"Fourteen thousand ......"

Standing on top of the tall camp wall, through the wall battlements, Chen Wang stared at the camp in front of him, which was still somewhat orderly.

This huge camp housed a full fourteen thousand people, all of whom were prisoners of the Chunhua war.

The 14,000 were divided into fourteen teams, each with a thousand men, divided into a district.

Each district is guarded by a banner of soldiers, which is located in the north of Chunhua.

In order to ensure that the captives did not cause any commotion, Chen Wang also specially placed a group of Liao cavalry camps under his command outside the city as a force to maintain stability.

Tang Shiping stood aside and reported conscientiously.

"Most of the captives were hungry soldiers and infantry teams in the invasion army, among which the elite cavalry and horse soldiers had already come out, and they were all placed in the first five districts of the camp."

"The first four districts, A, B, C and D, each set up a bureau of soldiers to guard, and the food provided these days is the minimum, and their physical strength is almost consumed."

Tang Shiping closed the document in his hand.

"The captives numbered 1,137 elite cavalry, and the horse army numbered 2,780, and the rest were ordinary infantry and hungry soldiers."

"If there is no problem with the number of people in the rear camp sent by Gao Jie before, in the first battle of Chunhua, there will be almost tens of thousands of enemy casualties and missing, and the rest will flee to Sanshui City."

Chen Wang bowed his head slightly, and in the first battle of Chunhua, there were countless dead and wounded in the army.

Many died in siege, many in night battles, and many in the chaos and fires.

It is difficult for everyone to make an inventory, and only a rough count can be made.

Tang Shiping hesitated for a moment and said.

"I think that recruiting these elite bandits now can temporarily increase some troops."

Tang Shiping almost never objected to Chen Wang's opinion, but this time he raised an objection.

"But most of the elite cavalry bandits among the rogues are corrupt and difficult to restrain in military discipline, and they are used to the days of burning, killing and looting, and I am afraid that a little military salary will not be able to satisfy them."

Although many battalion generals have done the recruitment of surrendered troops, there are many surrendered troops under Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong.

Cao Wenzhao was an outlier, and he had never recruited any troops as a coercion.

Tang Shiping, as a military academy that had been fighting with Cao Wenzhao, also had opposing views on recruiting and surrendering troops.

On the battlefield, as long as you have fled once, you have already lost your courage.

Sharpness is easy to raise, and combat power is easy to improve, but once the courage is lost, it is difficult to obtain.

This is what Cao Wenzhao once said.

Cao Wenzhao has a very high prestige in the army, and Tang Shiping almost enshrined Cao Wenzhao's words as golden rules.

"I know."

Tang Shiping was about to give another advice, but when he heard Chen Wang's answer, he couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

"So I didn't intend to pick people from among these elite horsemen and horsemen."

Chen Wang leaned on the camp wall with his hands and said in a deep voice.

"Send someone to the remaining ten districts to distinguish between the infantry and the hungry soldiers."

"Pick out all the hungry soldiers and put them in the back camp."

Distinguishing the ingredients of the rogue is extremely simple.

Those who are physically fit will only be cavalry and horse troops, and those who are slightly less physical will be infantry troops.

And the hungry soldiers are almost all yellow-skinned and thin-skinned, and they are not covered by clothes, which are all affected by years and months, and it is difficult to fake.

"All the recruits were selected from the ranks of the hungry soldiers, and the tentative number of soldiers was 2,697 men, and they were organized as auxiliaries."

The number Chen Wang mentioned is the total number of people after the battalion was fully established under the original Cao Wen edict.

There were 899 men in each division, and the three divisions were a battalion, with a total of 2,697 men.

"The method of selecting soldiers is the same method I taught you before."

Chen Wang paused and turned his head to look at Tang Shiping, his expression was much more solemn.

"You must remember that it is better to have less than to have more."

Tang Shiping's heart was slightly cold, he did not raise the objection again, but nodded in response.

Regarding the selection and training of troops, he felt that Chen Wang was much stronger than Cao Wenzhao.

Those recruits recruited from Pizhou are not only lined up now, but now they are not too many ordinary veterans who are not inferior to the battle.

"There should be a lot of Gao Jie's original subordinates among these people, and I will allow him to take them out of the camp, but the number should not be too many, not more than two thousand."

Gao Jie not only betrayed Li Zicheng, but also stole Li Zicheng's wife, and he could only go all the way to the dark.

Leading troops to rebel and escaping from the camp are completely different things in terms of merit.

There are so many elite horsemen and horse troops, and they must not be released.

They have tasted flesh and blood, and they will never be willing to eat only grain and rice again.

There are generally only two situations for dealing with old bandits, one is to recruit them into the army, and the other is to directly behead them.

Chen Wang decided to sell Gao Jie another favor and asked him to select 2,000 people as the team after that.

With 2,000 people as the team, coupled with this anyway work, it is not a big problem to seal a guerrilla plan.

As for the rest of the elite cavalry and horse army, they were all cut off, and the hungry people of the infantry were handed over to the local officials to settle down.

"Let's arrange it."

Tang Shiping lowered his head, answered, and prepared to leave.

However, Tang Shiping did not succeed in the end.

A battalion soldier hurried to the front and brought an unexpected news - Zuo Liangyu was outside the camp.

When the soldiers on duty outside the camp reported to him, Chen Wang thought at first that he had misheard the name.

It wasn't until the battalion soldiers who reported it repeated it again that Chen Wang dared to be convinced.

"Let ......"

As soon as Chen Wang's words came out, he took them back.

He originally wanted to say that the guards should go and invite Zuo Liangyu in, but when the words came to an end, he felt that it was inappropriate.

This is really too big, and Zuo Liangyu's status is only a little lower than Cao Wenzhao, and he is at the same level as He Renlong.

Chen Wang straightened his appearance, took Hu Zhiyi and Chen Gong out of the camp tent, and walked quickly outside the camp to greet them.

Zuo Liangyu held the seal letter in his hand, and the defenders of the city naturally did not have any reason to stop him, and were waiting outside the camp now.

Chen Wang was far away and saw Zuo Liangyu's figure at the camp gate.

Zuo Liangyu's attire was not much different from that in Cao Wenzhao's camp, wearing a crimson narrow sleeve and a crown of amber hair, standing in front of the camp gate.

On Zuo Liangyu's side, there were still seven or eight guards wearing armor and swords.

Chen Wang sped up his pace a little, walked closer, and bowed his hand.

"Xiaguan Chen Wang, see General Soldier Zuo."

Naturally, the same battalion general does not need to kneel, but as a subordinate official, he still has to perform basic etiquette.

"I don't know that General Soldier Zuo is here today, it's really a long way off."

Zuo Liangyu didn't care about any red tape.

"When I received the news from you, I couldn't believe it."

"When I really led the troops out of Pizhou and recovered Sanshui City, I was still a little confused."

Zuo Liangyu stepped forward with a smile on his face, patted Chen Wang's shoulder, and said familiarly.

"In the first battle, more than 100,000 thieves were defeated, and this merit was passed on to Xingping, and it will be able to be looked up to by the military."

Zuo Liangyu's enthusiastic appearance made Chen Wang a little uncomfortable.