Pirate Song

Gao Huaiyuan never expected that Dong Qiang had dealt with lake pirates before. When he asked about his life experience, he found out that Dong Qiang was also from near Niangzi Lake. His home was in the mountains south of Niangzi Lake, and his father was a hunter.

The family had no land, so the family relied on hunting or fishing on the lake to make a living.

Therefore, Dong Qiang learned hunting from his father since he was a child, and he became good at archery. Later, he met an old Taoist who knew Kung Fu and taught him Kung Fu, so he was considered a prominent figure in the local area.

Dong Qiang had a distant relative with whom he had been on good terms since childhood. In the first few years, because he offended Li Zheng, he was forced to work as a thief in Niangzi Lake. He even lured Dong Qiang into doing business without capital.

However, Dong Qiang did not bother to be a thief and still became his hunter. However, he also kept in contact with this relative, so he knew more about the lake pirates.

The two took completely different paths. Later, Dong Qiang was invited by Li Zheng to be the deputy head of the bow and arrow club because of the establishment of the bow and arrow club in the village. He was responsible for training the local heroes of the bow and arrow club, thinking that one day he could show his face and make a name for himself.

, only then did he personally compete in the archery club competition organized by the county government, and won the first place in archery.

But after hearing the news about the lake bandit massacre of Jinjia Village, Dong Qiang's heart started to move. Especially after Gao Huaiyuan arrived at Jinjia Village, he saw so many innocent people being killed by the lake bandit, and he felt very indignant.

So I didn't want my relative to hang out among the lake pirates anymore, otherwise he would commit too many sins and be destroyed by the government in the future. As a friend, I wanted to give him a hand at this time.

Therefore, Dong Qiang thought for a few days and saw that Gao Huaiyuan, the young county captain, was also a good person. He was very decent and respected him very much, so he made up his mind to tell the story.

"Why didn't you tell me about this earlier? It's so easy to get it without any effort! I promise you that if you can persuade your relative to rebel and help us wipe out the lake pirates in one fell swoop,

I will definitely reward him heavily and give him a clean slate.

Bai Zhishen, and as long as you can do this, I will see that you have good abilities. It will be better for you to stay in the countryside and surrender your talents. I will find a job for you in the county government later than for you to continue to be a hunter in the mountains.

Some!" Gao Huaiyuan immediately said to Dong Qiang.

Dong Qiang quickly bowed and thanked Gao Huaiyuan. Now he felt that he had not disgraced the old Dong family and finally had a chance to get ahead. He immediately promised to contact his brother and persuade him to betray him and help Gao Huaiyuan.

Huaiyuan destroyed the lake pirates.

After Dong Qiang agreed to Gao Huaiyuan, he did not dare to neglect, and quickly returned home. He ran non-stop to find the place where his relative often went ashore to stay. After waiting for two days, he finally found his place.

Relatives, it’s easy to talk to them

After some talk, he finally persuaded his brother. In addition, this time he said that he would also participate in the encirclement and suppression of the Lake Bandits and did not want to meet his brother on the battlefield. Therefore, after getting Dong Qiang's guarantee,

, his brother agreed.

And his brother was Ma San who encouraged Zhao Baiyu and Jiang Yaozi to turn against each other.

It turns out that the water thieves in Niangzi Lake are not monolithic. Originally, the leader of this group of water thieves was not Jiang Yaozi. It was originally a thieves named Liang Baocheng who was the leader. However, Jiang Yaozi joined them three years ago and his skills are very good.

Yes, Liang Baocheng thought highly of him and made him the leader of the Lake Pirates.

And this Jiang Yaozi was a very insidious guy, and he had no intention of being brought down just by being a small leader, so after becoming the leader, he started to form gangs among the thieves, and secretly formed his own power, without knowing it.

He suddenly took Liang Baocheng's place.

By the time Liang Baocheng went to sleep, it was already too late to get rid of Jiang Yaozi. Instead, he was killed by Jiang Yaozi. The second boss named Ping and the third boss Zhao Baiyu were the subordinates who helped Jiang Yaozi rise to power.

Originally, both of them entered the water earlier than Jiang Yaozi, but later Jiang Yaozi became more capable and had better kung fu than them, and he had more than a dozen hard-core subordinates among the thieves, so the two of them had no choice but to follow him.

After Jiang Yaozi took the top spot, he became a little domineering and no longer took Zhao Baiyu seriously. He felt that Zhao Baiyu, apart from being good at water, was just a reckless man who only knew how to fight and kill.

Baiyu and Ping Er were very rude. In fact, it had already aroused the dissatisfaction of Zhao Baiyu and Ping. Naturally, outsiders did not know this kind of thing. Only people within them knew about it.

So after Dong Qiang convinced Ma San, the situation of the Lake Pirates was all exposed to Gao Huaiyuan, and Gao Huaiyuan understood everything.

After learning such secrets among the Lake Pirates, Jia Qi came up with a plan, so he gave Gao Huaiyuan an idea, which was to use Ma San to sow discord between them, and first let them thieves

People are divided from within, first start internal strife, and then take them down in one fell swoop from the outside.

Therefore, Gao Huaiyuan adopted Jia Qi's method and tightly sealed the news to only a few people, and ordered Dong Qiang to secretly contact Masan and bring Masan to the shore to meet Gao Huaiyuan.

Gao Huaiyuan reassured Masan in person, which made Masan feel completely relieved.

So after Ma San returned to the den of thieves, he began to fan the flames in Zhao Baiyu's ears, encouraging Zhao Baiyu to be dissatisfied with Jiang Yaozi, and gradually persuaded Zhao Baiyu to have murderous intentions towards Jiang Yaozi.

During this period of time, Gao Huaiyuan did not immediately attack this group of water thieves, but made arrangements step by step. First, more than 200 additional township warriors were transferred from various townships in the county. Chen Bing was on the shore of the lake, and every day

Zhou Hao and others were ordered to train these local warriors.

In addition, through the local Li Zheng, the elders and others mobilized a large number of fishing boats from the fishing boats along the coast for the purpose of suppressing bandits. This mobilization of fishing boats was generally very smooth, and the fishermen also heard about Jinjia Village.

They were very angry about what the lake pirates had done. They all lived by Niangzi Lake.

The fishermen feel a bit like the same enemy for this matter. If these lake bandits are not wiped out, God knows that tragedy like Jinjia Village will happen to them at some point. So I heard that the government is recruiting fishing boats to use them to suppress bandits.

They all put down what they were doing and rushed to obey orders.

This is also in line with a wise saying, the right people have more help and the unscrupulous have less help. If it were normal, the fishermen would be reluctant to call them to serve in the government, but this time the government clearly wants to stand up for the common people.

That's why the people readily agreed to help the government suppress the bandits. Otherwise, it would be difficult for Gao Huaiyuan to get some ships!

And this time, many fishermen not only sent out boats, but also sent people to serve the government and steer the boats for Gao Huaiyuan's rural soldiers. For a time, dozens of large and small fishing boats gathered on the edge of Niangzi Lake, which was quite impressive.

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As for money and food, after being instructed by Gao Huaiyuan, County Magistrate Liu immediately knew how to deal with it. After returning to the county, he quickly sorted out the details of the Jinjiacun case and sent someone to quickly send it to the Ezhou Magistrate.

Please make arrangements with the prefect to send troops to encircle and suppress the water thieves. As expected, the prefect has no time to take care of such matters. The navy's defense on the river is not enough. How can they spare the troops to do this?

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However, the prefect could not sit idly by in such a major case, so he returned to Daye County and ordered Daye County to handle it as appropriate, kicking the ball back to Daye County. However, the prefect did not hiccup in terms of money and food, and immediately allocated some money and food.

, it can be regarded as supporting Daye County in encircling and suppressing bandits.

In addition, in the name of doing things for the locals in the Liangzi Lake area, Gao Huaiyuan also extracted a lot of money from those wealthy families to fund the military, and the problem of money and food was solved.

This time, whether it was the local warriors from various villages who came to suppress the bandits, or the fishermen who came to help, they were provided with good food and drink every day, and everyone was paid. This kind of treatment naturally boosted the morale of this group of people.

, vowing to wipe out the lake bandits.

But after completing these things, Gao Huaiyuan did not immediately go to find the lake bandits' den and confront them. Instead, he first launched a training operation in Niangzi Lake.

This time the bandit suppression is different from the past bandit arrests. Once the operation is carried out, the problem will basically be solved on the water. Fighting on the ground is not a problem. Gao Huaiyuan knows this better than anyone. If he boarded the boat in such a chaotic manner and went to the lake to suppress the bandits,

As for the bandits, he was also afraid that not only would he not be able to deal with the lake bandits, but he would be defeated by the lake bandits. In that case, his position as county lieutenant would be over. Not to mention losing his official position, his reputation would be completely ruined.

Moreover, the lives of hundreds of people were at stake, so Gao Huaiyuan naturally did not dare to be careless, so the first step was to familiarize the village warriors with water warfare.

Gao Huaiyuan had no experience in water fighting. Although he knew how to use water, his water quality was not too high. He was just for self-protection. His kung fu in the water was less than 20% on land, and it was his first time to command so many people in the water.

He didn't have much confidence in the war, so for the sake of safety, he went to Maoshan Township and asked people to visit him.

Nearby, we looked for people who were familiar with water warfare to help. At the same time, we selected those with the best water skills among the local braves to form a team dedicated to fighting in the water. A total of more than a hundred people were selected, including local braves,

There are also some local fishermen who specialize in launching boats after the fishing starts to protect them from underwater attacks by water thieves.

In addition, it is said that one of the thieves has a relatively large boat that can carry dozens of people. In comparison, the largest boat in his hands can only carry more than 20 people. Based on the opinions of the old fishermen, he specially arranged four or five people.

A ship like this is a large ship specially responsible for dealing with thieves.

The rest of the people are divided into groups of five or ten, and each is assigned to a specially designated fishing boat, so as to avoid confusion during the operation and allow these people to get familiar with the person driving the boat first.

After some arrangements, a certain amount of fighting power was initially formed. Fortunately, most of the southerners knew how to swim, so there was no chance of too much confusion when the fight started.

However, after searching for a while, Gao Huaiyuan did not find anyone who was good at directing water battles for help. In the end, he had to solve the problem by himself. Therefore, he could only brainstorm and follow the methods of water battles recorded in books.

Conduct military training.

Water battles in rivers and lakes are very particular, but formal water battles cannot play a big role here, and their ships are not real warships, so after brainstorming, I thought

There are many strategies for dealing with water thieves.

Nowadays, water battles are nothing more than collision, bow and arrow, arson and other cold weapon combat methods. Gao Huaiyuan decided to make full use of the advantages of many archers on his side to reduce the time of boarding battle with the opponent as much as possible, and use the weapons at hand

I collected a lot of long bamboo poles and attached them to iron hooks.

, let the country warriors be put on the ship for backup. In addition, each ship should be equipped with shieldmen as much as possible to cover its own archers. At the same time, some larger ships should be equipped with more spearmen, and the larger ships should be used as the main force.

Used in the decisive battle with the water pirates to initially build a grasshopper fleet.

After completing these arrangements, he began to lead his troops to conduct drills in the lake in the past few days. He invited local veteran fishermen to serve as imaginary enemies and divided his troops for sparring. This was also the way he could improve his combat effectiveness as quickly as possible.

After several drills, the water battle drill finally started to look a little more decent. Each ship began to advance and retreat according to the schedule. This greatly enhanced Gao Huaiyuan's confidence.

It was impossible to completely cover up an action like this. The news that the village soldiers were practicing water warfare on the lake soon spread through the eyes and ears of the lake bandits to the lake bandit's lair, which made Jiang even more worried.

Yaozi felt nervous

, Ever since he learned that the Daye County government sent troops to suppress these days, Jiang Yaozi felt a little uneasy. The more he thought about it, the more he felt resentful of Zhao Baiyu, complaining that it was this guy who caused the trouble, which made them live a stable life.

Being in constant panic all day long.

As a result, Jiang Yaozi's temper became much worse. From time to time when he saw Zhao Baiyu's group, he would get angry and would hit him and scold him whenever he raised his hand. As a result, Zhao Baiyu's hatred for him became even deeper.

Resentful and determined to kill him, Zhao Baiyu stepped up his actions and began to quietly gather forces among the lake bandits, hoping to find another day to kill Jiang Yaozi and replace him.

Jiang Yaozi was originally a very alert person, but during this period of time, he had focused his main attention on government affairs and did not notice the movements among his own people. He neglected to monitor his subordinates every day.

He sent men to sail around the island in boats to prevent sneak attacks by the government's warriors. The external defenses were very tight, but internal control was neglected.

The alienation plan that Gao Huaiyuan set out originally was half successful. At least he had successfully disrupted the Lake Bandits internally and gradually divided them into two rows.

Thieves are thieves after all. They are just a group of people who gather together for profit. Once such a situation occurs, the cohesion will naturally be much smaller. In addition, Jiang Yaozi strictly ordered the thieves not to go ashore or go out to commit robberies during this period, which made the whole day

There was a lot of dissatisfaction among the subordinates who were used to idleness.

Fortunately for the leaders, at least the women they kidnapped on the island could serve them, but the thieves couldn't get away with it. Naturally, some people would be dissatisfied, so with Zhao Baiyu's win over, many thieves gradually fell in love with them.

He fell in love with Zhao Baiyu and began to resent the grumpy Jiang Yaozi.

In the eyes of the thieves, Zhao Baiyu did not make any big mistake in what happened this time. He led people to massacre the village to vent his anger on his brothers, but he was beaten and scolded by Jiang Yaozi. Many people still sympathized with him from the bottom of their hearts.

Zhao Baiyu’s, plus the ones I suppressed on the island

Uncomfortable, they always felt that Jiang Yaozi was too timid in this matter. They felt that with their strength and ability, even if the village heroes came, they had nothing to fear, so this dissatisfaction became more and more intense.

It started to accumulate.

Ever since this incident happened on the island, only those like Ma San who were responsible for going out to purchase things and inquire about information could leave the island and land. Therefore, Gao Huaiyuan basically knew everything about the situation on the island.

The reason why he was not in a hurry to send troops to attack the lake bandits' lair was because he was waiting for the opportunity for them to cause chaos. Only in this way could he be sure to wipe out the lake bandits in one fell swoop.

Seeing that the weather is getting colder day by day, the villagers are gradually getting impatient with waiting. Although they come with the government to suppress bandits, they are still a group of farmers in essence, spending all day on the water.

Practice and don’t look for thieves

During the decisive battle, there were still things to do at home, so dissatisfaction began to grow. Gradually, some people began to complain privately. They felt that this Gao County Lieutenant was nothing but mediocre. He didn’t dare to come here even though there was a lot of noise and little rain.

Go find the thief and so on.

When this sound reached Gao Huaiyuan's ears, he looked at the weather, calculated the time, and smiled slightly: "It seems that it's basically time. If we wait any longer, I'm afraid we won't wait until we take action.

People's hearts are shattered! Dong Qiang, is there any news from Masan now?"

Dong Qiang followed Gao Huaiyuan during this period, and gradually got to know Gao Huaiyuan a lot. He knew that Gao Huaiyuan was different from other officials. Other officials thought about promotion and wealth all day long, but Gao Huaiyuan had his own industry.

, no need to worry about money, never

After thinking about how to deceive the people and make money for himself, and never showing off official airs to his subordinates, being generous, and not deducting any salary, he decided that Gao Huaiyuan was a good official, and he began to respect Gao Huaiyuan more and more.

"Returning to your lord, Ma San's situation is basically the same. Now Zhao Baiyu has hated Jiang Yaozi to the bone. Moreover, for more than a month, the thieves have been holding back in their lair so much that many people have begun to feel dissatisfied with Jiang Yaozi.

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, it can be said that everything is ready and all we need is the east wind!" Dong Qiang bowed and replied to Gao Huaiyuan. During this period, he had been in contact with Ma San. He knew everything about the things among the lake bandits and felt that Huo Hou should

Almost there.

"Remember! We can't let Zhao Baiyu succeed in one fell swoop. It's best to let them fight dog-eat-dog first. When they get into trouble, we can reap the benefits!" Gao Huaiyuan sat on the couch and wiped his hands.

He held a Liuyun Scimitar, then returned the sword to its sheath, raised his hand and threw the sword to Dong Qiang who was standing in front of him.dd