The battle lasted less than an hour, and nearly 70,000 troops quickly defeated the remnants of the recalcitrant army that went to Europe with their absolute superiority and sophisticated firearms, and basically killed the Qing soldiers in the city, regardless of whether they were Manchurian, Han, Eight Banners, Green Battalion, or Family.

Under the protection of hundreds of Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners and Han Eight Banners, Meile Zhangjing Zhuo Luo broke out of the city from the east gate in embarrassment, and more than 3,000 Ming army knights (the main force is Yuan Zongdi and Gao Yigong, Hao Shaoqi Department Cavalry) to chase with all their might, Zhuo Luo, who was wounded in several wounds, saw that he could not get out, and showed the true colors of the Manchurians' barbaric madness, his eyes were bloodshot, his face was hideous, with a ruthless force, leading the remaining Eight Banners to fight hard with the pursuing Ming soldiers.

In the face of this group of outlaws with archery skills, superb riding skills, and trapped beasts, although the knights of the Ming army had an absolute numerical advantage with more fights and fewer horses, they still intercepted and annihilated them all at the cost of four or five hundred casualties.

Hao Shaoqi is a reckless man, angrily ordered his own soldiers to pick out Zhuo Luo's corpse from the corpse pile, after the corpse was carried out in front of him by the soldiers, Hao Shaoqi hated this dying counterattack, killing and injuring several hundreds of personal soldiers, and even scolded at his corpse, pulled out his waist knife, and cut off his head with a knife, and then ordered his personal soldiers and knights to ride their horses and step on Zhuo Luo's headless corpse until the corpse was trampled into flesh to vent the resentment in his heart.

With the capture of Yiyang, the Battle of Huguang temporarily came to an end, and all that remained was to collect prisoners, clean up the battlefield and pursue the remnants of the enemy.

In the temporary marshal hall in Yiyang City, Zhu Youlang sat on a chair behind the desk, his face was radiant, his eyes were blazing, and his handsome and fair face did not lose the majesty of the emperor.

Both sides of the handsome hall are full of civil and military ministers who accompany the expedition, although they are full of gunsmoke and dust, but they are all smiling, this battle is a great victory for their own army, they have more or less achieved a lot of merits, the Son of Heaven has always rewarded and punished fairly, and the reward for meritorious deeds must be indispensable to their benefits.

The Son of Heaven drove to Huguang in person, and Yiyang fought a battle, but he didn't expect to defeat more than 40,000 Tartars in a battle, including more than 4,000 true Tartars! Since the rise of the dynasty, there has never been such a great victory, and the generals are excited and joyful at the same time, and at the same time, they have a lot of emotion.

In particular, the generals who broke into the camp such as Yuan Zongdi, Gao Yigong, Hao Shaoqi and other generals, and the combat power of the Ming Imperial Camp and the pro-army left a deep impression on them.

powerful artillery; sophisticated and sharp firearms; Disciplined, forbidden pawns. Just one battle gave too much surprise and shock to Gao Yigong, Yuan Zongdi and other generals, subverting the perception of the combat power of the old Ming army in their minds.

"Disciplined, sharp firearms, can be called the division of tigers and wolves!"

After a long time on the battlefield, they can easily judge that this is an army completely different from the old army full of twilight, they have no bad rules and bad habits, strict discipline, high morale, full of vitality, can train such a strong army of the great tomorrow, obviously not idle people, the emperor in this local battle showed composure and calm, but also side confirmed that their guess is correct.

"It is worthy of being the descendant of Emperor Taizu Gao, is it really that the heavens are not tired of Ming?"

Yuan Zongdi stood in the bright hall, the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he unconsciously felt a trace of fear, some subtle thoughts born when the governor of Huguang blocked Yinxi forcibly ordered the reorganization of his troops a few months ago, after seeing the combat power of the imperial camp, were gradually blown away by the wind. Although his ability to command the army is not very strong, his vision is not bad.

The imperial court already has tens of thousands of such an army, and if it can train tens of thousands more in the future, there are 100,000 imperial battalion soldiers, and it may not be impossible to compete with the Manchurian Tartars.

When it really comes, the troops of the two Tartars of King Sanshun will definitely not be enough to fight, and they will be finished sooner or later.

It's just that I don't know which one is stronger or weaker after the main force of the real Tartars, if we can really block those true Tartars, recover the southern capital, and rule the river, even the Northern Expedition to Zhongxing may not be able to be realized! It seems that there is still a future for following such a court mix, and Yuan Zongdi secretly admired his wise choice at the beginning.

With Yuan Zongdi, there are also Gao Yigong, Hao Shaoqi and others, they are not blind, the powerful combat power of the imperial camp pro-army has been vividly demonstrated in this field battle, as evidenced by the collapse of the whole army by the two Tartars of King Sanshun by firearms.

After all the generals withdrew from the hall, Wu Jihe, the general of the imperial camp, reported to the emperor the casualties and captures of the army alone, which Zhu Youlang had specially instructed in advance, in order to facilitate the deployment of troops and the reorganization of troops and horses.

"In this battle, our army suffered more than 3,400 foot soldiers, more than 3,200 cavalry soldiers, captured more than 460 Tartar soldiers, cut more than 18,600 Tartar heads, more than 1,200 true Tartar heads, captured more than 3,200 pairs of iron armor, about 5,000 pairs of leather armor and cotton armor, 28 large and small red Yi cannons, more than 50 tiger squat cannons, more than 2,860 fine bird guns, other waist knives, shields, bows and crossbows, gunpowder, helmets, spears, tiger guns, pick knives, horse forks, etc. There were more than 4,400 mules and horses. ”

After Wu Jisi reported the casualties of both the enemy and us, he listed the captured booty one by one.

Most of the captured iron armor, fine bird guns and war horses were scraped from the casualties of the Dongjiang soldiers and the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banner soldiers, and the elite of the Dongjiang infantry cavalry of the Sanshun King in this battle killed at least 4,000 people and horses, which was already a wound for the Sanshun King who had a total of less than 20,000 Dongjiang soldiers.

Coupled with the casualties in the previous battles of Changde and Yingtianguan, the total number of dead is not 10,000, but 6 or 7,000.

The old book brought by the king of Sanshun from Liaodong was completely disabled in only three battles, and there would definitely be no power to invade the south for a while, if there were not those thousands of elite soldiers who were good at cavalry warfare and field battles to help defend Yuezhou, Kong Youde would probably have trouble sleeping next.

In addition to the huge amount of equipment captured, the biggest harvest was the heads of more than 1,200 true tartars, as well as dozens of heads of middle-class and high-ranking Manchurian and Mongolian generals, including Mel Zhangjing Zhuoluo and third-class Jiala Zhangjing Mude.

Since the Chongzhen Dynasty fought against the slaves, the Ming army will be defeated in every battle, not to mention the capture of the head of the Tartar, it is a fluke to be able to keep his head from being cut off by the Tartar.

In the battle of Ningyuan, Yuan Chonghuan only captured the heads of more than 200 Tartars (most of them were Oroqen, Xibe, Evenki, Sauron, Daur and other foreign armored slaves, and the heads of the true Tartars may be less than a hundred), so he exposed all the way and reported to Chongzhen, claiming to be a great victory!

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen's pro-government, the Ming army and Jiannu clashed dozens of times, fought countless defeats, and after one defeat after another, the Ming army almost reached the level of talking about the Tartar color! All of them have a phobia of tartar.

In the battle of Yiyang, Li Dingguo's partial division really killed about 1,000 real Tartars at the cost of the lives of four or five thousand cavalry soldiers, although the price was heavy, but the harvest was amazing!

The Eight Banners of Manchuria, Mongolia and Mongolia combined, not counting the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty and the foreign people in armor, gathered a total of 80,000 or 90,000 living forces, one less if one dies, one less strength, they can't afford to die!

This kind of harvest is not only reflected in the material level, but also on the spiritual level, the gentry and the common people do not care what a heavy price the court paid for killing more than a thousand Tartars, they only know that the court soldiers and horses have killed a lot of Tartars who make them hateful!

As long as Zhu Youlang spreads the results of this battle, it will certainly greatly boost the morale of the people in the northern and southern provinces and the morale of the anti-Tartar rebels, weaken their fear of Tartar, help enhance the centripetal force of the Ming regime, unite the military and the people, and bring the anti-Tartar struggle into a new climax!

Once there are uprisings everywhere in the north and south, the Tartars will passively fall into the vast sea of the people's war, divide troops everywhere, extinguish fires everywhere, Zhu Youlang's side can virtually reduce a lot of military pressure, can spare more time to farm and riot troops, and accumulate economic and military strength, what he lacks most now is time!

This kind of change in people's hearts is often inadvertent, and can play an immeasurable role!