Han Fei looked at Guo Shi strangely, this beautiful woman seemed to trust him strangely, wasn't she afraid that he would have bad intentions?

She is a woman, if she really wants to do something, she can't get through the wind if she believes it, after all, he Han Fei is also a man, and this Guo's appearance is also superior, and he will be tempted if he is a man.

Forget it, it's good to deal with it, and when you go north to Taiyuan, take her back by the way.

"So I will at once order a detachment of men to enter the ship, and send a few maids to Madame." Han Fei nodded and stood up.

"I'm tired." Guo Shi was also afraid that Han Fei would see something, so he lightly nodded his light chin and said. But she didn't get up to see her off, and she still had pain in her shoulder.

Han Fei didn't mind, and walked out.

After coming outside, Han Fei immediately ordered a team of soldiers to station on the big ship, and then ordered the fleet to set sail again and sail to Lou Chao's lair.

Although Lou Chao is known as the Fenshui thief, his nest is not in Fenshui, but on the wider Yellow River, after all, it is wide enough and safe enough to face the imperial army. Although it is also a countercurrent, how can Fenshui be compared with the Yellow River? So the speed of the fleet became unstoppably slow.

It wasn't until the second day that Han Fei and the others came to the vicinity of Lou Chao's lair.

This is not a small lake, as for what lake it is in the future, Han Fei doesn't know, although he has also been to this area, but he has really never seen the shadow of this lake, I think it is the precipitation of the years, and the lake is not necessarily exhausted.

Lou Chao's lair is a small island in the middle of the lake.

may be because of Lou Chao's banner. His weight on the Yellow River is not light, and there are no extraneous branches along the way.

But underneath this calm. But there is a great danger lurking. Thousands of thieves lurk in the calm Yellow River valley, ready to attack and plunder the riches.

On this day's journey, Han Fei was not all idle, he asked Lou Chao in detail about the distribution of water thieves in the Yellow River system of this state.

I learned that although this water thief is divided into more than a dozen branches, there are actually only two forces. First, those who dominate the uppermost part of the Yellow River are called blood and water thieves. The bandit itself numbered fifteen hundred, and one or two thousand men and horses attached to it, making a total of about three thousand men. Don't look at Lou Chao's Fenshui thieves, it's quite beautiful in this area. In fact, it's just that they live by this water thief.

The leader of the thieves is a man named Du Qian.

It is said that this Du Qian is the remnant of the Yellow Turban, and after Huang Jin failed, he went to the Yellow River to beg for a living. Relying on the old bushes. I also have the experience of fighting with the army, and this is how I grew bigger step by step. Listening to Lou Chao, this is called Du Qian, and it seems that he has an inexplicable relationship with Du Chang, the general under the command of the Black Mountain thief Zhang Yan.

As for the other branch, it is entrenched in the largest lake in Bingzhou, and is called the "Salt Pond Thief", because that lake is called "Yuncheng Salt Pond". This lake Han Fei is very familiar with, before crossing. He has been to Shanxi, and Yuncheng Yanchi is a famous tourist attraction in Shanxi. Han Fei naturally didn't miss it, and he also took a look at it by the way. However, about this "salt pool thief", Lou Chao didn't know so much because he didn't have any contact, he only knew that the bandit leader's surname was Zhang, and he didn't even know what it was called. As for the size of the force, Lou Chao just said that it was smaller than Du Qian, not much smaller, at least two or three thousand people.

The strange thing about these two forces is that although these two forces have divided and annexed the Yellow River Valley, they do not interfere with the river water, and there are few times when there is a conflict, and sometimes they face the encirclement and suppression of the officials and the army, and they will join forces to resist.

With five or six thousand people from the north and south, it is no wonder that the official army of the annexed state cannot be exterminated.

After all, since Ding Yuan's death, Bingzhou has been a plate of scattered sand, with the Xiongnu and Xianbei being chaotic, and the civil war is even more than that, plus the army in the north has worked hard to even get on a boat, let alone suppress bandits, without 50,000 or 60,000 people, it may not be able to be exterminated. Mobilizing such a large army, even when Ding Yuan was there, I am afraid that he would have to think about it.

With such a huge army mobilization, just to exterminate these thousands of water thieves, it is difficult to guarantee that the gains outweigh the losses.

This extremely oppressive number of words made Han Fei weigh it and extinguish his desire to wipe out all these water thieves for my use.

Unless the forces are built and Gan Ning is found as the governor of the navy, it is possible to exterminate these people in one fell swoop.

At the very least, his navy must have two thousand, so that he can have a certain certainty.

On the same day, Han Fei's fleet quietly collected a group of 200 water thieves and hundreds of gold left by Lou Chao on the island, and then rested on the island for a day, and then turned back to Fenshui again and headed north to Taiyuan.

……

Riding the boat all the way north, as time passed, Dian Wei gradually got used to it, although his face was still pale, but at least he was able to walk around on the deck alone. At noon on this day, the ship arrived at Hedi Town, which is a market town passing through Wenxi County by Fenshui, because of the relationship between the boats, the materials carried are not sufficient, these days of navigation, has been scarce, need to replenish food and vegetables here, the ship slowly docked.

"Childe, I'm going to buy some fruits and vegetables with the boatwoman!" On the dock, Odier waved and shouted to the boat from afar.

The so-called boat woman is the person who is usually responsible for washing and cooking.

"Go ahead, don't be playful, miss the boat." Han Fei smiled, he found that with the increase of time with him, Ou Die'er became more and more cheerful, not to say everything, and like a pistachio, it was really rare, so that until now, Han Fei is a little inseparable from this girl.

Han Fei watched from afar as the little girl jumped up the hill with the cooking boatwoman, and picked a handful of wild flowers in her hand, not so much that she went to buy fruits and vegetables, but that she wanted to go shopping.

After holding back on the boat for many days, the little girl had no interest in getting on the boat for the first time, and counted her fingers every day, calculating when she would be able to arrive in Taiyuan.

Although she didn't get seasick, she was still not used to life on a ship.

"It's not safe in this area!"

Lou Chao hesitated, slowly stepped forward, looked at the cliff about 100 zhang high in the distance, the cliff was like a knife, and behind it were rolling mountains, and said with some concern: "Lord." The people in this area are fierce and there are a lot of bandits, so Miss Die'er should be careful. ”

didn't wait for Han Fei to answer. An unknown boat boss next to him laughed and said: "This is right, there are bandits in this area, and the leader is known as the 'Heavenly King Laozi', I heard that he is also a good person, his martial arts are very powerful, and he has gathered thousands of people, and Zhang Taishou has failed to send people to suppress the bandits several times." But don't worry, this son, they usually don't come to the river, and they are within two hundred steps of the river. These thieves are powerful on the water, but they also have to hesitate to get to the shore, and for many years, with this river bottom town. It is the water of the well that does not interfere with the water of the river. At most, they buy something at the bazaar above, and when the people go to the bazaar, it's generally fine. ”

"Oh?" Han Fei let go of his snack a little when he heard this, but he was a little interested, and asked the boat boss with a smile, "Who is this 'Heavenly King Laozi'?" What is it called? ”

"I don't know what it's called, but it's said to be surnamed Pei." The boat boss was quite honest and smiled honestly. replied.

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a slight commotion on the hillside. I only heard someone shouting, "The king of heaven is here!" ”

Immediately afterward, a dozen boatmen who sold fish rushed from the hillside with their burdens and their lives.

Han Fei couldn't help but be taken aback, jumped off the boat and ran up the hillside, met several boatmen, he grabbed one of them, roared and asked, "How is it up there?" ”

The boatman stammered in fright and said astringently, "Bandits...... Bandits ransack the bazaar, no ...... Disastrous! ”

Han Fei was even more anxious when he heard the sound, he threw him away suddenly, took out the dragon scale treasure knife from his waist and rushed away, rushing up the hillside in a moment, on the hillside was a piece of flat land of several acres, which was a traditional country market.

There are usually 100 stalls selling grain, selling fish, mountain fruits and vegetables, as well as merchants from Wenxi County, selling some daily necessities such as needles and threads, and the customers are also nearby villagers and boats on the Fenshui River to replenish food.

Because this area is just close to the water's edge, so for decades straight thieves are rampant, bandits are continuous, after Ding Yuan entered the state, he sent troops to suppress bandits, once quelled the bandits.

But more than a year ago, there was another bandit in this area, about 1,000 people, it is said to be a branch of the Yellow Turban Army in Hebei, the leader called himself "the king of heaven Lao Tzu", usually fishing for a living, but when the days are really tight, they robbed the house, which caused the local government to have a great headache.

For this reason, Zhang Yang sent troops to encircle and suppress three times, but this bandit was extremely cunning, and when the officers and soldiers came, they disappeared without a trace.

However, they generally do not come to Hedi Town, because the town usually has an army stationed in the town, in order to prevent a large number of their men and horses from coming ashore. However, recently Zhang Yang and Zhang Yan friction continued, and they couldn't take care of this bandit, and drove the army away, so that this kind of land and water boundary was gradually broken, and today it was a small gathering, and the villagers from Sili Land gathered, and as a result, a bandit of more than 100 people took the opportunity to rush to loot.

Because the area is sparsely populated and most of the robbers are locals, they don't kill people, but only rob money and food, and if they meet young and beautiful women, they will also rob them.

Han Fei rushed to the top of the slope, only to see that the market was in a mess, and the people who rushed to the market were lying on the ground, frightened, there happened to be a merchant who came to sell silk and satin today, so the robbers ransacked his stall and left, and even the merchant was taken hostage and asked for money and goods from his family.

Han Fei was so anxious to look around and shouted, "Butterfly! ”

At this time, Han Fei suddenly felt that someone was hugging his legs, and he was busy looking down, it turned out to be the boat woman, only to see her crying loudly, snot and tears, "Will ...... General, the little lady was captured by them! ”

Han Fei's mind 'buzzed', a stream of hot blood rushed straight to his brain, his teeth were gritted and gurgling, these bastards dared to catch their own maids!

Although she is a maid, Han Fei is not treated as her own sister!

At this moment, there was chaos not far ahead, and there was a crying voice, and I saw dozens of villagers beating a young man, who was rolling on the ground, crying and screaming, and his head was still wrapped in a yellow scarf, which was clearly a yellow turban thief.

Han Fei was furious, rushed up and pushed everyone away, stepped forward to pick up the young man, and shouted viciously: "You are also a yellow turban thief!" ”

Someone next to him scolded: "This thief stole the chicken and didn't leave, kill him!" ”

This is a little thief who caught the chicken and did not withdraw in time, was caught by everyone, and was generally beaten to death by the villagers, this little thief looked fifteen or sixteen years old, thin and small, like a monkey, but his eyes were very cunning and clever, at this time he was beaten to the point that his mouth was bleeding, and he cried tears and snot on his face.

Han Fei grabbed him from the ground. Pressing the knife against his neck, "Where did your men take my maid away?" ”

The sharp sword pressed against the neck. The thief was so frightened that he stammered, "In ...... A temporary ferry crossing not far ahead! ”

"Let's go!" Han Fei asked Gan Ning to gather a hundred and ten people, and he held a treasure knife and grabbed the thief, "Lead the way in front of the head!" ”

……

On the way, Han Fei learned a little bit from the mouth of the thief, and the thief who came to attack the market this time was not the "Heavenly King Laozi" himself. is one of his right-hand men, surnamed Pei, called Pei Qingxian. During the Yellow Turban, he was originally a henchman under the command of "Heavenly King Laozi", and this time he led more than 100 of his men to attack the bazaar and harvested dozens of silk horses and some grain, meat and poultry. Of course. and Han Fei's beautiful maid Ou Die'er.

On the way, Han Fei's anger at this thief disappeared a little, and when he saw that he was quite clever, he asked him: "What is your name, you are only a teenager, why are you committed to being a thief?" ”

The thief said casually: "My name is Five Monkeys, there were originally four thin people all called Monkeys, and I am the fifth." I used to ask for food in Wenxi County, and I heard that thieves can eat enough. So I followed. ”

"Oh! How many years have you been a thief? ”

"It's been about a year and a half...... I can't remember, but I'm still the patriarch of it. The thief smiled and said, "In addition, I'm not too young, looking at your age, I should be older than you, and I will be the best in another year." ”

The so-called and crown, that is, twenty, really can't see that he is nineteen years old, Han Fei couldn't help but look at him a few more times.

It's rare that this little thief can still laugh at this scene, and he doesn't mean to be afraid at all.

Han Fei frowned slightly, he was still at the veteran level, he saw that this young man's hands were tied and he was led away by a soldier with a rope, his heart softened, so he said, "Untie him down!" ”

Or the same sentence, who is willing to be a thief if you can eat well?

This soldier came over with Lou Chao, and at this moment, the title was still a little rusty, "Lord...... Lord, I can't help it, this little thief is as cunning as a monkey, let him go and run away......"

"Phew!"

The thief turned around and snorted heavily, "Is Lao Tzu the kind of person who doesn't believe in his word?" Since you have promised to lead the way, I will naturally take you to the place where the ferry is. ”

Although the soldier was a bear in front of Han Fei, he was not like this to others, and kicked the thief fiercely, scolding: "You slippery little ghost, when did you agree to lead the way?" As for the ferry, it's nothing more than going along the water, and it seems that you are leading the way? I'm going to get you back! ”

The thief scolded unwillingly: "This son is a benevolent and righteous man, and he has never bullied the weak, but he has ruined his reputation by you stupid people." ”

Han Fei glanced at him in surprise, he found that this kid was really cunning, and when he heard that he had the intention of untying him, he immediately used words to squeeze himself, if he was really a scholar, maybe he would really untie him.

Han Fei knocked on his head with his hand, and scolded with a smile: "You stinky boy, if you don't talk this nonsense, I may really loosen the ties for you, but unfortunately, this son is not a benevolent person, so don't dream." ”

He also commanded his men, "Tie him up tightly, and if he dares to escape, he will be beaten to death with a stick." ”

The thief was tied up and barked like a monkey, his eyes staring at Han Fei fiercely, and he turned straight away, not knowing what bad idea he was fighting.

After walking another five or six miles, they saw a ferry in the distance, and on the water of the ferry, several boats were docked, and they vaguely saw people walking.

"Lord, why don't you take someone to the end, and the lord is here to watch the enemy, how about it?" Gan Ning stepped forward and hesitated.

Han Fei didn't answer, he looked ahead from a distance, and found the enemy, it seemed that he had discovered them here, and someone was walking this way. After a while, I saw a group of black-clothed people, as many as dozens of people, wrapped in yellow scarves on their heads, wearing short clothes, wearing calf nose pants underneath, wearing straw sandals on their feet, holding various weapons in their hands, all fierce and vicious, walking quickly towards this side.

The thief's eyes lit up, and he struggled desperately, and ran forward, "Second Master Pei, I'm a five monkey!" ”

The frustrated Hu on the side was a little surprised, and said to Han Fei in a low voice: "Lord, have you noticed anything abnormal?" ”

Han Fei nodded, his eyesight was stronger than everyone present, and he had already discovered the abnormality on the other side, there was a little donkey among the yellow turban thieves, and the person riding the little donkey was Ou Die'er, with a smile on his face, gnawing on an unknown fruit, how could he have the slightest sorrow of being taken away.

Ou Die'er suddenly looked up and saw Han Fei, and waved her hand happily and shouted: "Childe, Die'er is here!" ”

Han Fei's heart was full of surprise, what was going on? Could it be that Ou Die'er is a long-lost relative of the bandit leader? It's ridiculous to think about it, the leader's name is Pei, but among Ou Die'er's relatives, there is not even a surname Pei, so where is the relative?

What's going on here......

Han Fei's brain was a little overwhelmed.

At this time, dozens of yellow turban thieves knelt down, and the thief led by him shouted: "We didn't know that General Han was here, and we disturbed General Han, and we are willing to be severely punished by General Han!" ”

Han Fei's heart moved, he seemed to understand something, at this time, Ou Die'er ran over, took Han Fei's hand, and jumped straight up with joy like a little, Han Fei touched her head and said with a smile: "You haven't been wronged, right?" ”

"Nope!" Ou Die'er's voice was full of excitement, "When they heard that I was the maid of General Longxiang of the Great Han, they were so frightened that they slapped themselves desperately, and then hurriedly sent me back. ”

"Look at you're still naughty in the future." Han Fei scolded him with affection, and then his eyes fell on this group of thieves, knowing that these thieves had no malicious intent, Ou Die'er was also safe and sound, his tone softened, pointed to the thief who was the leader, and asked, "You, what's your name?" Why did you see General Ben like this? (To be continued......)