Wuzhou was lost, which cannot be concealed, but at the same time of losing Wuzhou, it was also a great damage to the thief army, and the soldiers of their own side fought very bravely, this is the key point, and it must be mentioned, again and again. Dust? Text ↘? Learn ↓ Net

Then there is another point that must be emphatically mentioned, that is, Wuzhou is surrounded by the enemy, and there is no friendly reinforcement, facing many heavy artillery bombardment of the thief army, 100,000 troops continue to attack, and still hold on for more than a full month, and finally because the ammunition is exhausted, and there is no way to defend, their own army is the initiative to break through.

Therefore, the battle of Wuzhou was not because the defenders were beaten and fled, but in order to preserve the strategic initiative of the living forces, well, the losses in the process of retreat were greater, 20,000 people died in thousands, and only 10,000 people remained.

As for how the 50,000 defenders became 20,000, his first choice was to exclude the young and strong, so that there were 30,000 left, and then put aside some of the old and young in the guard, and the reinforcements in Guangdong were also cut in half, saying that it was 5,000 people, anyway, the court didn't know how many people he Wang Yue had recruited to defend Wuzhou City, so that the Wuzhou garrison was about 20,000 when it was full.

And how did the more than 2,000 people who escaped become 10,000 people, this is simple, round it up, more than 2,000 people have become 3,000! , 3,000 and then round it up, it becomes 5,000, and 5,000 is rounded up a little, isn't it nearly 10,000 people.

As long as it is rounded up a few more times, it is a matter of minutes for more than 2,000 people to become nearly 10,000 people!

Besides, after he entered Guangdong, he immediately searched for Qingzhuang to replenish, and he would be able to pull out a force of 10,000 people again in minutes, and who knows how many of these 10,000 people were withdrawn from Wuzhou and how many were temporarily recruited!

Anyway, the emperor is far away, and it is impossible for those adults in Jingshi to go to Wuzhou in person to inquire about how many people were killed and wounded in the battle of Wuzhou and how many people were evacuated, even if they find out, damn, do you believe Wang Yue, the governor of Liangguang, or believe the gossip outside?

It is also said that the puppet Tang thief army has millions of elite soldiers, do you believe it?

After explaining the situation of the Battle of Wuzhou, the next thing is to say that they will lead the army back to Guangdong, and then use Zhaoqing and the cities along the Xijiang River to resist step by step, while continuing to wait for reinforcements from the imperial court, and prepare to go to Guangzhou to conduct a strategic decisive battle with the thief army, and annihilate the puppet Tang thief army under the city of Guangzhou in one fell swoop!

After he put forward these points, several of his staff began to ponder how to write in detail, word by word.

In order to write this war report, Wang Yue took out all the ends of the examination that year, discussed it with a group of staff members all night, and waited until it was close to dawn to write this war report.

Some of the words in it are estimated to make those who know the real battle situation in Wuzhou drop their jaws when they hear it!

Because there is no shortage of heavy damage, thief, victory, victory and other words, if you don't know people to read, but also think that the battle of Wuzhou Ming army won, this is a report of Wuzhou's victory, although the win is a bit miserable, and for the follow-up overall strategy, but took the initiative to give up Wuzhou.

After such an excerpt was sent, the big guy in the Beijing Division, the supervisor Zhang Yue didn't know if he believed it or not!

Not to mention that Wang Yue fled with the remnants of the defeated generals, and said that on the side of Wuzhou City, Li Xuan was extremely satisfied with the results of this battle because he failed to capture or kill Wang Yue and Wei Yan, the two real senior officials of the Ming Dynasty.

In this battle, since the Western Front took the lead in breaking through and causing the collapse of the Ming army, the Eastern Front also broke through because of the defeat of the Ming Army.

The Ming army in the city was defeated in a hurry, and they left in an even more hurry, and Wang Yue and the others did not have time to order the troops to burn down the warehouse, let alone set fire to the city.

Therefore, after the troops of the Tang Dynasty King Division successfully arrived and took control of the warehouse, all they saw was a pile of grain piled up in many warehouses.

These were the grains that Wang Yue had painstakingly collected from the Liangguang region and prepared for tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Wuzhou City, enough for 100,000 people to eat for half a year.

At the beginning, Wang Yue's plan was to defend it for at least half a year, and whoever thought that Wuzhou City would only hold on for half a month, and if the extra grain was burned, it would naturally be cheaper for the pseudo-Tang thief army.

When Li Xuan, who was outside the city, learned that the troops had seized a large amount of food, the depressed mood just now because Wang Yue and other thousands of Ming troops fled was instantly swept away, and he immediately asked people to send a message to Hao Bonian and other senior generals, tonight he was going to feast the ministers and celebrate the achievements of the soldiers!

Li Xuan was happy, and the generals below him were even happier, winning the battle and capturing so much grain, which at least meant that the troops would not have to be short of food for several months, and they could even support some of the military rations of the Third Army fighting in western Guangxi.

And more importantly, winning the battle means that the battle is a success, after this battle, I am afraid that many people can be promoted again, or even knighted.

Before the war, Li Xuan had already released the news in advance, this battle is related to the rise and fall of the dynasty, if Wuzhou is successfully conquered, I will not hesitate to reward him!

Promotion and knighthood are for sure!

So in the follow-up purge operation, a group of generals worked harder!

Due to the large number of defeated troops in the city, although the Tang Dynasty Wang Division controlled all the city gates and city walls, and also controlled all the main important locations in the city, the work of clearing the remnants of the army was still more troublesome.

In the evening, there were still many Ming troops in the city to resist stubbornly, for the sake of safety, Li Xuan and a group of senior generals did not enter the city as soon as possible, but continued to stay in the camp outside the city.

That night, Li Xuan held a banquet and personally invited meritorious soldiers, and naturally drank and talked during the banquet, because of this banquet, even the post-war statistical work and post-war discussions were moved to the next day!

The next day, after yesterday and night's continuous purge, the stubborn resistance of the Ming army in the city has basically been cleared, and the Tang Wang Division that entered the city has deployed patrol troops at all important nodes, and it has begun to collect the Ming army from house to house.

After the city was breached, the routs of the Ming army always liked to take off their uniforms and hide in the houses, and this kind of thing happened a lot, and the Tang Dynasty Wang Shi also had experience.

All young and strong men are all objects of suspicion, and those who resist slightly are directly killed on the spot as a rout of the Ming army!

After careful identification without resistance, if it is a local ordinary person, it will naturally not be embarrassed, but if it is a rout of the Ming army, it will be taken directly and put into a prisoner of war camp.

Today, the prisoner of war camp set up outside the city has already housed tens of thousands of prisoners of war in just one day, and many more prisoners of war are still being found and thrown into the prisoner of war camp.

In the evening of the next day, the control of the troops entering the city was basically cleared of the Ming army in the city, well, by the way, it was also suppressed and exterminated many green-skinned hooligans who took the opportunity to make trouble, and now in Wuzhou City, the public security situation is good to the highest point in history, and the good thing is that it can't be better.

That night, Li Xuan, who still hadn't entered the city, once again held a strategic meeting in front of the emperor, in addition to listening to the battle report, it was more important to discuss the next battle plan!

Wuzhou has won, but it doesn't mean that the footsteps of the Tang Dynasty will stop!

In the eastern part of Guizhou, 30,000 Ming troops have entered Xingquan Mansion, although there has been no military report for the time being, but it can be guessed that Xingquan Mansion must have fought very hard.

In addition, after going south to Wuzhou, it was also necessary to enter Guangdong along the Xijiang River in the east as soon as possible, and take advantage of the victory to pursue and seize Zhaoqing, Guangzhou, Foshan and other places, so as to avoid the local Ming army gathering a large number of troops to defend Zhaoqing and Guangzhou to avoid another Wuzhou attack.

The Battle of Wuzhou, although the results were high, but the casualties of the Tang Dynasty Wang's division were also quite large, and Wang Yue's excerpt said that there were countless thieves is really not bragging.

The Battle of Wuzhou can be said to be the largest casualty among the many battles experienced by the Tang Dynasty.

Among them, the third garrison brigade was completely disabled, with more than one-third of its personnel reduced, which means that only the third garrison brigade was killed, and the Tang Dynasty division was killed and wounded by 2,000 people!

Combined with the losses of other troops, the number of losses would be extremely large.

So that night, Li Xuan and a group of senior generals listened to Zeng Ziwen, the director of the Operations Department, say that the enemy and us had lost, and they all had calm faces, even when they heard that more than 10,000 Ming troops had been killed, nearly 20,000 people had been captured, and a large amount of food and ordnance had been seized, and even more than a dozen cannons weighing hundreds of kilograms, they couldn't make them smile.

This kind of huge casualties are not only ordinary soldiers, but also the casualties of officers, or the third garrison brigade as an example, the commander of the fifth garrison regiment was killed, the five battalion commanders below were killed and wounded, and the captain was killed six and wounded more than ten people.

Listening to Zeng Ziwen say familiar names one by one killed or wounded, these people couldn't be happy!

Even though he had been mentally prepared, Li Xuan was still shocked when he heard the final casualty figures!

In this battle, the regular army of the Tang Dynasty Division killed more than 1,200 people and slightly injured more than 800 people, and the seriously injured are not counted separately, because most of the seriously injured cannot survive the post-war statistics, so when counting the post-war losses, there are often only battle dead and minor injuries!

The total number of dead and minor wounded in battle was 2,000 casualties in the regular army of all divisions, which is almost several times more than in the usual large-scale battles!

In addition, the casualties of the garrison were even more severe, the 3rd Garrison Brigade was disabled, with 2,000 dead and wounded, and the 5th Garrison Brigade also suffered about 1,000 casualties, and the combined number of the two also killed and wounded more than 3,000 people.

In other words, in this battle, the total casualties of the Tang Dynasty King Division reached more than 5,000 people!