After the failed breakout, the Ming army collapsed completely. No matter whether it was the soldiers from the local garrison or the soldiers recruited by the supervisor, there was no difference at this time. They scrambled to escape to the rear. Some wanted to escape back to the city, but
Some people tried to bypass the interception of the puppet Tang rebel army in front and escape from both sides.
But as a unit with independent combat capabilities, the Fourth Mixed Regiment has cavalry!
A cavalry team of hundreds of people was roaming on the flanks, waiting for these deserters from the defeated Ming army!
Looking at the Ming army that had been completely defeated, Gu Shizhong showed a disdainful expression. These Ming troops were nothing more than this. Even the so-called Supervisory New Army with more than 2,000 people inside, but in this panic, its combat effectiveness was not
How strong are the soldiers in those local guards!
After the fourth mixed regiment defeated the Ming army who wanted to charge and break through, they did not stop where they were. Instead, they quickly advanced forward, chasing the Ming army who fled back into the city, towards the city gate, and quickly took control of the city.
door, and then completely blocked the opportunity for the Ming army in the city to rush out and escape!
This situation also happened in the Fifth Mixed Regiment. The Fifth Mixed Regiment also took control of the city gate after defeating more than two thousand Ming troops who tried to break through!
It didn't take long for the three main forces of the Fifth Infantry Division, the Fourth Mixed Regiment, and the Fifth Mixed Regiment to cooperate with each other and completely control the surrounding walls of Luling City. The remaining Ming army soldiers could only hide in the city.
After taking control of the city, Li Chunjing ordered his troops to seize the opportunity to continue marching into the city, controlling all traffic arteries and important areas, and resolutely not giving the Ma Ming army in the city a chance to reorganize.
In the afternoon and evening of that day, the gunfire in Luling City continued to sound, but it became more and more intensive. A large number of Ming army remnants were surrounded and suppressed, and a small number of those who resisted were killed, but most of them chose to surrender!
It is a pity that none of the civil and military officials of the Ming army in the city, especially the senior officials, chose to lead their troops to surrender. Only a few were captured. Some were found to have committed suicide, while some had no idea where they ended up and might have escaped.
After leaving the city, he might be hiding in the city, or he might blend in with the captured Ming soldiers.
But all this is not important to Li Chunjing. What is important is that he captured Luling City and cleared the first and most difficult obstacle to continue going north. Next, as long as he follows the steps,
Taking Fuzhou and Nanchang is just around the corner!
When he leads his army to the edge of the Yangtze River, who would dare to say that he is not qualified for the rank of Army Lieutenant General?
After dawn, a battle report will be sent out of Luling City through three hundred miles, and then delivered to the rear. This battle report will go all the way back to Zhaoqing to report victory to Li Xuan!
Although the battle reports of the victory were sent out, the clearing operations in Luling City continued. There were too many broken troops in the city. Although there was no organized resistance, there were too many broken soldiers scattered in the numerous residences in the city.
They need to be eliminated one by one.
The Army of the Tang Dynasty was also very familiar with this kind of work of clearing out defeated troops in the city, and the methods they used were simple. They directly controlled various traffic arteries and important areas, divided each urban area into intervals.
Then directly ask all the people in this area to come out from their homes and gather at the designated location. I can't say 100% of those who hid and refused to come out, but most of them were those who collapsed.
It is also easy to identify the broken soldiers who have blended into the people. First, Qingzhuang was selected. Luling City was just a prefectural city in the past. There were only tens of thousands of residents in the city, including all Qingzhuang.
There are only seven or eight thousand people at most!
But there were almost 20,000 young men selected!
Then there is a simple accent recognition. Anyone with a foreign accent is basically impossible to be a native of the city. He will be taken away directly and then identified. If the person does not have a reasonable reason, he will be taken away as a defeated soldier regardless of whether he admits it or not.
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If they say that they are locals or outsiders who come here but refuse to admit that they are soldiers of the Ming Army, they will be interrogated and their family members or friends will be asked to pick them up.
This simple identification method cannot be said to be 100% able to catch all the defeated soldiers, but most of them can still be caught. At least some of the trapped fish can escape, and the Datang Army does not care.
Three days later, the city was completely cleared, and the detailed results of the battle were also calculated!
In this battle, excluding the civilians who transported the baggage in the rear, the army and navy of the Imperial Army of the Tang Dynasty participated in the battle with about 30,000 troops.
Excluding two-pound and three-pound shotguns, the Army participated in the war with about 150 field guns over five kilograms, thirty navy warships, and more than twenty artillery pieces over five kilograms.
More than 10,000 rounds of artillery shells weighing more than five kilograms were fired, and more than 800 rounds of large-caliber grenades were fired.
Basically, the city wall of Luling City was reduced to ruins, and a large number of buildings in the city, especially near the city wall, were damaged!
The troops participating in the battle were killed, more than 800 were missing, and more than a thousand were injured. In other words, the number of casualties was about 2,000, and the casualties were mainly concentrated in the front-line troops ascending the city, including two assault battalions and the fifth.
The infantry division's charge troops and artillery also suffered losses in the artillery battle.
As for the cavalry, there were no casualties!
And their results are brilliant!
More than 50,000 Ming troops in the city were completely wiped out. More than 6,000 enemy troops were directly killed, countless wounded, and more than 40,000 people were captured. Only a few thousand Ming troops took advantage of the chaos to escape!
Among the more than 50,000 Ming troops who were completely wiped out, there were still 5,000 governors and 3,000 border troops!
Well, in fact, the Ming army with the most casualties was also these supervisors and border troops, because they were the main force in the defensive operations at the top of the city. Basically, many of them suffered heavy casualties in the first place, and it was also because of their heavy casualties.
, directly led to the collapse of the Ming army defending the city.
As for the ordinary guard soldiers, the proportion of casualties is not large, because although they are large in number, they only undertake auxiliary tasks, such as the bloodiest city battles, and the guard soldiers are not involved at all. They are in the assault camp of the Datang Army.
After ascending to the top of the city, everyone immediately ran away.
The most heroic one who resisted was Supervisor!
From the identification of the military uniforms of the Ming army who died in the battle, it was found that more than a thousand supervisors died in the battle, but the total number of supervisors defending the city was only 5,000. In other words, one-fifth of the 3,000 frontier troops were directly engaged in combat.
If you count the injured, it is possible that more than half of them were killed or injured.
This is certainly related to the fact that they are the first line of troops defending the city and have withstood the most intense firepower during the battle, but their will to resist is still far greater than that of the guardsmen and the border troops.
If they didn't resist desperately, they wouldn't have killed or injured so many people. I didn't see that the guardsmen were still alive and well.
As for the border troops, their fighting will is not weak, but the weapons and equipment of these border troops are too poor, and they basically rely on personal bravery to fight. In the battle with the Datang Army, they are very unsuitable for the Datang Army.
That kind of collective fighting means a lot of casualties!
In the post-war discussion meeting, Wang Shanxu gave a simple ranking to the Ming armies based on the battle: the most powerful was the Dubiao New Army, followed by the border army, then the local recruits, and then the ordinary guards.
The worst of the soldiers were those young and strong men who didn't even have weapons.
But Wang Shanxu said with full confidence that no matter whether it was the Dubiao New Army or the border army, they were all defeated by the Tang Dynasty King's Division!
He even went so far as to say that if it were a frontal field battle, his Fifth Infantry Division could stand alone against an army of 50,000 people!
If we talk about guard troops, his Fifth Infantry Division can fight 150,000!
Well done, this is purely bragging, and it’s a bit exaggerated!
In fact, according to the reports of the frontline mid-level officers who participated in the battle, almost all of the resistance they encountered during this siege came from Du Biao and the border troops, with Du Biao as the core.
In other words, they actually used a main force of 30,000 to attack the 8,000 Ming Army Governor Biao and the border troops!
In this battle, the Tang Army suffered more than 2,000 casualties, and most of the 8,000 Ming Army suffered casualties!
In terms of battle loss ratio, it is roughly one to three!
And this ratio is completely different from previous battles. In previous battles, it was normal to have a battle loss ratio of 1:7 or even 1:10, but now, it can only be 1:3.
This makes Li Chunjing a little worried!
If the Ming army's governors and frontier troops had such combat effectiveness, then after they conquered Fuzhou and captured Nanchang, the total number of casualties of the Second Army would probably exceed 5,000 or more.
For the Second Army, which had a total strength of only 30,000 men, this was a real thorn in the side!
Although the Fourth Supplementary Brigade with its rear can provide new recruits, the combat effectiveness of new recruits and veterans is not the same.
Therefore, after analyzing many battle reports, Li Chunjing did not feel happy about conquering Luling City. Instead, he wrote a handwritten note. The note listed in detail the process of the Battle of Ji'an, as well as the comparison of casualties between the enemy and the enemy, and focused on Zhang Zhang.
Yue's supervisor said that even though the unit was not as good as our army, it had learned a few things and was quite capable in combat.
As time goes by, this department may become the main enemy of the King's Division in the future.
As for the border troops, he didn't care much. They were just a group of old-style troops. They were already behind the times. Even if they were bloody, they couldn't stop the guns. What's more, their bloody qualities were not as strong as those in the legend, and they were not as strong as Zhang.
What about Yue Dubiao’s fighting will!
This new army of supervision and control created by Zhang Yue is a tough one. To destroy this new army of supervision and control, even if it means paying a high price, we should not take it lightly.
In addition to reporting on the battle situation, Li Chunjing also made a key point of requesting for more heavy howitzer troops!
In this battle, the role played by the heavy howitzer Su was too great, and it was almost irreplaceable. It was so great that any general of the Tang Army must pay attention to it.