"And no matter whether you live or die in the future, there will be no Wang Bao from today onwards! Wang Bao has been captured and beheaded by the official because of the assassination of the official! ”

"Yes, thank you, Childe! Thank you, Childe! ”

Liu Cong asked Wang Bao for some details again, and then abducted to the other two prisons, this time Liu Cong didn't have to lie, but directly explained the intention, the two of them saved people's hearts, but there was nothing to hide. The content of what he said was similar to Wang Bao, and he didn't forget to tell the two of them when Liu Cong came. The two naturally knew and nodded again and again.

Two hours later, Liu Cong walked out of the prison with a sad face, and Huang Quan and others did not dare to ask Liu Cong why.

When he returned to the Taishou Mansion, Liu Cong immediately returned to his original state: "Huang Quan, these days, hurry up to collect information about the Honghu water thieves, before the team starts, I need the most detailed information!" ”

"No! The lord, those assassins......"

"Post a notice and be executed tomorrow!"

"Lord, are you in a hurry, maybe there are still people who haven't asked for information." Since Zigui began Liu Cong to let Huang Quan collect intelligence, Huang Quan has grown up very quickly!

"I just asked you to put up a notice, and I didn't let you kill people! Find a place to be held in solitary confinement without outsiders knowing! "These people Liu Cong will naturally be useful if they are kept, but if they are caught and not executed, I am afraid that the families of these people will not be able to keep them, although it is hateful to be assassins, but their families are still innocent, Liu Cong can naturally protect them without hurting the innocent.

"Got it!"

Huang Quan now has more than 200 people, most of whom have been sent to the seven counties and counties of Jingzhou, and the intelligence understanding of various places has also begun to become clear. Other places should be said to be calm, but the lake bandits in the waters of Honghu Lake are very active, and the number of people has increased sharply, coupled with the confessions of the assassins, the Honghu water thieves are naturally targeted.

In mid-May, after a short period of preparation, Liu Cong decided to lead the army to suppress the bandits, and the target was the Honghu water bandits! Although Wu Ju's clan may be more numerous than the families of those assassins, Liu Cong chose to protect the families of these assassins, and resolutely exterminated the Wu Ju clan who joined the Lake Bandits, in addition to confusing the opponents from Xiangyang, it was also through this crackdown on the bandits to warn the counties in the state, tell the people of the world that they were decisive in killing, and attempt to betray and provoke their fate!

Of course, there is another reason, that is, the families of these assassins are passive and innocent, although Wu Ju's clan is also a little innocent, but they chose to give up trusting Liu Cong as a bandit, no wonder Liu Cong did it.

Since the lake bandits were entrenched on the Honghu Lake, Liu Cong decided to take the Ganning Department as the main force, and removed 300 archers and 200 sword and shield men from the Wei Yan Department, totaling 2,500 people.

Judging from the intelligence, there are only four or five hundred bandits in Honghu, and only eight hundred after the Wuju people join, but because this time it is different from the Zigui bandits. The enemy was on the water, and the target was easy to hide and move, so in order to reduce unnecessary losses, Gangneung's naval forces were all sorted.

In terms of generals, Gan Ning was the mainstay, Wei Yan was the auxiliary, and Liu Cong insisted that he would also go in person.

Wen Ping and Zhuge Liang both persuaded Liu Cong not to come in person, after all, it was just a small group of bandits. But Liu Cong had other considerations, and planned to go to Changsha, Lingling and other places to invite Liu Pan and others back after the end of the banditry. The more Xiangyang's opponent can't sit still, the more Liu Cong has to speed up the pace of expanding his strength!

Liu Cong wanted to go, Huang Quan naturally asked for his life to follow, and Liu Yuqi naturally had to accompany him.

Finally had another chance to go to the battlefield, Gan Ning and Wei Yan were very excited, especially Gan Ning, it is no exaggeration to say that Gan Ning is the One Piece on the Yangtze River in this era, and now he is the pioneer who goes to Honghu.

After the army arrived at the mouth of Honghu Lake along the Yangtze River, Liu Cong first sent a small force to block the east entrance of Honghu Lake into the Yangtze River, and at the same time sent several small troops to disperse to various key positions in the lake area to reconnoiter and prevent the lake bandits from escaping from the trail when they got the news. He personally led the army into Honghu Lake from the west entrance. The soldiers of Jiayu County were also tasked with guarding the shores of Honghu Lake to prevent bandits from escaping ashore.

Because the water of Honghu Lake is very shallow, the big boats are not unimpeded, but fortunately, it is now the rainy season, the water level of the Yangtze River has risen sharply, and some of the main canals can barely move forward, but most of the lake can only be carried by small boats. This slowed down the troops.

Liu Cong suppressed the bandits with such a huge momentum, and the bandits in the lake had already received the news, and while preparing to retreat, they were actively guarding against it. In fact, the bandits in Honghu Lake can only be regarded as half-bandits and half-people, because the fish resources in Honghu Lake are quite abundant, and most of the lake bandits only come here to hide because they have committed crimes or offended people in the local area. Usually, he is basically the same as ordinary people, making a living from fishing, and occasionally organizing to go ashore to exchange living resources with nearby people.

Due to the large number of ditches in the lake and the dotted large and small lakes, even if the lake bandits occasionally commit crimes ashore, the government generally does not pursue them. Over time, these bandits became more and more emboldened, and after the Yellow Turban Uprising, a large number of Yellow Turbans and homeless people came to visit, resulting in more and more bandits in the lake, and gradually formed a large number of armed forces.

Presumably, the Wuju people also took a fancy to the topography of Honghu, so they moved their family to Honghu. According to Huang Quan's investigation, the lake bandits refused to accept these people at first, but the Wu Ju clan still had some family background, plus there were a lot of people, so they just increased their strength. He risked more than 200 people under his command. Originally, I thought that this place had superior natural conditions, and it was the junction of three counties, and the government should have no time to take care of it.

It's just that they didn't think about Liu Cong's assassination, and it is obvious that someone has long known that the Wu Ju people moved to Honghu and wanted to use it to pass on the crime of assassination. In order to train the team and temporarily stabilize the opponent, Liu Cong had to choose to send troops to suppress the bandits.

The surrounding people have long been notified by the government that Liu Cong, the Taishou of Nanjun, is going to lead troops to suppress bandits these days, so they have suspended fishing in Honghu, so that the huge Honghu Lake looks very empty.

Except for the frightened birds and the sound of Liu Cong's troops, the entire lake area was even a little scary, and the lake bandits also retreated to their nests early to prepare for the upcoming battle!

According to the intelligence, when the troops were approaching the gathering place of the lake bandits, Liu Cong called Gan Ning, Wei Yan, Huang Quan and others together for a military meeting.

"Huang Quan, you can tell me about the information you get first."

"The lord, the two generals, and the bandits' lair is in Lujialing, with about 800 people, including more than 400 young and middle-aged men, but these people have lived in the lake for a long time, and the water is very good, and even women and children often fish in the lake, and once the war starts, it will ......."

"Lord Huang, don't want to grow the enemy's majesty, Childe, I'd rather take 500 people to the island, and in less than a day, you can wipe out all the bandits!" Gan Ning, who was born in Jiang bandits, heard that Huang Quan praised the lake bandits for their good water nature, so he was naturally not convinced.

It makes sense that Gan Ning is not convinced, and Liu Cong also knows that the good water nature is only compared to bringing these three hundred archers and sword and shield soldiers by himself, and for Gan Ning's subordinates, it is nothing.

Listening to Gan Ning's eagerness to make meritorious contributions, this time Wei Yan was quite quiet, firstly, he was not good at water, and secondly, he came to this Honghu District with eight hundred water thieves, Liu Cong actually recruited in person, Wei Yan really didn't understand, he even thought that he was here to make soy sauce, as long as Gan Ning led his subordinates to surround him, he could take it in a few days.

"Wen Chang, what do you think?" Seeing that Wei Yan was silent, Liu Cong asked.

"Presumably, Gongzi has already planned, Wei Yan doesn't dare to be ugly!" Although Wei Yan is a few years younger than Gan Ning, he seems to have more eyes than Gan Ning every time.

Liu Cong looked at Gan Ning again, and Gan Ning realized his recklessness, grinned at Liu Cong and stopped talking.

"Wen Chang, Xingba, you two must remember: move for the sake of the general. In battle, it is a charge and a charge, how is it different from a martial artist? This official gave you Sun Tzu's Art of War and 36 strategies a few months ago, but it seems that it still has little effect, because the official has not supervised enough, and it is time to check it carefully after you go back. You are generals, not soldiers, the so-called thousands of troops are easy to obtain, but one general is hard to find.

Indeed, as Zhong Ye and Mr. Kong Ming said, there are only 800 lake bandits, why not work for me to levy it myself, what I am worried about is that Xingba you are too hasty and cause unnecessary losses. At present, we don't have too many soldiers in Nanjun, but too few, and we can't afford to waste it! ”

Cry blood and kneel and beg for collection!