After Zhao Yun made contributions, he did not show any smugness and was still diligent in doing what he was doing, as if nothing had happened.

Xu Rong did not immediately commend Zhao Yun, but asked his subordinates to secretly inquire and see if Zhao Yun deliberately pretended to behave in front of him, and once he turned around, he became arrogant in the military camp.

But the result of inquiry is the same. Zhao Yun is indeed like nothing, and he still does whatever he should do. He is open-minded and polite to others, neither crazy nor irritable, and extremely calm.

Xu Rong finally understood what Zhao Yun’s value is.

He also knew what Liu Qi intended to appoint Zhao Yun to him.

...

That night, Xu Rong called Zhao Yun into his handsome tent.

"The last official Zhao Yun, pay a visit to the general."

"Zilong doesn't have to be too polite, sit down!" Xu Rong stretched out his hand and pointed to the seat next to him.

Zhao Yun was not surprised or excited by Xu Rong's sudden enthusiasm. He just walked to the side calmly, sat upright, and listened quietly to Xu Rong's instructions.

"Zilong, a few days ago, the remnants of the Yellow Turbans in Guanzhong came to us to rob grain. Thanks to you who led a hundred cavalry out late at night, killed the chief general, killed the crowd, and regained the food and grass, all of our army's face. Xu's military affairs were busy these days and he didn't have time to comfort you. You won't resent me, right?"

Zhao Yun bowed gently and said, "The general is too praiseworthy. This is just a matter of the last official, so why should I comfort you?"

"Hahaha, you are not arrogant or impatient, calm and moderate. You are indeed the seedling of generals. I am very happy... Alas, to be honest, Xu used to misunderstand you. He has been quite cold to you during the period of sending troops. Now he knows that Zilong is a real husband. I will compensate you here."

Zhao Yun stood up and said, "I dare not. Yun is young and has no idea. He is not worthy of great use. Thanks to the general, he should serve the work of a dog or a horse."

Xu Rong waved his hand and asked Zhao Yun to sit down, saying, "Zilong, are you from Changshan?"

“That’s right.”

"Yes, I have the style of my Yanzhao man."

Zhao Yun showed a puzzled look for the first time: "Isn't the general from Liangzhou?"

Xu Rong laughed and said, "Many people saw me following Dong Xiang back then, and they thought I was from Liangzhou. They really didn't know that I was from Xuantu, Youzhou. You and I were both men from Yanzhao, Hebei. Although they were not from the same hometown, they were ultimately considered to be from the same roots."

Zhao Yun suddenly realized when he heard this, but when he heard Xu Rong call him "Dong Zhuo", he still called him "Dong Xiang". He raised his eyebrows slightly, but said nothing.

Although the expression changed in just a moment, Xu Rong still saw clues.

He laughed and said, "I naturally know that Dong Xiang was recognized as a traitor by the world. As for my current identity, it is indeed inappropriate for me to call him like this... But after all, he has the kindness of knowing me. Although I am not a soldier in Xiliang, I have been entrusted with an important task by Dong Xiang. For twenty years, he has followed him to fight and fight in the east and west and has been promoted repeatedly. To be honest, if there was no Dong Xiang, there would be no Xu Rong today. Everyone in the world would disrespect him, but I can't do it. Even if the prime minister was designated as a traitor by the court, I should not be disrespectful to the prime minister. This is the duty of human beings."

After hearing these words, Zhao Yun showed an admiration for the first time.

He stood up, clasped his fists at Xu Rong and said, "General Gao Yi, Zhao Yun admired!"

"Hey, there is no need to be like this!" Xu Rong waved his hand and laughed: "Don't report me to others, I'm so grateful... Zilong, who are you born?"

"The last official was born in the third year of Jianning."

Xu Rongba pulled his finger and calculated it, and sighed with a sigh: "What a great age, it's enviable... Alas, I remember when I was as old as you, I happened to join the army. Now time flies, twenty years have passed, I am already forty-five, and I am one of the old men."

Xu Rong's words were not self-righteous. People who were 45 or 50 were indeed considered veterans in the army.

"Zilong, to be honest, you should not be from a scholar or a great clan, right?"

Xu Rong asked this question very directly and impolitely. If it were someone else, he might have been anxious.

But as he said, Zhao Yun and Xu Rong were both men of Yan and Zhao, and they were both military men. They did not have the rules of the gentry, and they were straightforward and broad-minded.

Zhao Yun replied naturally: "The general is very accurate, but Zhao Yun is not from a high school."

Xu Rong nodded and said, "Then I think your military books are limited?"

Zhao Yun shook his head: "I have never read it."

These days, military books are rare things. Unlike later generations, I want to read Sun Tzu's Art of War, Guiguzi's Art of War, etc., and I buy several versions when I go to a bookstore. At the very least, I checked the Internet and it was everywhere.

There are only a handful of people who are qualified to see military books, and basically rely on their ancestors... Most people only hear the name of military books, but have not seen the actual military books.

Xu Rong nodded: "That's right. According to my opinion, you have good martial arts, superb horse skills, and strong cavalry skills. These are all practiced in our Hebei area. But if this continues, you will be a talented captain who can lead thousands of people in three or five years. If you want to be a general, you must have ten or twenty years of experience to hone it."

This is very true.

Without military books, that is, without the experience of the sages to learn from, the ability to command the army needs to be polished bit by bit from practice. It seems simple, but it is actually very difficult.

First, from one hundred people, two hundred people, thousands, three thousand people, ten thousand people... the more people I bring, the more military affairs I need to deal with, the more tactics I can use, but at the same time, the more troubles I have, the more I will say, how should the generals be assigned and how to call... And the combat experience must be tempered with war as a premise, and you have to try to win!

If you lose and lose your troops, you have to start over again.

What's even worse is that my life is gone, so I just worship you.

So if you think about it carefully, the profession of general is also a highly competitive and high-risk industry. Everyone squeezes on a single-plank bridge and pushes each other down the bridge.

The one who survived in the end was the general who was terrifying the world, but his experience was based on the corpses of the enemy.

He didn't have tens of thousands of lives in his hands, so he couldn't be considered a famous general.

Zhao Yun didn't know why Xu Rong suddenly asked him this, and he couldn't help but show his doubts on his face.

Xu Rong laughed and said, "Actually, my experience is very similar to yours. My skills and achievements are also the ones that I have come to fight in Liangzhou, Bingzhou and other border counties over the past twenty years... Zilong, although you and I are not born in the same county, Jingzhou and Yizhou, where southerners are everywhere, are considered half of the fellow countrymen. The road I have walked before is the one you are now... If you are willing, from this battle, you will be with Xu. How will Xu use troops, how to dispatch soldiers, how to arrange troops, and what kind of tactics to use in what terrain, how to teach you little by little?"

Zhao Yun was shocked when he heard this.

Who is Xu Rong? He is as old as Huang Zhong. He is the only person in the Western Liang army who became an important general under Dong Zhuo as a native of Youzhou.

He even defeated Sun Jian.

Martial arts, archery, strategy... he may not be able to line up, but he is a veteran in marching, using troops to fight, and commanding soldiers and generals, and his record is still there.

Such a person is willing to pass on his experience to Zhao Yun. How can Zhao Yun not be surprised?

Zhao Yun bowed and said in confusion: "I am not close to General Xu, why do the general treat me so well?"
Chapter completed!