The winter is cold, and there are many fewer fishing boats on the river.

The Sun clan was busy consolidating the new territory, and there were a lot less attacks during this period of time, but Gan Ning abandoned the lord and fled, which made Huang Zu very angry, even if there was no hostile situation, the soldiers did not dare to ignore it anymore.

For all this time, the sergeants below were tense.

A sentinel boat was rowing quickly towards Lushan.

Seeing it from afar, the officers on duty on the city wall of Qiyue became nervous and ordered left and right: "Report Captain Chen quickly!" ”

The scout came back urgently, isn't it Jiangdong Sun's offense again?

The sentinel boat soon docked, and there were only two Jiangxia scouts in clothes on the small boat, one stayed to watch the boat, and the other jumped down and climbed the stone steps to climb sharply up.

Chen Sheng, who was on duty today, had already been reported, so he walked to the city tower and waited.

The scout entered the city, saw Chen Sheng, and stepped forward to say: "Peng Lize (note) water thief Peng Hu, send people on the river to find me and wait for scouts, saying that he was pursued by the Sun family, and it was difficult to live in Peng Li. ”

Chen Sheng was taken aback, this matter was not up to him, and said to the scout: "Wait, go to report to General Su and Huang Gong!" ”

Hurriedly went to find Su Fei and Huang Zu and informed them of the matter.

The name of Peng Hu, Huang Zu and others also know that this person is in Peng Lize, with a crowd of 10,000 people and five or six hundred warships, and he is a big thief on the Yangtze River.

Of course, nearly half of the more than 10,000 people in Peng Hu's department were old and weak women and children, and the so-called five or six hundred warships were only two ships from the hands of the Han sailors at the beginning of the chaos in the world, and more than ten ships were shippers and merchant ships, and the rest were fishing boats and merchant ships.

But even so, this force should not be underestimated, and Sun Ce has sent people to surrender several times without success. Not under your own rule. Liu Biao has never sent anyone to surrender.

I heard that Peng Hu wanted to come to Jingzhou. Huang Zu was also overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered: "Quickly send someone to sue Liu Yuanjun!" ”

He also said to Chen Sheng: "Spread the word, you can go to Jiangxia first!" ”

Although Gan Ning defected, there are also water thieves who come to vote today, not to mention the momentum of Jingzhou, and can add hundreds of ships and thousands of soldiers, Huang Zu is naturally excited.

got Huang Zu's promise, not a day. Peng Hu had already led nearly 700 large and small boats to the lower river of Qiyue City, but before leaving, he looted some fishing boats to carry people.

Huang Zu ordered the water thief brigade to stop on the river, and asked Peng Hu to lead a few people into the Moon City to meet each other.

Seeing that Peng Hu had a big round face, although his body was not high, he was very stocky, and his beard was as angry as a thorn, and he could also use it, Huang Zu said: "Jingzhou Sailor is the first Jiangxia." The foot has led the water army to vote. Liu Envoy Junding sent me Jiangxia to listen to it, and the family can be settled before Shaxian! ”

Peng Hu replied: "A certain person is at enmity with the Sun family. If the family is envious, he is really uneasy! Wait for Liu to make Jun Yun, settle his home in Nanjun, and then serve under Huang Gong! ”

The soldiers are small in Yuecheng, and they can't accommodate the families of this water thief, and there are wars around from time to time, and it is common for Peng Hu to be reluctant to settle down in the vicinity, and Huang Zu has no objection.

Three days later, Liu Biao sent a letter to Jiangxia and called on Peng Hu to lead the people to Xiangyang first.

After Huang Zu received the letter, he let go of the waterway, let Peng Hu and the others pass, and ordered the lieutenants Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng to lead thirty warships to escort them along the way.

The fleet sailed up the Han River, and it took several days to get close to the mouth of the Han River, where the Ershui River joins the Han River, and after the Ershui Mouth, it was not far from Xiangyang and Fancheng.

When he arrived at Ershuikou, Zhang Hu muttered a little in his heart, and took a small boat to board Chen Sheng's boat, and asked Chen Sheng: "Why is Peng Hu's ship lined up like this?" ”

Chen Sheng observed carefully for a while, and then realized: "The old and weak are the front team, and the ships and ships that can be fought are all in the back!" There is no invincible crowd in the left and near, why is this so? ”

The two were shocked, and the fleet had reached Ershuikou.

Cai Mao trained for Liu Biao at the mouth of the second water of Huai Xuan, and there are still his training sites here in later generations. Knowing that Peng Hu was there, Cai Mao also personally led more than ten warships to greet him outside Shuikou.

Peng Hu's front team was not familiar with the waterway, so he abandoned the Han River and sailed straight to Ershuikou, and someone in the center of the fleet shouted: "Wrong! Wrong! Flip around! ”

After a while, there were people in Peng Hu's fleet shouting: "The front team should turn around quickly!" ”

Cai Mao's fleet was still puzzled, and the front team of water thieves had already crossed over.

The big boat is no better than the small boat, the steering is difficult, there are more Peng Hu boats, Cai Mao's boats are afraid of colliding with the small boat, and they dare not move for a while, only wait for them to give way to the water before making plans.

Whistling and shouting, chasing each other, Peng Hu's entire fleet sailed into Ershuikou, Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng followed behind, secretly screaming that it was not good, but it was not easy to talk on the water, and it was impossible to stop for a while, so he had to hold on to the last trace of luck and enter Ershuikou with the water thieves.

When the Peng Hu boat and the Jiangxia boat are all in, Cai Mao's sailor has room to turn.

At this time, there was a sudden loud gong sound in Peng Hu's fleet, and countless archers stood on the gunwales of the warships in the rear team, and some people lit torches, igniting the grease packs of the archers' arrows.

For a while, the rocket pierced through the sky and shot like a locust at the Jiangxia ship led by Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng.

The two miles ago were still accompanied by each other, the fleet was scattered so that you have me, I have you, very close, at this time one side was prepared, one side had an accident, just a few blinks of an eye, there were more than ten ships on fire in the hull.

Seeing the sergeants on the warship under his command screaming and running, Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng were crying bitterly, and naturally they all understood that Peng Hu was not going to Liu Biao, but to Deng Ji.

Not to mention letting Peng Hu go for a while, and also damaging more than ten warships, Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng were suddenly in a dilemma——— Cai Mao was not at fault today, and he was related to Liu Biao, who was originally from a big family, and Liu Biao should be punished lightly.

Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng are not as good as Cai Mao.

These two were originally Yun Mengze's big water thieves, and even controlled Xiangyang City in the troubled times, when Liu Biao first entered Jingzhou, he sent Pang Ji to ride into Xiangyang alone and persuade the two to surrender.

It's just that after Liu Biao entered the southern county, he attached great importance to the big family, and the thieves were also thieves, but as long as they voted for Liu Biao, because they came from the big clans, they could be reused, such as Huo Biao's thief Huo Duben only led hundreds of people, and died of illness after returning to Shun, Liu Biao still awarded his brother Huo Jun as the Zhonglang general.

Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng were originally very powerful, and they were not under Peng Hu, but they were reckless. Naturally, it should not be reused after falling. Not only were the tribes gradually annexed. The two of them were also sent to Su Feibu under Huang Zu to listen to it, and they were already angry.

Although it was not his fault that Peng Hu had crossed the realm, he lost more than ten warships today, and Liu Biao and Huang Zuding would not be spared when they went back, and they didn't know that their boss Su Feiken refused to ask for it on their behalf.

When the two were thieves, they were originally headed by Zhang Hu, and when they saw that the situation was not good, Zhang Hu said to Chen Sheng: "Jingzhou is difficult to tolerate me." This is the case, if you will be questioned, why don't you follow Peng Hu to Deng Mu'an? ”

Chen Sheng said worriedly: "You and I can still come and go freely, but the sons and daughters have settled in Nanjun, and it is difficult to accompany each other!" ”

The two of them had their families dead before, and only a few women who were robbed when they were thieves stayed in Shaxian, and some of them had already given birth to children for Chen Sheng, not like Zhang Hu could abandon them at any time, so Chen Sheng hesitated.

Zhang Hu persuaded: "I will abandon Liu Biao today!" Thou shalt return alone, and thou shalt be questioned. Two sins coexist, and the body deserves death. It's hard for family members to live, so don't take care of it! When I wait for peace, the sons and daughters don't want to follow anymore, just let it go! ”

Most of the people who were on this boat were Chen Sheng's henchmen, glancing at the people around him, Zhang Hu whispered in Chen Sheng's ear: "You can send a few henchmen to mix in Sha Xian with the returning sons, looking for an opportunity to rob your family and run away." ”

Chen Sheng nodded in agreement, the burning ships were originally the old department of the two, but at this time, they couldn't take care of it, so they only ordered the ships to save themselves, and the two of them led the remaining fourteen ships to make a pursuit appearance, far behind Peng Hu's fleet.

Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng went far away, and Cai Mao turned the bow of the boat and came over to help the boats extinguish the fire.

Liu Pi and Lei Bo were stationed in Xinye, one day, hundreds of ships suddenly came out of the river, almost the entire river was jammed, both of them were shocked, and urgently ordered the soldiers of the two schools to assemble for battle, and made the cavalry fly to Deng Ji and Zhang Liao.

Lei Bobu is a shooting school, first set up archers along the river bank to guard, but a sentry boat left the team and ran to the shore first, and the people on the boat shouted loudly: "Peng Lize Peng Yishi's department, get Deng Gongbangwen, today I will come to vote according to the appointment, don't shoot on the shore!" ”

It turned out that the Sun family was gradually gaining momentum, and Peng Hu knew that Peng Lize could not stay for a long time, and when he heard Deng Jibangwen, he wanted to go down the river.

However, Liu Biao and Huang Zu blocked the way, and neither side could agree on the time and more details.

I knew that Peng Hu was coming, but I didn't know that he had so many large and small ships. After Gan Ning killed Guan Chengcheng, Liu Pi and Lei Bo also got this report, and replied: "Since you come to vote, you can order the soldiers to go ashore, and the old and weak will go to Yuyang by boat first!" ”

The sentinel ship reported back to Peng Hu, and came again after a while, this time directly ashore and said to Liu Pi and Lei Boyu: "Qu Shuai is willing to lead the people ashore, and then there is still Liu Biao chasing after the team, and I hope the general will answer!" ”

Lei Bo said: "You and the others sailed to the north of Xinye City to get off the boat, and the chasing soldiers were stopped by our school!" ”

Liu Bi and Lei Bo discussed, then divided the troops, and Liu Pi went to the north of Xinye City to meet Peng Hu's water thieves and disembark.

Peng Hu's fleet sailed by, Lei Bo stayed on the riverbank, saw that Liu Biao's pursuers only had more than ten warships, so he ordered the soldiers to prepare rockets, who knew that these pursuers also dropped anchor in the middle of the river, only to make a boat carrying a few people close to the front, far away from the first shout: "Don't shoot on the shore, I am Zhang Hu of Nanjun, companion Chen Sheng, come to vote for Deng Gong now!" ”

Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng's subordinates were all old departments, and the two switched to Deng Ji, and the family members in Nanjun did not want to accompany each other anymore, so Lei Bo asked Peng Hu for some fishing boats and let these people return by themselves.

It's just that Chen Sheng's henchmen were mixed in this group of people, and when they rushed back to Shaxian, Chen Sheng's family had been executed by Huang Zu, and they couldn't be saved. Later, Deng Ji heard about it, and in order to show appeasement, he re-selected a woman in the family to marry him.

Peng Hu and the thieves came to vote for more than 7,000 strong, but in the end only more than 600 had to be selected as soldiers, Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng led 14 ships to vote, leaving less than 1,000 sergeants, only 100 soldiers.

Although there were not many soldiers available, these few were all familiar with water warfare, and they had to be added, and Sun Guan's Hengjiang army finally gained some size. At this time, Guo Tong and Xiahou Sheng had both arrived, and Deng Ji made Peng Hu and Zhang Hu the vacant two Qushui captains, and Chen Sheng was transferred to the Yellow River Water Division of Pingyin, Henan, and was also the Qushui lieutenant, under the jurisdiction of Che Huang.

There are iron cones in the water of the Yuyang River section, and these large and small ships can only stay in Yuyang first, Sun Guan told Deng Ji to destroy the old cones first, and then make new cones and put them into the water after Peng Hu and other fleets have passed.

Liu Biaoshu was provoked, and he wanted to prevent his sailors from sneaking attack, and Deng Ji would not be troublesome.

Peng Hu waited for Wancheng, and the warships were merged into the Hengjiang Army, and the rest of the boats were mostly distributed to the people and the original water thieves and Jingzhou soldiers who unloaded their armor.

Note: Peng Lize, formed late, probably before the Western Zhou Dynasty, has been invading to the south, the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, the Yangtze River passed through Peng Lize, it was divided into two parts, north and south, the north evolved into Longgan Lake and Daguan Lake in Hubei and Anhui, and the south continued to invade south, which is now Poyang Lake. (To be continued.) )