Jiangxia, Xiling City.

Jiangxia Taishou Huang Zu was entertaining guests and friends in his Taishou Mansion.

Huang Zu is a side branch of the Anlu Huang clan, but because he showed martial arts from a young age, so he was deeply respected by the Huang clan patriarch, after the Yellow Turban Uprising, the states and counties were strong and strong, and the Anlu Huang clan also built a dock fort for self-protection, and formed a township Yong, Huang Zu became the leader of the Huang clan Xiangyong, and was well-known as Jingxiang.

When Liu Biao first entered Jingzhou, he was lonely and unable to control the situation, so he adopted the strategy of cooperating with the Jingxiang clan, so Cai Mao, Huang Zu, Kuai Liang, Wen Ping and others were reused.

Huang Zu still has some ability, and he even set up an ambush in Yanshan to shoot Sun Jian six years ago.

It's just that in the past few years, as Huang Zu gets older, he is a little lazy to deal with political affairs, and the political affairs are handed over to the county governor Shi Liu Yan, and the land and water foot soldiers are handed over to the commander Chen Zhitong, Liu Yan and Chen are greedy and cruel.

Today, there happened to be a few old friends from Xiangyang who visited each other, and Huang Zu set up a wine feast to entertain them, and he was already six or seven points drunk until now.

Huang Zu motioned to the servant girl waiting next to him to fill the wine bottle for himself, and was about to persuade him to drink, when he suddenly heard heavy footsteps outside the hall.

When I turned my head to look, I saw that a military general had walked into the hall proudly, the military general had a good appearance, eight feet tall, ape arms and bee waist, eyes like a star, and what was even more amazing was that there were two long pheasant feathers inserted in the purple gold crown of the hair, and between walking, the bell could be faintly heard.

Huang Zu couldn't remember who this person was, and asked, "Who is here?" ”

The military general stopped and replied, "The last general, Gan Ning." Meet the Lord. ”

"Gan Ning? Which Ganning? Huang Zu was stunned. Then he suddenly said. "Oh, I remember, you are the Jinfan thief recommended by Su Fei, Gan Ning Gan Xingba, yes or no?"

When Gan Ning heard this, the expression on his face was a little embarrassed.

The brocade thief, but it was his reputation when he was young.

However, by the age of twenty, Gan Ning had already changed his temperament. no longer plundered past merchant ships, but wanted to join the army and make a career of fame, so he was recommended by Su Fei to join Huang Zu's account.

Gan Ning was deeply ashamed of the absurdities of the past, but Huang Zu was revealing his scars.

Huang Zu didn't know that he had inadvertently offended Gan Ning, and asked drunken at the moment: "Gan Ning, what are you looking for me?" ”

Gan Ning endured the dissatisfaction in his heart, took out a silk silk from the cuirplate, handed the silk silk to the waiter who came forward, and then said to Huang Zu: "Return to the lord." The last general was ordered by the lord and general to go deep into the Lujiang River for more than 300 miles. It took more than a month to draw the mountains and rivers of Lujiang County, and lakes, rivers and roads have been marked. ”

"Oh, that's it, okay, I know." Huang Zu took the silk silk from the waiter's hand, put it on the desk without even looking at it, and then said, "I have a distinguished guest today, and I will discuss this matter with you in detail another day, and you will step down." ”

"No." Gan Ning was not angry in his heart, so he could only retreat.

Out of Huang Zu's county guard's mansion, Gan Ning stood on the street, looking at the crowd coming and going, and couldn't help but sigh.

Before he could sigh, a voice suddenly came from behind him: "Why does Xingba follow the example of a child, and sigh here for a long time?" ”

Gan Ning turned around, but saw a military general standing behind him, but it was his fellow countryman and friend, Su Fei, the commander of the Jiangxia Naval Army, Su Gongyi.

"Brother Gongyi." Gan Ning still has a lot of respect for Su Fei, and he paid a big salute at the moment.

"Xingba, didn't you go to Lujiang County for business?" Su Fei returned the salute and said, "What, it's done?" ”

Su Fei's words hit Gan Ning's sore spot, he traveled thousands of miles, almost every river and lake in Lujiang County, and finally drew the whole map, but Huang Zu didn't even look at it, just put it on the desk, in Huang Zu's eyes, such a map of mountains and rivers is not as important as a guest.

What's more, right now, the Yuan and Sun families are fighting for life and death in Lujiang, but Huang Zu doesn't even have a thought, and he can't help but feel depressed in Gan Ning's heart.

At that moment, Gan Ning sighed and said, "Brother Gongyi, the younger brother is about to tell you this. ”

Gan Ning was in a depressed mood, so he naturally wanted to find someone to talk to, and Su Fei was undoubtedly the best person to listen to.

Su Fei stopped Gan Ning and said, "Xingba, this is not the place to talk, there is a restaurant in front of you, why don't you and I go to the restaurant to ask for a private room, and then talk in detail?" ”

"It's fine." At that moment, Gan Ning and Su Fei came to the restaurant diagonally opposite the county guard's mansion, and asked the wine lady for a private room on the second floor.

Gan Ning told what happened in the county guard mansion before, and said sullenly: "Brother Gongyi, I won't tell you anything, the younger brother doesn't want to stay in Jiangxia anymore, and it is a waste of time to continue to stay in Jiangxia." ”

Su Fei sighed, he knew that Gan Ning was a general, especially good at water warfare, but it was a pity that Huang Zu was old and faint, and such a great general's talent could not be used, but what could be done? He is just a captain of the navy, and he can't be the master of Huang Zu at all, and Chen, who is also a captain of the navy, can call the shots, but people don't look down on Gan Ning at all.

However, Su Fei still decided to persuade Gan Ning and said, "Xingba, don't you think about it anymore?" ”

"Don't think about it anymore." Gan Ning shook his head and said, "Gongyi doesn't know, right now Yuan Shao in Hebei is fighting a decisive battle with Gongsun Zhan, and Cao Cao, who is based in the Central Plains, is also in full swing preparing to crusade against Lu Bu. ”

Speaking of the general trend of the world, Gan Ning's expression was excited, and he continued: "If our army can be based on Jing, Yang, Yizhou, and the Yangtze River, then no matter whether Yuan Shao wins or Cao Cao unifies the Central Plains, he can be invincible, however, Jingsheng Gong entrusted military affairs to ...... like Huang Zu."

Speaking of this, Gan Ning's words came to an abrupt end, no matter what, Huang Zu is now his lord, and Gan Ning is not good at saying bad things about his lord behind his back.

Su Fei was silent, he knew that what Gan Ning said was the truth.

A few years ago, Huang Zu was quite enterprising, but in the past three or five years, Huang Zu has already extinguished his fame, and only thinks about wealth and beauty, in order to entertain his old age, Li Yan and Chen are always doing what they like, and making a good Jiangxia County a miasma.

After three rounds of drinking, Su Fei asked again: "Has Xingba ever thought of a good place to go?" ”

"But I didn't think of a good place to go." After Gan Ning finished speaking, he unconsciously sighed again, and the lament that the hero was useless rose in his heart, thinking that he had martial arts all his life, and he was more familiar with water warfare, but he couldn't find a lord worthy of service, providence?

Su Fei walked to the door of the private room, saw that there was no one left and right, and then turned back and whispered: "Xingba, I think you can go to Jiangdong Sun Ce, the Sun father and son are arrogant, Sun Ce has the courage of the overlord Xiang Yu, and he has the four counties of Jiangdong at a young age. ”

"Not necessarily." Gan Ning shook his head when he heard this, and said, "The younger brother was in Lujiang before, but he happened to encounter the battle between the Sun family and the Yuan family, Sun Ce raised 30,000 Jiangdong elites, bullied a small city in the nest district, besieged the city for ten days, not to mention an inch, but lost troops and generals, and suffered countless casualties. ”

When Gan Ning returned to Jiangxia, it was the time when the Jiangdong Army could not overcome it for a long time and smashed the gap in the southeast corner with a catapult, so Gan Ning was fortunate to witness the unprecedented defeat of the Jiangdong Army from a distance, and also had a deep impression of Yuan No's use of troops.

"Yuan no?" Su Fei asked, "You mean the eldest son of Yuan Shu?" ”

Today, Yuan Fu's reputation has gradually spread in Jiangdong and Jingxiang, which are close to the Lujiang River.

"That's him." Gan Ning nodded, and said with regret, "It's a pity, if Yuan Shu hadn't usurped the throne as emperor, with this son of his, he would have swept Jingxiang and then westward to Yizhou, which was as easy as a snap, so why would he be defeated and die?" As for now, whether this Yuan can fight again, the Yuan family is afraid that it will be difficult to turn over. ”

Su Fei said again: "In this way, Xingba can only go to the Central Plains to defect to Cao Cao, or go to Hebei to defect to Yuan Shao." ”

"Cao Cao? Yuan Shao? Gan Ning said without self-deprecation, "Cao Cao and Yuan Shao both conquered the world with foot cavalry, although I am well versed in the tactics of the naval army, but foot riding is not my strength, I went to Cao Yuan's account, what can I do?" ”

Su Fei was dumbfounded, what else could he say? can only sigh that Gan Ning was born at the wrong time.

God gave Gan Ning a good martial arts, and let him learn the outstanding naval tactics, so why can't he give him a lord who can appreciate him? Why can't Gan Ning show his strengths?

After being silent for a long time, Su Fei said again: "Xingba, since you haven't figured out where to go, I have an idea. ”

Gan Ning hurriedly said, "Please also ask my brother to show me." ”

Su Fei said: "The magistrate of Qichun County is newly vacant, because Qichun County is close to Xunyang, and the two families of Yuan and Sun are fighting in Lujiang, no matter which one wins in the end, it will inevitably threaten Jiangxia, so Qichun will inevitably become an outpost of Jiangxia, so no one in Hejun is willing to go, why don't Xingba invite himself to Qichun to garrison troops?" In this way, he has a better place to go, and he can also lead troops to go there without being controlled by others. ”

Su Fei really thought about Gan Ning and came up with such an idea.

Gan Ning's heart was pounding, this is really a good idea that it is advisable to advance and retreat.

At that moment, Gan Ning stood up from the seat, shook Su Feichang to the ground, and said, "Gan Ning, thank you brother for showing the way." ”

Su Fei hurriedly got up and stopped Gan Ning: "You and my brother, why do you need to be so polite?" ”

Gan Ning sat down again and said happily: "In this way, I will go to see the lord tomorrow." (To be continued......)