Chapter 185: River State Water Thieves
As soon as Huang Bo entered Hezhou, he heard about the alliance of the anti-thieves, and immediately had a headache, and the original plan to fight the anti-thieves was also frustrated, and the worst thing is that the other party was very smart, and did not give up an inch to compete for territory with the officers and soldiers, but directly gave up a large area of territory to the officers and soldiers, and then gathered all the horses and horses in the eight hundred miles of canopy mountains and rivers, occupying the right time, place and people, which made Huang Bo feel very tricky.
Hezhou just listen to the name to know that there are many rivers and many rivers here, in fact, it is true, the whole Hezhou is full of rivers and waterways, and Tianpeng Shanshui Bo is the largest river gathering place in Hezhou, if it is not shallow, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an inland sea.
The area is vast, and there are many rivers and rivers in the whole Tianpeng, the waterways are complex, and the aquatic reeds are overwhelming, so the fishermen who beg for a living here all the year round are in danger of getting lost if they go too deep, so when Huang Bo came here for a visit, his face was not good on the way back.
Not to mention that Huang Bo only has tens of thousands of troops in his hands now, even if he has hundreds of thousands of troops, he is also powerful and has nowhere to go, not to mention that most of these Hezhou thieves are from water thieves and fishermen, and they are even more comfortable in this environment.
Huang Bo had a headache, so he could only go to the state pastor for help, after all, the Hezhou Navy is famous all over the world, and with the assistance of the Hezhou Navy Army, attacking Tianpeng Shanshui can increase the certainty of at least thirty percent.
It's a pity that Huang Bo didn't know that because there was no war all the year round, coupled with the corruption of officials and empty salaries, the Hezhou Navy had long lost its former glory, and it was even difficult to make a living, forcing the Hezhou Navy to find its own way, setting up cards to collect taxes It was a common thing, framing and framing, secretly smuggling, part-time water thieves, and reselling weapons and ships, there was nothing they didn't dare to do, and how much combat effectiveness could the Hezhou Navy have in this case.
And to say that they are a navy is better to say that they are water thieves in the skin of a navy, so they were the ones who made the initial trouble, after all, they are numerous and have received some training, plus there is no shortage of weapons and ships, once there is chaos, no one can control them at all, so the main force of Tianpeng Shanshui is these former Hezhou sailors.
Of course, because once this matter was exposed, Hezhou Mu would have to be unlucky, so he was forced to suppress it, so now people outside don't know that the current Hezhou Navy has become an empty shell, and only a little foundation is left to support it.
However, although the Hezhou Navy still has a little foundation left, but it was hidden by the state herd, which is used to save his life, in case Hezhou is completely lost, he still has to rely on these people to transport his family and Wanguan's family wealth out of Hezhou, so Huang Bo, who came to the door to ask for a meeting, said that the sky was broken, and he didn't even pull out a few boats from his hands.
Huang Bo, who came out of the state pastor's mansion, was so angry that his eyes were red and he couldn't wait to report to the court immediately for punishment, but unfortunately the other party was a state pastor, and his grade was still above him, and he was from a royal family, so he really wanted to report to the court and didn't know whose crime to treat, not to mention that at the level of the state pastor, only the emperor had the right to deal with it, and the prince should stay on the side, which was also the main reason why the other party had no fear of oil and salt.
Fortunately, Hezhou Mu did not do things absolutely, after all, this is his Long family's country, if the country is gone, what good life can he have, so although he did not hand over the life-saving army, but also allocated all the shipbuilders and idle water villages in Hezhou to Huang Bo, and allowed him to recruit troops locally, and supported a group of money, food, and armor, and did enough things on face, so that Huang Bo had no place to spill his stomach.
There was no way, Huang Bo could only set up a large camp, while cutting wood and building ships, while training the navy, striving for self-reliance.
But few people know that Huang Bo is just doing it, or that this is just the worst plan, after all, whether it is shipbuilding or training the navy, it is not a matter of a short period of time, and it will not be able to form combat effectiveness at all without more than half a year, if you really want to wait here for more than half a year, the prince will definitely come over and strangle him in person, so he is secretly also preparing.
The training of the new army was too slow, so Huang Bo secretly contacted some rebels who were dissatisfied with Marshal Tianpeng through the local family, incorporated them, and installed a group of his own men, and finally had 3,000 sailors.
However, this group of sailors was also hidden by Huang Bo, and Mingli still trained those newly recruited fishermen, just to wait for the opportunity to overcast the cloudy Pengshan, after all, the three thousand sailors were really not enough to see on the frontal battlefield.
Liu Bei quickly knew about the matter of Hezhou, after all, Hezhou and Haizhou are next to each other, and the end point of the Hezhou waterway is the wharf of Haizhou, so the news naturally spreads quickly.
And now the Zhang family is not ordinary, for the sake of his daughter's career Zhang Bao can be said to have worked hard, not only to help secretly recruit talents, but also to lay out a smuggling network, not only smuggling salt, but even the armor is among them, otherwise do you think that just from Peach Blossom Island to pick up Liu Bei and the three people need such a big sea boat, in fact, it is mainly from Peach Blossom Island to pull goods.
With these sought-after goods to open the way, Zhang Bao's smuggling business is thriving, Hezhou, known as the freight distribution center, is the key area of Zhang Bao's development career, although the water thieves in Hezhou are very xenophobic, but no one will get along with the money, Zhang Bao is still a little bit of a way in Hezhou, and knows more about Hezhou than ordinary people, and this information will be sent to Liu Bei where to have a copy.
Liu Bei's eyes rolled, although the three thousand recruits have completed the initial training, but the cooperation with the auxiliary soldiers is still complete, not to mention that even if you take these three thousand armor soldiers in the past, it will not be of much use, after all, although the three thousand armor soldiers are recruited from Langhua County, everyone has a good water nature, but you can't let these three thousand well-trained armor soldiers take off their clothes and armor and go to a water fight with those poor water thieves who don't even have good clothes.
Therefore, Liu Bei found more information from Zhang Bao, and planned to take three hundred elites to start from the estuary of Hezhou, fight all the way in, take the opportunity to recover the water thieves along the river, train a passable water army, and wait until Huang Bo can get attention wherever he goes.
"Your idea is good, but in addition to the canopy mountains and rivers in Hezhou, there is also a group of water thieves that you must not ignore. Zhang Bao said to Liu Bei with a solemn face, and then was glared at by his daughter, touched his nose, and flipped through to find a piece of information.
"Erlongshan Ganning, Zhou Tai. Liu Bei opened it and became interested in these two people.
"These two people are very famous in Hezhou, especially Gan Ning, not only is the water sex amazing, but also the courage of Wanfu, that is, Hezhou Mudu has recruited him many times, but unfortunately the Hezhou Navy is too bad, Gan Ning can't look down on it, and even extremely tired of it, so he simply went to be a water thief. Zhang Bao pouted and said.
"Zhou Tai is also extraordinary, he is a member of the Hezhou Water Army, brave and good at fighting, but unfortunately he is short-tempered, offended many people, and is not liked by his boss, so he was sent to garrison Erlong Mountain, and was later subdued by Gan Ning, and simply fell into the grass, and became the second village master of Erlong Mountain. ”