However, several waves of scouts who were sent out in succession reported that the Yu Forbidden Department that they wanted to 'take care of' was attacking Donghai County, and so far they had not found any movement on the other side, which made Jin Hou very confused.

If it was Xiahou Yuan who attacked Donghai County from the western border, Jin Hou would definitely suspect that Xiahou Yuan was deceiving, using stratagem to find a breakthrough from the defensive line where Mi Fang was stationed.

However, the grain road in the rear was so disturbed by the enemy, and Yu Ban actually only concentrated his forces to continue to attack Mi Fang's defensive front, which didn't make sense at all!

Could it be that Hou Long and the soldiers he left behind had already lost the battle? Was it even completely annihilated by Cao's army?

Jin Hou was still not completely sure of Hou Long's ability to lead troops.

After all, this was the first time that Hou Long had led his troops to participate in the war alone, not to mention, in this army, there were Cao Jun who had nearly five times the number of soldiers in the Jin Hou Army.

From Jin Jue, Jin Hou listened to Gongzi's comments on Cao Cao's current generals.

For example, Xiahou Yuan, the characteristics of his leading troops, just one word, fast!

Even if Xiahou Yuan led the infantry, he could do it

For example, Yu Ban, he has the characteristics of leading soldiers, he is disciplined, and he is even known as Xiao Cheng's ignorance. However, Jin Jue's evaluation of Yu Ban is not high, from the fact that he refused to commit suicide in the battle of the flooded Seventh Army, but chose to surrender to Guan Yu, we know that Yu Ban is a serious person on the outside, but he is actually very selfish in his heart, very afraid of death, and his will to fight is not strong.

Therefore, Jin Jue said that if in the future, if Jin Hou encounters Yu Ban on the battlefield and leads troops to fight against him, don't think about using strange soldiers to defeat him.

At that time, the competition between the two sides was the personal willpower of their respective generals and soldiers, and Jin Hou had to maintain continuous pressure on the forbidden department from the front, attacking instead of defending, and at the same time defending. If Jin Hou can hold on and not be defeated by Yu Ban, the one who will win in the end must be himself.

Now, after the tempering of the Second Battle of Xuzhou, the fighting will of the Xuzhou soldiers, especially in the face of the Cao army, if they did not suffer a major defeat at the beginning, there is no problem at all.

This point, after less than a year of training, Jin Hou has deeply felt it from every Tuntian soldier.

Without saying anything all the way, the two led five hundred cavalry and hurried to the assembly place agreed by Jin Hou and Hou Long in advance.

"The last general and others will meet General Yamen, Lord Overseer!" As soon as they met, Hou Long, Hou Hu and that Cao Lan all knelt on one knee in front of Jin Hou and Liu Ji in an orderly manner, and saluted.

After they finished speaking, Hou Long immediately lay on the ground, kowtowed three times, and pleaded: "The general handed over the army to the last general, but the last general fought a big defeat. This is all the fault of the last general, and it has nothing to do with anyone else, please general, the overseer will punish the last general alone! ”

When Liu Ji heard this, he was taken aback, they had only been gone for nearly half a month, and they had lost the battle.

Before leaving, he was present, and Jin Hou specially instructed Hou Long to let him mainly latent during this time, and if he encountered ten percent certainty, he could send troops to harass Cao Jun's grain route.

How can a good one be defeated?

"Hmmm! You two get up first! Cao Lan, tell me about the situation! Jin Hou sat on the back of a good horse that Mi Zhu personally gave him, which was said to be a thoroughbred horse from Xiliang, nodded, and when he heard Hou Long's words, his face did not change, he waved his hand at Hou Hu and Cao Lan, and commanded.

As soon as Hou Hu and Cao Lan stood up, before they could reply, Hou Xiaoyong over there couldn't help but exclaim: "Wow! Deputy Tiger General, why did you get hurt? ”

You know, Hou Hu is the first fierce general in the Jin Hou army, Hou Long was not injured, Hou Hu actually hung an arm, standing there, his spirit was a little sluggish, how could he not be surprised?

Jin Hou was furious when he heard it, his eyes were not blind, Hou Hu was injured, couldn't he see?

And the reason why he was still able to maintain such composure now was because he found that the number of soldiers standing behind Hou Long and the three of them had not decreased much.

The number of soldiers mentioned here does not include the more than 4,000 troops of the Cao army that was defeated by Jin Hou before, but only refers to the 1,000 Xuzhou Tuntian soldiers he brought from Xiapi.

Jin Hou, this kid can do quick calculations, and he can estimate the approximate number of troops at a glance, and the error is within ten people. In the previous battle, only seven Xuzhou soldiers were killed, and the number of wounded was relatively large, no more than 20 people, and the injuries suffered by these people were treated by him personally, not only survived, but also could continue to follow the troops.

No, Jin Hou saw more than a dozen wounded soldiers who had personally stitched up the wounds of the other party just now?

Now, after Jin Hou's estimate, the number of soldiers in this army is still more than 1,000.

Qihou Xiaoyong has no rules in the army, talking nonsense, Jin Hou ordered: "There are no rules, this is a military camp, not a home, what are you arguing about, come here, pull this kid down, and the cane will be punished for ten ,...... No, the five military sticks! ”

Soon, Jin Hou's personal soldiers stood up from behind Hou Long, and without saying a word, dragged Hou Xiaoyong, the kid, off the horse, and ripped off his pants in public.

Everyone in the army was shocked by this scene, Jin Hou governed the army strictly, and everyone had already personally understood it, so it was not surprising.

And after the 'outsider' Cao Lan saw it, she stood calmly and replied to Jin Hou: "Qiqi Golden Tooth Gate, things are like this,...... And so it is. ”

After listening to Cao Lan's story, Jin Hou understood what happened.

Speaking of which, the 'culprit' of this matter is not Hou Long or Hou Hu, but Jin Hou himself and the Cao Lan in front of him.

Let's talk about Cao Lan's responsibility first.

After Jin Hou and Liu Ji left, Cao Lan also left immediately.

This is because before leaving, Jin Hou gave Cao Lan a task and asked him to return to Xudu immediately, kill a man surnamed Cao or Xiahou at random, and bring the population to meet him.

This task is the name of a later film "Casting Names".

Killing a man who is related to Cao Cao, in fact, this task just sounds a little difficult, but it is really not difficult to do, especially to let Cao Lan, a person who was originally surnamed Cao, do it.

There are two reasons for this,

First, Jin Hou only asked Cao Lan to kill two men with the surname Cao Cao knew, and he didn't need to kill people who were too famous.

Second, Cao Lan was originally surnamed Cao, even if Cao Cao didn't know him, everyone from Cao Hong's branch knew him.

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