With a steady stream of Qin soldiers pouring into Jinling City, after a not too fierce battle, Jinling City fell into the hands of the Qin army.

In the ensuing process of captive screening, Luo Kedi, the Jinling garrison general disguised as an ordinary person, was identified by other soldiers of the Dashun Army and captured by the Qin army.

At this point, the entire Jinling City completely fell into the hands of the Qin army, which lasted less than four days in total.

Originally, there were about 80,000 Dashun troops defending the city.

About 10,000 people were killed by the Qin army during the battle, and all but a few escaped, and all the rest were taken prisoner.

If we do not count the casualties of the Mongol and Korean servant armies and the local armed forces attached to them during the tentative attack on the first day of the siege, the total casualties of the Qin army headquarters during the entire four-day siege were less than 1,000, of which more than 300 were killed.

This figure is even lower than the total number of people killed in the battle between the Qin army's firearms units and the British mercenaries.

And judging by the strength of both sides. There were no surprises in the recovery of Jinling City.

Therefore, this result did not let Di Qing and Qin Jun drive. Feel excited. On the contrary, they harbored anger and solemnity in their hearts.

In the land of the Ming Dynasty, there was an army of different races, and it was also a pure firearms unit equipped with the same equipment as the Qin army, which was a signal in itself.

This means that in today's chaotic situation, another variable has been added.

Therefore, after the capture of Jinling City, Di Qing calmed the hearts of the people on the one hand and reorganized the city defense, while on the other hand, Bai Jinxiu and the people from Hei Bingtai stepped up their interrogation of Luo Kedi and others.

In the past, everyone fought for the world, and it was all between Han people, but now the Dashun army has introduced a foreign army, which is very despicable and angry.

Therefore, the people of the Black Ice Platform were not polite to Luo Kedi, and used all the means they could use on him.

And there are very few real tough guys in this world, and Luo Kedi didn't last long before he confessed everything he knew.

According to the information confessed by Luo Ke's enemy, as well as the traces left by the British mercenaries before, the Black Ice Platform and the Qin Army were dispatched at the same time to search for the traces of the British mercenaries.

On the other hand, Di Qing collected this information

After that, he quickly sent someone to report to Hu Zongxian and Jiang Chuan in the capital.

After the capture of Jinling City, it had a huge impact on the situation in the entire south of the Yangtze River.

The large and small cities around Jinling City surrendered one after another, and some cities even killed the officials and guards sent by the Dashun Army and took the initiative to announce their recovery.

With the power of Jinling City's recovery, half a month later, the entire Nanzhili region, including the eastern part of Yuzhou, and even the northern part of Huguang, was fully recovered, and became the sphere of influence of the Qin army.

The Dashun army was defeated for thousands of miles, and there were surrenders to the Qin army every day. Moreover, various non-governmental township organizations have also sprung up one after another to expel the local Dashun army forces.

In the official language of later history books, it was the resurgence of feudal conservative forces and the great defeat of the peasant rebel army.

It's just that the hat of the leader of the feudal conservative forces here is worn on Jiang Chuan's head.

Jiang Chuan was also shocked after receiving the reports from Di Qing and Hu Zongxian.

Although he had always regarded the British as his worst enemy, he was not ready to go to war with the British at present.

It's a pity that the sky often doesn't fulfill people's wishes, and I didn't expect to be on the same page with the British so quickly.

Although the news and the form of the battlefield at that time showed that the enemy this time was a British mercenary, and there was no idea of fighting a tough battle.

The two sides fought an encounter, and although the opponent suffered more losses than his own, he was still surprised by the equipment and combat skills of the British.

If it weren't for the sharper artillery fire on their own, the outcome of this battle would not be so optimistic.

It can be seen from this incident that Britain has already attempted to get involved in this continent.

The appearance of this mercenary army is just the beginning.

Or to be precise, just a temptation.

If you want to give yourself more time to prepare, then this time you must completely hurt the British, so that they will not dare to covet it again in a short time.

Jiang Chuan quickly wrote a reply letter to Hu Zongxian and Di Qing, telling them that on the one hand, they should continue to strengthen the offensive against the Dashun army and speed up the recovery of Jiangnan and the Central Plains.

On the other hand, it is necessary to assist the Black Ice Platform to step up the search for the traces of the British mercenary, and after finding it, send troops to stick to the other party as soon as possible.

If you can, be sure to besiege the other party.

On the other hand, Jiang Chuan ordered Deng Shichang, the commander of the naval division, to lead the main force of the naval division to the south and march towards the vicinity of Quanzhou Port.

This British mercenary army landed from the sea, then there must have been a fleet carrying them at sea, and this fleet was most likely from the British Navy.

If the siege had been carried out by land alone, it would have been highly likely that the British would have fled to sea.

By that time, the Army would simply not have been able to keep them without the help of the Mariners.

On the other hand, Jiang Chuan ordered the New First Army to speed up the pace of training.

He originally left a year for the final formation of the New First Army, but now it seems that there is no more than a year.

Even if this time it hurts the British, so that they will not dare to invade this continent again for a short time.

But a powerful empire is certainly not willing to sink in the sand on a chaotic continent, and will definitely come to take revenge.

If the British come again, whether in terms of troops or weapons and equipment, they will definitely greatly surpass this time, so Egawa must take precautions and prepare for a large-scale invasion by the British.

At present, the New First Army is still in the period of training new recruits, and it has not formed combat effectiveness at all.

If you pull it out to fight at this time, it will definitely outweigh the losses.

As far as Jiang Chuan is concerned, and for the entire Qin army, the new First Army is a testing ground for future military innovation, which must be carefully cultivated, not casually pulled out to be cannon fodder.

At present, in addition to the new first army, the other two firearms units of the Qin army are 10,000 people under Di Qing and 5,000 people under Bai Shan.

And the two firearms units under Di Qing and Bai Shan have not yet begun to be reorganized.

All the tactics and skills suitable for firearms warfare were not trained, so although they were nominally fire-gas troops, the level of tactical thinking and training was basically equivalent to that of an army during the period of alternating hot and cold weapons.

This level is obviously quite far from the level of the most advanced troops in the world, as evidenced by the results of this encounter with British mercenaries.

The training of troops cannot be achieved overnight, so after careful consideration, Jiang Chuan decided to strengthen the firepower of the Qin army's artillery units, and use the advantages in artillery to make up for the lack of training level and tactics.