Suchet had trapped Blake's entire army of twenty-eight thousand and forty-four men in the city of Valencia on December 26; they force it to surrender on January 9, 1812 after a brief siege, with Blake having lost twenty thousand two hundred and eighty-one men dead or captured.

Suchet advances south from Valenica, capturing the port town of Denia in mid-January.

The redeployment of a substantial part of his troops for the invasion of Russia grinds Suchet's operations to a halt.

The victorious marshal has established a secure base in Aragon and is ennobled by Napoleon as the Duke of Albufera, after a lagoon south of Valencia.

The war now falls into a temporary lull, with the superior French unable to find an advantage and coming under increasing pressure from Spanish guerrillas.

The French have over three hundred and fifty thousand soldiers in L'Armée de l'Espagne, but over two hundred thousand are deployed to protect the French lines of supply, rather than as substantial fighting units.