Chapter 55: Wolf Meng Thief
Not to mention the various marching and fighting things of each general under his command, in He Bai's opinion, even though the ability of each general is not outstanding, the Baibo thieves have no good generals, let alone the more attacks and the elites are used to deal with the miscellaneous soldiers. It is more than enough to deal with the Baibo thieves in those places, but there are only a few casualties.
Although the number of horse thieves that He Bai personally conquered was the most dangerous and powerful one in He Bai's opinion, so he had to go on a horse to conquer himself. The reason was that the leader of this horse thieves was named Hou Cheng.
Hou Cheng has only a few words in later history: In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, one of the eight powerful generals of Lu Bu, he followed Lu Bu to fight in various places. When Lu Bu was surrounded in Xia Pi, he did not know that Lu Bu's "Prevention of Wine" offered wine 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 Lu Bu to eventually fail and be killed by Cao Cao. After Lu Bu's death, it was not recorded in historical records.
In later games, Hou Cheng's various numbers were not high, at best, only about 70, which seemed to be no big deal. However, based on his own experience, He Bai found that this was already very high and could be called a talent for prefectures and counties. At least for more than half a year in Taiyuan County, few of the talented people he visited had such ability.
What's more, in history, Lu Bu was just a loser, and his general abilities have always been suppressed. Even if Hou Cheng had more than 80 abilities, it was not strange. However, He Bai's army had more than 5,000 people, but none of them had such ability. Even He Bai himself was afraid that he would not be much more wise than Hou Cheng.
After coming to this life, He Bai realized that the real battle for the world is not about playing games or summoning dozens of capable ministers and generals with dozens of people, and then he could control several states and hundreds of thousands of troops. Instead, he needed thousands or even tens of thousands of civil and military talents. If he was so meticulous in later generations, even tens of thousands of civil and military talents would be considered small.
Moreover, these talents will not be found immediately after clicking on search and healthy, and will come to help immediately. If your lord does not have a certain strength, status, ability and fame, these talents will ignore you.
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In terms of ability, He Bai is not as outstanding as Lu Bu, but he is just qualified as the position of Duwei. Is it fame? In addition to fighting a few battles in Youzhou and having some fame in Taiyuan County, who knows who He Bai and He Tianming is?
Therefore, although He Bai summoned more than a dozen military generals with good abilities in the county half a year ago, they were all attracted by Lu Bu's fellow. Hou was from Zhongdu County, Taiyuan, and Wei Xu from Wu County, and Song Xian from Jiexiu since childhood. However, Hou Cheng's family was poor and he took a bad path, so he became a thief.
At first, He Bai also sent a letter to summon Hou Cheng through Wei Xu and Song Xian, and was willing to invite him to come to the army as the deputy general. However, that guy Hou Cheng ignored him, obviously he did not take his Taiyuan Commander to heart.
He Bai was also self-aware, so he was not blamed. He was talented, and he always had a somewhat self-admiring temperament. Hou Cheng was rampant in Taiyuan County for several years and had no one to control, and he had no idea how high he was. He Bai still wanted to wait for Lu Bu to subdue him, and there was less harm in the local area.
Unexpectedly, yesterday, the Langmeng County Wei sent someone to report that Hou Cheng was unhappy when he learned that He Bai was interested in conquering all the bandits, bandits, and horse thieves in the county, and even thought that He Bai was making a decision specifically for him.
So early yesterday morning, Hou Cheng gathered more than 200 fierce horse thieves under his command, and took advantage of the daily gates to facilitate the people's entry and exit, and captured Langmeng County. More than 200 horse thieves robbed the city of Langmeng, especially the captured Langmeng County Commander and county soldiers, with great humiliation, aiming to target He Bai.
More than two hundred horse thieves were dancing in the city for half a day before they came to hear the news and were shocked by thousands of state troops stationed nearby. Last night, a stern-worded document from Ding Yuan was sent to He Bai's copy.
Even the Wang family of Jinyang sent someone to pass on the letter, saying that the Wang family's branch, Meng Wang family suffered heavy losses. If He Bai could not quickly quell the wolf and Meng thief, he would come to the court to investigate He Bai's crime of robbery. This made He Bai angry and deeply hated that Hou Cheng was not a good person.
The Wang family is nothing, and the head of the family Wang Yun is still living in seclusion at this time. But next year, at the beginning of the sixth year of Zhongping, Wang Yun was summoned to the court by He Jin and served as Zhonglang and Henan Yin. Especially when He Jin was killed by eunuchs and Dong Zhuo was in power, he replaced Yang Biao and became the Situ and Shangshu Ling.
Wang Yun is so sinister. If he holds a grudge against He Bai because of this matter, he will be in front of He Jin after going to Luoyang next year. He will be afraid that his position as a chief lieutenant will not be guaranteed. Seeing that the world is going to be in chaos, he cannot cause great harm to himself because of this matter.
Fortunately, at the land auction a few months ago, he was happy with Wang. Wang 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. As a general in Taiyuan, He Bai would have been responsible for being severely punished, either demoted or transferred.
After the generals led their troops out of the camp, He Bai also led 268 martial blood cavalry from the Central Army headquarters, Baima Yi from 300 cavalry, 50 logistics medical staff, a total of 618 cavalry, and drove more than 1,800 transfer horses to Langmeng County.
I heard that Hou Cheng's troops were all tall and big, and they came and went like the wind, and it was difficult to encircle and suppress. He Bai, this time, specifically targeted Hou Cheng's military characteristics and came and fought with him in a rushing battle. He used 268 cavalry fighting blood cavalry as You Yi's soldiers, and each of them was given five war horses and distributed to drive Hou Cheng's troops from all directions. He led three hundred white horses, each with a riding horse, a pack horse, and a rushing horse, to make the final decisive army. I saw whether Hou Cheng's horse was fierce or the cavalry of the alive army was fierce.
Mujiao Village, more than 40 miles northwest of Langmeng City, is a small village with only more than 30 households and less than 200 people. It is also a temporary destination for the horse thieves of Hou Cheng's troops. The people of Mujiao Village are not Hou Cheng's accomplices or spies, but because Hou Cheng's more than 200 horse thieves were a giant that could not be offended for them, they had to let the village go and let the horse thieves of Hou Cheng's troops enter and exit.
Although Hou Cheng was a horse thief, there were also thieves. For the poor people, he just ransacked some wine and food. Hou Cheng's main goal was to travel between the three counties of Yanmen, Taiyuan and Changshan. His scope of activities was mainly in the three counties of Langmeng, Yu and Yangqu. Because he first started to rebellion in Langmeng County, he was also called Langmeng Hou Thief.
Although Hou Cheng was a thief, he had a high opinion of himself, because Hou Cheng's family was from Gongzhong, the son of Gongshu Duan of Zheng State in the Spring and Autumn Period. He was given the surname Hou by Duke Zhuang of Zheng, which was considered to be after the Ji family. However, for hundreds of years, the family had not flourished, and until this time, only Hou Cheng was left alone. Therefore, Hou Cheng always held the idea that the old Hou family had been rich and did not look down on anyone.
Although He Bai, the commander of Taiyuan, once submitted a letter to summon him, He Bai was nothing more than a despicable neighbor in the barbaric land of Jingnan. He dared to let the son of the Marquis of Ji be subordinate.
Hou Cheng poured a big mouthful of wine and thought that he had broken Langmeng County yesterday and had robbed a lot of gold and silver, which was more than what he had gained when he robbed merchants in the past. It seemed that the thieves who were siege cities and land were far more than horse thieves.
In the future, I would also want to attack the cities and land like the Black Mountain bandits. After the situation was so great, I would surrender to the court like the Black Mountain bandits, and I would also take some lieutenant to come to Dangdang. Then I would be humiliating him in front of He Bai.
As he thought about it, Hou Cheng thought about it further and further away. When he thought of the beauty, his heart couldn't help but feel hot and he tried harder. And the concubine of the Wolf Meng Wang family who was riding by Hou Cheng was riding freely under him could not help but cry out in pain.
Looking at the bright and white and slightly rich daughter of Wang's family, crying pain, Hou Cheng became more and more proud. Just breaking Lang Meng, he got the side of Wang's family, and the richest family of the aristocratic family. What if he broke the Jinyang City? I am afraid that all the daughters of Wang who are arrogant on weekdays will be obtained by me. What is the value of being the Marquis of Wanhu?
When he thought about this, Hou Cheng became more and more excited, as if the concubine's daughter under him was the noble daughter of the Wang family in Jinyang, and she was whipping her.
When Hou Cheng was on his head, a sudden whistle came from the outer room. Hou Cheng shouted angrily: "Soldier, guardian, who is causing trouble while drunk and disrupting the laws of our army? Do you think that a big knife is not good?"
Soon, a guard immediately reported loudly outside: "The leader is not that the troops of each unit are intentionally noisy, but that there is an enemy situation outside the village. The cavalry said that it was wearing the flag of the Taiyuan Commander, and the teams were calling on the troops to prepare for the war."
Hou Cheng was shocked and heard that there were many horses under the command of He Bai, the commander of Taiyuan’s commander. In just one day and one night, he ran nearly two hundred miles from Jinyang City and found here. It seems that He Bai, the commander of Taiyuan, was not a mediocre person.
Hou Cheng thrust hard for a while, and after venting, he got up and put on his clothes and was about to go to the outsider. But he paused again and turned around and looked at the mother-in-law of Wang's family with joy. He was angry. Do you think why that guy Bai could do anything to me? You still want to go back to Wang, but you have no way. The woman I, Hou Cheng, used, is also the ghost of my Hou family.
After thinking, he killed the concubine Wang's concubine on the bed with one knife. After turning around, Hou Cheng called out loudly: "The whole army is ready, put on saddles, prepare arrows, pluck the knife, and prepare for battle."
Chapter completed!