Aftermath
Huangtaiji regarded Hong Chengchou as an excellent and brilliant general, and offered him to surrender. Hong refused, but Fan Wencheng managed to persuade him to do so. Hong was then put into the Yellow Banner and appointed to be the military governor of Nanjing during the reign of Shunzhi. He also succeeded to persuade numerous Southern Ming generals to surrender to the Qing government, and paved the way for the conquest of Southern China.
Hong's surrender was a huge blow to the Ming dynasty after the execution of Yuan Chonghuan. There were no other competent generals left to protect the Ming empire. With the surrender of Wu Sangui, there was no obstacle left for the Manchus to conquer China proper.
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