The flags of these big ships are clearly written 'Chu' and 'Wang', which is naturally undoubtedly the king of Chu, Wang Qing's family, and then in addition to these dozen big ships, there are dozens of fleets of different sizes, and the colors and styles of the flags are also different.

Originally, there were about eighteen or nineteen famous forces in Dongting Lake, but at that time, only those thirteen were willing to come forward when Cai Fu molested Yang Mi's sister and killed him, and the rest did not appear for various reasons, so the government focused on only the thirteen Taibao led by Yang Mi and Zhong Xiang, but I didn't expect them to appear again now.

The leader of these families, Yang Mi, naturally recognized that before this war, the forces still often dealt with each other, and one of them was about forty years old, wearing a satin robe, holding a fan in one hand and the hilt of the knife at his waist in the other, looking quite nondescript, but he was arrogant and tight, and he didn't look at others at all.

This person is Duan Wu, the brother-in-law of Tian Qing, the king of Chu, it turned out that when Dongting Lake was besieged before, Yang Qi and they were the first to send a letter of help to Wang Qing, thinking that he was the most powerful and close, if he could come to help, he would definitely be able to repel the officers and soldiers.

But they didn't know that Wang Qing had received this letter, but when he discussed it with his subordinates, the military advisor Li Zhu advised him not to worry about this matter. Second, they offended Cai Jing this time, so that the government sent as many as 20,000 or 30,000 people, if they get involved in this quagmire, they will also consume a lot of financial, material and manpower, even if they help those people to relieve the siege, they may not be willing to serve, on the contrary, taking advantage of the good opportunity that they have attracted a lot of officers and soldiers from nearby prefectures and counties, they can plunder and even expand everywhere.

After hearing this, Wang Qing felt that it was reasonable, so he asked his subordinates to find a reason to prevaricate and send Yang Mi and their envoys away, during this time, Yang Mi and their bloody battles dragged tens of thousands of people in the government, Wang Qing and they took this opportunity to plunder the surrounding prefectures and counties, and even robbed one prefecture and seven counties, expanding the sphere of influence a lot, which can be described as a sandpiper and a clam competing for the benefit of fishermen.

However, not long ago, the spies suddenly came to report, saying that it was Dongting Lake Yang Mi and his gang who didn't know what method they used to repel the officers and soldiers, and revisited Dongting Lake.

After the plan was decided, Wang Qing sent Duan Wu as the commander, and brought Hu Xian, Hu Jun, Liao Li, Sun Sheng, Zhang Xin, five generals and 3,000 infantry troops, and a total of 4,000 men and horses of a thousand water troops went straight to Dongting Lake to 'pick peaches'.

Duan Wu this person is insidious, good at calculation, the last time he went to Wu Wang Fangla to hold the Green Forest Heroes Conference was sent by him on behalf of the King of Chu, after he came to Dongting Lake, he heard that in addition to Yang Mi and their 'Thirteen Taibao', there are five or six forces, so he sent people to the post to invite them to the banquet, those people heard that it was 'King of Chu Wang Qing' called and did not dare to disobey, so they had to go to the appointment one after another.

On the one hand, the leaders saw that Yang Mi's power was developing so fast, and they had stood by and watched the friendship before, for fear that Yang Mi and they would come to find their own troubles in the future, and on the other hand, they did not dare to offend Wang Qing and them.

Duan Wu kept in mind Wang Qing's policy of 'saluting first and then soldiering', so he left the large army on the shore, and only brought a few dozen retinues and the leaders of those forces to visit Yang Mi.

Of course, Yang Qi didn't know these inside stories, and he also followed Du Jia's instructions to find out their intentions before paying attention to them, so he also arched his hands and said: "I don't know if the leaders are coming, they are not welcome, forgive your sins." ”

One of the leaders of these forces is named Shi Jin, he is in his fifties, and he is a person of the same generation as Zhong Xiang, so he immediately leaned on the old man and said: "I said little man, I said that you are a little unrighteous, so many of our forces in Dongting Lake have gotten along well for many years, and you don't say anything about informing us when you fight with the officers and soldiers this time, you don't treat us as your own people at all, I have to talk to Brother Zhong later." ”

Xia Cheng and the others next to Yang Mi were furious when they heard this, fucking this old puppet dared to tell the truth, the last time Cai Fu's matter called you to help, you refused, and the sky was dark in the back, can't you all see it on Dongting Lake? Do you need us to invite you? Now seeing that we have repelled the officers and soldiers and run over to say such cheap words, are we really stupid?

However, Yang Yiyi stretched out his hand to stop them: "Uncle Shi is serious, I really didn't have time to greet you when I was busy before, but now you are here together, just go in and have a glass of water, as for you to talk to my father-in-law, I'm afraid it's very difficult, his old man has already died heroically in the fierce battle with the officers and soldiers." ”

Shi Jin and the others were taken aback, they never expected the battle to be so fierce, even Zhong Xiang was killed, and then seeing the angry faces of Xia Cheng and the others and the faint murderous aura in Yang Mi's tone, they also felt a little afraid, and they didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore.

At this time, Duan Wu came out to play a round and said: "I didn't expect that the old hero Zhong has passed away, it's a pity, it's a pity, we are still a step late, let's take a walk, since Brother Yang, the host, has spoken, let's be guests and follow the host, go first to eat a few cups." ”

Yang Mi sneered in his heart, but he still brought everyone to the hall according to the number of courtesies, and after everyone was done according to the position of the guest host, the servants immediately brought up the wine and food, and those people were not polite, eating meat in large pieces, drinking wine in large bowls, and treating this place as if it were their own home.

The people on Yang Mi's side are all extremely annoyed in their hearts, where are they willing to be extravagant, they just endure their anger and act indiscriminately here, after three rounds of drinking, Yang Mi said lightly: "I don't know what the rank has to do with this big trip, can you tell me below?" ”

Duan Wu smiled when he heard this, and then slowly walked into the center of the hall, took out a scroll from his sleeve and unfolded it, and said, "Lord Chu has a purpose, Yang Mi doesn't come to pick it up quickly?" ”

About Didi's incident, I think that heavy penalties must be punished, not punished is not enough to deter bad guys, and it is not enough to anger the people, but it is over, after all, the black car has a platform and can complain if something happens, and if it returns to the original pure black car, everyone may not know if something happens.

(End of chapter)