After fighting across a thousand li and winning the Liaodong campaign, by the time they finished counting the spoils and tallying their gains, the Great Liao River had completely thawed.
In this battle, they took the five cities of Wulü, Fang County, Pingguo, Xiangping, and Liucheng. More than half of Liaodong's wealthy and powerful families, including Gongsun Du, were executed. Qiu Liju, Su Puyan, Wuyan, and other Wuhuan chanyus and leaders, along with every Han army colonel from Liaodong who had participated, as well as all officers above the rank of fifty-man captain, were put to death. This battle dealt a devastating blow to the middle and upper leadership of Liaodong's hostile forces.
From then on, the Wuhuan and Han people of Liaodong would remain a disorganized rabble for a long time, incapable of amounting to much. They would never again be able to muster an army on this scale in their lifetimes.
According to the postwar tally, this battle brought in twenty thousand new Han civilians and forty thousand Wuhuan, for a total population gain of sixty thousand. They also seized more than four thousand warhorses, along with immeasurable quantities of grain, supplies, and treasure.
Although the joint Wuhuan-Han army that had attacked this time was poor, the chanyus, officials, wealthy households, and their ilk were still quite rich. Though Wang Yan had blocked the Liaoxi Corridor and cut off trade between the interior and the frontier, they continued to collect goods as usual. In fact, because of Wang Yan, they had driven prices down even further. They had all been waiting to kill Wang Yan, reopen the trade routes, and make even greater profits.
They bought not only Liaodong's goods, but also traveled north to acquire products from the Wuhuan beyond the frontier, Goguryeo, Buyeo, and other lands.