Surile's rebellion brought the Taiping Army's Eastern Expedition to an end. After seeing Jidu's head, Zhou Shixiang fulfilled his promise and allowed the remaining Qing troops of Jieshiwei to surrender. He obtained a total of 3,120 Mongolian soldiers, 148 Manzhou soldiers, 275 Han soldiers. He also obtained 2,850 war horses, 1,460 armors, and several weapons.

During the Eastern Expedition, the Taiping Army wiped out more than 14,000 Qing troops, including more than 1,200 Manzhou soldiers, more than 1,500 Mongolian soldiers, more than 4,600 Han soldiers, more than 4,000 northern green camp soldiers, and more than 3,000 Chaozhou green camps.

The Qing army successively killed Wu Zhenchaoha's commander, Shen Yongxing, Shen Daxing, the commander of the Manzhou Forward Battalion, Ji Dali, and one Manchu, Mongolian and Han general under the Guangdong Admiral Wu Liuqi. The commander of the Qing army, General Dingyuan, Prince Jian, Jidu, Commander Nahai, Beiledueryou and others were killed by Mongolian soldiers. In addition, General Guide Liu Zhong, General Nanyang, Zhang Chao and others led their troops to surrender. General Zhending Yang Zhenwei, General Tongzhou, Zhang boldly died of illness and internal strife.

After Jidu's death, Zhou Shixiang immediately ordered the surrendered Mongolian soldiers to Puning to attack Lu Guangzu's troops. He thought Lu Guangzu would flee back to Chaozhou to defend himself. He did not expect that after seeing that the Mongolian soldiers had surrendered to the Taiping Army, Lu Guangzu immediately sent someone to send a letter of surrender, leading his 4,000 battalions of troops to change flags and surrender to Chaozhou City.

When it was decided to surrender, Lu Guangzu was afraid that the Fujian Green Camp would not surrender together, so he sent a Fujian general. He snatched a knife and axe driver from behind the military tent. After the Fujian generals entered the tent, the knife and axe driver rushed out and slaughtered the Fujian generals in a flash. Later, Lu Guangzu ordered Li Tianshui, Shi Qing and other officers to take people to control the Fujian camp soldiers and send people to the Taiping Army to hand over the surrender letter. Together with Lu Guangzu, there were officials appointed by the Qing court such as Chaozhou Prefect Wu Wenxian and Haiyang Prefect Song Guozhong.

Zhou Shixiang knew that Lu Guangzu had surrendered sincerely, because Jidu's death left the deputy commander Wu Zhenchaoha without a choice. The Qing court would definitely hold the prince responsible for his death in battle. At that time, the Han man who fled back would definitely be slaughtered as a scapegoat, so his only choice was to surrender.

After accepting Lu Guangzu's surrender, Zhou Shixiang ordered the surrender of Chaozhou Wu Wenxian to take people to various Chaozhou counties still controlled by the Qing army to persuade them to surrender. He clearly stated that if there were no surrender, the Taiping army would arrive immediately. After the city was destroyed, regardless of officials, military and civilians, the elderly, weak, women and children, they would be slaughtered.

Due to Ji Du's death and the city massacre, Chaozhou counties changed their flags one after another. Except for Puning, Huilai and Chaozhou Prefecture, which had been occupied by the Taiping Army, the rest of Chaozhou counties, Chaozhou was located one after another. A total of seven counties, Jieyang, Chengxiang, Raoping, Zhenping, Dapu, Pingyuan and Chenghai, were 84,000 Dingkou, with a population of more than 136,000. Another seven counties were garrisoned by more than 3,000 battalions in the seven counties.

All the officials appointed by the Qing court in the seven counties surrendered, and no one resisted the city. Zhou Shixiang remained in office for these surrendered officials, and the Chaozhou prefect, also called Wu Wenxian, continued to transfer only those battalions to Puning to accept reorganization.

In addition to the county towns, there were more than 100 villages in Chaozhou. Zhou Shi ordered Lu Guangzu's troops to purge these villages. Those who were willing to surrender would be booked and all those who did not surrender would be removed. With the assistance of Lu Guangzu's troops and the surrendered camps of various counties, all of these fortresses were removed in just half a month, and more than 20,000 people in the den were obtained, and more than 5,000 young and strong inside were added.

The Taiping Army urgently needed to be supplemented after the war. The original four towns were to be expanded to eight to ten towns to cope with the subsequent Western Expedition. Therefore, except for the surrendered and captured Qing army, all the Qing army were included in the Taiping Army, the military and civilians were not released. Zhou Shixiang also called Chaozhou counties to select elite soldiers and send them to Puning according to the method of three tries and one tries, which resulted in 7,000 tries, plus the Qing army and civilians who surrendered in advance. In Chaozhou alone, there were more than 20,000 people available for Taiping Army to supplement.

The first town suffered the most casualties during the Battle of Xuanwu Mountain, with only one brigade left in the third brigade, and urgently needed supplementary. Zhou Shi ordered 5,000 people from the surrendered army to be transferred to the first town, and it was planned to select 500 people from the General Liu Zhong's army from Guide, 400 people from the General Zhang Chao's army, 600 people from the Green Camp in Chaozhou, 1,200 people from the Han army. The rest were selected from the soldiers of the Chaozhou garrison and the young and strong, so that the first town was fully supplemented.

Given that the number of Mongolian soldiers who came to surrender reached more than 3,000. If one was formed alone, it would be difficult to control it in the future. Zhou Shixiang would build another cavalry battalion in the first town, second and third towns. The Mongolian soldiers were split and transferred to each town. Although this move made Su Rile dissatisfied, it had to be done under the strength of the Taiping Army. In this way, the first, second and third towns had 7,475 cavalrymen in addition to the third brigade of the infantry, and there were 775 cavalrymen in the battalion, and the actual soldiers were 8,250.

The remaining Mongolian soldiers were still organized into the cavalry brigade. The cavalry battalions of each town were commanded separately when the battle was assembled. If there was a battle, the military commander's office would be dispatched according to the scale of the battle and the cavalry of each town was subject to unified command of the cavalry brigade.

After the first town was replenished, the first town immediately returned to Guangzhou by land after three days of rest in Puning. Zhou Shixiang established the sixth town again, with Suna from Manzhou as the town general and Lu Guangzu as the deputy general. The soldiers of the sixth town were composed of Fujian soldiers, Chaozhou soldiers and Chaozhou young and strong soldiers. They were not organized into cavalry battalions, and there were actually 7,475 soldiers.

When Suna learned that he had been entrusted as a general, she was very happy and asked Zhou Shixiang for an order, and specially ordered the more than 100 Manzhou soldiers who surrendered to Eduo to his own town. In response, Zhou Shixiang happily agreed and ordered Suna to arrange the Manzhou soldiers on his own, and the appointment of officers below the camp could be made to self-determination.

The sixth town has a little longer time to supplement it, and it is necessary to adapt to the Taiping Army's military system, officers at the first-level brigade school also need to be transferred from the old Taiping Army town, so they were moved to Haifeng, Huizhou for half a month to rest in Puning.

The fifth town, which was originally stationed in Puning, was transferred to Chaozhou to garrison. The fifth town was originally adapted from the Green Camp soldiers in Guangzhou. When harvesting grain in Chaozhou, many Qing soldiers and camp soldiers were captured. The troops did not need to be supplemented, but the combat effectiveness was not high, and the military discipline was also unbearable. In order to solve this problem, Zhou Shi ordered the fifth town and the second town to exchange a brigade, and exchanged the Huang Sicheng brigade of the fifth town and the Yu Shizhong brigade of the second town. This not only ensured the combat effectiveness of the fifth town, but also ensured 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 military training method learned from the Qi family army, which was different from Zhou Shixiang's infantry and military disciplines, as long as he could achieve combat effectiveness, Zhou Shixiang did not mind Yu Shizhong's military training method. He was very pleased that the Qi family army could be continued in the Taiping Army.

There was only one Yu Shizhong who was enough to stabilize the fifth town. Zhou Shixiang ordered Duke Xiang of Song to immediately draw the An army envoy from Guangzhou to replenish the fifth town to ensure the military discipline of the fifth town. Zhou Shixiang issued a strict order to Zhao Ziqiang, prohibiting the plunder in Chaozhou again. It would not be possible to have a verbal warning alone. The transfer of the Yu Shizhong brigade was a means. The sixth town stationed in Haifeng was also a sharp knife hanging over Zhao Ziqiang's head. If he did not obey the military order, there would be Yu Shizhong's brigade inside and the sixth town outside, which would be enough for Zhao Ziqiang to weigh his weight.
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