The ancients had a saying: If the king is not secret, he will lose his minister, if he is not secret, he will lose his body, and if he is not secret, he will become harmful!

In the process of planning this operation to exterminate Yuan Shu, everyone in the Xuzhou Group, including Tian Fan, ignored one problem - Haoqiang!

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were many heroes in Yangzhou, and most of these heroes existed in the form of occupying a side of the landscape or separating a side of land. These heroic figures, if they succeed and choose a good lord, they are a general or the founding father, but they did not succeed, so, in later generations, these people are called heroes!

In the early days of the rebellion of the princes, there were Zheng Bao, Zhang Duo, Xu Qian, etc. in Yangzhou, Zheng Bao, Zhang Duo, Xu Qian, etc. in Jiangnan, and Yan Baihu and Wang Lang in Jiangnan.

In the second year of Jian'an, Yan Baihu, Wang Lang and others in Jiangnan were all destroyed by Sun Ce, and the rest were just some small heroes who did not become a climate, as long as Sun Ce worked hard, it would be nothing more than a matter of one or two years to destroy them.

In Jiangbei, this is not the case. Two years after entering Jian'an, Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor, and expropriated the people under his rule, and the people were afraid of him like tigers, and they all defected to Haoqiang and sought refuge. Zheng Bao occupies the southern part of Chaohu Lake, the land is fertile, and he controls a large area of Chaohu Lake waters, which can fish, has more than 30,000 people, and can fight more than 8,000 soldiers. Zhang Duo and Xu Qian occupied the northern part of Chaohu Lake, with a total population of 20,000 and more than 6,000 soldiers.

In addition to the three of them, there are also Wu Lan, Lei Bo, Han Shun, etc., in the entire Jiujiang County and Lujiang County, there are dozens of strong and powerful shares, almost where there are mountains, there are bandits, and where there is water, there are thieves! The strength of these people varies greatly, the weakest is only two hundred, and the strongest Zheng Bao has more than eight thousand soldiers.

This is a question that is not big or small. Maybe I don't look down on the strength of these people, maybe I don't know their current strength, especially in the first year of Jian'an, Zheng Bao, the strongest among these people, but only has a population of more than 10,000 and more than 2,000 soldiers. The Xuzhou Group's understanding of them was still a year ago, perhaps because they didn't think they were worried, maybe they didn't think they had the courage to make trouble with the Xuzhou Army, in short, they were collectively ignored by the Xuzhou Group. And the dark night personnel who went deep into Yangzhou to engage in sabotage may be too focused on sabotage and ignore this problem.

This one mistake almost caused a big incident!

At noon on the third day after Tian Fan's departure, Liu Ye and his entourage of more than ten people rushed to Zheng Baojun's camp on the south bank of Chaohu Lake and next to Shishui after a day and a half of rapid travel.

When Zheng Bao heard the news from the school, he immediately tidied up his appearance and led his subordinates out of the camp to greet him.

This person is brave and chivalrous, and there is no lack of resourcefulness, Liu Ye said that he is too guarded, and he does not brag at all. He was eight feet tall, with a resolute face, big eyes, a big mouth, a high nose, figure-eight eyebrows, a bronzed face, and a few pieces of rust that had grown from years of walking on waterways. Covered in black iron armor, wearing an iron helmet and holding a sword in one hand, he walked with a tiger.

As soon as he saw Liu Ye, he smiled heartily, walked quickly to Liu Ye three steps away, saluted first, and said loudly: "Zheng Bao, I've seen Mr. Ziyang!" ”

Liu Ye was obviously very satisfied with this high-level greeting, he smiled all over his face, and said politely: "Liu Ye has seen General Zheng!" ”

Zheng Bao laughed and got up, took three steps forward, took Liu Ye's hand, and said affectionately: "Ziyang, we haven't seen each other for two or three years, hehe, you come this time, let's not talk about business first, let's drink for three days first, how about it?" ”

Liu Ye smiled and said: "When you come to the general's territory, you naturally have to have a feast, but Ye has something important to talk to the general, so you don't have to drink for three days, but it is essential to drink hard!" ”

Zheng Bao laughed and said, "Ziyang is happy! Please! ”

Saying that, he led the way first, took Liu Ye's hand, and the two walked side by side to the big tent.

When he came to the big tent, Zheng Bao sat down on the main seat and said to Liu Ye and the others: "Mr. Ziyang, a few warriors, please sit down!" Sit down, brethren. ”…,