Wen Chou was overjoyed, helped him up, invited him to take a seat, sat down on his seat, and said with a smile: "The front side came up to report, and said that Hu Zhen is enough, even ten Hu Zhen is not as good as one of you!" He asked, "How much does the general's headquarters still exist?" ”

Xu Rong didn't know, so he could only answer an approximate number, and said: "If you close it, you may get more than a thousand or two thousand." ”

"I will make up three thousand to the general, and I will still be led by the general."

After being captured by Wen Chou's generals, Xu Rong had expected that Wen Chou would not kill him, but Wen Chou bowed down to him in front of everyone to apologize, but Xu Rong did not expect this, Wen Chou offered to make up 3,000 people for him, and still handed him over to take charge, which Xu Rong did not expect.

Although Xu Rong was captured late, because he knew that Wen Chou valued him, he was sent to Wen Chou earlier than Hu Zhen, and after a while, Hu Zhen was also sent by Li Dian.

Wen Chou is not willing to surrender to anyone he sees casually, such as Hu Zhen, he is not interested, and after Xu Rong confirmed that the captured person is indeed Hu Zhen, Wen Chou is not even interested in saying a few more words to him, and he is directly beheaded.

Hu Zhen's hair was unkempt and his clothes were unkempt, and he stumbled involuntarily to be pushed out, while begging and shouting: "Ming Gong! Ming Gong!? …… General Xu! General Xu! Since the public has already been the guest of honor on the Ming public seat, how can he bear to see me die? ”

Xu Rong also has a temper, Hu Zhen was in the camp before, scolded him in front of everyone, saying that he was "collaborating with the enemy", he couldn't have a seizure at that time, but now how can he intercede for Hu Zhen? Not a word.

Wen Chou looked at Xu Rong's expression and said to him with a smile: "Such a useless person, but he is actually above the general, Dong Zhuo is too unrecognizable, how can he not be defeated?" Tomorrow to take down Taigu, willing to fight with the general and Luo! ”

Xu Rong left the table and bowed. said: "The Taigu guard is familiar with Rong, and Rong is willing to surrender for Ming Gong." ”

Xu Rong is willing to recruit Taigu guards for Wen Chou.

Wen Chou was overjoyed and asked, "What does the general need to recruit the Taigu guard?" Let's just talk about it. ”

Xu Rong said: "There is no need for anything, as long as Hu Zhen is at the head, Rong will ride into the customs alone." will be able to take down Taigu for Ming Gong. ”

Among the officials under the Wen Chou account, someone coughed.

Wen Chou is so smart, how can he not know what this coughing person means? Obviously, because he heard Xu Rong say that he wanted to "ride into the customs alone", he wondered if Xu Rong was going to take the opportunity to escape, so he coughed to remind Wen Chou not to agree. Wen Chou didn't even look at the scribe, and immediately said: "Okay! Just as you say. …… When does the general plan to leave for the customs? ”

"Today, Dong Jun is newly broken, Hu Zhen is the head, and I am also the income of Ming Gong. Only Lu Bu escaped, and Taigu Guanzhong must have been fluctuating at this time, and he was afraid up and down, and he was just surrendering. Rong Yuan will go to the customs now. ”

Wen Chou immediately asked people to take Hu Zhen's head, put it in a box, give it to Xu Rong, hold Xu Rong's hand, and send him out of the Chinese army. parting said: "I will wait for the general's good news outside the gate." ”

Xu Rong waved his hand and carried the box containing Hu Zhen's head. Turning over and getting on the horse, he didn't bring a single entourage, galloped away, and went to Taigu.

Seeing him ride away alone, the scribe who coughed just now said: "Xu Rong is going, I'm afraid it will be difficult to return!" ”

Wen Chou disagreed. Looking at Xu Rong's distant figure, he said to everyone: "Don't suspect people, don't doubt people." General Xu is my old man, I know his temperament, and he is now mine. It will not be repeated. ”

"Don't use a suspicious person, don't doubt a person", these eight words seem to be saying "since you use a person, don't doubt him", and if you dig deeper, "since you use a person, don't doubt him" is actually just the meaning of the four words "don't doubt the use of people" in the second half of the sentence, and there are four words in front of it "don't use a suspicious person", which is "if you doubt a person, don't use him".

Wen Chou said these eight words at this time, saying that he did not doubt Xu Rong, so he used him.

Wen Chou raised his head and looked at the sky, it was the twilight, and he said to the left and right, "From here to Taigu, it will take two hours to go back and forth, and by tomorrow morning at the latest, General Xu will have a letter." ”

It takes an hour to go to Taigu Pass, and it takes an hour to come back, plus the time to persuade you to surrender in the middle, whether the persuasion is successful or not, if things go well, you should be able to get the news almost tomorrow morning.

Wen Chou and Sun Jian's troops pursued and killed Dong Bing until night, and then they returned to their base camp one after another.

The generals recounted their merits, each with its own merits, but most of the officers of the Dong Army who were beheaded and captured by them were Hu Zhen and Xu Rong's subordinates, and it was rare to see Lu Bu's subordinates. Wen Chou and Sun Jian asked why, and the generals all replied in unison: "The soldiers of Bingzhou are fast, and as soon as the Dong camp was broken, Lu Bu led his headquarters to flee first, and we were not in a hurry to chase them, so we won a little less." ”

Hu Zhen twice said that he wanted to "cut off one or two green ribbons", and he did not give Lu Bu face in front of the public, Lu Bu had long harbored resentment, it was to fight today, since the beginning of the war, Lu Bu did not contribute, and the people who fought in front were Hu Zhen and Xu Rongbu, and his soldiers and state soldiers have not moved, when the matter was urgent, Hu Zhen sent orders three times to transfer him to battle, but he shirked with various excuses, and did not send troops until the camp was broken, otherwise Sun Jianbu would not have been able to break the Dong camp so quickly, and for this reason, when the Dong camp was broken, taking advantage of Wen and Sun Bing to be temporarily Hu Zhen, Xu Rongbu blocked the air, Lu Bu and his soldiers escaped smoothly and smoothly.

Sun Jian was a little sorry and said: "Lu Bu has the name of 'flying general', and he is a fierce general, but in today's battle, he failed to capture him, but he actually asked him to escape, which is a pity." ”

Wen Chou was very satisfied with today's results, plus he knew the trend of history and knew a little about Lu Bu's personality, so he didn't feel a pity like Sun Jian, he smiled and said: "Lu Bu is brave and unscrupulous, although he is called a 'flying general', how can he be compared with 'the late general Li'?" Although he has fled now, the soldiers have been frustrated, and the tiger has lost his courage, so why worry? ”

"The old general Li", this is the flying general Li Guang of the former Han Dynasty.

"The tiger has lost its courage, why worry about it", this is talking about today's battle, Lu Bu did not have the strength to die, and ran away first, in Lu Bu's case, he was taking revenge on Hu Zhen, but for Lu Bu's Bingzhou soldiers, this is "fleeing without a fight", as far as an army is concerned,

"Fleeing without a fight" is a taboo, the main general will flee with the troops first, and then the fierce troops will inevitably become depressed when they encounter this situation, and the next time they encounter the same enemy, the soldiers will inevitably not be able to have a strong fighting spirit.

Sun Jianjiu led the soldiers and was familiar with the art of war, so he agreed with Wen Chou's words very much, nodded and said: "What Zixiao said is not bad, although Lu Bu has fled, his fighting spirit has been lost, and it will not be difficult to win next time he meets him." (To be continued.) )