After the failure of the breakthrough, the Ming army that completely collapsed, whether it was those local guards or the supervising and recruiting soldiers, there was no difference at this time, they scrambled to flee to the rear, some wanted to escape back to the city, and some people tried to bypass the interception of the pseudo-Tang thief army in front and fled from both sides.

But the 4th Mixed Regiment, as a unit with independent combat capabilities, has cavalry!

A cavalry team of 100 men is roaming on the flanks, just waiting for these scattered Ming deserters!

Looking at the Ming army that had completely collapsed, Gu Shizhong showed a disdainful expression, these Ming troops were nothing more than that, even if it was the so-called new army of the superintendent with more than 2,000 people, but in this panicked situation, its combat effectiveness was not much stronger than those local guards!

After the fourth mixed group defeated the Ming army who wanted to charge and break through, it did not stop in place, but quickly advanced forward, chased the Ming army who fled back to the city to the city gate, and quickly controlled the city gate, and then completely blocked the opportunity for the Ming army in the city to rush out and escape!

Such a situation also happened in the Fifth Mixed Regiment, which also controlled the city gate after defeating more than 2,000 Ming troops who tried to break through!

It didn't take long for the five infantry divisions, the fourth mixed regiment, and the fifth mixed regiment to cooperate with each other, and they had completely controlled the surrounding walls of Luling City, and the remnants of the Ming army could only hide in the city.

After taking control of the city, Li Chunjing ordered the troops to take advantage of the opportunity to continue to march into the city, control all traffic arteries and important areas, and resolutely not give the Ma Ming army in the city a chance to reorganize.

In the afternoon and evening of the same day, the guns in Luling City continued to sound, but it became more and more dense, a large number of remnants of the Ming army were surrounded and suppressed, and a small number of stubborn resistance were killed, but most of them still chose to surrender!

It is a pity that none of the Ming military officials in the city, especially the senior officials, chose to lead the army to surrender, only a few were captured, some were found to have committed suicide, and some of them did not know what to do, they may have escaped from the city, they may also hide in the city, and they may also blend in with those captured Ming soldiers.

But all this is not important to Li Chunjing, the important thing is that he took Luling City, cleared the first way to continue to go north, and it is also the most difficult obstacle to overcome, and then, as long as he follows the step-by-step process, taking Fuzhou and Nanchang is just around the corner!

When he led the army to the edge of the Yangtze River, who would dare to say that his rank of lieutenant general was not qualified enough?

After dawn, a battle report is to leave Luling City through three hundred miles of urgency, and then pass it to the rear, this battle report will go all the way back to Zhaoqing and report to Li Xuan!

Although the report of victory was sent out, but the clean-up operation in Luling City was still continuing, there were too many routs in the city, although there was no organized resistance anymore, but too many routs were scattered in many houses in the city, and they needed to be cleared one by one.

The Tang Army is also quite familiar with this kind of work of clearing and suppressing the defeated troops in the city, and the means they use to clear and suppress are also simple, directly controlling the main transportation routes and important areas, and dividing the urban areas into periods.

Then directly let all the people in this area come out of their homes to the pointing place to assemble, but those who hide and refuse to come out dare not say 100%, but most of them are scattered.

And the defeated soldiers mixed into the people, it is easy to identify, first of all, the young Zhuang are selected, this Luling City used to be just a government city, and there are not tens of thousands of residents in the city, and all the young and strong are counted at most seven or eight thousand people!

But there are almost 20,000 young people selected!

Then there is a simple accent identification, but if it is a foreign accent, it is basically impossible to be an indigenous person in the city, and it is directly pulled away and then identified, if this person has no reasonable reason, then whether he admits it or not, he will be arrested as a rout.

If they say that they are locals or outsiders who come here but refuse to admit that they are Ming soldiers, then they will be interrogated and their family or friends will come to collect them.

This simple means of identification does not dare to say that it can be 100% able to catch all the routed soldiers, but most of them can still be caught, at least some of the fish that have escaped the net, and the Datang Army does not care.

Three days later, the city was cleared, and the detailed results were also counted!

In this battle, excluding the people who transported the baggage in the rear, the army and navy of the Tang Dynasty division participated in the battle with about 30,000 troops.

Not including the two- and three-pound shotguns, about 150 field guns of more than 5 catties were used in the army, and 30 inland river warships of the navy were more than 20 artillery pieces of more than 5 catties.

More than 10,000 rounds of shells of more than five pounds and more than 800 rounds of large-caliber grenades were fired.

Basically, the city wall of Luling City was beaten into ruins, and a large number of buildings in the city, especially in the urban area near the city wall, were damaged!

More than 800 people were killed or missing, and more than 1,000 were wounded, that is to say, the number of casualties was about 2,000, and the casualties were mainly concentrated in the front-line landing troops, including two assault battalions and the assault units of the Fifth Infantry Division, and the artillery also suffered losses in the artillery battle.

As for the cavalry, there were not a single casualty!

And their results are nothing short of brilliant!

More than 50,000 Ming troops in the city were completely annihilated, directly killing more than 6,000 enemy soldiers, wounding countless people, and capturing more than 40,000 people.

Among the more than 50,000 Ming troops who were completely annihilated, there were 5,000 governors and 3,000 border troops!

Well, in fact, the Ming army with the most casualties is also these superintendents and border troops, because they are the main force of the defensive operation at the head of the city, basically many of them suffered heavy casualties at the first time, and it was also because of their heavy casualties, which directly led to the collapse of the Ming army defending the city.

As for the ordinary guards, the proportion of casualties is not large, because although they have a large number of people, they only undertake auxiliary tasks, such as the bloodiest battle at the head of the city, and there is no lack of guards at all, and they ran out as soon as they boarded the city in the assault battalion of the Tang Army.

And the most heroic one who resisted was the Governor!

Identified from the uniforms of the Ming army of the war dead, more than 1,000 people were killed in the battle, but there were only 5,000 people defending the city, that is to say, one-fifth of the 3,000 border troops were directly killed, and if the wounded are counted, more than half of the casualties are probably possible.

Of course, this is related to the fact that they are the front-line troops defending the city and have endured the most fierce firepower in the battle, but their will to resist is still far greater than that of those guards, and it is also related to the border army, if they don't resist desperately, they don't have to kill and wound so many people, I don't see that those guards are still alive and well.

As for the border army, their will to fight is not weak, but the weapons and equipment of these border troops are too poor, and the war basically relies on individual bravery.

In the post-war discussion meeting, Wang Danxu gave a simple ranking of these Ming troops according to this battle: the strongest combat power is the new army of the superintendent, followed by the border army, then the local recruitment, then the ordinary guards, and the second is those who don't even have weapons.

But Wang Danxu said with confidence, and whether it is the new army or the border army, they are all defeated under their Tang Dynasty Wang Division!

He even said wildly that if it was in a frontal field battle, his Fifth Infantry Division could fight against the 50,000-strong superintendent alone!

If you talk about guards, his Fifth Infantry Division can fight 150,000!

Okay, this is pure bragging, and it's a bit too much!

In fact, according to the reports of the middle-level officers on the front line who participated in the battle, almost all of their resistance in this siege battle came from the superintendent and the border army, and among them, the superintendent was the core.

In other words, in fact, they attacked the 8,000 Ming army and the border army with a main force of 30,000!

And in this combat effectiveness, the Tang Army suffered more than 2,000 casualties, and most of the 8,000 Ming troops were killed or wounded!

In terms of battle loss ratio, it is roughly about one to three!

In the past, it was normal to play a 1-7 or even 1-10 battle loss ratio, but now, it can only be played 1-3.

This made Li Chunjing a little worried!

If the Ming army's superintendent and border army had this kind of combat effectiveness, then after they conquered Fuzhou and took Nanchang, I am afraid that the total number of casualties of the second army would exceed 5,000 or even more.

And this is a wound for the Second Army, which has a total strength of only 30,000 troops!

Of course, the 4th Supplementary Brigade with the rear can provide new soldiers, but the combat effectiveness of new recruits and veterans is not the same.

Therefore, after analyzing many battle reports, Li Chunjing did not have the joy of conquering Luling City, but wrote an excerpt in his own hand, which listed in detail the process of the Ji'an Campaign, as well as the comparison of casualties between the enemy and us, and focused on Zhang Yue's supervision, saying that although the department is not as good as our army, it has also learned some fur and is quite combative.

In time, it is possible that this department will be the main enemy of the future Wang Division.

As for those border troops, he doesn't care much, it's just a group of old-style troops, they are already behind the times, and they can't stop the guns even if they have blood, not to mention that their bloodiness is not as strong as the legendary ones, and they are not as good as Zhang Yue's will to fight!

This new army of supervising standards created by Zhang Yue is a hard bone, and if you want to destroy this new army of supervising standards, even if it is a big price, you can't take it lightly.

In addition to reporting on the battle situation, Li Chunjing also focused on mentioning, requesting more heavy howitzer troops!

In this battle, the role played by the heavy howitzer Su was too great, and it was almost irreplaceable, so big that any general of the Tang Army must pay attention to it.