There were originally only 3,000 regular soldiers in Hefei, but now the number has suddenly increased to more than 5,000.

Half of the extra 2,000 soldiers came from the Yuan army that had gathered on the banks of the Feishui River, and the remaining half were the family private soldiers that Liu Ye had specially transferred from Chengde's hometown a few days ago.

The Liu family is a wealthy family in Yangzhou, with Liu Ye's prestige, if he has the heart, it is easy to raise a few thousand private soldiers, but now that the Han family is declining, Liu Ye, as a royal family, does not want to support the army and respect himself, so this thousand soldiers and horses are all he can take.

Liu Ye did his best for Jinfan, obviously preparing to go all the way with Wang Chong.

When Wang Chong learned of this from Li Tao, he was deeply moved, and immediately ordered Liu Ye's official position to be promoted from joining the army to Changshi, which was already the highest-ranking adjutant in the shogunate, which shows Wang Chong's attention and trust in him.

Wang Shuang returned, and the cavalry battalion naturally returned to his command, but now the number of cavalry battalions has expanded from the original 300 to 700 people, which is the result of Liu Ye and Li Tao collecting war horses around the city after taking control of Hefei.

Cavalry is very important, especially in the south where war horses are scarce, sometimes just a few hundred cavalry can even affect the trend of a war, so although Wang Chong did not explain when he left, Liu Ye and Li Tao still wanted to get as many war horses as possible, so as to strengthen Jinfan's combat effectiveness.

Of course, Li Tao didn't know anything about training cavalry, so after scraping together 400 war horses and selecting 400 soldiers who were good at riding and archery from the army, he handed over full authority to the three generals in the cavalry battalion to manage the drills, and he rarely intervened on weekdays, because he was afraid that he would manage the cavalry battalion more and more chaotically, and he could not explain to Wang Chong and Wang Shuang afterwards.

Now that Wang Shuang has returned, Li Tao finally breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had unloaded a thousand catties of burden.

For the expansion of the cavalry battalion, Wang Shuang, as the commander, was naturally quite excited, so after getting Wang Chong's permission, as soon as he entered Hefei, he couldn't wait for people to lead the way, and went straight to the garrison of the cavalry battalion.

Looking at Wang Shuang's back gradually disappearing around the corner, Li Tao smiled bitterly and shook his head: "This Ziquan, why is he still so frizzy?" ”

Wang Chong said with a cold face: "So he is destined to be only a general in this life, and he will never be enough to lead an army alone!" ”

I am born to be useful, everyone has their own strengths, and there is also the most suitable development direction for themselves.

Wang Shuang was born with divine power and fought bravely, so Wang Chong has always let him develop in terms of war generals, after all, with his impulsive and wooden character, he is really not suitable to become the commander of an army, if you have to throw him a few military books and let him familiarize himself with strategy, it will only backfire in the end, because you will find that he is not interested in these at all, even if you force him to learn, he may not be able to comprehend the essence of the art of war.

Some people are born to be generals, and some people are destined to become handsome, just like Lu Meng, is the best example.

Lu Meng was born in the army, he had no culture since he was a child, but after Sun Quan's persuasion, he suddenly grew into a handsome man with both civil and military skills, his comprehension of the art of war is very strong, and he is also willing to learn, and finally accumulated a lot of money, crossed the river in white clothes to outwit Jingzhou, and from the world, the idiom of 'Shibei three days should be impressive', is Lu Su's admiration for Lu Meng at that time.

Liu Ye and Li Tao were very surprised, obviously they didn't expect Wang Chong's evaluation of Wang Shuang to be like this, didn't Wang Chong always attach great importance to Wang Shuang?

Wang Chong just smiled and didn't explain.

Attaching importance does not mean that it must be reused, Wang Shuang's future is just a sharp blade in Wang Chong's hands, his template is Xu Chu, if there are no special circumstances, Wang Chong will take Wang Shuang with him every time he goes out in the future, but he will not let him lead an army alone.

The reason why Wang Chong now puts Wang Shuang in charge of the cavalry battalion is that Wang Shuang's ability to train cavalry is really good, and secondly, the current Jinfan really can't find a more suitable candidate than him for the time being, of course, the most important point is that although Wang Shuang is the commander of this cavalry battalion, in fact, he is directly under Wang Chong's orders, just like Zhou Hu of the Iron Guard Battalion, they themselves do not have any decision-making power.

If the cavalry battalion grows in size in the future and someone needs to lead the troops alone, then this commander will never be Wang Shuang.

Of course, although Wang Shuang will not be able to become a single general like Gan Ning and Hao Zhao in the future, he will be the closest general to Wang Chong, so from another point of view, Wang Shuang's status will at least surpass most generals.

"By the way, I forgot to introduce you to you!" At this time, Wang Chong suddenly remembered his promise to Hao Zhao, beckoned to him, "Bo Dao, come here!" ”

Hao Zhaoqiang held back the tension and excitement in his heart and stepped forward: "Lord!?" ”

Wang Chong patted Hao Zhao on the shoulder and introduced Liu Ye and Li Tao: "Ziyang, Boyun, this Hao Zhao Hao Bodao used to be the general of the elite division under the command of Wen Hou, and now I want to use Bodao as the general to rebuild the trapped camp, you two must give the greatest support!" ”

If Hao Zhao wants to form a trapping camp as soon as possible, the support of Liu Ye and Li Tao is indispensable, first of all, you need to go to Li Tao's army to select and allocate soldiers, and on the issue of equipment, I believe that no one knows the situation of the Hefei treasury better than Liu Ye.

Liu Ye and Li Tao glanced at each other, and at the same time responded: "No! ”

Wang Chong nodded and said: "This matter must be implemented as soon as possible, Bo Dao, make a list of all the equipment as soon as possible, and then hand it over to Ziyang, it is best to complete the handover within today, as for the problem of the soldiers, it is not in a hurry, and let Bo Yun accompany you to the army tomorrow to choose slowly." ”

How shrewd is Liu Ye? immediately grasped the details in Wang Chong's words: "Lord, are you ready to do something to Zheng Bao?" ”

Wang Chong sneered: "Ah, paper can't hold the fire, I believe that the matter of me becoming General Annan will soon be spread by people with intentions, so before that, we must solve Zheng Bao first!" ”

"What is the lord going to do?"

"Ziyang, later, you will send a cronie to deliver a message to Zheng Bao, and it will be said that the imperial envoy will visit Chao County tomorrow, so that he can prepare for it as soon as possible!"

Liu Ye knew that Wang Chong was going to go out in person, so he asked, "How many people does the lord plan to bring?" ”

Wang Chong replied: "It is enough to bring only a hundred cavalry, there are too many people, it is easy to arouse Zheng Bao's suspicion, when the time comes, Ziyang will go on the road with me, and after I kill Zheng Bao, you will come forward to win people's hearts!" ”

Gan Ning was not there at this time, even if Liu Ye and Li Tao did not agree with Wang Chong's risk, they could not influence his decision at all.