I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

The Qing army retreated across the board, and the Ming army began a full-scale pursuit. This was the best time to expand the victory.

Wu Changqing's army is also quite experienced in chasing and killing defeated soldiers, and they have done this kind of thing many times.

The troops in front were in charge of the pursuit. Those who did not kneel and surrender were simply a knife, while those who had already threw their weapons and kneeled and surrendered were ignored and handed over to the troops behind.

Those in front must pursue non-stop pursuit in order to 'bite' the enemy and prevent the enemy from escaping easily.

At the back, there are troops dedicated to taking prisoners and cleaning the battlefield.

The whole process is proceeding in an orderly manner.

As for Wu Changqing and others, they just stayed in the camp and waited for good news.

"What Eight Banners soldiers are not as vulnerable."

Liu Hansan laughed and joked, he certainly had the right to be proud of defeating the Eight Banners cavalry.

"This time, it's mainly because the enemy doesn't know us well. I'm afraid it won't be so easy to achieve such a big victory next time."

Dai Zhijun analyzed that if the Manchu cavalry did not come to attack their hollow phalanx, it would not be easy for them to annihilate the enemy's cavalry.

The cavalry's greatest advantage is speed, not impact.

Relying on its speed, cavalry can actually do a lot.

For example, arranging a cavalry of tens of thousands of people to attack their cold weapon troops, they will have a headache. Or, the cavalry can follow their troops far away, making them restless.

As soon as they loose their cavalry, they charge. In order to prevent being charged, they have to stay in formation all the time, which is a huge problem for the march.

In short, there are many places where cavalry can play a role. Before the advent of machine guns, cavalry always occupied a place on the battlefield.

Only when the machine gun appears, will the cavalry completely withdraw from the stage of the main battlefield.

"Master Dai, you are resourceful, think of something to ambush their cavalry again."

Liu Hansan hugged Dai Zhijun, he knew that his talents were limited, and it was already a little difficult to command more than 10,000 people. Therefore, he is very friendly to Dai Zhijun, who is good at commanding the army, just hoping to make friends with him.

In the future, as Wu Changqing's men increase in strength, his power will also increase, and he urgently needs the help of some talented people.

"With this kind of strategy, I have already dedicated it to the general, how can it be so easy."

Dai Zhijun complained.

The battle is still dominated by the upright confrontation between the two armies. The so-called all kinds of ingenious schemes are actually choices made in desperation. It is not an easy task to get the enemy in the game.

The pursuit continued until the evening, when the main force in front gradually retreated to the Danyang Camp.

In the tent of the Chinese army in the main camp, Wu Changqing and many other senior generals were gathering together to listen to the statistician's report on the results.

"According to preliminary statistics, our army killed a total of more than 23,000 enemy troops in this campaign, including more than 13,000 from the Eight Banners of Manchu, more than 4,000 from the Eight Banners of Mongolia, and more than 6,000 from the Eight Banners of the Han Army.

A total of more than 46,000 enemy troops were captured, including about 20,000 from the Eight Banners of the Han Army, about 16,000 from the Eight Banners of the Manchus, and about 9,000 from the Eight Banners of the Mongolian Army.

Of the captured enemy troops, nearly 7,000 were wounded.

Among these 70,000 people, there were 13,000 cavalry and 56,000 infantry.

Among them, there were thirty-two generals above the guerrilla level, and they captured the enemy's British Prince Azig alive. "

This is a victory in terms of personnel. It can be said that it is a super victory. The Qing army has been broken.

There were 70,000 dead and captured soldiers alone, plus some scattered soldiers, the Qing army who managed to escape back to Nanjing this time was probably in the early 40,000s at most, and nearly 70% of the troops were damaged. troops.

For an army, that's pretty much a waste. Having suffered such a heavy loss, the morale of the remaining soldiers would probably be so low that they could run away at any time.

And Azig was a pleasant surprise. This guy fell from the horse for some reason and was injured a little, and was captured alive by the chasing cavalry behind him.

This is also the highest loss of a general since the Manchu Qing entered the customs.

When attacking Jiangyin Chengcheng, the Qing army also killed some so-called kings, but they were all monarchs with little weight.

The British Prince is different, this is a serious prince. Moreover, he is also Dorgon's brother.

For these identities alone, the capture of Azig was enough to inspire and boost morale.

After talking about the gains in personnel, the next step is the gains in materials.

First of all, forty-five of the fifty cannons were captured. When the Qing army fled, there must be no way to transport this big guy that weighed nearly three thousand pounds.

Therefore, the Qing army took the action of destroying, but because they were in a hurry to escape, the destruction process was done too hastily. Only five gates were successfully blown up, and the rest were only suffered minor damage and were easily repaired.

More than 40 cannons, worth almost 100,000 taels. Moreover, this kind of strategic material cannot necessarily be bought with money, and it takes a lot of time to build it.

With these cannons, Wu Changqing could form a powerful artillery unit, and siege the city would be much easier. It's so cool to win a battle, and you can capture a lot of good things.

If it wasn't for such a big victory in the wild, if he was asked to get fifty cannons, the devil would know when he would get it.

In addition to the cannons, more than 5,000 guns were captured by ordinary firearms, which were transported back to Suzhou with a little modification of the bayonet device to equip the troops.

These arquebuses can only be used in the hands of Wu Jun

With the greatest power, this time the Qing army became the captain of the transportation team and helped the Wu army to grow rapidly.

Other cold weapons such as swords and spears are massive, enough to equip an army of 50,000 cold weapons. With this batch of weapons, Wu Changqing can quickly expand his army.

Although the Cold Weapons Force is backward, Wu Changqing cannot abandon it. Because the speed at which they make guns is far from keeping up with the speed of army expansion, cold weapon troops are still the mainstream.

Some horses were also seized, about 4,000.

It was not easy to capture the horses, they were so fast that most of the cavalry fled.

In addition to weapons, they also seized half a month's rations for the 100,000 army, as well as tents, quilts and other miscellaneous materials.

This kind of capture can be said to be a super bumper harvest, and the army can be expanded by 50,000 directly without worrying about running out of materials.

"What about the loss of our army?"

Wu Changqing asked that although they had a big victory in this battle, their losses were definitely not small.

The left and right flanks fought hand-to-hand with the enemy for nearly an hour, while the central army was attacked by two rounds of cavalry, two rounds of infantry, and shelled for more than half an hour.

"Our army totaled 5,732 dead, 260 missing, more than 1,000 seriously wounded, and 6,000 lightly wounded. Among them, the left wing accounted for 2,000, and the central army accounted for 2,300. The right wing accounted for one thousand seventeen.

Two cannons were blasted, more than 500 horses were lost, and more than 1,000 crossbows were damaged. Two thousand were damaged for arquebuses, and fifteen hundred for flintlocks. "

Wu Changqing felt a little pain when he heard that 1,500 flintlock guns were damaged.

Most of these guns were damaged by huge force when resisting the impact of cavalry, and some were aged and damaged due to too many consecutive shots.

This is a flintlock gun, and it will take at least twenty days to manufacture these 1,500 shots.

Wu Changqing has been urging Liu Baojun to train more senior craftsmen. However, the cultivation of talents always takes time. Now the Nissan of the weaponry's flintlock gun has increased to 80 shots, which is already a great improvement.

Although a lot of flintlock guns were lost, compared to the results obtained, this loss was not particularly large, and it was all within Wu Changqing's tolerance.

However, after such a war, he was temporarily unable to attack Nanjing.

Soldiers need to rest, prisoners need to be dealt with, equipment needs to be repaired, wounded soldiers need to be treated, armies need to be expanded and so on.

In less than a month, he couldn't recover.

As for the Qing army, it was even worse, giving them a year to recover.

Wu Changqing only needs to wait patiently for the last month and adjust the state of the army before heading towards Zhenjiang and Nanjing.