Hua An thought about it again and again, and decided to disperse the troops stationed in the cities of Hanoi County around the cities, and strengthen the patrol of the surrounding villages with hundreds of people, so as to discover the thieves in a timely manner, and use fireworks as a signal to notify the nearby army to encircle and suppress the thieves.

Of course, the most important thing is to send a large number of scouts to investigate the pattern of the thieves' movements, so as to facilitate Hua'an's overall deployment.

Hua'an's order reached the defenders of the cities as quickly as possible, and soon, the defenders of each city dispersed the army according to Hua'an's order, strengthened the patrol of the surrounding villages and concentrated areas, and encouraged the people of the villages to carry out the necessary defense.

Sure enough, with the efforts of the Jin army soldiers and many people, the actions of the thieves in various places were greatly restricted, and some of the thieves were resisted by the people of the village when they invaded the village, and they could not be broken for a while, and the smoke rising from the village dock fort soon attracted many Jin army patrols, so that the thieves who were not superior in numbers were attacked by the internal and external layers.

Although these thieves were highly powerful, the lack of men and horses was a disadvantage that they could not overcome, and in the fighting, the thieves who wandered around the country suffered losses in different ways, and of course, the Jin soldiers and ordinary people suffered greater losses.

With the cooperation of the soldiers of the Jin army and the common people, the thieves can no longer commit wanton murder, and almost every action, there will be the loss of companions, which makes the thieves who are not many horses unbearable, so the thieves from all walks of life have reacted to the situation.

See the common people of Hanoi County, and in a very short period of time, they have successively established dock forts. And echoing with the Jin army's patrol soldiers and horses, forming a strict defense system, so that the dead soldiers under his command could not carry out large-scale operations, Hou Ba was very angry in his heart, and decided to change his strategy, and gathered all the scattered dead soldiers scattered in various places in one place, and used all his strength to carry out wandering attacks.

Under Hou Ba's orders, the scattered thieves who were wandering around the cities of Hanoi County all moved closer to the location of Hou Ba, preparing to concentrate their forces on large-scale destruction of Hanoi County.

And just when the people and horses under the command of Hou Ba were gathering. Scouts sent out by Hua'an. also launched a detailed investigation, and quickly grasped the location of the thieves and the identity of the thieves, and reported to Hua'an in Yewang City as soon as possible.

In the big tent of the Chinese army in Yewang City, Hua An looked at the battle reports sent by various cities. His face was both excited and worried. Judging by the war report. The conspiracy of the thieves has been destroyed, but the casualties of our army and the common people are much higher than those of the thieves who were killed, and. There are only a few thieves who have been eliminated, and the main force of the thieves still exists, which makes Hua'an very uneasy, but fortunately, the situation has been controlled, as long as the scouts sent out have enough information about the thieves, the next step can be changed from defense to offense, and take the initiative to attack and completely exterminate the thieves in various places.

"Report, general, scouts from all walks of life have sent back news one after another, and all the thieves are gathering to the east, and it is estimated that they may be assembled near Wude City." A small colonel walked into the big tent of the Chinese army and reported loudly to Hua'an.

Hearing this, Hua An hurriedly walked to the map, looked at the terrain near Wude City, and analyzed the next possible move of the thief.

After watching for a long time, Hua An looked back at Xiao Colonel and asked, "Has the identity of the thief been confirmed, and who are these beasts?" ”

"General Hui, the investigation is not very clear at present, according to the report of several scouts, it may be the Longteng dead soldier of the original Zhao State, and its leader is Shi Hu's personal guard Houba." Xiao Xiao said truthfully.

Hearing this, Hua An nodded, frowned, and said: "Hou Ba, it turned out to be him, no wonder this gang of thieves has such force, it turned out to be Shi Hu's personal soldier Long Teng Dead." With that, he walked back to the map.

"Big brother, no wonder these thieves are so cruel, it turns out that they are the personal soldiers of the tyrant Shi Hu, hateful, our army must annihilate them." Wang San said loudly.

"General, now that all the thieves have gathered in the direction of Wude City, this is very conducive to our army to attack them in one net! It's better to immediately mobilize a large army and go to Wude City to exterminate this group of hateful dragon warriors. Zhuge Xiong said loudly.

Hua An stared at the map, suddenly shocked, and said loudly: "It's too late, maybe it's too late." ”

"Big brother, what's too late?" Seeing that Hua An was a little panicked, Wang San hurriedly asked.

Hua An pointed to the vicinity of Wude City, and said: "Houba is about to complete the assembly in Wude City, but our army has no time to adjust the deployment, maybe the area around Wude City will suffer another catastrophe." ”

"That's what the general said! Once Hou Ba gathers all the dragon and Teng dead soldiers under his command, his strength will definitely increase greatly, but our army is still scattered and deployed, which will inevitably lead our army to be broken by Hou Ba, resulting in heavy losses! Zhuge Xiong suddenly understood Hua An's worries and hurriedly said.

Hearing this, Wang San looked at the map, nodded and said, "Now it seems that it is too late to convey the order, this candidate is really too cunning." ”

A trace of worry flashed between Hua An's eyebrows, paused, and ordered: "Zhuge Xiong, you immediately lead the 10,000 main troops and horses under your command to reinforce Wude County as quickly as possible, remember, send more scouts to investigate, you must be prepared to grasp the whereabouts of Hou Ba, Ben will believe that with your elite 10,000 troops, it is more than enough to deal with Hou Ba." ”

"General rest assured, with my Zhuge Xiong here, I will definitely not let Hou Ba do whatever he wants." Zhuge Xiong replied loudly, and immediately turned around and left the big tent of the Chinese army and went to prepare.

After Zhuge Xiong left, Hua'an was still a little uneasy, after all, the Longteng dead soldiers under Hou Ba were all elite soldiers from a hundred, and although they had few soldiers and horses, they were extremely flexible in their actions, and they were not so easy to deal with.

"Big brother, there must be less than 1,000 soldiers and horses under the command of Hou Ba, and there are 10,000 elites under General Zhuge , it is more than enough to deal with Hou Ba, you can rest assured!" Seeing Hua An's worried face, Wang San comforted softly.

Hua An shook his head and said softly: "Although there are few soldiers and horses under the command of Hou Ba, they are extremely mobile and flexible, if they fight Zhuge Xiong head-on, of course, they will be defeated, but if they avoid the real attack, do not compete with Zhuge Xiong head-on, and then continue to flow, I am afraid that Zhuge Xiong's 10,000 horses will be difficult to completely block it, and naturally it will not be able to annihilate these dragon and death soldiers." ”

"Big brother, Houba is just a small team, is our army going to suppress all the 100,000 troops in Hanoi County?" Wang San said curiously.

Hua An hesitated for a moment, and said: "Although there are few soldiers and horses under Hou Ba's command, they are extremely fierce and vicious, our army must not take it lightly, and give the order to let the soldiers of the pro-guard army immediately assemble and prepare to go to the direction of Wude City to encircle and suppress the thieves." ”

"Yes, big brother, I'll arrange it." Wang San answered, turned around and went to prepare.

In fact, the reason why Hua'an attaches so much importance to the small team of Houba is not because of how much threat the team is to the 100,000 army under his command, but to maintain the situation that has not been easy to stabilize and establish the prestige of the Jin army.

After all, since entering Hanoi County, the soldiers of the Jin army have lived in harmony with the local people, and there has been a rare prosperity situation in Hanoi County in the autumn, and the invasion of this cruel small team of Houba has completely changed the prosperity situation here, and made the people of Hanoi County panic.

If Hua'an and his 100,000 soldiers and horses cannot annihilate the Houba army and return the people to a stable and peaceful living environment, then the prestige of the Jin army in the hearts of the people of Hebei will be greatly reduced, and in this way, it will lose the support of the people, which will be extremely unfavorable to conquering the entire Hebei in the future.

At this time, Hua'an had already made up his mind to wipe out the Houba Legion in the shortest possible time, even if he mobilized all 100,000 soldiers and horses.

More than ten miles northwest of Wude City, nearly 500 soldiers and horses under the command of Hou Ba were quickly assembled, and they were waiting for Hou Ba's orders, ready to take action at any time.

Seeing that all the men and horses under his command had arrived, Hou Ba discussed with several of his main subordinates the next course of action.

Hou Ba looked at his subordinates and said fiercely: "Everyone, recently, the Jin army's soldiers and horses have been scattered and deployed, so that our warriors from all walks of life have suffered heavy losses, so I will gather everyone to come here to concentrate all the warriors and give the Jin army a head-on attack." ”

"General, the Jin army around Wude City is all some new soldiers, and they are already vulnerable, and now they are scattered and deployed, which is even more conducive to our army's surprise attack, so don't act tonight, sneak attack one of the Jin army's military camps, and teach the Jin army a good lesson." One of the subordinates said.

"General, there are only 1,000 people in each battalion of the Jin army, and the night rest is that there are at most one or two hundred soldiers on duty, and they are not the opponents of our warriors at all, let's shoot! A good lesson for the Jin army. Another subordinate said.

Hou Ba smiled at the corner of his mouth, and said loudly: "Back then, we followed the first emperor to conquer the Jin Kingdom in the south, and we didn't suffer less from the Jin army in Huainan County!" Among them, this Hua'an is the most difficult to deal with, the arrow wound on the arm of the former emperor was shot by this Jin general called Hua'an, and now, the main general of the Jin army in Hanoi County is this Hua'an, we must teach the Jin army a good lesson, and avenge the emperor's arrow. After speaking, there was anger in his eyes.

"General, what do you say, we will all listen to you." The generals all loudly expressed their support.

A trace of anger flashed in Hou Ba's eyes, pointed to a point on the map, and said loudly: "There are 1,000 Jin troops stationed here, and several nearby Jin army camps, the nearest is also ten miles away, our army will attack here tonight, teach the Jin army a good lesson, remember, we must fight quickly, as long as the Jin army reinforcements from other places arrive, we will retreat immediately, and we must not fall in love." ”

"Yes, General." The generals of the dead soldiers of the dragon Teng answered loudly.

After some preparations, Hou Ba and his nearly 500 Longteng dead soldiers left the assembly place and slaughtered towards the camp they marched to. (To be continued......)