always water thieves, the first thought is to rob, and the second thought is to hide, if the subordinate Jinfan Village also takes this road, I am afraid that I will become a thief from the beginning, and it will be difficult to change my habits as a soldier in the future." During this time, my subordinates also knew and thought about what to do next! Therefore, according to the plan of my subordinates, I first expanded my strength in Qijiang County, and after pulling up a team of 1,000 people, I joined the Qijiang battalion! ”

"Oh?" Xiao Rui's eyes lit up, he joined the Qijiang battalion, and abandoned the darkness to become a navy directly, which was a novel idea.

Gan Ning continued: "The Qijiang camp received the water thieves who were recruited, and our Jinfan Village has just been established and has not plundered any merchant ships, so it is very likely to be recruited. At that time, you only need to bribe the generals, and your subordinates should be able to mix up the same official and half a position. Once you enter the interior of the Qijiang battalion, you will be able to contact more sailors and soldiers, and now the army of Chang Shenghou is like a bamboo, and when all the east of the Qijiang River belongs to Daxia, I will be able to attract more contacts, after all, in the Qijiang battalion, half of the relatives of the sailor soldiers are on the east side of the Qijiang River, and their families have become the people of Daxia, and they will also be willing to serve! ”

Xiao Rui nodded and said, "This method is very good!" You are hidden in the Qijiang camp, and you can also have unexpected effects in the future, I support you and do it boldly!"

"My subordinates understand!" Gan Ning's face was happy.

Subsequently, Xiao Rui followed Gan Ning to walk around the Shuisha Village, and then set off to return to the imperial capital of Zhao State.