Chapter 90: The Water Thieves' Lair
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When he saw the ship approaching this way, he immediately adjusted his direction.
The ship turned around in a big way, and Liu Yong really saw it.
The ships rushed, but the ships were much smaller, and they immediately turned around, avoiding the five ships. When the ship stopped, turned around and rushed back to the boat, those water thieves had already driven the boat and pasted it on the grain carrier in the middle of Liu Yong's fleet.
"Bastard!" Liu Yong couldn't help but burst into a foul language and slammed his fist on the bow of the boat.
"Pick a good swim in the water." Liu Yong drank.
Although it was on the water, if the grain boat was hijacked in front of him, Liu Yong's face would be lost. In this way, Liu Yong discovered the shortcomings of his army, and when he arrived in Jiangxia, he had to train a team of sailors.
The water thieves soon boarded several grain ships, and the sound of fighting immediately rose, and from time to time there were screams.
Liu Yong's boats were loaded with grain and grass, and each ship was guarded by only six or seven people. Although these sergeants were well trained, because they rarely fought on the ship, they played at most sixty percent of the ten successful men, and for a time they were crushed and several people were cut into the water, and only a few of the thieves were killed or wounded.
Fortunately, after this fight, the five ships rushed up, and these water thieves knew that they were not opponents, so they immediately stopped and worked together to take down the two boats and drive the boat to the shore.
"Leave two ships to rescue the people who have fallen into the water, and all the other laughing ships will dock and pursue the water thieves." Liu Yong was about to blow up his lungs, and he could really be robbed.
Docking was simple, and in less than a quarter of an hour all ships docked on the right bank.
Zhong Zhao took 3,000 people to stay behind to guard the grain and grass, and the rest of the people all pursued the water thieves. We're going to catch them all! Liu Yong roared.
Saying that, Liu Yong himself had disembarked and went ashore, and Kou Feng hurriedly led someone to follow.
Zhao Yun was faster, and he had already jumped off the ship, leading a team of men and horses to run towards the two robbed ships.
"Well, the gun is built?" Liu Yong suddenly saw a silver spear that Zhao Yun was carrying.
Now is obviously not the time to ask these questions, just glanced at it from a distance, and Liu Yong continued to chase his legs.
Liu Yong finally realized the gap in physical fitness.
After only running less than two miles, Liu Yong was left far behind by Zhao Yun and the other sergeants, and this gap really made Liu Yong blush.
Although Liu Yong also exercises from time to time, his class is not like the sergeant's regular and quantitative high-intensity training every day, and the gap is naturally unavoidable.
When he ran out of the three-mile road, Liu Yong looked around, and the only people he could see were left with himself and a team of guards brought by Kou Feng.
Liu Yong looked at a group of guards who were breathless, and his old face turned red.
People don't gasp much, but I'm panting heavily, shame!
"Let the brothers see the joke, it seems that this body is going to be practiced well." Liu Yong stopped and sat on a stone and said to the person next to him.
"What does the lord say, you are a person who sits on a big thing, we are all rough people, we can only rush to kill, if we can't even do it, then we will starve to death on the street." One of the guards next to him immediately sneered.
Liu Yong smiled and didn't say much, rested for a while and continued to hurry.
But within three miles, I saw several sergeants running towards Liu Yong.
Seeing Liu Yong, several people immediately bowed: "Lord, General Zhao has chased down the nest of the water thieves, but there is some trouble." ”
The sergeant didn't seem to know what to say either.
"What's the trouble?" Liu Yong wondered, what trouble was there for this thief.
"My lord, you can go and see for yourself. It's just two miles ahead. The sergeant said immediately.
"Okay, let's go." Liu Yong saw that the sergeant was spitting, although it was strange, he didn't ask, anyway, he would know when he went to see it.
Two miles away, it is a village in the middle of a mountain col, with no name, only dozens of thatched houses, and even some houses have one or two without walls, which can only be counted as a shed.
In some huts, a few unkempt women and children were looking out at the broken parts of the walls, their eyes full of horror and fear.
Liu Yong had just arrived, and he was stunned.
"This is the lair of the water thieves?"
In Liu Yong's impression, since it is a thief's nest, it should be the same as Shuibo Liangshan on TV I watched before, a group of fierce and vicious men, gathering in the mountains and forests, drinking wine in big bowls, eating meat in big bowls, and living happily. Although not all thieves' dens have meat to eat, at least it should be the same as the Woniu Mountain he saw at the beginning.
But here, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a refugee camp.
Zhao Yun has already led people to surround this place, and nearly two thousand people and horses have blocked the water surrounding here, and it is difficult for a fly to fly out.
Dozens of men, young and old, all holding weapons they could find, blocking Zhao Yun and the sergeants, some of whom were clearly holding ordinary tools such as hoes and hunting forks. Some of the people at the front were clearly the water thieves who robbed the grain before.
"Lord, Zhao Yun can't bear to do it, he failed to clear the water thieves, please punish the lord." When Zhao Yun saw Liu Yong coming, he immediately stepped forward to bow down, his face full of shame.
"Get up, it's not your fault." Liu Yong waved his hand and asked Zhao Yun to get up.
"You are the head of these people, you were caught today, and you want to kill or chop at will. But so-and-so has a request, and I hope the general will grant it. A big man at the front, in his twenties, saw Liu Yong approaching, walked out boldly, bowed slightly to Liu Yong, and said.
"What request?" Liu Yong's complexion did not change.
"This grain robbery is a certain person's idea, I hope the general can let the others go, and all the guilt will be borne by one person." The big man said firmly, very tragic.
"What if you don't agree?" Liu Yong suddenly smiled slightly.
Everyone immediately changed color, especially the men who stood in their way.
The man who spoke just now suddenly said, "If the general wants to slaughter the entire stockade, then step on the corpses of us first." ”
As he spoke, he held the knife in his hand tighter, and the other men did the same, all glaring at Liu Yong. You can faintly hear the whining and crying of women in the village.
Liu Yong's expression remained unchanged, and he looked at the big man who spoke first and asked, "Ask you a few questions, as long as you speak honestly, maybe you really won't kill them, and only take you to blame." ”
"Is that true? Okay, you ask. The big man was stunned for a moment, and suddenly seemed to have made up his mind.
"No, if you want to die, it's also me and a few others, it's all my and a few people's ideas." Immediately, a few people from the crowd rushed up and stood with the big man.
"Do you think it's up to you to decide who lives and who dies?" Liu Yong said lightly.
"Don't talk nonsense, be careful that he changes his mind." The big man said softly. The others immediately stopped talking, and their faces turned pale.
"Tell me why you became a water thief?" Liu Yong asked.
After listening to the words of this big man, Liu Yong and the surrounding sergeants couldn't help but feel desolate in their hearts.
Since Sun Ce, the little overlord of Jiangdong, left Yuan Shu and ruled Jiangdong wholeheartedly, he has fought countless battles large and small, and pacified many forces and bandits. However, at the same time, all parts of Jiangdong were plunged into war, and countless people died tragically, and countless families and wives were separated.
This big man still had a few acres of thin fields at home, and he could still get by, but when the war was raging, he immediately suffered and fled, and finally ended up here. Others are about the same.
After hearing this, Liu Yong sighed, waved his hand, turned to Zhao Yun and said, "Take someone on the boat." ”
With that, he walked forward.