After Hou Cheng finished drinking, he looked up and looked outside the village, only to see dozens of torches running back and forth in the three miles outside the village, and in the sharp iron whistle, there were shouts from afar to respond to each other. In a short time, there were more and more torches in all directions, like stars, more than two hundred.

What frightened Hou Cheng the most was that the earth was also shaking faintly. Hou Cheng hurriedly knelt down to listen carefully, and muttered in his mouth: "One hundred horses in front, two hundred horses on the left, two hundred horses on the right, and ...... in the rear 1,300 horsemen, there are more than 1,300 horsemen, this Taiyuan Lieutenant can really look down on Hou, and sent more than 1,300 horsemen to conquer my more than 230 horsemen. No, it is not advisable to stay here for a long time, and we must evacuate as soon as possible while it is not yet surrounded by me. ”

Hou Cheng immediately summoned all the horse thieves under his command, got on his horse and galloped out of the walled gate, looked around, pointed to the northeast and said: "The officers and troops are weak there, don't pay attention to the others, as long as you break out of the encirclement, it will be a victory." ”

After speaking, he didn't light the torch and rode in the northeast direction. The horse thieves followed Hou Cheng for a long time, although they were not panicked, they fled to the northeast, and along the way, they unconsciously took Hou as the front, forming a huge cone formation that was conducive to cavalry assault. Sure enough, it is a group of sophisticated and fierce horse thieves, not inferior to the average elite state rider.

Hou Cheng led the troops to rush towards a group of officers and soldiers with torches who were blocking in front of him, thinking that there would be a bloody battle before breaking through the blockade of the officers and soldiers. Unexpectedly, when the self-army was still 300 steps away from the official army, the officers and soldiers fled in all directions.

Looking at the torches that were already scattered, they suddenly became scattered like frightened birds, and Hou Cheng couldn't help but be angry and funny. Listening to the sound of horses' hooves, there were as many as 250 horsemen on the front of the enemy, more than a dozen horsemen than the army. Even if the combat strength of the official army is inferior to the army, it is enough to gnaw more than half of the army. I never thought that the official army would be so useless, and it would collapse at the touch of a button in the face of the almost existing army. It seems that this Taiyuan Governor He Bai is not very good.

Hou Cheng is overjoyed, it seems that it is easy to break through tonight. After waiting for dawn, you can watch the enemy's movements, or you can break the enemy in one fell swoop. So he shouted with a big sword in his hand: "Sons, the officers and soldiers are useless, they are as timid as birds, don't be afraid of them, let me kill ......."

The horse thieves are old in military affairs, and they don't know that the soldiers of the counties and counties around the country are negligent in training, and most of them are useless. originally thought that this Taiyuan Lieutenant, who had broken tens of thousands of white wave thieves, would be different, but this time, it seems that he is also the same as the public generals.

The morale of the horse thieves was suddenly high, and they howled like Hou Cheng, "Kill ......"

Just as Hou Cheng was about to break through the encirclement, the officers and soldiers who suddenly scattered ignited the rocket, and in a sharp iron whistle, the "whoosh......whish" rocket fired at Hou Cheng's army in a volley. Hou Cheng scolded secretly in his heart, damn it, and then shouted: "Be careful of the rocket, hide ......"

After saying that, he took the lead in shrinking his body and hid on the left side of the horse's back. The horse thieves did the same, hiding themselves left and right. More than fifty rockets fell in an instant, and several screams and neighing of horses were heard from the dense horse thief cone formation.

Hou Cheng's heart ached, this round of rockets took away at least three or four horse thieves, and before Hou Cheng could order the formation to disperse slightly, he only heard the sharp whistle of the officers and soldiers sound again, and another fifty rockets came in a volley. In just a few minutes, the officers and soldiers sent out as many as ten arrows in a row.

The screams of the horse thieves continued one after another, and even if they were well hidden, under the dense salvo of arrows from the officials and soldiers, the equally dense horse thieves still suffered more than 30 casualties.

When Hou Cheng was weak after the rapid shooting of the officers and soldiers, he was about to bend his bow and arrows to counterattack, but he didn't want the officers and soldiers to have already extinguished the torches, and scattered and fled. Hou Cheng had no choice but to shoot towards a faint black shadow in the dark. Hearing a muffled snort from the black shadow, his body shook on his horse, but he immediately sat down and fled backwards.

Hou Cheng had already prepared for the arrow that did not hit the enemy's vital point in the dark, but the army suffered more than 30 casualties in a short period of time, which made Hou Cheng's heart ache. However, Hou Cheng was in great pain, and his heart was also vigilant, no, no, very wrong.

Seeing that the officers and soldiers had such a fast rate of fire, they were definitely very elite horsemen, and they used Hun horn bows. I heard that He Bai was an official in the Youzhou army, and he must have won the riding and shooting methods of the Xianbei and Karasuma people. Most of his subordinates are good at riding and shooting, and their tactics are also to let go of the front of the enemy and shoot them with bows and arrows from both wings.

However, the army is a traditional Han assault horse, and without the protection of sophisticated iron armor, it will definitely suffer heavy casualties in a fight. Unless they can find out where He Bai's main formation is, they will launch a decisive charge and force the officers and soldiers to fight to the death with the already army. It's a pity that in the middle of the night, there is no way to know where He Bai's main formation is, if he still moves forward in a group, the army will only be defeated.

The dense formation was vulnerable to rocket fire by the officers and soldiers, and they fought hard and feared that other officers and troops would come to join the siege, so it seemed that the only way to escape was to disperse, and by virtue of the fact that the army was familiar with the mountain roads, they escaped from the siege of the officers and troops.

After thinking about it, Hou Cheng shouted loudly: "Sons, take each tithing as a group, scatter and retreat, and after dawn, meet at the thorn needle ditch." ”

The horse thieves answered, and immediately scattered, led by the chief of the horse thieves, and fled. Hou Cheng glanced at the sky slightly, barely able to distinguish the location due north, and did not flee quickly like a group of thieves. Instead, he led ten horsemen and horses and slowly moved forward.

Sure enough, as soon as he walked slowly, there was no sound of horses' hooves, and the officers and soldiers did not find out where Hou Cheng was, but only sent messages around through sharp iron whistles, and ordered other teams of men and horses to also scatter to hunt for thieves.

Hou Cheng climbed up and looked, only to see that there were torches lit by officials and soldiers everywhere in a radius of more than ten miles, and in the dark night, it was like a little starlight, and it was like starlight falling on the earth, constantly flashing light.

Hou Cheng said fiercely: "Hmph, He Bai, if you are not an official and I am a thief, there is a huge gap in the number of people under your command, and I will definitely not lose to you tonight." You wait, after I have broken down several cities and gathered a large number of men, I will fight you again to see who wins and who loses. With that, he patted the horse and left.

On the second day, after the dawn of the day, Hou Cheng waited anxiously in the thorn needle ditch, only to see from time to time there were horse thieves coming to meet, there were already fifty or sixty horses, but no more horse thieves came. Hou Cheng's heart ached, could it be that last night's battle caused so many casualties among the army?

Hou Cheng seemed to believe it or not, but he had to believe it, but he didn't dare to continue waiting here. Just as he was about to order the group of thieves to prepare to get on their horses and move, suddenly a sharp iron whistle sounded again, which made the group of thieves who had finally escaped panic again.

Last night, as soon as the iron whistle sounded, countless officers and soldiers must have swarmed from all sides like wolves and tigers, and then arrows flew like locusts. The officers and soldiers of the DPRK clashed bravely, but the officers and soldiers refused to fight to the death, and when they saw the thieves charging from a distance, they scattered and fled.

It was not far to escape, and where the horse thieves were within reach, they unhurriedly cast cold arrows, which made the horse thieves angry. However, under such blows, the horse thieves continued to suffer casualties until a group of centaurs completely disappeared. The other horse thieves could only follow Hou Cheng's example, secretly and quietly in the dark of night, without making a sound, in order to avoid the pursuit of officers and soldiers.

Unexpectedly, less than an hour after the iron whistle of the officers and soldiers was released, the iron whistle was heard again, and the horse thieves suddenly turned dead.

Hou Cheng saw the number of cavalry officers and soldiers appearing on the hills around the thorn needle ditch, gritted his teeth, but did not move. I only heard the echoing iron whistle from the hills on all sides, and the huge sound of thousands of horses galloping. In less than a meal, the hills on all sides were covered with officers and soldiers...... No, it's an official horse???

Hou Cheng was pleasantly surprised to find that there were only more than 600 officers and soldiers, but there were as many as 1,700 or 800 empty horses. What's going on? Could it be that the army inflicted such huge casualties on the officers and soldiers last night?

Hou Cheng watched carefully for a while, and he couldn't see the low morale of the officers and soldiers due to the huge casualties. After a while, Hou Chengcai suddenly realized that the official army had dispatched a luxurious lineup of one person and four horses in order to chase after the army that had been acting like the wind.

What the officials and soldiers did not expect was that Hou Cheng, as an old thief, was frightened by the sound of a large number of horses' hooves of the officials and soldiers in the dark night, and mistakenly thought that the officials and soldiers were coming, and there were more than 1,300 horsemen, so they scattered and fled early.

Hou Cheng gritted his teeth, if it was...... If he fled without dividing his troops, Hou Cheng looked at the huge number of horses of the official army, with the rogues of the official army, the tactics of not fighting with people, plus a large number of empty horses can be transferred, and the speed will not be reduced, I am afraid that the army will still be defeated.

Hou Chengsi came to this point, and his heart was already open. So after flying on the horse and running forward dozens of steps, he shouted: "Where is the Taiyuan Commander, Hou Cheng is here." Through last night's battle, Hou Cheng was subdued, and Hou Cheng was willing to surrender to the Lord. However, Lord Duwei's battle method, although Hou Cheng is obedient, he is not willing, and is willing to challenge Lord Duwei, if Lord Duwei can win the knife in Hou Cheng's hand, Hou Cheng will not hesitate to go to the soup in the future. ”

He Bai stood on the hill, silently looking at Hou Cheng who was seeking battle in the ditch, calculated, in the Three Kingdoms, in addition to the top generals of each country, Hou Cheng's ability is in the front row, no matter which country he is in.

Although he cannot be a general of the front, he can be the chief general of an army of 5,000 men, or the deputy general of the front army. In addition, he was about thirty years old at this time, which was the time when he was in the prime of life, and he could fight for more than twenty years.

In terms of loyalty, he was able to follow the powerless and powerless Lu Bu for 10 years, until he couldn't see any hope, and was almost killed by Lu Bu, and then he thought of betrayal, and this loyalty was enough.

However, Hou Cheng's character made He Bai hesitate for a while. Although in the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms, it was common for martial artists to kill people, but Hou Cheng's merciless slashing of the Wang family's concubine who had just had a relationship made He Bai a little taboo.

What you need to fight the world is strength, but what is more important is fame. If there are more generals under his command who burn, kill and loot, is the popular heart of the people in the world still on their side?

The reason why Lu Bu was defeated was that he didn't know how to develop people's livelihood and internal affairs. Do you want to have soldiers, money, and food, but you only know how to rob the people and forcibly conscript them into the army? Although there were no evil deeds such as slaughtering the city and surrendering, it was still abandoned by the scholars and the people, and finally failed.

He Bai thought about it, but let it go again. As long as the leader of himself does not mess around, and the army is governed by strict military discipline, no matter how evil the wicked person is, he will not dare to do anything wanton and plunder. Didn't the later generations say that the army is a melting pot, no matter if you are good iron or bad iron, as long as you enter the furnace, it will become steel sooner or later. With the restraints of military law, even the wicked will become a good person.