Li Dian put down his spear, bowed to the ground, and said loudly: "I heard that the master raised eagles to chase rabbits. Pawn by the Ming Gong for a long time, today the soldiers surrounded the pass, and Dong Jun came to help, when the master released the eagle, the pawn invited from the Wen school captain to fight, for the Ming Gong to offer Hu Zhen's head! ”

Tian Chou stroked his hand and smiled: "Li Jun is ambitious! ”

Li Dian asked for war not once or twice, Wen Chou knew that he was brave, so he did not refuse, and immediately responded: "Qing and my account are also officials, now that I am asking for war, I can't be without my position, so I will give Qing Jun Sima and attack Hu from Wenba!" ”

Li Dian was overjoyed and promised loudly.

Tian Feng said with a smile: "This generation is a tiger warrior, in the army, the Ming Duke has been raising it for a long time, and there has not been a battle for several months, no wonder he is in a hurry." ”

Guo Jia left his seat, leaned in front of the Wen Chou case, looked back at the tent, and saw that the rest of the people were talking separately, and no one paid attention to him, so he said softly: "Li Dian is like an eagle, such as raising an eagle, you need to boil it first, and if you boil it for a long time, you can use it." Ming Gong treats people kindly, this solid nature, but these brave people, but they can't be blindly gracious! ”

The way of employing people, in the combination of rigidity and softness, blindly caressing, will not work. Wen Chou knew this, but he didn't approve of Guo Jia's words.

Wen Chou smiled: "I bring my own soldiers, and I have always had clear rewards and punishments, if I violate my law, I have my own Xiahoulan, if I don't violate my law, I have always treated people with a naked heart, but I don't need to use the art of boiling eagles." ”

When Wen Chou appointed the first batch of captains, many people who had followed him for a long time and had quite military merits were not promoted to captains, but Xiahoulan, who had no military merits, was appointed as Mingwei captain, why not? It is because Xia Houlan is in charge of military law, rewards and punishments are strong, and he is even trusted by Wen Chou, from this, it can be seen that Wen Chou attaches great importance to military law and military discipline. In addition, he treats people ugly, and he has always pushed his heart into people's abdomen, and he has always been kind and righteous, and he uses less power, so he has this sentence to answer Guo Jia.

Tian Feng touched his hand when he heard it. exclaimed: "The king is dignified, Ming Gong is the way of the king!" Quite despised Guo Jia's words just now, squinted at him, and said, "What Feng Xiao said, but it is a trick and a small way, even if you can get a little success for a while, it will be difficult to succeed in the end." ”

Guo Jia was not embarrassed, and touched his sparse beard. smiled: "Otherwise, how can Ming Gong be Ming Gong, and I am just me?" ”

After laughing, he patted his ass and calmly returned to his seat and sat down. Ambushing Hu Zhen is just a part of the entire capture of Taigu, the soldiers and horses have been dispatched, and Wen Chou no longer thinks about it, because it is useless to think too much. He just asked again: "Are the Ziyong cavalry ready?" ”

Tian Chou replied: "I just sent someone to ask, and Ziyong replied: You can leave the camp at any time." ”

"Where's General Sun?"

"Sun Houying is also ready." Tian Chou paused. He also said, "It is reported that there are about 10,000 people in the Hu Zhen army, and I besieged them on the field with my 3,000 fine armor and 3,000 fine horses. If it goes well, the battle will be won. ”

Everything was ready, just waiting for the results of the battle, Wen Chou stopped asking again, and turned to the topic that was interrupted by Li Dian and others just now. He said: "Military report: Xu Rong is less than thirty miles away from Taigu. Lu Bu had joined him, and the two of them would arrive at the latest tomorrow. If you win today, if you lose, you will have to consider Huang Gai and Sun Benying. ”

Huang Gai and Sun Ben led thousands of people, and now they are stationed in the west of Taigu Pass, and they are not with the main forces of Sun Jian and Wen Chou. If Hu Zhen can be annihilated today, or he can be beaten away, then Huang Gai and Sun Ben don't need to think much about it, but if they fail to defeat Hu Zhen, or fail to beat him away, then Hu Zhen will definitely fight Huang Gai and Sun Ben in order to be able to join forces with Xu Rong and Lu Bu, and then they will definitely have to fight Huang Gai and Sun Ben to pay attention, -- Xu Rong and Lu Bu are from the north, Hu Zhen is from the west, Huang Gai and Sun Ben are just in the middle of his two armies, and they are replaced by Wen Chou and Sun Jian, and the two of them must have their first idea of pulling out the nail of Huang Gai and Sun Ben first.

So, if it is useless to annihilate or shoot Hu Zhen away, how should Huang Gai and Sun Ben's battalions be arranged? Will it continue to stay there, as a nail, or will it simply be withdrawn? It's not an easy choice to make. Tian Feng and Tian Chou both pondered silently. The Art of War: Before you win, you should lose first.

The battle to ambush Hu Zhen has not yet started, and the outcome is still unknown, but Wen Chou, Tian Feng, Tian Chou, etc., who are the main generals and main strategists, have to think about what to do if they are defeated.

Wen Ba first led the troops out of the camp, and soon after, Liu Qing, Han Dang, and Xu Qi also led their elite cavalry out of the camp and went in the direction where Hu Zhen came.

Wen Chou and others waited for news in the camp. In the evening, the military report came: Before arriving at the ambush on my hill, Hu Zhen suddenly made a detour. Wen, Han, and Xu led the cavalry to chase after him, but they had to retreat because they saw Hu Zhen's army neat from afar, the car flag was not chaotic, the guard was tight, and the guns/crossbows were ringed.

Hu Zhen is thirty or forty years old, he has a good background, his family is a wealthy family in Liangzhou, and he is very famous in Liangzhou, because of his good family background, and under the influence of Qiang customs, his diet since childhood is mostly meat and milk, so he is fat and strong. At this time, he rode on his horse, looked back at the back road, and laughed when he watched Wen Chou and Sun Jian's cavalry, who had been hanging at the end of his formation for a long time, leave away in a daze.

He stroked the long sideburns around his mount's neck, causing the mount to snort in comfort. He said to the left and right: "Wen, Sun Zhuzi, you actually want to set up an ambush to attack me? Don't you know that I am guarding the three passes, and I have long been familiar with the surrounding terrain, so I had expected that the two of them would be ambushed there. ”

Hu Zhen's words are not true, a bit of bragging. He has been in charge of guarding the three passes of Yique, Guangcheng and Taigu for several months, and of course he already has a clear understanding of the terrain in this area, but it is not true to say that he "expected Wen Chou and Sun Jian to be ambushed there".

He was just guessing. You know, a few months ago, Wen Chou and Sun Jian went out of the county to attack, and he suffered several defeats in a row, and this time he rushed to help Taigu, he couldn't be cautious, and he knew that Wen Chou and Sun Jian wanted to set up an ambush for him, and the only best choice was that hill, so when he was about to reach that hill, in order to be foolproof, he simply took a detour and did not pass under the mountain. As a result, I didn't expect that he was really blinded by him.

As the main general, he definitely can't say that he is blinded, so he looks like he is holding the pearl of wisdom and predicting the enemy accurately, and says loudly, "I expected Wen Chou and Sun Jian to set up ambush there."

When he heard it, they all praised it in unison, and they all said: "General God!" He also said, "This aid to Taigu will be successful, and although Wen and Sun are stubborn, they will definitely be able to make these two people look at Guan Xing in vain, and sooner or later they will be defeated." (To be continued.) )