Zhou Xian grabbed the reins, gently stroked a horse's neck, and smiled at Wu Zhiying, "This Wang Jun is not good at fighting, but raising horses is good. These horses are all tall and fat, not inferior to those of the military horses in our army. They can go directly to the battlefield without excessive training. By the way, Wu Guerrilla, how many such horses have we captured in total?"

Wu Zhiying replied: "There are more than 1,300 horses. Even if those injured and need to be kept for a while, nearly 1,000 horses can be used directly."

Zhou Xian nodded. The losses of the official army were not large in this battle. However, the cavalrymen were also damaged by nearly 200, while the infantry suffered a little heavy losses. There were more than 400 people who died in battle. In addition, the injured were the total number was close to 600. He thought for a while and said, "Let's do this! Wu Guerrilla, I will give you five hundred horses. You and Sun Shoujie picked up some cavalrymen from the captured thief army, and kept the total number of cavalry at three thousand."

Wu Zhiying asked with some confusion: "How do the military sect plan to deal with the remaining horses?" There were 3,000 cavalry in the army before, but except for the soldiers' own mounts, the entire army only had more than twenty more horses. Generally speaking, the horse's losses were far more than those of the cavalry. When there were insufficient horses, the cavalry could only be used as infantry, and the combat power would be greatly reduced. Wu Zhiying had been a cavalry general for many years and knew this very well. This time, seeing that so many horses had been captured, he thought to at least let some soldiers have two horses first, and the 500 horses that Zhou Xian said obviously disappointed him a little. But he had just joined Zhou Xian and did not dare to ask directly, so he could only ask in a slightly tactful way.

Zhou Xian said: "Tomorrow we will divide our troops. I will lead these three thousand cavalry to the north across Yanshan to Linqu, and Tan Guerrilla will take the remaining people to the west to recover the lost territory the day after tomorrow. The direction of Linqu in northern Shandong is Liu Zeqing's main force, so I will transfer all the cavalry there. The only infantry toward southern Shandong is not enough. I am going to ask Zhao Qin to recruit horse-riding people from the captured thief army, and then form another cavalry and go to southern Shandong with Tan Guerrilla."

"But those thieves can really fight?" Wu Zhiying used one thousand cavalry to firmly restrain the 2,000 thieves. The other party suffered countless soldiers, but he basically did not lose any losses. He was full of contempt for these thieves.

Zhou Xianxiao said, "It's true that's not possible now, but it's OK in the future. Take your time! Okay, you don't have to worry about this. Go down and have some food, have a good rest tonight, and we will set off to Linqu tomorrow."

Wu Zhiying bowed to Zhou Xian and turned around and walked out. At the door, he met Ding Keze and others who were walking towards him.

Ding Keze bowed and said hello: "Martial Guerrilla."

Wu Zhiying nodded and looked at Wang Jun and said, "Are you the thief Wang Jun?" His tone was full of arrogance.

Wang Jun replied very uncomfortable: "It's a villain, who is the general?"

Wu Zhiying did not answer, but said in a deep voice: "Wang Jun, you must be grateful to the General Manager for his soft-heartedness. He saved your life and ordered that you only need to defeat you, and not kill them all. If I were to take charge, no one would keep after the thief. Don't talk about you, even more than ten thousand prisoners would not live until now." After saying this, Wu Zhiying ran away from Wang Jun and left.

Xia Kuiyuan was furious and wanted to rush forward, but was pulled by Wang Jun. "Brother, this bastard?"

Wang Jun shook his head gently and said to Ding Keze: "Let's go!"

Zhou Xian looked up and glanced at the three of them, with their hair loose and covered in mud, looking embarrassed. He did not have any extra polite words and asked directly: "Wang Jun, are you willing to surrender to me?"

Wang Jun was obviously stunned for a moment, and looked at Zhou Xian and said, "The General Manager is willing to surrender us?" Under the city of Yizhou, the 40,000 troops were all destroyed, and there were less than 20,000 people left in Tai'an. With Zhou Xian's current combat power, he could take advantage of the opportunity to sweep the entire southern Shandong in one fell swoop. He couldn't understand why Zhou Xian was willing to surrender himself at this time and why.

Zhou Xian said: "I heard Ding Keze talk about you in detail. Before, you took the risk of plundering grain, 70% of them were brought back to the mountains, and the remaining 30% were scattered to the poor. Moreover, after you seized the prefectures and counties in southern Shandong, you only robbed the rich and not the poor. The most important thing is that you did not kill innocent people in various prefectures and counties, and basically maintained the stability in southern Shandong. From this point of view, you are still a little conscience and are useful to me. Therefore, I am willing to give you another chance to surrender to me, and I can do whatever I have done before."

Before Wang Jun could speak, Chao Yuguang quickly pulled Wang Jun to kneel down and said, "Thank you for not killing the governor. My brothers and others will serve the governor in a vain way."

Zhou Xian did not speak, but looked at Wang Jun steadily.

Wang Jun looked up at Zhou Xian, then quickly lowered his head. "Wang Jun is willing to be a small soldier under the commander-in-chief."

Xia Kuiyuan, who was next to him, knelt down reluctantly, "I'll listen to my elder brother."

Zhou Xian didn't care, but just waved his hand to let them get up. "Wang Jun, who is responsible for your personal visit to Yizhou this time? Will they continue to be loyal to you?"

Wang Jun said: "It is Xiang Lei Chao, a military advisor under the little man, and Zhuang Rongtan, the Sid-in-Law. The villain has saved his life from the good fortune of the good man, and Zhuang Rongtan and the villain have been brothers for more than ten years."

Zhou Xian nodded and said, "According to the conditions I promised you at first, you are the garrison, Xia Kuiyuan, Chao Yuguang and Zhuang Rongtan are the three generals. You can retain the troops of three thousand-man teams. And your military advisor, Xiang Lei Chao, let him stay in Tai'an first. When Gao Futai arrives, he will be divided into official positions according to his own ability. This time, the rebellion against Liu Zeqing is an opportunity. If you can assist in the guerrilla discussion before I defeat Liu Zeqing, I will recommend you to the court as a guerrilla general."

Wang Jun kowtowed three loudly. "Thank you, Governor."

Zhou Xian continued: "Ding Guerrilla, you can take the three of them down to take a hot shower, change into clean clothes, and then let them go!"

Ding Keze said in surprise: "Master General, you mean..."

Zhou Xian said: "Wang Jun, after taking a shower, you go to the prisoners to pick up 200 horses and let them go back with you. If you still feel dissatisfied after returning, you think you can continue to fight against the official army. You can rely on the nearly 20,000 people you left in Tai'an to recruit soldiers and then start a rebellion. But..."

Zhou Xian paused for a moment, and then said heavily: "It's just that when you are captured by me next time, there will be no so many preferential treatments. Anyone who follows you up the mountain as a thief in the past will be ordered to be killed, and no one will be left. I don't want to do that in troubled times, but this is a must. I must use this to tell everyone that my subordinates cannot be repeated." After that, Zhou Xian turned around and left.
Chapter completed!