The regular army and the garrison army were added together, and the Tang Dynasty Division's Wuzhou Campaign suffered more than 5,000 casualties, which was much more casualty than the casualties caused by the many battles that the Tang Dynasty Division had experienced after it went south to Guangxi.

If the casualties of ordinary soldiers can still be regarded as cold numbers, then the large number of casualties among the officers is unacceptable to Li Xuan.

In this battle, one lieutenant colonel was killed and two were wounded, two majors were killed and eight were wounded, and as for the lieutenant, thirty-six were killed and forty-seven were wounded.

In the system of the Tang Wang Division, officers above the rank of major belong to middle and senior officers, because in addition to a few brigade commanders who are major generals, the other deputy brigade commanders, regiment commanders, and battalion commanders are all school officers.

A major battalion commander leads a force similar to that of a thousand households on the Ming army's side, and a lieutenant colonel regiment commander is basically more important than the Ming army's guard commander, and even comparable to the generals in the Ming army.

A colonel, by and large, can already be compared with the commanders and deputy commanders in the Ming army system.

More importantly, it is not easy for the Tang Dynasty to train these middle-level officers who have studied in the Martial Arts Academy and the Imperial Academy, and have accumulated so much combat experience, not only does it take a lot of time and energy, but also has to pay tuition for them.

For a general to grow up, unless it is a general with bad luck or a heavenly level, if an ordinary general wants to grow up, the necessary training is indispensable, and there will be more or less mistakes in the process of this training.

It's okay to make mistakes in daily training, but if there are mistakes in the course of combat, then it may cause unnecessary casualties to the soldiers under his command.

For some less serious mistakes, under normal circumstances, the high-level generals of the Tang Dynasty Division turn a blind eye, as long as they can learn a lesson to avoid the same mistakes, then they will generally not lose their posts.

This is true not only for junior officers, but also for senior generals!

For example, during the Battle of Rongxian, although the battle was won, there were still mistakes, the cavalry rushed to the wrong place, and charged towards the Ming infantry phalanx listed in the phalanx, and at the same time, when the infantry was fighting, it was also because the combat effectiveness of the Ming army's 3,000 soldiers was underestimated, which caused certain losses.

But Li Xuan did not blame Li Chunjing, the commander of the Second Infantry Regiment at the time, nor did he blame Lu Yuzhi, the commander of the Second Cavalry Battalion, for this.

On the contrary, he continued to reuse it, and Li Chunjing was further promoted to the commander of the Fourth Infantry Brigade.

If such a thing is placed in other rigid and rigid armies, it is estimated that many high-level generals will be responsible for stepping down for this, but in the Tang Dynasty, this kind of thing is taken out for post-war analysis, and then how to avoid mistakes in the follow-up is discussed.

Why did Li Xuan do this?

Because he deeply knows how difficult it is to train an officer, especially a middle and senior officer, the Tang Dynasty has been in the army for so long, and he has trained so many senior generals who can fight, if they are removed because of a defeat or some small affairs, where will Li Xuan find someone to replace them?

Do you think that a high-ranking general who can lead thousands or even tens of thousands of people to fight is a cabbage, which is all over the streets, and you can grab a handful with a handful of them.

After all, there are no generals who often win, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and it is tolerable for Li Xuan to occasionally fight one or two small defeats.

Of course, if one day Hao Bonian and Li Chunjing get dizzy and lose a large number of main forces, causing irreparable bad effects, Li Xuan will naturally be angry, and then it will not be as simple as dismissal, and they will have to give them a cup of poisonous wine to warn future generations!

The officers of the Tang Dynasty Division are rare, and this time the losses are so heavy, everyone is naturally not happy.

But everyone also knows that this is a war, how can there be immortals, this time it is nothing more than a little more dead!

Moreover, although there were many casualties in the Wuzhou Battle, the First Infantry Brigade as the main force suffered little losses, especially the First Infantry Corps, the number of casualties was only a few dozen, and most of them were killed or wounded by those who were transferred to the First Assault Battalion. Because the first corps did not participate in the battle from beginning to end, and in the end, although an infantry battalion was sent to the southern front, it did not catch up with the main battle.

The casualties of the 5th Infantry Regiment were also not large!

The casualties of the Second Infantry Regiment were slightly greater, but the largest was the Sixth Infantry Regiment, which had not yet been formed into an army strictly speaking, and many soldiers in the army were new recruits, and there were no muskets and other weapons.

Then there is the Liuzhou Independent Regiment, which has just been incorporated into the regular army sequence, and there are also some casualties.

In general, there were many casualties in this battle, but the main force was not damaged!

Paid 5,000 people and nearly 100 officers to be killed and wounded, in exchange for a Wuzhou, nearly 10,000 enemies killed, nearly 20,000 prisoners, and enough food for the troops to eat for half a year, and more importantly, to improve the embarrassing strategic situation of the Tang Dynasty.

It is possible to go east to Guangdong, go north to Guilin and even enter Huguang.

Therefore, from the perspective of overall strategy, this battle is worth it, and this is also an important reason why Li Xuan decided to attack Wuzhou before.

After reporting the casualties of the enemy and us, Li Xuan made an important instruction to let the troops further and completely eliminate the remnants of the enemy in Wuzhou City, although there is no large-scale Ming army in Wuzhou City to resist, but there are still many scattered routs.

There were 30,000 regular Ming troops and 20,000 young Ming troops in the city before, and the Ming army with a total of more than 50,000 people was killed, seriously wounded nearly 10,000 people, captured 20,000 people, escaped by boat 2,000 or 3,000 people, and it is estimated that there were several thousand people who fled from other directions by taking advantage of the chaos, but even so, there would still be nearly 10,000 people scattered all over the city.

And I dare not say that these routs in the city will not be organized again to launch a counteroffensive or riot.

Therefore, it is very necessary to continue to purge the remnants of the army.

In addition, Li Xuan also emphatically pointed out that the warehouses in the city that store grain must be strictly guarded, do not be afraid of wasting troops, do not be afraid of hard work, this batch of grain is the reassurance of the Tang Dynasty, with this batch of grain, the follow-up Tang Dynasty Division's operations can continue.

In addition, he also instructed the military department to complete the screening of prisoners of war as soon as possible, classify the prisoners of war quickly, and give preferential treatment to the Ming army prisoners of war who voluntarily joined the Tang Dynasty and passed the physical fitness and basic military qualities, and selected some to supplement the regular army units.

As for voluntary participation, the average quality of the troops is to supplement the existing garrison and form a new garrison.

For the diehards who are unwilling to surrender to sincerity, they will be taken care of on the spot, and the follow-up Ministry will send someone to take over.

The Ministry of Industry has recently changed its mind about building a large number of workshops in a certain city, because it is more difficult and the goal is greater.

Just like Xingquan Mansion and Liuzhou Mansion, with the westward advance of the Huguang Ming Army, Xingquan Mansion was in danger, in order to avoid the death and injury of craftsmen, the Ministry of Industry had to transfer most of the craftsmen in Xingquan Mansion away, leaving only a small number of ordinary workers to continue production, but the production was also consumable materials, such as bullets, gunpowder, bows and arrows.

And the workers who make cannons and guns, especially the technical backbone and craftsmen, have been withdrawn from them.

Originally, the Ministry of Industry used this batch of withdrawn craftsmen to continue to expand the workshop strength in Liuzhou, but now after Wuzhou is captured, and it can be expected that Zhaoqing will not be able to stop the attack of the Tang Dynasty, the Ministry of Industry has ended the large-scale construction of Liuzhou ahead of schedule, but is ready to transfer to Wuzhou and Zhaoqing, and mainly Zhaoqing.

Because Zhaoqing is already the established capital of the Tang Dynasty, well, although Zhaoqing is still in the hands of the Ming army at this time, this does not prevent a group of high-ranking officials in the cabinet from formulating various construction plans for Zhaoqing.

At the same time, although Wuzhou will not be used as the capital, the transportation of this place is also extremely convenient, and its own business is extremely developed, and it can be regarded as the west gate of Zhaoqing, and Zhaoqing supports each other.

Because it is also feasible to carry out a certain amount of industrial construction in Wuzhou!

It is worth mentioning that in a series of future plans of the Ministry of Industry, the future large-scale workshop center is not in Liuzhou, nor in Wuzhou, let alone in Zhaoqing, but in Foshan!

The reason is simple, Foshan is the largest artisanal steel smelting city in contemporary China and even in the whole of East Asia!

And this reason alone is enough!

In the future, Foshan will be the mass production center of various industrial products that need to use steel in the Tang Dynasty, including artillery, muskets, and cold weapons.

Several other cities, such as Liuzhou, Wuzhou, Zhaoqing, Guangzhou, or elsewhere, set up small-scale workshops to produce expendable war materials, such as gunpowder, bullets, shells, bows and arrows, to reduce the distance of logistics transportation.

To build so many workshops, the number of craftsmen is required, and the same is required for the ordinary labor force.

The prisoners of war who do not need to pay wages are the best labor force in the eyes of everyone in the Ministry of Industry, and they have even formulated relevant plans, and after Guangdong, they will use prisoners of war as miners to dig in iron mines in Luoding, Dong'an, Nanxiong, Shaozhou, Lianzhou, Yangjiang, Huaiji and other places.

The city had to be cleaned up, the booty had to be cleaned up, the prisoners of war had to be cleaned up, the dead of the enemy and the enemy had to be buried, and the wounded had to be rescued.

However, at this time, Li Xuan's eyes had already left Wuzhou, but were placed on Zhaoqing, Guilin, Xingquanfu and other places.

After the First Army took Wuzhou, it was impossible to stay here for too long, and after a little rest, it was necessary to embark on the journey again, and now the question was whether to go north to Guilin or return to Liuzhou all the way to Xingquanfu, or send the main force east to capture Zhaoqing and even Guangzhou.

These choices are related to the strategic development of the entire Tang Dynasty in the future, and they must be cautious!