"Fourteen thousand people..."
Standing on the tall camp wall, across the wall stacks, Chen Wang stared at the somewhat orderly camp in front of him.
This huge camp accommodates a total of 14,000 people, all of whom were prisoners of the Chunhua battle.
Fourteen thousand people were divided into fourteen teams, each with a thousand people, divided into one area.
Each district is guarded by soldiers of one banner, located in the north of Chunhua City.
In order to ensure that the prisoners would not cause any commotion, Chen Wang also specially placed a group of Liao cavalry camps under his command outside the city as a stabilizing force.
Tang Shiping stood aside and reported the report diligently.
"The captives are mostly hungry soldiers and troops from the invading army. The elite cavalry and horse troops have been divided among them, and they have been placed in the first five areas of the camp."
"The first four districts and the four districts A, B, C and D are each guarded by a team of soldiers. The food provided during these days is the minimum, and their physical strength has been almost exhausted."
Tang Shiping closed the book in his hand.
"There are 1,137 captured elite cavalrymen, 2,780 cavalry soldiers, and the rest are ordinary infantry and hungry soldiers."
"If there is no problem with the number of people in the rear camp that Gao Jie sent before, in the Battle of Chunhua, the enemy's casualties and missing were almost tens of thousands, and the rest fled to Sanshui City."
Chen Wang nodded slightly. In the battle of Chunhua, countless casualties were caused by the invaders.
Many people died in the siege, many died in the night battle, and many others died in the chaos and fire.
If everyone needs to take a clear inventory of the difficulties, we can only make a rough summary.
Tang Shiping hesitated for a moment and then said.
"I believe that recruiting these veteran bandits with elite cavalry can temporarily increase our strength."
Tang Shiping had almost never opposed Chen Wang's opinions, but this time he raised objections.
"But among the rogue bandits, most of the veteran bandits with elite cavalry have broken military discipline and are difficult to restrain. They are used to a life of burning, killing and looting. I am afraid that the small amount of military pay cannot satisfy them."
Although many battalion generals have recruited surrendered troops, Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong both had many surrendered troops.
Cao Wenzhao was an anomaly. He had never recruited any surrender troops as coercive followers.
Tang Shiping, as a military academy who had been fighting with Cao Wenzhao, also opposed the recruitment of surrender troops.
On the battlefield, as long as you escape once, you have lost your courage.
Spirit is easy to maintain and combat power is easy to increase, but once courage is lost, it is difficult to regain it.
This is what Cao Wenzhao once said.
Cao Wenzhao had a high prestige in the army, and Tang Shiping enshrined almost everything Cao Wenzhao said into golden rules.
"I know."
Tang Shiping was about to give some more advice, but when he heard Chen Wang's answer, he couldn't help but be slightly startled.
"So I have no intention of selecting people from these elite cavalry and horse troops."
Chen Wang leaned on the camp wall with his hands and said in a deep voice.
"Send people to the remaining ten districts to identify the troops and hungry soldiers."
"Select all the hungry soldiers among them and put them into the camps at the back."
It is extremely simple to identify the components of rogue bandits.
People with strong physiques will only be elite cavalry and horse troops, while those with weaker physiques will be part of the troops.
The hungry soldiers were almost all sallow, thin, and poorly clothed. This was due to the effects of many years, and it was difficult to fake it.
"All new soldiers are selected from the ranks of hungry soldiers. The tentative number of soldiers is 2,697, and they are organized into auxiliary soldiers."
The number Chen Wang mentioned was exactly the total number of people in a battalion after the battalion was fully established according to the original camp system established by Cao Wenzhao.
Each unit has 899 people, and three units form one battalion, with a total of 2,697 people.
"The method of selecting soldiers is the method I taught you before."
Chen Wang paused for a moment, then turned to look at Tang Shiping, his expression became much more solemn.
"You must remember that it is better to have less than to have too much."
Tang Shiping felt slightly trembling in his heart. He did not raise objections again, but nodded in agreement.
Regarding troop selection and training, he felt that Chen Wang was much better than Cao Wenzhao.
The new recruits recruited from Pizhou are not only in good shape now, but their reaction in battle is no less than that of ordinary veterans.
"There should be many of Gao Jie's original troops among these people. I allow him to take them out of the camp, but the number cannot be too many, no more than two thousand people."
Gao Jie not only betrayed Li Zicheng, but also stole Li Zicheng's wives. He could only go to the dark side.
Leading troops to rebel and escaping from the camp are completely different things in terms of merit.
With so many elite cavalry and horse troops, they definitely cannot be released.
After they have tasted the taste of flesh and blood, they will never be willing to eat just grains and rice again.
There are generally only two ways to deal with old bandits. One is to absorb them into the army, and the other is to kill them directly.
Chen Wang decided to sell Gao Jie another favor and let him select 2,000 people as his future team.
With a team of 2,000 people, and the merits of being a guerrilla, it is definitely not a big problem to seal the guerrilla army.
As for the rest of the elite cavalry and horse troops, they were all killed, and the hungry people were handed over to local officials for settlement.
"I'll make arrangements right away."
Tang Shiping lowered his head, responded, and prepared to leave.
However, Tang Shiping did not succeed in the end.
A camp soldier hurriedly arrived and brought unexpected news - Zuo Liangyu was outside the camp.
When the soldiers on duty outside the camp reported the incident, Chen Wang initially thought he had heard the name wrongly.
Chen Wang didn't dare to be convinced until the battalion soldier who reported the report repeated it again.
"let……"
As soon as Chen Wang left his mouth, he took it back.
He originally wanted to ask the guards to quickly invite Zuo Liangyu in, but he felt it was inappropriate when he said it.
This is really too much, Zuo Liangyu's status is only a little lower than Cao Wenzhao, and the same level as He Renlong.
Chen Wang adjusted his appearance, led Hu Zhiyi and Chen Gong out of the camp, and walked quickly outside the camp to greet them.
With Zuo Liangyu holding the seal, the defenders naturally had no reason to stop him and were waiting outside the camp.
Chen Wang saw Zuo Liangyu's figure at the camp gate from a long distance away.
Zuo Liangyu's attire was not much different from that in Cao Wenzhao's camp. He was wearing a crimson narrow sleeve sleeves and an amber hair crown, standing in front of the camp gate.
Beside Zuo Liangyu, there were seven or eight bodyguards wearing armor and carrying swords.
Chen Wang quickened his pace a little, walked closer, held his hands in greeting.
"Your Majesty Chen Wang, please see General Zuo."
Naturally, there is no need to kneel down as a general in the same camp, but as a subordinate officer, you still need to perform basic courtesy.
"I don't know that General Zuo's arrival today is really disappointing."
Zuo Liangyu didn't care about these red tapes.
"When I received the news from you, I couldn't believe it."
"When I actually led the troops out of Pizhou and recovered Sanshui City, I was still a little confused."
Zuo Liangyu came forward with a smile on his face, patted Chen Wang on the shoulder and said familiarly.
"In the first battle, we defeated more than 100,000 intruders. If word of this achievement reaches Xingping, we will surely be highly regarded by the military."
Zuo Liangyu's enthusiastic look made Chen Wang a little uncomfortable.
