In the first battle of Nanjing, the defenders of the Qing army in Nanjing City were all annihilated, and the Duanzhong prince Aixin Jueluo Boluo, his son Aixin Jueluo Tarna, and the general Zhang Guojun and other green battalion generals were all killed on the battlefield, and the general Liang Huafeng was wounded and captured, and became a prisoner of the Ming army.

After the war, after some statistics, although the Ming army successfully took the city of Nanjing, but also paid a lot of casualties, a total of more than 47,000 people participated in the battle before the siege, and after the end of the two sieges, there were nearly 40,000 horses left in the army, including thousands of wounded who needed to recuperate.

As the main force of the siege, the soldiers and horses under Su Yan were undoubtedly the most casualties, and the Zheng naval division that attacked Yifengmen was covered by the naval guns of the naval division led by Chen Zhaojun, and only killed less than 1,000 people in two battles, and the Lu Wang army under Zhang Mingzhen also lost more than 2,000 people, but they also took off a lot of armor from the corpses of the Qing army, and they could replace the soldiers and horses with a low armor rate.

In addition, after the Ming army occupied the arsenal of Nanjing City, it also captured tens of thousands of armor and a large number of weapons and ammunition, Su Yan blocked the arsenal as soon as possible, and promised Huang An and Zhang Mingzhen that they would distribute a batch of weapons and equipment according to their contributions in the siege, and the latter was not worried that Su Yan would be greedy for what they deserved, so he gladly accepted.

In the following period of time after the reconquest of Nanjing, thanks to the cooperation of local officials and the maintenance of stability by the Ming soldiers, the city of Nanjing quickly came out of the turmoil after the war, and the grain prices that had been raised due to the war were also reduced to the pre-war level under Su Yan's compulsory requirements, and the lives of the people of Nanjing also returned to peace.

For them, apart from the absence of the braids on their heads, only their sleek scalps remained, and they wore back to Han Chinese costumes, there was little change in their daily lives - oh no, some of the vendors selling hats and turbans in Nanjing made a fortune, and after the braids were cut, the people wore hats wrapped around turbans to cover their bald heads for personal beauty.

On the afternoon of the 18th, at the same time as the public execution of several ** who violated military discipline at the entrance of the vegetable market, Su Yan led the guards to the Ming Tomb outside Chaoyang Gate to worship Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, who had expelled the Tartars and restored China.

Because of the war, the guards set up by the Qing court in the Ming Tomb have long been empty, and the huge Ming Tomb is empty, it seems very empty, Su Yan solemnly worshiped in front of the tablet of Emperor Taizu.

Then, he looked at the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang hanging behind the tablet, and said in a low voice: "Emperor Taizu, the younger generation inherited your last wish to expel the Tartars, raised troops from a corner of Fujian, recovered Nanjing, and continued to conquer the world in the future and completely expelled the Tartars from the Central Plains.

At that time, the younger generation should personally raise the head of the Tartar chieftain and then come to the filial piety tomb to pay respects."

Before leaving, Su Yan also instructed Chen Ying, who was following him, to let Chen Ying mobilize a team of grenadiers from the Shenji Battalion to be stationed in the Ming Tomb, specifically responsible for the guard of the Ming Tomb.

When leaving the Ming Tomb and returning to Nanjing from Chaoyangmen, the cleaning of the city had already begun, and the surviving bannermen carried the corpses to the car together with the punishment battalion under the custody of the Ming soldiers and waited to be transported outside the city to be burned in a centralized manner.

Su Yan was ready to demolish the city wall, and all the houses in the city were demolished and rebuilt, and the layout of the early Ming Dynasty was restored - before the Qing army occupied Nanjing, the position of the city was still the five prefectures and five departments of Nanjing, that is, the five military governors' offices, the officials department, the household department, the rite department, the military department and the Ministry of engineering, and the criminal department, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate were all set up outside the Taiping Gate, so they were not demolished by the Qing court, but were just abandoned.

The Yamen of the Criminal Department, Dali Temple and the Imperial Court were probably accidentally injured by shells fired by the Qing army during the siege battle, and the Yamen building was damaged in many places, and it was only necessary to repair it and be put back into use.

It's just that before Su Yan became emperor or welcomed Emperor Yongli back to Nanjing, these five governments and six departments could only eat ashes for the time being.

In order not to be truthful, Su Yan did not live in the imperial city, but lived in the governor's ministry to work, and soon after he returned to the governor's ministry, the guards outside came to report that Zhang Mingzhen, the marquis of Dingxi, and Huang An, the commander of the navy, came to visit.

Su Yan didn't think about it, so he ordered someone to bring Zhang Mingzhen and Huang An to the study where he was, and as soon as the latter two entered the study, they saluted each other, Su Yan noticed that although they were wearing regular clothes, they could still see the tiredness on their faces, which was obvious

Even after the war, there has been no rest until now.

"The two generals, please take a seat, Ben Du sees that the two of you are tired, but you haven't rested until now?" Su Yan raised his hand to signal the two of them to sit down, and asked at the same time.

"Returning to the Overseer." Huang An clenched his fists and said with a smile: "The feat of recovering the southern capital is so inspiring that the last general can't sleep all night, and the last general has already repaired a book at noon and ordered someone to send it to Guangdong, and report this victory to the country's surname."

"Yes, the good news of the reconquest of Nanking must indeed be well publicized, and the Governor has decided to order people to spread the news along the Yangtze River, the Grand Canal, and the sea routes to the north and south of the river, so as to boost the morale of the army and the people under my Ming rule, and to encourage those in the whole world who still cherish our dynasty." Su Yan said.

Zhang Mingzhen and Huang An both showed a look of approval, and Zhang Mingzhen then said: "Supervisor, the last general and Admiral Huang have just discussed, although Nanjing is decided, but the state capitals of Jiangbei are still under the occupation of ***, if you want to hold Nanjing, you should cross the river and march north before the Qing army goes south, and advance the battle line to the front line of the Huai River, so as to ensure that Nanjing is worry-free."

Zhang Mingzhen was full of confidence, the Ming army was overwhelmed under the leadership of Su Yan, and even Nanjing was conquered, and in his opinion, it was not too difficult to advance to the front line of the Huai River.

It's just that......

"Dingxi Hou's words, this governor has actually thought about it, but the two of you haven't thought about a problem - our army is about to face the risk of food shortage." Su Yan said with a wry smile, under the suspicious gazes of Zhang Mingzhen and Huang An, he continued: "When our army regained Taicang, there were only a few hundred stones of grain stored in the warehouse, and after this continuous battle, a large amount of grain and grass were consumed, if it was not for the recovery of Nanjing City, in less than seven days, our army would be completely out of food."

Su Yan is not alarmist, his basic plate Fujian is not a major grain-producing province, Zhejiang and Jiangnan have just been occupied, although Zhejiang has gradually resumed production with the efforts of the political envoy An Daoyuan, but mainly in the areas south of the Qiantang River, Huzhou, Jiaxing, and other places with the largest proportion of grain production are implementing the policy of apportioning the land to the mu.

Fighting all the way from Fujian, Su Yan can almost be said to be fighting to feed the war, taking grain and grass from the Qing army or capturing cities to solve the grain and grass problem, which is not conducive to long-term.

The problem that Su Yan is facing now is that he has nearly one million taels of reserves seized from the Taicang Money Warehouse but lacks food, and he can only buy a large amount of food from grain merchants to alleviate the shortage of grain.

The resumption of agricultural production is already imminent.

This is also one of the reasons why Su Yan decided to stop expanding, first stick to digesting the territory he has occupied, and farm to accumulate strength.

Hearing Su Yan say this, Zhang Mingzhen and Huang An looked at each other, they felt that Su Yan would probably not follow their advice to wave the Northern Expedition, but Su Yan thought for a while, and then said:

"Dingxi Hou, your troops crossed the river to capture Pukou and Liuhe, as a stronghold in the north of the river, which can be attacked, retreated, and defended; Admiral Huang, you lead your headquarters into the Grand Canal, cut off the Qing court's transportation, plunder the grain ship, and don't let go of a grain ship to reach the north safely."

Su Yan's approach can not be described as vicious, the Qing court's productivity in the north is very poor, and the grain must be transported from the south through Cao Yun, which is like the blood vessels of the Qing Empire, Su Yan sent Huang An to cut off Cao Yun, which is equivalent to cutting off the blood vessels of the Qing court.

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