Chapter 72： Harvest

They are still in the mood to argue about this kind of future thing, and the battlefield, the pursuit of the Qing army has reached the final stage.

Xue Guiren, the forward general, personally crossed the canal and returned to the north. The Qing army in the south completely lost its command, and fragments of the Qing army began to kneel and surrender.

This unit of them can be considered as a thorough explanation here.

Liu Liangzuo saw the end of the Qing army's fiasco from the north side of the canal. He was terrified and terrified.

It was too fast. More than 14,000 troops were defeated by the 16,000 people of the Ming Army in less than half an hour, and the next thing was that the Ming Army fell to one side and arrested the defeated soldiers.

Fewer than two thousand soldiers fled back, and almost all of the rest remained in the south.

Such a heavy loss made him almost fall off the horse.

"My lord, we will withdraw to the city quickly, relying on Jiancheng to defend, and then ask for help from Nanjing."

Some subordinates persuaded that the Ming army had already begun laying the pontoon bridge, and a small part of the Ming army had crossed the canal and was gathering. If they don't leave, they will be in danger.

Although the number of Ming troops crossing the canal is very small, the Qing army is now a frightened bird, and there is no morale to fight again, and they must return to the city to rest.

"Withdraw."

Liu Liangzuo gave the order weakly, and at this moment he seemed to be several years old.

Another miserable defeat almost wiped out his wealth, and his career basically ended here. It is impossible for him to be promoted again. There is no hope in his life.

It is a dream to expect the court to allocate funds for him to rebuild the troops. Thank God for not withdrawing him from the court.

His value depends entirely on his army. Now that this army is almost exhausted, he has become worthless on the Manchu side.

With the return of their troops, the Qing army who was still on the run was completely desperate.

When the cavalry units of the Ming army arrived, they had no hope of escape. Except for a small number of people with poor brains who were still resisting being killed, and a small number of people who escaped, almost all of them chose to surrender and wait. Was captured alive.

In the camp, Wu Changqing and others are already counting the results.

In this battle, more than 1,400 people were killed and missing, and more than 2,500 were injured.

Among them, the people who died and disappeared were basically Qian Su Le Club. When they fled to lure the enemy, they also lost many people.

A small part of them died in battle with the short soldiers on the left and right wings of the Qing army. Although it lasted for a short time, it also caused hundreds of deaths and a large number of soldiers injured.

However, most of these wounded soldiers were lightly wounded, which could be cured, and the loss was not large.

As for the Qing army, nearly 15,000 men were directly damaged this time, accounting for half of their total strength.

About 4,000 people died in the battle, most of them died under flintlock guns. About 2,000 people were missing, and the remaining 8,500 people were taken prisoners.

In addition, they also seized a large amount of weapons and equipment. Although they were all cold weapons, they were actually very valuable. A standard knife can at least sell for three or four silvers.

These equipment can be used to arm those newly recruited soldiers.

The harvest was quite fruitful, and everyone was very happy.

However, this battle is not over yet, and the city of Changzhou is still in Liu Liangzuo's hands. Moreover, Liu Liangzuo still has 15,000 troops in his hands, which should not be underestimated.

If it were just a simple storm, even thousands of people would not be able to attack this city without dying.

"Do you have any tricks to take Changzhou?"

Wu Changqing asked everyone that before large-scale cannons were equipped, he hated attacking cities the most.

"The water network around Changzhou City is so dense that it is difficult to dig a tunnel. There is really no good way except for a strong attack."

Xiong Rulin said that there are many ways to siege the city, but most of them cannot be used in Changzhou.

"I'm afraid that the storm will kill many people."

Wu Changqing said with emotion.

These words left the other generals speechless, and they found that Wu Changqing had taken too much care of the soldiers' lives. Since ancient times, people will die in battle, and siege must be filled with human lives.

They are all used to this kind of thing.

"We can send people to persuade them to surrender. Now they are gone, and the soldiers are shocked. As long as we promise to treat them kindly, they are very likely to surrender."

Liu Hansan said that now their troops have recruited several people one after another, and he is a little addicted. After all, surrender is the least loss method.

"This is probably difficult. Liu Liangzuo's family members were taken to Nanjing as hostages. If he surrenders, his family will definitely be annihilated."

Qian Sule said that he actually recognized Man Qing's method of detaining relatives and hoped that Daming would follow suit. If the relatives of the generals who led the troops were controlled, the generals would surrender and destroy the clan, and Daming would not have so many generals to surrender.

"Perhaps we can encircle instead of fighting, and wait for the reinforcements from Nanjing to come over and defeat the Manchu reinforcements in the wild and destroy the morale of the defenders in Changzhou. Then I will hand in the letter of persuasion to surrender. I think the low-level officers in the city are willing to surrender. There will be a lot of soldiers with them. As long as they open the city gates and close together inside and outside, it will be easy to win Changzhou."

Dai Zhijun offered another plan, which is a very classic encirclement and aid tactics, mainly to destroy the enemy's vital forces.

However, this strategy is actually very risky.

If the Qing army had too many reinforcements, it would be difficult to say whether they wiped out the Qing army in the wild or was defeated by the attack of the Qing army from inside and outside.

To put it bluntly, Wu Changqing and the others are not strong enough. They are a little reluctant to encircle Changzhou, let alone drew out the main force to fight the Qing court reinforcements when encircling Changzhou.

At present, they have assembled more than 23,000 troops under Changzhou City, but it is far from enough.

It was not a matter of overnight that the more than 8,000 prisoners wanted to complete the collection, mainly because of the lack of officers.

Those soldiers are actually very easy to collect, anyway, they basically don't mind who they sell their lives to. But those officers are hard to say, the ghost knows that they will still think of Liu Liangzuo.

Among them, there must be Liu Liangzuo's cronies, or they have received the kindness of Liu Liangzuo, or have friendship with Liu Liangzuo.

In short, this group of captured officers cannot be used casually, at least they have to be sent back to Suzhou for some modification before they can be used.

If there are not enough commanders, just squeezing these soldiers into other troops will not improve the combat effectiveness of the troops much.

"Let's wait until our cannons are delivered. It depends on the situation."

Wu Changqing decided to encircle and not fight, and wait for the cannons from Suzhou to arrive.

He now has twenty cannons relying on seizures and craftsmanship. These cannons still have a great effect on the siege of the city. If you can hit the wall correctly and focus on a section of the city wall, you may be able to blast a hole in the city wall.

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