Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 179

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! There are rebellious mule soldiers! Let go of the smoke!"

at the same time.

The Eight Banners soldiers in the bunker discovered by the Ming army have become a mess.

This is the frontier fortress of the Haicheng group of castles.

Since the Ming army began to send troops to Liaodong last year.

The Qing Dynasty also began to strengthen Shengjing's defenses.

Centered on Haicheng and Liaoyang.

Attached to the soldiers of the Eight Banners, the people of the Eight Banners, and the Han Army of the Eight Banners, they built settlements and forts around Haicheng.

Reclamation is also impossible.

Because there is a big fight in the pass now, there is no way to support the outside of the pass. In addition, in order to support the war in the pass, the animal hunters outside the pass have also been arrested.

This caused many Manchurian Fish and Game Departments to flee.

Manchuria was barren for more than 100 years.

Although the population is small.

There is no agricultural production either.

However, the resources in this place are too rich. Even though the Qing Dynasty often captured indigenous people in the Northeast to enrich the Eight Banners and established the Sauron cavalry, the strong men of many tribes were captured, so that the population of many tribes was greatly reduced. However, after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs Over the past 100 years, the population of Manchuria is still growing.

According to historical data.

In the late Qianlong Dynasty, there were more than 200 million people in the land of more than 130 million square kilometers including the Outer Northeast and Sakhalin Island.

Among them are 16 Eight Banners soldiers and [-] family members of Manchurian Eight Banners soldiers, and the rest are all fishing and hunting tribes.

To a certain extent, they can be regarded as relatives with the Eight Banners of Manchuria, but there are many tribes in the Northeast, and many tribes may not agree that they belong to Manchuria and Jianzhou.

In fact, the Manchu Qing had nothing but defense against Han and Mongolia.

They are also quite vigilant about the Northeast, which once rose to the Liao Kingdom, the Jin Kingdom, and even the Qing Dynasty's own land.

On the one hand, the Han people were not allowed to enter Manchuria to avoid the overpopulation of Manchuria. On the other hand, they recruited the strong men of the Manchurian Fishing and Hunting Department as Sauron cavalry and Ningguta armored men.

Consumed by war.

After more than a hundred years of gestation in this fertile Liao land, the total population has only increased to more than 100 million people. The population control measures of the Qing Dynasty can be regarded as quite successful.

To know in the hereafter.

The Qing Dynasty opened up the border wall in just a few decades.

The population of Northeast China has rapidly increased from only 200 million to more than [-] million. If it were not for the population base of more than [-] million Han people, it would be difficult to say whether Northeast China would still be Han in later generations.

However, most of the more than 100 million aborigines have fled into the deep mountains and old forests. With the current population of Liaotu, it is impossible to support tens of thousands of out-of-production troops.

Even the Eight Banners have to carry out reclamation and farming.

It's the end of August now.

It looks like the harvest has begun in the south.

But the spring outside the pass is relatively late, so the wheat planted is still turning green.

The army of the Ming army did not have the heart to help Baqi feel sorry for the crops.

The soldiers of the 33rd Brigade were all recruited from the Liaodong Army.

There are also frequent small-scale conflicts with the Eight Banners soldiers in Shengjing.

Very unceremoniously, he trampled over the crops and set up camp at the front of the Eight Banners Earth Fort called Tieling Tunbao.

The worst thing was a cavalry infantry battalion operating with the 33rd brigade. The horses were released directly to eat young crops.

Seeing the Eight Banners inlaid with the blue flag in the fort, Hu Song, the co-leader, gritted his teeth.

But there is no way, now is the era when the Ming army is invincible in field battles.

Not to mention that Husong only has 1000 or 1 people on hand now, even if he has [-] people, he would not dare to push out to fight a brigade of Ming army infantry.

The large and small cannons brought by the other side with the horses are really frightening to see.

But now the Qing army also has some experience when facing the Ming army-it is easy to have a long memory after being beaten.

So this earth castle was built very solidly.

The outermost layer is densely packed with horse traps.

The function of these traps is not only to block the cavalry of the Ming army, but also to block the siege equipment of the Ming army, so that the forward artillery and siege equipment of the Ming army will not be pushed to the front of the camp so easily.

After the horse pit, there is a ditch more than ten feet wide and one person deep. Behind the ditch is a low wall, which is almost as high as a person's chest.

This parapet is convenient for shooting with shotguns and guns.

In fact, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Qing Dynasty is now able to produce usable flintlock guns-this is all thanks to the friendly countries of England.

But of course the output cannot be compared with that of Da Ming, and the firearms produced must first be close to the Eight Banners of the Beijing camp.

Fortunately, if you don't go out to fight in the field, you have the cover of the parapet. If you shoot at each other from a distance, the shotgun and the gun are actually no worse than the flintlock.

The role of flintlock guns is more reflected in field battles.

Without the interference of the matchlock, the infantry can be arranged in a tighter horizontal formation. When equipped with bayonets, the denser the formation of the infantry, the better for hand-to-hand combat.

But now the Qing army is hiding behind the low wall and shooting with shotguns. In good weather, the firing rate of matchlock guns may exceed that of flintlock guns.

And behind this parapet is a row of sandbag walls with many exits. This is to avoid shells. As long as you hide between the sandbag wall and the parapet, unless the shells of the Ming army can fall directly into the trench, otherwise, it is quite good. Safe—and according to battlefield experience, the probability of a shell falling directly into a narrow trench is not high.

Behind the sandbag wall is an earthen wall more than ten feet high. There are several cannons on the earthen wall, which are the latest products of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

A six-pound field gun imitated from the Western six-pound gun.

The muzzle is now pointing forward, which is reassuring to watch.

Husong gritted his teeth and watched the Ming army in the distance ruin their hard-earned crops for a year, but he couldn't help feeling helpless.

Which of these soldiers of the Eight Banners didn't grow up listening to the glorious deeds of their ancestors?

At that time, it was their Eight Banners who swaggered to rob the pass, and the Ming army shrank in the city and did not dare to come out to fight in the field.

Well now.

The Ming army came from the south, and even a battalion of infantry dared to ostentatiously stationed at the front of a fortress, and they were not afraid that the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers would send white armored soldiers to destroy them in a surprise attack.

But then again, now is the era of guns and artillery.

Even if the ancestors were alive, they would not dare to fight in the field lightly in the face of the explosive bombs of the Ming army.

What's more, these unworthy descendants who are inferior to their ancestors in terms of martial arts and courage?
So honestly shrinking in the castle is the right way.

According to the fort, maybe it can cause some damage to the Ming army.

Husong still thought about defending.

Inside the fort, Lin Guoliang, the leader of the Eight Banners Han Army, who was sent by Fengtian to assist in guarding the fort, has already started to retreat.

"My lord, retreat, I can't beat them. This is just their vanguard. With this posture, it seems that there are at least tens of thousands of soldiers!"

Lin Guoliang reminded Gang Husong in his ear.

Lin Guoliang was also unlucky.

It was a guerrilla in the Guangdong Green Camp back then, if it had surrendered on the battlefield at that time.

Maybe now you can get a battalion commander in the Ming army.

As a result, I ran away because of a mistake. This run, I went all the way north from Guangdong.

First, he was assigned to the Green Camp in the South, and fought a battle in northern Jiangxi with Qianlong.

Then he was incorporated into the Eight Banners Han Army. He thought he could be stationed in the capital and enjoy it for a few years.

Unexpectedly, Daming actually set up a military colony in Liaodong.

Lin Guoliang, a Cantonese-born Han army, had no roots or contacts in the Eight Banners Han army at all, so the drudgery of stationing outside the customs fell on him.

Said to be the co-leader of the Eight Banners Han Army.

Outside the customs, they are basically the inferior people who are called around by the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Eight Banners of Mongolia.

When in the pass.

The Eight Banners Han army can still dominate the ordinary Han people, and it is not considered the last class.

But to the outside.

The Eight Banners Han Army is the lowest existence.

Neither the Manchu masters nor the Mongol masters could afford to offend them.

In addition, the Eight Banners outside the customs are the unity of the army and the people.

Just low status.

Also do farm work.

Said it was the Han army.

In fact, it is the third-class Han who is in charge of production, but the fourth-class Han.

The first class is Manchuria, the second class is Mongolia, and the third class is the aborigines here in the northeast.

The Han army can only be ranked last
Lin Guoliang, the co-leader of the Han army, did not have much power and status at all.

Husong squinted at Lin Guoliang with his forehead squinted.

"Withdraw? Where to withdraw? This is the land of Longxing in the Qing Dynasty, the land of our ancestors. I will not go anywhere, and I will live and die with the land of my ancestors!"

Lin Guoliang felt helpless.

You fucking want to guard the land of your ancestors. ,
Lao Tzu's ancestral land is in Guangdong.

Why are you here to die with you?

If I had known it was in Guangdong, I would have surrendered.

But who knew that the Qing Dynasty was so hip.

In just a few years, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, and Liangjiang were lost.

Now seeing that Henan is not guarded, Huainan is also lost.

In the south, there are millions of people from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom wanting to enter Zhili.

In the north, the elite Ming army swept Liaodong.

It seems that the Great Qing Dynasty will soon have to blow the candle.

What benefits can I get by surrendering to the Ming army now?
Eating shit didn't catch up with the heat.

Lin Guoliang thought.

Just now.

The Tangma coming from the north flew in and entered the bunker.

He brought the order of Jinchang, the vice-captain of Xianglan Banner stationed in Haicheng.

"Deputy Commander of the Xianglan Banner: The Qianxie of the Xianglan Banner and the Bannermen of the Tieling Tunbao Han army quickly retreated into Haicheng, and abandoned the Tieling Tunbao within two hours. After evacuation, they must be set on fire to avoid being used by the enemy."

"What? Withdraw?!"

Husong's forehead jumped up immediately, and roared with eyes wide open.

"It cannot be withdrawn! This is the land of our ancestors, how can we abandon it!!"

The officers of the surrounding Eight Banners were also filled with righteous indignation.

They all expressed that they would fight to the death with the Ming army here.

It seems quite brave.

"It can't be withdrawn, among other things, the hundreds of thousands of acres of wheat around the Tieling Tunbao can't be thrown to the Ming army!"

"Yes, this is our life-saving food for the winter!"

"Withdraw, I'm afraid people will starve to death this winter!"

starve?

The Qing Dynasty ruled the world for more than a hundred years.

When did the Eight Banners of Manchuria starve to death?

But now the Qing Dynasty has lost the Huguang grain-producing land, and the grain grain is cut off.

The food crisis is already haunting more than 100 million Eight Banners.

If I can't dig a little on the ground this year.

I'm afraid people will starve to death next spring.

"Everyone wants to fight, so let's teach Ni Ming a lesson here in Tieling Tunpu, and let them experience how powerful our Eight Banners master is!"

Really
The ignorant are fearless.

These eight banners outside the pass have never fought against the Ming army.

I don't even know how powerful the Ming army is.

Lin Guoliang thought in his heart, but he didn't continue to persuade these ghosts to send the dead, but with a smirk on his face: "Master Xie Ling, then our Han army flag will be."

"Let's go!"

Husong waved his hand with a look of disdain.

Lin Guoliang withdrew according to the military order.

He couldn't say a single word.

This lawsuit was justified in front of Qianlong.

So Husong'er didn't care about Lin Guoliang and the Han army he belonged to.

He greeted his subordinates.

Start laying out defenses.

(End of this chapter)