After Sun Kewang left the city, he found that the main cavalry led by Liu Wenxiu was not outside the city. It seemed that they had been beaten back to a considerable distance from the city.
With tens of thousands of people, even if they can't defeat the enemy troops outside the city, can they still do it outside the city? There is no one outside the city. They really don't take themselves seriously! Sun Kewang was so angry that his eyes showed
Kill them all.
Liu Wenxiu's main force had no choice but to escape from the city. The Ming army did not have many cavalry, with only more than 5,000 people at full strength. However, their assault capabilities were strong! Together with the infantry and artillery, they not only caused huge damage to Liu Wenxiu's troops
The casualties were so great that they couldn't stand their ground. As long as a large group of people gathered, they would be overtaken and scattered. In the end, they had to retreat far away because they couldn't bear the casualties.
Sun Kewang didn't meet Liu Wenxiu's main force, but he didn't want to leave directly. There were more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in the city. Now they were scattered in all directions. If he didn't gather some of the troops, he would lose everything. So he thought of spending some time outside the city.
, gathered the broken troops and then retreated, so as to recover as much losses as possible. The defeat and the battle of losing the city were not less fought. From a mental point of view, Sun Kewang was not at the point of collapse.
Just when he started to let the generals and soldiers who had followed him out of the city to collect the defeated army, he heard a dense sound of horse hooves and gunfire heading towards the direction where he was staying.
The Ming army outside the city determined their position so quickly? Sun Kewang was surprised!
How difficult is it to determine the location of Sun Kewang? A large number of Western troops scattered on the battlefield are gathering here. Anyone who is not a fool can think that there must be big fish here. Wang Er and others are all veterans of hundreds of battles, and they have a great sense of smell on the battlefield.
It’s so sensitive, but it still can’t smell? In addition, Ming army investigators used fireworks to convey messages on the battlefield, isn’t it a one-way and transparent battlefield?
"Your Majesty, it seems that the Ming army that is charging us is the Ming army that we suffered a lot in the Fujian battlefield. Brothers, they must not be able to stop it. Why don't we step back for a while first?" The leader of the soldiers had fought with Wang Er and the others several times.
You can tell it's Wang Er and the others by listening to the gunshots, because their gunshots are very different from those of other Ming troops.
"Who are these Uncle Wu Wei's soldiers and horses again? Are you sure?" Wang Er and others had left a shadow on Sun Kewang's heart in Fujian. When he heard that it was Wang Er and others who were chasing them, Sun Kewang's tone changed.
"You can't be wrong, their guns make this sound. Your Majesty, you have to leave quickly! Their guns have eyes, and they will hit the target from a hundred or two hundred paces away."
What are you waiting for? Sun Kewang didn't even reply, he turned his horse's head and started running wildly. On the battlefield in Fujian, he almost got shot.
The army was defeated like a mountain, and outside the city of Guangzhou, the fleeing Xiying troops were everywhere. As for Wang Er and the others, relying on four to five thousand cavalry, they chased Sun Kewang and the others like rabbits for seventy or eighty miles before they stopped.
, there were several opportunities to almost catch up with Sun Kewang.
Sun Kewang, who escaped, was in a very embarrassed state. There were less than a hundred people left around him, and all the others were scattered. The losses were beyond imagination.
In recent years, Guangzhou City has been the headquarters of Xiying, and most of their wealth is concentrated in the city. When the city is destroyed, it will definitely be too late to take it away. This defeat has lost a lot of money.
At this time, Fang Ruocheng and others were taking stock of what they had seized in the city.
"The bandit army is really causing great harm to the world. I did a rough inventory and found the treasury. There are at least 300,000 taels of silver, more than 10,000 taels of gold, more than 400,000 stone grains, and other silver coins and treasures.
Not less. Commander, our seizure this time is likely to exceed one million taels of silver. This is a fortune!" Wang Chengxuan, the commander of the army's headquarters, smiled while holding a rough statistical list urgently sent by political workers and logistics personnel.
I couldn't close my mouth.
It is normal for there to be seizures on the battlefield, but to capture so many in one battle was a rare phenomenon after the rise of the Ming army.
"More than one million taels? That's really a fortune. The other seizures should be sealed up as soon as possible, waiting for the court's disposal. As for the grain, a detailed list must be made as soon as possible, and then part of it can be borrowed for military rations." Fang Ruocheng also heard about the money.
When he got excited, even though the amount of seizures seemed to have nothing to do with him, even hearing about it made people happy.
"How much food does the headquarters need to borrow? There are quite a lot of bandits captured this time, and the people in the city have to be resettled. It's not enough. However, 400,000 stones of food will be enough for a while. I'm here to give orders.
What do you think, commander-in-chief, that Fujian will not be able to distribute food to Guangzhou for the time being?"
"Follow the supervisor's wishes! In the name of the headquarters, let's borrow 100,000 stone grain for the time being. Once the details are calculated, we will make a detailed decision based on the situation!"
"Yes! By the way, the troubles are quite big now. The city is full of prisoners. It is not easy to stabilize the prisoners in this city."
The exact number of people captured in the Battle of Guangzhou cannot be calculated for a while. In short, the entire city of Guangzhou is just a large prisoner camp. The defeated troops captured inside and outside the city were scattered throughout the city.
Fang Ruocheng and the others originally wanted to find a place to gather people for management, but when they started to operate, they realized that it was impossible. How could there be such a big place in the city to house so many prisoners? Because they could not calculate the specific amount for the time being, Fang Ruocheng and the others decided to
They can only be collectively referred to as the prisoners of one city to show that there were many prisoners this time.
"Militarily speaking, with the burden of these prisoners, for the time being we are unable to capture other big cities in Guangdong. At most, we will capture the surrounding Foshan. So the main task now is to resettle the prisoners. The imperial court's strategy is estimated to be several
It will take several months to arrive, so we have to discuss the matter of the prisoners during this period. My idea is to write a letter to the Governor of Fujian and ask him to authorize us to recruit two or three security brigades from the prisoners and organize them.
Lian. As for what to do with the remaining people, does the supervisor have any good ideas?"
Faced with such a large number of prisoners, recruiting two or three security brigades would not solve the big problem. For a while, Fang Ruocheng couldn't think of a better way, so he asked Wang Chengxuan if he had any ideas.
There are probably more than 100,000 prisoners, so we can't let them stay idle in Guangzhou for several months, right? Once people are idle, things are easy to happen, and it may lead to catastrophe. Effectively managing prisoners of war is also a big problem for us.
"Let's look at this. We'll find a way to borrow some people from Fujian and recruit some political workers from the army. We can temporarily organize the prisoners into groups and arrange for them to do what they can. Guangzhou's city defense and inner lanes have been greatly affected by the war. Prisoners can be organized to rebuild.
.At the same time, the docks in Guangzhou City are somewhat unusable, and now it is time to take advantage of the availability of so many manpower to build a new dock for both military and civilian purposes."
"Repair city defenses, straighten alleys, and build docks? That's fine! However, in addition to food, there are also some big expenses to fix these things. It can't be funded from military expenditures, right?"
"Let's write a letter to the Fujian Governor's Office and ask them to take the lead in doing these things. As for the expenses, we can borrow them from the seizures. There will be no worries from the court after our two yamen discuss things together. After all, we are leaving the court.
It’s too far, so many things need to be handled flexibly.”
