Wei Yan ran away, and before he ran, he committed suicide by diving, but whether he dived or not, Hao Bonian and other Tang generals naturally didn't know.

Standing on the shore and looking at the deserters of the Ming army who had already set sail, Fang Dongquan next to him said: "These puppet Ming thieves still have a lot of ships left, should we also send people on board to pursue them?" ”

Hao Bonian didn't look back, continued to look at the Ming army fleet that was already far from the shore, and said: "We are all landlubbers, and there are not even many people who know how to drive a boat, how can we chase them?" ”

However, at this time, he turned his attention to some of the ships left by the Ming army on the shore, and then said: "But these ships must stay and hand them over to the Logistics Division, and they will also use these ships to transport baggage. ”

At this time, Fang Dongquan also came to his senses, indeed, they are all in the army, although there are some people in the army who know how to swim, but there are few people who know how to drive a boat.

The navy of the Tang Dynasty was naturally only a grass platform team in the early days, and only some small boats were used for training, and the real development was after the army went south to Guangxi.

The people on the navy side also followed the army, established a naval force in the upper reaches of the Liujiang River, collected some large and small ships, and recruited many civilian boatmen to serve as the navy, and now it has also developed to the scale of two or three hundred people, and has more than a dozen large and small ships under its jurisdiction.

Of course, these ships were all small-tonnage river vessels, and the Admiralty only installed 150-pound shotguns used by the army as naval guns in three or five of the larger ships.

Nowadays, these naval vessels are mainly responsible for escorting logistics and transportation troops, especially in this section of the river in the capital city of Liuzhou, which needs to be escorted by armed ships.

There are also many people in the Logistics Department who know how to steer boats, but these people do not directly belong to the military of the Tang Army, but civilian boatmen temporarily recruited by the military.

Nowadays, the army needs a lot of baggage to go south, and there is a river like Liujiang along the way that can be used for transportation, so the logistics department has collected a lot of civilian ships to transport logistics materials.

At this time, Hao Bonian had already taken his eyes back from the riverside, and then urged the horses under his crotch to go back, and at the same time said to his subordinates: "Let the sons and daughters work harder, clean up the battlefield as soon as possible, rest the camp, and then station on the spot, and those prisoners should also be sorted out as soon as possible and then handed over to the Recruitment Department of the Ministry of War!" We'll spend the night here tonight! ”

This place is just stuck in the lower reaches of the Liujiang River, and he can be stationed in the same way as in Wangyunxi, intercepting and blocking the Ming army from going north along the river, this section of the Liujiang River is only a few hundred meters, and it is completely within the effective range of its own artillery.

If there are more ships of the Ming army, he can also set fire to the boats upstream and go downstream.

Even if you don't have a naval division unit, it is a very simple matter for the current Tang Army to block this section of the river.

However, it is fortunate to say that because the artillery strength of the Ming army on the Liucheng side is not strong, and the heavy artillery troops on their side have also carried out a key bombardment of their artillery before, and now the Ming army on the Liucheng side has no artillery with a range of more than 100 meters to block the river.

The Ming army in the city also tried to arrange iron cables on the river at the edge of the city, but each time it failed, because the Ming army in the city did not dare to send a large number of troops out, and sent two troops of no more than 100 people to try to attack the transport fleet of the Tang Dynasty's division, but the Tang Army not only has a garrison outside the city, but also a very small naval force is mainly stationed here.

Five ships loaded with shotguns were enough to make the small group of Ming troops in the city dare not act rashly, but every time the fleet passed, they had to be cautious, generally taking advantage of the night to pass, so as not to rush the Ming army in the city to jump over the wall and send a large number of troops, and even move some of the remaining bowl guns in the city to the river to attack the transport fleet.

Therefore, this section of ship transportation can only be an emergency, and it cannot go on like this for a long time, otherwise, something will happen sooner or later.

Therefore, this Liuzhou City still needs to be taken as soon as possible!

After killing the Ming army that came to reinforce Liuzhou City, he had to consider leading the army back to the north, and then taking Liuzhou City, so that he could continue to move south and east with peace of mind, otherwise the Ming army in Liuzhou City would always be stuck in his throat like a fish bone.

Of course, this is all a follow-up matter, and his goal in a short period of time is to intercept the reinforcements of the Ming army, but I don't know if the follow-up Ming army will come after this fiasco, maybe they dare not continue to go north.

Hao Bonian was not a general of the Ming army, so he didn't know what the generals of the Ming army, especially the high-level generals of the Ming army, such as Wei Yan, the governor of Guangxi, Wang Yue, the governor of Liangguang, and others thought about it, so he was going to stay here for a few days and send scouts to find out the news.

If the army does not dare to come, then the Liuzhou City side cannot continue to drag on, take Liuzhou City, and then welcome the holy car to the south!

If they do not return north in a short period of time, these captured ships will be supplemented by the Navy and the Logistics Division, which can appropriately alleviate the pressure on inland river logistics and transportation.

After the order, Hao Bonian, like Wei Yan at the beginning, chose to stay in the Anjia Courtyard, and convened the operational staff officers to continue to discuss the military situation.

At the same time, they waited for the troops to clean up the battlefield, and then held a routine post-war meeting in the evening.

On that day, the southbound troops spent their time cleaning up the battlefield and dealing with prisoners of war, which were busier and more complicated than during the previous battles.

By the evening, the aftermath had finally been dealt with, the battlefield had been cleaned up, the war dead had been hastily covered up, their own wounded had been treated, the spoils of war had been collected and disposed of in a unified manner, and the prisoners of war had been concentrated and had begun to be processed.

At this time, Hao Bonian finally got the details of the homeopathic situation of this war.

The battle report was explained by Lieutenant Colonel Li Xin, chief of staff of the First Infantry Brigade, to Hao Bonian and everyone!

"In today's battle, our army's losses are not large, there are no casualties among colonel-level officers, three officers at the lieutenant level are killed and eight are wounded, and 80 non-commissioned officers are killed and 156 are wounded!" When Li Xin said this, his expression did not show any sadness.

Because this loss is nothing to the southbound army of nearly 10,000 people, and even more so to a big battle that has routed 8,000 enemy troops!

"In addition to the loss of personnel, the loss of ordnance and equipment in other aspects of our army is not large!"

Compared with the losses of the Tang Army, its results are huge!

"At present, the results of the battle have been counted, in today's battle, our army killed a total of 1,200 enemy soldiers and captured 3,600 enemy soldiers! There were about 2,000 Ming troops who fled by boat, and the rest of the Ming troops scattered and fled without a trace, but these scattered and fleeing Ming troops have completely lost their organization and will not be able to pose any effective threat to our army for a period of time in the future! ”

The reason why it was able to kill and wound so many enemy troops and capture so many prisoners of war was purely because the Ming army retreated by itself, and then in the process of retreat, it was pursued and killed by the second cavalry battalion of the Tang Army, and at least one-third of the results here were caused by cavalry!

The cavalry in the second cavalry battalion, basically everyone's sabers were stained with blood!

At the same time, it is also related to the chaos that occurred when the Ming army retreated, and many prisoners of war were unable to run to the river to get on the boat, and then were intercepted by the second cavalry battalion before being captured.

The Ming army was defeated, and the large amount of baggage and equipment they carried was naturally discarded if they could be discarded, and those that could not be abandoned were also abandoned, so the Tang Army captured in this battle was also quite rich.

"In this battle, our army captured a large amount of booty from the Ming army, including 2,000 stone of grain, which was enough for tens of thousands of troops to eat for more than ten days, in addition to a large number of weapons!

Among them, there are 26 large and small bowl guns, but after inspection, most of them are bowl guns below 100 catties, only six above 100 catties, of which only four are of good quality, according to the opinion of the Ordnance Division, these four 100 catties of bowl cannons can be temporarily allocated to the fifth garrison regiment, and most of the rest of the bowl guns have no use value, and can only be recast! ”

"In addition, there are three hundred bows and arrows that are in good working condition, two hundred sets of armor, and four or five thousand cold weapons such as swords and spears."

"In this battle, we did not capture many horses and livestock, only more than ten horses for riding, and only 100 animals such as horses for service, this is because this time the puppet Ming thief army went north by boat, and did not carry a large number of livestock for transporting baggage, not only that, but there are not many people in their army who are even used to transport materials!"

"All the above-mentioned seized materials have been transferred to the colleagues of the Ordnance Department, but the colleagues of the Ordnance Department have promised to select high-quality weapons from this batch of materials to supplement and replace our department! The remainder will be transported north and handed over to the newly prepared 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Garrison Regiment! ”

"At the same time, the surrenderers of these prisoners of war will also give priority to replenishing our 1st Infantry Brigade and 3rd Garrison Brigade, and the remaining part will be used to form the 8th Garrison Regiment!"

At this time, Hao Bonian said: "Has the holy decree for the formation of the Seventh Infantry Regiment come down?" ”

At this time, Li Xin said excitedly: "Yes, according to the news from Xingquan Mansion, Your Majesty has officially ordered the formation of the Seventh Infantry Regiment and the Eighth Infantry Regiment, and at the same time, the Eighth Garrison Regiment, the Ninth Garrison Regiment, and the Tenth Garrison Regiment have been ordered.

I believe that it will not be long before our Datang Wang Division will add two new infantry brigades and two garrison brigades, and expand the army by four brigades at one time, which is equivalent to the strength of our army is about to double! ”