Don't do it after breakfast, Liu Zhang asked about last night's harvest.

A total of 74 enemies were killed on the side of the forest, and in order to deter the enemy, all those who rushed out of the forest with weapons were shot and killed, leaving no one alive, and there were no wounded, and there were more than 9,300 people who surrendered. About 3,000 enemy troops were killed and wounded in Dazhai, and the specific number could not be counted because of the presence of friendly troops.

Speaking of which, Liu Zhang's results were extremely brilliant, he achieved the result of killing and wounding 3,000 enemies with 800 casualties, this number may not be very good, but counting more than 9,000 prisoners, it is definitely a big victory. In comparison, the losses of the princes were much more serious, and after the war, the Allied forces suffered more than 36,000 casualties, of which 17,800 were killed in battle, which can be described as a heavy loss. And Lu Bu's losses were not small, there were more than 15,000 corpses on the battlefield, and 10,000 strange soldiers were wiped out, which was not much better than the allied army!

Xu Chu thought that he had caught a vicious battle last night, but he only met two or three kittens, far from being addicted, and after eating and drinking, he immediately asked Liu Zhang to agree, let him lead troops into the forest to destroy the remnants of the enemy in the forest!

Liu Zhang knew that there must be enemies in the forest, because after interrogating the prisoners of war, he had learned that there were 10,000 soldiers and horses on this road, and only 9,200 people died and surrendered, which means that there were still 800 enemies in the forest.

Seeing Liu Zhang's nod, Dian Wei, Huang Zhong, Xu Huang, Wei Yan, Zhang Liao, Yan Yan, Zhang Ren and others asked to lead the troops.

Liu Zhang thought about it, the situation in the forest is unknown, Xu Huang, Wei Yan, Zhang Liao, Zhang Ren and others are handsome talents, and it is not suitable to be in danger, but Zhang Liao's new surrender and Zhang Ren's young prestige is insufficient, so they must be allowed to make more meritorious achievements, otherwise it will be difficult to convince the public. Therefore, Xu Chu, Dian Wei, Huang Zhong, Zhang Liao, Zhang Ren, Zhou Cang, Li Yan, Gong Du, Guan Hai, Liao Hua, and Pei Yuanshao were each ordered to lead 200 soldiers into the forest to search for the remnants of the enemy, and they must be completely annihilated; Xu Huang sat in the handsome tent and guarded Liu Zhang; Wei Yan returned to Dazhai to guard against the enemy.

The 800 remnants of the enemy who had been a caged bird all night had no intention of surrendering at this time, that is, they were determined to be martyred for Dong Zhuo, and Liu Zhang did not waste time to continue to persuade him to surrender, and directly ordered the generals to enter the forest from all directions, do a carpet search, and kill every enemy!

More than an hour later, Xu Chu and the others entered Liu Zhang's handsome tent together.

Liu Zhang knew that the matter had been done when he looked at their faces, and said, "How is it?" ”

Dian Wei said: "Yu Gongzi, because the forest is lush with grass and trees, the enemy hides in the grass, behind the trunk of the tree, and even climbs the tree, once our brothers enter their killing range, they immediately launch a surprise attack, so the brothers' losses are somewhat serious, a total of one hundred and thirteen brothers were killed in battle, ninety-seven were wounded, and seven hundred and sixty-four enemies were completely annihilated, none of them survived!" ”

With less than 800 remnants of the enemy, he killed more than 100 of his own people, almost half of the number of people killed in the bloody battle last night, although Liu Zhang felt heartache, but also knew that this was no wonder to others, it was actually caused by the environment, and this less than 800 enemies were stubborn This person, all of them repaid the determination to die, speaking of which this loss is already very small, not to mention that the generals are safe and sound.

Liu Zhang didn't say anything, and ordered the casualty soldiers to be properly settled according to the rules, and turned to Man Chong: "Berning, is there an eyebrow in the matter?" ”

Full of favor bowed: "Childe, I was about to report to you, that person has been found!" ”

"Oh!" Liu Zhang was overjoyed and said, "Who is it?" Where is it? Bring it up to me! ”

Full of favor said: "Childe, this person's surname is Hou Mingcheng, he is a strong general under Lu Bu, and he is the main general of this sneak attack on our army. This man loves soldiers like a son, has a lot of prestige among soldiers, and is very loved, so the soldiers all cover for him, and they are unwilling to betray him, and his subordinates coerce and lure many people, so they find him out! ”

Liu Zhang nodded, it turned out to be Hou Cheng, but he was also a talent, but after Cao Cao surrounded Pi, he surrendered with Wei Xu and others, and finally Lu Bu was defeated and killed! He didn't have much of a good impression of this kind of betrayal, although Hou Zhi was also forced by the situation at that time.

Everyone should know why Liu Zhang wanted to find out this person! Last night, he just started to delay the time, so that Xu Chu could plug the opening, but he was immediately called out, Liu Zhang was still happy at the time, maybe he was a good general for his own use!

Full Favor said again: "I talked to him in the next place, and found that this person has extraordinary knowledge, and he is willing to take refuge in Gongzi!" ”

Liu Zhang nodded, and let out an "oh" without much interest.

Zhang Liao next to him stood up and said: "Yu Gongzi, I have been friends with Hou Cheng for several years, I know him very well, this person is well-trained, he is a rare talent, since he has taken refuge in Gongzi, he will have achievements in the future!" Moreover, this person has great prestige in the army, and it will be of great help to Gongzi to ambush the more than 9,000 soldiers captured last night! ”

Liu Zhang listened to Zhang Liao's words, and then cheered up, with Zhang Liao and Manzhong's strong recommendation, presumably Hou Cheng did have something extraordinary, as Zhang Liao said, in order to collect the hearts of nine thousand captives as soon as possible, he should also appease him. What's more, people are selfish, and his surrender before Lu Bu's defeat was just a wise strategy to protect himself, not a big stain, so why bother with it? After thinking about this, he immediately asked someone to invite him up and praised him well.

With the addition of Zhang Liao and Hou Zhi, the reorganization of the surrendered army went very smoothly, and it was all done in a few days.

Liu Zhang took this opportunity to carry out a reorganization of the troops and horses of the department. After the reorganization, Liu Zhang's command had 22,833 soldiers and horses (including 870 wounded soldiers, not counting the disabled), including 6,400 British troops, 15,633 Dongzhou troops and 800 cavalry.

First of all, Liu Zhang expanded his personal guard battalion, drawing elite soldiers from the Dongzhou Army, the Yingwu Army, and the Surrender Army (he wanted to tell all the soldiers that he treated all of them equally, and completely trusted the loyalty of each soldier. Sure enough, when he selected 500 people from the British army and the surrendered army as personal guards, all the soldiers admired this practice of employing people without doubt, and everyone decided to swear allegiance to Liu Zhang with their actions), expanding the personal guard battalion from 500 to 2,000 people, with Dian Wei and Xu Chu as the captains of the personal guard battalion; In addition, all the cavalry were assigned to the personal guard battalion, and the 800 cavalry were subordinate to Dian Wei and Xu Chu, and Zhou Cang was specifically responsible for commanding them.

The establishment of the British army remained unchanged, there were still 6,400 people (the shortage was supplemented from the surrendered army), with Man Chong as the general, Wei Yan as the deputy (concurrently serving as the captain of the first battalion), and appointed Xi Zhicai and Feng Ji as the principal and deputy to join the army. The whole army was reorganized into three battalions, each battalion had four 2,000 people, and the remaining 400 were organized into the personal guard battalion of the British army (not a favored personal guard, Liu Zhang's move was to emphasize the true belonging of the army), and the personal guard battalion was commanded by Zhang Ren (after the cavalry was included in the personal guard, Zhang Ren was a handsome talent, if he was a guard, in order not to be too wasteful, Liu Zhang put him in the British army). In addition to Wei Yan, he also served as the captain of the other two battalions of Liao Hua and Li Yan.

After the reorganization, the Dongzhou Army had a total of 11,000 people (like the British Army, the shortage was supplemented from the surrender), and it was organized into five battalions, each battalion with four parts and 2,000 people, and another Dongzhou Army Guard Battalion was set up with an establishment of 1,000 people. The Dongzhou Army took Yan Yan as the general and Xu Huang as the deputy (concurrently served as the captain of the first battalion), appointed Guo Jia and Mao Jue as the principal and deputy to join the army, and the five battalions were respectively captained by Huang Zhong, Zhang Liao, Guan Hai, and Liang Xi, and Pei Yuanshao was the captain of the pro-guard battalion;

The remaining 2,600 men were temporarily organized into a supplementary battalion (most of the soldiers were lightly wounded and soldiers with poor physical fitness who had been killed in the two wars), and the supplementary battalion was made a lieutenant by Hou, and Gong Du was on the side, and the supplementary battalion had no combat mission, but the amount of training was not reduced in the slightest, and once the combat troops were damaged in battle, they were replenished by the supplementary battalion. In the future, if there are any prisoners, they will not be integrated into the combat unit, and then they will be trained in the supplementary battalion.