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After the Battle of Yangfu, while the rulers and ministers of Great Chu were busy making various plans because of the great defeat, the situation on the side of the Hui army was quite different.

Outside Yingchuan City.

According to Liu Sheng's order, several large camps were set up again, specifically for use as prisoner camps or to reorganize surrendered soldiers.

The experience of Zhang Dingbian, a border soldier of the Great Chu, in these days can be described as ups and downs, and can be described as abandoned.

He was originally the son of a small landlord in Hubei. He had been fond of martial arts and disliked literature since childhood. He went to a private school for several years, but did not read many books. However, the old teachers chased away several of his students.

His father had no choice but to take advantage of his wish and not let him go to school. Instead, he hired a martial arts master to teach him martial arts.

As he grew older, Zhang Dingbian often relied on his bravery and kung fu to cause trouble in his hometown.

Once in the county town he beat a son of an official half to death - although it was the son of an official who molested a commoner girl first and he couldn't bear to see it, so he beat him up, but he just hit him a little too hard, so he couldn't be considered to be in the wrong.

But that family was extremely powerful in the county, and his family had no power or influence, so they couldn't afford to offend them.

His father was worried that he would be thrown into jail, so he asked him to escape overnight.

After escaping from his hometown, Zhang Dingbian came to his senses and came to Shaanxi to join the army. He eventually entered the Yulin Camp and became a frontier soldier.

Although the life of the border troops was completely different from what he had imagined, the lower-level soldiers lived in hardship and sometimes even had no food to eat, and the generals were mostly despicable people.

However, he still relied on his extraordinary courage and martial arts to make contributions over the years. Even though most of these contributions were taken away by his superiors, he was still promoted from a small soldier to a general.

Seeing that he had another chance to make merit, he would be promoted to captain and officially enter the ranks of military generals of the Great Chu.

Unexpectedly, the world changed drastically. Bandits came from overseas, first taking over half of Shandong and then the north of the Yangtze River.

The imperial court mobilized border troops from various provinces to gather in Runing, preparing for a decisive battle with the bandits. He was also transferred to Runing along with most of the troops from the Yulin camp.

Because his superiors withheld military pay and food, the soldiers of his general flag almost rebelled on the way. Fortunately, he had enough prestige to suppress it.

After finally arriving in Runing, Zhang Dingbian thought he would have many opportunities to make merit. Perhaps it wouldn't be long before he could accumulate merit and become a battalion commander, a thousand-man commander, or even a guerrilla or a lieutenant general!
By that time, he would find an opportunity to return home in glory, to make his old father feel honored, and to sue the official son who had forced him to leave his hometown!
Who would have thought that after being transferred to Runing Prefecture, they had been arranged in the camp outside Ruyang City, with all kinds of shit happening all day long, and no orders to go to war at all.

Zhang Dingbian waited for a month and finally got the opportunity - more than 3,000 people from the Yulin Camp were transferred to the Taiyuan general Fan Ao to serve as reinforcements for Yangfu.

Zhang Dingbian thought, there will be a chance to fight this time, right?

As long as we fight, I can make a contribution!

However, after the battle of Yangfu, Zhang Dingbian was dumbfounded.

He was an unparalleled archer, he was strong enough to lift a tripod, he was skilled with both swords and spears, and he could even shoot with a matchlock rifle very accurately.

However, the Chu army was defeated after only a few rounds of cannon fire, and the entire army fled!
When the cavalry of the Taiyuan army charged, even Fan Ao, the so-called fierce general of Taiyuan, fled with hundreds of servants.

He was just a general flag, and no matter how strong his military force was, he could not reverse the situation on a battlefield with tens of thousands of people.

In fact, he couldn't even control his own soldiers at that time - during the great rout, his original intention was to return to the camp and defend it. Even if he couldn't win, he could at least kill more enemy troops.

However, most of his soldiers were unwilling to enter the camp and ran directly towards Ruyang.

In the end, only twenty or thirty soldiers followed him into the camp.

Later, when the Hui army attacked the camp, he was not given the opportunity to perform - the Hui army pulled dozens of cannons and placed them outside the camp gate, and began to persuade him to surrender.

In addition, the generals defending Yangfu had surrendered the city, so the remaining Chu troops in the camp also decided to surrender.

Although Zhang Dingbian was proud of his unparalleled martial arts and bravery, he was not a fool. He knew that he alone could not change anything at this time, so he had to surrender.

Just like that, in this battle he became a prisoner of the Hui army without firing a single arrow or using a sword or gun!

Yes, these people in their camp were forced to surrender, not like the Chu army in Yangfu who surrendered the city, so they became prisoners, not surrendered soldiers. After the war, although these prisoners and the surrendered soldiers in Yangfu were all sent to Yingchuan City, they were treated differently.

The prisoners were divided into five large groups and fifty small groups, with five hundred people in each camp.

Because Zhang Dingbian had great prestige among the captives, he was selected as the captain.

At first, Zhang Dingbian was very worried that the Hui army would kill prisoners - he had heard in the army that the Hui army was originally sea pirates and was extremely cruel. In addition, Shandong and Jiangbei were short of food, and the Hui army was short of food and grass, so they thought it was normal to kill these prisoners, which was a waste of food.

Unexpectedly, the Hui army did not kill them, but transferred them to the outside of Yingchuan City to do things like dredging ditches, clearing rivers, and repairing official roads.

In addition, they were provided with three meals of porridge a day. Team leaders and captains could also eat multi-grain cakes. Those with good performance could get an extra bowl of bone soup with oil and heavy salt.

This kind of life was something many prisoners had never expected.

That morning, Zhang Dingbian led a large group of people to repair a designated section of the official road, and then returned to the camp to eat.

In order to eat more, Zhang Dingbian, who was very strong, performed very well at work, so he not only got two multi-grain cakes, but also a bowl of bone soup.

However, there was no joy on his face. He ate multi-grain cakes with porridge and bone soup in silence.

However, the other border army prisoners became chatty while eating.

"To be honest, although we are now prisoners, the life of these prisoners is better than when we were soldiers in the border area of ​​​​Da Chu."

"That's right. I was in the Shaanxi border army and I had to eat only two thin meals a day. There were also many chores to do in the army. I was tired all day and still hungry."

"Being a prisoner in the army is not a good thing, but you get three meals a day. The most important thing is, as long as you are willing to work hard and do a good job, you will get benefits and enjoy yourself!"

As he spoke, he happily took a big bite of the biscuit he had received today, and took a sip of the bone soup, with a happy expression on his face.

At this time, one person asked, "Didn't the military and political officer of the Hui army say yesterday that he would come to announce a big event today? What do you think it will be?"

"How would we know? We are not exempted from our status as prisoners, are we?"

"That's great. I heard that the surrendered soldiers from Yangfu are also in Yingchuan. They are not sent to work like us, but are training all day long. Although the training is hard, they eat better. I can smell the aroma of meat coming from there every day!"

"You mean those surrendered soldiers had meat to eat every day? That's impossible?"

"How is it impossible? Don't the guards have meat to eat every day? The surrendered soldiers are also guards, so isn't it normal for them to eat meat every day?"

Upon hearing this, many captives' eyes lit up.

Eating meat every day was something they had only dreamed of before.

So someone said, "If the Hui army is willing to come to us to surrender, I will be the first to surrender. Damn it, being a Hui army is much better than being a Chu army!"

"That's right. After Emperor Daojun ascended the throne, the Chu Kingdom has been getting worse and worse. It seems that the Chu Kingdom may not be able to be saved. If we join the Hui Army now, it is not too late. We may be able to make meritorious contributions in the future and become a founding hero of the Hui Kingdom!"

"···"

The prisoners became even more excited when they talked about surrendering to the enemy and becoming heroes of the founding of the country.

Zhang Dingbian also had some ideas.

Yes, his journey in Da Chu has probably come to an end.

Although it is rumored that the Hui army is of pirate origin, it seems that they are much more reliable than the Chu army. Maybe they can really seize the world of Chu.

Otherwise, Zhang Dingbian could also surrender? (End of this chapter)