Chapter 129: Celebrating the Great Victory
After a whole day of fierce fighting, the battle of Changsha gradually came to an end, and the fierce offensive and defensive battle between the two sides under the city of Changsha directly determined the future direction of the Fu Han army.
After the First World War, the Qing army completely collapsed, and it was difficult to reorganize the counterattack, and was chased and killed by the rank and tail of the Fu Han army, and chased until Zhuzhou, the remaining Qing army stopped, and under the response of the defenders of Zhuzhou, there were about 3,000 people who hid in the city of Zhuzhou, and the Fu Han army stopped.
According to statistics, in this battle, the Fu Han army wiped out more than 10,000 Qing troops, captured 25,000 prisoners, and another 5,000 people either broke up or fled, which is no longer a concern. The seized materials were even more surprising, with more than 4,000 shotguns, more than 80 artillery pieces, and countless gunpowder bullets.
In addition, 500,000 stones of grain and grass were seized, as for 200,000 taels of silver, plus the eight banners seized when Changsha was conquered and the assets of Manchu officials, the silver money was as huge as one million taels, in addition to hundreds of houses and mansions, more than 500,000 acres of land, so that the current Fu Han army had a full meal, which was enough to support the next actions of the Fu Han army.
However, it is a pity that Yang Lin, the supreme commander of the Qing army, also ran to Zhuzhou with the rebellious army and was not captured on the spot, otherwise if the Qing court folded another governor, Kangxi would probably die of anger on the spot.
Of course, in this battle, the casualties of the Fu Han army were also heavy, the first regiment of the first division and the third regiment of the second division were almost disabled, the regiment commander Ujijing was seriously injured, and the casualties of the whole army were as high as more than 3,000 people, which was also the largest casualty of the Fu Han army since the establishment of the army. However, in the eyes of both Ning Yu and Ning Zhongyi, this battle was very worthwhile, not only because of these tens of thousands of Qing troops, but because it showed that from Hunan to Liangguang, the Qing army could no longer stop the Fu Han army from moving south.
What does this mean even more? If the Fu Han army can master the land of Huguang and the two Guangxi and four provinces, it will further amplify its war potential, and it also means that the strategic depth of the Fu Han army will be greatly enhanced.
Ning Zhongyi was also very excited, and laughed loudly: "Yu'er, hurry up and send someone back to Wuchang to report the victory!" With this battle, the second brother can also be comfortable for two more days. "It's not just two days of comfort, look at everyone's faces are clear, after this battle, it is simply the effect of removing the dark clouds, and the whole world is clearer.
"On the eighth day of the sixth month, our army launched a battle with the enemy under the city of Changsha, which lasted for one day, and won a complete victory, and has completely eliminated the two green battalions under the city of Changsha, killing more than 10,000 enemies, capturing more than 25,000 enemies, and the rest of them scattered and fled, and could not be re-......."
Ning Yu wrote while writing with his pen in his mind, and he continued: "Our army is isolated and should be temporarily adapted, so the special guerrilla command level will be recruited in Changsha in the name of the headquarters to supplement the establishment to achieve the strategic objectives of our army..."
Two days after the end of the war, Ning Yu set up a high platform in Changsha City, in the name of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, the captured Qing army in the most heinous people, put forward to behead the public, in order to calm the people's hearts, and then spread the policy of recovering the Han army in Changsha City, and set up recruitment points in various parts of the city, absorbing civilians into the army, those who enlist in the army will be given five taels of silver, if they have served for more than ten years or those who have died in battle, they will be given ten acres of land.
The most attractive point for the people in the city is that these fields can be paid in advance, which means that if you join the army, you will immediately get ten acres of land, unless you become a deserter in the future, the field will always be there. Ten years later, or after the death of the war, the land deed will be given directly to the family, which gives the poor in the city hope to change the way out.
Of course, if it was the original Fu Han Army, the land would naturally be empty, but since paying more than 500,000 mu of land, this has given Ning Yu the capital to support his waist, isn't it ten acres of land, give!
However, the Fuhan Army is not everyone's want, at least it is a good family or a farmer of the right age, and it is enough to be honest and responsible, like those ruffians and hooligans will not want it, but even so, there is still an endless stream of people who sign up, and after only about three days of recruitment, more than 10,000 young and strong soldiers have been recruited in Changsha.
At the same time, Ning Yu also reorganized the current first and second divisions, and formed the Changsha patrol battalion of soldiers who were seriously injured or disabled after the war, mainly responsible for the security of the entire Changsha city.
After recruiting and reorganizing, Ning Yu first filled the vacancies of the first and second divisions, and then ordered the formation of an independent first division in the capacity of a privy envoy, which was slightly smaller, with 8,000 men and was organized into four regiments, which was only one independent artillery regiment and one grenadier battalion less than the regular division.
After the reorganization of the whole army was completed, Dong Ce, as the person in charge of the handling, was also very busy, but his face was full of smiles, and he looked excited.
"Privy envoy, after this reorganization, the number of our army is as high as more than 28,000 people, and the troops are hurrying to restore their strength, is it time to consider the next step?"
Ning Yu nodded lightly, "But before that, I plan to arrange two regiments to bring more than 20,000 prisoners of the Green Battalion back to Wuchang first. ”
This is true, the handling of prisoners in the past dynasties can be regarded as a big problem, some generals have no choice but to choose to kill all to solve the trouble, but for Ning Yu, until the last resort, it is absolutely impossible to kill prisoners, that is really too corrupt character, as long as the Han army still wants to win the hearts of the people in the world, it cannot but consider this.
Only by sending them back to Wuchang, after ideological education, transforming the useful people into recruits, and then retraining and marshalling, they can become a part of the Fu Han army, and if they are useless, they can also dedicate their strength to various construction sites in Wuchang.
"I'll leave this matter to you, and I'll go over to see it later, you can prepare and come up with a commendation plan, we can't let the heroes shed blood and tears."
It can be said that in the Fu Han army at this time, Ning Yu's prestige has gradually surpassed that of his father Ning Zhongyuan, not only because of the good command, but also because Ning Yu has always been fair, especially for the meritorious people, so everyone in the Fu Han army is respectful.
At this time, in Wuchang City, several heralds were driving the horses hard, they were waving the order flag in their hands, their dry and cracked faces were full of smiles, and their mouths were shouting loudly.
"Great victory! Great victory! ”
"The major general wiped out 40,000 Qing troops in one battle! Great victory! ”