After Wang Chong accepted Bo Yang's surrender, the first thing he did was dismantle the Heavenly Bear Army.
The Heavenly Bear Army was itself a regional military command, with more than twenty-eight thousand troops. How could he dare leave such an enormous army in the hands of a surrendered general like Bo Yang? Even if he had not surrendered, Wang Chong would never have allowed any one man to command so many troops. First, he selected the fiercest men, tigers and bears among soldiers, to replenish his own Wind-Treading Cavalry. The cavalry had suffered few losses in the attack on Huangzhou, and this expansion swelled its ranks to more than thirteen thousand, making it the strongest of all his armies. He also assigned three thousand men each to Sun Mingke, Yueliduo, Dong Qing, and Mo Zhenxing, dispersing the rest among the Tailwind Army. Then he ordered Sun Mingke and the others to transfer out a thousand or so men apiece, five thousand in all, and kept Bo Yang as Military Governor of the Heavenly Bear Army, though his station was changed to Chi Prefecture. Wang Chong had never found the time to develop Chi Prefecture, and it lay between Tongzhou and the White Camel Tribe, making it just the place to settle Bo Yang.
After some thought, Wang Chong also sent his young page to Bo Yang to serve as a deputy general.
Wang Dong had followed him all along, working diligently, but his talent was limited, and his martial skills were unremarkable. Gradually, he had faded into the crowd. Making this arrangement for him would also let Wang Chong do right by Chu Qiuzi.
Well, he still did not know that Chu Qiuzi had become the Prince of Yan's secondary consort and was presiding as mistress over the Prince