Wang Yiqi died, and his army was defeated!

In addition to the dead and wounded in the battle, the rest of the 100,000 troops ran backwards one by one, looking from afar, the mountains were full of routs, and in the rear, there were soldiers of the Second Army who were constantly pursuing!

This pursuit battle lasted for a day!

The number of Ming soldiers killed and wounded in the pursuit far exceeded the number of Ming soldiers killed and wounded in the battle in front of the battle.

When the troops were pursuing, Li Chunjing also received a report from his subordinates, saying that they had intercepted a small group of Ming soldiers, but these Ming soldiers still carried a corpse.

The official uniform on the corpse is recognizable at a glance, it is a big official, and it is a super official, and soon the identity of this person was identified, it is really Wang Yiqi, the commander of the Ming army!

After Li Chunjing got the report, he immediately said: "Although this person is not very good at fighting, but he still has the courage, bury him thickly, don't let people say that our Tang Dynasty King is not kind and loyal and brave." ”

Although each is its master, but to be honest, he still admires Wang Yiqi's courage, it is estimated that this person knew that this battle would be defeated before the battle, because everyone knows that the ability of the Tang Dynasty Wangshi to fight head-on in the field is the strongest among various tactics, although the gap between the two sides is a little large, but Wang Yiqi's chance of winning this battle will definitely not exceed one percent!

Otherwise, Li Chunjing would not have gone to great lengths to force Wang Yiqi's army out of Jinling City, for such an opportunity for a frontal battle in the wild.

And although Wang Yiqi knew that there was little chance of winning this battle, he still led the army to attack for that slim chance, because if he didn't come out, the end would be also not good.

Since Li Chunjing led the army eastward and entered Xuancheng, in fact, it was already possible to announce the victory or defeat of the battle of Jiangnan, and the huge strategic advantage made Li Chunjing win whether he went to Hangzhou or faced Wang Yiqi's main army.

Wang Yiqi has no other choice but to lead the army to fight, otherwise, in the end, he can only be trapped in Jinling, but the prosperous land in the south of the Yangtze River will also fall into the hands of the Tang Dynasty.

Trapped in Jinling, it is no longer meaningful!

After all, what the two sides are fighting for is not the gain or loss of one city or one place, but the ownership of the entire Jiangnan.

After the pursuit was over, Li Chunjing did not stop, but led the troops to continue north, he wanted to go straight to Jinling City, this time to Jinling City is only a few days away, go faster, you can take the opportunity to quickly take Jinling City.

At the same time, he also sent the Fifth Infantry Division to continue southward and seize Hangzhou.

I dare not say that the situation in the entire Jiangnan is complete, but it is basically under Li Chunjing's control.

Annihilated this 100,000 army, and there was no Ming army in the entire Jiangnan that could stop his pace!

This Jiangnan can already be declared to be under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and because of such a decisive battle, frequent repeated tug-of-war has been avoided, the hinterland of Jiangnan has not been damaged by much war, and the greatest vitality has been preserved, and this is also what Li Chunjing is trying to pursue.

After all, the Jiangnan that the Tang Dynasty wants is not a dead Jiangnan, but a prosperous Jiangnan!

If a super-large-scale tug-of-war is fought and the entire Jiangnan is ruined, then this Jiangnan will not be able to provide any help to Datang in a short period of time.

After the division of the Second Army, Li Chunjing also received the approximate casualty statistics of the battle the next day.

In the camp tent of the Chinese army in the field, the deputy chief of staff of the Second Army is reading out a long, long list!

"The 19th Infantry Regiment of the 7th Infantry Division, Deputy Regiment Commander Major Li Bing was killed, the commander of the 1st Battalion, Major Yuan Shang, was killed, the commander of the 3rd Battalion Chen Chong was seriously injured, the commander of the 20th Infantry Regiment Shen Jiajun was slightly wounded, and the commander of the 5th Battalion, Song Chong, was killed......"

"The above, the list of casualties of the officers of the 7th Infantry Division of our army for this battle, the following is the list of casualties of the officers of the 4th Mixed Regiment......"

When the names were read out one by one, although most of the generals present did not change their faces, they could not help but be moved when they heard the familiar names.

"In this battle, our military academy officers were killed in 11 people, seriously wounded 7 people, and lightly injured 18 people!"

The deputy chief of staff, who read out the list, did not stop, but flipped the page of the report in his hand, and then continued: "Below, the casualties of the lieutenant officers of our army in this battle, and their fifth infantry division ......"

But before he could speak, Li Chunjing directly interrupted: "You don't need to read the detailed list, just say the numbers!" ”

The deputy chief of staff said: "In this battle, our army lost seventy-six lieutenants and wounded one hundred and thirty-four!" ”

Li Chunjing nodded slightly, and then said, "What about the soldiers?" ”

"The detailed statistics of the soldiers have not yet come out, but according to the general situation reported by the various departments, there are about 5,000 dead and wounded, and the proportion of losses is relatively large for the artillery transport unit and the 19th Infantry Regiment that assists in the defense of the left flank artillery position!"

After hearing this, Li Chunjing said: "Well, this casualty is smaller than the official expected, it seems that we fought quite well in this battle!" ”

Hearing Li Chunjing's words, the dull color that everyone had appeared before because of the series of casualty lists was also swept away, but no, their second army was in the limelight in this battle.

With 40,000 troops, he faced the enemy's 100,000 troops, and as a result, the 100,000 enemy troops were defeated and suffered heavy casualties.

Although the number of dead and wounded prisoners on the side of the army has not yet been released, it is conservatively estimated that at least more than 30,000 of them were killed or wounded, and the number of prisoners is more than 40,000.

Most of the other Ming troops scattered and fled, but the Ming troops who fled in an organized way were very few, not more than 10,000 people, and the others were scattered and fled, and it is estimated that they turned around and fell into the grass or fled back to their hometowns.

To put it bluntly, Wang Yiqi's 100,000-strong army has been wiped out by the establishment and no longer exists.

Compared with the results of defeating the enemy's 100,000 troops, the thousands of casualties on their own side are nothing at all, at least it is definitely more than storming Jinling City, which is guarded by 100,000 people.

If you really want to storm Jinling City, which is defended by 100,000 people, I don't know how many soldiers' lives will be filled in.

Li Chunjing said: "Sort out the battle report, send it out after the meeting, it's been so long, Zhaoqing is probably worried, let them see the good news as soon as possible, and rest assured!" ”

The others immediately said: "Yes, this time we are fighting in Jiangnan, and the government and the opposition are paying attention, so it is better to send back the good news early so that Your Majesty can rest assured!" ”

However, Li Chunjing's good news is being sent to Zhaoqing quickly, but the other Ming troops and a large number of officials in the Jiangnan area have already been boiling.

The 100,000-strong army led by Wang Yiqi was defeated in Jianping and almost completely annihilated, and the news spread to the surrounding areas with the rout on the same day, and then spread quickly throughout the entire Jiangnan region like a relay.

In Jinling City, many officials are panicked, whether they are local magnates or foreign civil officials, they are all worried and afraid, because they all know that after Wang Yiqi's army is defeated, the thief army will soon come to Jinling City.

And with the more than 10,000 officers and troops in Jinling City now, how can they hold Jinling City!

The 100,000 elite troops of Wang Yiqi were all wiped out, and the more than 10,000 officers and troops in Jinling City were able to block the tens of thousands of soldiers of the thief army.

And as those routs arrived in Jinling City one after another, this panic spread throughout the city!

The thief army is far from 100,000, but more than 100,000 or even 200,000 or the like, the thief army has more than 1,000 pounds of heavy artillery, and the thief soldiers are all fearless of death, and some say that other places in the south of the Yangtze River have already surrendered to the wind, and Hangzhou, Suzhou and other places have already rebelled and surrendered to the thieves.

In short, there are all kinds of messy rumors.

If it was in the past, when Wang Yiqi was still in Jinling City, he would have been strongly suppressed and beheaded these people who spread rumors one by one, but now, Wang Yiqi himself is dead, and the other officials in the city are thinking about how to save their lives, but also how to report to the Forbidden City, shirk their own responsibilities, and put the responsibility on Wang Yiqi and other people.

There was even a rebellion at one point, and other officials in the city united and cut down a deputy general of the Jiangnan New Army who remained in Jinling City, ostensibly because the deputy general wanted to defect, but in fact it was a struggle for power.

The catastrophe is coming, and these officials in the city are still vying for power and profit, and shirk the responsibility for the defeat.

Of course, they fought for power and profit, but also because they had differences of opinion on how to defend, some wanted to abandon the city and cross the river, some wanted to flee to Yangzhou in the north of the river, and some wanted to defend Jinling.

And the deputy general of the Jiangnan New Army before was the one who advocated defending Jinling City!

And then, he died!

Since the news of Wang Yiqi's defeat and death reached Jinling City, a large number of people in the city began to flee from the city, and at first they were only the children of the families of those powerful people, because the powerful people could get the news first.

Then there are those ordinary people, who are also afraid of being warn, and want to escape the war and flee to other places.

And when it was reported that the thief army was not twenty miles away from Jinling City, even those officials in the city began to cross the river by various methods on a large scale, especially the generals who did not have the responsibility of defending the land, and then the local princes and nobles of Jinling City.

As for the civil officials in the city, most of them could not leave because of their duty to defend the land, and they did not dare to leave, but some people still began to sneak into the crowd out of the city to flee for their lives.

The next day, the thieves approached the city and set up artillery to attack the city, and the defenders were defeated, so they immediately raised their flags and wanted to negotiate.

Li Chunjing met with the envoy sent by the officials and gentry in the city outside the city, but this envoy was unashamed to speak in front of Li Chunjing, saying a pseudo-Tang and a thief, and then talking nonsense about Li Chunjing's imminent disaster.

As soon as Li Chunjing saw it, he knew that he had seen too much of this baby's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and if you really have a three-inch tongue, you immediately asked the guards to cut off this person's head, and then send the head back to the city, and let the officials and gentry in the city send another smart person out of the city to negotiate, and directly said Don't send this kind of stupid fork over again, otherwise you will cut one by one!