The battle is finally over.

Li Rui called Jia You over, and the two of them each brought a group of people with some ink in their bellies. After a lot of effort, the boss worked until late at night, and finally the results of the battle were summarized:

In this battle, the rebels suffered more than 6,000 casualties, captured nearly 40,000 prisoners, captured more than 4,600 war horses, more than 6,000 mules and horses, more than 8,000 strong bows, and 4,000 powerful crossbows.

There are more than a hundred weapons, nearly a million arrows, 5,600 pairs of iron armor, and all kinds of miscellaneous armor.

There were countless weapons, including swords and spears. In addition, they also robbed Wang Ru of the food and property that Wang Ru had worked so hard to rob from the Xiangfan area. They obtained a total of more than 20,000 husks of rice and more than 20,000 pieces of cloth.

Copper coins...there are too many of them, and they cannot be counted in a short time.

It can be said that Wang Ru's work has been in vain these past few months. After losing all his elite soldiers and almost all the looted materials to Li Rui, it is really unknown how long he can hold on!

Early the next morning, Li Rui asked someone to deliver the handsome flag to the rebels who were still resisting in Rangcheng. As expected, when he saw that his handsome flag had become a trophy of the Jin army, he immediately lost his fighting spirit.

, after receiving the Jin army's promise of "not killing and surrendering prisoners", they all walked out of the fortress and surrendered to the Jin army.

Wang Chang knew that many Jin troops were killed or wounded in this battle, and he did not dare to surrender. He shouted hoarsely and told everyone that the flag was fake, and that the general was at Longyan and could defeat the Jin army immediately.

Anyone who dares to surrender will be killed without mercy! Unfortunately, no one listens to him now. The captain of the soldiers took advantage of his unpreparedness and chopped off his head from behind, and sent it to the Jin army as a certificate of surrender to the Jin army.

Please surrender.

At this point, the Battle of Rangcheng came to an end. This was the most brutal battle fought since Li Rui led his troops south. In just one day and night, the Jingzhou soldiers who attacked the city suffered over a thousand casualties, and the newly attached soldiers suffered as many casualties.

Fifteen hundred people, thanks to Li Rui who used a counterweighted trebuchet to fire stone bombs from the beginning to knock down the city wall. The Jin army did not have to bear the dense rain of arrows from the rebels to attack the city wall, otherwise the casualties would only be more heavy!

The rebels suffered heavy casualties. When the fighting first started, there were four thousand of them, but by the time they surrendered, there were only less than two thousand left standing. In other words, after just one day and night of fighting, nearly

Five thousand people fell in the ruins of Rangcheng. The cruelty of the street fighting was truly frightening.

On the contrary, Bei Gongchun defeated Wang Ru's 50,000-strong army with nine cavalry regiments, but the casualties were incredibly small. The total number of casualties was only 700, and most of them were Li Rui himself who rushed in blindly.

It was caused by the rebels' encirclement. In other words, Beigong Chun used 3,000 cavalry to defeat Wang Run's 50,000-strong army, but he himself suffered no more than 300 casualties!

This comparison is a bit too harsh.

Li Rui looked at the number of casualties and was furious. He stared at Sima Fan and gritted his teeth.

Sima Fan immediately knew what he wanted to say, and said automatically: "Okay, you don't have to say it, it's all our Sima family's fault. If our Sima family didn't treat the common people as human beings, the rebels would never act like this."

If we are resisting desperately now, our army will not suffer such heavy casualties, okay?"

Li Rui said harshly: "It's good that you know!"

Annoyed, he still spent a large sum of money to buy water and wine from the private sector, distilled it, and made spirits to disinfect the wounds of the wounded soldiers. At the same time, he recruited a large number of doctors to treat the wounded soldiers.

——In the wars of the Cold Weapon Age, since both sides were protected by armor, there were not many deaths caused by head-on battles. A large number of soldiers died of wound infection after the battle. The ancients knew that pus and ulcers in wounds could be life-threatening.

, I also thought of many ways and came up with many drugs to treat trauma, but the effect was not good.

It's very good. Even if there are specific medicines in this area, tens of thousands of soldiers will be injured in a war, and the medicines cannot be supplied. Therefore, in most cases, soldiers can only grit their teeth and carry on when they are injured on the battlefield.

If they can survive, they will survive. If they cannot survive, they will die. The general will not spend too much effort to save them.

The life of a regular soldier is not worth much anyway.

But Li Rui was different. The education he received and his concepts did not allow him to do this. Not only did he order all his efforts to treat his own wounded soldiers, but also the wounded soldiers of the rebels.

If you are not dead, you can't let people die in the military camp due to wound infection.

This is undoubtedly a huge trouble for himself. There are thousands of injured soldiers. If they have to treat them one by one, I really don't know how much manpower and material resources will be invested and how long they will be busy. But Li Rui still gritted his teeth and tried his best.

To him, no matter how much manpower and material resources are expended for the treatment, rescuing people is the most important thing.

Fortunately, with the main force of Wang Ru's rebel army annihilated, the rebellion in Nanyang basically ended. In the Battle of Rangcheng, the terrifying fighting power unleashed by the Jin army not only shocked the rebels, but also shocked the powerful forces in Nanyang. This was three

Thousands of cavalry can kill an army of fifty thousand perverts. How powerful must this army be to be able to annihilate nearly twenty thousand soldiers in half a day?

With twice the enemy, Wang Ru cut off his flag and forced him to flee? Faced with this terrifying iron-blooded force, those local powerful people could not afford to compete with it. Li Rui took the opportunity to send a small group of troops to recruit and surrender.

The powerful locals opened the gates of Wubao to welcome the king wherever they went. Even before the Jin army arrived, they sent their nephews to Wancheng as hostages.

Thanks to this, the Jin army was unstoppable in Nanyang, cutting off large chunks of land like tofu.

On March 23, the Jin army captured the ruins of Xinye County;

On March 25, the Jin army captured Caiyang and Yiyang (which is today's Zaoyang area);

On March 28, the Jin army marching north captured Duyang (today's Fangcheng);

On April 1, the strong men from Wuyang, Yexian, and Kunyang counties expelled Jiehu and presented the city to the Jin army;

On April 2, the Jin army approached Xiangfan;

On April 3, Pingshi County (today's Tongbai County), which was occupied by refugees, surrendered to the Jin army;

At this point, the entire Nanyang Basin has basically been recovered by the Jin army, and all the gaps that can enter the Nanyang Basin in the north and east have been blocked. Whether it is the Hu people or the refugee army, if they want to invade the Nanyang Basin, they must first pull out Wuyang, Kun

Yang, Yexian, Biyang, Anchang and a series of peripheral strongholds. By the time they removed these peripheral strongholds, the Jin army in the Nanyang Basin had already completed mobilization, assembled and moved to the front line.

This is the advantage of the basin. It is rich in water resources, has a mild climate, fertile land, and abundant products. It is also very convenient to defend. If you prick a few openings, you will not be able to get in even if you have thousands of troops. The Sichuan Basin is one of them.

An outstanding representative... Cao Zhen nodded silently. Although Nanyang Basin does not have the four

The Sichuan Basin is so abnormal, but if those openings are dug firmly, it will not be easy to break in. Now that the openings to the north and east have been dug, all Li Rui has to do is to quickly capture Xiangfan

, also seal the opening on the south side, and at the same time open the passage to the south, so that you can advance and attack, and retreat and defend.

However, after figuring out the current situation in Nanyang, Li Ruike was not so optimistic. Today's Nanyang is no longer the densely populated, fertile and prosperous imperial town it was during the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was already in the midst of the Zhang Chang Rebellion.

After suffering a heavy blow, it took several years to recover a little bit, and then ran into the Wang Ruzhi Rebellion. By the way, it also brought in the big devil Shi Le! The Wang Ruzhi Rebellion has only lasted from the outbreak to the present.

A few months, however, just these few months have dealt a fatal blow to Nanyang. Today, Nanyang is empty, the countryside is deserted, business travel is cut off, refugees are running around everywhere, and the economy has collapsed. In many places, docks are

Forts have replaced counties and counties and become a new administrative agency. There are many forts between towns and villages, and the imperial power has basically disappeared here. Even according to the most optimistic estimates, the registered population of Nanyang will not exceed 300,000!

The largest county in the world, with a population of more than two million at its peak, now has a registered population of only 300,000. Such statistics are simply shocking.

Of course, the actual population is more than this. There are a large number of people hiding in Wubao. These cannot be calculated for the time being. At the same time, the refugees hiding in the mountains and forests with wild animals or wandering in groups in the countryside cannot be included.

Taking this into account, if all these people can be collected, the population may be doubled. But even so, the degree of population loss is still shocking.

The most tearful thing is that according to Jia You, the situation in Nanyang has been solved. Many counties in Henan, Hebei, Shandong, and Shanxi have become no-man's land, and not a single person can be seen!

This troubled world is too cruel.

Li Rui tried his best to squeeze out a smile and said: "Well... there's no need to be so pessimistic, you guys. At least we have captured the entire territory of Nanyang, captured so many young and strong refugees, and seized so much food. It's considered a success."

The mission has been completed, now there are only two things we have to do..."

Jia You said: "The first thing is to transport part of the captured grain to Luoyang to solve Luoyang's urgent need."

Sima Fan said: "The second step is to select loyal and brave warriors from the captured refugees to form a new army and send it to Luoyang!"

Li Rui nodded: "Yes." Then he looked at Sima Fan and sighed: "It is not difficult to select a group of brave and capable soldiers from these tens of thousands of prisoners, but the word loyalty... let's not mention it.

?It makes me sad to mention it.”

Sima Fan said angrily: "Li Rui, what do you mean? Do you think there are no subjects loyal to me in the Jin Dynasty in the whole world?"

Li Rui pouted: "It's possible to find it, but it's not easy to find. You have to sift through it. So let's not be so demanding. Just be brave and good at fighting. Don't ask for anything like loyalty!"

Sima Fan: "..."
Chapter completed!