溫暖寒冬提示您:看後求收藏(奇妙書庫www.qmshu.tw),接著再看更方便。
ate and; as soon as he got outside; Sun Ce followed in pursuit。 The pursuit was maintained for some fifteen miles when the pursuers stopped。
Taishi Ci went on as long as possible; finally halting to rest in a spot surrounded by reeds。 Suddenly a tremendous shouting arose。 Taishi Ci was just starting when tripping ropes arose all round; his horse was thrown and he found himself a prisoner。
Taishi Ci was taken back to camp。 As soon as Sun Ce heard the news; he himself rode out to order the guards to leave the prisoner; whose bonds he loosened with his own hands。 Then he took off his own embroidered robe and put it on the captive。 They entered the camp together。
〃I knew you were a real hero;〃 said Sun Ce。 〃That worm Liu Yao had no use for such as you; and so he got beaten。〃
Taishi Ci; overe by this kindness and good treatment; then formally surrendered。
Sun Ce seized his hand and said; laughing; 〃If you had taken me at that fight we had near the shrine; would you have killed me?〃
〃Who can say?〃 said Taishi Ci smiling。
Sun Ce laughed also and they entered his tent; where Taishi Ci was placed in the seat of honor at a banquet。
Taishi Ci said; 〃Can you trust me so far as to let me go to muster as many as I can of the soldiers of my late master? Under the smart of this defeat they will turn against him; and they would be a great help to you。〃
〃Exactly what I most desire。 I will make an agreement with you that at midday tomorrow you will return。〃
Taishi Ci agreed and went off。 All the generals said he would never return。
〃He is trustworthy and will not break his word;〃 said the chief。
None of the officers believed he would e back。 But the next day they set up a bamboo rod in the gate of the camp