The reason why Zhou Tianxu was told not to kill people was because Zhu Hongyu was planning to use Tuhai's head to worship Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum after regaining Nanjing!
Zhu Hongyu was going to have a chat with his ancestors, so of course the sacrifices had to be fresh!
Facts have proved that Tuhai is not a tough guy!
Before all the torture methods on Ming's side were used, he confessed.
Hong Chengchou died of illness the day after he was angry and vomited blood, which was the first day of the Lunar New Year in the 20th year of Yongli.
As for Hong Chengchou's body, it was buried in a grove outside Jiaxing City, near the canal.
Zhu Hongyu looked at the report sent by Zhou Tianxu and said.
"Give me the order and send someone to go outside Jiaxing City!"
"Take out the bones of Hong Chengchou, and then prepare to use the body to make a kneeling statue!"
"I want to take that kneeling statue to pay homage to Emperor Taizu!"
Zhou Tianxu clasped his fists and accepted the order, then retreated.
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Subsequently, Zhu Hongyu began to clean up the battle in Jiangnan.
A large number of prisoners of war need to be reorganized and guarded, and one's own results and losses also need to be sorted and counted.
There is also the strategy of conquering the Jiangnan area and clearing out the defeated Qing troops who fled throughout the entire Jiangnan region!
If those defeated troops are allowed to remain unreturned, it will greatly affect the public security and people's livelihood in Jiangnan.
In addition, Zhu Hongyu also has to prepare for the takeover and management of the Jiangnan area...
It is obvious that although the Ming Dynasty won the decisive battle in Jiangnan, Zhu Hongyu was even busier!
But this is normal, what Zhu Hongyu needs to do before the decisive battle.
I just put all my energy into how to win this battle.
But after the decisive battle is over, he needs to devote his energy to many different aspects.
"Your Highness, our army suffered a total of 13,217 casualties in this battle!"
"Among them, nearly 7,800 were killed in battle, more than 2,100 were severely disabled, and more than 1,400 were lightly disabled. The rest were all able to return to the team after recovering from their injuries."
Shi Yongxin reported the report in front of Zhu Hongyu.
Zhu Hongyu nodded slightly and said.
"Do the follow-up work well!"
"The pensions for the fallen soldiers must be paid in full, and the livelihood of the disabled soldiers must be arranged accordingly after they retire."
"The military merit accounting work must also be done well, and the rewards that should be distributed must not be delayed!"
"I have sent an order to Guangzhou and Luzon to urgently escort a batch of vouchers and gold and silver coins to the south of the Yangtze River!"
After saying this, Zhu Hongyu continued to ask.
"Where's the result?"
"What do you think about the results?"
Shi Yongxin took out a report from the thick stack of reports in his hand, and then read it.
"The results are equally brilliant!"
"In this battle, our army annihilated a total of 113,000 Qing troops, including 8,400 Eight Banners soldiers, 6,200 Mongolian cavalry, and the rest were all Green Camp soldiers."
"In terms of prisoners, our army captured a total of 432,000 prisoners of war in this battle, including 73,000 Green Camp prisoners of war, 7,000 Mongolian cavalry, and more than 4,000 Eight Banner soldiers."
"Basically all the rest are civilian husbands!"
If you count the number of beheadings and prisoners, you will find that there are still a large number of defeated Qing troops scattered throughout the south of the Yangtze River. This number is at least tens of thousands.
And among the prisoners of the Ming army, the majority were civilian husbands!
Zhu Hongyu pondered for a while, and then spoke.
"Prisoners of war must be handled well!"
"Those who are willing to surrender to our Ming Dynasty will be reorganized into the Guiyi Army. Those who are unwilling to surrender will all be sent to labor camps and let them go to labor camps!"
In fact, Zhu Hongyu still has some doubts about how to deal with those prisoners of war.
Both the Green Camp soldiers and the Mongols are easy to talk to!
The Green Battalion can be directly reorganized into the Guiyi Army. As long as the food and salary are sufficient, their loyalty and combat effectiveness can be guaranteed.
As for the Mongols, it’s not like the Ming Dynasty didn’t have any established Mongolian cavalry!
The worst that can happen is to rebuild a 3,000 battalion!
But those Eight Banners soldiers were very difficult to deal with.
Kill them all, it’s a waste!
After all, they are all strong laborers!
Coupled with Zhu Hongyu's previous promise not to kill prisoners of war, he really was not prepared to kill these Eight Banners soldiers.
After all, the Qing army marched south, and although its military discipline was not very good, they did not do anything to massacre the city.
They have not touched Zhu Hongyu's bottom line!
Zhu Hongyu is naturally unwilling to kill anyone.
What really troubled Zhu Hongyu was that some of the Eight Banners soldiers who surrendered expressed their desire to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty and wanted to do things for the Ming Dynasty.
In the eyes of those Eight Banners soldiers, there is no shame in doing things for the strong!
In their eyes, Zhu Hongyu, who destroyed half of the main forces of the Qing Dynasty in one battle, was an absolute strong man, a strong man worthy of their allegiance.
This is exactly what Zhu Hongyu is struggling with!
Accept them and deal with them yourself!
Don't accept them, for fear that if you encounter the Eight Banners soldiers again, the Eight Banners soldiers will resist resolutely.
After carefully weighing the gains and losses, Zhu Hongyu finally resisted and accepted the Eight Banners soldiers who wanted to join the Ming Dynasty.
Fortunately, this number is not very large, only a few hundred people.
Although most of the Eight Banners soldiers surrendered to the Ming Dynasty in order to survive.
But they would rather choose to work hard in the labor camp than serve the Ming Dynasty, not because of anything else, but simply because they can't get over the final psychological hurdle.
After all, there are only a few people who can overcome their shame so quickly and choose to serve the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Hongyu's plan to deal with these soldiers who surrendered to the Eight Banners was to organize them into three thousand battalions together with the surrendered Mongolian cavalry.
These Eight Banners soldiers and Mongolian cavalry, if nothing else, at least their riding skills are definitely not bad.
As for how to ensure the loyalty of these surrendered Mongolians and Eight Banners soldiers, it is as simple as handing over certificates of name.
Zhu Hongyu planned to use the senior officials of the Qing army who refused to surrender after being captured in this battle to pay homage to Comrade Zhu.
When the time comes, let these people be responsible for the execution!
The kind that's in front of everyone~
For example, Wu Tuo can do the job of chopping off Tu Hai's head!
Once the certificate of surrender was handed in, they had no other choice but to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty.
Shi Yongxin continued.
"In addition, our army also captured a large number of war horses, guns, and a large amount of armor, swords, crossbows and other cold weapons in this battle."
"Among them, a total of more than 43,000 war horses were seized, 4,000 muskets, 3,000 large and small artillery pieces, more than 50,000 sets of various armors, swords, crossbows, arrows... and countless others!"
"..."
Zhu Hongyu took a breath of air-conditioning, but the rest didn't matter.
Those 43,000 war horses really made Zhu Hongyu jealous!
There are 43,000 war horses, even if it is a fine cavalry with one person and two horses, it can still train 20,000 horses.
Coupled with the original ten thousand cavalry of the Ming army, the size of the Ming cavalry was directly multiplied by three!
Thirty thousand riders!
If these 30,000 cavalry can be organized and trained, the Ming army will initially have the qualifications to compete with the Qing army in cavalry on the Great Plains of North China.
Zhu Hongyu nodded with satisfaction, the expression on his face was full of joy.
At this moment, Wang Ruxian came in from outside the tent, raised his hands to Zhu Hongyu and said.
"Your Highness, the celebration banquet is ready!"
"Everyone is waiting for you!"
Zhu Hongyu nodded slightly.
"Haha, let's go now!"
After that, he stood up and walked out of the tent, and under the protection of some guards, strode towards the military camp.