The current place where the fleet is located is in Guangping Prefecture.

The rivers in Guangping Prefecture are sparse, so the drought will become particularly serious when it gets into trouble. Because of this, even if the people here become bandits, they usually become bandits, not water bandits.

After all...there are no water-free people here.

Therefore, Zheng Yi felt that he should be safe, but they were in danger.

The first person to discover the water bandits was the boat in the front. After they found the water bandits, they blew a special whistle.

It was a little harsh, piercing the night sky with a shrill sound, resounding above the canal, and immediately awakened all the people who were sleeping on the boat.

Jiang Zhen turned over and got up from the bed. He had heard the whistle before, knew what the whistle meant, and knew that they were in danger.

"Brother Jin, hurry up and put on the clothes and go to the deck." Jiang Zhen said to Brother Zhao, and then put on his clothes in the shortest time and came outside the cabin where Zheng Yi lived.

"Young Master Zheng." Jiang Zhen called out, and as soon as he finished speaking, the cabin door was opened.

The one who opened the door was Zheng Yi's servant, but Zheng Yi was still busy putting on his clothes. Seeing Jiang Zhen, he immediately asked, "How is it outside?"

"The specific situation is not clear. It should be that the boat in front of him discovered the bandits." Jiang Zhen opened the window of the cabin where Zheng Yi was located. This cabin was located above the large ship and could clearly see the situation outside.

Under the bright moonlight, Jiang Zhen clearly saw many stars of firelight moving towards this side.

"There are a lot of water bandits, and we are surrounded." Jiang Zhen said again.

Some shouts came from several other ships and floated into the cabin, but they couldn't hear them clearly because the wind was too strong.

In ancient times, communication was inconvenient, and it was night now, and even the news from several ships was not very convenient to convey.

Zheng Yi felt irritated, but Jiang Zhen was very calm: "Mr. Zheng, I am here to ask for my life. Can I let me act freely later?"

"Free action?" Zheng Yi asked in confusion.

"I'm leaving this ship." Jiang Zhen explained.

He had no experience in commanding water wars, but he was used to taking a few people to attack.

The moonlight was very good tonight. Zheng Yi saw Jiang Zhen’s expression through the moonlight and subconsciously said: “Yes.”

"I'll make arrangements right away," Jiang Zhen said, flipping through the window.

Zheng Yi quickly came to the window and saw that Jiang Zhen had already landed on the deck with some force.

On the deck, Jiang Zhen had gathered about thirty people, arranged neatly, and Jiang Zhen kicked over a few belated ones.

Zheng Yi looked and sorted out, and finally put on his clothes. At this time, Lu Da rushed over, and when he arrived, he became dissatisfied: "Then Jiang was much closer than me, why didn't he come to protect the young master?"

The servant beside Zheng Yi looked at Lu Da in a complicated way: "Master Lu, Manager Jiang has come and left again."

Lu Da's expression froze.

At this time, Zheng Yi turned around from the window: "Jiang Zhen and his people have gathered on the deck."

Lu Da was immediately embarrassed. He quickly walked to the window and saw that Jiang Zhen's people were already gathering on the deck.

But his people... aren't those who run out in a hurry with their clothes?

In fact, the people under Lu Da Zheng have experience and have performed very well. They soon came to their respective positions, but they were inevitably messy and seemed to be not as neat as Jiang Zhen's men.

At this moment, compared to his subordinates, Jiang Zhen actually wanted Lu Da’s subordinates more. After all, none of his subordinates had experienced a water battle.

But now that's the case, I'll have to try it.

Fortunately... a large part of the people he gathered were thugs, and at least they dared to take action.

Jiang Zhen named a few names and quickly called out seven or eight people, all of whom were good at water: "You go into the water with me, stay the others, and be directed by Brother Zhao Jin!"

"Yes!" Everyone responded one after another. Not listening to Jiang Zhen's words would have serious consequences. They were already used to listening to Jiang Zhen's words.

"Brother Zhao Jin, protect Mr. Zheng!" Jiang Zhen glanced at Brother Zhao Jin and asked Brother Zhao Jin to protect Mr. Zheng, just to make Brother Zhao Jin closer to Zheng Yi, and there was the safest place.

"Yes!" Brother Zhao Jin responded. He actually wanted to follow Jiang Zhen, but at this time, if he didn't listen to Jiang Zhen, he would only cause trouble for Jiang Zhen.

Jiang Zhen glanced at Brother Zhao Jin and then at the He brothers. Before many people could react and the water bandits were approaching, they took their subordinates to fall into the water quietly.

The bandits were getting closer and closer to them! It was densely packed, and everyone could see hundreds of ships!

Most of these ships are not big and have very fast speeds. They approached quickly, not only surrounding the Zheng family's fleet, but also splitting the five large ships of the Zheng family.

"Who is the brother here?" Lu Da stood up and shouted loudly.

Many water bandits and bandits will not kill all the caravans. As long as they say hello to them and give them tolls, they will release them. After all, if they really want to kill all the merchants, they will have no "business" in the future.

Therefore, Lu Da and Zheng Yi’s first plan after encountering this situation was to discuss with others.

After Lu Da spoke, soon, someone shouted on a relatively large boat not far away: "You don't have to get in touch with us anymore. Our leader said, if you know what you are and leave the ship and cargo, we will let you live a life path. Otherwise... don't blame us for not having a place of burial."

Lu Da was shocked and said, "I counted to ten, and we'll do it!"

He then took action after counting ten... The other party had no intention of discussing with them at all. He made up his mind to rob him!

Zheng Yi had also encountered danger when he went out to go shopping, but now... he saw more and more small boats around him, and he couldn't help but turn a black face.

"Young Master?" Lu Da looked at Zheng Yi.

"Be alert! Get ready for battle!" Zheng Yi said.

The other ships in his fleet were mainly loaded with grain and cloth, and they were thrown away if they were lost. The cards on the main ship, but the treasures he wanted to make a fortune must not be lost.

Moreover, even in this situation, even if he wants nothing, the water bandits may not let them go.

I don't know why these water bandits are like this this time...

Zheng Yi couldn't understand why these water bandits were unwilling to negotiate, but Jiang Zhen already knew the reason.

When he brought people into the water, the bandits had not yet approached, so no one noticed that he had gotten into the water. It was precisely because of this that he was able to take people to quietly approach the bandits' ships.

Of course, this is also due to the darkness of the sky and his adequate preparation.

During the more than 20 days when Jiang Zhen was wandering around Hecheng County, he brought many people into the water. Before coming out this time, he made a lot of preparations.

At this moment, everyone who went into the water not only had a thin bamboo pole that could make them exhale under the water, but everyone had thin threads tied to their hands and was led by him to ensure that they would not go the wrong way...

Jiang Zhen slowly emerged from the water next to the hull, and he happened to hear the water bandits discussing this action.

“Those five ships look really good.”

"That's why the boss fell in love with it."

"With these five ships, we can do bigger business in the future!"

"These ships are said to be full of food, so everyone doesn't have to go hungry."

...

It turned out that these water bandits had been entrenched in the waters for a long time. Their numbers were increasing and their strength was getting stronger and stronger. They wanted to build a few large ships, so they disagreed with Zheng Yi's request to give them some tolls and planned to capture Zheng Yi's fleet in one fell swoop.

They also knew that it would be impossible for such a caravan to agree to give them all the ship and cargo and then leave, so they had no intention of negotiating at all and had already made up their minds to take action.

"One, two, three...eight, nine, ten!" The people counted in the water bandits quickly counted to ten, and before he could count, the water bandits had actually started to take action.

These bandits spoke in dialects. While shouting that the people in the Zheng family's fleet could not understand much, they began to shoot arrows at the big ship and then climbed onto the ship.

Their bows and arrows are actually of poor quality and poor archery skills, but even so, the people on the boat still need to avoid them.

"Continue to drive the ship and strive for a breakthrough!" Zheng Yi said.

"Young Master, they couldn't break through, they tampered with each other in the river." Lu Dao, the river in front was filled with a section, and as for the back... there were too many boats behind them.

Zheng Yi's face turned pale.

With the moonlight, Zheng Yi could see that the boat near the big ship was full of people. Those people looked at them greedily, their eyes shining in the dark night.

"Can we escape?" Zheng Yi asked.

Lu Da paused and said, "Don't worry, young master, we will definitely protect you to break through!"

Is he able to protect himself to break through? Zheng Yi's face looked a little ugly, but looking at the huge number of water bandits outside, he had to admit that his ship and cargo might really have to be explained here.

"Get the food!"

"Kill those profiteers!"

"Kill a person and get ten taels of silver, rush!"

...

The bandits shouted that someone had already climbed onto the boat.

Most people in Guangping Mansion do not have water properties, but water properties can be practiced.

After a drought in Guangping Prefecture last year, someone came here to be a water bandit. At first, he only robbed some small boats, but later a very capable person came out and gathered all the water bandits in this area together. Then they could rob the big boats, and the water quality of the big guys was getting better and better.

"Young Master, hide behind." Lu Dadao, after he asked Zheng Yi to dodge, he was about to command the battle when he found that someone had fought with the water bandits.

Brother Zhao Jin led Jiang Zhen's men, each of them stood by the boat with a bamboo pole. As soon as the bandits emerged, they would poke them with the bamboo pole.

The sharpened bamboo pole is even easier to use than a big knife at this time.

As for the bows and arrows shot by the bandits... those people didn't know where to get some tables, chairs and wooden boards, which could block their heads, faces and chests.

They were in groups of three, and they both took bamboo poles and shields, and they actually poked many water bandits down.

The bandits who fell down screamed, and after they fell down, they suppressed their own people. For a moment, no one dared to climb up from there.
To be continued...