After noon, the fighting largely stopped.

The banner army was surrounded by a small 3,000 men, and the guest soldiers, including most of the cavalry, were surrounded.

Instead of continuing the arduous slaughter or hard fighting, most of the guest soldiers either ran desperately out when they collapsed, or put their swords and guns at the first moment when they were besieged, knelt down and surrendered.

Among them, there must be a lot of veterans who are quite expert in surrender.

Put the knife and gun, the whole person kneels or lies down, don't look left and right, don't look at the eyebrows.

Only by being respectful and honest can we fight for a glimmer of life.

These veterans weren't really scared, these guards weren't brutal bandits, and it was unlikely that they would be taken away or slaughtered.

There is a great feud between the officers and soldiers and the rogues, and it is difficult for the officers and soldiers to catch the rogues to live, which makes the rogues also hate the officers and soldiers very much, and even if the officers and soldiers are left behind, most of them rush to the front to fill the knife head when the fight starts.

Not to mention the more ferocious Dongyu, those pigtailed soldiers are the nightmare of all officers and soldiers, even if they are lucky not to be hacked to death, everyone will be escorted to Liaodong outside the Saiwai, and there will be no one out of ten who can survive.

It is these veterans who teach newcomers to be honest at the same time, but they always peek around.

The battlefield was littered with discarded armor and weapons, as well as kneeling crowds.

At least 3,000 or so were captured, and a large number of banner soldiers with swords and guns stood guard around them, shouting at the dishonest guest soldiers and soldiers to kneel down.

Some of the military attaché-looking people began to gather, and all of them had smiles on their faces that could not be concealed.

Everyone was surrounded by a tall young military attaché, who looked to be in his twenties, with a slight short beard on his chin.

This man's face was resolute, and his eyes were quite sharp, and many of the guests who accidentally looked at him were afraid, and hurriedly lowered their heads down.

Min Yuanqi glanced at everything in the battlefield, feeling happy and relaxed.

He didn't mind the guest soldiers who peeked at him, and it was true that he didn't plan to do anything to these guest soldiers, as the veteran soldier Youzi imagined.

Of course, it is necessary to interrogate, and the evil soldiers who have committed robbery and murder in the garrison will be tried, and after the public trial, they will be beheaded for public display.

It is estimated that the number of people will not be too much, if everyone in the guest soldiers kills people, Huaishang is afraid that no people will dare to live in it for a long time, and everyone will run out.

Most of the guest soldiers still mostly only rob but do not kill, and when they collect food, they will pick some unlucky people to insult and cripple, and even kill the elderly and children.

Others will kill and loot, and even do nothing to mutilate the people for fun.

There are a lot of such scum among the guest soldiers, but it is impossible for all of them to be like this.

Most of them were coerced into the camp by Liu Zeqing all the way from Shandong, or had just become a recruiter in Huaishang. Most of the people are soldiers to eat food, loot and accumulate wealth, robbing things and beating people do not have to be avoided, this is the inheritance of the whole army.

Kill the real evil soldiers, and leave most of them as free coolies.

These 3,000 people can leave at least seventy percent as coolies, and the newly recruited soldiers from Huai'an have no excessive evil deeds, and they can be organized and trained into new soldiers of the banner army.

At least 2,000 people can be placed in the workshop and salt pond as free coolies, according to the monthly salary level here in Yuntiguan, at least more than 2,000 yuan a month, which is tens of thousands of taels a year.

For these guest soldiers, it is also a good choice to save their lives and serve as atonement.

As for letting them go directly, or letting them go with a beating, or coercing them into the camp, the previous experience of these guest soldiers is useless.

Since Liu Zeqing launched the war, the guest soldiers came according to the military order, killed some evil military attaches and veterans, and left most of the prisoners to serve to atone for their crimes, which was not a difficult decision for Min Yuanqi.

If someone mutinies and is dissatisfied, there will naturally be knives and guns against them.

There is no need to worry that these free laborers have robbed the military households and the people of Yuntiguan from their jobs.

The next step is to excavate more salt pans, expand the scope of farming, establish a shipyard and a supporting ironwork workshop, and plan to expand the scale of the textile workshop.

The water in the south is so fast that it roars and rushes even in dry season, and it is a pity that the water there is not used.

Hydro-powered textile was the most efficient way of weaving before the appearance of the steam engine, and Min Yuanqi's strength was too weak before that and he didn't dare to overexpand, so he didn't have to worry too much now.

A water-powered textile workshop was set up in the Guanhe area, and a large number of cotton purchases could be put on the agenda.

Shandong and Jiangnan are both very close to Huai'an, both of which are places where cotton is produced, so it should not be too difficult to buy raw materials.

Hydraulic textile is efficient and low-priced, and can use the finished products to seize the market to obtain profits, which should be a business channel with more people and greater income.

Min Yuanqi is hesitating, when the Qing army goes south next year, it will inevitably bring war and chaos in Henan and Shandong, the chaos in the northern market, and the pressure of war that he is facing.

Yunti Pass is located in the middle of nowhere, but it does not mean that the Qing army will not attack this place, especially the place where a large number of Ming guards are stationed.

Min Yuanqi already plans to seriously manage this piece of foundation and keep this piece of territory in Jiangbei.

When the shaving order is given, and the whole situation is chaotic, you can have a greater chance.

What he is hesitating now is whether he will expand too fast, and he will not even be able to recover the cost before he gets the benefits.

However, Min Yuanqi quickly retracted his thoughts and focused more on the battlefield and the soldiers of the flag army.

Min Yuanzhong, Min Yuanjin and others began to take the wounded soldiers and transport them off the battlefield with manpower.

The compensation for the dead flag soldiers and the treatment of the wounded soldiers of the flag army have always been things that Min Yuanqi attaches great importance to.

Because of this, this flag army, which has not experienced much war, has always maintained a relatively high morale.

Not only to defend one's home and relatives, but also because there are people to take care of them after they are injured, and they have the confidence to have generous pensions after they die in battle.

Otherwise, human nature is selfish, and you can choose to flee to protect your family, and you don't have to fight here to live or die.

At least 100 stretchers carried the seriously injured flag soldiers down first, and the wounded doctors hired from various places in advance would debride, stop the bleeding, and bandage them at the first time.

But in this era of the level of traumatology, there are no antibiotics and related equipment, and even the level of disinfection is very poor, even if you get the most careful care, whether you can survive depends more on the physical fitness of each person.

It's cruel, and there's no way around it.

Min Yuanqi has tried his best to help his subordinates, including the best traumatists and orthopedics, Chinese medicine in this era is also divided into pediatrics, orthopedics, gynecology, traumatology and other departments, among which orthopedics is actually the best, Chinese medicine orthopaedic technology in hundreds of years will still have a place.

There were many soldiers who broke bones on the battlefield, and these soldiers were carried off the battlefield on stretchers and treated with bone binding in the houses prepared in advance.

The lightly injured soldiers supported each other, most of them were arrow wounds or cuts, the flesh was not deep, and the wounds were shallow, but they still needed to be debrided and bandaged, and there was also a certain risk of tetanus, but the fatality rate was relatively low.

There are also dozens of stretchers that have been covered with white cloths, which are soldiers who have been confirmed to have died in battle.

Amid the cheers of the crowd, Min Yuanqi walked to the stretcher where the dead soldiers were placed, and silently saluted the soldiers in silence.

The jubilant battlefield calmed down for a short time, and many military attachés also learned from Min Yuanqi and saluted the soldiers who died in battle.

Fortunately, there were not many soldiers killed and seriously wounded in the battle, and the total number of soldiers may not exceed 200.

For a large battle of more than 10,000 people, this result is quite exciting, and many military attaches and banner troops are discussing excitedly, after this battle, I am afraid that no one will dare to come to the idea of fighting Yunti Pass here.

The current situation is not only to hold on to the old territory, but also to expand in both the north and the south.

It is feasible to collect land rents and land taxes, as well as to set up tax cards, and even send officials to manage the place on their own.

These things were all planned by Min Yuanqi, and they were all revealed to the soldiers before the war in order to boost morale. After winning this battle, not only will you be able to hold your territory, but you will also be able to expand significantly.

The territory is large enough, the garrison battalion is expanded, and everyone can obtain more and greater benefits.

Even if he is sad about the death or serious injury of his comrades-in-arms, at least at this moment, people's hearts are still excited.

This is also a reasonable reaction, and there is no need to criticize everyone.

Before dark, Shen Liang, Xie Xiang and others, who were sent out to pursue, also led their troops back, and they killed dozens of guest soldiers and captured more than 300 people on the way to pursue, and the results were not bad.

It is an old saying that the poor Kou Mo chases, but the guest soldiers are a fiasco, and it is impossible to set up an ambush on the vast plain, Min Yuanqi of course sent Shen Liang and Xie Xiang and other fierce generals to pursue bravely and expand the results.

Before dark, Min Yuanjin and others also cleaned up the battlefield.

"More than 600 of the enemy were killed in the battle," Min Yuanjin said, "more than 2,100 prisoners." The armor has 35 collars of iron armor, 211 collars of cotton armor, and less than 100 collars of leather armor and cloth armor, many of which are damaged and need to be repaired by the workshop. In addition, there are more than 1,300 weapons of all kinds......"

Speaking of this, Min Yuanjin showed a smile on his face, and he continued: "The biggest harvest is that there are four hundred and ten intact war horses captured, and there are more than fifty injured war horses. ”

"You're in good hands!" Min Yuanqi was also very happy, and an obvious smile appeared on his face.

No armor or weapons are worth mentioning, and the more than 30 collars of iron armor are considered good things, and they can be used by sword players after they are repaired.

Cotton armor and cloth armor, leather armor, these armor are also useful, but the value is not high, many cloth armor and cotton armor have been for a long time, and the protection is quite poor.

This is not surprising, among the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, only 3,000 are serious guest soldiers, and the rest are miscellaneous soldiers, more than ninety percent of the people have no armor, and it is already a good result to be able to peel off so much cotton armor.

Weapons are less refined iron, most of them are ordinary wrought iron weapons, if you want to use them, you have to recast them, which is laborious and laborious, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Most of the results are that a lot of unsuitable cotton armor and cloth armor are directly issued to the guards, and those inferior weapons are also issued, so it is better to stretch the guard line of Tangxun farther away.

Only the harvest of war horses is real, a horse ranges from dozens of taels to hundreds of taels, although the nine-sided place can buy horses from six taels to more than a dozen taels, but when is it now, don't mention the old yellow calendar.

With these captured horses, the cavalry could be expanded from about 200 to 400 people, and a cavalry division, if well trained, would be quite a considerable force enough to influence the tide of battle.

Min Yuanzhi's performance this time is exceptionally good.