Pirate Song

Gao Huaiyuan never imagined 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 the vicinity of Niangzi Lake. His family lived in the mountains south of Niangzi Lake. His father was a hunter. The family has no fields or land, so the whole family lives by hunting or fishing by the lake.

Therefore, Dong Qiang learned hunting from his father since he was a child, and he was good at archery. Later, he also met an old man who knew kung fu, and passed on his kung fu, so he is considered a relatively good figure in the local area.

And Dong Qiang has a distant relative who has been close to him since he was a child. In the first few years, because he offended Li Zheng, he was forced to go down to Niangzi Lake as a thief.

But Dong Qiang didn't bother to be a thief, he was still his hunter, but he still kept in touch with this relative, so he had a better understanding of 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 formation of the bow and arrow club in the township. , Only then did he end up personally in the bow and arrow club competition organized by the county government, and won the first place in archery.

But after hearing the news that the Lake Pirates slaughtered Jinjia Village, Dong Qiang's heart became active, especially after Gao Huaiyuan arrived in Jinjia Village, seeing so many innocent people being killed by the Lake Pirates, he was very indignant. So I didn't want my relative to hang out in the Lake Pirates any longer, to save too much crime, and to be wiped out by the government in the future, which can be regarded as a friend's loyalty, so I want to give him a hand at this time.

So Dong Qiang thought about it for a few days, and saw that Gao Huaiyuan, the young county lieutenant, was also a good person, very decent, and held him in high esteem, so he made up his mind to tell the story.

"Why didn't you tell me about this earlier? It's really hard to find a place to go, and it's so easy! I promise you, as long as you can persuade your relative to turn against the water and help us wipe out the lake pirates in one fell swoop, I will definitely reward him and give him a clean body, and as long as you do this, I will see that you are a good person, so stay in the village and wrong you, and I will give you back in the county government Finding an errand is better than continuing to be a hunter in the mountains!" Gao Huaiyuan immediately said to Dong Qiang.

Dong Qiang hurriedly bowed and thanked Gao Huaiyuan. At this moment, he felt that he had not lost the old Dong's family, and finally had a chance to stand out. He immediately patted his chest and promised to contact his brother, persuade him to betray him, and help Gao Huaiyuan Huaiyuan wiped out the lake pirates.

After Dong Qiang agreed to Gao Huaiyuan, he didn't dare to be negligent, and quickly returned home, and ran non-stop to find the place where his relative often went ashore. After waiting for two days, he finally arrived at his place. Relative, after talking about it, he finally persuaded his brother, and this time he said that he himself participated in the siege of the lake bandits, and he didn't want to meet his brother on the battlefield, so he got Dong Qiang After the promise, his brother agreed.

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

It turned out that the water thieves in Niangzi Lake were not monolithic. It turned out that Jiang Yaozi was not the head of the water thieves, but a thief named Liang Baocheng was the head of the water thieves. But Jiang Yaozi joined them three years ago, and his skills are very good. That's right, he was valued by this Liang Baocheng, and he was mentioned as the leader of the Lake Pirates.

And this Jiang Yaozi is a very insidious guy, he didn't intend to just be a small boss and pull him down, so after he became the boss, he started to form cliques among the thieves, and formed his own power indistinctly, without knowing it Juezhong took Liang Baocheng's place.

When Liang Baocheng woke up, it was too late to get rid of Jiang Yaozi, and Jiang Yaozi killed him instead. The second head of the house surnamed Ping and the third head of Zhao Baiyu were the subordinates who helped Jiang Yaozi get the upper hand. Both of them entered the water earlier than Jiang Yaozi, but later Jiang Yaozi was more capable and better than them, and he raised more than a dozen hard-core men among the bandits, and the two of them could only follow him to do things.

After Jiang Yaozi took the top spot, he became a little domineering, and no longer took Zhao Baiyu seriously, thinking that Zhao Baiyu was just a reckless man who could only fight and kill except for his good water skills. Baiyu and Ping'er are very rude. In fact, Zhao Baiyu and Ping's dissatisfaction has already been caused. Of course, outsiders don't know about this kind of thing, only their insiders know.

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

After learning about the secrets of the Lake Pirates, Jia Qi had a plan, so he gave Gao Huaiyuan an idea, which was to use Ma San to provoke the relationship between them, and let them, the gang of thieves, The people were divided from within, and after the internal strife, they were taken down from the outside in one fell swoop.

Therefore, Gao Huaiyuan adopted Jia Qi's method, tightly sealed the news within the scope of few people, and ordered Dong Qiang to contact Ma San secretly, and took Ma San to the shore to meet Gao Huaiyuan.

Gao Huaiyuan made a promise to Ma San again, which made Ma San feel completely relieved.

So after returning to the den of thieves, Ma San began to fan the flames in Zhao Baiyu's ears, agitating Zhao Baiyu's dissatisfaction with Jiang Yaozi, and gradually persuaded Zhao Baiyu to become murderous towards Jiang Yaozi.

During this period of time, Gao Huaiyuan did not attack the water thieves immediately, but made arrangements step by step. First, more than 200 township braves were transferred from various townships in the county. Chen Bing was on the shore of the lake, daily Order Zhou Hao and others to practice these brave men.

In addition, a large number of fishing boats were mobilized among the fishing boats along the coast through the local Lizheng, Qichang and others, and they were only used to suppress bandits. This time, the mobilization of fishing boats went smoothly on the whole, and the fishermen also heard about Jinjia Village. They are all fishermen who live by the lakeside of Niangzi Lake. They feel a little bit of a common enemy for this matter. If these lake bandits are not wiped out, God knows that such a tragedy in Jinjia Village will not be known. When did it fall on their heads, so when they heard that the government was recruiting fishing boats to suppress bandits, they all put down their work and came to obey orders.

This also corresponds to a wise saying that those who are upright help more than those who are unjust. In normal times, the fishermen would definitely not be willing to summon them to serve. But this time the government clearly wants to stand up for the common people. That's why the common people readily agreed to help the government suppress the bandits. Otherwise, it would be difficult for Gao Huaiyuan to collect some ships!

And this time, many fishermen not only sent out boats, but also sent out people to serve the government, to support the boats and helms of the soldiers in Gao Huaiyuan, and dozens of fishing boats of all sizes gathered on the shore of Niangzi Lake at once, which was quite impressive. .

As for money and food, Liu Zhixian immediately knew how to deal with it after Gao Huaiyuan instructed him. After returning to the county, he quickly sorted out the details of the Jinjia Village case and sent someone to the prefect of Ezhou immediately. Please arrange for the magistrate to send troops to encircle and suppress the water thieves. As expected, the magistrate has no time to take care of such things. The water army is not enough to deploy defenses on the river. How can we spare troops to do this? !

But the magistrate couldn't sit idly by in such a big case, so he went back to Daye County, ordered Daye County to deal with it as appropriate, and kicked the ball back to Daye County, but the magistrate didn't hiccup in terms of money and food, and immediately allocated part of the money and food It is only necessary to support the encirclement and suppression of bandits in Daye County.

In addition, Gao Huaiyuan took a lot of money from those rich people in the name of doing things for the locals in the Liangzihu area to fund the military, and the problem of money and food was solved.

This time, whether it's the township braves who came to suppress the bandits, or the fishermen who came to help, they eat delicious food every day, and everyone gets money. This kind of treatment naturally boosts the morale of these people , vowing to wipe out the lake bandits failed.

But after finishing these things, Gao Huaiyuan did not immediately go to find the lake bandit's den of thieves and confront them, but first launched a military training operation in Niangzi Lake.

This time the suppression of bandits is different from the previous ones. Once the action is basically done on the water, the battle on the ground is not a problem. Gao Huaiyuan knows this better than anyone else. As for the bandits, he was afraid that not only would he not be able to deal with the lake bandits, but would be defeated by the lake bandits. In that case, his position as a county lieutenant would be over. If he lost his position, his reputation would be completely ruined.

And it was about the lives of hundreds of people, so Gao Huaiyuan naturally didn't dare to be careless, so the first step was to make the village warriors familiar with water warfare.

Gao Huaiyuan has no experience in water warfare. Although he knows water, his water quality is not too high. It is just self-protection. The kung fu he can perform in water is less than [-]% on land, and it is the first time he has commanded so many people in water. He didn't have much confidence in the battle, so for the sake of safety, he went to Marsh Mountain Township and asked people to visit the surrounding area, looking for people who were familiar with water warfare methods to help, and at the same time selected the best water-savvy people among the brave men in the village. A team of more than [-] people was selected in total, including village braves and some young local fishermen. After the battle started, they launched the team to protect the boats 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. Compared with it, the largest boat in his hand can only hold more than 20 people. He listened to the opinions of the old fishermen and specially arranged four or five boats. Such ships are specially responsible for dealing with the big ships of thieves.

The rest are divided into groups of five or ten, each assigned to a specially designated fishing boat, so as to avoid confusion when it comes to action, let these people get acquainted with those who drive the boat first.

After some arrangements, a certain amount of combat effectiveness has been basically formed. Fortunately, most of the southerners know how to swim, so there is no danger of too much chaos when the fight starts.

However, after some searching, Gao Huaiyuan did not find someone who was good at commanding water warfare to help, and in the end he could only solve the problem by himself, so he could only brainstorm and follow the methods of water warfare recorded in books to come. Conduct training.

Water battles in rivers and lakes are very particular, but regular water battles can't play a big role here, and their ships are not real warships, so after brainstorming, I would like to There are many tactics to deal with water thieves.

And the current water battles are nothing more than collisions, bows and arrows, arson and other methods of fighting with cold weapons. Gao Huaiyuan decided to make full use of the advantages of his own archers, reduce the time of boarding battles with the opponent as much as possible, and use the weapons at hand. For things, I collected a lot of long pennies, put them on iron hooks, and put them on the boats for backup. In addition, every boat should try to equip shieldmen to protect their own archers. Some spearmen, with slightly larger ships as the main force, came to use in the final decisive battle with the water pirates, initially building a grasshopper fleet.

After completing these arrangements, he began to lead his troops to conduct drills in the lake for several days. He invited the old local fishermen as imaginary enemies, and divided the troops to conduct duel training. This is also the way he can improve his combat effectiveness as quickly as possible.

After several rehearsals, the water battle rehearsal finally started to look a little more decent. The ships began to advance and retreat according to the schedule. This greatly enhanced Gao Huaiyuan's confidence.

It is impossible to completely cover up such an action. The news of the village soldiers practicing water warfare on the lake soon spread to the lair of the lake bandits through the eyes and ears of the lake bandits, which made Jiang even more angry. Yaozi became nervous. These days, after learning that the Daye County government sent troops to suppress Jiang Yaozi, Jiang Yaozi felt a little uneasy. The more he thought about it, the more he hated Zhao Baiyu. The days of peace and stability are lived in 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 of people, he would get angry and swear as soon as he raised his hand. Resentment made him more determined to kill him, so Zhao Baiyu also stepped up his actions and began to quietly win over the forces among the lake bandits, hoping to choose another day to kill Jiang Yaozi and replace him.

Jiang Yaozi was originally a very alert person, but during this period of time, he has focused his attention on the affairs of the government. They sent manpower to cruise around the island in boats to prevent them from being attacked by the government's townspeople. They took precautions against the outside world, but neglected the internal control.

Gao Huaiyuan's divorce plan was half successful. At least he had successfully disrupted the lake bandits and gradually divided them into two rows.

The thieves are thieves after all, they are just a group of rabble gathered together for the benefit, once such a situation occurs, the cohesion will naturally be much smaller, and Jiang Yaozi strictly ordered the thieves not to go ashore or go out to rob during this period, so that the whole day There was a lot of dissatisfaction among the subordinates who were accustomed to doing nothing.

The bosses can say that at least the women captured by them on the island can serve them, but the gangsters can't get a little fishy. Naturally, some people will feel dissatisfied, so under Zhao Baiyu's win over, many thieves gradually turned to After leaving Zhao Baiyu, he began to resent Jiang Yaozi, who had a bad temper.

In this incident, in the eyes of the thieves, Zhao Baiyu did not make any serious mistakes. He led people to massacre the village to vent his anger for his brothers, but Jiang Yaozi beat and scolded him again and again. Many people still sympathized with him from the bottom of their hearts. Zhao Baiyu's, plus the discomfort of being on the island, they always felt that Jiang Yaozi was too timid in this matter, and felt that with their strength and ability, even if the townspeople came, they would be fine. It was scary, so this kind of dissatisfaction began to accumulate.

Since this incident happened on the island, only a few people like Ma San who are in charge of purchasing things and inquiring about news on weekdays can go ashore on the island, so Gao Huaiyuan basically knows the situation on Thieves Island like the palm of his hand.

The reason why he was not in a hurry to send troops to attack the lair of the lake bandits was because they would get into trouble themselves. Only in this way could he be sure to wipe out the lake bandits in one fell swoop.

Seeing the weather getting colder day by day, gradually the village braves began to get a little impatient. Although they came with the government to suppress the bandits, they were still a bunch of farmers in essence, and they stayed on the water all day long. Drilling, and not going to fight with thieves, there are still things to do at home, so dissatisfaction began to grow, and gradually some people began to complain in private, thinking that this Gao Xianwei is only mediocre, and the wind is too loud and the rain is little. , came here but dare not look for thieves 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 be able to do it ourselves. The hearts of the people are gone! Dong Qiang, is there any news from Ma San now?"

Dong Qiang followed Gao Huaiyuan during this time, 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, while Gao Huaiyuan had his own property. , not worrying about money, never thought about how to entrap the people, earn money for themselves, and never put on airs for their subordinates, generous, and never withheld money, so I think Gao Huaiyuan is a good official, yes Gao Huaiyuan respected him more and more.

"Returning to my lord, Ma San's side is basically the same. Now Zhao Baiyu has hated Jiang Yaozi to the bone, and for more than a month, the thieves have been suffocating in the old den, and many people have begun to feel dissatisfied with Jiang Yaozi. Emotions, it can be said that everything is ready and only owes the east wind!" Dong Qiang bowed to Gao Huaiyuan and replied that he had been in touch with Ma San during this time, and he knew everything about the Lake Bandits very well, and he also felt that it was time to It should be almost there.

"Remember! You can't let Zhao Baiyu accomplish everything in one fell swoop. It's better to let them bite the dog and do it yourself first. When they get into a mess, we can reap the benefits of the fisherman!" Gao Huaiyuan sat on the couch and wiped the water. Holding a Liuyun scimitar, he put the knife back in its sheath, raised his hand and threw the knife to Dong Qiang who was standing in front of him.