The Green Camp Army camp to the west of the Qing army collapsed first, followed by the Manchu army's central camp, and finally the east camp of Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming.

Taking advantage of the great opportunity of the Qing army's defeat, the morale of the Ming army also reached a high point. Under the leadership of the officers, all units began to pursue the victory.

Zhang Dong held a spear in his hand and stabbed forward with a rush. With a clanging sound, the spearhead stabbed the chain mail of the Eight Banners soldier he was pursuing.

Although the armor on the Eight Banners soldier was not pierced, his back was hit like this, and he staggered and fell to the ground. Before he could get up, five or six Ming soldiers rushed up, and several long spears quickly stabbed his neck and head.

At this time, there is no need to use a heavy axe hammer, otherwise such two good pairs of armor would be ruined in vain. Intact armor is expensive, but it is a top-notch trophy on the battlefield.

After killing the Eight Banners soldiers, Zhang Dong, Chen Yu, Huang Fa and others immediately followed the more than 20 soldiers led by Zhuang Lidong and continued to pursue the defeated Qing army. At this time, countless Ming army infantry and cavalry were rushing by their side.

On the top of Fengyang City, soldiers, village warriors, and servants were all looking forward to it. The servants even stopped moving the wood and stones, and shouting and killing continued to shake the sky and earth. Countless flames were burning on the plains to the north.

Zhuang Lidong soon received an order, stopped the pursuit, and then led his troops back to clean the battlefield, and sent some troops to be responsible for the vigilance and prevent any possible accidents.

Although Xue Laoer sent cavalry to pursue him, he did not underestimate the enemy's carelessness. He was vigilant as he should have, and he did not relax at all.

Zhou Shixian's night attack was successful, and the Qing army lost more than half and fled in panic. The Eight Banners and Green Camp soldiers were either gathering the defeated soldiers or still fleeing in panic, and they could not organize a counterattack.

Zhuang Lidong and his soldiers began to clean the battlefield, harvest their heads, and occasionally finish the attacks on the Qing soldiers who were lying on the ground and could move.

They cut off the heads of the Qing soldiers, distinguished between Manchus and Han, and after stacking them separately, they would pay special attention to unloading all the well-preserved armor, muskets, and other weapons and equipment on the Qing soldiers, piled them on the ground, and then put the flag of the General Manager in the hundredth century and wait for the military judge to test the merits.

The equipment on each elite soldier is very expensive, with a total value of more than forty taels of silver. If he can rely on seizure to supplement part of it, it will greatly alleviate financial pressure.

After all, after each battle, the winning side is the one who is invincible, and the loss of various equipment is also very amazing. Just the supplement of the depleted weapons and equipment of the new army under Zhou Shixian may reach hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

After the Ming army basically cleaned up the battlefield and retreated to the camp, it was already bright. Zhou Shixian was already surrounded by his personal guards and arrived at the north bank of the Huai River.

Looking at the overturned Qing army camp and the continuous civilians on its own, the soldiers were counting and carrying spoils, Zhou Shixian was naturally very excited.

In addition to the burned tents, clothes and quilts, the Qing army camp also stored a lot of supplies, and even more than twenty red artillery artillery needed to siege the city, as well as lead bullets and gunpowder, and even various siege equipment that had been built.

These supplies were all the ones that the Qing army had no time to transfer. They were many war horses released by the Qing army before they ran away. At this time, they had been recovered by the Ming cavalry while they were chasing them.

Soon, the battalions and generals who had commanded the army to pursue the defeated Qing army gathered again in the large tent specially set up by Zhou Shixian on the north bank of the Huai River.

At this time, the generals of the battalions who returned from victory naturally stepped forward and flattered Zhou Shixian, and no one was willing to fall behind.

Although Zhou Shixian was happy to hear these flattering words, he was not the kind of person who was so proud.

However, the Ming Dynasty prince consort designed to retreat to the enemy, attack the Qing army at night, and win a complete victory, which was indeed the public opinion offensive that Zhou Shixian needed at present. He even needed this matter to be known to all the soldiers and the people of the world, so as to accumulate greater political reputation.

On weekdays, Zhou Shixian pays great attention to the construction of his own prestige and the creation of his image. In addition, under the planning of Lu Jiude and Wang Chaodong, many mysterious rumors surrounding him were exaggerated. In this era of strict hierarchy, he has long become the god of war in the hearts of many people.

And these are all necessary and far from enough for Zhou Shixian, who wanted to seize the "bird position" of Emperor Chongzhen.

After hearing the praises of the generals, Zhou Shixian immediately announced the start of military discussion. Although the war had achieved a decisive victory, it is not the time to take it lightly.

The generals also knew very well that although this battle defeated the main force of the Qing army, they did not achieve the goal of completely annihilated the Qing army outside the city. The Qing army retreating north even organized several slightly large-scale blockades in the end.

"I have seen the military newspaper's son-in-law. This war was very good. I was still entrenched here last night. The arrogant elite Qing army has now been lost for more than half, and there is no possibility of gathering south in a short period of time. Everyone in the account is a great hero of my Ming Dynasty."

Zhou Shixian sat on the top, looked around, then stopped his eyes on Xue Laoer, and said, "The most difficult thing among them is General Xue, Yu Zheng faced the main force of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty."

When Xue Laoer heard this, although he was surprised, he did not show it. Instead, he pretended to be surprised and said, "The prince-consort, I dare not."

Zhou Shixian naturally understood that this veteran who had been in the army for many years was meticulous, but those who had made contributions must reward, and those who had experienced it must be punished. He would not change because of the other party's sleekness.

At this time, all the generals in the tent also showed joy. Zhou Shixian's words were obviously going to give a big reward. After all, after winning such a battle, everyone was actually waiting for the reward.

After this war, Zhou Shixian had fully trusted the army under his command and Xue Laoer's military capabilities. With the reputation he gained in this battle to defeat the main force of the Qing army, it would be easy to expand his troops in the future. Those military leaders would no longer have any domineering people.

The generals in the tent will also be improved faster with the expansion of the new army on the stage set up by Zhou Shixian.

However, although this battle soon ended with the victory of the Ming army, it was not easy to win in fact.

The Ming army eventually suffered nearly 5,000 casualties, of which more than 1,000 were killed by Huang Degong's troops and annihilated more than 15,000 Qing troops. However, the Eight Banners of Manchus killed less than 6,000, more than 1,000 vassal soldiers, and most of the rest were Green Camp soldiers with weak combat power.

This casualty exchange ratio is based on the night attack, which is very telling the problem - the combat effectiveness of the elite troops of the Ming army and the Qing army's Eight Banners can only be considered equal in size, and at most it is slightly better.

In other words, the current combat effectiveness of the Ming army is still quite far from Zhou Shixian's requirements. Perhaps these recruits have to wait until these new soldiers have experienced a few more battles and accumulated enough battlefield experience to truly achieve an invincible state in field battles.

Therefore, as soon as the Serie Ancestral Merit ended, Zhou Shixian did not stop and immediately took advantage of this military discussion to study the post-war deployment.

"After this battle, unless reinforcements come from the north, the Qing army will inevitably not fight again. This is an opportunity to go north to recover lost territory."

However, after Zhou Shixian finished speaking, he paused and frowned slightly and said: “But the Qing army still has tens of thousands of troops, and after the rectification, it still has combat power. Our army can fight less than 20,000 troops. If the Qing army from Shaanxi, Gansu, Northern Zhili and other places came to support us when our army was pursuing north, the situation would probably be very unfavorable.”

Such concerns are not overwhelming. After all, Dorgon still had an army of about 20,000 people in the capital, and Wu Sangui and Gao Di's second group of troops had a total of more than 30,000.

As soon as Zhou Shixian finished speaking, he immediately started to talk in the big tent.

After a low voice, Zhang Huangyan took the lead in leaving the line and bowed his fists and said: "Mr. Prince Concubine, although the Qing army in the north still has a certain strength, the troops of Ajige in Shaanxi and Gansu west were restrained by treacherous robbers. Perhaps only the troops left behind in the northern Zhili could be sent to assist the war.

However, the officials felt that it would be impossible to send the army coefficients to the Tatars. The Eight Banners soldiers in the northern Zhili were thousands of miles apart, and they were beyond reach. It was absolutely possible for our army to take the opportunity to recover Huaibei."

Zhang Huangyan naturally tended to take the opportunity to send troops to recover Huaibei. Moreover, what he said was actually in line with Zhou Shixian's ideas.

However, as a leader, Zhou Shixian naturally could not express his ideas from the beginning. If there were any omissions and negligence, it would be a huge blow to his prestige.

Therefore, he had to let his subordinates say all the thoughts and unexpected things he had and give a summary to appear far-sighted.

Of course, if there is something he thought of, but what his subordinates didn't say, it would be great, and this would show Zhou Shixian's wise and magical martial arts even more.

Sure enough, after Zhang Huangyan, the generals no longer had too many concerns and began to speak, most of whom supported what Zhang Huangyan said, and wanted to send troops north, at least recover the prefectures and counties in the southern Zhili region of Huaibei.

However, there were also a few who said they should act cautiously, worried that the Qing army would go south again and be defeated one by one by one by one.

However, after weighing the pros and cons and analyzing the situation, Zhou Shixian finally agreed to the suggestions of Zhang Huangyan's faction. The land in the Southern Zhili region cannot be thrown away by Zhou Shixian's hands, as this is not only a military issue, but also a political issue.

Moreover, with the terrain of Huaibei, Zhou Shixian had 20,000 troops under his command, Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing, Huang Degong, Ma Shiying, and Lu Zhenfei, and had nearly 20,000 armoured soldiers. In addition, the rest of the combat power was weak, but the troops that were enough to defend the city were defending relying on the terrain of the city to resist the attack of the Qing army, which was already a grasshopper in autumn.

As for the active attack, it was impossible for the Ming army at this time, and it was actually impossible for the Qing army.

Both sides are exhausted.
Chapter completed!