On the same day, Xiahou Shang, who had been searching for this defeated army in Pengcheng, also received a report from his scouts, saying that he had discovered the whereabouts of this army, but the other party seemed to be fleeing towards the territory of Xiapi without disguise.

Through the interrogation of Cao Hun's heavy soldiers, Xiahou Shang at this time had completely grasped the ins and outs of the whole matter, and his younger brother Xiahou Shu was completely implicated in Cao Hun's waste and died.

The grievances between Cao Lan and Cao Hong, the Cao family, were so famous that even the young Xiahou Shang had heard of them.

Things are very bloody, Cao Lan was a childhood sweetheart when she was a child, and when she grew up to be thirteen years old, she was once forcibly occupied by Cao Hong's uncle Cao Yu while she was drinking. This kind of thing is commonplace for the family in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and it is not surprising at all.

Perhaps, if Cao Yu had been a little nicer to this unknown woman, Cao Lan would not have hated Cao Yu so much, and then hated the entire Cao family deeply. It's just that Cao Yu has always been a master who eats dry and wipes clean, and does not admit accounts, plus Cao Yu and Cao Hong have the same characteristics, greedy for money and stingy, therefore, this woman has never taken care of this girl from being by a strong woman, to pregnancy, and then to death in childbirth.

Since ancient times, the people do not fight with officials, not to mention, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, local families were even able to influence the rights of local officials, especially after the eunuchs like the Cao family, no local officials dared to control them.

Later, during the war, most of the Cao family followed Cao Cao to Yanzhou, and the girl's parents and relatives also died in the war.

For the sake of a woman, Cao Lan actually wanted to assassinate Cao Yu infatuatedly, but as a result, she was discovered in advance. Fortunately, this incident was originally Cao Yu's loss in doing things, and they had relatives, so they couldn't kill Cao Lan for an outsider! Even if Cao Lan is just a concubine of Cao Yu's lineage!

Unexpectedly, Cao Lan has engraved this hatred in her heart, until now she was finally detonated by Jin Hou, who is said to have been Jin Jue's personal guard, he not only killed Cao Yu's son Cao Hun with his own hands, but also infiltrated Xu Du to kill his younger brother Xiahou Shu.

How can Xiahou Shang not hate this?

Xiahou Shang's parents died early, and their brothers have been dependent on each other since they were children, and their feelings are very deep, and he also knows that his younger brother relies on the power of him and his uncle Xiahou Yuan, and usually acts a little absurdly, but there is absolutely no harm to anyone's life.

"Listen to Ben Sima's order, the whole army will immediately move, there must be no mistake! Dare to catch up with the enemy before they flee back to Xiapi! "At the moment of the great enemy, how could it be easy to let them go, so after Xiahou Shang heard the report, he immediately ordered.

On Cao Pi's order, Xiahou Shang, who had solved the hidden dangers of Cao's army's grain route, was temporarily appointed by Cao Pi as Sima of other departments, so Xiahou Shang called himself this Sima.

"No!" When Xiahou Shang's guards heard this, they immediately went out to give the order.

Very much, Xiahou Shang followed closely behind with more than 7,000 soldiers under his command.

In order to win the attraction of the 500 cavalry of Jin Hou's army and divert Xiahou Shang's pursuers, in the process of retreating, Hou Xiaoyong's troops really did not hide the army's marching route, and advanced unhurriedly to the south generously.

Just when Xiahou Shangshuai's troops were about to catch up with this Liu Bei's army of less than 1,000 people, they suddenly found that they had been following the butt of this army to eat ashes, Xiahou Shangbu was chasing closely, Hou Xiaoyong and they ran fast, Xiahou Shangbu stopped to camp and rest, Hou Xiaoyong They also stopped to camp and rest.

Attacking the camp, that doesn't exist, Hou Xiaoyong and they don't take advantage of the night to sneak attack Xiahou Shangbu, Xiahou Shang is already thankful, this is what he realized after the third battle of Xuzhou.

Jin Hou learned from Jin Jue a unique trick on how to cure the night blindness of his soldiers, and in addition, when he trained his troops, he deliberately trained to fight overnight, so in this regard, it was more advantageous for Jin Hou's trained soldiers to participate in battles at night.

'Bird Walking Tactics', this is the special method of fighting that Jin Jue gave his name and gave to each of the guards.

The purpose of this tactic is twofold, that is, to use the legs of the soldiers they have trained.

First, to completely crush the enemy forces that are chasing after them;

Second, to attract the attention of the enemy army and act as a decoy force.

To be honest, the army trained by Jin Hou is not strong in fighting skills, and it is actually very poor, but in terms of running ability, in the land of the Central Plains, except for cavalry, it is this army.

Therefore, on the road of the chase between the two armies, it has always been the Jinhou Department that is leading the Xiahou Shangbu to play, and Xiahou Shang has been riding a horse, so he still hasn't felt it until the soldiers in the army began to fall behind, and when the situation became more and more serious, he realized that the situation had deviated.

"Master Sima, you can't chase it like this anymore. The enemy generals deliberately led our army in the direction of the lower Pi country, and if the soldiers continued to chase after them like this, without the enemy attacking, the soldiers of our army themselves would collapse first. I didn't dare to deceive Lord Sima, and my subordinates only found out today that some soldiers in the army had begun to deliberately fall behind. Especially those heavy soldiers who were rescued by our army. At this point, the two lieutenants finally couldn't help it, and reported to Xiang Yu at the same time.

At the beginning, Xiahou Shang only thought about revenge in his heart, and did not realize that his troops had actually fallen into a crisis, so he asked impatiently: "There are deserters, kill them, you are all old soldiers, don't you even understand this?" ”

"Lord Sima, of course we understand the military regulations. However, you must also understand that the army you are leading is either a recruit or a baggage soldier, and it has not been trained for a long time at all. We will kill one, ten, or a hundred deserters today, but if we continue to chase them like this, if there are a thousand deserters in the camp tomorrow, may I ask Master Sima, do we continue to kill like this according to military regulations? The other lieutenant general was a little short-tempered, and as soon as he heard Xiahou Shang's words, he immediately said a word.

"What, is the situation in the army already so serious?" As soon as he heard this, Xiahou Shang realized that the situation was wrong and asked in surprise.

Another lieutenant general pulled his colleague and didn't let him continue, he explained himself: "Master Sima, start first, there are only a few soldiers in the army who are not deserters because they can't run and fall behind. However, in recent days, there have been cases of soldiers running to death in the army, which has triggered a wave of deserters. ”