At the end of Ming Dynasty: I, Sun Kewang!Desperate comeback!

On the official road from Cangzhou to Dezhou, biting rain fell and a north wind blew.

It made the Qing soldiers who were marching tremble. .

With a white flag on the Manchurian capital, Bahana looks far away, and several small villages appear in sight.

"In the afternoon, we are ordered to enter those Nikan villages and take a short rest." He ordered.

As soon as these words came out, the flags around the general waved quickly, and many messengers galloped quickly.

Thousands of Qing troops were amnesty after hearing the news.

He quickly rushed into the nearby villages, killed people, looted goods, and cleaned up the surrounding Nikan people.

Bahana looked at everything in front of him, unmoved at all.

He was a fifty-nine-year-old veteran of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. At the age of seventeen, he followed Huang Taiji in the north and south.

Long before the Manchus entered the customs, they led the Eight Banners soldiers to detour through Mongolia and plunder Beizhi many times.

It is unknown how many Han people were killed, how many women were raped, and their property was robbed many times.

Bahana has long been accustomed to his subordinates killing Han people, raping women, and robbing property.

Even when his level was low before, he was also one of the snatchers.

But now that he is Gushan Ezhen, he naturally does not have to do these things himself.

The Qing army is an army with a high degree of organization. After the burning and killing, the best things will naturally be handed over layer by layer and handed over to his hands.

But right now, the weather is cold and it's raining again.

Nikan's women and property can be robbed, but the house cannot be burned.

Soon, the Han people in several villages were slaughtered.

The Qing army caught chickens and slaughtered sheep in the villages, set up large pots, and cooked hot meals.

"Master, now everywhere in Beizhi is the land of my Qing Dynasty, and all the Nikans here are my subjects of the Qing Dynasty."

"Isn't it not good for us to do this?" A young Qing general frowned.

"What's wrong?" Bahana educated: "Although these Nikans are still under the control of my Qing Dynasty, Nikans are Nikans after all."

"Killing them will allow the slaves to see blood, and robbing their women and property will also improve the morale of the slaves."

"Turg, you'll get used to it when you're young."

"Oh." Young General Turge said thoughtfully.

Burning, killing and looting has always been a common thing in the Qing Dynasty. Burning and killing is normal. If not burning and killing, would it still be called a Qing army?

"Master, all the nikans in the village have been cleaned up. The slaves have grabbed a lot of supplies, which can be used to prepare meals to ward off the cold." An older staff leader came to report.

"The weather is still warm now." Bahana sighed: "In the past, my Manchu and Mongolian children didn't need to rest at all."

"I don't know since when, my Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers became afraid of not only heat but also cold."

The Qing army in Bahana's hands has a total of 2,000 Eight Banner Soldiers and 4,000 Green Camp recruits.

Since leaving Beijing, a vanguard of the army has opened the way ahead.

The two thousand Eight Banners soldiers in his hands are already very elite in Yue Le's army.

But even so, as soon as they left Beijing, they kept complaining during the continuous march.

And now it's raining again, and the morale of his vanguard has become even lower in the rain.

It would be fine if the Green Camp soldiers complained, but Bahana would not pay any attention to it.

But the Eight Banners soldiers were the main ones complaining, and some of them were even weak and fell on the march.

So I have to take a break now.

If we continue to advance, I am afraid that morale will become lower and lower, and the consequences will be disastrous once we encounter the elite Western thieves.

"Master, these young slaves have never experienced the hardships of white mountains and black waters. They have been pampered in Beijing. They have never suffered from hunger or cold. Naturally, they will not be able to bear the pain of marching." The older officer also sighed. One breath.

Since entering the customs, most of the Manchu veterans and generals have withered away.

In the past few years, the backbone of the Eight Banners has become the Manchu and Mongolian children who grew up after entering the customs.

These Manchu and Mongolian children have never experienced any hardship at all. In Beijing, they eat rice shipped from the south of the Yangtze River and wear cotton clothes woven in Suzhou.

How can you compare with the Eight Banners soldiers before entering the customs!

Of course, a large number of lower-level bannermen also suffered after entering the customs.

In fact, our Qing Dynasty is also very stingy towards the banner people at the bottom.

Although the Qing Dynasty's minimum monthly salary for the Eight Banners was 20 taels, the amount received was often only 60%, which was more than one tael of silver a month.

If you encounter someone who is fishing for nothing, you may only get a few coins.

Of course, the Eight Banners' military pay is still higher than that of the Green Camp, and the Bannermen are still encircling the territory in Beizhi, so they still seem to have a much better life than the Green Camp soldiers.

But there is one difference between the Eight Banners and the Green Camp, that is, the Green Camp's horses, armor, weapons and other equipment are all issued by the Qing Dynasty.

But the Eight Banners soldiers need to prepare themselves.

This is a big pit, a bottomless pit!

At the beginning of entering the customs, the Eight Banners soldiers captured most of China, so they naturally had a good income and could afford it.

However, as the war progressed, the money looted by the Eight Banners soldiers gradually was spent and lost.

As the saying goes, "There is no career, and the difficulties are getting worse." The further we go, the lower-level bannermen of the Qing Dynasty, the harder it becomes.

Not only that, as the Han people resisted, the Eight Banners soldiers had to carry out expeditions day after day, year after year.

As close as the suppression of Beizhi, as far as the conquest of Yunnan.

Our Qing Dynasty adheres to the principle of using them to death as long as they are not used to death, and let the Eight Banners soldiers repeatedly carry out the activities of "thousands of miles away, long march for one or two years".

Although a lot was robbed during the battle, with the acquisition of Jiangnan and other places.

When the Eight Banners soldiers fought in poor areas such as the southwest, they were unable to make ends meet and became increasingly impoverished.

There are even officers from the Green Camp complaining about the Eight Banners: When sending out troops, they buy horses and equipment. On the day of victory, the horses fall down and the equipment breaks down, and they have to buy replacements. How much monthly rations are there for the full army? It is worth this heavy expense!

I have to praise Lord Sun again here. In fact, his old Yungui dug a big hole for the Eight Banners soldiers.

Tens of thousands of people with eight banners, one person and four horses, spent all their property and went to Yunnan and Guizhou to rob.

They thought that Yunnan, like Jiangnan, was a paradise on earth with gold everywhere.

But after finishing a round of grabbing, the Eight Banners soldiers cried directly!

A lot of horses died from exhaustion, a lot of equipment was broken, and so many people died.

In the end, there was nothing but food!

The equipment purchased by the Eight Banners soldiers with real money and silver was used in Yunnan and Guizhou, but in the end they robbed the southwest and received very little gold and silver.

The grain and grass they grabbed were used again, and the rest couldn't be moved back to Beijing all the way.

Many Eight Banners soldiers even borrowed a large amount of usury before leaving Beijing in order to buy equipment because they were short of money.

I originally hoped to make up for the shortfall by grabbing a big deal in Yunnan, which is full of gold.

As a result, after fighting hard, he gained nothing, and even borrowed money from the King of Hell.

There were even Eight Banners soldiers who hanged themselves for this reason.

Therefore, even in the time and space of history, the Eight Banners soldiers in Yunnan were in tears, let alone now, few of them have come back alive.

Under the reactionary rule of the Qing Dynasty, although the Green Camp was suffering, wouldn't the Eight Banners be suffering as well?

Although the military pay in the Green Camp was meager, at least they didn't have to buy their own equipment, and they could still take part-time jobs and do side jobs to support their families.

But once the Eight Banners soldiers were in despair, they did not even go out to the city and could only starve at home.

In the event of an expedition and war, you have to sell your house and land, and spend everything you have to buy equipment. The Eight Banners envied Green Camp was no empty talk.

As the Great Western Army left Yunnan, not only did the Eight Banners' losses increase day by day, but even the flag pay began to be in arrears.

Since the Eight Banners were the foundation of the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu nobles did not worry about the Eight Banners soldiers revolting because of lack of pay.

But big men like Luying will be in big trouble if they are in arrears of pay!

Therefore, in recent years, the banner soldiers and banner subordinates were full of resentment, and even Emperor Shunzhi had to issue an edict to punish himself.

In the twelfth year of Shunzhi, he made a promise to the Eight Banners soldiers: a small amount of wealth will be a bounty.

A pie was drawn for the Eight Banners soldiers.

However, the situation in our Qing Dynasty is getting worse and worse, and the financial deficit is getting bigger and bigger.

The pie is almost out of use.

There were even women from the Eight Banners who drowned their children.

This is to prevent the poor family from having to borrow money from the King of Hell to buy things for their children when they grow up.

Such tragedies directly caused a large number of low-level bannermen to break through the defenses.

In desperation, Shunzhi and Xiaozhuang could only spend 10,000 taels of silver each, and called on the princes and ministers of the Qing Dynasty to donate money to help the Eight Banners.

Of course, these human tragedies, or human comedies, reflect the conditions of the Eight Banners soldiers to a certain extent.

But it cannot represent all the Eight Banners.

The Eight Banners is a very large group with all kinds of people in it.

Some people are poor, but others live a good life.

If the family has some background, or if the parents have robbed a lot, and have some sense, they don't spend wantonly.

Then the life of the Eight Banners soldiers is still passable.

For example, most of the Eight Banners soldiers in Bahana's hands have better living conditions and their family backgrounds are relatively good.

Therefore, these people not only have enough food and clothing, but also often do not have to suffer the hardships of expeditions.

But now, with the situation in the Manchu and Qing Dynasties deteriorating so much.

These pampered Eight Banners soldiers need to face the elite Western thieves.

This has to worry Bahana.

"Our Eight Banners heavenly soldiers are no longer what they used to be, but the elite Western bandits under Zhang Sheng are extremely fierce."

Bahana sighed and said: "If Taizu Taizong's cavalry is still there, how can our Qing Dynasty be like this!"

As soon as these words came out, the Eight Banners generals sighed.

Yes, if those Eight Banners soldiers who grew up in the white mountains and black waters were still there, why would we, the Qing Dynasty, be afraid of the Western thieves!

But more than ten years have passed and things have changed.

What's the use of all this?

"Master, in Beizhi, our Qing Dynasty has an army of 100,000, and there are only more than 10,000 Western thieves, so what should we be afraid of!"

An Eight Banners general persuaded: "Master, you should go to dinner early. Even though our Eight Banners are no longer what they used to be, I don't believe that the Qing Dynasty, with all its might, can't do anything to Zhang Sheng!"

"Oh, I hope so." Bahana sighed again.

Then he led everyone into a village and began to eat and rest.

That night, the Eight Banners soldiers burned piles of bonfires and began to sleep in these villages.

However, while doing this, the forwards of Xiaoqi Town, who were only a few dozen miles away from them, met several refugees.

"What are you talking about? The Tatars massacred your village?" Lieutenant General Zhang Chengen stared at the few refugees and asked.

"Master Jun, these beasts like the Tatars don't talk about people." A young man said with tears: "At noon today, they entered our Zhangjia Village and killed everyone they saw."

"The villain's family of thirteen members is the only one who ran away."

The few men who were lucky enough to run out cried one after another and recounted their experiences to Zhang Chengen.

"How many Tatars are there?" Zhang Chengen asked quickly.

"Master Jun, I don't know," the refugees replied.

Zhang Chengen glanced at it and continued to ask: "How big is your village and how far is it from here? Are there other villages nearby?"

Several refugees told the story in detail.

Zhang Chengen was overjoyed when he heard this.

"The Tatars were resting in the villages. There were only a few villages, and the number of people was definitely only a few thousand."

Zhang Chengen's brain is working very fast. He is a veteran of Xiying.

After so many years of fighting, it is natural that he knows basic military common sense.

If the number of Qing troops is too large, they will definitely not be able to be accommodated by a few small villages.

This Qing army must be the vanguard of Yue Le, and there will never be too many of them!

"Come here, hurry up and inform the father-in-law, let him make a decision!" Zhang Chengen ordered.

A scout set off quickly and reported to Zhang Sheng's station thirty miles behind in the dark night.

"Pass the order, there will be a rebellion in the middle of the night, and the whole army of Xiaoqi Town will be dispatched!" In another village, Zhang Sheng shouted and gave the order.

"Master, be careful of fraud." General Lu En said quickly.

"I'm not afraid of fraud. This area is full of plains, and all my subordinates are elite cavalry. I don't believe what Yue Le can do to me!" Zhang Sheng said confidently.

On the great plains of North China, this is where cavalry comes in handy.

In Zhang Sheng's opinion, his thousands of cavalry came and went without a trace. As long as they didn't attack the city for death, or crawled into the woods or hills, there was nothing to be afraid of with so many of them.

In the middle of the night, the auxiliary soldiers and servants who accompanied the front army quickly made rice.

Although Xiaoqi Town only has a mere eight thousand cavalry, there are far more auxiliary soldiers and servants accompanying the army than in Infantry Town.

What's more, although these auxiliary soldiers and servants can't ride and shoot, they can ride horses.

On weekdays, he is only responsible for serving the cavalry master and the war horse ancestor.

Therefore, it will not hinder the cavalry's mobility.

As they are busy, wait until the fourth update.

The cavalry men got up one after another and ate hot meals.

The ancestors of the war horses were also fed with enough food and grass.

After the soldiers were full and the horses were full, Zhang Sheng got on his beloved horse, full of energy.

"Take a torch and follow me!"

"Let's give Yue Le a show of strength!"

With torches and flags, thousands of cavalrymen galloped north along the road under the moonlight.

Not long after, Zhang Sheng's main force of Xiaoqi Town met up with Zhang Chengen's vanguard.

The whole army of Xiaoqi Town, a total of more than 7,600 cavalry, has been assembled.

After confirming the situation, Zhang Sheng made a prompt decision and immediately asked the refugees to show them the way.

It was decided to launch a surprise attack on the Qing army about fifty miles ahead at dawn in the early morning. (End of chapter)