Not to mention the various marching and fighting things of the generals under his command, in He Bai's opinion, even if the ability of the generals is not outstanding, but the white wave thieves have no good generals, not to mention that they still use more strikes and fewer strikes, and use the elite to deal with miscellaneous soldiers, it is still more than enough to deal with the white wave thieves in those places, just how many casualties there are.

And the horse thieves that He Bai personally recruited, although the number was the smallest, in He Bai's opinion, it was the most dangerous and powerful among them, so he had to go out to fight in person. The reason is not him, it is the leader of this group of horse thieves named Hou Cheng.

Hou Cheng has only a few words in later history: a figure in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, one of the eight generals of Lu Bu's department, and went to various places with Lu Bu. When Lu Bu was surrounded in Xiapi, because he didn't know that Lu Bu's "prohibition order" was offered to Lu Bu, Lu Bu was furious and punished Hou Cheng, who stole the red rabbit horse at night. Song Xian, Wei Xu, and Hou Cheng surrendered to Cao Cao, prompting Lü Bu to be killed by Cao Cao in an eventual defeat. After Lü Bu's death, it is not recorded in the history books.

In the later games, Hou Cheng's various values are not high, at best only about 70 values, which seems to be no big deal. However, He Bai came to the conclusion from his own personal experience that this is already very high, and he can be called a talent in the state and county. At least in the more than half a year that He Bai has been in Taiyuan County, few of the capable people he has visited have this ability.

What's more, in history, Lu Bu is just a loser, and the ability of his subordinates has always been suppressed, even if Hou Cheng has more than 80 ability values, it is not a strange thing. And He Bai's army of more than 5,000 people, but no one has this ability. Even He Bai himself, I'm afraid that compared to this Hou Cheng, he is not much smarter.

It was only after coming to this world that He Bai realized that the real battle for the world is not to play games, and to summon dozens or hundreds of capable generals can dominate several states and hundreds of thousands of troops. Instead, it needs thousands, or even tens of thousands, of civil and military talents, and if it is as meticulous as that of later generations, even tens of thousands of civil and military talents are considered to be few.

Moreover, these talents are not just searched and pressed, they will be found immediately, and they will come to help immediately. If you, the lord, do not have a certain strength, status, ability, and fame, these people will not pay attention to you.

He Bai is the governor of Taiyuan County and the garrison general of a county. Speaking of strength, there are 5,000 troops under his command, although there are many but not many. Speaking of status, there are more than 100 lieutenants in the entire more than 100 counties of the Han Dynasty. Of the 500,000 or 600,000 regular field troops, there are more than 300 people at the rank of captain. Not to mention the number of civil officials.

Speaking of ability, He Bai is not as outstanding as Lu Bu, but he is just qualified for the position of captain. Reputation, in addition to fighting a few battles in Youzhou, there is a little fame in Taiyuan County, who in the world knows who He Bai He Tianming is?

Therefore, although He Bai summoned more than a dozen capable generals in the county half a year ago, they were all attracted by Lu Bu's family. This Hou Cheng is a native of Zhongdu County, Taiyuan, and Wei Xu of Wu County, and Song Xian of Jiexiu have been kind since childhood, but Hou Cheng's family is poor and has gone the wrong way, so he fell into the grass and became a thief.

At first, He Bai also sent a letter to recruit Hou Cheng through Wei Xu and Song Xian, and was willing to invite him to come to the army as a deputy general. I don't know that Hou Cheng didn't pay attention to that guy, obviously he didn't take his Taiyuan Lieutenant to heart.

Originally, He Bai was also self-aware, and he didn't blame him. Talents, there is always a bit of a lonely temperament. Hou Cheng has been rampant in Taiyuan County for several years, and when no one can control him, it is nothing to think very highly of himself. He Bai still wanted to wait for when Lu Bu would subdue him, and there would be less harm in the place.

Unexpectedly, yesterday, the county lieutenant of Wolf Meng sent someone to report that Hou Cheng was unhappy when he knew that He Bai intended to recruit all the bandits, bandits, and horse thieves in the county, and even thought that He Bai made a decision specifically to deal with him.

So early yesterday morning, Hou Cheng gathered more than 200 fierce horse thieves under his command, and took advantage of the daily opening of the city gate to facilitate the entry and exit of the people, and broke through the county seat of Langmeng in one fell swoop. More than 200 horse thieves plundered around the city, especially humiliating the county lieutenant and the county soldiers who were captured by mistake, aiming at He Bai.

More than 200 horse thieves had been dancing around the city for a long time, and then they were shocked by the thousands of state troops who happened to be stationed nearby when they heard the news. Yesterday night, a sternly worded document from Ding Yuan was sent down to He Bai's copy.

Even the Jinyang Wang clan also sent someone to pass on the book, saying that the Wang clan was a wolf next to the Wang clan, and the Meng Wang clan suffered a lot of losses. If He Bai can't quickly pacify the wolf thief, he will go to the court to investigate He Bai's crime of arson. This made He Bai angry, and he hated Hou Cheng for not being a thing.

This Wang family is nothing now, and the head of the family, Wang Yun, is still in seclusion at this time. But next year, that is, at the beginning of the sixth year of Zhongping, Wang Yun will be recruited by He Jin into the court, and successively engaged in Zhonglang and Henan Yin. Especially when He Jin was killed by the eunuchs and Dong Zhuo was in power, he replaced Yang Biao and became Situ and Shangshuling.

Wang Yun is ruthless, if he holds a grudge against He Bai because of this matter, and when he goes to Luoyang next year, he will crook his mouth in front of He Jin, and he is afraid that his position as a lieutenant will not be guaranteed. Seeing that the world is about to be in chaos, you can't let yourself be greatly damaged because of this matter.

Fortunately, at the land auction a few months ago, he and the Wang family were happy, and the Wang family had a good impression of himself, otherwise, he would have written to the court to ask He Bai about the crime of losing the city. He Bai, as a general of the Taiyuan garrison, must be heavily responsible, either demoted or transferred.

After the generals led the troops out of the camp, He Bai also led 268 horsemen from the headquarters of the Chinese army, 300 horsemen from the white horse, 50 logistics medical personnel, a total of 618 horses, and drove more than 1,800 horses to change horses, all the way to Langmeng County.

I heard that Hou Cheng's horse thieves, everyone is tall and big, coming and going like the wind, and it is not easy to encircle and suppress. He Bai specifically focused on Hou Cheng's characteristics of using troops this time and had a rush battle with him. With 268 cavalry fighting blood cavalry as rangers, each of them was allocated five war horses, and they were distributed in all directions to drive Hou Cheng's department. He led three hundred white horses, each equipped with a riding horse, a pack horse, and a charging horse, to be the final decisive army. Let's see if it's Hou Cheng's horse thief or the horseman of the army.

Mujiao Village, more than 40 miles northwest of Wolf Mengcheng, is a small village with only more than 30 households and a population of less than 200, and it is also a temporary foothold for Hou Cheng's horse thieves. The people of Mujiao Village are not Hou Cheng's accomplices, nor are they eyeliners, but because Hou Cheng's more than 200 horse thieves are a behemoth that cannot be offended to them, they have to let go of the village and let Hou Cheng's horse thieves enter and exit.

Although Hou Cheng is a horse thief, he is also a thief and a thief, and he just extorts some wine and food for the poor people. Hou Cheng's main target was the wealthy merchants who traveled between the three counties of Yanmen, Taiyuan and Changshan. Its scope of activity is mainly in the three counties of Wolf Meng, Yu and Yangqu, because it first started in Wolf Meng County, so it is also called the Wolf Meng Hou thief.

Although Hou Cheng is a thief, he thinks very highly of himself, because Hou Cheng, the Hou clan, is from Gongzhong, the son of Zheng Guogong's uncle Duan in the Spring and Autumn Period. was given the surname Hou by Zheng Zhuang, and it was also the surname Ji. It's just that for hundreds of years, the family has not been prosperous, and until this time, only Hou Cheng is left. Therefore, Hou Cheng has always held the idea that the old Hou family was also broad, and he doesn't look down on anyone very much.

Although He Bai, the governor of Taiyuan, once sent a letter to summon him, He Bai was nothing, he was just a small people in the wilderness of Jingnan, and he dared to let the son of the Hou family surnamed Ji be his subordinate.

Hou Cheng poured a big sip of wine and thought that he had broken the county town of Langmeng yesterday and robbed a lot of gold and silver, which was more than when he robbed merchants in the past.

In the future, do you want to attack the city and plunder the land like the Montenegrin thief, and after the power is great, and then surrender to the court like the Montenegrin thief, and take what kind of captain to be the captain. In front of that He Bai, he humiliated him.

Thinking together, Hou Cheng thought farther and farther, thinking of the beauty, his heart couldn't help but be hot, and he started harder. And the concubine of the Wolf Meng Wang clan, who was wantonly ridden by Hou Cheng under her, couldn't help but let out a cry of pain.

Looking at the white and tender Wang concubine under him, who was slightly rich, he exhaled pain, and Hou Cheng became more and more proud. It's just that if you break Wolf Meng, you will get the side branches of the wealthy Wang clan **, Le, what if you break Jinyang City? I'm afraid that the daughter of the Wang family, who is high up on weekdays, will be all gained by my Hou Cheng. If you can get the noble daughter of the Wang family, what is it worth to be the marquis of Wanhu.

Thinking of this, Hou Cheng became more and more excited, as if the concubine under him at this time was the noble daughter of the Jinyang Wang family, and lashed out at her.

When Hou Cheng was having sex, suddenly there was a commotion from the outhouse. Hou Cheng shouted angrily unhappily: "Guards, guards, who are they getting drunk and making trouble and messing with our military discipline, don't you think that a certain big knife is unfavorable?" ”

After a short time, a guard immediately shouted outside: "Report to the leader, it is not that the men and horses of the various departments are deliberately making noise, but that there is an enemy situation outside the wall. The rangers reported that they were waving the banner of the Taiyuan Commander, and the teams were calling for men and horses to prepare for battle. ”

Hou Cheng was shocked, he heard that He Bai, the commander of Taiyuan, had a lot of horses under his command, and after only one day and one night, he actually ran nearly two hundred miles from Jinyang City and found here? It seems that He Bai, the governor of Taiyuan, is not a mediocre person.

Hou Cheng moved fiercely for a while, and after venting, he got up and dressed, ready to go outside. But he paused again, turned around and glanced at the Wang family's concubine with a happy face, and his heart was angry, why could Bai Na still do it? You still want to go back to the Wang family, but there is no way, the woman that my Hou Cheng has used is also the ghost of my Hou family when she dies.

After thinking about it, he killed the Wang family's concubine on the couch with a knife. After turning around, Hou Cheng called loudly: "The whole army is ready, saddle, prepare arrows, pull knives, and prepare for battle." ”