And Liu Jiang had just sneaked back to the army from Zuo Liangyu's water camp at this time, when he heard Xiao Tianjian ask him how he was doing this trip, he immediately replied with a fluttering eyebrow: "Qi Yu Dashuai, this matter is done, the small one is hidden in the Zuo Junshui camp these days, and a total of more than 30 old brothers have been contacted, as soon as they heard that the little one has already voted for the big handsome, so they are willing to follow the little one to join the big handsome without saying a word, and serve the big handsome in the future, and help the big handsome except Zuo Liangyu, a bastard!" Moreover, some of these brothers are now small flag officers, and some brothers are already in charge, and they are in charge of some people and boats, and if they add up, there are more than 1,000 people under their command, and they also say that they will contact more reliable brothers to serve the commander together! As long as the commander gives an order, they will immediately raise things on the river, just waiting for the commander to say a word! ”

After hearing this, Xiao Tianjian asked, "So how many ships did Zuo Liangyu prepare on the Yangtze River?" Have you already figured it out? ”

"Check clearly, Zuo Liangyu has prepared more than 700 boats on the Yangtze River, including more than 100 warships with 100 people, more than 200 fast boats with 30 people, and the rest are mostly some cargo ships and fishing boats captured on the river, and the small ones can control more than a dozen 100-person warships and more than 20 clippers at the moment, and there are still many people working on cargo ships and fishing boats, and it is estimated that they can control two or three percent of the ships! Now they are still contacting friends, and it is estimated that in the next few days, at least they can contact many more people to do something! As long as the commander said a word, they immediately sailed the ship downstream overnight! These eight fathers and sons are not things, and now many people are eager to peel off the skin of their father and son! ”

Xiao Tianjian was ecstatic after hearing this, he came to fight Jingzhou this time, in fact, he was not worried about not being able to beat Jingzhou, fighting on land, he looked at the officers and troops in the Huguang area, his army can basically be said to have no opponents, but what he was worried about was that once Jingzhou was defeated, Zuo Liangyu fled downstream to Wuchang or Yueyang, and now he has just gone south, and has not yet been able to have his own fleet on the Yangtze River, Yang Kunshan was transferred here and controlled a fleet on the Han River, but those ships are mostly fishing boats or cargo ships, It is not enough to use, and from the Han River to Jingzhou, the waterway is not passable, and there is no way to stare at Zuo Liangyu, once Zuo Liangyu wants to escape by boat, he can only stand on the shore and watch him.

So for this matter, Xiao Tianjian and Li Xin are quite a headache, and their plan is to take Jingzhou downstream, can no longer do rest, immediately go south along the Yangtze River, attack Yueyang and Wuchang, so as to control Huguang as soon as possible, once Zuo Liangyu leads a large number of ships down the river to escape, he basically has no chance to capture too many ships, so that even if he captures Jingzhou, he may not be able to go down the river to capture the important town of Yueyang, so he can only turn around and lead the army back to Xiangyang, and take Suizhou to Wuchang by land, In this case, just hitting Huguang is afraid that it will be delayed for a year and a half.

Thinking about it, Xiao Tianjian and Li Xin don't have a very good way, and now with the appearance of Liu Jiang, it is undoubtedly a great opportunity for them, one is to take the opportunity to seize part of Zuo Liangyu's fleet stationed on the Yangtze River, and the other can take the opportunity to prevent Zuo Liangyu from escaping by boat, if he does it well, he can immediately have a fleet on the Yangtze River, and the next step is to attack Yueyang and Wuchang is much simpler!

After Xiao Tianjian was happy for a while, he asked people to give Liu Jiang a seat, and after discussing with Li Xin for a while, he said to Liu Jiang: "Don't be in a hurry to let your brothers cause trouble, I'm afraid this matter will have to be discussed in the long run, our purpose is not just to get a boat, but to kill Zuo Liangyu and his son, and completely get rid of Zuo Liangyu's scourge, once the incident is too early, Zuo Liangyu can still escape by boat, and may even send troops to chase and kill you, but it is a big deal!"

So be it! You go back and tell you those brothers, I, Xiao, will serve them and welcome them, and Xiao can ensure that he will never treat them badly, and in the future, the Xingtian Army will also establish its own water camp on the Yangtze River, and it will be indispensable to reuse them in the future, but please be calm and don't be impatient, don't be in a hurry, and when I lead my troops to conquer this Jingzhou City, Zuo Liangyu will escape by boat, and it will not be too late for you to make a move!

What to do is foolproof and more secure, let's discuss it carefully......"

Li Dingguo stopped behind the artillery array, has been carefully observing the Xingtianjun's every move, since he was recruited by Xiao Tianjian, he was originally a little dissatisfied with Xiao Tianjian, and thought that Xiao Tianjian's treatment of Zhang Xianzhong was a bit unfair, after all, his father-in-law Zhang Xianzhong was a well-known figure in the righteous army, although he did something a little inappropriate, but the identity was here, Xiao Tianjian abandoned it and sent it to Jinnan to arrange and resettle, for which Li Dingguo was quite a bit slanderous.

And Xiao Tianjian arranged for someone to sneak attack his father-in-law, which also seemed a bit despicable in this matter, using Zhang Xianzhong as a hostage to force them to surrender to the Xingtian Army, although in the end they had to accept such a thing, but there was always a thorn in his heart, which made him a little unconvinced.

Although Xiao Tianjian treated him well and was very important, so that he became a battalion general in the Guards Division, so that he could lead a battalion with his old department as the mainstay, and temporarily live under Liu Yaoben to listen to orders, but Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi always felt that they were holding a breath in their chests, and they wanted to compete with Liu Yaoben and their old subordinates of Xiao Tianjian.

During this period of time, he also led his troops to fight a few battles, and also beheaded Liu Guoneng, for which he was rewarded by Xiao Tianjian's general order, but as their time in the Xingtian Army gradually increased, the arrogance of Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi gradually began to dissipate.

To tell the truth, these Zhang Xianzhong's righteous sons, in the war, each of them are good at fighting, for a long time, following Zhang Xianzhong to fight in the south and the north, it can be regarded as having seen all the world, I don't know how many times they have fought in the pool of blood, and the number of times they have fought with the official army is already countless, but it was not until after joining the Xingtian Army that the concept of war in Li Dingguo's heart was completely subverted.

In his previous view, fighting a war is to rely on the elite, dare to fight and dare to kill and strong martial arts in order to win the battle, after he invested in the Xingtian Army, he found at the beginning that the Xingtian Army is actually the personal martial arts level of the soldiers is very average, although there are also some people with high martial skills, but these people are not separately grouped together, but scattered in the battalions, more to play the role of some sword players, the real martial arts are very good people, but the official position is not very high.

He also used to practice with Liu Yaoben when he was fine, Liu Yaoben fought with him, and he was not his opponent at all, which made him and his subordinates look down on Liu Yaoben and them a little bit at the beginning, and felt that Xingtianjun was nothing more than Erer.

But when they were in the Xingtian Army for a little longer, they found that the Xingtian Army actually did not pay much attention to the cultivation of personal martial arts, but attached great importance to military training, every morning, Li Dingguo and they just got up when they heard the number, and one by one stretched out their arms and kicked their legs out of the camp to find an open space, leading their subordinates to catch and fight and practice martial arts, but found that a large number of old departments of the Xingtian Army were in a neat queue, running around the camp with weights, and they were still in the camp when they were finished, doing the kind of queue drill that made people feel a little ridiculous, It's boring and boring over and over again, just walking forward, turning in place, dividing columns, etc., it doesn't seem to be to train them to fight at all, but just to make their queue look neater, and for this reason, it really makes Li Dingguo and their old subordinates of Zhang Xianzhong despise it, and feel that the training of the Xingtian Army is simply full of food, and there is no place to digest it, doing such a boring thing, the official army and them are defeated in the hands of the Xingtian Army, which is a shame at all, So they couldn't help but point and sneer at the old department of the Xingtian Army.

For this reason, the old department of the Xingtian Army and Li Dingguo and their old troops of Zhang Xianzhong also clashed in the camp, and secretly fought a group fight, of course, the result was that Li Dingguo and they won a complete victory in the group fight, and some soldiers of the old department of the Xingtian Army who were looking for trouble for them were beaten like pigs' heads, for which Liu Yaoben was also reprimanded by Xiao Tianjian once, and was dragged out and beaten with 20 military sticks.

But what happened next surprised Li Dingguo and them, and after Xiao Tianjian dealt with Liu Yaoben, he asked Li Dingguo with a smile if they were interested in forming a formation and practicing with the Xingtian army formation.

There are many spears and wooden knives and other things specially prepared for drills in the Xingtian Army, and after Li Dingguo heard it, even if the camp came down, he proposed that the firearms of the old Xingtian Army were too powerful, and the two sides could not use firearms and bows and arrows, so they used knives and guns to fight, Xiao Tianjian nodded and agreed.

Li Dingguo immediately took his men and horses out of the camp, and Xiao Tianjian randomly ordered a battalion from the old headquarters of the Xingtian Army to fight, stipulating that the two sides would have a battle without using firearms and bows and arrows.

The firecrackers were ordered to withdraw and replaced with pikemen and knife players from another battalion, and the leader of the team here was only one of Liu Yaoben's subordinates, and the two battalions started a "fight" outside the main camp

Li Dingguo originally looked down on the combat effectiveness of the generals of the Xingtian Army, Xiao Tianjian gave an order, and he immediately assigned his subordinates to start rushing to the phalanx of the Xingtian Army, it stands to reason that the strongest thing in the Xingtian Army is that they have a large number of firecrackers, and the ability to output firepower from a long distance is very strong, but now they are not allowed to use firearms, and naturally the biggest advantage is limited, Li Dingguo and his subordinates think that this is simply a one-sided "massacre" can be in front of Xiao Tianjian, and humiliate Xiao Tianjian's old subordinates, Let them see and see that the soldiers and generals brought out by their eight kings are not vegetarians.

(The network cable was broken yesterday afternoon, and today I tossed the whole phone line and rearranged the line, and the result was late!) Everyone's forgiving! Never break your promise today, or break out according to the original plan! There are two more, do what you say! ）