"Very good, I like General Gao Shun to be a person who knows the times, so, having a general to help me is like a tiger with wings, and I hope that the general will persuade these trapped soldiers behind him, or that sentence, if they are willing to surrender, I will treat them well, if they are unwilling to surrender, I will also let them go and let them go back on their own."

After Liu Zheng finished speaking, he asked Gao Shun to convince these trapped camp soldiers behind him.

The number of people in the camp was not large, only more than 800 people. And there are more than 1,200 people here, in fact, there are soldiers who are not trapped in the camp, but the previous wolf cavalry did not escape, and some of them have been fighting at the end of the cavalry, and at the end of the battle, they were captured by Liu Zheng together.

Now Liu Zheng let them choose whether to surrender or not, if they are willing to serve Liu Zheng, they can continue to stay, if they are not willing to serve under Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng will also let them go back unconditionally.

In fact, many of these people are reluctant to continue to stay under Liu Zheng's hands, because, as Gao Shun said before, they are all family people in Bingzhou.

There are only a few people who are lonely and widowed, and they are the same everywhere, more of them are old and young, their wives and children and parents are in Bingzhou, if they choose to surrender Liu Zheng, their families in Bingzhou will definitely not end well, for the sake of their families, most of them will still choose to leave.

Unless Liu Zheng can guarantee the safety of their families, how can Liu Zheng be able to guarantee their families.

"I do my best."

Gao Shun replied in front of Liu Zheng, without making a guarantee, only saying that he tried his best, and then turned his head behind him.

Among these trapped soldiers, Gao Shun began to tell them about the things that Liu Zheng had just told him, mainly asking them if they were willing to defect to Liu Zheng, and telling them that those who were willing to stay Liu Zheng would pay double the amount of money, not only to give them money, but also to greatly improve their status.

As soon as such words came out, they really attracted some soldiers who were trapped in the camp. After all, many people who don't care about it are the same wherever they become soldiers, and Liu Zheng's subordinates are obviously much better than other princes' subordinates, so why not do it.

After some overall planning, more than 500 of the more than 1,200 people here still chose to stay.

This number is not small, Liu Zheng nodded with satisfaction, and really repatriated those who did not want to stay directly to Ding Yuan.

The reason why Liu Zheng wanted to return these people to Ding Yuan was actually to convey two messages to Ding Yuan.

One is to let Ding Yuan know that Lu Bu, Gao Shun and others have surrendered to him, which makes Ding Yuan jealous.

The second is that these horses have been under Liu Zheng's command for a while, and they know Liu Zheng's reality and know that Liu Zheng has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses here.

After they returned, they would definitely inform Ding Yuan of the news, so that Ding Yuan would not dare to attack rashly, so he could only continue to defend and wait for Liu Zheng to attack him.

Not long after these people returned, they would inform Ding Yuan of the news, and Liu Zheng didn't need to worry that Ding Yuan would take the initiative at this time.

Jiangxia County, in a certain county seat, Ding Yuan sat in the city government and heard Cheng Lian, Hou Chenger will return to report the situation.

"Assassin Shi, the big thing is not good, we fell for that Liu Zheng's trick, General Lu Bu was captured, 10,000 elites suffered heavy losses, only we led more than 2,000 people to flee back to the city!"

"What's the use of me raising you for useless things? You have the money of the court, but you can't come back with the face for the king's worries. ”

Ding Yuan is not like other princes. When they hear bad news, they get angry and do something frightening.

After all, Ding Yuan is still a person who has seen a lot of wind and rain and can restrain his emotions, although he is angry, he does not do some irritable things.

Although he was disappointed in Cheng Lian, Hou Cheng and others, he only scolded a few words, and did not vent his dissatisfaction.

"I didn't let you lead the 10,000 cavalry in the city back to rescue Lu Bu, why did you return in vain."

Although Lu Bu and a small number of soldiers and horses were captured, Ding Yuan still did not feel afraid. He has always been very calm as a late bloomer, and even exposing his impulsiveness at this time will not help.

You need to calm down and deal with this situation before you know how to solve it, and blindly getting angry will not change the current outcome.

Although Ding Yuan was also annoyed in his heart, why did he let Lu Bu go out of the city to fight Liu Zheng, but now he is annoyed, and regret can't change the situation, so he can only find a way to make up for it.

"My lord, it's not that we don't want to rescue General Lu Bu, but when we led the men and horses to kill back, the battlefield had already subsided, and the other side had built defensive facilities, so that I didn't dare to attack rashly, once we attacked, maybe even these 10,000 soldiers and horses would suffer heavy losses."

Hou Cheng and Cheng Lian made excuses for themselves and told Ding Yuan why they didn't attack.

"You two wastes, it's really useless, go down and lead the army with twenty canes each, reflect on it, and immediately send someone to send an order to let Zhang Liao return from Nanyang!"

Ding Yuan actually can't blame Cheng Lian and Hou Cheng at this time, because this is also Lu Bu's own fault.

Although he promised Lu Bu to fight, he only promised Lu Bu to fight with Liu Zheng's army under the city, he didn't expect that Lu Bu would actually fall for Liu Zheng's radical generals.

Dare to leave the vicinity of the city to fight in the place chosen by Liu Zheng, isn't this just throwing himself into a net and waiting for others to design to harm him?

While complaining about Lu Bu's carelessness in his heart, Ding Yuan tried to find a way to save the current situation.

Although Lu Bu lost thousands of cavalry this time, Ding Yuan still had 12,000 men and horses here.

These 10,000 people can continue to fight with Liu Zheng, but there is absolutely no way to rely on these 10,000 people to defeat Liu Zheng.

Therefore, Ding Yuan could only transfer Zhang Liao, who was sent to Nanyang to deal with Yuan Shu, back, and with those soldiers and horses under Zhang Liao, he could barely fight with Liu Zheng.

At the same time, Ding Yuan also realized that he only had the shortcomings of cavalry, and without archers and infantry, he could not compete with Liu Zheng on the frontal battlefield, and he was always weaker.

He thought of using these horses under Liu Biao to unite to deal with Liu Zheng together.

Only if there are enough people and horses can they compete with Liu Zheng, and in this battle alone, Ding Yuan swept away his original contempt for Liu Zheng, and the only thing left was to be cautious.

Originally, he didn't expect Liu Zheng's people, thinking that his 30,000 people could block Liu Zheng, but now it seems that Ding Yuan still has some light enemies, and after fighting with Liu Zheng, he understands Liu Zheng's horror.

I know that I can't rely on my own strength to deal with Liu Zheng alone.