In the afternoon of the same day, Li Zicheng gathered all the important generals under him, and the general Liu Zongmin briefed them on the latest information.

"Ladies and gentlemen, according to our intelligence, this battle has suffered a big loss." Liu Zongmin said with a smile on his face, "Our cavalry found Jianxin, and now they look miserable, a team of tens of thousands of people, and now there are thousands of people left in the big fish and small shrimp." In the short term, we don't have to worry about the construction of the gill! ”

"General, how is the Ming army?" A general asked.

Liu Zongmin turned his head to look, but it was Tang Tong. So he said: "Old Tang, do you think, after so many years, when have you ever fought such a defeat?" Hehe, when will the puppet army face Shang Jianxuan, and it will not be defeated? Even if it is the strongest Ming army, it will not work against Shang Jianxuan. That's why there is a saying that 'the Jurchen is not satisfied with 10,000, and 10,000 are invincible'. Now that this Ming army can defeat Jianyan, how easy is it to say, do you still want to be undamaged? However, they finally won and controlled the battlefield, and their own wounded soldiers could be saved, and everyone was old in the war, so they naturally knew that when there were the most dead in this battle, it was generally not when they were chopping, but when they were running and chasing, so their casualties were naturally smaller. However, the remaining 30,000 people they have now will definitely be able to fight less than 5,000. ”

Of course, this information was compiled by Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin to deceive those demoted generals. However, as experts in fighting old battles, the results they made up are also very reasonable.

"Really?" Tang Tong jumped up, "Your Majesty, let's hurry up and send troops, while they are broken, let's fight them, what is this called fighting, what is profit?" ”

"Yes!" Dang Shousu also jumped up, "Your Majesty, that Ming army should already be the last army that can fight in the Pseudo-Ming." We took advantage of the opportunity of them and Jianxuan to defeat both sides and destroy them, and the pseudo-Ming will have no chance to turn the sky upside down! ”

"That's right, Your Majesty, we're going to send troops to destroy them!"

"Your Majesty, we have to do it quickly, if we do it slowly, these Ming troops will be difficult to deal with if they retreat back into the city!"

The other generals also clamored.

In the midst of this fight, Li Zicheng slowly stood up and said, "Ministers, pacify the world, just today!" I decided to go on a personal expedition and personally wipe out this Ming army! Liu Zongmin! ”

Liu Zongmin immediately stood up and said, "The end will be!" ”

"I order you to be the vanguard, give you 20,000 troops, and set off early tomorrow morning, on the fifth watch. Hurry eastward, catch up with the Ming army, and hold them back. I will leave tomorrow with a large army, and I must not let them escape back......"

Li Zicheng arranged for the dispatch of troops tomorrow, and the generals listened to the orders one by one.

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"Head of the house? So, isn't the Ming army dangerous? What is the head of the house going to do? A family member said to Jiang Xuan.

"Wang Shi's defeat of Jianxuan is really remarkable." Jiang Hao said, "But after such a big battle, I'm afraid that the loss is indeed not small." Pingfu, I have something to do for you. ”

"The head of the house, but he commands." That guy hugged his fists.

"I have prepared a horse for you," Jiang Hao said, "Tonight you go to the east overnight, find the army of Wang Shi, and report to Zheng Shuai that the Shun army will send troops to attack them tomorrow." Now there are a lot of scouts in the Shun army outside the city, so you must be careful along the way. ”

The family named "Pingfu" hugged his fists and said: "Don't worry, the villain knows." ”

Jiang Hao estimated that after a battle with Jianxuan, the Ming army, which had suffered a lot of losses, must be retreating, and they should not have the strength to come to Beijing in a short time. However, he also knew that Jingshi would not be able to hold on without the support of Cao Yun. Sooner or later, the Shun army will have to retreat. He told Zheng Sen about the movements of the Shun army at this time, maybe he could let Zheng Sen avoid greater losses, which could be regarded as a good fate with Zheng Shuai, and it would be easy to talk about anything in the future.

Early the next morning, before dawn, the Guangqu Gate was opened, and then the soldiers and horses of the brigade left the Guangqu Gate under the leadership of Liu Zongmin and went to the east. When Liu Zongmin's army left the city, it didn't take long for Li Zicheng to personally lead tens of thousands of troops out of Guangqumen.

Liu Zongmin walked out of Guangqumen and walked six or seven miles to the east. Seeing that Beijing City was no longer visible, Liu Zongmin asked the army to stop.

After waiting for about half an hour, Li Zicheng's army followed. When the two joined forces, they turned south......

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At this time, the sun is already very high. Jiang Pingfu swallowed the dry food he was carrying, then took out the bamboo tube he was carrying, pulled out the stopper, and drank some water. Then he stuffed the bamboo tube, got on his horse again, and continued to walk eastward. However, the experienced Jiang Pingfu gradually found that the situation did not seem right.

According to the general truth, if Li Zicheng really wants to make a move against the Ming army, then there should be a lot of Shun army scouts on this road, but along the way, Jiang Pingfu did not encounter even a single cavalry of the Shun army.

"Isn't that right?" Jiang Pingfu thought, "Why is this happening?" It stands to reason that after the Battle of Tongzhou, the Ming army retreated to Jinghai, it must have gone in this direction? ”

However, Jiang Pingfu continued to rush in the direction of Jinghai, and in the afternoon, he finally caught up with the convoy of the model army from Tongzhou to Jinghai.

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After the war, Zheng Sen gathered his army. There were also hundreds of casualties in this model army, but there were not many casualties, only about 100 people, and most of the rest of the wounded were lightly wounded. If these lightly wounded were ordinary Ming soldiers, or Shun troops or even Qing soldiers, many of them would also die from wound infections after being wounded. However, in the model army, they are much better taken care of than other armies.

There is a special medical battalion in the model army, and the wounded soldiers are sent here for initial treatment. The medics first washed the wounds of the wounded soldiers with salt water, then with spirits, then smeared them with honey, boiled them in boiling water, and then wrapped them in white gauze dried in the sun. Honey is a natural antibiotic that is applied to wounds and is a great help in avoiding wound infections. The disinfection of salt water and spirits, coupled with the disinfection of white gauze, this series of measures can be said to be the best anti-infection measures that can be done in this era.

However, the effect of this is also obvious, the wounded in the Model Army have far fewer wound infections than in other armies, and even fewer deaths from diseases such as sepsis from wound infections. The lower mortality rate of wounded soldiers not only makes it easier for the army to have more veterans, but also greatly improves the morale of the army.

Most of the lightly wounded, after this type of treatment, can even continue to follow the army. However, this is not the case with some of the more seriously injured who have undergone initial treatment by the medical battalion and are sent back to the rear for further treatment. Most of these people, if they were in other armies, would have little hope of surviving. Even in the Model Army, who survived with better medical care, it is unlikely that they will ever return to serve in the military. However, in Zheng Sen's view, these soldiers who came down from the battlefield were still valuable assets, they could serve as various grassroots managers, and the preferential treatment they received also boosted the morale of the army.

So these seriously wounded will be brought back to Jinghai by the returning supply convoy, where the seriously injured can be better cared for. The convoy that Jiang Pingfu encountered was like this, a convoy transporting the seriously wounded.