Hu Changshui is the leader of a small group of bandits hundreds of miles away from the east of Xishan Island, occupying this small island that is several miles in size and is not valued by other bandits. Of course, this is not because he does not like to occupy larger islands, but because he does not have the strength. Under his command, counting the old and weak women and children, there were only about 500 people. Among them, there are only about 300 people who can really be called water bandits. The warships they have are only converted from a few fishing boats.

Hu Changshui was originally a fisherman in the lakeside area of Suzhou Prefecture in the north, but after offending the local clan, he had to flee and became a branch of water bandits. Over the years, it has taken over some of the villagers and other fishermen in distress, and the number of people in its hands has grown from a few dozen at the beginning to about 500.

However, compared to the large and small water bandits around him, his strength is too weak. Even, he couldn't even give birth to the thoughts of other water bandits to annex him. Moreover, the island he occupies is also a small island of extreme barrenness, and has no value. In his hands, there are several old fishing boats. And his existence is not a personal threat to other bandits, so over the past few years, Hu Changshui and his 500 people have relied on collecting a small amount of tolls from passing merchant ships to assist some merchants in transporting supplies and fishing for a living.

However, at the beginning of the confrontation between the Jieyi Army and the Qi Army Sailors in the waters of Taihu Lake, his disaster story came. Because of the increasingly urgent situation of the Qi Army and the Jieyi Army in the waters of Taihu Lake, the number of merchants who came and went became scarce. In this way, the source of livelihood of Hu Changshui's department has become a problem. Especially after the Jieyi Army's water division army defeated the Qi army's water division around this, Hu Changshui's accumulated food and money finally bottomed out.

However, the weak Hu Changshui's department, because of its low strength, did not even have anyone sent by the sailors of the Jieyi Army to persuade him to surrender. Therefore, for the survival of the bandits and their families, Hu Changshui still sought a way out.

After Xishan Island sent a message to summon various water bandits to assist in the defense, Hu Changshui intended to act. Of course, he didn't want to go against the Jieyi Army Sailor, but continued like this, but he was afraid that before the Jieyi Army Sailor took Xishan Island, his people would starve to death. And Xishan Island promised that if they held Xishan Island and defeated the Righteous Army's sailors, they would not only get a compensation for participating in the war, but also use Xishan Island as a logistics place to buy supplies on Xishan Island.

Hu Changshui's food is gone, but he still has some money. But now that the Jieyi Army is fighting against Xishan Island, even if he has money, he can't buy food. Even if he can contact Xishan Island, but now that Xishan Island is fighting against the sailors of the Jieyi Army, how can he easily sell such a scarce material as food?

Mengshan on Xishan Island also forced these bandits to land on the island to assist in the defense by restricting the materials from Xishan Island, you must know that the money and materials intercepted by the surrounding bandits were all spent on Xishan Island. In addition, the goods collected by the bandits from the merchants as tolls were also sold through Xishan Island. Now that Xishan Island has stopped the flow of supplies, the surrounding water bandits are suddenly like being put on their heads.

Of course, those large water bandits will naturally not have problems because of the practices of Xishan Island. However, those small and medium-sized water bandits suddenly fell into a predicament. After all, if money can't buy food and daily necessities, then gold and silver money will become waste. People need to eat, but gold and silver cannot meet people's daily needs.

Therefore, after Xishan Island issued this kind of bounty notice, the surrounding bandits began to act. Many small and medium-sized bandits began to converge on Xishan Island, ready to assist in the defense of Xishan Island. Of course, this also has to do with their reluctance to surrender to the rebels like this. Even some large water bandits have begun to prepare for action.

These large water bandits knew very well that if Xishan Island was defeated, they would bear the brunt of the pressure from the sailors of the Jieyi Army. Therefore, they did not want the Jieyi Army Sailors to conquer Xishan Island. However, because of their family's big business, and the fact that the people of the two towns of the Jieyi Army and the Water Division began to move around, they did not dare to act rashly. So, they are all waiting for the situation on Xishan Island.

For a small water bandit like Hu Changshui, he didn't have time to wait. If he continues like this, I'm afraid that before what happens to Xishan Island and the Jieyi Army, the winner will be divided, and the hundreds of people under his command will become starving ghosts on the island. Therefore, after hearing the news, he made no arrangements, and took nearly 300 people and five large and slightly old fishing boats to Xishan Island, wanting to settle the living needs of these 300 people first.

However, when Hu Changshui and his men approached the east of Xishan Island thirty miles away, the lookout on their ship found an anomaly.

"Chief, there seem to be two fleets going on ahead?" Hu Changshui, who was resting in the boat, was woken up by the brothers under his command, and as soon as he opened his mouth, Hu Changshui's face changed suddenly.

"At war? See who and whom? Who else will be at war here now...... It's not good, it can't be a righteous army, right? Hu Changshui suddenly remembered that around this Xishan Island, in addition to the warships of the Jieyi Army, there would be no other warships that would cause a big war at this moment. Even those water bandits who have a grudge will not choose this time to start a war. The main force of the Jieyi Army's water division is on the side, where do they dare to easily cause any incident, if one is not good, they will become the target of the destruction of the Jieyi Army's water division.

"Sailor of the Righteous Army? Head...... Chieftain...... No way! The lookout who came back to report was covered with earth, and his speech began to tremble. The battle that the sailors of the Jieyi Army fought in the southern waters a few days ago had already been known to the surrounding bandits. Don't say that it's them, even if all the water bandits are united now, they are not the opponent of the water division of the Jieyi Army. The four water bandits who were co-opted by the Qi army to recruit an army were the four strongest within a radius of hundreds of miles in the middle of the Taihu Lake waters.

These four water bandits joined forces, and the armor and equipment provided by the Qi army failed to defeat the Jieyi Army Water Division, so you can imagine how strong the Water Division of the Jieyi Army is? Of course, they didn't know that these four bandits were divided by Hu Le's department at the beginning, and with the assistance of Nei Ying, they were all wiped out. Later, he was led by Hu Le by the nose and forced to surrender the family. In fact, the three water bandits who finally appeared in front of the main force of the Jieyi Army's water division had already lost half of their strength.

"No matter, retreat immediately, let's go back!" Thinking of the powerful naval strength of the Jieyi Army, Hu Changshui immediately ordered the fleet under his command to turn around and prepare to turn back. Although they are in urgent need of food now, they don't dare to confront the sailors of the Jieyi Army. Not to mention the main force of the Jieyi Army's naval division, even a building ship or a fighting ship can crush them.

It is true that they lack food, and it is not false that they want to exchange their lives for food with 300 men and horses. However, the premise of this is to save your life and enter Xishan Island. Otherwise, if they lose their lives, who will they go to in exchange for the food they need? In addition, the young and strong people on the island, except for more than 20 people who stayed in the old nest to help those old and weak women and children live normally, the rest are here, if they are all gone but do not exchange for the food they need, then the old and weak women and children on the island will be finished.

"Yes...... Be...... I'm going to give the order! The lookout hurried out, but immediately turned back and said to Hu Changshui with a bitter face: "First ...... Chieftain...... Event...... The big thing is not good, the other side is indeed fighting the Jieyi Army Sailor, and the other side is Lin Da from the North Island. The flagship of Lin Da's family has been chased straight by the sailors of the Jieyi Army and is coming straight to us. In addition, the fleet of the sailors of the Jieyi Army also came. Our ship is not as fast as theirs, and we can't escape. ”

Hu Changshui did not continue to speak, and immediately rushed out of the cabin, appeared outside, and looked at the battlefield to the west. Sure enough, the situation in front of him made Hu Changshui's face pale. Just as the lookout said, there are only two ships left in the fleet of Lin Da's family in the North Island at the moment, and they are still rushing towards him in embarrassment. Behind it, more than a dozen warships, large and small, are chasing after them at the moment.

"Steer the boat aside, this forest fox is ready to retreat from us, wanting us to block the pursuit of the Jieyi Army's sailors for them." Seeing the two warships running on the opposite side, they did not avoid themselves at all, nor did they mean to stop, Hu Changshui immediately understood the other party's thoughts, and wanted to use his own big fishing boats to block the pursuit of the Jieyi Army's sailors.

"Damn old thing, you want us to feed the tiger's mouth of the Righteous Army! Well deserved! Hu Changshui couldn't help but scold the other party for being insidious. But at the same time, he was secretly terrified.

You must know that under the command of Lin Da in the North Island, there are more than 1,000 sailors and more than 20 large and small ships, especially the ships in their hands have been modified and can be called warships. But now, Tan Da, who was known as Lin Fox, only took two already dilapidated warships and fled eastward in embarrassment. Seeing that Lin Fox, who had not even looked at him with his eyes, fell into such a situation, Hu Changshui couldn't help but feel a little happy in his heart. After all, in the past, he had also been harassed by the water bandits under this Lin fox many times, who made his strength too weak.

However, seeing that Lin Fox, who was already very powerful in his eyes, had now become like this, Hu Changshui was more afraid in his heart. That's right, it's fear. No matter how much others say, after all, there is no truth that you have seen with your own eyes. Even Lin Fox was beaten like this by the Jieyi Army, so his old and broken ships were not sunk by the Jieyi Army with one blow?

Especially when Hu Changshui knew what the goal of this Lin fox was this time, and he was besieged and killed by the sailors of the Jieyi Army, he was even more worried in his heart. Because the goal of this Lin Fox is the same as him, it is also to go to Xishan Island to assist the Qi army in defense, in exchange for food. This forest fox has always loved gold, silver, and money, but not food and other items. Therefore, when the forest fox plundered passing merchant ships or collected tolls, he asked for money, not food, cloth, salt, tea, medicinal herbs and other items. In other words, although this Lin Fox has a lot of money in his hands, he has not hoarded much of his daily needs.

Therefore, after the sailors of the Righteous Army began to blockade Xishan Island, so that the connection between Xishan Island and the outside world began to be severed, and began to crack down on the surrounding water bandits, Lin Fox had no recruitment. At this moment, he understood that no matter how much money he had, he couldn't buy anything, and it was just a bunch of waste. Of course, he also understood that the Jieyi Army's attack on Xishan Island, the branch of Xishan Island's connection with Suzhou Mansion in the north of Taihu Lake and the outside world, was actually persecuting them as water bandits. When there is no food and grass supplies, and even daily needs are a problem, do these bandits still have a choice?

Therefore, Lin Fox, whose situation was more serious than other water bandits, began to rush to Xishan Island after Mengshan issued a notice on Xishan Island. Xishan Island is here, not only the territory of the Qi army, but also the supply point of the surrounding water bandits. Those heroes on Xishan Island have been able to grow and grow until now, and they can pull up water bandits as private soldiers, that is, because they are secretly providing supplies for these water bandits. Of course, Xishan Island was invisible in the past to provide supplies for these bandits, but after the Monsan military order was issued, if these bandits were willing to assist in the defense, it would become visible in the future.

And Meng Shan is not worried about what trouble he will cause by this move, after all, the Qi army began to recruit water bandits that have spread all over the waters of Taihu Lake, and doing this by himself can be regarded as attracting people for the Qi army, after all, if these water bandits do not fall to their side, then they will fall to the side of the Jieyi army. Besides, at this moment, Xishan Island is still facing the attack of this section of the rebel army's sailors.

If they can defeat the sailors of the Jieyi Army, the powerful on Monshan and other islands can take advantage of this to trade materials with the water bandits. In addition, it can also invisibly attract a group of people. Meng Shan and others also knew that after this battle, many small groups of water bandits would definitely be worried about the retaliation of the Jieyi Army in the future, and would choose to take refuge in the Qi army, and their opportunity to expand their strength would come.

However, it is obvious that the operation of this Xishan Island has already been discovered by the sailors of the Jieyi Army. At this moment, the sailors of the Jieyi Army are afraid that they have already fought against these water bandits who want to go to Xishan Island to assist in the defense around Xishan Island.

When Hu Changshui saw with his own eyes that Lin Fox's flagship was fired by a round of catapults fired by the sailors of the Jieyi Army, a hole was smashed into the side, and then it was shot by countless crossbow arrows, sinking the warship. The water bandits on it were also killed by the soldiers of the sailors of the Jieyi Army, standing on the warship and killing them one by one, and Hu Changshui was cold all over. The soldiers of the Righteous Army's sailors in this section are clearly the ones who kill Lin Fox without leaving prisoners.

"Let's hope they treat us as a passing fishing boat, or ignore us as weak." Seeing that Lin Fox's two warships were sunk by the sailors of the Jieyi Army and shot all the water bandits, Hu Changshui couldn't help but pray secretly in his heart.

Now Hu Changshui no longer has the idea of going to Xishan Island to assist in the defense, he just wants to turn back immediately, take the people on the island, and quietly return to the lakeside area of Suzhou Mansion in the north to survive.

However, it was obvious that Hu Changshui's prayers had no effect, and more than a dozen large and small warships had approached him. Especially the building ship at the front, which has already made Hu Changshui look up to see the upper deck. The huge waves brought by the driving of the building ship made the warships at Hu Changshui's feet begin to turbulent.

Hu Changshui dispelled the idea of letting his brothers take out weapons to fight back, of course, he also saw that many brothers around him were pale at the moment, and their whole bodies were trembling, I was afraid that even if he issued a military order, there were not many people who could stand up and resist. Of course, this is also related to the fact that Hu Changshui did not let the three hundred young people under his command participate in the fight too much.

To tell the truth, Hu Changshui, a water bandit, did a very unqualified job, and the men and horses in his hands either went fishing or assisted some merchants in transporting things in exchange for supplies. Of course, some merchant ships that don't have much strength will also be blackmailed by him and ask for a small amount of tolls. Because of this, the people under him are not good at fighting.

Fortunately, the warship of the Sailor of the Jieyi Army stopped not far in front of Hu Changshui and did not directly collide with it. Hu Changshui believes that if the other party's building boat is loaded directly, his car will be reduced to pieces, and the other party will be unscathed.

"Hey, there is also a group of water bandits who are going to Xishan Island to assist in the defense, my lord, do you want to sink them directly?" Before Hu Changshui could breathe a sigh of relief, someone shouted on the other Jieyi Army sailor warships around.

The main general on the boat is none other than Xu Wenle. This time, he took part of the soldiers of the first town of the Jieyi Army, and some of the soldiers who had surrendered to the bandits before and were doing a grinding battle. With the extermination and support of the water bandits on Xishan Island in the past few days, these soldiers have gradually integrated into the water division of the Jieyi Army, and have changed from water bandits to a soldier.

"Which bandit are you? Supporting Xishan Island relies on your two or three hundred people and these few broken ships? After Xu Wenle and his subordinates laughed, they asked Hu Changshui in a cold voice.

Seeing that the other party did not act immediately, Hu Changshui immediately changed his mind and said urgently: "Back to this general, we are not supporting the water bandits on Xishan Island, but preparing to join the men and horses of the Jieyi Army." We are a small group of bandits on a small island a hundred miles away in the east, and there are only so many people, in addition to more than 200 old and weak women and children. That's why we only have these dilapidated fishing boats as water warships. ”

"The Jieyi Army fought against Xishan Island, blocking the connection between Xishan Island and the outside world, and now the food reserves on our island have bottomed out, causing difficulties in our lives. Therefore, when I learned from the other water bandits that the sailors of the Jieyi Army wanted to recruit the water bandits who were active in this area, I brought people to defect and hoped that the general would take them in. As he spoke, Hu Changshui told the details of his lair one by one.

"Voluntarily attached?" Xu Wenle couldn't help but be stunned, on the list of various water bandits in his hand, there was no record of Hu Changshui's people. Of course, it's also because the other party is too small and no one cares at all.

"Are you really going to surrender to us?" Xu Wenle asked in a deep voice. Xu Wenle naturally will not refuse the surrender of the other party, and what the Jieyi Army needs now is also the surrender of these water bandits, whether it is to expand the strength of the sailors or to expand the population placed here after the Jieyi Army occupies Xishan Island in the future, the Jieyi Army will accept the annexation of these sailors.