This general battle between the Jingwu Army and the Taiping Army lasted a total of two hours before it was completely over, most of which was used for pursuit, and the real battle lasted less than half an hour.

After the war, in terms of losses, there were no dead in the Jingwu army itself, only 32 wounded, of which 5 were seriously wounded and 27 were lightly wounded.

The five seriously injured were all cavalrymen, three of whom unfortunately fell from their horses and were injured when they were just beginning to carry out the assault battle, and two of them were unfortunately from their horses during the pursuit, most of them had broken legs, broken hands and broken ribs; As for the minor injuries, most of them were broken feet, and only six of them suffered minor abrasions caused by falling from their horses.

Whether it is a minor injury or a serious injury, because it is the victorious side, it can be carried to the treatment in a timely manner, and because of modern medicines, equipment and first aid methods, even the most serious injured person can be healed in two or three months at most.

Compared to the negligible losses, the results were a little too glorious.

Among them, more than 5,300 Taiping troops were killed and wounded in head-on battles, while more than 8,000 were killed and wounded in pursuit battles, 22,000 were captured, and more than 32,000 were scattered and escaped.

In other words, the more than 70,000 troops of the Taiping army who participated in the attack this time were almost wiped out in the first battle, and the surviving troops that really regathered after the war were less than 5,000 people.

This result made the Taiping army want to cry without tears, and the Jingwu army was completely jubilant, you must know that such a result is simply unimaginable brilliance, if it is a full-scale war game, it is a proper epic victory.

In addition to the power of modern weapons, it is also thanks to the speed of the cavalry and the long-term physical training of the soldiers of the elite army, coupled with the vast battlefield and timely communication, that can achieve such a heavy victory in the continuous pursuit, in other words, most of those who were captured were exhausted in the pursuit battle.

If you calculate it so carefully, the Jingwu army actually dispatched less than 12,000 people, while the Taiping army had 72,000 people, but it turned out to be like this, which made many people constantly smack their tongues. Among them, the layman is just a sigh, and the insider begins to think about the direction and changes of the future war, of course, that is all for later.

When the battle was over, when I looked back at Suzhou, I found that the rebels who took advantage of the chaos to seize Suzhou had escaped from Suzhou in advance, and most of the Jingwu army was exhausted at that time, so I didn't pursue it anymore.

However, in this way, even if Suzhou is re-recovered, it is consistent with Li Yongji's original Suzhou plan.

Although Suzhou City sent people over in time and warmly invited the Jingwu Army to enter the city, but at that time, the Jingwu Army was busy counting the losses and results, and the sky was dark, and they were afraid of accidents, so they did not enter the city, but only sent half of the guard battalion into Suzhou to assist the local regiment to train and garrison Suzhou, especially to see important places such as the government treasury and grain depot in advance.

Wait until the next day, Li Yongji rode a horse, took most of the people and horses of the Jingwu Army, redressed and renewed, and then drove into Suzhou City with high spirits, officially took over the city defense of Suzhou in the cheers of the people in the city, and reorganized the order of Suzhou, and the entry of the Jingwu Army into the city means that Suzhou City has become the trophy and bag of the Jingwu Army.

After entering Suzhou City, there are more things that need to be busy, because of the previous fire and military rebellion, Suzhou City is full of dead and injured and homeless people, especially the officials of Suzhou, because they were the key targets in that military rebellion, most of them were concentrated together at that time, and after the military rebellion together, almost all of them were killed in one pot, most of them were martyred from the governor down, and most of the survivors were small officials and small officials, and the only official position was relatively large, which was actually Feng Guifen's five-grade Suzhou regimental training general office!

Although most of the officials suffered, but this is also worry-free, more convenient for the reception of the elite army, plus those rebellious rebels fled too fast, so Suzhou's treasury money, grain and ordnance are mostly intact, after the inventory, there are 3.8 million taels of silver, 2.2 million stones of grain in storage, as for ordnance, there are 1,200 foreign guns, more than 6,000 guns, and countless swords and spears.

This is still a rebellion, robbed by everyone, if there is no rebellion, I am afraid that the number will be more.

Since Suzhou City is equivalent to the re-defeat of the Jingwu Army, the treasury silver and grain will naturally be regarded as a deficit and fall into the pockets of the Jingwu Army, that is, Li Yongji. As for the ordnance, those things are not eye-catching to the elite army, but the other regiments are very red-eyed in training and armament, so Li Yongji summoned the training leaders of each regiment, and then distributed weapons to them according to the order of distant relatives and whether they are pleasing to the eye.

Among them, Lin Guangyao's parents were unfortunately killed in the previous military rebellion, because Lin Guangyao's parents and others were basically under house arrest in the governor's yamen, which was originally intended to be used as a means to threaten Li Yongji, but as a result, when the soldiers rebelled together and stormed the governor's yamen, their family also suffered.

In the final search, only Lin Guangyao's younger brother, Lin Guangming, was in the toilet at the time, and jumped into the dung pit of the thatched house in a hurry during the war, so he survived.

In this way, the Lin family of thirty-six people, only the two of them were left, which naturally made Lin Guangyao cry, fortunately, because the Lin family was in the south, this rebellion was not affected much, and the property loss was minimal, which was better than nothing.

Moreover, after hearing the news, although Li Yongji was also comforting, he maliciously thought in his heart that in this way, his sister would be happy. You must know that her second sister is equivalent to no parent-in-law and mother-in-law, and her husband has inherited the Lin family's property that could not have been inherited by him.

Family affairs are just a trivial matter, but Suzhou has experienced a fire and military turmoil, but there are all kinds of waste waiting to be rebuilt, especially the hundreds of thousands of homeless people, Li Yongji needs to be responsible, who made him now the de facto highest military and political governor of Suzhou City.

Because he had just made a fortune, Li Yongji was also very generous, so he simply waved his hand and recruited troops!

That's right, it's recruitment, not relief.

In Li Yongji's view, although Suzhou was defeated by him, and for the time being, Suzhou is still a power vacuum, but in an important city like Suzhou, the Qing government cannot let it go, so sooner or later it will send officials to govern. Even if he can get some benefits in Suzhou Mansion by virtue of his military exploits, it is impossible to really control the whole of Suzhou immediately.

Since this is the case, then Li Yongji doesn't need to be a bad person and take everything on himself, but first get the benefits.

For example, this recruitment is nominally a recruitment, but in fact it is to recruit people with grain.

In other words, Li Yongji did not deliberately open a warehouse for relief and give food to people for free, but sent people to beat gongs and drums everywhere and post notices to tell them how to find a place to eat and how to eat this bowl of rice.

Among them, homeless children aged 8 to 13 years old are all included in the children's camp of the Jingwu Army, all of which are covered with food and housing.

Homeless teenagers between the ages of 14 and 17 are uniformly accepted into the Youth League of the Jingwu Army, and the same plan as the boy boy camp is that if there are still parents, they will be accepted with their parents.

Whether it is a boy camp or a youth league, the relatives who can come with food and accommodation can only be their biological parents, and other grandparents, aunts and aunts are not in the ranks of free food and accommodation.

For homeless women, who are between the ages of 18 and 30, the Jingwu Army also recruits workers with food, housing and housing, and is admitted to the newly opened training camp for female workers, referred to as the women's labor camp. Similarly, female workers who enter the women's camp can also bring their biological parents, and the biological parents of female workers, Jingwujun are also in charge.

Although it is recruiting young women and children in the name of recruitment, and does not care about the elderly, this is already to make the people of the city grateful to Dade, and everyone does not think that this is the Jingwu Army making money, but that this is the Jingwu Army doing great good.

After all, children and women are mostly weak in this era, and it is also a burden for most people, and they are often the first to suffer in disasters.

Obviously, children and teenagers are all going to be included in the Jingwu Army, carrying out closed brainwashing education from an early age, and cultivating the diehards and future seedlings of the Jingwu Army from an early age.

Because according to Li Yongji's previous educational experience, those children between the ages of eight and seventeen are best educated, and once they are past the age of seventeen, and then carry out modern brainwashing education, the effect will be greatly reduced.

Young women, it is simpler, that is, to train female workers in advance, to send blood to the factory in the future, and by the way, to solve the problem of singles for the Jingwu army.

As mentioned above, the Jingwu Army implements a policy of edutainment in the military, that is to say, in the process of closed training, the soldiers of the Jingwu Army will actually contact and learn a large number of modern books, which are not only related to military matters, but also a large number of domestic and foreign history and current affairs and political explanations and other things, looking at these for a long time, it must be incompatible with ordinary Qing Dynasty people.

Most of the soldiers of the Jingwu Army are now of marriageable age, and it is impossible to be a single single person all the time, and they will always have to get married and have children in the future, if they find those women outside, it is inevitable that there will be problems, but if even the wives of the Jingwu officers and soldiers have been brainwashed, then the result will be ...... Well, that's a proper little collective.

In other words, accepting children and women is to recruit the future, Li Yongji plans to create a purely militarized small collective, cultivate his own talents, and find another way out in the special era of the Qing Dynasty, so that if Li Yongji wants to carry out social reform in the future, he will not have to fight alone.

Of course, it is not purely recruiting children and women, the elite army also recruits a large number of young people.

Young people between the ages of 18 and 35, as long as they are healthy, regardless of whether they are literate or not, whether they are over 1.6 meters tall, they will all be accepted. Among them, those between the ages of 18 and 22 are recruited as young soldiers and enter the second-level standing army sequence, and after the age of 22, they are recruited as logistics soldiers, or construction corps.

The reason for this is also based on previous experience, especially the experience in this battle.

At present, there are only more than 10,000 truly qualified soldiers in one division of the Jingwu Army, and the others are all recruited at the beginning of the carpenters, masons and horsemen and other people to be used as logistics soldiers.

In this battle, it was basically the soldiers who rushed to the front line, and the auxiliaries stayed in the rear camp safely, it seemed that the auxiliaries were a drag, but in fact they were not.

Because in peacetime, whether it is daily training or wartime marching, if there are no auxiliary soldiers who seem to be hard labor, then it is impossible for soldiers to train and fight with peace of mind, and they will inevitably be distracted by other miscellaneous matters, unable to concentrate on studying, and their combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.

Of course, this does not mean that soldiers do not need to learn the skills of auxiliary soldiers, they also need to learn logistics skills in ordinary times, so as to achieve all-round development and not be helpless when something happens, but this is a question of whether to do or not, and it is a different matter from whether to do it or not.

For example, a soldier is like a high-paid white-collar office worker who makes money, and an auxiliary soldier is a nanny hired by a soldier.

In the past, the elite army took the route of elite soldiers, but now, Li Yongji decided to open the door widely, in addition to the elite field soldiers, recruit some second-level soldiers, plus other auxiliary personnel, to increase the size of the army, referred to as expansion.

Only in this way can he be invincible in the days to come, and truly become a force, so that no one dares to underestimate it at will.

What is this called, high and low matching, is the king.