Although he had already seen that Gan Ning was not Huang Zhong's opponent, the moment the ring knife flew up, the water thieves on the river still showed expressions of disbelief. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info They couldn't have imagined that their almost invincible leader would really be defeated.

"How is this possible, the leader is actually defeated..."

The position of the bow of the ship, a water thief muttered.

The other water thieves also had similar expressions, at the beginning, they could also blame Huang Zhong's 'insidiousness' for Gan Ning's defeat—————— if it wasn't for Huang Zhong's continuous consumption of Gan Ning's physical strength, how could their own leader fail? This may be a normal tactic for warriors, but it is a bit unattractive for the ruthless water thieves.

But later, Huang Zhong's series of attacks, even if they also saw it clearly, the sword technique that was faintly above Gan Ning made them have to bow their heads and admit the leader's defeat.

"Don't be discouraged..."Looking at Gan Ning, who had already been defeated, Huang Zhong smiled slightly. If you are of my age, you shall not be inferior to mine..."

But he didn't want to lose a good seedling because of a small setback.

Gan Ning snorted coldly. "Do you need me to behave like this when I'm a three-year-old baby..."

Hearing this answer, Huang Zhong smiled, feeling that he had indeed underestimated the meaning of this young man, so he didn't say anything more.

At this moment, there was a round of applause not far away. The two looked over and happened to see Yan Shao's clapping posture there.

"It's really a very exciting duel, it's really eye-opening..."Yan Shao sincerely admired, although he had seen a big scene before the Tiger Prison Pass, but the one in front of him was not necessarily much inferior to the Tiger Prison Pass.

In addition, this time Huang Zhong and Gan Ning were fighting in the water again, which made Yan Shao, who was used to riding battles, feel refreshed, but he was sincerely amazed.

"Hmph, you don't have to be so coy, since I've lost now, I'm naturally willing to gamble and lose..." Lord! ”

"Eh, Xingba get up quickly, Xingba hurry up..."Looking at Gan Ning in front of him, Yan Shao was almost overjoyed. I've got to be prosperous, it's like a dry seedling that can see nectar..."

I don't know why, after hearing this, both Zhao Yun on the shore and Huang Zhong on the boat had an inexplicable sense of immediacy, as if they had seen this side in front of them somewhere.

As for Guan Hai and Sun Guan, they smiled bitterly, not knowing what to say.

Because Sun Guan was recruited by Yan Shao in this way, and it was Guan Hai next to him who did it at that time...

I didn't want Gan Ning to appreciate it at all, and I didn't care about Yan Shao's weak movements, so he just got up and yelled at the many sons and daughters behind him. "Didn't you hear, why don't you call the lord quickly!"

At this time, the water thieves also woke up like a dream, and one by one they fell down on the deck, shouting 'Lord'.

It's not like Gan Ning, it's obviously much more refreshing. After all, it is not a good way out to do a tax rule in these years, if they can be good, they are still willing to make a picture, they followed Gan Ning out of Ba County back then and did not want to be water thieves?

Although the official position of this person in front of him is lower, he is also a county guard, and he is also a famous hero in the world, and he and others have followed this person, and it is not considered that he has wronged himself—————— Gan Ning in history has even followed Huang Zu and others, no matter how bad Yan Shao is, he is much stronger than Huang Zu.

Seeing that Gan Ning seemed to be a little resentful, Yan Shao smiled awkwardly, but he didn't care much. He wouldn't hold a grudge for such a trivial matter, and he didn't want his behavior to fall into Gan Ning's eyes, so Gan Ning nodded secretly in his heart.

The so-called good birds choose trees and perch, first call the master and do things, as long as there is some ability in these years, a good lord will be selected, of course Gan Ning is the same. In the past, Gan Ning had heard of Yan Shao's name, but now it seems that Yan Shao's bearing is not bad, at least he is not narrow-minded.

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Getting a good general like Gan Ning, Yan Shao was overjoyed.

As early as when he saw Gan Ning for the first time, Yan Shao had already begun to think about what method to use to recruit this person, so there was this gamble.

Because he knew very well that it was impossible for a person like Gan Ning who was very confident in himself not to accept this gamble, let alone in front of the hundreds of water thieves under his command. And he has 100% confidence in whether Huang Zhong can beat Gan Ning. In the past, when he recovered Sun Guan, he also used this method, first verbally squeezing, and then using gambling to decide the winner.

At that time, Sun Guannai was a famous ranger in Taishan County, and he was also an arrogant figure, so he fell for Yan Shao's tricks, and since then he has been working for a long time under Yan Shao's account.

And just as Sun Guan was not Guan Hai's opponent at the beginning, Gan Ning is not Huang Zhong's opponent at all, although the battle was exciting, but in the end, he had to bow down and recognize Yan Shao as the master.

As for how to treat Gan Ning in the future, Yan Shao has already thought about it, it is nothing more than 'soft and hard'. You can't be too arrogant when dealing with a character like Gan Ning, Gan Ning is an unruly person, if you treat him like this, I'm afraid that it won't be long before he leaves. But you can't be too weak, this guy is a water thief, and if you are too soft, you are afraid that you will be treated as a fat sheep by the other party.

This requires carrots and sticks, carrots in one hand to make the other party feel sweet, and a stick in the other hand to let the other party know that they are not easy to bully.

Yan Shao is not worried at all about whether Gan Ning will obey his orders.

Not to mention that he has some confidence in the 'Huairou' technique, and now he has a large number of fierce generals under his account, even if he doesn't count Huang Zhong, who has just been included in the account. Whether it is Zhao Yun or Tai Shici, they are peerless generals who are not inferior to Gan Ning, and it is even more difficult to find someone in the world who can compare with these people...

"Chief, do we really want to recognize this man as the Lord?" Leaning to Gan Ning's side, the little leader of a water thief asked a little uncertainly.

"Nonsense, since the bet has been lost, who else can you recognize if you don't recognize him?" Gan Ning scolded impatiently.

Since he has recognized Yan Shao as the master, Gan Ning didn't think about whether to yin him, although he is a water thief, Gan Ning also cares about his own name. He Gan Ning has crisscrossed Jingzhou, and he has done everything, but he has never done anything against the master.

"But—" The leader hesitated. Leader, aren't you going to vote for that Liu Jingsheng, and now you have voted for this person, this..."

It turned out that the reason why their gang appeared here was because Gan Ning felt that the situation had changed a lot in the recent period, and he was afraid that he would have no future if he continued to be a water thief, so it was better to cast into the account of a certain prince, so that he could not only mix a good background, but also show his talents.

At this time, Liu Biao, as the lord of Jingzhou, fell into Gan Ning's eyes.

Yan Shao, as a person who has come over, of course knows very well that this Liu Biao is just a vain person. There is talent, but unfortunately he is a master of success, and he is not very familiar with the military. Such people should have made a difference in peaceful and prosperous times, but in troubled times, the situation is more complicated.

But Yan Shao would be so clear, after all, he was the foreknowledge of the traverser, and others did not have Yan Shao's vision. In the eyes of people at this time, Liu Biao can be called a first-class hero in the world, riding into Jingzhou alone, trapping and killing countless thieves, no matter which point is by no means comparable to ordinary people.

In addition, the distance is close, and there is also a navy in Jingzhou, which can just allow Gan Ning to play his strengths, so it is no wonder that he chose to defect to Liu Biao.

The only pity is that Liu Biao is not only not familiar with military affairs, but also has high requirements for the family. If you want to serve under Liu Biao's account, not to mention that you must be from a famous family, you can also be a child of a good family, such as Gan Ning, a 'notorious' water thief who wants to be reused under Liu Biao's account, this...

It seems a little bit more difficult...

As for Gan Ning's defection to Sun Quan later, it was because he worked under Liu Biao for a while, and finally saw this person clearly, and finally decided to go to Sun Quan. Who Cheng wanted to be stopped by Huang Zu halfway, and had no choice but to serve under Huang Zu's account for a while, during which Gan Ning even saved Huang Zu's life once.

If Huang Zu can repay Gan Ning's life-saving grace at this time, or give him a little help, I am afraid that Gan Ning will stay in Jingzhou. It's a pity that even if there is a life-saving grace, Huang Zu still ignores Gan Ning, which makes Gan Ning completely disheartened, and finally abandoned Liu Biao and went to Sun Quan with the help of his friend Su Fei.

"This Yan Shao is also a hero in the world, although it is not as good as Liu Biao, but it may not be much worse, even if we recognize it as the master, it will not bury us..." Let's see, if it really doesn't work, I'll just leave again...", but there was still some hesitation in my heart.

"But chief, this Yan Shao is far away from the North Sea, how can there be a place for us..."

"This..."

This sentence stabbed Gan Ning's heart at once.

Gan Ning asked himself if he was brave, no matter who he was, he would definitely be able to get ahead, but what if he wasn't needed at all?

Yan Shao's name is certainly not small, he is in Qingzhou, and even Gan Ning has heard of his name. But after all these years, the navy has not heard of any navy...

Indeed, the Han Dynasty actually already had considerable shipbuilding technology, otherwise the Japanese side would not have sent people to the Central Plains. However, the shipbuilding technology and navigation technology of this era were not very reliable, so the ships along the coast usually only had small-scale fishing boats, and there was no threat to almost the entire coastal zone, so naturally there was no need to form a navy.

The few threats are only from pirates...

But compared to the pirates of the same period, the threat of pirates is undoubtedly much smaller. After all, pirates must rely on plundering to eat, and it is impossible to expect them to find any treasure, right?

However, during this period, the maritime trade was not very developed, and it could even be called scarce, and these pirates starved to death by relying on the sea for food. In the history of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were three relatively large-scale, but quite unpopular pirates, one was Zhang Bolu, who was the pioneer of the Yellow Turban.

Zhang Bolu is the 'Daowu' pirate of the nine coastal counties of Kouluo in the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, this person takes the early Heavenly Master Dao (Daowu) as the spiritual call, calls himself the 'Messenger of the Emperor of Heaven', takes the Bohai Sea Island as a base, and takes the coastal areas of You, Hebei and Qingdao between 109 and 111 years, and takes more than 300 people and Liu Wenhe and Zhou Wenguang of Bohai and the Plains to jointly attack the Yici (now Huimin East of Shandong) and Gaotang (now Yucheng, Shandong), crowning five Liang crowns and wearing seals. He was wiped out by the Qingzhou Assassin Shi Fa Xiong and the Imperial History of the Cheng Wang Zongfa Youji soldiers, and Zhang Bolu himself was finally beheaded by Li Jiu, a native of Liaodong.

The second is Guan Cheng, who is a local Haoqiang in Changguang County, a young governor in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, with 3,000 disciples ("The Legend of He Kui of the Three Kingdoms"), which is the same as Julu Zhangjiao, which is a typical local Xiaohaoqiang in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and believes in the folk religion of the late Han Dynasty.

After the Yellow Turban Rebellion led by Sanzhang was put down, Tianshi Dao still had a strong appeal among the people, and many remnants of the Yellow Turbans took advantage of the war between Dong Zhuo and Kanto Mushou to once again divide one side with the names of Black Mountain, Baibo, and Daxian, and Guan Cheng took the opportunity to control Changguang, the Qingzhou where his clan was located, and had a 'pirate base' on Guan Yan Island in the northeast of Laoshan Mountain.

Qingzhou, as an important punching road between Youzhou, Jizhou, Yanzhou, and Xuzhou, was successively or simultaneously controlled by the Gongsun Chan Group (Tian Kai, Liu Bei, Kong Rong), Yuan Shao Group (Zang Hong, Yuan Tan), and Cao Cao Group (He Kui, Sun Guan) in the dispute between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Chan and the dispute between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao. After Qingzhou Guan Cheng was defeated by Gongsun Zhan after joining forces with Zhang Yan of Montenegro, he took advantage of this situation and seized Changguang for about ten years.

After the Battle of Guandu, Changguang Taishou He Kui has been as the representative of Cao Cao's group to Fu Sui Guan Hai, until the complete elimination of Qingzhou Yuan Tan, Bingzhou Gaogan and the rebellious Chang Feng (206 years), Cao Cao personally commanded Zhang He, Le Jin, Li Dian to drive Guan Hai out of Changguang land, Guan Cheng finally retreated to Guan Yan Island, his descendant Guan Yan in the Jin Dynasty still with his family Pirate Island as a local strong, and befriended Wang Bao.

As for the last one, it was Sun En during the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Sun En is the nephew of Sun Tai, the leader of the Wudou Rice Taoist Sect in the last years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the Wudou Rice Taoist family. In 398, Sun Tai was killed for taking advantage of the rebellion, and Sun En fled to the Zhoushan Islands to seek revenge with the congregation.

The pirates of the Middle Ages originated from land thieves, and the operation mode of the pirates in the late Han and Wei and Jin dynasties was basically the same as that of the bandits, barbarians, and Shanyue in the same period, but the inland valleys and dock forts were replaced by offshore islands.

The reason why these 'thieves' (local tyrants) could not be ranked on land was the same as those Shanyue and mountain thieves who could not be among the mountain and mountain bandits in the fertile land of farming, probably because although they dominated one side, they had no inheritance of scriptures, official eunuch reading, and Xuan Tan to clear their names, so they could not become the gate lords who occupied the middle and high levels of politics at the same time, and they could only be driven to the mountains and near the sea by the middle and high-level nobles who participated in various political regimes.

The reason why early Taoism was very popular among these pirates and bandits (Black Mountain Daxian, Bashu Miwu, Wanshan Tianshi Dao) was so that the above three medieval pirates were all early Taoist sects, and it was also because the 'thief hao' was in the lower strata of the local wealthy clan and was close to the folk beliefs, so it also accepted the 'Taoist witches' such as Tianshi Dao and Wudou Midao, which were very popular among the people since the end of the Han Dynasty.

With early Taoism as the spiritual call, low-level wealthy families as political and religious leaders, tribes as the organizational form, lower-class people as the main force, and offshore islands as the base, this is the unique 'pirate' force in the late Han Dynasty, Wei and Jin dynasties.

But the so-called three major pirate groups are just this level, and sometimes they are not even as large as the larger water thief groups, especially in Qingzhou at this time, the greater threat still comes from the remnants of the Yellow Turbans on land. There is not even a chance to do things, which is also the biggest concern of the water thieves under his command...

In fact, they don't mind serving under the account of a certain prince, and it is much better to do so than to continue to be a water thief if they want to surrender to the land in troubled times. can have a good way to get ahead, not everyone wants to be a water thief, and the same is true for Gan Ning, otherwise he wouldn't have tossed and turned between Liu Biao, Huang Zu and Sun Quan for so long.

But this doesn't mean that they want to retire under the command of a certain prince, at least they are still very young and willing to fight...

Thinking of this, Gan Ning, who was moved by the words and worries, glanced at Yan Shao and gritted his teeth. "Lord......... Lord, I don't know how the lord should settle me? "But he is not used to calling people lords.

"Is this..."Yan Shao touched his chin with his hand and groaned. Xingba is a water thief, and it is undoubtedly extremely suitable for any naval commander under my command, and it just so happens that I want to form a naval army in Beihai, and I am extremely relieved if Xingba is in charge..."

Hearing this, Gan Ning's heart sank.

It's not that he doesn't think he's optimistic about Yan Shao, but now Yan Shao also has a great reputation, and he can be regarded as a unique figure in Qingzhou, in Gan Ning's opinion, even if he is not as good as Liu Biao, it is not much worse.

The problem is that the water flow of the Yellow River is very fast, and the river will freeze every winter, so there is almost no room to use the water army.

And no matter how powerful Yan Shao is, it will take a long time to want to be in the same Hebei and four states, doesn't this mean that before he goes south, Gan Ning's group of sailors will be idle for a long time?

Just when Gan Ning was about to hesitate to speak, he saw Yan Shao's words suddenly change sharply.

"But now the scale of the Qingzhou Navy is almost non-existent, and with the talent of Xingba, it is a bit overkill to only serve as the commander of the water army. I want Xingba to lead another army, I don't know if Xingba is willing? ”

"No!" Hearing this, Gan Ning finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Bu Jun, although he is not very good at fighting on the road, it does not mean that he can't, and he is also very confident in the sons and daughters under his command. As long as he is given a space to play, he will not be inferior to others.

At the same time, Zhao Yun and Sun Guan listened on the shore, but they looked at each other and smiled. (To be continued.) )