Although before entering Jingzhou, Hong Linquan's premonition was not very good, and he was quite pessimistic about the prospects, but he thought that his more than 10,000 troops and thousands of remnants in the city could fight a battle, even if he could not win, but as long as he rushed into Jingzhou City, it was good.

But what he didn't expect was that the puppet Tang thief army was so sharp, the two sides had just put up a position to fight, and it had not been a few hours before and after, and their own army had already been completely defeated, and the speed of defeat was so fast that the defenders in the city had not had time to go out of the city to attack back and forth.

At this time, he couldn't help but think of what Wei Yan had said at the beginning, and many people laughed at him: Tang thieves are invincible.

Although the pseudo-Tang thief army in front of him is less than 10,000, it is almost 10,000 people, and it is not the slightest power to fight back, only a few hours before and after, to be precise, it is better to really fight than a quarter of an hour, the army is beginning to collapse, even if Hong Lin tries his best to mobilize troops to try to save the front, but this is all useless, and after a quarter of an hour has passed, the whole line is defeated!

Looking at the routs on his side, and looking at the Tang thieves chasing ahead, Hong Lin was full of despair!

He was defeated, not only did he lose the more than 10,000 people on hand, but he also failed to open up the grain route, and the more than 30,000 main forces on the side of Xingquan Mansion would definitely not be able to hold on any longer.

It's over, it's all over.

The army was defeated, and he could imagine his tragic end!

Shangfeng will definitely not bypass him, thief? Don't even think about it, he is from Henan, and his family is in Henan, if he dares to surrender to the thief, it won't be long before his family will be implicated.

In desperation, he slowly pulled out his waist knife, and did not shout loudly that the defeat of this battle was the death of the heavens, but cut directly at his neck!

After this fiasco, he himself categorically had no way to live, and for the sake of his family, the only way he could do now was suicide.

Hong Linquan's self-killing movements were so fast that the soldiers around him didn't react, and the blood on his neck was already spraying high.

Hong Lin is all dead, and he killed himself on the battlefield!

However, at this time, Hong Linquan is not dead, and there is no difference to the rout of the Ming army, because the army has been defeated, and they are all fleeing for their lives, but few people will pay attention to Hong Linquan's life or death.

The main general of one side has already killed himself, while the main general of the other side is looking at the Ming army in front of him with a smile!

This battle was almost a textbook frontal decisive battle, and Chen Keqiao himself did not even show any art of command during the whole process, and the troops fought completely in a step-by-step manner.

Many officers at the regimental and battalion levels did not need to give orders from above, and they had already launched relevant operations.

Because in the Martial Arts Hall and the Imperial Academy, they learned this combat mode, and commanding this kind of formal field decisive battle was almost integrated into their instincts.

"The rest of the pursuit and capture of the defeated soldiers and the cleaning of the battlefield will be left to you!" Chen Keqiao had already turned around at this time and began to walk down the hill watching the battle, and at the same time continued: "I got up a little early today, I am very sleepy, this official has to go back to make up for sleep!" ”

As he spoke, he was still yawning, and the chief of staff beside him asked, "What about Jingzhou City?" ”

Chen Keqiao said: "What's the hurry, I'm afraid that Jingzhou City will not be able to fly away, and the siege of the city will wait for the official to wake up!" ”

After that, Chen Keqiao also ignored them, and went back to the Chinese military camp to sleep on his own, leaving a group of generals under his command a little speechless.

However, Chen Keqiao is now delegating power to them to deal with follow-up matters, which is also a great opportunity for them to be deputy brigade commanders, chief of staff and other people, although the main battle has ended, but there will still be a lot of fragmented battles behind, not to mention anything else, just to pursue the enemy, capture the enemy, and at the same time guard against the Ming army in the city to jump over the wall, these are actually very important.

Anyway, this is also an opportunity to command a large army, which is not usually an opportunity!

Immediately, the brigade commander and chief of staff of the 3rd Infantry Brigade and several regiment commanders discussed and decided to send the 6th Infantry Regiment and the 2nd Cavalry Battalion to continue the pursuit and capture the prisoners.

Although these officers did not have the opportunity to command an army or even a brigade before, these people were all middle and senior officers in the Tang Dynasty's division, and they used to climb all the way up from the position of the chief officer of the regiment commander, battalion commander and other troops, and they were not short to follow Chen Keqiao, Hao Bonian and other senior generals, and they also learned a lot of command art more or less.

Although there were some disputes and uncertainties in the whole process, it still supported the follow-up closing battle.

Chen Keqiao's sleep was a little long, and he slept until near the evening before he got up, and when he got up, he saw a group of subordinates waiting for him.

"Tell me, what's going on in the back?"

Immediately, the crowd answered!

"The thief army in the city has retreated, for the sake of safety, our army has not pursued, and has now re-surrounded the city!"

"The troops who pursued the rout also returned one after another, and they also brought back thousands of prisoners!"

"The battlefield cleaning has also been completed, our wounded have been treated one after another, and the seized materials are being sorted out!"

After hearing this, Chen Keqiao nodded slightly: "Well, it's good, it's good!" ”

Everyone naturally said in unison that they didn't dare to be, and it was so smooth because of your good command, general!

Chen Keqiao was naturally unimpressed by the praise of his subordinates, but quickly asked the question he was most concerned about: "Have the casualties of the enemy or the enemy been reported, and what are the casualties of our army?" ”

Immediately, the chief of staff of the 3rd Infantry Brigade said: "The detailed reports of the various departments have not yet come out, but the approximate data has already come out, although there are some casualties of our army in this battle, they are completely worth it compared to the huge results!"

In this battle, our army not only routed the enemy's strength of 15,000 people, killed at least 2,000 enemy troops, captured at least 5,000 enemy troops, and the remaining enemy troops were only able to disperse and flee, if nothing miracle, these routs of the enemy army were already unable to organize! ”

Compared with an army of 15,000 people, the number of killing and wounding the enemy is not too much, but this battle is not a battle of encirclement and annihilation, but a battle of rout, and this kind of battle is difficult to cause too many casualties among the enemy.

For the cold weapon army, there is not much difference between defeat and annihilation, if the opponent is defeated, then it is difficult for these defeated soldiers to be organized by the other party, many will surrender as prisoners, and those who flee will basically be deserters.

So for this result, Chen Keqiao didn't say anything, which was completely expected.

"In terms of trophies, the trophies captured by our army are mainly the ordnance of the Ming army, and there is very little military rations, and there are not many horses and other livestock!"

Hong Linquan's army already had no food, and even the livestock and horses in those logistics troops were slaughtered a lot as rations, and there was not much left for the Tang Dynasty to capture.

"On the part of our army, the casualties of the various departments were not large, the Third Infantry Brigade and the cavalry, artillery and other regular armies lost about 100 people, the first battalion of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment lost dozens of people, the garrison army lost about 100 people, and the total casualties were about 300 people, of which about 200 were killed and 100 were wounded.

The reason why the number of dead is lower than the number of wounded is naturally because the seriously wounded are basically unable to survive, and most of the wounded counted are lightly wounded who have no worries about their lives.

The Fourth Army paid the price of 300 casualties, routed 15,000 Ming troops, inflicted 2,000 casualties on the Ming army, captured 5,000 people, and scattered the rest.

Although the casualties were not small, considering that the regular army had only lost about 100 people, Chen Keqiao thought that it was still acceptable, after all, today's battle was not an ambush, nor a sneak attack, but a dignified head-on battle.

No matter how strong the combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty King Division is, it is impossible to completely avoid casualties.

It is worth noting that most of these casualties occurred before the full-scale charge, before which the Ming army had also put up fierce resistance, and the main means of resistance were artillery bombardment and archery.

But when the two sides entered the hand-to-hand combat stage, the Ming army collapsed instantly.

When the Tang Dynasty had not yet rushed up, they were still able to fight back with bows and arrows and artillery, but when the Tang Dynasty rushed in front of them, they did not have the courage to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Tang Dynasty.

In fact, this is also a common problem of many ancient armies when facing modern armies.

In the battle of Bali Bridge at the end of the Qing Dynasty in history, the Qing army was not defeated by the guns of the British army, but by the bayonet charge of the British army!

Speaking of the combat effectiveness of hand-to-hand combat, in fact, the modern army is far stronger than the ancient army, and this has little to do with equipment, but is mainly a matter of tactics and combat will.

Modern armies are far more casualty than ancient armies!

"Everyone has worked hard today, have a good rest tonight, there are still a lot of battles waiting for us ahead!" Chen Keqiao did not leave these subordinates to continue to waste time by continuing various discussions, but waved them out.

After everyone went out, Chen Keqiao also walked out of the tent and looked at Jingzhou City in the east by the afterglow of the sunset.

The Ming army in Jingzhou City was obviously frightened, and now it is well guarded, but no matter how tightly guarded, it is only the surface, and the defenders in the city are four or five thousand people, Chen Keqiao even guessed that there are three thousand regular soldiers in the Ming army in the city?

So now he is hesitant to take the opportunity to take down Jingzhou City.