Jinghu South Road.

"The leader of the bandits is ahead, and the brethren are in pursuit. Hugh called away the bandit leader! ”

The sun had begun to set in the west, and the sky was getting darker, and on a small road near the great river, thirty or fifty state and county inspectors were closely chasing one man behind them.

The man running in front of him was dressed in the clothes of the common people, but he had a fierce face, and he was also a man with a big waist and a round waist, and he was carrying a blood-stained simple knife in his hand, and he was fleeing towards the river on foot.

This man was agile and fast, and although he had many pursuers and was not slow, he could not catch up with him for a while.

At this time, although it was early winter, Jinghu Lake would not freeze here, and the person who was running towards the river obviously had the idea of escaping by the river, and when he saw that he had arrived at the river, he was not panicked at all, but his face was happy, and his feet were speeding up more and more.

"Old man Yang, you black-hearted brute, a pickled bird who doesn't talk about the old love, when grandpa escapes today, the next day is scheduled for you!"

This person's tone is not ordinary horizontal.

"Not good! This thief is accustomed to water! I must have borrowed water to escape! When someone saw this, they obviously knew the inside story and hurriedly shouted.

It's just that on the shores of Dongting Lake, Hugh said that he was the governor of the state and county, and even the garrison of the Eight Classics couldn't find a few horses. Everyone walks on two legs and chases people on foot, how can they cross the distance?

Even the Yang patrol who was the leader was also resentful.

"God forbid! Look at me to get rid of this thief! ”

Seeing that it was really difficult to catch up, the patrol inspector led by him stopped, reached out and grabbed the step bow on his waist, his face was full of confusion.

He was very good at water fighting, but when it was his turn to shoot arrows, it was too ordinary.

If he didn't know how powerful the person in front of him was in the water, the inspector would never show off his archery skills.

This is definitely in the favor of Du God.

Everyone watched the patrol take the bow and arrow from the back, and then took out another arrow, stood firm with both feet, pulled the bow and arrow, and then put it down.

"Whew-poof!"

"Ahh A scream followed.

This arrow shot with great accuracy, although it was far away, but it hit the back of the heart of the bandit leader in front, and the other party even had time to let out a miserable scream, and then fell down with a thud.

"Shot! Shot! The thief is down! Immediately someone shouted excitedly. And more people are speeding up to catch up.

Only the inspector surnamed Yang was in a trance, and he really didn't know how to tell the complicated feelings in his heart for a moment.

This is his old righteous brother.

"Quick! Go over and see if the thief is still angry! ”

That's what he said, but he really didn't know whether he wanted that person to be dead or alive.

This is one of the evil bandits in Jingnan, it's okay to die straightforwardly, but if you live, it's better to live than to die.

But at that time, even if this person was going to live in prison and die, then he didn't die in his own hands......

The soldier hurriedly ran over, and when he checked it, the man on the ground was not dying. Even when the person was driven to the front of the inspection, he spat at him with bloody foam.

"Good Yang Tai, kill the thief in one fell swoop, and capture the thief's head again, and it really lives up to the old man's expectations."

In Tanzhou City, although Liu Tao, who is fifty out of sixty, has to be white, he is in good spirits, patting Yang Tai's thick shoulders with his big hands, full of admiration.

He has been busy working on the north and south roads of Jinghu for three years, but looking at Lao Liu Tao's body, he must continue to be busy.

In three years, Liu Tao started from Xiangyang, gathered people all the way to open up wasteland, cultivated fields and opened roads, and now he has gone down the Xiangjiang River to Tanzhou. In a few years, he didn't seem to have any outstanding achievements, but from Jiangbei to Jiangnan, there were tens of millions of acres of cultivated land in the imperial court field book, which was his greatest merit!

The patrol is a group of soldiers and horses directly under Liu Tao, the number is not large, the establishment is only 1,000 people, and the armament is not good, which is much worse than the garrison. But these people were pulled up by Liu Tao single-handedly, and most of the officers inside were veterans around Liu Tao, and some were young and strong people in the places where they worked, all of whom were people who had passed Liu Tao's hands, and they could be said to be like an arm. And the number of people often exceeds the establishment by a lot, obviously it is an establishment of 1,000 people, but in fact there are two or three thousand people, that is, those who are young and strong in the places where they come from are necessary for Jinghu to reclaim Tuntian.

Yang Tai belongs to the latter!

This person's original name was Mrs. Yang, who lived in Longyang, because he was a child in the family, and the villagers called him Yang Mi. He has been enlightened since he was a child, but because his family was poor, he could not continue, so he followed his father to get a boat on Dongting Lake after only two years of study.

In the early years, he mixed up with Zhong Xiang and his group, but when Zhong Xiang led his troops to attack Jinghu, Zhong Xiang simply took the olive branch extended by Zhao Gou, but Yang Mi did not become an official, but returned to his hometown in Longyang after the war.

Because he doesn't have a good impression of the old Zhao family.

I think that when he followed his father to beg for a living on the water, he heard that the merchants talked about the unbridled scenery of the Song River in Shandong, which was rampant and the officials and soldiers dared not approach. After being recruited, a cadre of brothers rarely had the tragic fate of a good death, sighing.

This is a root that has been rooted since childhood, and it is not easy to reverse.

It's just that Yang Mi, who returned from the army, is no longer the poor man who had no place to stand back then, and this person's head is always determined by his ass.

Last year, after Liu Tao led people into the area of Dongting Lake, he fell in love with the water bandits in Dongting Lake.

There is no way, Liu Tao is a refugee who cultivates the wasteland, or a poor ghost who has migrated from the surrounding areas, not only is he weak, but his physique is also poor, and the number of patrolmen is also limited.

Don't look at it as a thousand, it's a lot. can think about the territory under Liu Tao's 'jurisdiction', even if Xintian in Jiangbei has been under the management of the local government, but the land south of the Yangtze River, that is, the prefectures and counties around Dongting Lake to Tanzhou, the wasteland and wasteland are all at the disposal of Liu Tao. Thinking so much about 'territory', a thousand people are simply sprinkling pepper noodles.

As for the Dongting Lake, why are there still water bandits and floods in Dongting Lake? Hehe, for more than a thousand years, this thing has not stopped. Even in the so-called heyday.

The world is so big, there are always some people who are forced to fall into the grass helplessly.

Moreover, the new refugees and immigrants became uneasy because of this trouble, which led to the rumors in the surrounding state capitals.

The local young man represented by Mrs. Yang threw himself into Liu Tao's hands like this.

The reason on the surface is that Liu Tao has a good reputation and is a Qingtian lord who is dedicated to the people, but it is said that Liu Tao's reputation has been really high in recent years, especially in Jinghu. And secretly, it is still because water thieves are rampant and their own interests are damaged, although it is not enough for outsiders.

"Yours!" In the crowd, a man dressed in a patrol robe praised Yang Tai. This is Yang Tai's brother Yang Qin.

At the beginning, the two of them followed Zhong Xiang together, and joined Manichaeism together, but now both of them are rich landowners, and they have also joined Liu Tao and become patrol positions.

And Liu Zihui looked at the thief who was captured at this time, and also laughed: "This Yang Sanlang, who is practicing martial arts in the school field, is only fifty steps away, and it is difficult for him to have three or five arrows out of ten arrows on target." This arrow was just right! ”

hit Li Herong's vital point, but it didn't kill him, so Li Herong whimpered with his life. Really just right!

Yang Tai didn't have any excitement on his face.

What is there to be happy about? Is it a reward for officials? The Yang family is not short of that bit of money and land, and he himself has no intention of really entering the officialdom.

Therefore, Yang Tai really has nothing to be happy about.

"Alright. The path is all your own choice! Yang Qin patted him on the shoulder and said.