The battle of Jingyu City shocked the world, and the consequences of this battle are actually divided into different opinions.

In terms of results, the Ming army exchanged the loss of nearly 14,000 troops for more than 22,000 casualties among the Tartars, which was not a brilliant victory; Losses on both sides were largely equal. In terms of materials, the Ming army lost 200 Zhankou general cannons and 50 newly purchased rocket artillery, not counting the others, these alone were already worth more than one million taels of silver. And the two hundred Condor cannons on the Tartar side were also partially captured and partially destroyed. This kind of cannon is huge, and it costs a lot of money to think about, and the two sides are five or five.

However, the focus of the discussion was not on the loss of personnel and materials in this battle, but on the general trend. The first result of this battle was that 40,000 Tartar cavalry broke through the defense line of Jingyu City and opened the passage to Ningxia Zhenguyuan and other places, and they could choose to attack Ningxia in the north and open the door to the Hetao area occupied by the Tatar State, or they could choose to attack Guyuan directly in the east, and then threaten the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.

This is also the most criticized place for Song Nan, how can he let the Tartars enter the door for a small victory, this is not a closed door and a dog, if it is really a dog, it doesn't matter, but these 40,000 Tartar elite cavalry are all like wolves and tigers, and if they enter the hinterland, they will have a lot of misery in the morning.

In this regard, the cabinet officials headed by Yang Tinghe in the court expressed their indignation, saying that it was an unforgivable mistake for Song Nan to ignore the overall situation for the sake of selling a small name and winning a small victory. In fact, after the Tartars marched eastward from Jinglu, they took down two towns in one day, as evidenced by the fact that the Tartars vented their anger on these small towns, burning, killing and looting everything, and suffered great losses. Yang Tinghe and others took this as evidence, and Jian Yiyi immediately summoned Song Nan back to Beijing to explain and reprimand, but if it didn't work, he changed generals.

Zhengde also had a headache, he also thought that this situation was very tricky, and let the 40,000 Tartar army crisscross the hinterland of Shaanxi, and I don't know what Song Nan thought. Zhengde thought that Song Nan would send someone to explain the situation of the battle, or admit that he had made a mistake, but after a few days, Song Nan did not mention the follow-up impact of the battle except for sending someone to send a simple excerpt of the battle of Jingyucheng.

During the evening dinner, Zhengde unconsciously talked about this matter, and recently in order to repair the relationship with Zhengde, Kang Ning, who often accompanies him, said: "Your Majesty, there is no doubt about employing people, Song Nan is not suspicious of people, Song Nan is expected to lead the army, no one among the courtiers is willing to shoulder this responsibility, the emperor himself said that Song Nan must be, and now that Song Nan has won the battle, why is the emperor worried?" What those people said may be reasonable, but we are on the outside, so how do we know that Song Nan has not made arrangements for this? Could it be that Song Nan is a mediocre person? If that's the case, why did he have to do it in the first place? ”

Zhengde nodded slowly, relieved in his heart; With Song Nan's shrewdness, it was naturally impossible not to imagine how strict the consequences were, if he had no way to deal with it, how could he let the Tartars break through Jingyu City?

Song Nan had no time to care about the judgment of the war, in fact, he knew everything in the capital, and the two of them would order people to pass on all kinds of important news in the capital almost every day, although they could not grasp it in real time, but it was not much worse.

Song Nan didn't have time to explain and get angry, he had a lot of things to do, letting the Tartars advance east was one of the expected consequences of this battle, it was impossible to eat the nearly 80,000 troops of the Tartars in one battle, unless he had several times the enemy's strength on hand, plus proper planning; And this battle can eat more than 20,000 troops of the Tartars, and the siege weapon of the Tartars, the Condor cannon, has already made Song Nan very satisfied. Moreover, this battle locked the Tartar army in the hinterland, which was actually equivalent to cutting off the back road of the Tartars, cutting off all the supply sources of the Tartars, and rescuing the 20,000 soldiers and horses trapped in the town guard.

On the afternoon of the day after the battle, Song Nan immediately ordered Ma Ming to lead 5,000 Shenshu battalion soldiers and horses to the east, sweeping all the way from Yehuling to Datong River, and two days later captured Zhuang Langwei and recaptured Liangzhou City, thus sweeping away the Tartar soldiers and horses left behind in the various forts besieging Zhenfanwei, and successfully joined with 20,000 soldiers and horses of Zhenfanwei, and conveyed Song Nan's order.

The 20,000 soldiers and horses of Zhenfanwei immediately advanced westward with 5,000 soldiers and horses of the Shenshu battalion to regain Shandanwei with a momentum like a bamboo, and started a big battle with 8,000 Tartar soldiers and horses gathered here in Gansu Town, and recaptured Gansu Town by force, and recaptured Suzhou and Jiayuguan without much effort two days later. So far, in five days, all the Daming towns captured by the Tartars in two months have been recovered, and the complete blockade of the back roads of the Tartar army has been completed.

Leaving 10,000 soldiers and horses to defend the first line of Jiayuguan to prevent the Tatars from counterattacking in the territory of the Tatar State, the remaining more than 10,000 soldiers and horses returned to the division and marched eastward, and joined Song Nan's army on July 19.

It is self-evident to bring the 40,000 army of Bald and Fierce Ke into the hinterland and cause great damage, but Song Nan feels that there are some costs that must be paid, and it is unwise to follow behind the ass in order to completely annihilate this Tartar army, and the only way to stop them is to mobilize all kinds of soldiers and horses to intercept them everywhere, and cut off their supplies from the state capital, forcing them to attack the supply of the Dazhou Mansion, is the way to hold their tails. For this reason, even if the whole Shaanxi was complaining, Song Nan didn't even frown. The crops in the middle of summer are growing, and the crops in the fields are left untended because of this catastrophe, and the damage caused must be great, but compared to the annihilation of the main cavalry of the Tartars, any price paid is worth it.

In the past few days, the news that the Tatar soldiers have captured five or six county towns in a large area west of Guyuan, south of Lingzhou, and east of Jingyu has come one after another, and even the generals who accompanied the army are a little panicked, and they have also discussed in private what to do next. However, Song Nan did not move, and the army stationed in the east of Jinglu did not take any action, and waited until the news of the arrival of soldiers and horses from all sides came, and Ma Ming and more than 10,000 officers and soldiers who had recovered the lost territory returned, and then they were raised to discuss the matter in the evening of the same day.

The huge candle in the big tent was hot, Song Nan sat upright behind the handsome case, dozens of generals stood on both sides after paying homage according to the size of their official positions, waiting for everyone to stand still, Song Nan ordered the guards to carry out the huge sand table according to the old rules, and after uncovering the red cloth on the sand table, a huge topographic map was displayed in front of everyone. Everyone is already familiar with Song Nan's set, the high and low are the mountains, the white ribbons nailed by thin needles are the rivers, the red flags and blue flags are the places where the enemy and our troops are stationed, and the map is densely packed with red flags, only in a radius of more than 100 miles east of Jingyu, there are seven or eight small blue flags, which represent the Tartar soldiers and horses.

"Generals, General Ma Ming's return today indicates that from Jiayuguan to Yehuling, all the state capital guards captured by the Tartars within hundreds of miles have been recovered, Ma Ming, hard work." Song Nan looked at Ma Ming with a smile and nodded slightly.

"This is all planned by Nan Ye, and the general is just following orders." Ma Ming's face smiled like a flower, he still maintained the name of Song Nan when he was in Ulzhou, in his opinion, this is capital, and there are few people who can call Song Nan like this, and they can't find a few in the army.

"Don't be humble, I naturally have to decide the strategy, but how to fight is still your skill, this time an earl can't run, I will ask for a merit reward for you."

"Thank you, Master Nan." Ma Ming knelt down and kowtowed, his throat was a little choked, finally, from Ulzhou to Datong, and then to the capital, he has been in the army for almost fifteen years, and he can finally be knighted.

"Congratulations to Brother Ma, haha, you have come out, this thing has been done neatly. Look at these little red flags, they were all planted by your army, and every time you regained a guard city, the general would pull out a blue flag on the sand table and plant a red flag, and he would praise you several times a day. Congratulations. Jiang Bin smiled and said, Ma Ming is his old subordinate, and Jiang Bin is naturally happy to see that Ma Ming is about to be knighted and promoted.

All the generals bowed their hands and said hello, Ma Ming hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Don't congratulate me, I should congratulate the general, if the emperor knows the news, he may not be happy, the general is afraid that he is going to be crowned the prince of the country, we should congratulate the general in advance." ”

The generals nodded one after another and said: "It's such a reason, the general turned the tide and saved the northwest from danger, it is simply unreasonable for him not to seal the country, let's congratulate the general in advance." ”

Everyone coaxed and said hello together, Song Nan sat there motionless, with a faint smile on his face, and only said quietly when everyone was over: "Feng Guogong?" Thank God if you don't get picked up to the end, it's not that you don't know the recent discussions of the hundreds of officials in the capital, you are in the cold with yourself. ”

Suddenly, the audience was silent, everyone knew that the recent discussions in the court about the Battle of Jingyu City were more and less praised, and even they themselves were full of questions, whether they should congratulate Song Nan or worry about him, it was really difficult to say.