The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 85 Recruitment
"4000 people..."

Standing on the tall camp wall, Chen Wang stared at the somewhat orderly camp in front of him through the stack of walls.

This huge camp accommodated a full 4000 people, all of whom were captured in the battle of Chunhua.

The [-] people were divided into [-] teams, each with [-] people, divided into one district.

Each district is guarded by an army of one banner, which is located in the north of Chunhua.

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

Tang Shiping stood aside, reporting with all his heart and responsibility.

"The captives are mostly hungry soldiers and infantry from the invading army. Among them, the fine cavalry and horse troops have already been separated, and they are all placed in the first five areas of the camp."

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

Tang Shiping closed the document in his hand.

"There are 130 and 780 captured cavalrymen, [-] horsemen, and the rest are ordinary infantry and hungry soldiers."

"If there is no problem with the number of people in the rear battalion that Gao Jie sent before, in the battle of Chunhua, the enemy's casualties and disappearances numbered in the 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 invading army.

Many died in the siege, many died in the night battle, and many died in the chaos and fire.

Everyone can only count the difficulties clearly.

After hesitating for a moment, Tang Shiping said.

"The humble staff thinks that recruiting these fine cavalry old bandits can temporarily increase their strength."

Tang Shiping seldom objected to Chen Wang's opinion, but this time he put forward an objection.

"But among the rogues, most of the elite cavalry bandits have broken military discipline and are hard to restrain. They are used to burning, killing and looting. I am afraid that a small amount of military pay will not be enough for them."

Although many battalion generals have done recruiting and surrendering troops, Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong have many surrendering troops under their command.

Cao Wenzhao is considered an outlier. He has never recruited any surrendered soldiers as his followers.

Tang Shiping, as a military academy that had been fighting with Cao Wenzhao, also opposed the recruitment of surrendered troops.

On the battlefield, as long as one has fled once, one has already lost courage.

It is easy to cultivate vigor and improve combat power, but once courage is lost, it is difficult to obtain.

This is what Cao Wenzhao once said.

Cao Wenzhao had a very high prestige in the army, and Tang Shiping made almost all of Cao Wenzhao's words into golden rules.

"I know."

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

"So I didn't plan to pick someone from these fine cavalry and horse troops."

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

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

"Select all the hungry soldiers among them and divide them into the rear camp."

It is extremely simple to distinguish the ingredients of the rogues.

People with strong physiques will only be elite cavalry and cavalry troops, while those with weaker physiques will be troops.

The hungry soldiers are almost all yellow and emaciated, and their clothes are not covered. This is the effect of years and years, and it is difficult to fake.

"All recruits are selected from the ranks of the hungry soldiers. The tentative number of troops is 690 and seven people will be organized as auxiliary soldiers."

The number Chen Wang mentioned was exactly the total number of people after the first battalion was fully staffed according to the original battalion system established by Cao Wenzhao.

Each division has 890 nine people, and the three divisions form a battalion, with a total of 690 and seven people.

"The way to select soldiers is to follow the method I taught you before."

Chen Wang paused for a moment, then turned to look at Tang Shiping, his expression was much more serious.

"You must remember that it is better to lack than to overuse."

Tang Shiping's heart trembled slightly, he did not raise any objection again, but nodded in agreement.

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

The recruits recruited from Binzhou are not only in good shape in the queue, but also react as much as ordinary veterans.

"There should be a lot of Gao Jie's original works among these people. I allow him to take them out of the camp, but the number should not be too many, not more than 2000."

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

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

With so many elite cavalry and cavalry troops, they must not be released.

They have tasted the taste of flesh and blood, and they will never be willing to only eat rice.

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

Chen Wang decided to sell Gao Jie another favor and asked him to choose 2000 people as his future team.

With 2000 people as the team, plus this kind of work anyway, it is definitely not a big problem to seal a guerrilla.

As for the rest of the fine cavalry and cavalry troops, they were all cut off, and the hungry people in the troops were handed over to the local officials for settlement.

"Humble job, 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 rushed to the front in a hurry and brought an unexpected news - Zuo Liangyu was outside the camp.

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

Chen Wang didn't dare to believe it until the battalion who reported it repeated it again.

"Let……"

As soon as Chen Wang said the words, he took them back.

He originally wanted to tell the guards to invite Zuo Liangyu to come in, but at the end of the day, he felt that it was inappropriate.

This is really a little too much, 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, walked out of the camp with Hu Zhiyi and Chen Gong, and walked quickly outside the camp to meet him.

Zuo Liangyu held the seal in his hand, the defenders of the city naturally had no reason to stop him, they were waiting outside the camp right now.

Chen Wang saw Zuo Liangyu at the gate of the camp 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-sleeved sticker and an amber hair crown, standing in front of the camp gate.

Beside Zuo Liangyu, there were still seven or eight guards wearing armor and carrying knives.

Chen Wang quickened his pace, walked up to him, and bowed his hands in salute.

"My subordinate Chen Wang, please refer to Zongbing Zuo."

Naturally, fellow battalion generals don't need to bow down, but as a subordinate official, they still have to perform basic salutes.

"I don't know that Zuo Zongbing is coming today, but I am really disappointed."

Zuo Liangyu didn't care about the red tape.

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

"When I really led the troops out of Binzhou, I was still a little dazed after recovering Sanshui City."

Zuo Liangyu walked forward with a smile on his face, patted Chen Wang on the shoulder, and said familiarly.

"In the first battle, more than [-] intruders were defeated. If this feat is passed on to Xingping, it will definitely be highly regarded by the army."

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

(End of this chapter)