"The second brigade has been divided into three divisions to pursue the enemy deserters, and the cavalry units are also chasing the enemy!"

"Preliminary judgment, the total number of Ming soldiers who escaped is about 6,000 people, but it is divided into about ten shares, the largest group of Ming army deserters is about 2,000 people, and the rest are Ming army deserters ranging from hundreds of people!"

"The first brigade has completely controlled the four city walls and the city walls, but there are still a large number of Ming troops in the city at this time, and there is no lack of resistance to the organization, in order to avoid fearless casualties, our army has slowed down the attack on the city, General Hao asked for instructions on what to do next, whether to immediately enter the city to clear the remnants of the enemy or rest for a period of time!"

"The casualties of the three assault battalions are relatively large, of which the heavy infantry has more than 100 casualties, and the casualties of the rest of the departments are also some, Lieutenant Colonel Cai Erhu reported that the assault battalion has made great contributions in the first battle of Liping Fucheng, and it has been fruitful, and I request that the establishment of the assault battalion be retained for the follow-up battle!"

"The 7th and 8th Infantry Regiments suffered heavy casualties in today's battle, and the morale and mood of the Ming army were not high, and they even had a certain resistance to the follow-up operations!"

Zeng Ziwen was holding the many reports in his hand on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was simply talking to Li Xuan about the current situation.

Li Xuan also made arrangements one by one in a timely manner!

"Order the second brigade and the cavalry battalion to continue to pursue the enemy, and annihilate as many Ming deserters as possible, but also pay attention to the rhythm, don't leave the main force too far, well, let Fang Xitong chase the enemy for three days, and return or continue the pursuit after three days depending on the situation!"

Li Xuan still trusts Fang Xitong, if he is given three days, he should be able to kill and injure a lot of Ming troops, as for whether to continue to chase or return in the later stage, it depends on the specific situation, it is naturally impossible to decide now, but he believes that Fang Xitong will be able to make the right choice at that time.

"Since there are many defeated troops in the city, and there is no lack of organized resistance, then wait for a while, anyway, this Liping Mansion City is so big, is it possible to be afraid that they will fly away! Increase the intensity of surrender, and strive to surrender most of the Ming army in the city! ”

"By the way, the defeated soldiers in the city can be ignored first, but the warehouses of military rations and other ordnance materials hoarded by the Ming army in the city must be seized and protected as soon as possible!"

For the new army of the Tang Dynasty, this Liping Mansion City does not have any strategic value, their strategic goal has always been the Ming army itself, since the tens of thousands of Ming army routs have been trapped in the city, then there is no need to worry, slowly clear and surrender.

However, those military rations and ordnance should be paid attention to, according to the Ming army's surrender, Zhu Zhihai brought a lot of military rations this time, enough for 40,000 troops to eat for two months, although the Ming army discarded some of the baggage outside the city before, but these baggage naturally fell into the hands of the new army of the Tang Dynasty later.

With this batch of military ration replenishment, the Datang New Army will also be able to alleviate the food crisis, otherwise, it will have to think about going there every day to search for food.

More than 10,000 people need more than 10,000 people, which is not an ordinary amount!

In addition to the military rations, there are also captured ordnance, such as swords, spears, bowls, cannons, armor, bows and arrows!

The Ming army abandoned a large number of weapons and equipment on the battlefield, and these weapons and equipment will be collected when cleaning the battlefield, and then these weapons and equipment will soon become the weapons and equipment of the Datang New Army itself!

In the afternoon of the same day, after resting for a few hours, the 1st Brigade joined the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Regiment to launch a clearing operation against the Ming army in the city!

The Ming army in the city was already demoralized, and he had completely lost his command and organization, although occasionally he would encounter dozens or hundreds of people led by Ming army generals to resist stubbornly, but often could not resist the Qing Dynasty New Army.

However, more Ming soldiers will surrender as soon as possible!

This city has been broken, and the stubborn resistance is stubborn, and there is no way to escape, what can be done if you don't surrender!

Even many Ming soldiers who wanted to take off their military uniforms and blend into civilian houses to act as ordinary people were mostly searched!

Why?

Because before Sun Yawei evacuated the city of Lipingfu, he had basically forcibly evacuated the young and strong people in the city, and only more than 10,000 old and young people remained in the city!

Now you are a strong young man who says that he is a local native of Liping Province, what are you kidding!

Let's first say two words in the local dialect of Liping Mansion to listen, what, I can't say it, and I also argue that you are a relative of the owner of this place, who came from out of town, or you have just returned from home for too long and have forgotten your hometown!

Damn, I'm really a fool!

Someone!

Preparation!

Aim!

Shoot!

Of course, it is inevitable that there will still be many Ming soldiers who hide well and then escape the search and arrest of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, but most of the Ming soldiers hiding in the houses have been arrested!

Hao Bonian's method is very simple: anyway, there are more than 10,000 ordinary residents in the city, and these local residents are all old and young.

All of them came out of their homes honestly, and all those who didn't dare to come out of their homes were pseudo-Ming defeated soldiers, and they all were caught and executed on the spot!

After these people came out of the house, it was easy to screen, but all the young and middle-aged, nine out of ten were the Ming army routs who took off their military uniforms and tried to get by, and after a simple inquiry and confirmation, they were taken away on the spot, and the rebels were executed on the spot!

It took a few hours for the new army of the Tang Dynasty to capture the city of Lipingfu, but it took three days to clear the Ming army in the city!

After clearing the rout, Fang Xitong also led the troops pursuing the Ming army to return!

When Fang Xitong came back, he also brought back more than a thousand captives by the way!

That night, Li Xuan finally entered the city of Liping Mansion with a group of high-ranking generals and stayed in the prefect's yamen!

And on this night, Li Xuan and the senior generals of the Tang New Army got the accurate post-war report of the Battle of Lipingfu this time!

According to the previous management, it is still Zeng Ziwen who will explain the results and losses of this battle!

"From the beginning of the third infantry regiment to intercept and contain the main force of the Ming army, this battle lasted for four days, in these four days, my heroic and invincible Wang Division completely defeated the enemy led by the puppet Ming governor Zhu Zhihai more than 38,000 people, and killed more than 6,000 enemies before and after, including 16 Ming army generals who can confirm their identities of more than 1,000 households, and another news revealed that there was civil strife on the eve of the collapse of the Ming army, and the Ming army commander Qian Dafei tried to hold Zhu Zhihai hostage Anyway, our army was killed in failure, and in the civil strife, Zhu Zhihai died, However, we did not find Zhu Zhihai's body, nor did we confirm Zhu Zhihai's death from the high-ranking generals among the captives, and the truth of this news needs to be further judged! ”

"Captured 20,000 enemy troops, including more than 200 middle and low-level officers of the enemy army below 1,000 households, and eight senior generals from 1,000 households and more than 1,000 households, four of whom have already expressed on the spot that they want to return to our Tang Dynasty and serve our emperor!"

When the Tang New Army judged the enemy's casualties and prisoners, it basically did not count the wounded of the Ming army, because many seriously wounded were often directly repaired, and the battle dead were really killed, while the lightly wounded were treated as prisoners, so these 20,000 prisoners actually included many minor wounded of the Ming army!

Speaking of this, Zeng Ziwen deliberately paused: "The reason why this battle was able to achieve such a big victory is thanks to Your Majesty's good command and good command!" ”

At this time, a group of civil and military officials at the bottom naturally said how awesome Li Xuan was to praise Li Xuan, at this time Li Xuan was in a good mood, and he also felt that he had won this battle, and he had indeed done a good job, so he accepted the praise of the ministers with peace of mind!

After the praise, Zeng Ziwen continued: "About 6,000 people in the Ming army have fled in an organized manner, and the other thousands of Ming troops have fled in scattered ways, and their whereabouts are unknown!" ”

"In terms of materials, our army has captured a lot of military rations, which is enough for 30,000 troops to eat for three months! In addition, there were at least 1,000 horses, about 500 horses for riding, and 1,000 head of mules, donkeys, and other servant animals that hauled heavy baggage!

There are at least 100 large and small bowl guns, and there are more than 30 bowl guns that can be selected for our army!

1,000 standard military bows and more than 800 pairs of various armors!

Swords and spears are countless! ”

After that, Zeng Ziwen said: "The capture of this battle can greatly alleviate the current shortage of war horses, armor, bows and arrows and other materials in our army!" ”

With so many seizures, it's a bumper harvest!

After talking about the results, the next thing is naturally to talk about your own losses!!

"In the four-day battle, all units of our army suffered losses, among which the losses of the Third Infantry Regiment and the three assault battalions were relatively large, the casualties of the Third Infantry Regiment were about 600 before and after, and the three assault battalions combined were also killed and wounded more than 400 people!"

"All units of our army combined, more than 860 people were killed and 2,300 wounded! Overall, the casualties are still relatively large, which are larger than those in the previous battle of the Acropolis, which is mainly caused by the early lead battle and the attack operation! ”

"In addition, thirty-three officers of our army were killed, fifty-seven were wounded, and two officers were wounded!"

"The number of officers killed and wounded is no less than in the Battle of the Bronze Drum Acropolis, and even slightly more!"

Speaking of the injured school officer, Cai Erhu showed a trace of embarrassment, because one of the two injured school officers was him!

Another wounded officer was the commander of the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the 1st Brigade, who was wounded by the Ming army's bow and arrow during the siege of the city!

But Cai Erhu's injury was after breaking through the city of Lipingfu, when he led the assault battalion to clear the Ming army in the city, because the light enemy was surrounded and attacked by hundreds of Ming troops who came out of nowhere, although the final assault battalion suffered little casualties, and also successfully annihilated the Ming army, but he himself was extremely unlucky to be stabbed, the wound was on the left arm, and it was not serious, there was no problem after a little bandaging.

But this still made him one of the only two injured officers in this battle of the Datang New Army!