The success of the Emperor had been brilliant in the extreme.
The fighting was not over, however, for thirty miles to the southward lay the vast army of Schwarzenberg.

Napoleon might have pursued Bluecher to the bitter end.

Military critics say he should have done so.

To him, however, on the spot, it seemed proper to leave Bluecher for the time being and endeavor to repeat on Schwarzenberg the marvelous tactics of the five days' fight.
The next morning, the fifteenth, he started back to Nogent whence he had come.

Victor and Oudinot had been fighting hard with Schwarzenberg, but the news of Napoleon's victories had finally caused the cautious Austrian to stop.