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Chapter 178

Jia Zhuangxi, the sound of fighting in the open space between Xuanzhen camp and Shanxi town camp has gradually subsided.

In a scuffle, the Qing army left hundreds of corpses and wounded soldiers behind, and retreated in a panic. Zhang Cheng and other leaders chased them all the way to the Haoshui River, and watched them flee south along the river bank. Not daring to continue the pursuit, they withdrew one after another.

Hu Dawei raised his hand to wipe the blood on his face, but it was even more bloody and blurred. He said in a hoarse voice, "Brother Yang, it's not a way to go on like this. The brothers have been fighting for a whole day. I have to rest, I'm afraid it's not easy to guard."

Yang Guozhu rode on the horse, let the horse walk forward slowly, said in a deep voice: "Tiger, for the present plan, the only option is to break the siege, but if the governor doesn't leave, how can you and I abandon him."

Hu Dawei was also helpless when he heard the words, so he could only sigh heavily.

Suddenly, Yang Guozhu seemed to think of something, and said to Zhang Cheng: "Zhang Guerzilla, the governor has always praised you very much, and even trusted you, can you..."

Zhang Cheng naturally knew what Yang Guozhu was going to say, and before he finished speaking, he rushed to say softly: "The meaning of the army, Zhang Cheng knows, the last general also spoke in front of the governor, presumably the governor has made arrangements , we can only obey orders..."

Yang Guozhu turned his head to look at Zhang Cheng, just shook his head with a smile, and didn't say anything else.

Zhang Cheng was not talking, but he knew clearly in his heart that Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei, and Hu Dawei had already made up their minds to lead the elite under their command to break through the siege, but under the current situation, how dare they break through the siege and leave before they got Lu Xiangsheng's army order. .

But one thing, others don't know the ending, but Zhang Cheng understands it very well.

In the Battle of Julu, Yang Guozhu broke out, Hu Dawei broke out, and even Jiang Mingwu broke out. How could his cheap uncles Zhang Yan and Lu Xiangsheng be killed by the Qing army?

Is it true that Lu Xiangsheng is determined to die, and Zhang Yan is willing to accompany him?
If this is the case, Zhang Cheng knows that with his current ability, he can't stop all of this!

Regardless of the final result, the reality now is that everyone generally knows that Lu Xiangsheng cannot escape with everyone, so the relationship between them has become delicate.

If everyone breaks through and Lu Xiangsheng sticks to it alone, it means that he will ignore his master and run away, and if Lu Xiangsheng dies because of this, then the general who broke through and escaped will be more guilty.

So Yang Guozhu's scruples are justified, but now Zhang Cheng, Yang Guozhu, and Hu Dawei know very well that the Jiazhuang camp is doomed to fail, and it will only be broken by the Qing army sooner or later, or today. , or tomorrow, in short, it won't be too long!
Everyone stopped talking and went to each camp in silence. Zhang Cheng had time to visit Guo Yingxian. He saw him straddling a war horse, his expression still excited, so he stepped forward and asked, "Old Guo, did you get hurt just now?" Bar."

Seeing that Guo Yingxian's expression was still a little dull, he replied naively: "It's nothing to worry about, I just lost my strength for a while..."

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"Let the warriors have dinner in turn. The offensive can't be stopped. The trenches have been filled. The Ming army is also exhausted. Don't let them have a chance to breathe. Just go all out and kill Lu Xiangsheng and Zhang Cheng today."

Dorgon said in a deep voice while listening to the battle reports from all sides.

Ba Ya La Tiao Zhang Jing Holborn reminded from the side: "Prince Rui, if this happens, the warriors of our ministries will be greatly damaged."

Dorgon raised his eyelids and looked at Yibai, the bannerman of the Mongolian Zhengbai Banner of the Eight Banners, who was beside him. Seeing that he was still asking about the details of the war, he gave Holborn a look and said in a deep voice:

"Idiot, let those coats and servants be the vanguard, and let the Mongols lead the attack, and I will wait for the armored soldiers under our command to follow behind. In this round of battle, we can defeat the Ming army and consume all the Mongolian tribes. Why not do it? "

Dorgon's idea was very popular among the slaves at this time. Their Jianzhou Eight Banners Army had a special structure, which was generally divided into three types: Aha, Armored Men, and Banners.

Aha is a slave, either Han or Korean, or he may be from various tribes in the Northeast.

These people were unarmored, and some even did not even have weapons. When they went out with the army, they were usually only used as handymen or cannon fodder, or to feed horses and make machinery, or to fill in ditches, or to dig city bricks.

Although there are a large number of soldiers accompanying each time, sometimes reaching tens of thousands, they are not listed as the number of people in the Qing army.

They accounted for the largest part of the Qing army's auxiliary soldiers. Since the family members of these people stayed behind the Qing Dynasty, if they escaped, the family members would not be able to survive, so they couldn't help but work hard.

The armored people are mostly descended from various tribes in the Northeast, where the ethnic groups are diverse, the tribes are numerous and scattered.

Most of them are Oroqen, Xibe, Ewenki, Sauron, Daur, Hezhe, Kuyi, etc. in the Heilongjiang and Songhua River basins. The Manchurians call them savages, and they are collected from various mountain rivers.

Because these people are powerful in combat, they often serve as dead soldiers in the Qing army.

Whenever there is a big war, the dead soldiers are always in the front, and the sharp soldiers are in the back. Many of the soldiers who should be executed are from these tribes. Due to the frequent wars, these northeastern tribe soldiers who were used as cannon fodder disappeared later. .

For example, the Hezhe people, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, were still a large tribe with a population of tens of thousands. After the Manchus entered the customs, the whole clan died only a few thousand people.Until later generations, the total population of Hezhe people in the world was less than 3.This is a typical representative of the Northeast cannon fodder tribe.

Although they claim to be dead soldiers with heavy armor, they are actually just slave soldiers. They have no freedom and cannot escape, otherwise they will all end up waiting to be wiped out.

The status of the armored people is higher than that of Ahha, and the last are the bannermen in the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia. The Eight Banners use Niulu as the unit, and one out of three is drawn, one is armored, and the rest are scattered.

Among these armored soldiers, some of the outstanding ones are selected as Baya soldiers, and the rest are divided into vest soldiers and infantry soldiers. During the war, the armored bannermen are the main force, and the rest are used as ordinary soldiers. Most of them have to go out with the army and fight. .

During the reign of Emperor Taiji, the military system began to be reformed, and the Ba Yala Camp, the Alihachaoha Camp, and the Kabushixian Camp were established as well.

After the Qing Dynasty’s Eight Banners system was perfected, the Qing army fought against the Ming army. The first wave of the Han Eight Banners was the first to fight, the second wave drove the Mongolian tribes to fight, the third wave drove the tribes in the Northeast to fight, and the fourth wave drove the Mongolian Eight Banners to fight. , and finally the troops of the Eight Banners Manchuria went into battle.

Although the structure of the Mongolian and Han armies of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty has not really been perfected, the banner owners of the Eight Banners of Jianzhou have a lot of experience in driving cannon fodder and handymen to attack the city and trenches.

After days of fierce fighting, Dorgon's Eight Banners Army had suffered nearly 4000 casualties. In fact, the nearly 2000 casualties were all enlisted soldiers in the army.

In fact, foreign armored people also accounted for a large part of the army, so the real bannermen in the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners had fewer casualties.

For the Eight Banners, those handymen are insignificant, as long as they capture as many people as they want from Daming and other places, as for those armored dead soldiers, they are exhausted, and then go to the deep mountains and old forests to catch them.

As long as most of the banners are intact, those tribes still don't obey?
Holborn was taken aback for a moment, and then understood Dorgon's intentions, clasped his fists and saluted, but didn't say anything.

But Dorgon said to him: "You also go to prepare, and you will lead the Ba Yala warriors up next time, and take advantage of the exhaustion of the Ming army to attack the Ming camp in one fell swoop."

(End of this chapter)