A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 267
Among the Qing troops besieging the Xuanda camp in Julu, there were all the troops of the Eight Banners Manchurian Zhengbai Banner, Zhenghong Banner, Xiangbai Banner, and Xianglan Banner.Du Du, the leader of the Eight Banners Manchuria Bordered Red Banner, and Engetu, the leader of the Eight Banners Mongolia Zhenghong Banner, stayed behind in Tongzhou, but they have already dispatched some soldiers to escort several huge red barbarian cannons, and they will arrive soon.

In addition to these Manchurian troops of the Eight Banners, there were also all the troops of the Eight Banners Mongolian Zhenghuang Banner, Xianghuang Banner, Zhengbai Banner, Xiangbai Banner, Zhenglan Banner, Xianglan Banner, and Xianghong Banner in the Qing camp.There are also the Mongolian Three-Banner Army of the Outer Fan, and more than a dozen small tribes attached to the Northeast and the Mongolian Plateau.

In addition, there were more than 2 Aha miscellaneous servants. If these people were counted, there were more than 4000 Qing soldiers who besieged the Xuanda camp.

Attacking the Xuanda camp today, Dorgon’s Zhengbai Banner led the Mongolian Karaqin tribe of the Outer Fan, the Eight Banners Mongolian Zhengbai Banner, Xiangbai Banner, and some small tribes attached to the Northeast, which are part of the Butha Eight Banners in later generations, plus more than 3000 Aha and other handymen attacked Wang Dou head-on.

Jierhalang, the flag owner of the Xianglan Banner, led most of the sergeants of the banner, the right wing of Tumote, the outer domain of Mongolia, the Zhenghuang Banner of Mongolia, the Zhenghuang Banner of Eight Banners, some subordinate tribes, and more than 4000 Aha and other handymen to attack Yang Guozhu's left wing.

Most of Yuetuo's Zhenghong Banner led the left wing of Mongolian Tummet, the Eight Banners Mongolian Zhenglan Banner, Xianglan Banner, plus more than 4000 Aha and other handymen to attack the right wing defended by Hu Dawei.

Duoduo, the leader of the Eight Banners Manchurian Banner Bordered White Banner, did not go out to fight, but stayed behind in the camp as a leader, supervising the production of equipment by the bannermen and other handymen, and looting food, grass, supplies, etc. everywhere.

"In today's battle, our banner warriors suffered 880 and seven casualties, including 180 and four armored men, and 120 and eight bannermen..."

This is the report from Jierhalang, the owner of the Xianglan Banner.

Yue Tuo, as a great general of Yangwu, is theoretically equal to Dorgon, so there is no need to report anything to Dorgon, but he also ventilated to everyone: "...the warriors of each banner suffered 750 casualties, including 120 four people in armor. People, Qiding 94 people..."

Dorgon's expression was calm. After hearing the casualties of each banner, he was still relieved. Fortunately, the casualties of the warriors of the Eight Banners Manchuria and Eight Banners Mongolia were not large.This battle can continue to be fought.

In today's battle, he was leading the white flags to attack Wang Dou's front. The casualties of each banner were nearly a thousand, but the combined casualties of armored men and bannermen were less than 300. Although the loss was great, for Dorgon, Also bearable.

It's no wonder that Dorgon thought so, the structure of their Eight Banners Army is a bit special, generally divided into three types: Aha, Armored Man, and Banner Ding.

Aha is a slave, or a Han, or a Korean, or a tribe in the Northeast.These people had no armor, and some even did not even have weapons. When they went out with the army, they were generally only used as handymen or cannon fodder, or to feed horses to make machinery, or to fill in Haogou, or to dig city bricks.

Although the number of troops accompanying each time is large, sometimes reaching tens of thousands, it is not listed as the number of troops in the Qing Dynasty.These people are the biggest leaders of the auxiliary soldiers of the Qing army. Since these young men stayed behind, if they escaped, the young men would not be able to survive.

Most of the armored people are tribes descended from the Northeast, with various ethnic groups. Most of them are Oroqen people, Xibe people, Ewenki people, Sauron people, Daur people, Hezhe people, and Kuyi people in Heilongjiang and Songhua River basins. Manchurians call them Savages are collected from various mountain rivers.

Because these people are powerful in combat, they are the main targets of cannon fodder in the Qing army.The dead soldiers are 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, many of these northeastern tribal soldiers who were used as cannon fodder disappeared later.

Just like the Hezhe people, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there were still a large tribe with a population of tens of thousands. After the Manchus entered the customs, the whole tribe 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 slave soldiers. They have no freedom and cannot escape, otherwise they will all end up waiting to be wiped out.

The status of armored men is higher than that of Aha, and finally the bannermen of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia.

The Eight Banners take Niulu as the unit, one out of three is drawn, one is armored, and the rest are loose.Among these armored soldiers, some are Ba Yala soldiers, and the rest are infantry and vest soldiers.During the war, the armored banners 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 was reformed, and the Ba Yala Camp, the Ali Ha Chao Ha Camp, and the Kabushixian Camp were also established.

After the Eight Banners system was perfected, the Qing army fought against the Ming army. Always the first wave pioneered the Han Eight Banners to fight, the second wave drove the Mongolian tribal soldiers to fight, the third wave drove the northeast tribal soldiers to fight, and the fourth wave drove the Mongolian Eight Banners to fight. It was the troops of the Eight Banners Manchuria who went into battle.

Although the structure of the Eight Banners Mongolian and Eight Banners Han armies in the Qing Dynasty is still not perfect, the owners of the Eight Banners Manchuria have great experience in driving cannon fodder and miscellaneous soldiers to attack cities and trenches.

After today's fierce battle, it seems that the Eight Banners Army suffered more than 500 casualties in one day, but in fact nearly 2000 casualties were military servicemen.The armored men of foreign nationalities in the army, and even the bannermen of the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners suffered fewer casualties.

For the Eight Banners, those handymen are insignificant, as long as they capture people from Daming and other places, as many as they want.At least the armored man, after he's exhausted, 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?

Yesterday afternoon, when the Qing army attacked the camp, the number of casualties in each banner was over a thousand, and today it has increased to 500.Calculating the number of casualties in the initial attack on the Xuanda Camp, after a few days, the Eight Banners Army that surrounded Julu had more than 5000 casualties, including more than 1000 Banners.

In addition, the Eight Banners in Tongzhou, Dingzhou and other places, Manchuria bordered red flags, bordered white flags and other damaged soldiers and horses.The number of Qing soldiers killed or injured by Xuan Dajun alone was close to 8000.For the Eight Banners, this is a huge number.

Among the lost troops, the Eight Banners Manchurian Banner Bordered with Red and the Banner Bordered with White are bruised.Inlaid with red flags and two Eight Banners of Mongolia, more than 300 people were lost in the end, most of them were armored men and bannermen.Not counting handymen, Duduo's inlaid white flag lost more than 1000 armored men and bannermen, but fortunately nearly a thousand heavy cavalry and Bala soldiers kept it.

It was because Dorgon and the others were more careful and more cautious, driving more cannon fodder and handymen to attack Hao, so after days of attacking Xuanda camp, the number of casualties among the bannermen did not increase so fast.But what is certain is that in the end Lu Xiangsheng, Wang Dou and others will be wiped out. The Eight Banners Army that entered the customs this time may have more than 3000 casualties.

The Qing soldiers who entered the customs this time included more than 3 people from the Eight Banners, Manchuria and Five Banners, plus more than 2 people from the Eight Banners Mongolia and Outer Fan Mongolia, and all the subordinate tribes, with a total force of more than 6.There are nearly [-] handymen, known as [-].

Up to now, the casualties of the Qing army have reached nearly [-]%, and according to their ability to bear less than [-]% of the casualties, they are actually close to the verge of collapse.

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After the number of casualties in each banner was counted, everyone present was silent, and the banner owners of the Eight Banners Manchuria were all distressed by the casualties of the soldiers in their own banners.Although most of the people who died in the past few days were handymen and cannon fodder from various banners.But even if each of the armored bannermen and unarmored bannermen killed or injured hundreds of people, they couldn't bear it.

The armored men and handymen who were cannon fodder had no representatives at all in the tent, so naturally it was not their turn to speak.The bannermen of Outer Fan Mongolia and the Eight Banners of Mongolia are also secretly angry. Those cowardly Manchus will only hide behind in the war and let them, the great Mongolian warriors, go to die. As the descendants of Genghis Khan, of course they will not Dry!

They entered the customs to reap benefits, not to fight desperately with the Ming people.

If you want to work hard, let those Manchurians do it!
However, the Eight Banners Manchuria is powerful, and their main force is still there. Although the leaders of the banners are slandering in their hearts, on the surface, everyone is just thinking, pondering, and grieving.

Of course, Dorgon is well aware of the Mongols' thoughts, especially the Eight Banners Mongolia, which is famous for its two ends.I hate myself that the Manchurians have tried their best to win over them, and Huang Taiji's daughters even lost all of them.

Judging from their expressions, it is obvious that the brutal battles these days have made them terrified, and it seems that they have to rely on their own Manchurian warriors. Dorgon felt emotional for a while, and said first: "Today's battle, I am a warrior from the Qing Dynasty. After entering the trench wall of the Ming army, the Ming army on the two wings almost collapsed. They have lost their courage. As long as we take advantage of the victory and continue to attack the two wings and break through the Ming Xuan camp, it will only take a few days. thing."

Duoduo, the owner of the inlaid white flag, immediately agreed with his brother's words: "Yes, the Ming army has lost its vigor. As long as our army takes advantage of the victory and goes straight up, mobilize elites to attack the two wings. Once the two wings are broken, the Ming general Wang Dou will face the enemy several times. No matter how brave his subordinates are, Even if you can fight, you will also be powerless.”

"The opportunity is here!"

Dodo finally concluded.

A short and stocky middle-aged Mongolian general wearing a leather helmet and willow-leaf armor inside cast a glance at Duoduo: "Prince Yu doesn't know how powerful that Ming general Wang Dou is. This afternoon, our army has already invaded his The defense line was defeated in the end. Seeing that he still has the strength to defend the front line of defense, if he sends reinforcements to support the two wings, what should we do?"

This person's face is scorched yellow, big cake face, small eyes, typical Mongolian appearance, but he is Gushan Erzhen Gulu Sijubu of the Karaqin tribe of Outer Mongolia. He dare not do anything to Dorgon, but he listens to Duoduo Saying this, he couldn't help but sarcastically retort.

Hearing what he said, all the banner owners of the Outer Fan Mongolia and the Eight Banners Mongolia were watching the show from the sidelines.

Duo Duo glared, and was about to say something, but Dorgon said, "Don't worry, Duoleng Beizi. We will fight tomorrow, and our Qing soldiers will continue to attack the front with heavy troops. That Wang Dou will definitely be inseparable."

He glanced at Duduo: "Tomorrow, Prince Yu will attack Wang Douhao's wall with this general."

Doduo was stunned, so he got up and took orders.

After he sat down, he secretly groaned in his heart.Dorgon let him stay in the camp for the past two days, which had already attracted numerous complaints.It seems that in the fierce battle in the next few days, if I want to avoid the battle and preserve my strength, it will be impossible.

After he suffered heavy losses in Dingzhou, he had to carry some of the unarmored flag Ding into armored soldiers.Some of the handymen were raised as unarmored bannermen, barely making up for the number of sergeants in the Alihachaoha battalion in the banner, but the combat effectiveness in it is naturally far from what it used to be.

Duoduo has had enough of Wang Dou's suffering, tomorrow's battle, this...

Dorgon continued: "Besides, a few general cannons from Tongzhou will arrive tomorrow morning. Under the bombardment of the artillery, Wang Dou may not be able to protect himself."

Hearing what Dorgon said, all the Mongolian flag owners of the Eight Banners became excited. They had already suffered enough from the Ming army's artillery, and let the Ming army on the opposite side taste the power of the artillery.

(End of this chapter)