"I'll give you this knife, I'm going to see your eyes look green!" Gao Huaiyuan smiled at Dong Qiang.

Dong Qiangqiang took this knife, he also made the knife, during this time I saw Gao Huaiyuan and many people around him wearing this peculiar style of scimitar, and tried it once, and immediately liked this kind of scimitar, but unfortunately he didn't know where to sell it on the market, and even if there was a sale, he couldn't afford it, and he also saw that only Gao Huaiyuan's most trustworthy people have this kind of knife, wearing this kind of knife actually represents a kind of identity, and it can be regarded as being recognized as Gao Huaiyuan's person.

Unexpectedly, Gao Huaiyuan actually gave him such a scimitar today, Dong Qiang immediately understood that his performance in the past month or so had been recognized by Gao Huaiyuan, and now that he has been regarded by Gao Huaiyuan as his own, how can he be unhappy in his heart?

So after Dong Qiang took the knife, he immediately knelt down and said: "Thank you, little adult, the adult's mention of the next is unforgettable!" If the adults have something to do in the future, even if they are instructed, the little ones will definitely go to the soup and never give up! ”

"Get up! It's polite for you to say that, I just see that you have good skills, and you are also very brainy, I don't want you to bury it! From now on, we will be our own family, so there is no need to say more! Remember my words, if Ma San went ashore in the past two days, tell him to find a way to let Jiang Harrier and Zhao Baiyu, who provoked him, infighting among them, and notify us in time, when they fight by themselves, it is the time for us to do it! The fairy drunk prepared for him can also be given to him this time! Gao Huaiyuan stood up and patted Dong Qiang's shoulder.

Of course, Dong Qiang deeply admired Gao Huaiyuan's strategy, don't look at Gao Huaiyuan as a martial artist, but he is not reckless at all when he thinks about things, and it can even be said that he is meticulous and tries to be as safe as possible in everything, this kind of performance deeply impressed Dong Qiang.

And Dong Qiang used to boast that his kung fu was good, and he was quite arrogant, but after contacting Gao Huaiyuan during this time, he found out that there are people outside the mountain, he first asked Zhou Jun to have a discussion, but when he started, he found that Zhou Jun was not as old as him, but the kung fu at hand was very solid, and he couldn't bargain at all in his fists and feet, and Zhou Jun's toughness was still very good, even he, a person who often wandered in the mountains, actually had to admit that in terms of physical fitness, he couldn't even compare with Zhou Jun.

Later, he had another move with Zhou Hao, but within three moves, Zhou Hao restrained him with a knife, which made him have to admire Gao Huaiyuan's surroundings with masters.

Later, when he saw Gao Huaiyuan and Zhou Hao sparring, Dong Qiang found that Zhou Hao was far from Gao Huaiyuan's opponent, and then he knew that Gao Huaiyuan was still a master, so he didn't dare to underestimate Gao Huaiyuan, he also got some guidance from Gao Huaiyuan during this time, and consciously broke through the bottleneck in knife skills, for Gao Huaiyuan, he can say that he is grateful to death, and now he wants to follow Gao Huaiyuan to do things, and today it seems that he has been recognized by Gao Huaiyuan.

Dong Qiang immediately nodded and agreed to Gao Huaiyuan, turned around and started to do things, quietly took two jars of wine, left Xiangyong's camp, and went to an inn in Nushan Township.

Gao Huaiyuan stood on a slightly larger fishing boat, constantly passing orders, seeing these fishing boats on the water shuttling back and forth, a little bit between advance and retreat, and finally nodded with satisfaction, although his grasshopper fleet is not as good as the sailors of the garrison army, but it is much stronger than when he first came, at least he can change the formation according to his orders, or charge, or break, or surround, you can act according to the requirements.

"Lord County Lieutenant, we've been here for a month, when did we go to the lake to find trouble with those thieves! Don't hide it, now we, the descendants of the fishermen, are starting to get anxious! When a middle-aged fisherman on this boat saw Gao Huaiyuan coming down in his spare time, he cautiously approached Gao Huaiyuan's side and asked him.

"Huh! It seems that you are even more anxious than me, the county lieutenant! It's hard to talk about! At present, we have not verified the location of the thief, not to mention that if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools! Practice more, for us there are only benefits and no harms, fisherman, you still don't have to worry about it first, when it's time to do it, I will naturally tell you! Okay, turn around and go back! In the evening, we will also practice night battles, so let's rest first! Of course, Gao Huaiyuan wouldn't tell the fisherman any news, but just relieved him.

The fisherman retreated to the stern of the boat, and as the small flag of their boat waved, the fleet began to retract and sail towards the shore, and the fisherman shook his head and muttered, "When will this be?" Don't fish all day, dry here grinding, what do we eat for the New Year! ”

Zhou Hao, who happened to follow Gao Huaiyuan, heard the little muttering of the fisherman, so he smiled at him: "Don't worry, even if you don't go to the New Year, our county lieutenant won't let you suffer!" Our county lieutenant is not a dumb official! ”

"How dare you! Look at my mouth! The fisherman was taken aback, hurried to be careful of compensation, and began to shake the oar and turn around.

After a few days passed, Gao Huaiyuan carefully sketched a map on a piece of paper on the table, this map is that he gathered a group of fishermen, and gradually improved a map of the lake surface of Niangzi Lake during this time, basically some ditches and islands in the lake are marked, of course, there is no map for marching and fighting, this is also a compulsory course for generals, plus during this time he has not been to the lake to check everywhere, and gradually became familiar with the situation of Niangzi Lake.

"My lord, there's news!" Dong Qiang strode in from the outside, and grabbed a pigeon in his hand.

Gao Huaiyuan immediately dropped the homemade pencil, straightened up and turned his head and asked, "What?" There's news from Ma San's side coming back? ”

Dong Qiang untied a small bamboo tube from the pigeon's leg, then handed the bamboo tube to Gao Huaiyuan with both hands, turned around and threw the pigeon outside, Gao Huaiyuan took the bamboo pipe and poured out a small note inside, there were no words on the note, only a few crooked symbols were drawn.

"Order the heads of each team to come to me to discuss matters, let Guo Liang and the archers seal off the camp, no one is allowed to go out, and all boats and fishermen are docked on the shore, and everyone stays here without my order! Looks like it's time for us to get started! Gao Huaiyuan tore the note to shreds and ordered Dong Qiang.

"Little obedience!" Dong Qiangxing turned around and ran out.

After a while, the camp became lively, Guo Liang sent archers to control the camp, so that everyone immediately returned to the camp, and the boats on the water were also recruited back, all docked on the shore, the atmosphere of the camp suddenly became tense, but most people didn't care too much, such an emergency assembly camp has been done many times, and I don't know if this time is doing some emergency assembly, so everyone is not too nervous.

After hearing the sound of drums, those leaders ran to Gao Huaiyuan's temporary command post one after another, and stood in two compartments, just like in the army, these people can be regarded as officers!

"Ladies and gentlemen! I'm sure you've been in a hurry lately! So today I'm going to tell you, let's wait so long, that's the day we waited!

Now the official has an order, you have dinner in the afternoon, and after you have formed your own team, start boarding the ship, prepare torches, rockets, fire oil, etc., and we will go and kill those thieves tonight!

Guo Liang and Zhou Hao listen to orders! ”

After everyone listened, their spirits were lifted, and Guo Liang and Zhou Hao, who were called, immediately stood in the middle after hearing Gao Huaiyuan's name.

"The subordinates are here!" The two immediately bowed down and replied.

"You take ten boats at night, give you one hundred and fifty people, set off in advance, go to Zhulin Bay on the other side, make a U-turn there, and when the time passes, be sure to reach the south side of Cocoon Island in the lake and stand by, after seeing the rocket take off, immediately head towards Cocoon Island, and find that someone is fleeing south, be sure to stop them, there must be no mistake!" Gao Huaiyuan ordered the two of them.

"Subordinates obey!" The two of them were immediately ordered to step aside.

"Zhou Jun and Xing Zhutou listen to orders!" Gao Huaiyuan immediately followed the roll call.

"The subordinates are here!" The two immediately went out to respond.

"Give the two of you ten boats, also one hundred and fifty people, and set off early in the evening, sail straight west in the direction of Laowu Village, and then turn around and head towards Cocoon Island, and rush to the northwest side of Cocoon Island to stand by, and after seeing rockets or hearing the sound of drums, attack Cocoon Island! Do not let the thieves flee in your direction! Gao Huaiyuan then ordered.

"Subordinates obey!" The two of them were immediately ordered to retreat.

"......" After Gao Huaiyuan issued several orders in a row, he arranged the matter, and finally said: "The rest of the rest of the people will set off with me at night, as the main attack force, try not to do anything with the thieves on the water, rush to the island first and then do it, you can give full play to our advantages!"

There will be light rain tonight, there is wind on the lake, everyone must be careful, each boat is allowed to light a small light at the stern, the head boat leads the way, and the rest of the boats are staring at the head boat, don't lose it! If you lose it, don't act on your own, march slowly towards Cocoon Island and find the brigade!

In addition, I couldn't see clearly at night, so I prepared two white cloths for each person, wrapped them around their arms, and minimized accidental injuries, and left men around the island to prevent thieves from escaping before starting to attack the island!

This time we must hit with one blow, we must not let the thieves slip through the net, they will come back in a few days, this battle is related to the long-term peace and stability of the Niangzi Lake area, and I hope that you will take the lead, kill the enemy as the most important, and those who dare to resist will be punished by one degree, and there will be no forgiveness for killing!

This time, if anyone dares to fear the battle, as long as the official finds out, he will be severely punished! Be careful! Raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, whether we are tigers or cats depends on tonight! ”

Gao Huaiyuan suddenly raised his voice and shouted to the people in the room.

"Subordinates obey!" The crowd immediately shouted in unison.

Gao Huaiyuan asked each other again if they knew their location and what they were going to do, and after making sure that everyone had figured it out, he waved everyone to disband.

The reason why he did this was to make it impossible for the thieves among them to spread the news, so many miscellaneous people, Gao Huaiyuan didn't believe it, the thieves had no eyeliner among them, so he didn't send out the news until now, and sealed off the camp as soon as possible, no one was allowed to leave, what he wanted was secrecy.

When it was dark, everyone had eaten a feast of war, and the sea of fish and meat had eaten, and the first group of men took their equipment, weapons, and other things, and began to board the boat, and left the shore of the lake under the leadership of their respective leaders, and lost themselves in the lake.

Gao Huaiyuan also stood on the shore, sent them away, and then began to arrange for the rest of the people to move supplies to the larger boat, and after preparing to stop, he gave an order and took the lead in boarding his "flagship", a fishing boat more than ten meters long.

The sky was cloudy, the wind on the lake began to increase, the waves in the lake began to increase, constantly lapping against the reef by the lake, making rumbling sounds, and the large and small boats were bouncing up and down with the waves on the shore.

With the shouts of the fishermen, the villagers cheered up, each boarded their boats, sorted out their weapons, the archers hung the bowstring hard, adjusted the bowstring, each put the weapons in the most convenient position, ready to use, the fishermen lifted the cable and used pennies to prop up the boats away from the shore of the lake, and gradually gathered together on the surface of the lake, sailed into the lake.

Under normal circumstances, fishermen will not go down to the lake to fish at night, but for more than a month, Gao Huaiyuan has not only been practicing during the day, but also carrying out night boat drills, which they have carried out many times, and finally came in handy, so the fishermen are not very afraid, after all, they have lived in this Niangzi Lake for many years, and they have a better understanding of the situation in the lake, so although Gao Huaiyuan decided to act at night, everyone is fully prepared.

The waves in the lake are beating the hull, the boat is constantly going up and down, left and right, if you take such a boat for the first time, you will be seasick from the bumps in a short time, many people can't figure it out, why Gao Huaiyuan chose such a moon, dark and windy night to attack the lair of thieves in the lake, but few people dare to complain, because they have found during this time that although this Gao County Lieutenant is generous, he is very strict in governing the army, everyone gradually got used to his vigorous and resolute behavior.

Since he said that he wanted to go at night, it would be better to go at night, he couldn't see it clearly on his side, and the thieves couldn't see it clearly, so it was naturally fair to both sides, and some smart people guessed that the reason why Gao Huaiyuan chose to send troops at this time was to take advantage of the weather, and it was expected that the thieves would definitely not think that they would sneak attack their lair at night, and this battle would probably be easier to fight.

So after everyone boarded the boat, the morale was quite high, but at this time the sky began to fall a light rain, the clothes on everyone's body were wet, and the cold wind blew like this, many people were shivering with cold, although it was more stable to do so, but at night, when you can't see your fingers, you have to be drenched in the rain is really uncomfortable.

The fishermen who drive the boat not only have to follow the boat in front of them to ensure that they will not fall behind, but also carefully maintain the distance between them.

In such a night, there is not even a moon in the sky that can be seen, and it is really not easy to keep the course, and it is even more difficult to find that small cocoon island in the huge Niangzi Lake.

Gao Huaiyuan has also considered this point for a long time, the phrase Lao Ma Zhitu is suitable for this time, the leader of each fleet is an old fisherman who has lived in Niangzi Lake for a long time, and it can be said that he is familiar with Niangzi Lake for a long time.

What's more, Gao Huaiyuan also has his secret weapon, in each fleet, he did not hesitate to distribute them a copper compass, this kind of thing is he drew a sketch, so that the jewelers of Crouching Tiger Village handmade, the magnetic needle inside is made of magnets, and the surface is also equipped with a piece of glass, which is marked with a scale, which can make it easy for people to see the direction of progress, although this compass is not a high-tech product, but at this time in the Southern Song Dynasty, it is also a rare thing. Compared with the large Sinan that sails in the sea, it is much more convenient.

Therefore, with the help of this compass, there is another layer of protection for sailing in the Niangzi Lake at night, and the old fisherman is amazed when he gets this novelty, and each of them treats it as a treasure and waits carefully.

At this time, in the cocoon island thief's nest, it was very lively to shout five and drink six, all the thieves were relieved when they saw this weather, and waited for more than a month, but the government was thundering and raining, and the county lieutenant of Daye County led a group of villagers, who had nothing to do all day but were just drumming around the lake to train the troops, but they had no intention of invading their lair, which made them really worried for a long time, and gradually relaxed over time, even Jiang Harrier felt that he was too careful this time, I feel a little incompetent in my heart.

And Jiang Harrier also saw the dissatisfaction of his subordinates, if he waited for a while, maybe his subordinates would fall apart, so he also restrained his temper a little, and saw that Zhao Baiyu and others no longer had to fight or scold, and the restraint on his subordinates was relatively relaxed.

Zhao Baiyu looked very respectful in front of Jiang Harrier during this time, the wounds and whiplashes on his forehead that were smashed by Jiang Harrier were all healed, and he was moving around the island back and forth, and his hot temper in the past seemed to have converged a lot, and he often walked around with the leaders such as the second boss, neither out of the island, nor making trouble, this situation seemed to be a bit abnormal compared with his usual days.