Dong Yanghong was covered in blood at this time, there were other people's and his own, in the cavalry confrontation between the two sides just now, although he cut down the two cavalry of Yu Shengjun, but his shoulder was also chopped, and the severe pain almost made him unable to continue to sit on the horse.

Seeing that the cavalry of Yu Shengjun, which was already behind him, rushed over again, he was shocked, the cavalry under his command did not have the Su zhì of Yu Shengjun's cavalry, and the charge just now had been completely disrupted in formation, not to mention launching the second charge in time, even if it was to gather the formation, it would take a lot of time.

The Taiping cavalry, unable to turn back to meet the battle, can only continue to run forward, but when there are hundreds of cavalry charging at you from behind, running forward is no different from escaping.

The next cavalry battle between the two sides can be described as a pursuit, the cavalry of the Taiping army desperately fled, and the cavalry of the Yu Shengjun army behind rode in pursuit, and every time they caught up with the cavalry of the Taiping army, the cavalry of the Yu Shengjun army would not hesitate to wave their sabers and slash at their backs.

chased and fled, and soon the cavalry of the Taiping Army was killed and wounded by more than half of them, and Dong Yanghong, who was known for his bravery, was finally beheaded by a young face of Yu Shengjun cavalry after fighting several Yu Shengjun cavalry.

As soon as Dong Yanghong died, and more than half of the Taiping cavalry had been killed or wounded at this time, a large-scale rout soon occurred. Although they had fled before, they had retreated in an organized manner, but now they had completely broken up, and each of them fled in all directions.

When the cavalry engaged in battles, Lin Zhe also personally led a large number of infantry to press the Taiping army!

As Yu Shengjun's infantry phalanx pressed, some of the Taiping infantry began to turn around and flee, and when those Taiping generals did not hesitate to stabilize the formation, Yu Shengjun's infantry phalanx was to shoot unilaterally from a distance of about 350 meters.

The Taiping army fell into the embarrassing situation of wanting to retreat and unable to go, and unable to rush forward if they wanted to take the initiative to attack, and what was even more tragic was that from beginning to end, they were unilaterally attacked by Yu Shengjun's long-distance firepower.

The next situation is obvious, in the face of Yu Shengjun's step-by-step press, the Taiping army resisted for more than an hour, and finally there was a large-scale collapse of the whole army, no matter how those Taiping generals drove away, these Taiping soldiers all turned around and ran.

Looking at the fleeing Taiping soldiers all over the mountains, Lin Zhe pointed ahead: "The whole army charges!" ”

Then, he said to Wang Luyun, who looked tired but still full of excitement: "Go ahead, bring me Lin Chengting's head!" ”

By the time the artillery unit and the baggage troops finally arrived at the battlefield in the evening, the battle here was completely over, and after the Taiping army collapsed, Lin Zhe sent cavalry to chase for a while, and he also led the infantry to pursue slowly.

Although the Taiping army ran very fast, and many people fled after the rout, the follow-up results of the Yu Shengjun were much smaller.

Despite this, however, the battle still killed and captured many Taiping soldiers.

In the following two days, Yu Shengjun continued to send troops to the surrounding areas, catching up with and annihilating another Taiping army of about 1,000 people fleeing north, and at the same time clearing a large number of small and medium-sized routs of the Taiping army in the surrounding area.

When Yu Shengjun returned to Guangde City a few days later, Bi Yutong immediately submitted the casualty statistics of the past half a month to Lin Zhe.

"In the past half a month, our army has lost a total of 178 killed, 160 wounded, 3 mountain splitting guns, 78 first-class war horses, 230 mules and horses, 470 Linde rifles, and other losses are also on the attached table!" As in the past, Bi Yutong first talked about Yu Shengjun's own casualties.

And hearing the total number of casualties of more than three hundred, Lin Zhe nodded slightly, this casualty figure is within his acceptable range, after all, it is a battle with more than 15,000 enemy troops for half a month, even if it is a big victory, his own casualties will not be less there.

As for the number of casualties exceeding the number of wounded, it is because once injured in these years, the mortality rate is very high, and the seriously wounded basically cannot survive, so a considerable number of wounded have become killed.

In addition, what made Lin Zhe a little dissatisfied was that this time the most casualties were not artillery units, nor infantry units or baggage troops, but cavalry units.

Before the war, the two cavalry companies of Yu Shengjun's army had a total of 400 cavalry, but now there are only 300 cavalry left, nearly 100 dead and wounded, more than 50 people directly killed, and more than 40 wounded are also seriously injured.

Lose a quarter of your staff in a battle? This made Lin Zhe couldn't help frowning, if he fought a few more times, wouldn't his cavalry have to fight out?

But he also knew that there was no way to do it, compared with infantry and artillery, in fact, although the cavalry of Yu Sheng's army also had a certain advantage over the cavalry of the Taiping army, the risk of battle did not decrease much.

Especially when charging in hand-to-hand combat, even if the cavalry of the Taiping Army is scum, it can still bring large casualties to the cavalry of Yu Sheng's army in the case of head-on hedging.

On the other hand, the infantry units were much better, and the casualty rate was even inferior to that of the artillery units, because unless the infantry of the Yu Sheng Army was attacked by the enemy's artillery, they basically relied on the range of the Mini rifle to beat the Taiping army, and the casualties they suffered were very small when the wind was smooth.

Looking at these casualty figures, Lin Zhe said: "What about our results? ”

"At present, we have counted about 5,000 enemies killed and more than 2,300 captured!" Bi Yutong explained: "The wounded of the thief army are not counted! ”

Yu Shengjun only counted the kills and prisoners in the statistics of the battle results, and generally did not count the wounded, because how many enemy troops were wounded is a number that cannot be counted.

Even if it is the number of kills, Yu Shengjun can only count the corpses left behind by the Taiping Army, and many Taiping Army dead who have not been found by Yu Shengjun are not counted among them.

Yu Shengjun's actual results are more than the figures reported in this statistical report, after all, when Lin Chengting sent troops to northern Zhejiang, the regular army brought more than 13,000, and then on the way, he forcibly recruited at least 5,000 strong men to fill the army. Combined, the total number of the Taiping army is more than 18,000.

It is optimistically estimated that the number of Taiping troops who can escape will not exceed 5,000, and the actual total number of Taiping troops who are killed, wounded, and captured will definitely exceed 10,000.

With more than 300 casualties in exchange for more than 10,000 casualties and prisoners of the enemy, this is a great victory from that point of view.

It's just that at this time, both Bi Yutong and Lin Zhe ignored the casualties of other Qing troops and Minzhuang, and in the more than half a month that Lin Chengting led the army south, the Qing army's green battalion and Minzhuang in Guangde and Changxing suffered at least more than 2,000 casualties.

When Huzhou defended the city, the green battalion in the city was almost completely killed and wounded, although most of them were killed by Yu Shengjun as deserters, but in any case, the four or five hundred people were all dead, and there was not a single one left.

Qu Shengchao, the prefect of Huzhou, successively recruited more than 4,000 people from Minzhuang and Xiangyong, with a cumulative total of more than 600 casualties.

The total casualties of the Qing army's green battalion and the township brave and strong men in this battle were more than 3,000, but Bi Yutong didn't care about the deaths and injuries of these people, and Lin Zhe didn't care even more.

From Yu Shengjun's own point of view, this battle was an unprecedented victory, a greater victory than the Battle of Si'an.

"In addition, we also captured a large amount of booty, from Changxing, Guangde, and later at Baiyunqiao and other places, our army has captured a total of 100,000 taels of silver, more than 2,000 taels of gold.

In addition, there are still a large amount of military rations and other materials, and roughly calculated that the total value of these materials is at least 30,000 taels of silver. ”

"This adds up to more than 100,000 taels? How is it so little? "Lin Zhe knew that after defeating the enemy's city, the harvest would be very rich, but he didn't expect that this time it would be so little.

At this time, Bi Yutong sighed and said, "Mainly because they only plundered Guangde and Changxing!" ”

Lin Zhe also thought that he was the same when he heard it, and Bi Yutong's implication was that the Taiping army failed to capture the Huzhou capital city, and there were not many loots in the guide, and the Taiping army itself did not plunder much, and Yu Shengjun, who regarded the Taiping army as the target of looting, naturally could not gain much.

"However, we also captured a large number of artillery, muskets, and horses, three artillery pieces of 3,000 catties, 23 mountain splitting cannons of less than 1,000 catties, more than 2,000 arquebuses, and a large number of swords, spears and other cold weapons.

In addition, we also captured 230 first-class war horses and more than 500 second-class mules and horses! ”

Hearing that so many artillery pieces and war horses had been captured, Lin Zhe finally looked better.

Mules and horses have always been the most scarce material for Yu Shengjun, and from last year to now, Lin Zhe has only obtained a batch of 300 excellent war horses from Xu Naizhao, and in addition, he has collected some inferior horses and mules from the local people. In order to solve the problem of horses, Lin Zhe even sent people north to buy horses, but now the people sent out have not returned, and I don't know if they can buy good war horses in large quantities.

Now that this batch of excellent war horses and ordinary mules and horses have been captured from the Taiping army, it can greatly relieve the pressure on Yu Shengjun's horses.

Speaking of which also made Lin Zhe depressed, there was also no source of a large number of horses in the Taiping Army's control area, but Lin Chengting's cavalry was much more than himself, why? Because the Taiping army has a steady stream of Qing troops sending them war horses.

The current Qing army is the best transport captain of the modern era, and every few days he sends a large number of shotguns, artillery, and war horses to the Taiping army.

The horses captured from the Taiping army were very useful, and the cannons, although old, were barely usable.

Lin Zhe is not a loser, he has a large price of imported sample cannons, so he can't look down on these domestic artillery pieces and throw them away. In fact, some of the artillery captured by Yu Shengjun in the past, except for those guns with small calibers, most of the other artillery with a weight of more than 300 catties will be retained, such as the First Artillery Company, which is equipped with 500 catties and 800 catties of mountain splitting guns.

However, those arquebuses and cold weapons and swords were of no use to Yu Shengjun, but Lin Zhe thought that he could pull them back and sell them to Huang Zonghan, or simply sell them to Xiang Rong or Qi Shan, these people have a lot of soldiers under their hands, and they still use arquebuses and cold weapons, and if you sell them cheaply, you can also return some of the military expenses.

Immediately, Lin Zhe sent a letter to Huang Zonghan, saying that he had recovered Guangde and asked him to send officials to pacify the place, of course, the main thing was that he had a batch of muskets, artillery and swords to be shot under his hands, which were of good quality and cheap, and he wanted to buy them as soon as possible.

However, after waiting for a few days, he didn't wait for his reply, but waited for an urgent military report from Xu Naizhao, the governor of Jiangsu!

The military newspaper said that the Taiping army marched east from Zhenjiang, defeated more than 10,000 soldiers led by Xu Naizhao in Danyang, trapped Danyang and Jintan, and entered Wujin Tayang Lake.

Changzhou has been eroded, and Suzhou is also in danger!

After reading the military report, Lin Zhe's face darkened suddenly, these Qing army green camps are fucking waste, and it has only been a few days before they were poked out of such a big hole by the Taiping army.