Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 371

"Use extraordinary methods in extraordinary times!"

Dorgon had expected this reaction, but he was still resolute. He told the princes and ministers present, "Since Zhu Yihai raised his troops, I alone have lost more than 5000 people under his command. My Manchurian Eight Banners are over [-]."

"Three thousand Manchurian Banners wear armor. One Niulu is only three hundred bannermen. How many people wear armor? In just half a year, we have already damaged so many Manchurian Eight Banners. It is really worth reflecting on."

The princes and princes Baylor who are sitting here are very clear about their own family background.

When the Qing army entered the customs, the total number of Niulu was 310, and the standard banner of a Niulu was [-], but in fact there were many Niulu who were not full of staff. The total number of bannermen in the Eight Banners of Manzhou before entering the customs was [-] Yu Ding.

As for the Eight Banners of Mongolia, a standard cattle record is only 110, and there are a large number of hundreds of people, and those who are less than a hundred, are called half cattle records.

The number of the Eight Banners of the Han Army is larger, and it is said to be one hundred thousand. The actual situation is the same at most, but the combat effectiveness is definitely not as good as the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia.

When the Qing army first attacked the Daling River, each cow recorded sixty armours, forty went out to fight, and twenty stayed behind.

The Battle of Ningyuan, known as the Battle of the National Games, was fought at the door of the Manchu family. It was fully mobilized, but only 13 people were dispatched, and the soldiers were only about [-].

After the Qing army entered the customs, their fighting power was still strong, and they were able to chase and annihilate Li Zicheng for thousands of miles. This kind of sturdy record from Beijing to Hubei is indeed quite amazing, especially when they also wiped out the Nanming Hongguang Dynasty by the way, and divided their troops to fight I went to Hangzhou.

But this still cannot cover up the fact that Manchuria has a total of more than 5 people. Every time a war dies, there will be one less. years to raise adults, among them, there are even fewer males who can put on armor and go to the battlefield.

But now, in less than half a year, the Tartars have lost 5.00 Manchu Eight Banners Jiabing, which has already lost more than [-]% of the Banners. For the Jurchens who have a total of only [-] people, this is a considerable loss.

The Eight Banners of Mongolia lost another two thousand.

The Mongolian Eight Banners together have less than 3 people, and lost two thousand at once, which is a loss of more than [-]%.

And this is not the worst case, the Han Army Banner lost even more, Shang Kexi lost [-], Kong Youde lost [-], which is [-].

Then Zhang Cunren, Tu Guobao, Chen Tai, Chen Jin, Zu Kefa, Sun Dingliao and others lost [-] to [-] Han army flags.

As for the green battalions in various provinces adapted by the Ming army who surrendered after entering the customs, there are even more innumerable ones. Those who were annihilated, defeated, mutinied, surrendered, anyway, and those who fled, it is estimated that there are more than [-] small.

This is not ignorance, it is shocking.

Meile, Zhangjing, Li Shuitai, Bashan, Governor Zhang Cunren, Governor Xiao Dingyuan, Admiral Chen Jin, Caodu Chentai, and Governor Zhang Dayou all died in battle.

Although there were few Eight Banners in the past, let alone one against ten, it was always their duty to fight against others. But now they swept the Central Plains in the first half of the year, but they failed in all battlefields in the second half of the year.

"Now there are [-] Banner soldiers in Jiangnan, [-] in Yanzhou, [-] in Huguang, and [-] in Guanzhong."

Thirty-six thousand and eight, although the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia, the total number of Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia is less than [-]. Before that, [-] were discounted, leaving about [-]. These places accounted for [-].

Although some of them were not exactly Niulu Zhengding, and some of them were Yu Ding and others who voluntarily recruited, they still exceeded [-], which is less than half of the current Eight Banners soldiers in Manchuria and Mongolia.

But the problem is that even though so many Eight Banners were dispatched, the situation still couldn't stop.

On the contrary, the six thousand and eight banner soldiers in Jiangnan are very dangerous now. Dorgon has been keenly aware that if this continues, the six thousand and eight banners are very likely to follow the old road of the two thousand and five Jiangning garrisoned in Bashan. The whole army in the south of the Yangtze River was wiped out.

In Wuchang, Luck Dehun, Tong Yang and their [-] banners are also very difficult now. They are short of food and equipment. What they are facing is a completely disrupted and even forced demolition of the entire territory of Huguang. The Ming army is now retreating to Badong However, they still ran out from time to time to sweep up mountainous areas such as Yunnan, Yunyang, and Xiangxi. Today, another city was demolished here, and another town was demolished there.

The [-] and eight banners in Huguang can only be stationed in Wuchang, Jingzhou and other major cities and towns, and they dare not attack, and they can't attack. They lack food and equipment, and they can't go far in this cold winter.

Even their war horses are shivering with hunger this winter due to lack of grain and fodder, and their hair has grown thin.

As for the green camp, the green camp in Jiangnan is completely hopeless now.

Hong Chengchou played more than once, saying that the current situation in Huguang is too difficult. The Ming army retreated to the mountainous areas, and the road was far away and dangerous. If the Qing army took the initiative to attack, it would be difficult to supply logistics. to them.However, the Ming army could often attack and harass small groups, and the Qing army was hard to defend against.

Can't defend, can't catch up, can't advance and suppress, so it is even more difficult.

The green battalion in Huguang is basically running away now. Hong Chengchou can't afford the food and pay to supply the green battalion, but he always asks them to undertake difficult tasks. The threat of the Ming army is so great that many green battalions simply surrendered anyway, and some just fled. If it is lost, the rest will shrink into the big city like the Eight Banners, but they dare not leave the city.

The Eight Banners counted on the Green Camp to be the striker as cannon fodder, and the Green Camp wanted to hold the Eight Banners as a backer. Anyway, now they can't sleep well at night, and they usually don't have enough meals.

Not to mention Jiangnan.

Jiangning now has only half of the city left, and Suzhou has been besieged for the fourth time.

Zhenjiang, Changzhou and others fell successively.

So after thinking about it, Dorgon felt that the south is too dangerous now, and if this continues, the tens of thousands of Manchurian Eight Banners may all collapse there.

Five thousand sable brocades mourning the dust, this can't bear it any longer.

Not to mention all discounts, even the [-] and [-] percent discounts in Jiangnan, Beijing would have to be mourned all over the city.

"The Eight Banners are the foundation of the country, especially the Eight Banners of Manchuria. They cannot continue to suffer like this."

In front of many Han ministers in the hall, Dorgon said bluntly that the Manchurian Eight Banners are supreme, and he proposed to bring back the Southern Eight Banners.

Five thousand are stationed in Yangzhou, five thousand are stationed in Anqing, five thousand are stationed in Xiangyang, five thousand are stationed in Xi'an, another five thousand are stationed in Jinan, and another five thousand are stationed in Wuchang.

If the situation improves in the future, Jiangning will be recovered, and another [-] troops will be stationed in Jiangning.

Try to hold the Eight Banners together as much as possible and not disperse them, so as not to be divided and wiped out. Each place has five thousand and eight banners, and there are about [-] Eight Banners Han troops.

Important cities such as Jingzhou, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Songjiang, Zhenjiang, Jiujiang, and Hanzhong must be temporarily abandoned.

Of course, it is not really giving up completely, but changing the strategy. In the past, the Qing army was mainly based on the Eight Banners, and the Eight Banners charged forward. The Han Army Banner served as auxiliary artillery and other tasks.

But now, after Dorgon proposed that the Eight Banners of Manchuria are supreme, Manchuria and Mongolia are integrated, and the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia are stationed in several important cities behind, acting as a strategic mobile force.

Those who really go to the front line to fight must be changed to Han Chinese.

But in order to change the problems that the green battalion cannot be fought and the number of Han army flags is not large, it is necessary to change a set of incentives. This method is to take out the southern provinces and enshrine Han generals.

Conferring kings, dukes, marquises, hereditary governors, admirals, general soldiers and other official positions, all southern provinces except Huguang and Jiangnan can be abandoned.

It was used as a reward for the Han generals.

In exchange for their contribution to the Qing Dynasty to eliminate the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to the title of title, Dorgun also proposed that in the south of the Yangtze River, the Han army could plunder and massacre at will, allowing them to collect and rob money and food on the spot. Anyway, those places will no longer be the territory of the Qing Dynasty in the future. That is The enemy can do anything.

If you want soldiers, you can recruit them yourself. If you can't recruit them, you can force them.

If there is no food and salary, they will be collected or robbed directly.

Loot as you please, regardless of whether it belongs to landlords, gentry or ordinary people, you can rob it if you have the ability, and whatever you rob is yours.

This is the same as when they were still outside the customs. Every time they gather people to go into the customs to plunder, they claim to rob the west, from outside the customs to Shandong, from Baylor to Baoyi, just wantonly robbing.

For example, Wu Sangui, who enfeoffed Guizhou, had the obligation to take it down by himself. After it was taken down, he would guard Guizhou. In the future, his army's money and food expenses, and even his own salary, etc., would be collected from Guizhou.

Fighting for one's own fiefdom and fighting for one's own wealth, then the Han army will surely change from a weak green battalion to a capable soldier.

However, although Dorgon's ultimate move is very powerful, not many princes of the Eight Banners are willing to support it.

The reason is simple. No matter how you look at it, this trick seems to harm the interests of the Han Eight Banners and fatten the Han people. It is too good for the Han people.

The Han people all enshrined kings and dukes, and all enfeoffed borders and cracked soil, but the Eight Banners were not as good. How can there be such a reason?

Even if you, Dorgon, are the owner of the two white flags, you can't turn your arm to the Han people.

Hauge even shouted directly, in this case, they should all be divided.

He also selected meritorious clans and princes from the Eight Banners to divide the town into various places. Hauge even offered to express his willingness to guard Xi'an.

The last time I went south to Boluo in Hangzhou, the grandson of Nurhachi also expressed his willingness to guard Jinan, and Man Dahai, the son of Daishan, expressed his willingness to guard in Anqing.

Chu Ying's son Nikan said he would like to go to Wuchang to guard.

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These princes, county princes, Beilegu Shanerzhen and others began to argue, which made Dorgon a little surprised for a while, and this fucking meant that they wanted to divide the property.

His intention was to encourage the Han generals to lead the Han soldiers to destroy the Ming Dynasty for the Qing Dynasty. As long as the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, even if these Han generals and princes were feudalized, so what?

Let's destroy the main enemy first, and then figure out the rest.

But these guys jumped out one by one to take the opportunity to seal the domain, and Dorgon's head hurt from the noise.

In the end, Dorgon looked at the smiling old guys Jierhalang and Daishan, as well as the aggressive Hauge, so he had to back down a step.

He verbally promised that Hauge, Prince of Su, would guard Xi'an, Azige, Prince of England, would guard Datong, and Duoduo, Prince Yu, would guard Jinzhou.

Daishan's grandson, Leke Dehun, the king of Shuncheng County, is a member of Dorgon. Now Wuchang is guarded by him.

The two grandsons of Nurhachi, Nikan and Boluo, were also crowned as county kings by Baylor, guarding Jingzhou and Yangzhou respectively...
Fengtian, Jinzhou, Datong, Taiyuan, Jinan, Xi'an, Xiangyang, Jingzhou, Wuchang, Anqing, Yangzhou, Kaifeng, Dengzhou, thirteen princes were appointed to guard the various places at once.

Each town has 1 full banners, [-] Mongolian Eight Banners, and [-] Han Army Eight Banners, a total of [-] soldiers, plus [-] Han Army green battalion auxiliary soldiers, [-] horses, and moved their families to accompany them.

However, Dorgon only said for the time being that the thirteen princes were called garrison generals, not feudal feudal vassals.

(End of this chapter)