It's a pity that Cao Cao was still a step late after all.

When the vanguard of Cao's army, the whole army of the tiger and leopard cavalry, arrived under the county seat of Fenggao County, the banner on the head of the city was replaced by the banner of Liu Beijun.

The person who once again made great contributions in the battle of Cao Liu was not Zhao Yun, who had already returned to Liu Beijun, but the young general Jin Hou.

The two generals sent troops to attack Taishan County at the same time, but they discussed before the battle and made a division of labor in advance.

Not only were the soldiers of Zhao Yun's army relatively large - fifteen thousand soldiers, but they had been following Zhao Yun for a long time, and they were all well-trained. But Jin Hou's subordinates are different, most of them are Tuntian guests who have just finished their work in Tuntian. Moreover, they have only been trained by Jin Hou for less than a year, during which time for farming and harvesting is removed.

Therefore, after discussion, the two unanimously decided that Zhao Yunbu would gnaw the hard bones - the Taishan County Taishou Lu Qian Division, which was known as the elite soldiers of Mount Tai in the hands of Cao Jun. And Jin Hou commanded the troops to eliminate the Sun brothers.

However, to the surprise of all the surrounding forces, the Sun brothers, who thought that with the help of Mount Tai's danger, they would be able to resist a million male soldiers, only one day after Jin Hou led his troops to the foot of Mount Tai, Jin Hou sent someone to return the heads of the Sun brothers to Zang Ba.

This is what Liu Bei ordered Jin Hou in advance.

In this battle, how the Jinhou Department broke through the danger so quickly, broke through the cottage, and killed the Sun brothers has become an eternal mystery.

First, in this battle, Jin Hou not only killed the Sun brothers, but also burned the entire cottage with a fire. All the thieves in the cottage and the old and weak women and children carried or abducted by these thieves up the mountain were also burned to death by the fire he lit with his own hands.

Second, Jin Hou personally took his personal guards up the mountain to complete the two tasks of killing the Sun brothers and setting fire, as for how Jin Hou did these two things, even Jin Hou's subordinates who stayed under the mountain were not clear.

After Liu Bei learned about this, he neither sent someone to ask Jin Hou how to skillfully break the heavily guarded cottage, nor did he blame Jin Hou for killing innocents indiscriminately in the cottage.

If Jin Hou did this in a city, Liu Bei might not be able to allow him to serve under his command anymore, because Jin Hou's behavior would greatly damage Liu Bei's reputation of benevolence and destroy the character that Liu Bei had always set up.

However, Jin Hou killed all the thieves in just a cottage. The result is the same, but the situation is completely different.

Not to mention the scholars, even if the people heard about it, not too many people would point out that Jin Hou had indiscriminately killed innocents.

The reason why Zang Ba was called Taishan thieves by the people of the time, rather than Taishan Army, was because they would carry out some bandit behaviors on weekdays to make up for the lack of various materials in various departments.

Even the people of some counties in Taishan County gritted their teeth and hated them when they mentioned the Sun brothers and their troops.

However, at this time, Liu Bei finally understood why Jin Jue would let such a young man who was good at fighting not need it, and would rather release him back to Xuzhou.

Although Jin Hou is young, because of his background and deep hatred for Cao Cao, this child has an irrepressible killing intent in his bones, and the generals who love to kill are often very good at fighting, but such generals often do not die well.

Therefore, Jin Jue believes that Jin Hou is so thirsty for killing, not only will he kill many people in Yizhou, but he will also be more likely to involve the soldiers of Jin Jue's army to die with him. Rather than letting Jin Hou be left idle by Jin Jue's side and no longer be reused, it is better to release Jin Hou to Xuzhou and let him lead his troops to Cao Jun and cause huge casualties to the people of Yanzhou.

Unlike Jin Hou, Jin Jue hated Cao Cao, who drove his father out of Yanzhou, and hated the Han Dynasty as Emperor Han Xian, but he did not hate the people under Cao Cao's rule. But Jin Hou hated Cao Cao, the military generals under Cao Cao, and the people of the entire Yanzhou and Yingchuan County.

At the beginning, when Jin Jue released Jin Hou back to Xuzhou, he once gave Liu Bei a letter, in his heart, specifically mentioned Jin Hou, although it was not clearly said that Jin Hou had some murderous character, but Jin Jue also pointed out that Jin Hou This child can be used, but it is not very useful. If Liu Bei asked him to continue to lead the troops to fight, he could only give him 10,000 soldiers at most.

At this time, Liu Bei finally understood the meaning of the sentence in Jin Jue's original letter.

After this mysterious battle, after Liu Bei figured it out, he agreed with Jin Jue's judgment in his heart. Therefore, in the future, no matter how great Jin Hou made in Liu Bei's army, Liu Bei would only increase Jin Hou's personal official position and reward, but he would not increase the total number of soldiers in Jin Hou's department. He was also afraid that Jin Hou would trap his army in the future.

At the same time, Zhao Yun, who had more troops, hit a hard nail here in Fenggao County, the county seat that Lu Qian insisted on.

Lü Qian's arrival in Taishan County was also not long, but as soon as he entered the country, he successfully booby-trapped many small-scale bandits in the territory, and lured people from the mountains who were not good to live in seclusion. Through some rectification, Lü Qian pulled out the elite from the subordinates of the mountain people and bandits, and as a result, the soldiers under his command surpassed all the counties controlled by Cao Cao in terms of combat effectiveness, and were called Taishan soldiers by the people of the time.

Originally, the forces in Lu Qian's hands were equal to Zhao Yun's troops, and Lu Qian had the power to defend the city, and it was very difficult for Zhao Yun to capture Fenggao City, not to mention, it was even more difficult for Cao Cao to send reinforcements to rescue Fenggao City.

This is not Zhao Yun's lack of personal ability, but that he is limited by historical limitations and cannot know more and more ways to break the city.

On a dark night when the moon in the sky was obscured by thick black clouds, just when Lu Qian and Zhao Yun were fighting wits and courage around the walls of Fenggao City, a fire extinguished the Sun brothers, and Jin Hou, who had been entrenched in the cottage for a long time, suddenly took the 10,000 Tuntian soldiers led by him to raid Fenggao City at night, and really succeeded in breaking Fenggao City in one fell swoop.

Seeing that the city was broken and the situation was not good, Lu Qian hurriedly led his elite soldiers to break out from the north gate of Fenggao City, preparing to flee to Jibei Kingdom. But he didn't want to, the five hundred cavalry under Jin Jue's command were already waiting there.

Five hundred cavalrymen hung themselves tightly on Lü Qian and the elite soldiers who had escaped from the city with him, and launched a surprise attack on the remnants of Lü Qian in the early morning of the second day.

At this time, the so-called elite soldiers of Mount Tai had not eaten anything for a day and a night, and they were not only hungry and thirsty, but also the feeling of being hung behind them by the cavalry all the time, made them all become like frightened birds, and they could collapse at any time.