After seeing the head of Jidu, Zhou Shixiang fulfilled his promise and allowed the remnants of the Qing army to surrender, with a total of 3,120 Mongol soldiers, 148 Manchurian soldiers, and 275 Han troops. In addition, 2,850 horses, 1,460 pieces of armor, and a number of weapons were obtained.

In the Eastern Crusade, the Taiping Army wiped out more than 14,000 Qing troops, including more than 1,200 Manchurian soldiers, more than 1,500 Mongolian soldiers, more than 4,600 Han troops, more than 4,000 northern green battalion soldiers, and more than 3,000 Chaozhou green battalions.

The Qing army successively killed 123 Manchurian and Mongolian Han generals under the commander of Wuzhenchaoha, Shen Yongxing, the Duke of Xushun, Ji Dali, the commander of the Manchurian Forward Battalion, and Wu Liuqi, the governor of Guangdong. The commander of the Qing army, General Dingyuan, Prince Jian Jidu, Dutong Nahai, Belle Dueryou and others were killed by the Mongol soldiers. In addition, Liu Zhong, the commander-in-chief of Guide, Zhang Chao, the commander-in-chief of Nanyang, and others led their troops to surrender. Yang Zhenwei, the general soldier of Zhending, and Zhang Dan, the general soldier of Tongzhou, died of illness and internal strife.

After Jidu's death, Zhou Shixiang immediately ordered to surrender the Mongolian soldiers to Puning to attack Lu Guangzu's department, thinking that Lu Guangzu would flee back to Chaozhou to hold on, and did not want to see that the Mongolian soldiers had surrendered to the Taiping army, Lu Guangzu immediately sent someone to send a letter of surrender, leading the 4,000 battalions of troops and Chaozhou City to surrender.

When he decided to surrender, Lu Guangzu was afraid that the Fujian Green Battalion would not surrender together, so he came to the Fujian generals and laid down the sword and axe men behind the military tent. After that, Lu Guangzu ordered Li Tianshui, Shi Qing and other officers to lead people to control the Fujian battalion soldiers, and sent people to the Taiping Army to deliver a letter of surrender. Lu Guangzu surrendered along with Wu Wenxian, the prefect of Chaozhou, and Song Guozhong, the prefect of Haiyang, and other officials appointed by the Qing court.

Zhou Shixiang knew that Lu Guangzu was sincerely surrendering, because Jidu's death made this deputy commander of Wuzhen Chaoha have no choice. The Qing court will definitely hold the prince accountable for his death in battle, and he, the Han who fled back, will definitely be slaughtered as a scapegoat, so his only choice is to surrender.

After accepting Lu Guangzu's surrender. Zhou Shixiang ordered Wu Wenxian, the prefect of Chaozhou who surrendered, to lead people to the counties of Chaozhou that were still controlled by the Qing army to persuade them to surrender, and clearly said that if there were those who did not surrender, the Taiping army would arrive on the same day, and after the city was broken, regardless of officials, soldiers and civilians, the old and weak, women and children would be slaughtered.

Threatened by Jidu's death and the slaughter of the city, the counties of Chaozhou changed their banners one after another. Except for Haiyang County, where the capital of Chaozhou was located, which had been occupied by the Taiping Army, Puning, Huilai and Yizhi, the rest of the counties in Chaozhou were successively returned to the Ming Dynasty, and a total of seven counties were obtained: Jieyang, Chengxiang, Raoping, Zhenping, Dapu, Pingyuan, and Chenghai. There are 84,000 people in Dingkou, and the actual population is more than 136,000 people. In addition, there are more than 3,000 garrison battalions in seven counties.

All the officials appointed by the Qing court in the seven counties surrendered, and none of them closed the city and rebelled. For these demotion officers. Zhou Shixiang was all retained, and the Chaozhou prefect also asked Wu Wenxian to continue to be in charge, and only those battalions were transferred to Puning to accept the reorganization.

In addition to the county seat, there are more than 100 large and small villages in Chaozhou. Zhou Shixiang ordered Lu Guangzu's troops to sweep away these villages. Those who wish to surrender will be made in the whole book, and those who do not surrender will be uprooted in the whole village. With the assistance of Lu Guangzu's troops and the soldiers who returned to the battalions from various counties, it took only half a month to uproot all these forts, and there were more than 20,000 people in Dingkou, and more than 5,000 young and strong people in them.

After the war, the Taiping army was in urgent need of replenishment, and the original four towns were to be expanded to eight to ten towns to cope with the next westward expedition, so except for the surrendered and captured Qing troops, they were all included in the Taiping army. Those soldiers and civilians were not released, and Zhou Shixiang asked all counties in Chaozhou to select the strong and send them to Puning according to the method of drawing one out of three. In this way, another 7,000 Ding Zhuang, plus the Qing army and people who surrendered in advance, there are more than 20,000 people in Chaozhou alone for the Taiping army to replenish.

The first town suffered the heaviest casualties during the Battle of Xuanwu Mountain, and only one brigade of the third brigade remained, which urgently needed to be replenished. Zhou Shixiang ordered 5,000 people to be transferred to the first town from the surrendered army, 500 people from the Liu Zhong Department of the Guide General Army, 400 people from the Nanyang General Army Zhang Chao Department, 600 people from the Chaozhou Green Battalion, 1,200 people from Lu Guangzu's Department, 200 people from the Han Army, and the rest from the Chaozhou garrison battalion and young and strong soldiers, so as to complete the first town.

In view of the fact that there were more than 3,000 Mongolian soldiers who came to surrender, if a separate part was formed, it might be difficult to control it in the future, so Zhou Shixiang built another cavalry battalion in the first, second, and third towns, and split and transferred the Mongolian soldiers into each town. Although this move made Su Rile dissatisfied, it had to be carried out under the strength of the Taiping army. In this way, the first, second, and third towns have 7,475 men in the third brigade of the infantry army, and there is also a battalion of 775 cavalry, and the actual number of soldiers is 8,250.

The remaining Mongolian soldiers are still incorporated into the cavalry brigade, and the cavalry battalions of each town are under the separate command of each town when they are assembled in a non-campaign manner.

After the replenishment of personnel was in place, the first town immediately returned to Guangzhou by land after resting in Puning for three days. Zhou Shixiang also established the sixth town, with Manchurian Suna as the town general and Lu Guangzu as the deputy general. The soldiers of the sixth town are composed of Fujian soldiers, Chaozhou soldiers and Chaozhou young soldiers, and there are 7,475 soldiers without cavalry battalions.

Suna was very happy when he learned that he had been appointed as a town general, and asked Zhou Shixiang for an order, and specially sent the more than 100 Manchurian soldiers who surrendered with Jieshiwei to his town. In this regard, Zhou Shixiang readily agreed, and ordered Suna to arrange those Manchurian soldiers on his own, and the appointment of officers below the battalion school level could be self-determined.

The replenishment time of the sixth town was a little longer, and the need to adapt to the military system of the Taiping Army also required the officers at the brigade school level to be transferred from the old town of the Taiping Army, so they were moved to Huizhou Haifeng after resting in Puning for half a month.

The fifth town originally stationed in Puning was transferred to Chaozhou garrison, the fifth town was originally adapted from the surrender of the green battalion soldiers in Guangzhou, and captured a lot of Qing prisoners and village soldiers when they were fighting grain in Chaozhou, and there was no need to supplement the soldiers, but the combat effectiveness was not high, and the military discipline was also unbearable. In order to solve this problem, Zhou Shixiang ordered the Fifth Town and the Second Town to each transfer one brigade, and the Huang Sicheng Brigade of the Fifth Town and the Yu Shizhong Brigade of the Second Town, so as to ensure the combat effectiveness of the Fifth Town and ensure that the military discipline of the Fifth Town could be effectively supervised.

Yu Shizhong's brigade showed super combat effectiveness during the Lufeng Defense War, although Yu Shizhong's training method was Qi Jiajun, which was different from Zhou Shixiang's infantry drill, but as long as it could produce combat effectiveness, Zhou Shixiang did not mind Yu Shizhong's training method, and he was very pleased that Qi's army could be continued in the Taiping Army.

One Yu Shizhong alone was enough to stabilize the Fifth Town, and Zhou Shixiang ordered Song Xianggong to immediately transfer an army envoy from Guangzhou to the Fifth Town to ensure the military discipline of the Fifth Town. Zhou Shixiang gave Zhao Ziqiang a strict order, prohibiting further plundering in Chaozhou. It's not enough to have a verbal warning, transferring to the Yu Shizhong Brigade is a means, and the sixth town stationed in Haifeng is also a sharp blade hanging over Zhao Ziqiang's head, if he doesn't obey the military order, there is the Yu Shizhong Brigade inside, and the sixth town outside, which is enough for Zhao Ziqiang to weigh the weight.

The second town has not returned to Guangzhou for the time being, and after solving the affairs of Chaozhou, Zhou Shixiang must solve the affairs of Huizhou, and he intends to reorganize Hu Qili's department into the seventh town. (To be continued.) )