In this battle, the development of the situation was more optimistic than they expected, not only did it take less than two hours to successfully take the city of Lipingfu, but more importantly, the casualties in this battle were extremely limited, the original casualties were the heaviest stage of climbing the city wall, because of the support of artillery and muskets, the casualties of the heavy armor sword and shield soldiers were very few, and the only more casualties were the close combat on the head of the city.

Even if the soldiers who ascended to the top of the city in the early stage were heavily armored sword and shield soldiers, casualties were still inevitable.

But this number is still limited.

As for the purge after entering the city, there were also sporadic casualties, but the overall number was not large.

So much so that after Hao Bonian and the others entered the city, they couldn't help but smile after hearing the preliminary statistics of casualties.

In this battle, the Datang New Army lost less than 20 people and only 50 people were wounded.

This number is almost negligible for a force of more than 4,000 people, especially since they are still fighting a tough battle.

As for the casualties of the Ming army in the city, it was huge, according to the incomplete statistics of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, at least more than 300 Ming troops were annihilated, of which most of the Ming army's casualties occurred in the city, and were killed by the sword and shield soldiers.

Many of the heavily armored sword and shield soldiers who participated in the battle were almost covered in enemy bloodstains, many of them killed more than two enemy soldiers, and some of them were extremely brave and were able to kill and injure more than a dozen enemy soldiers.

The rest of the Ming army either took off their uniforms and fled to the houses in the city, or surrendered on the spot and became prisoners.

In this battle, more than 500 people were captured just by taking prisoners.

After Hao Bonian and Li Chunjing entered the city, they found that the Ming court officials in the city liked to commit suicide just like the officials in Xingquan Mansion.

Many high-ranking officials such as the prefect and Tongzhi committed suicide by various means at the moment of breaking the city, and those who did not commit suicide also made up and fled to the unknown place, while the officials who surrendered were only some low-grade small miscellaneous fish.

This made Hao Bonian quite disappointed, they originally thought that after taking Liping Mansion, they would be able to catch a big official, but they didn't expect to get only their corpses.

Damn, why are these officials of the Ming Dynasty all dead-headed, and they would rather commit suicide than surrender!

Hao Bonian didn't want to think about it, these officials themselves didn't want to commit suicide, but for the sake of the entire family and their teachers and friends, it was absolutely impossible for them to surrender, and they couldn't even abandon the city and escape.

The moment the city was broken, they were left with only one choice, and that was to die in the city, so that they could save the lives of their families.

As for the Surrender Pseudo-Tang Thief Army, don't even think about it.

These officials are all knowledgeable, maybe ordinary country people will think that these pseudo-Tang thief army is very powerful, and they will be attracted by three meals a day to become soldiers, but these officials know that this pseudo-Tang thief army is now more arrogant, but it won't be long before the imperial army comes.

Surrender to the pseudo-Tang thief army and the thief, this is not only to find death, not to mention ruining his own life, but the entire family will be led into the abyss by himself.

Rebellion, that's the crime of the Nine Clans.

They would rather die than bear such a charge!

However, some low-level officials, especially those who are eighth, ninth or even unpopular, do not have too many concerns, many of them are local officials here in Liping Mansion, and their families are here, so surrender will not have much psychological pressure on them.

As for returning to the Tang Dynasty and becoming an official of the Tang Dynasty, it's not that no one did this, someone did it in Xingquan Mansion at the beginning, and naturally someone else did it in Liping Mansion.

So soon after Hao Bonian and they entered the city, they saw seven or eight low-level officials of the Ming Dynasty who had already expressed their intention to submit to the Tang Dynasty.

For these low-level officials of the Ming Dynasty who surrendered, the Tang Dynasty has always held the attitude of using what can be used and kicking aside if they can't be used.

What the Tang Dynasty really needed was the surrender of those high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty, and it was not really because of their excellent ability, but because the surrender of high-ranking officials could bring great political influence, especially the influence of the scholar class.

This point can be directly reflected in how many talents the Tang Dynasty can recruit to work for it.

Although the Tang Dynasty does not need literary Confucianism, and they don't need to do any poetry and articles, the talents that the Tang Dynasty needs must at least be literate.

Whether it is the many civilian officials needed by the cabinet, or the officers needed by the Datang New Army, they are all people who need to read and write a lot.

Although the officers on the side of the Datang New Army are all trained by themselves, but this training must also have a foundation, the martial arts school does not bear the enlightenment education, and the direct teaching is astronomy and geography, the theory of military disciplines, and only when you are literate can you understand and learn.

Therefore, although the Tang Dynasty does not need a large number of small experts in the imperial examination, and does not need those who write good articles, the Tang Dynasty needs a large number of people who are literate and literate, especially young scholars.

And once there are high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty, especially Jinshi officials who are from the orthodox imperial examinations, and they are also high-ranking officials who surrender to the Tang Dynasty, the additional impact is quite large, because the senior civil officials of this era have never represented him alone, there are relatives and friends behind him, as well as classmates and teachers, and behind him is a large group of people.

This also means that the Shilin class will open an opening to the Tang Dynasty, so that the Tang Dynasty will have more reasons and confidence to recruit those young scholars to work for it, and even cause more Ming Dynasty officials to defect in the future.

After all, someone needs to take the lead in saying this kind of thing.

It's a pity that there is not even one person willing to surrender and stand for the Tang Dynasty.

Although Li Xuan also issued some documents in the name of Su Jiakang, trying to create the illusion that Su Jiakang was sincerely committed to the Tang Dynasty, but everyone is not stupid, and it can be guessed from Su Jiakang's non-public appearance, I am afraid that although Su Jiakang was captured, he still did not sincerely surrender.

So much so that many people, especially the scholars in Xingquan Mansion, are waiting!

High-ranking officials would rather die than be captured, let alone take the initiative to surrender, although the remaining few low-level officials took the initiative to surrender, but the effect was not great, so Hao Bonian was too lazy to talk nonsense with them, and promised that as long as they followed the pace of the Tang Dynasty in the future, there would inevitably be some glory and wealth, and these people were sent away.

Of course, the actual benefits will also be given to them, such as promotion!

They may only be officials of the eighth grade, the ninth rank or even the unpopular in the Ming Dynasty, but the Tang Dynasty is very happy to give them a promotion to make a fortune, the eighth grade is promoted to the seventh grade, and even the sixth grade, and the ninth grade is also promoted to the seventh grade.

For example, among the people who surrendered to Cheng, the biggest official position was a Bapin County Cheng, although this person seemed to be reluctant, just to save his own life and his family's life to surrender, but the officials who came with the army were also very generous to promote him to the general judgment of the sixth grade.

made that person unexpectedly at a loss, this surrender was from the eighth grade to the sixth grade, which is the fourth level of official promotion!

Of course, if he knew that in the Tang Dynasty, any person who read and could read and write could easily mix into a six-rank or even five-grade lang, and he didn't know how to feel.

There is nothing else in the Tang Dynasty, that is, there are many official hats, down to the head of the village of Jiupin, up to the second-grade Shangshu and even the cabinet scholars, Li Xuan can come up with a lot of them at any time.

If there are really any talented or politically influential people to take refuge, Li Xuan can immediately throw out a lot of official hats and let you choose.

There are many official hats, just so capricious!