As the counteroffensive forces of the Tang New Army continued to compress the activity space of the Ming army, they soon drove the two thousand Ming troops to the river.

Many Ming soldiers had even run into the water, some hurriedly climbed onto the raft, and then rowed towards the opposite bank with all their might, and some soldiers who could swim could not find the raft for a while, and even swam directly to swim across the hundreds of meters of the river.

However, more Ming soldiers were crowded by the river, their faces full of fear, afraid that death would be brought to their heads in the next moment.

As for those Ming soldiers who were still on the periphery and only a few meters away from the Datang New Army, they had already begun to surrender in large areas.

Naturally, the new army of the Tang Dynasty did not have to kill all these Ming troops, so after compressing the activity space of the Ming army, they were already shouting over and over again: "Those who surrender will not be killed!" ”

Between life and death, the vast majority of the Ming soldiers didn't even have to choose, and when there was no way to retreat, they simply threw down the knives and guns and other weapons in their hands, and then knelt down or simply lay on the ground, shouting: "Little wish to surrender!" ”

"Spare your life!"

When there is no hope of escaping for their lives, and they are stubborn and unable to resist, there are more and more Ming soldiers who surrender, to what extent?

There were so many Ming soldiers who knelt down and surrendered that they crowded almost the entire river beach, and even successfully blocked the continued advance of the Datang New Army!

This is not the surrender of dozens of hundreds of people, but the surrender of thousands of people!

This also led to a rather embarrassing situation for the Datang New Army, there were too many Ming soldiers who surrendered, and since they surrendered, it was naturally impossible for the soldiers of the Datang New Army to knock them down cleanly, and then continue to advance on their corpses.

They either bypassed, or simply shouted for the surrendered Ming soldiers to get out of the way, but in this way, they delayed a lot of time, and at the same time disrupted the original neat and dense formation of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

In this way, these kneeling surrendered Ming soldiers became the strongest line of defense of the Ming army, thus covering more Ming soldiers to climb onto the raft and escape.

This has to be said to be a great irony!

When there was no Ming soldier standing on the river beach, the battle finally came to an end.

From the official landing of the Ming army to the end, the time that lasted was only a short quarter of an hour, and in fact, the victory or defeat of this battle was already divided in the first five minutes, and the next ten minutes were the time when the new army of the Tang Dynasty counterattacked and forced most of the soldiers of the Ming army to surrender.

At this time, Li Xuan, who was on the hillside, finally showed a faint smile, not maintaining a breezy appearance as usual, but Li Xuan's smile was still very light, this was not a kind of ecstatic laughter, but a smile full of confidence.

Most of the time, when facing the enemy, in order to give confidence to the soldiers and boost morale, Li Xuan has always been confident and has the chance to win, as if the enemy will die as many as he comes.

He did not show nervousness when he encountered difficulties, and he did not show any ecstatic expression when he won victory, because he had to tell his soldiers that all this was expected by him, that difficulties were temporary, and victory was inevitable.

As an emperor, as a commander of the whole army, you can't make a fuss about a little thing casually, whether it is defeat or victory, you must make Mount Tai collapse in front of you and not change color.

Because Li Xuan, who has these two identities, is no longer an ordinary person, and he can't even be said to be a human being.

He is a signboard, the signboard of the Tang Dynasty.

He is a faith, the faith of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the Tang Dynasty.

With such an identity, he is destined to be unable to put joy, anger and sorrow on his face like ordinary people.

However, today's big victory, Li Xuan must be false if he wants to say that he is not happy, this time he defeated the Ming army, what they gained was not only the victory of a battle, but more importantly, they gained enough time.

At least a month, or even more than three months, and with this time, he will be able to build more muskets and artillery, train more soldiers, and build a real army, an army that can lay the foundation of the Tang Dynasty.

Relative to the time gained, then how many Ming troops were killed and captured today is not so important.

Zeng Ziwen said to Li Xuan excitedly: "Your Majesty, our army is a great victory in this battle, and there are at least 1,300 puppet soldiers who surrendered before the battle!" ”

"The other captured swords, armor, bows and arrows are even more numerous!" The excitement on Zeng Ziwen's face was not concealed at all, he didn't need to hide his emotions like Li Xuan, he could show his joy to the fullest.

"There will be no more than 500 puppet thieves who escaped across the river on a raft, and the rest were either killed by us or disappeared in the Lanjiang River!"

Missing, this is actually synonymous with drowning, the Ming army here includes some people who were killed and injured by the new army of the Tang Dynasty when the Ming army crossed the river, in addition to after the final counteroffensive, some panicked Ming troops chose to jump into the river and try to swim across the river, but the water is good enough to be able to cross the river There are definitely a few people who can cross the river surface, and most of them are actually washed away by the river.

What happened to them is almost decided, and that is to be drowned.

The Lanjiang River is not a docile river, even if the river surface of the ferry is calm after all, but this is also relatively speaking, and this gentle river is not too long, if it is washed downstream by the river, it will be even more difficult to survive.

How many of these Ming troops jumped into the river, and how many of them swam to the other side, this is already an unknown number for the Datang New Army, and even the specific number of Ming troops who escaped on a raft, in fact, the Datang New Army can't judge.

Because of the chaotic time of the previous counteroffensive, there was still a mood to pay attention to the fleeing Ming troops, they were concerned about the Ming troops who could not escape, trying to get them to surrender or kill them.

The details of the battle were not counted until late afternoon, and this time they captured more prisoners than they had previously expected.

The Ming army captured 1,600 prisoners, and these people were only those who surrendered voluntarily before the battle, not including the more than 300 Ming soldiers who were unable to escape because they were wounded and were finally captured.

However, although these wounded Ming soldiers were taken prisoners, many of them were veritable seriously wounded, either hit by lead bullets or shot bullets or grenades, and most of their casualties were very serious, so no more than a third of these 300 people survived in the end, and half of these 300 people were unlikely to survive tonight.

And the Datang New Army has no way to treat them, the Datang Dynasty has a killing weapon, but they have no relative way to save people, let alone the soldiers of the Ming Army, even if the Datang New Army itself is seriously wounded, the Datang New Army can only watch them die in pain, and there is nothing they can do at all.

These mortally wounded who were destined to be unsavable lay in place, and in the future they would die in pain and wailing, some of them would struggle for an hour or two, some of them might struggle for three or five hours, but most of them would not survive tonight, and they would have to endure great pain before they died.

As for those lightly wounded, they will get better treatment, medicine is not to be counted on, the Datang New Army itself does not have much medicine, and its own soldiers are not enough, but these lightly injured soldiers of the Ming Army are allowed to treat themselves, after a simple cleaning of the wound bandage, if there is no infection, the wound can gradually recover, as for the wound infection, then it is embarrassing, the wound on the limbs basically has to be amputated, as for the wound on the torso is infected, there is nothing to do except wait for death.

Whether it was intact Ming soldiers, or Ming soldiers who were slightly wounded or seriously wounded, these people added up to about 2,000 people, and as for the last survivors of these 2,000 prisoners, it is estimated that there will be about 1,800 people.

In other words, the new army of the Tang Dynasty will receive 1,800 prisoners in the future, who far outnumber itself!

In addition to these 2,000 people, the new army of the Tang Dynasty cleaned up about 200 corpses of Ming soldiers who died on the spot on the river beach, and in order to prevent the occurrence of the plague, they asked those Ming prisoners to dig pits that afternoon and bury the corpses of these Ming soldiers who died in battle.

As for the remaining 800 people in the 3,000 Ming army that attacked, 5 or 600 should have escaped back on rafts, and the remaining 300 people were missing, either drowned, or died in the process of crossing the river and were thrown into the water, or they may have swam directly to the other side alive.

The specific situation is not something that the Datang New Army can understand.

The Ming army that escaped on the other side did not go, but continued to stay on the other side of the river, and was urged by the officers to start building defensive camps.

Fought a defeated battle and lost more than 2,000 people, which was at most a tactical failure, but if the puppet Tang thief army crossed the Lanjiang River and finally captured Xingquanfu City, then what it represented was the complete erosion of the situation, whether it was these leading generals or Song Zhiwen, they all had to be beheaded by the imperial court.

However, the Ming army's worries were obviously superfluous, Li Xuan didn't plan to cross the river and continue to attack Xingquan Mansion, let alone Xingquan Mansion, he even kept Zhengtai County.

It's just a city, what is the use of him knocking it down except for causing the Ming Court to shake? It's useless!

The biggest purpose of this Lanjiang Battle was to stop the Ming army in the city of Lanjiang and buy more time to control the vast countryside and nearly 100,000 people in Zhengtai County.

With enough time, Li Xuan was able to expand the army and train troops with the population base of Zhengtai County, and finally form a larger army.

At that time, it is time to think about continuing to expand abroad, and as for now, it is too early.

That night, Li Xuan convened a post-war military meeting as usual, and the main content of the discussion was naturally the gains and losses of today's battle, but tonight's discussion was a little different from usual.