Yang Xiu shook his head, muttered a sentence of "Dengzi", couldn't bear to listen, got off the flying house, changed to a small boat, and went straight to the shore. He was not accustomed to resting on the boat, and after admiring the moon, he returned to the shore to camp. In addition to Sun Ce and Yicong, the only people who really rested on the ship were Gan Ning's department.

On the building boat next door, Gan Ning sat cross-legged on the flying house, with a few plates of fruit in front of him, and a silver bowl full of wine, he spread his arms, lay on the deck, looked at the starry sky above his head, and suddenly laughed. He heard most of what Sun Ce and Yang Xiu said at the bow of the boat, and he also heard Yang Xiu's last words very clearly, and even the sound of Sun Ce and the women laughing in the cabin, he could vaguely hear it.

Is Sun Ce a tyrant? Perhaps, by the standards of the book, he does look like a tyrant. But so what? He trusts me and appreciates me, so I am willing to give him my life. Tomorrow is my first battle in the true sense of the word, even if it is a bluff defeat, and it does not require the capture of the large camp on the shore, but it must not be lost ugly, and they must be shown the means of my Ganning.

A group of scholars, what do they know. The Fourth and Third Princes? Phew!

Gan Ning was thinking about it when Sun Ce's voice sounded in his ears. "Xingba, do you still have wine?"

Gan Ning turned over and sat up, and saw Sun Ce standing upstairs next door, looking this way. Gan Ning hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, I just drank half of it." ”

"Okay, I'll do it now."

Seeing that Sun Ce was coming to his ship, Gan Ning was excited. He liked to spend the night on the ship, but no one else wanted to, and he didn't know if it was because the ship was bumpy or if he had other concerns. Sun Ce was willing to live on the ship and stay with him, and now he was going to come to his ship alone, without even a guard, and he was very grateful.

He had just joined Sun Ce for less than two months, but Sun Ce had already regarded him as a confidant.

"Go get some wine, get some good food, I want to have two drinks with General Sun."

As he spoke, Sun Ce had already walked over and waved his hand. "Don't bother too much, just have it, there will be war tomorrow, don't drink too much."

Gan Ning nodded again and again, ordered his subordinates to get it, and said with a smile: "General, this beautiful scenery of good and humiliation, not accompanying the beauty, but coming to talk to me, a river thief, isn't it a pity for this beautiful scenery?" ”

Sun Ce glanced at Gan Ning and smiled. "You speak carefully, Huang Dajiang's heart is small, if what you say is heard by her, the warship will not land. If she does something and makes you turn over when the wind blows, don't blame me for not reminding you. ”

"Oh?" Gan Ning rolled his eyes, and said loudly: "General, I think Master Huang is the most generous person, and the boat she built, I, Gan Ning, am a hundred people who can rest assured." In the future, there will be a chance to go to sea, but there is a harvest, this first share will not be given to the general, but also to Huang Dajiang. ”

Before the words fell, Huang Yueying's voice came from next door. "Gan Fubo, I have written down what you said, waiting for your good news."

Sun Ce pointed at Gan Ning, "You thief, you can speak." I couldn't help but laugh. Gan Ning raised his eyebrows triumphantly, responded loudly, and said: "Master Feng also has it, I, Gan Ning, speak, spittle is a nail, and I will never break my word." ”

Feng Wanjiao laughed: "Thank you Gan Fubo." ”

After laughing for a while, someone brought wine and added a silver bowl. Gan Ning poured a bowl of wine for Sun Ce and raised the silver bowl with both hands. "General, please."

Sun Ce picked up the silver bowl, touched it with Gan Ning, and drank it all. Although the Cai family's Jiu Yuchun is not a distilled spirit, it is still a bit strong, and after this bowl of wine, Sun Ce's brain is a little dizzy. He waved his hand. "Xingba, don't just drink and get down to business. Tomorrow's feint, how are you going to fight? ”

"How? Naturally, it was first covered by a few ships with crossbowmen, and then forced a breakthrough. ”

"No, you're too hasty, let's be more detailed." Sun Ce is colorful. "These are brothers who followed you from birth to death, don't you not cherish their lives? Although it is inevitable that there will be casualties in a war, it is still necessary to plan carefully and reduce casualties as much as possible. Behind each of them was a family. ”

Gan Ning nodded repeatedly. "The general is right, the general is right." He pressed one hand on his thigh and held the silver bowl in the other, and thought carefully. "General, if you want to talk about trouble, the biggest trouble is that those crossbowmen, especially strong crossbows, when they get close, no matter what kind of heavy armor they don't use, one arrow and two eyes, even if they don't die, they are seriously injured. If you can suppress those strong crossbows, the casualties will be much smaller. ”

"That makes sense, so how can you restrain those strong crossbows?"

"Can the general lend me a few people?"

"You can borrow me."

"I don't dare, can the general lend me fifty arrowmen from the personal guard battalion. I sent them to the shore in a boat and let them deal with the crossbowmen. I selected some brothers with great strength, let them wear heavy armor, do not carry swords and shields, each of them carry a large iron-clad pole, as a shield when charging, and as a weapon when engaged. ”

Sun Ce nodded again and again. "It's a good idea, it can be used. What else? ”

"Also, let's line up in a dense formation, cover each other, and then disperse when we rush in front of us, so that even if we are injured, it will only be a few people in front, and there will be nothing wrong with those behind."

Gan Ning pointed and drew while talking, and Sun Ce listened very carefully and made suggestions from time to time. Gan Ning not only said it himself, but also found a few brothers to discuss it together. Everyone was very excited, no one wanted to die, of course it was a good thing to be able to reduce casualties, and it was even more rare that Sun Ce cared so much about them and took the initiative to discuss with Gan Ning, so they were naturally more attentive.

Sun Ce and Gan Ning both belong to the kind of people who are just an idea when their eyes roll, there is no fixed routine, how to make it easy. They spoke very speculatively, and from time to time burst into laughter.

"General, I met you a few years ago, and the name of this brocade thief is yours." Gan Ning held up the silver bowl and grinned.

Sun Ce smiled. "Xingba, it's not that I look down on you, you Jinfan thief is too kiddy, and you are in Yizhou's nest. If it were me, the whole river would be mine. Not only that, but I also have to go to sea, to Jiaozhou, to Liaodong, and everywhere Jinfan goes, it is my world. ”

"Happy." Gan Ning slapped his thigh. "The general's words won my heart."

The two laughed, raised the silver bowl, and drank it all. When the thieves next to them saw it, they laughed out loud and said, "The general is bold, and he is a fellow of my generation. ”

In the big camp on the shore, Yang Xiu stood in front of the tent, looking at the building boat on the river, and saw that there were many people on the building boat, and there was no sign of rest, so he couldn't help but shake his head. "It's hard to become addicted to wine."

Yuan Yao put down the book in his hand, yawned, and got into the bed. "Brother Dezu, go to sleep, you must have made a mistake. General Sun is by no means this kind of person, he must be discussing tomorrow's battle with Gan Ning, thinking about how to reduce casualties. Fighting kills people, but it's not just words. ”

Yang Xiu turned back to the account and said angrily: "You defend him so much? ”

"It's not that I defend him, it's that you are prejudiced against him." Yuan Yao closed his eyes and smiled faintly. "You, you haven't experienced life and death, all bravery is what you think is brave, you never know what real bravery is like and how difficult it is."

Yang Xiu couldn't help but sneer. "Say it as if you've been through it."

Yuan Yao didn't speak, turned over, and remembered the sound of snoring after a while.