The Three Kingdoms Fight for the Deer

Chapter 119 The Water Thief Attacks
After sending Sun Ce and Zhou Yu away, Li Yuan returned to Lujiang. In the past two months, Lujiang has regained its former vitality. Yuan Huan did not disappoint Li Yuan. The houses are available, and the temporary shacks built beside the city walls are gradually being dismantled, because they don’t look very beautiful after all.

Yan Xiang has also made a lot of progress during these days. With his support, the salary of Lujiang boatmen is much higher than before. In the past, boatmen built ships for ordinary fishermen. Now Li Yuan wants to build a navy and fleet and needs a lot of ships. , such as walking boats, boats, and building boats, these boats are essential equipment for the navy.

Li Yuan plans to recruit a large number of boatmen, and he is also opening a school in the local area, so that experienced boatmen can teach them personally. He wants to take all these boatmen as his own and work for him. Important, so he attaches great importance to the development of the navy, so no matter how much money he spends, he will build a huge navy to prepare for the future attack on Jingzhou and Jiangdong, and it will also play a certain role in business development.

In the prefect's mansion, Li Yuan was discussing with Cheng Yu.

"My lord, with the support and help of Yuan Huan, the Lujiang River has gradually returned to its former prosperity. We can also start to form a navy." Cheng Yu knew what Li Yuan was thinking, and he wanted to form a navy long before he attacked Lujiang. military.

"That's right, two months ago I asked Yan Xiang to help recruit boatmen and build a large number of ships just to form a naval army. However, it is easy to recruit soldiers, but it is not so easy to find experienced naval generals." Li Yuan was sincere in his heart. What is worrying is the generals of the navy, without the generals of the navy, they can't form combat effectiveness at all.

"My lord, I heard that you are very good at swimming, why don't you teach the soldiers under your command how to fight in the navy." Cheng Yu heard that Li Yuan fought against the Jinfan bandit Gan Ning when he went to Danyang, and that his water skills are very good. .

"It's different. Although I'm good at swimming, I don't know anything about naval warfare. I don't even know how to operate a warship. How can I command a navy soldier?" Li Yuan was still very self-aware.

"My lord, didn't you once say that a man named Gan Ning is very familiar with naval tactics and might come to join you?" Cheng Yu suddenly remembered this matter.

"That's right, Gan Ning is indeed a good candidate, but he wants to seek refuge with Liu Biao. I think he will be rejected by Liu Biao and may come to me, but I'm not sure whether he will come." Although Li Yuan had This idea, but Gan Ning in "history" did turn to Sun Quan after serving Liu Biao for a period of time. He didn't know if he could change the direction of history.

When the two were thinking about it, suddenly a soldier came to report that hundreds of water thieves had invaded, and they had already occupied Lujiang Port.

Li Yuan and Cheng Yu were shocked when they heard the words. They didn't expect water bandits to attack them not long after Lujiang was captured. They haven't formed a navy army yet, and Lujiang's defense force is not high. There are only more than 5000 troops at present.

"Go and let Ji Ling and Liang Gang gather soldiers and go to Lujiang Port to prepare for the battle." Li Yuan ordered.

"Yes, my lord," the soldier led the way.

"Zhongde, wait for me here, I'll go to Lujiang Port to have a look."

"My lord, there are a lot of water thieves, and you may be in danger if you go to Lujiang." Cheng Yu showed a worried look on his face.

"Hahahaha, I have fought countless battles, how can I be afraid of little water thieves, Zhongde will wait for me to return from victory." Li Yuan smiled brightly, and then set off.

Li Yuan went back to change his armor, rode on his horse, went to the school field to join Ji Ling, and then led an army of four thousand to Lujiang Port.

On the way, Li Yuan asked, "Ji Ling, have you ever been attacked by water thieves before?"

"I have never encountered it before. The Lujiang River has a large army, and water thieves dare not come easily. Even if they want to rob property, they will only rob it in the surrounding county towns. Now that they suddenly attack, I am afraid that they know that Yuan Shu is dead, and there is no heavy guard on the Lujiang River, so That's why you're so bold." Ji Ling analyzed that when Yuan Shu was there, there were tens of thousands of soldiers in Lujiang, and water thieves with only a few hundred soldiers would not attack them as long as they had brains.

"However, our army is not good at fighting on the water. Even if we have ten times more troops than the enemy army, I'm afraid we can't deal with them." Li Yuan was not afraid of fighting the water thieves who came ashore. In the middle of the river, there is nothing to do.

After hearing this, Ji Ling was a little ashamed. He claimed to be a veteran on the battlefield, but he had been in Lujiang for so long and never thought about training a navy, and he didn't even know how to swim. He felt admiration, but because the days are too hasty, the current navy has not yet formed, there are only more than a dozen warships, most of which are newly built, only some local soldiers can operate them, and none of the other soldiers can. If you want to fight water thieves on the water, your combat power will be greatly reduced.

Lujiang River is not far from Lujiang Port, and within half an hour Li Yuan arrived with his troops and saw that Lujiang Port had already been occupied by hundreds of water thieves. It seems that such amateurs can occupy the very important Lujiang Port. I have to say that Lujiang's water defense force is really weak.

It was because Yuan Shu had never thought about developing to Jiangdong, nor did he think that there would be water thieves coming, so he had no idea of ​​forming a navy. Lujiang Port was dispensable to him, so he didn't focus on defense.It was also because of Li Yuan's negligence that these water thieves took advantage of it.

The [-] troops stopped by the river, a hundred steps away from the pirates, and there were many boats on the river, which should have been brought here by the pirates.

"The brave water thief dared to invade the Lujiang River. Now that my army is here, you should get off your horse and surrender quickly, otherwise don't blame me, Ji Ling, for being rude." Ji Ling slapped his horse and scolded, intending to suppress the water thief with his troops.

The water thief didn't panic when he saw a large army coming, instead he retreated slowly from the land to the ship in an orderly manner. He looked very disciplined and didn't look like a water thief at all.

Ji Ling saw that the water thief was about to run away and wanted to chase him, so Li Yuan stopped him and said, "Don't chase, I think these water thieves are not simple, they have a certain amount of advance and retreat, they should be very familiar with water warfare, they fled to the river We are not rivals."

"Can we just watch them flee?" Ji Ling felt very aggrieved. He had ten times more troops than the opponent, but he couldn't help the enemy.

Li Yuan went up to check and found that although the soldiers guarding Lujiang Port were injured, they were all slightly wounded and no one died in battle. He couldn't help but feel a little strange. Standing by the river and looking into the distance, he suddenly found that these water thieves looked familiar.

Suddenly, the water thieves who were supposed to leave came back and drove the boats to the shore. Ji Ling immediately led the soldiers and horses to guard Li Yuan, worried that the water thieves were deceitful.

(End of this chapter)