By the time Shi Dakai came to the Volga, the battle was over.

Because the 60,000 cavalry in the early stage transferred most of the fleet of the Russian inland water division on the Volga River to the upper reaches, and the remaining sailor ships were all used to transport the fleeing Russian officers and their cronies to cross the river and flee to the city of Astrakhan on the other side. They had to jump into the river one after another, but even though they were swept into the river, they were never heard from again.

Soon, the staff Tao Jintang and Shi Mingkai had already counted the results of the war, of course, because the time was very short, they only made a rough estimate and immediately reported it to the righteous king Shi Dakai to know.

The Russian army's Caucasian Corps of 40,000 and Yergeny Corps of 50,000, as well as 2,500 inland water divisions and scattered local militias around a total of nearly 6,000 people, in addition to the river division and the nearly 1,000 officers of the two legions who escaped by boat, those local militias have long been dispersed, and the 90,000 soldiers of these entire two legions have been wiped out!

Tao Jintang said excitedly: "King Yi, great victory, great victory!"

Although we dispatched a total of 250,000 troops this time, in fact, 60,000 cavalry did not participate in the battle, and tens of thousands of coerced troops only followed the rear to help the battle, and did not actually participate in the battle, so in fact, it was not the 250,000 combined army that defeated the 90,000 troops of the Russian army, but the 150,000 combined army defeated the 90,000 troops of the Russian army, and it was a total annihilation.

It is estimated that a total of 55,000 Russian troops were killed, more than 24,000 Russian troops were wounded and captured, and more than 10,000 people either jumped into the Volga River or were killed on the banks of the Volga River, and were swept away by the river and disappeared.

Our side only lost less than 5,000 people, of which more than 3,000 were wounded by the Russian army when the Sikh army rushed too hard, and a small number of Bengali troops and Kazakh troops were more than 1,000 people, while our field regiment only had more than 300 wounded, including more than 30 artillerymen who fired too hard and sprained their ...... waist."

Tao Jintang, who has always been calm, was extremely excited today because of the great victory after the total annihilation of the Russian army, and in the end, he was a little excited and incoherent.

Shi Dakai naturally understood his excitement. In fact, he himself was very excited!

This is different from the sense of accomplishment of defeating the Manchu army at home in the past, this is still the defeat of Tsarist Lao Maozi, this feeling is completely different. Now that he has stepped out of the limited world in which he originally lived, Shi Dakai naturally understands how vast the world is, and the Tsarist army is one of the few land powers in this vast world.

All along, only Tsarist Russia, through their powerful and brutal army, conquered the territory of other countries and plundered the wealth of other countries. But this time, this powerful field army in Tsarist Russia was defeated by the combined army led by himself, which cannot but be said to be a huge credit to himself. In fact, in addition to those troops of the coercive country, the officers and men of their own field army, in fact, are only 6 divisions with a total of more than 60,000 people.

Although he was outnumbered, on the one hand, he actually led 60,000 field troops and defeated the 90,000-strong Tsarist Russian army, and he was completely annihilated.

In the past, fighting against the corrupt Manchu army, before killing thousands of its people, tens of thousands of troops fled or surrendered, even if the Manchu army was defeated, there was not much sense of achievement, but now it is different, this time it is to defeat the brave Tsarist army, through this war, Shi Dakai has understood the combat strength of his Chinese Imperial Field Army, and it can be said that he is no longer afraid of any country in the world.

Although Shi Dakai also knew that this mainly relied on the sophisticated and powerful weapons and equipment of the Chinese Empire, even so, it was the advantage of the Chinese Empire.

In fact, for this war, Shi Dakai didn't expect that he could do this. He also knew very well that the main reason for this great victory was not how well he commanded, nor how well-trained the officers and men of the captured army were, nor how bravely those coerced soldiers fought bravely without fear of death, but purely because the weapons of his own army were more advanced! In particular, the artillery power of the artillery division has reached the point where the enemy is in pain!

He somewhat understood what Emperor Feng Yunshan said: "The future war will be dominated by artillery!" A general who does not use artillery is certainly not a general who wins a big battle. He was ready to write a letter to the emperor immediately to report the victory, not only to report the situation of the battle, but also to suggest to the emperor that the field corps in the future could increase by one artillery division, to the extent that each field corps was equipped with two artillery divisions. Although it may be necessary to manufacture a large number of artillery pieces and require a lot of money, in this case, the future frontal war against such a European power will be completely under the control of one's own side.

"By the way, King Yi, what about the nearly 24,000 captives?" Shi Mingkai on the side didn't notice that the two of them were intoxicated with the joy of the victory, and asked heartlessly.

Shi Dakai came back to his senses and sighed: "I wanted to use the hands of those coerced servants to kill all these Russian troops, but I didn't expect that those Sikhs in the back would also learn to be obedient, and would rather take prisoners than waste bullets and shoot them."

Well, now that these Russian troops have been captured, it is not good to publicly massacre and execute them. However, there are logistical supply difficulties here, and we cannot take these captives to provide for them, let alone let them go, so as not to set the tiger into trouble in the future, so that they will have the opportunity to attack our Chinese Empire or those vassal states again.

Well, it's not a good decision. For the time being, all their weapons and money will be seized first, and they will be taken into custody first! Wait until the city of Astrakhan is captured, and then dispose of it!

By the way, I heard that there are many priests in these Russian troops who can heal the sick, and these priests are all taken out alone, so that these people do not treat the wounded captured by the Russian army, and these Russian soldiers are better left to fend for themselves. ”

Tao Jintang praised: "The righteous king is wise! This is a very appropriate way to dispose of it. The subordinates suggested that those priests could be transferred out to treat the wounded Sikhs first, so as to eliminate the possibility of those priests treating the wounds of the Russian soldiers, and secondly, to appease the Sikhs who fought bravely. As for the wounded of our own field regiments, there are enough medical personnel in the health company in the army. ”

Shi Dakai learned that the 60,000 cavalry sent out had lost the news, and it was likely that the news was blocked by the inland water division in the middle. In order to avoid other accidents, he directly ordered the engineer regiment to immediately search for ships or build pontoon bridges, and the artillery division to set up long-range field guns on the shore to prevent the enemy's inland water division from suddenly attacking the river-crossing soldiers. He was preparing to lead the Western Expeditionary Coalition to cross the Volga River and capture the city of Astrakhan.

Of course, the vanguard of crossing the river, including the heroic Sikh army, and the Kazakh army living nearby, saw that the Russian army was so unbearable, thinking of the Russian trophies captured not long ago, they all rushed excitedly, eager to immediately rush across the river and occupy the city of Astrakhan.