The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 546 Statistics
The reason why he told Zhou Tianxu not to kill people was because Zhu Hongyu was planning to take Tuhai's head to worship Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum after recovering Nanjing!
He, Zhu Hongyu, was going to chat with his ancestors, so the sacrifice must be fresh!

Facts have proved that Tu Hai is not a tough guy!

Before Da Ming used all the torture, he confessed.

Hong Chengchou died of illness on the second day after he vomited blood, that is, 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 small forest near the canal outside Jiaxing City.

Zhu Hongyu looked at the report sent by Zhou Tianxu, and said.

"Pass down the order and send someone to go outside Jiaxing City!"

"Extract Hong Chengchou's bones, and then use the corpses to cast a kneeling statue!"

"I'm going to take that kneeling statue to pay homage to Emperor Taizu!"

Zhou Tianxu cupped his fists to accept the order, and then retreated.

……

Subsequently, Zhu Hongyu started the finishing work of the Jiangnan War.

A large number of prisoners of war need to be reorganized and detained, and the results and losses of one's own side also need to be sorted out and counted.

There is also the strategy of the south of the Yangtze River, and the settlement of the defeated Qing army who fled to the whole of the south of the Yangtze River!
If those routs are not allowed to pay up, it will greatly affect the security and people's livelihood in the south of the Yangtze River.

In addition, Zhu Hongyu has to prepare for the acceptance and management of the Jiangnan area...

It was obvious that although Daming won the Jiangnan decisive battle, Zhu Hongyu was even busier!
But this is quite normal, what Zhu Hongyu needs to do before the decisive battle.

I just put all my energy into how to fight this battle well.

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 210 casualties in this battle!"

"Among them, nearly [-] were killed in battle, more than [-] were severely disabled, and more than [-] were slightly disabled. The rest were all able to return to the team after recovering from their injuries."

Shi Yongxin reported in front of Zhu Hongyu.

Zhu Hongyu nodded slightly and said.

"Do the follow-up work well!"

"The pensions for the dead soldiers must be paid in place, and after the disabled soldiers retire, their livelihoods must also be arranged as appropriate."

"The work of military merit accounting must also be done well, and the rewards that should be issued must not be delayed!"

"Gu has 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!"

Having said all this, Zhu Hongyu asked again.

"What about the results?"

"What about the results?"

Shi Yongxin took out a report from the thick stack of reports in his hand, and read it.

"The results are equally brilliant!"

"In this battle, our army wiped out a total of 11 Qing troops, including 3000 Eight Banners soldiers, 400 Mongolian cavalry, and all the rest were green battalion soldiers."

"In terms of captives, our army captured a total of 43 prisoners of war in this battle, including 2000 prisoners of war from the Green Battalion, 3000 Mongolian cavalry, and more than 7000 Eight Banners soldiers."

"Basically all the rest are civilian husbands!"

Counting the number of beheads and captives, you will find that there are still a large number of defeated Qing troops scattered all over the south of the Yangtze River. This number is at least tens of thousands.

And among the prisoners of the Ming army, civilian husbands were the main ones!

Zhu Hongyu pondered for a while, then spoke.

"The handling of prisoners of war must be done well!"

"Those who are willing to surrender to my Ming Dynasty will be reorganized in a centralized manner and organized into the Guiyi Army. Those who are not willing to surrender will all be sent to labor camps and let them go to reform through labor!"

In fact, Zhu Hongyu still has some doubts about how to deal with those prisoners of war.

Both the Green Battalion and the Mongols are easy to talk about!

The Green Battalion can be directly reorganized into the Guiyi Army. As long as the food and salaries are sufficient, loyalty and combat effectiveness can be guaranteed.

It's easy to say for the Mongols, the Ming Dynasty is not a Mongolian cavalry without a formal system!
The big deal is to rebuild a [-]-battalion establishment!

But those Eight Banners soldiers are very difficult to deal with.

Kill it all, waste!
After all, they are strong laborers!
Coupled with Zhu Hongyu's previous promise not to kill prisoners of war, he was really not going to kill these Eight Banners soldiers.

After all, the Qing army went south all the way. Although the military discipline was not good, they did not do anything to massacre the city.

They didn't touch Zhu Hongyu's bottom line!

Zhu Hongyu was naturally unwilling to kill anyone.

What really troubled Zhu Hongyu was that among those Eight Banners soldiers who surrendered, some expressed to Daming that they wanted to be loyal and to do things for Daming.

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 Qing Dynasty's main force in World War I, was an absolute strong man, a strong man worthy of their allegiance.

This is exactly what Zhu Hongyu was struggling with!

Accept them, and respond to them yourself!

Don't accept them, for fear of encountering the Eight Banners soldiers again, the Eight Banners soldiers will resolutely resist.

After carefully weighing the gains and losses, Zhu Hongyu finally resisted the shock and accepted those Eight Banners soldiers who wanted to serve Ming Dynasty.

Fortunately, this number is not very large, only a few hundred people.

Although most of the Eight Banners soldiers surrendered to Ming Dynasty in order to survive.

But they would rather choose to work as coolies in a labor camp than to serve Daming, not because of anything else, but simply because they can't get over the final psychological hurdle.

Those who can overcome their shame so quickly and choose to serve Daming are only a few after all.

Zhu Hongyu's disposal of these surrendered Eight Banners soldiers was to organize them into three thousand battalions together with the surrendered Mongolian cavalry.

These Eight Banners soldiers and Mongolian cavalry, among other things, must at least have good riding skills.

As for how to guarantee the loyalty of these surrendered Mongols and Eight Banners soldiers, that's as simple as handing in their names.

Zhu Hongyu was going to pay homage to old Comrade Zhu with the high-ranking Qing army who refused to surrender after being captured in this battle.

At that time, let these people be responsible for the execution!

The kind in public~
For example, Wu Tuo can do the work of cutting off Tu Hai's head!
After handing in the nomination certificate, they have no other choice but to be loyal to Daming.

Shi Yongxin continued.

"In addition, our army also seized a large number of war horses, guns, and a large number of cold weapons such as armor, swords, bows and crossbows in this battle."

"Among them, a total of more than [-] war horses, [-] muskets, [-] large and small cannons, more than [-] sets of various armors, swords, bows, arrows, etc. were captured!"

"..."

Zhu Hongyu gasped, but the rest didn't matter.

Those [-] war horses really made Zhu Hongyu jealous!
With [-] war horses, even a fine rider with one man and two horses can train [-] horses.

In addition to the original ten thousand cavalry of the Ming army, the size of the Ming cavalry is directly multiplied by three!
Thirty thousand rides!
If these [-] cavalry can be compiled and trained, the Ming army will initially have the qualifications to compete with the Qing army on the North China Plain.

Zhu Hongyu nodded in satisfaction, the expression on his face was full of joy.

At this moment, Wang Ruxian came in from outside the big tent, cupped 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 here alone!"

After finishing speaking, he got up and walked out of the big tent, and under the protection of some guards, he strode towards the barracks.

(End of this chapter)