—184 A.D.——

Zhou Tai is naturally not a widow.

According to his own concise explanation, as well as the additions of the generals around him, Sun Jian learned that this young military general was a martial arts seedling that his father Sun Zhong accidentally found on the shore of the East China Sea when he was expanding his business channels, so he funded the settlement of Zhou Tai's family life as he had done several times before, and invited a martial arts master for him, and then left without asking for anything in return.

Those children or teenagers who are sponsored by Sun Zhong and have various qualifications are likely to run out of qualifications and return to mediocrity before they grow up, becoming farmers and hunters, and there is probably no one in ten who can really excel, but fortunately, Zhou Tai and Zhou Youping are one of them.

Zhou Tai's master is a ranger who is good at assassination, and his disciple's teachings are naturally biased in this direction, but although Zhou Tai has mastered silent action, stealth through shadows and other means, he does not like the weapons used in assassination or surprise attacks such as daggers or short swords, and instead found a blacksmith to create a strange curved single-edged knife, and named it "Xiao", and after combining it with his own martial arts, it evolved into a dignified assassination technique that will take the initiative to appear in front of the target.

The martial arts master sighed that the world was changing too fast, and he couldn't understand it anymore, and finally announced that Zhou Tai was a teacher.

However, Sun Zhong did not come to recruit, and Sun Jian was not famous at that time, so Zhou Tai had to continue to hone his martial arts by the East China Sea, and finally comprehended Wushuang one day, although I don't know how to describe it, but a sword swing can even temporarily freeze the huge waves in the range.

At this time, a group of unpopular "Saito family" Japanese warriors happened to pass by, and they were shocked to see this, so they insisted on apprenticeship regardless of the age gap, Zhou Tai refused sternly, but they came to observe and learn every day in the future, out of a certain sense of vanity, and because this is completely his own martial arts, there is no need to keep it secret, so he has not stopped it.

However, perhaps due to their short stature and the ease of assassination, they actually learned a little bit about this frontal assassination technique, and their leader called it "One Knife Stream", and imitated many arc knives and used them to carry assassination missions around the East China Sea.

Originally, these "one-knife streams" were only making trouble among pirates, and Zhou Tai didn't plan to care about it at all, but this time, I don't know how much money they were promised, and they had the audacity to assassinate the imperial court assassins, Zhou Tai had to track down the few high-level "one-knife streams" who really had the potential to cause harm to the assassins, and he didn't want to meet Sun Jian and a group of generals.

"Please, young master, dispose of it." Zhou Tai threw the Japanese man, who was probably called "Saito Ichi", beside the other captives, ignoring their desperate eyes, and said hoarsely.

"Not to mention the side, how did you get this voice? Have you asked a doctor to see it? Sun Jian finally couldn't help but ask this question.

"When I was young, I was fine." Zhou Tai shook his head, saying that he didn't know what was going on.

"It's probably the negative impact that the powerful 'Musau' usually comes with." Cheng Pu guessed.

"Lu Bu doesn't have it." Sun Jian responded.

"Well...... the reason is so good that it is impossible to refute it.

"Lu, Feng, first." Zhou Tai's hoarse voice carried a little warlike intent, obviously, even if he lived on the coast of the East China Sea, that person still heard of the name of "unparalleled in the world".

"The so-called invitation is better than a chance encounter, since you accidentally met the young master, you will go with us," Cheng Pu said: "In the future, maybe there will really be a chance to fight with Na Lu Bu." ”

"Even if it is Cao Cao and Liu Bei, it may not be impossible." Huang Gai continued.

"Wait?" Sun Jian was quite surprised, the martial arts of these two were just mediocre.

"Zhou Tai, but with it, drive." Obviously, the black-armored general understood what the two men were saying.

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Since all the people in this "one-knife stream" can be said to be half of Zhou Tai's disciples, if they are really handed over to Zhu and will inevitably cause some trouble, Sun Jian finally decided to drive them all back to the East China Sea, since Zhou Tai sent a message "Not allowed, again, landing", maybe the low-level assassins are not convinced, but Saitoichi, who completely regards Zhou Tai as a god, will definitely strictly obey orders, as long as they don't set foot in the Central Plains again, even if they run back to Dongyi Island to start a sect, it doesn't matter much.

Because the employer was very careful not to admit his identity, the group did not know who was going to deal with Zhu He, and before they left Xuzhou, they also said a bad news in a strange Chinese dialect.

"Those families hired more than this one to deal with Zhu He?" Zu Mao frowned and said, "But we didn't find any other details that tried to sneak into the barracks, and there was no abnormality in the big tent of the Chinese army. ”

"And there is no visual communication, if it is not good, if the two sides fight......" Cheng Pu paused: "Therefore, the other group of people is likely to attack head-on." ”

"Frontal assault on tens of thousands of troops?" Huang Gai scoffed.

"No, they actually have a chance to 'attack head-on'," Sun Jian remembered a previous experience and looked at the river not far away: "In the case that the numerical advantage cannot work. ”

In the light rain, the Surabaya River was filled with mist.

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After staying on the banks of the Surabaya River for a few days, he ordered his entire army to board a ship and head to the sea.

Unsurprisingly, he ignored the admonition that he might be attacked by pirates if he took the waterway, even if it came from one of his most trusted advisors.

Sun Jian guessed his thoughts for a while, and found that there was nothing wrong without knowing the inside story, after all, if those families dared to attack the governor head-on, it was a rebellion that could not be excused at all, even if he was desperately suspected and came up with a knife as evidence, he could only get a heroic statement of "let them come".

However, the most critical problem is that when the Xuzhou coalition army took the waterway, the position of their Xiapi army was very far away from the Zhongjun building ship......

"Will this assassination history be watched in the end," even with Sun Jian's temper, standing on his own boat and looking at the building boat from afar, he also wanted to be a little mad: "Leave those wine bags and rice bags that I can beat five or six with one hand, and the really powerful people will not look at it, and the most infuriating thing is that if he really has an accident, the first to be punished is our guards who were originally the farthest away from him." ”

"Therefore, the young master should set up his own door as soon as possible, so as not to be criticized by incompetent people." Cheng Pu took the opportunity to persuade him.

"We'll talk about it later." Just like the history of the thorn, Sun Jian obviously did not listen to others on topics similar to self-reliance.

Jingle Bell – Jingle Bell -

In the mist that filled the river, there was a faint sound of bells, and about thirty percent of the soldiers became nervous when they heard the sound.

"I seem to have heard that if you hear this sound on the river, you should immediately take shelter from the shore, but the reason ......" Sun Jian twisted his eyebrows and tried to think.

Jingle – "Hahaha!! ”

Before Sun Jian could come up with anything, a strange fleet appeared in front of the Xuzhou coalition fleet, which was not painted with dark red paint or no paint like ordinary boats, but painted with various colors of paint, and the sails were not regular white or yellow canvas, but made of fine Shu brocade.

Directly in front of the flagship, on the bow stood a tall young man shirtless and crimson leather trousers, with a bell tied around his waist, his hair tied upside down, adorned with many feathers, and his skin painted with strange patterns like the hull of a ship.

"Hahaha!" The young man continued to laugh, and his voice came from afar: "Old Zhu! I heard that you got a lot of property when you broke through those Taiping Dao altars, so how about giving me some flowers? ”

"Sail thief!" "It's 'Suzu no Ganning'!" "Why is Gan Xingba here!" The exclamations of the soldiers on the various boats have fully explained the identity of the other party.

"Young master, although this person is a pirate, he has never killed innocents indiscriminately, and what he does is robbing the rich and helping the poor." Cheng Pu introduced on the side.

"Why do I think he was deliberately cared for by his father?" Sun Jian was surprised.

"That's not true, but does the young master remember that more than ten years ago, that group of passengers were all seaweed's pirate ships?" Cheng Pu said: "Their original master was thrown into the sea by Na Yu Ji at will, and was stranded on a desert island, and he had to leave for several years, and Gan Ning and his men were their descendants. ”

"Oh...... It's fine to have common enemies, but how to deal with the conflict between them and Thorn? Sun Jian did not hesitate to classify Gan Ning as his "own person", although if he wanted to be subdued, he would probably have to fight with him.

During the conversation, Gan Ning also completed a meaningless conversation with Na Zhu, such as "You attack the imperial court officials and you can't rebel" and "Uncle, I am a pirate, I am born to rebel against you", and then the two ships connected head-on, jumped to each other and then fought in a ping-pong fight, and several ships in front and behind the building ship rushed to the rescue.

Seeing this situation, Sun Jian also ordered to set off to support, but at the same time added: "Wait for the opportunity!" Fish in muddy waters! ”

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Xiapi, the outskirts of the city.

Yu Ji, who had just been mentioned by Cheng Pu, was being chased by the fierce beasts he had summoned at this time, and behind him, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, two little teenagers, were sitting on the back of a white-fronted tiger with hanging eyes, and they were bored and commanding the beasts to pursue.

I have to say that his idea is not wrong, ordinary people are only afraid of being paralyzed by fright when they see so many fierce beasts, not to mention two children, but after these fierce beasts found out that the target of the attack was Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, they immediately counterattacked Ji at a faster speed than they pounced, and the immortal who was confused, and was torn his clothes again could only turn around and flee.

"Let's not continue to circle around Xiapi," Sun Ce said, "Mother came to the city wall to watch the battle with Quan'er and Shangxiang in her arms, but I always felt that they were watching a monkey show." ”

"Okay then." Zhou Yu raised the short stick in his hand in front of him: "Da Bai!" Bite him! ”

Whoops! A snow-white dog pounced on it and bit Yu Ji's head, and the immortal snorted, and fled to the northwest with "Big White" and the other fierce beasts behind him.

"I think the name seems a bit problematic." Sun Ce wondered.

"Your delusion." Zhou Yu replied expressionlessly.