One day later, large forces arrived, and the fire at the Klei Department station had been basically extinguished. Everyone who could be caught was caught, and those who could not be caught had no way to escape.
Two days later, Han Jinggui and Xin Qiji got the accurate seizure figures.
Statisticians accompanying the army basically determined that there were approximately 140,000 captured Klei tribesmen, men, women, old and children together.
In addition, the total number of captured war horses and untrained horses was about 170,000, and the total number of cattle and sheep was more than 300,000.
Counting the more than 70,000 people in the Klie tribe who were wiped out and captured before, more than half of the people in a tribe have been killed by this wave of attacks by the Ming army.
In just one war, the Kled tribe was reduced from a large tribe with a total number of more than 300,000 to a medium tribe with a total number of less than 100,000.
And the most important thing is that the entire tribe has lost all its young men. After this battle, there are still not even 10,000 young men left, and they are no longer able to support the appearance of a powerful tribe.
No matter how many old, weak, women and children there are, they are not as useful as the young and strong. The tradition of valuing the strong and devaluing the old on the grassland is not meaningless. Once there are no young and strong to support the facade and fight, the tribe is just a big fat sheep. Anyone dares to come up and bite you. Want to cry but no tears.
A lot of the property of the Klei tribe, including horses, cattle and sheep, did escape. There was nothing we could do about it. The Ming army was limited in number and could not capture so many, which was a pity.
It is estimated that the Ming army captured only two-thirds of their total possessions, and the remaining one-third was all scattered in the chaos. Due to various factors, there was no way to obtain it.
But the results are still good, especially since Tuoli, the supreme leader of the Klei tribe, has been caught.
When this guy was caught, he cried like a grandson and rolled around on the ground holding his buttocks. Su Yong stepped forward and stepped on his back, cut open his pants and saw his bloody buttocks.
"Hey! Good guy, who did this? If I knew this, I would have to give him a second-class credit! You old guy is cunning and cunning. I didn't expect to get an arrow in the butt! Hahahahaha!"
Su Yong felt very relieved. After laughing wildly, he felt that he couldn't let him die here so easily. He had to give him a sufficient lesson and complete the prisoner ceremony. This would best increase the power of Ming Dynasty and maximize the credit. change.
So Su Yong called a military doctor to treat his wounds.
Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty's military doctors had good treatment methods and medical reserves. After very strict training, they were very good at battlefield rescue and had good means of dealing with wounds from swords and crossbows.
The military doctor skillfully cleaned Tuoli's wound, disinfected it with wine, applied it with a very useful wound medicine, and bandaged it thickly. Tuoli stopped howling.
It changed to silent crying.
In just five or six days, he had gone from being the leader of a powerful tribe who responded to every call to being a prisoner, or such a useless prisoner. How could this make him feel so embarrassed?
But no matter how much he cried, it was useless. The fact was that, although the Ming army was unable to pursue those who escaped and there was no need to pursue them, even if they could gather together again to form a Kled tribe, they would never be as good as before. Stronger.
The powerful Kled tribe ceased to exist.
Han Jinggui and Xin Qiji felt very happy looking at the huge list of seized materials. They felt that such an income could completely make up for the economic losses caused by this war, and even make a huge profit.
Not to mention anything else, these war horses, as well as so many cattle and sheep, will contribute to the animal husbandry of war horses and cattle and sheep that is being spread in the Ming Dynasty, and directly fatten them up.
The two immediately wrote and asked for merit reports to be sent back to the Central Capital, letting Su Yonglin know that the Ming army had achieved such a glorious victory for the Ming Dynasty.
Xin Qiji was so happy that he started making witty remarks.
"I think the significance of this battle is that such a large-scale seizure can give Ming Dynasty's finances a breather and prevent Lin Jingchun from always looking at me like an enemy. You don't know that when His Majesty decided to send troops, Lin Jingchun looked at me The look in my eyes looks like it wants to eat me.”
"Hahahaha, I know, I know, this guy Lao Lintou is like this. He loves money as much as his life. Keeping money in his pocket is more important than anything else. He also had a famous saying back then, saying that money spent is not my money. I feel bad, hahahahaha!”
Han Jinggui was so happy that he also talked about interesting things from that year and made fun of Lin Jingchun.
But in the final analysis, the greatest significance of this victory is definitely not only the huge amount of materials seized, but also the strong voice of the Ming Dynasty on the grassland after the complete victory of this battle.
The right to speak through absolute military power.
According to Xin Qiji's understanding, Su Yonglin did not put the conquest of the grassland on his plan before this battle, but the active provocations of the Kelie and Qiyan tribes made him angry, so he decided to implement a plan to conquer the grassland.
Step by step, from military strikes to political profiteering to economic means, nothing is wrong.
Su Yonglin decided to use the military prestige gained by the Ming Dynasty in this war to strengthen its involvement in grassland affairs, strengthen the penetration and control of the Wanggu tribe and the Tatar tribe, and use these two tribes to achieve the construction of a new order in the grassland.
Thinking of this, Xin Qiji sighed very much——
Why do you think you are provoking the Ming Dynasty?
If we don't provoke him, we can still have a few good days, but now there are no good days left.
Of course, to achieve such a goal, a complete victory in this battle is required. The so-called complete victory naturally requires a military victory over the Qiyan tribe.
The Qiyan Department was the sole responsibility of the Tata'er Department. Xin Qiji was not sure whether the Tata'er Department could achieve a relatively large victory.
Therefore, after completely defeating the Klie tribe, Xin Qiji immediately sent someone to contact the Tata'er tribe to see how the Tata'er tribe was doing.
Xin Qiji really guessed it right. The Tata'er tribe and the Qiyan tribe really did not achieve a big victory in the battle, and of course there was no big defeat. The two sides fought according to their own fighting habits. They fought for several days in a row, and each had its own victory or defeat. , no one can do anything to anyone.
This time, the Tatar tribe came with the mood of revenge, while the Qiyan tribe came with the mood of acquiring property and making a fortune. The morale of the two sides was evenly matched, and no one could say that the morale was higher than the other.
The battle between the two tribes, which are not much different in strength, is naturally evenly matched. You have the upper hand today, I will have the upper hand tomorrow. You kill one of my generals, and I kill five hundred of your young men.
It can be said to be a battle without a winner.
It has to be said that in such a situation, if there is no breaking point, the war between the two sides will be long and stinky. In the end, it can only be said that the party that cannot hold on can choose to retreat, and it is difficult to have a situation like [big break]. .
And the Ming army was the breaking point.
After the defeat of the Kelie Division, Han Jinggui and Xin Qiji worked closely together to quickly complete the post-war reorganization, quickly reorganizing 35,000 soldiers who could achieve rapid maneuvers.
They even reached the configuration of one person and three horses.
After learning about the stalemate between the Tatar tribe and the Qiyan tribe, Han Jinggui ordered Su Yong and Zhong Xuemin to split up. Su Yong led 20,000 cavalry to quickly rescue the Tatar tribe and help the Tatar tribe defeat the Qiyan tribe. Strive to eliminate all the beggar soldiers.
The 20,000 people included the 5,000 ancient cavalry led by Wu Ge. They had not participated in the fierce battle before, but they had obtained many captures. Not to mention the criticism within the Ming Army, they themselves felt embarrassed.
So this time, Wu Ge, who was already determined to cling to the thigh of the Ming Dynasty, took the initiative to ask for a battle and led 5,000 ancient cavalry to follow Su Yong to help the Tatar people and strive to achieve military exploits.
