After dawn, under the surveillance of thousands of rebels, the Zhao soldiers of the royal army who surrendered last night were lined up with their heads down and went to the rebel camps in the hills.

At this time, the weapons of these soldiers of the King's Division had been removed, so that the rebels who were monitoring them were basically carrying multiple weapons. Even so, some rebel soldiers were still wary of these surrendered soldiers, and sometimes aimed their bows and crossbows at these surrendered soldiers without any trouble, warning them with silent threats to not play tricks.

Not far from these surrendered troops, Meng Zhong sat on the horse, frowned slightly and stared at the surrendered troops.

From the side, Meng Sui asked, "Do you think about how to deal with these surrendered soldiers?"

"Disposition?" Meng Zhong shook his head and said lightly: "They are also following orders, and they are both Zhao's army. What should they deal with?"

"I mean...set." Meng then used a more precise word instead.

"Set up." Meng Zhong let out a long sigh and nodded slightly: "This is indeed a difficult problem."

How to deal with the enemy's surrendered troops has been a problem since ancient times.

A more cruel general may kill the captured surrendered soldiers from other countries after the war, and reduce the strong men from other countries once and for all.

The benevolent generals would order the entire thumb joint of the surrendered soldiers to be cut off. In this way, even if these soldiers were released, these soldiers would not be able to hold the weapons tightly again, and it would not be feared.

Even these soldiers whose entire thumbs were cut off would become a problem in the future as they could not hold the farm tools tightly and therefore could not participate in the farming business.

Is it a kindness to cut off the entire thumb?

Compared to killing surrendered soldiers, this is already a great kindness.

As for the unscathed release of surrendered troops, this is becoming increasingly rare in modern times, especially when the annexation war between the Central Plains countries is becoming increasingly fierce.

Of course, there will be special situations occasionally, such as the two countries exchanged surrendered soldiers captured by each other after the war, but no matter what, it is impossible to release the surrendered soldiers captured without any reason. The other party must pay some price, otherwise, they will simply be killed.

But the situation of the surrendered soldiers in front of Meng Zhong and Meng Sui was quite special, because this war was a civil strife in Zhao State, and the soldiers who were killed and attacked each other were all the soldiers of Zhao State. Therefore, not to mention that Meng Zhong, who has always resisted "meaningless killing", could not do anything like killing prisoners. Even if he was cruel, these surrendered soldiers could not be killed. After all, killing prisoners was destined to arouse the disgust of the Zhao people.

Killing, you cannot kill, and letting go, you must say that how to settle these surrendered soldiers is indeed a headache.

But there is no way. Like last night's situation, the rebels had already occupied an absolute victory. If Meng Zhong did not shout the slogan "The surrendered ones will not kill", then after that, it might be just a unilateral massacre of the soldiers of the Wang army by the rebels, or the soldiers of the Wang army broke out at a critical moment when their lives were at stake, causing unnecessary casualties in the rebels, whether the former or the latter, it was not what Meng Zhong wanted to see.

So Meng Zhong shouted the slogan "The surrendered ones will not be killed", and used this sentence to defeat the last resistance of the soldiers of the Wang Army, and easily won the final victory of the battle last night.

"A Zhong."

With a call, Le Jin, Le Xu, Xiang Liao and the other two walked towards this side. After approaching, Le Jin spoke and said, "I have a rough count and carefully, there are about 4,000 surrendered soldiers."

"Four thousand people..."

Meng Zhong estimated it in his mind.

According to his estimate, when Lian Po and Zhao Ben led their troops to pursue them last night, they might have as many as six or seven thousand troops. They would eliminate those who were killed by the rebels, lost while pursuing the rebels, and those who were killed when they were ambushed by Meng Sui's army.

"How are you going to place these people?"

Le Jin raised a question similar to Meng Sui.

Hearing this, Meng Zhong glanced at the surrendered soldiers not far away and said thoughtfully: "Take back to our army camp first, and then... discuss with Master Zhao and Prince Zhang."

"Young Master Zhang?"

Le Jin said with a strange expression: "If Gongzi Zhang said that, maybe he would order us to kill all these soldiers."

“Not to that.”

Meng Zhong shook his head and said, "No matter how much these surrendered soldiers are also people from Zhao. As long as Gongzi Zhang wants to regain the throne and become the king of Zhao, he will not kill the soldiers who surrendered to him indiscriminately. Otherwise, who else dares to surrender on the opposite Zhao army?"

“That’s true.”

Meng Sui, Le Jin, Le Xu, Xiang Liao and others nodded slightly.

Soon, Meng Hu and Hua Hu came to meet with hundreds of troops.

It turned out that when the soldiers of the Wang army surrendered to the rebels last night, Zhao Ben and Lian Po saw that the situation was hopeless, so they led the soldiers who were still willing to follow them to break through the siege.

Although it was dark at that time, Meng Zhong could roughly guess that it must be Zhao Ben and Lian Po and the others tried to break through, so they asked Hua Hu to lead hundreds of people to pursue.

Judging from the current situation, Hua Hu failed to catch Zhao Ben and Lian Po.

Sure enough, when Meng Hu and Hua Hu came to Meng Zhong, Hua Hu said quite discouragedly: "Let Zhao Ben and Lian Po run away... It's all a Hu!"

"How can I blame me?" Meng Hu shouted dissatisfiedly: "How did I know that you were chasing Zhao Ben, Lian Po and the others at that time? Besides, you obviously bumped into the army under my command, and I cut you to death with no mistake. You should have laughed secretly."

"You?" Hua Hu snorted twice, disagreed with Meng Hu's words.

Obviously, he did not think Meng Hu's martial arts were above him.

Seeing this, Meng Hu widened his eyes and immediately shouted that he would be divided into a different position with Hua Hu.

"Okay, OK."

Meng Zhong smiled and dissuaded the two of them, then comforted Hua Hu and said, "Then Zhao Ben and Lian Po... just run away. Anyway, in the battle yesterday, the two of them lost at least five or six thousand soldiers, which gave us more confidence to remove Yang Wenjun's military camp."

Meng Zhong did not care about Zhao Ben and Lian Po and the others' escape. After all, even though Zhao Ben and Lian Po were determined to escape, even if Hua Hu brought hundreds of soldiers from Dai County to pursue him, where could they chase Zhao Ben and Lian Po and the others who were fighting for war horses?

Unless Hua Hu leads a cavalry, there is still some hope.

About two hours later, more than 5,000 rebels under Meng Zhong's command and nearly 4,000 surrendered soldiers captured all arrived at the rebel camps in Qunqiu.

After returning to the barracks, Meng Zhong ordered the surrendered soldiers to retreat their armor and use their weapons to strengthen the army of the Xinwei Army and the nearly 5,000 Dai County rebels to make up for the weapons they lost during the fight.

As for armor, the Xinwei Army, which is wearing three layers of thick armor, is fine, but Daijun soldiers with thin armor can wear another layer. After all, one more layer of armor will be more safe.

As for the nearly 4,000 surrendered soldiers who had been removed from their weapons and armor, Meng Zhong handed them over to Meng Sui, Xiang Liao and Le Xu to manage them, and temporarily settled in the side camp of nearby hills.

It doesn't matter if someone really ran away secretly. In Meng Zhong's opinion, the king's army has been unable to hold on to Qu Liang for a few days.

At most, there will be almost no third possibility for the King's Army to retreat voluntarily or Gongzizhang led the army to capture Quliangyi.

Just as Meng Zhong, Meng Sui and others settled the nearly 4,000 surrendered soldiers, Zhao Ben and Lian Po, who had fled back to Zhao Bao's army camp, were telling Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao about their failure last night in the tent.

After listening to the shameful story of Zhao Ben and Lian Po, Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao frowned and gave a long sigh, shook his head and said, "This time, you two have lost a total of six or seven thousand troops. This camp is probably difficult to save. Instead of waiting for the boy Meng Zhong to lead his army to attack, we should take the initiative to abandon the camp and surrender to Fengyang Jun's military camp to discuss countermeasures with him."

"Yang Wenjun..."

After hearing this, Zhao Ben and Lian Po were even more ashamed.

Seeing this, Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao waved his hand and comforted him: "No need to say, you can't blame you all for this matter. After all, it was because of the exhaustion of our soldiers yesterday... Meng Zhong led the physically strong soldiers to attack our exhausted army and was invincible. However, you two did not think deeply about this last night and were very unwise to pursue the rebels... Forget it, now, I won't say anything about blame. Zhao Ben, you summoned the soldiers in the camp and moved all the food and supplies in the camp to the military camp of Fengyang Jun. Lian Po, follow me to the military camp of Fengyang Jun first and explain the situation to him."

"...now!"

Zhao Ben and Lian Po held their fists and took the order.

A moment later, Zhao Bao took Lian Po to the military camp of Fengyang Jun Li Dui.

When they saw Li Dui, the Fengyang Jun, Li Du was not aware of what happened last night. Instead, he asked Lian Po: "I heard from the soldiers in the camp that there were shouts of killings in the south of our military camp last night. Could it be that you fought with the rebels? What was the result of the battle?"

After hearing this, Lian Po, who had always been proud, blushed and was ashamed to speak.

Finally, it was Yangwenjun Zhao Bao who explained on his behalf: "I lost. Last night, Zhao Ben and Lian Po conspired to ambush Na Meng Zhong, but they were defeated by Meng Zhong, and nearly 3,000 people fled to death. Four or five thousand soldiers were surrounded by the rebels. They had no choice but to surrender... It can be said that they were defeated and returned."

"What?" Fengyang Jun Li Dui was shocked when he heard this and looked at Lian Po in disbelief.

Seeing this, Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao rescued Lian Po and said, "Don't blame Lian Po, if you want to blame, you and I are not able to defeat Gongzi Zhang's rebels, nor can I restrain Meng Zhong..."

“…”

After hearing Zhao Bao's words, Li Dui stroked his gray beard and refused to speak.

In fact, he didn't want to blame Lian Po. After all, Lian Po was the most brave general under his command. Since even this powerful general suffered a great loss in Meng Zhong's hands, it would be just an ending to replace the other generals.

Compared to blaming Lian Po, Li Dui was more worried about the next situation.

"Retreat and defend Handan."

As if I guessed Li Dui’s thoughts, Zhao Bao said seriously: “This time the garrison in my military camp suffered heavy losses and was destined to be unable to defend for a long time. Although I asked Zhao Ben to lead the army to join you, you also understand that if my military camp abandons it, Meng Zhong will attack you without any worries. You have to resist Gongzi Zhang’s rebels during the day and beware of Meng Zhong’s sneak attack at night. How can this last long? It’s better to retreat to Handan and wait for reinforcements from Zhao Jun, Li Chi and others…”

"I'm afraid that the rebels will greatly increase their morale." Li Dui frowned and expressed his concerns.

And at this moment, someone outside the tent suddenly shouted: "Anti-report!"

Li Dui frowned and ordered him to be recruited.

Immediately, I saw a general wearing armor hurried into the tent and said in panic: "Mr. Fengyang, a rebel army attacked the food and grass escorted under the custody. Hundreds of cargoes of food and grass were all set fire to the rebels."

"What?"

Li Dui was shocked when he heard this and immediately shouted angrily: "Nonsense! Where did the rebels come from between Handan and Quliang?!"

"It's true!" The general explained anxiously: "The rebels were wearing three layers of thick armor. In our Zhao State, only the Xinwei Army was wearing three layers of thick armor!"

“…”

Hearing this, Li Dui and Zhao Bao looked at each other.
Chapter completed!