In the battle of Anping Town, the last more than 100,000 main forces of the Ming army in the north were completely defeated by the Tang Dynasty, and more than 50,000 Tatar cavalry fled in embarrassment after losing more than 10,000.

Even now, there are still many remnant Ming forces in other places, such as Zhang Yue still has more than 100,000 troops in Huguang, Sichuan, and Yunnan, and in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and other places are still under the control of the Ming Dynasty.

But!

Today's war is still enough to declare the Tang Dynasty's sole domination over the land of China!

So Li Xuan's mood is very good, if it weren't for the fact that he didn't bring the palace dance troupe with him when he went north to conquer himself, I'm afraid he would have to guide the dance troupe members to dance all night tonight.

However, even if there were some small shortcomings, it did not affect Li Xuan's good mood at all!

In the follow-up pursuit operation, Li Xuan had already directly let go of many generals, and he himself was waiting for the good news of the generals with peace of mind!

On the same day, the Tang Army in the north was still very busy, the troops of the Third Army and the Fourth Army were all continuing to pursue the fleeing Ming army, although the Ming army of more than 100,000 had suffered heavy casualties on the battlefield, but the Ming army that fled still had tens of thousands, and it was naturally impossible for the Tang Army to sit back and watch them escape well, and then regroup!

When pursuing, there is also a choice, those who have organized a retreat, and the large-scale Ming army is the priority target, but if the scattered Ming army, the Tang Army will also turn a blind eye, after all, the strength is limited, and it is impossible to capture all the Ming troops who have fled.

But in the two-day pursuit battle, the results were still abundant!

Three days later, Li Xuan, who was still staying in Anping Town, received a summary battle report from the Privy Council, this time the Battle of Anping Town, the decisive battle of the day and the follow-up pursuit battle combined, killing more than 20,000 Ming troops, capturing more than 70,000 people, about 10,000 Ming troops fled relatively quickly, got rid of the pursuit, and fled all the way to Beizhili, while the remaining tens of thousands of Ming troops were running everywhere and became veritable stragglers.

It is worth mentioning that they also killed about 4,000 Tatar cavalrymen and captured almost 3,000!

In addition, there is a more crucial point, they captured tens of thousands of military horses from the Ming army and the Tatars!

Of these, about 3,000 were riding horses, and more than 8,000 were less servant horses.

Although they also captured tens of thousands of arquebuses and tens of thousands of various cold weapons, these captures were nothing compared to tens of thousands of horses.

Maybe for other armies, the value of muskets and artillery is higher, but for the current Tang Dynasty royal division, the value of war horses is even higher.

Nowadays, the output of guns in the Tang Dynasty is quite large, and more importantly, now the Tang Dynasty has begun to replace flintlock muskets, and the role of these captured arquebuses is no longer so great, not to mention that the caliber of the army's muskets is not uniform, and the quality is also uneven.

Of course, in a short time, these muskets and artillery can still be used!

At least, the arquebuses and artillery lost by the Tang Army in this operation could be replenished from the spoils of war on the spot.

And the lack of horses in the Tang Dynasty is a big problem, basically the war horses used, which were captured from the Ming army before, and now a Tatar has been added.

These 3,000 war horses, plus the 3,000 war horses captured in the Battle of Liangshanji before, are enough for the Tang cavalry to add thousands more cavalry!

When Li Xuan was still in Anping Town, the news of Anping Town's victory was also quickly transmitted to Jiangnan and other southern provinces through the military post station!

The news of the great victory in Anping Town has a great impact, and Li Xuan naturally will not hide it, and must publicize it as soon as possible, not to satisfy his vanity of winning the victory in person, but for political service.

The victory of Anping Town basically laid the overall situation of China in the future, and those gentry and other careerists who still had opposition to the Tang Dynasty in the future, when they made irrational behaviors, such as armed tax resistance, rebellion, etc., they had to think carefully about whether they could succeed and what the consequences were.

The good news went south quickly, and in a few days, Jinling City received the news, and the left-behind officials led by Liu Bagou and the Empress Dowager Bai in the palace were all ecstatic about the result!

Personally, their minds are different, and some think that they finally don't have to worry about the Ming army's counterattack to the south of the Yangtze River!

Some people think that in the future, this glory and wealth will finally be determined!

The people of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Rites worked overtime overnight to issue a side report for this time, specifically reporting on the victory of Anping, and the reports of the Tang Dynasty newspaper have always been not just about the war, but will analyze various impacts from all aspects.

To put it bluntly, in addition to reporting on Anping's victory, it is more important to publicize how the Tang Dynasty King is awesome and how the ancient sage Li Xuan is!

As a result, he worked overtime all night to determine the number, and sent the sample to the whole world through the post station system, and Jinling, as the place at the foot of the Son of Heaven, could naturally be printed in the first time, and then directly distributed.

So, in the afternoon of the next day, in Jinling City, a thin, patched and barefoot, about eleven or twelve-year-old boy was carrying a large satchel, full of newspapers, and a copy in his hand, shouting in a childish voice: "Outside! Extra! Anping victory! ”

In addition to the sentence, it immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding pedestrians!

Many of them have been accustomed to this kind of newspaper sales, the Tang Dynasty newspaper has been issued for many years, has been established a perfect distribution system, in addition to sample transportation, printing, mass transportation, in the application for the distribution of the terminal, the development of fixed-point delivery, street newsboy sales, shop sales and other distribution models.

After the newspaper is printed and sent to a certain city, the newspaper delivery person will directly send the newspaper to the home or institution of the person who has subscribed to the Tang Dynasty newspaper, this kind of subscription is generally ordered according to a year, plus the cost of delivering the newspaper, the price is not low, generally only decent people or various institutions will subscribe to the newspaper, ordinary people generally go to the teahouse and other places to listen to the newspaper, well, anyway, they can't understand it.

Selling in street shops is similar to buying other things!

As for the newsboys, they are another specialty, they sell them along the streets, and they earn a small remuneration for this!

They don't think it's strange to the newsboys on the street, but they think it's strange outside the number, because the Tang Dynasty newspaper rarely issues outside the number, and it usually has major events, well, it will only be done once when it is a big event, and sometimes it will not be met once a year.

Now, it's an exception!

And with the words "great victory" in the back, could it be that the army in the north won the battle?

Immediately, several people walked towards the newsboy, and the first to come was a middle-aged man in a cloth robe.

After he came over, he directly took out a copper coin with a slightly larger shape than the previous copper coins, which is one of the auxiliary coins issued by the Tang Dynasty, a copper coin with a value of five Wen, the copper content is larger than that of one or two Wen, and it is printed in batches by machine, with exquisite patterns on it.

"Get a newspaper!" After the decent middle-aged man handed over the copper coin, he directly took the extra account in the report's hand!

If you hold the newspaper in your hand, you can smell the ink on it, and it has not been ironed with an iron, although the ink on it has dried, but if you hold it in your hand, it will still stick to your hand.

No way, the current printing technology is such scum!

When this person picked it up and kept looking through it, in a three-entry mansion with Chen's mansion hanging in the urban area of Jinling City, the newspaper delivery person also sent the newspaper into this household, and the servant naturally took it over whether it was an external or an ordinary weekly magazine.

After the little servant brought the newspaper in, a middle-aged man who looked like a steward saw it and immediately asked, "What's the matter with this newspaper?" Isn't it two days later that the newspaper will be delivered? ”

The little guy immediately said: "Back to Zhao Steward, the messenger said that this is a temporary addition today?" ”

"Oh?" Steward Zhao took the newspaper and looked at it for a while, then took a deep breath and said: "No wonder I sent the number, it's a big deal, hurry up and iron the newspaper, I'll send it to the master immediately!" ”

As soon as he said this, Steward Zhao suddenly said: "Forget it, I'll come by myself!" ”

As he spoke, he just spread out the newspaper, and then asked others to pour hot water into the iron and start ironing!

At this time, a little maid who was far away showed a puzzled look and asked a cook next to her: "Why do you still need to iron this newspaper, can't you read it directly?" I saw that the people outside were looking directly! ”

At this time, the cook next to her said: "If you don't iron it, do you want to let the master dip a hand of ink when he reads the newspaper?" ”

"Our lord is a senior official of the Ministry of Taxation, can he be the same as the idle people outside?"

"What are you still doing in a daze, why don't you hurry up and send the snacks to Mrs., let Mrs. wait for a long time, but there is no good fruit for you to eat!"

When the little girl heard this, she immediately curled her mouth, but she obediently took the tray and went out!

Steward Zhao carefully ironed the newspaper page by page, then folded it up, and then put it into a tray, this is the tray and the newspaper out, after turning the many corridors, he stopped in front of a door, and then knocked on the door, and said softly: "Master!" ”

At this time, a voice came from the house: "Is it Uncle Fu, come in"

Zhao Fu pushed open the door, and then walked in across the threshold, without waiting for the people in the room to ask, he himself said: "Master, there is a newspaper sent from the newspaper today?" ”

"Extra?" At this time, the person inside stood up from the desk, it was the recent officialdom proud, the man of the year in the inspection department of the Ministry of Taxation, known as Chen Lifu, a rookie official in the system of the Ministry of Taxation.