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Chapter 933 Where is Zhang Cheng, there is no conspiracy, right?

The Wuzhenhachao Artillery Battalion under the command of Kong Youde was specially organized by the Qing Dynasty for the Battle of Jinzhou. Most of the firearms in the battalion were newly made by craftsmen brought by Kong Youde, and the training was also handled by Kong Youde, so it should be The camp is under the general jurisdiction of Kong Youde.

Wuzhenchaoha is actually a transliteration of Manchu, and its literal meaning is "heavy soldiers". The origin of Wuzhenchaoha was first established in the later Jin Dynasty, which has a lot to do with the artillery of the Ming army.

Nurhachi, an old slave in the late Jin Dynasty, had organized the surrendered Han slaves into sixteen assistant leaders, but at this time these Han army assistant leaders still belonged to the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and their status was still the same as that of the coated slaves.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, in order to balance the military power of Zhubei Le, the successor of Hou Jin, the slave chieftain of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, he allocated a separate army named "Wuzhenchaoha" battalion based on the Han Chinese slaves who were proficient in firearms. And take Tong Yangxing as the battalion's Angbang Zhangjing.

In the tenth year of Chongzhen, the Wuzhenchao Ha camp was divided into two banners, with Shi Tingzhu as the left-wing banner Gushan Ezhen, and Ma Guangyuan as the right-wing banner Gushan Ezhen, and Tong Yangxing still worshiped the battalion Beijing, commanding Wuzhenchao Ha camp.

In this way, it was not until the 12th year of Chongzhen that it was divided into the current four banners, with Shi Tingzhu, Ma Guangyuan, Wang Shixuan, and Bayan as the Gushan Ezhen of each banner.

Although Huang Taiji gradually expanded the Wuzhenchao Ha camp to the four banners, and only appointed Gushan Ezhen without setting up a banner leader, his purpose was to put the Wuzhenchao Ha camp under his direct leadership, so that they could Become an army that only obeys its own orders.

But his actions caused dissatisfaction among many princes of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, Baylor. To this day, there are still many soldiers in the banners of the Han army who belong to the princes of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and are still their coats.

In this regard, Huang Taiji didn't dare to force it. After all, it involved too many aspects, and he could only solve the identity problem for the soldiers of the Han Army Banner bit by bit. This needed an opportunity.

Originally, Huang Taiji was still looking forward to this battle of Jinzhou. If the Ming army was defeated in this battle, he could use the prestige of this battle to change the status of the soldiers of the Han army's banners in one fell swoop, making them free citizens of the Qing state. This makes them more loyal to themselves.

But his military strategy has been frustrated step by step. Now, even he himself doesn't know whether the next step of liberating the identity of the Han army banner soldiers can continue as scheduled.

Of course, these are all things to say later, and we have to wait until the end of the big event in front of us before we have time to study it.

However, fortunately, there was such a big battle. Under the banner of concentrating the army's combat power, Huang Taiji selected soldiers who were good at handling guns from the four banners of the Han army, and then formed a new army based on the Tianyou Army and the Tianzhu Army. Heavy Arms Forces.

The firecrackers and cannons that this army is equipped with are all under the supervision of Kong Youde, the respectful king, especially the more than thirty red cannons, which are known as the mighty generals, are even more sharp.

And this Wuzhenchao Ha battalion commanded by Kong Youde has no connection with the Eight Banners of Manchuria. It directly obeys the Qing Emperor Huang Taiji, and even the selected sergeants have broken away from their original masters.

At this time, Wang Shixuan, Shang Kexi and other Han generals of the Qing Dynasty were all gearing up. Looking at the Ming army forming an formation on the bank of the Daughter River and preparing to advance northward, Shen Zhixiang even smiled and said: "Damn, I can't wait, I want to Let's kill!"

All the Han generals beside him laughed wildly at the same time, expressing their agreement, and talking more about how to kill the Ming dogs to their heart's content, ignoring the Ming army in front of them, who were also their former compatriots.

Only Liu Lin, the commander of the three naval forces of North Korea, had the same smile on his face, but he was very contemptuous of them in his heart. He thought to himself: "A bunch of pigtail slaves have taken refuge in their new masters. In the old days, they were even more cruel, they were really a group of vulgar warriors who didn't know etiquette, justice and shame. It's really sad and deplorable that there will be such scum in the brilliant Ming Dynasty!"

Seeing these vicious traitors performing in front of her eyes, Liu Lin couldn't help but think of the surrendered gang in China, and secretly scolded them for forgetting their ancestors for forgetting their ancestors.

In this way, he couldn't help but become more determined. After returning to China, he will further suppress those capitulators, and never allow these dirty villains to succeed in their plan to seek refuge with the barbarians!
At this moment, Kong Youde suddenly raised the binoculars in his hand again, and looked at the north side of Naughty River Rufeng Mountain. For some reason, the soldiers and horses of the Ming army in Ji Town and Shanhai Town seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood.

The river bank over there was already full of soldiers of the Ming army, their banners fluttering around, and the formation continued to expand northward, Kong Youde's doubts increased greatly: "Could it be that the main attack of the Ming army will not succeed?"

At this time, Wang Shixuan, Shang Kexi and the others also noticed the situation there, and at the same time, they forgot the verbal dispute just now, and started pointing at that side.

Then, they listened to the west of Jinzhou City, and there were bursts of rapid sound of horns, and the faint sound of hoofs shaking the ground under their feet.

"What happened?"

While everyone was wondering, they all turned their heads and looked towards the west of Jinzhou City. They saw waves of sentinel cavalry rushing back and forth on the field of the Eight Banners of Mongolia, as if they were conveying military orders back and forth.

These sentinels are all brightly armored, with eagle feathers inserted on the helmet tubes, and flying tiger fox tail flags on their backs. They are vigorous and agile. The retinue of His Majesty the Qing Emperor.

Although Huang Taiji's men had already returned to Shengjing, they did not completely ignore the battle of Jinzhou. They only brought [-] Gebush Xianchao soldiers to guard them, and most of the rest stayed in Jinzhou city to serve.

As these Gebush sentry cavalry communicated back and forth, I saw the sound of rapid conch shells on the cavalry positions of the Manchurian Eight Banners in the west of Jinzhou City, and then nearly a third of them elite cavalry formed one after another. The departure of the army.

In the smoke and dust rising all over the sky, they can be seen rushing towards the daughter river section on the north side of Rufeng Mountain.

Kong Youde turned his head, and looked towards the south of where he was. The Ming army on the south bank of Daughter River was still unmoved. On the bank of the river.

The troops of the Han army, including the Wuzhenchao Ha Pao Battalion commanded by Kong Youde, were actually defending against the troops of Wu Sangui, the Ming army. After all, in the eyes of the princes of the Qing Dynasty, the Ningyuan Army was the strongest in Jiliao Town. One has to be guarded against.

Wang Shixuan, Shang Kexi and other generals of the Qing army were stunned: "What's going on? Even the warriors of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia have been dispatched. Why are there no military orders here?"

Just when everyone was in a state of confusion and thinking wildly, they saw several Bayalas under the Manchurian Zhengbai flag rushing towards them, conveying to them the military order of Prince Rui, asking the Han army to rush to the area with red flags. On the bank of the Daughter River, stop the soldiers and horses of Shanhai Town, the Ma Ke Department of the Ming Army.

Here Wang Shixuan didn't dare to delay, he didn't even say hello to everyone, so he hurried down to Tucheng with Liu Zhiyuan, and the whole army quickly headed towards Nuuhe Rufeng Mountain.

Wang Shixuan left here for a while, and saw Gebush's virtuous Zhang Jinglaosa leading some cavalry from Gebush's virtuous Kazakh battalion to rush forward.
He didn't go to Tucheng either, he just shouted loudly from outside the first ditch: "King Shun, Prince Rui has ordered that Wuzhenchao Ha Pao Battalion stay here, and the rest belong to the Han army, including the Tianzhu Army and Tianyou Army. , as well as the Korean army, move immediately to the Daughter River to prepare for the Ningyuan army of the Ming Dynasty to cross the river!"

He quickly conveyed a series of military orders from Prince Rui, the commander-in-chief of the Jinzhou War in the Qing Dynasty.

According to the latest deployment of Prince Rui Dorgon, all the soldiers and horses of the Han Army's Four Banners, as well as the soldiers and horses of the Tianyou Army, Tianyou Army, and Korean Army left in Tucheng, all marched to the north bank of the Daughter River for defense. .

Except for the Wuzhenhachao Artillery Battalion directly commanded by Kong Youde, which remained in place, there were no other Han and Korean troops stationed in Tucheng, and all the troops moved to the bank of the Naughty River.

At the end, he left a sentence, "Anyone who dares to disobey the order will be killed!" After that, Lausa hurriedly rode his horse back to his order.

The Han generals in Tucheng did not dare to ask why. Although they held high positions in the Qing Dynasty, they only used their names. Few of the Manchurian officials really took them seriously.

Now, when the military situation was in an emergency, they dared not ask more about the reason, and after receiving the order in unison, they went down to Tucheng to gather their own troops.

In Tucheng, which was still full of people and verbal disputes just now, there are only Gongshun Wang Kong Youde and Xushun Gong Shen Zhixiang standing on the spot.

As Han generals who were also born in Dongjiang Town of Ming Dynasty, Kong Youde, Geng Jingzhong, Shang Kexi, and Shen Zhixiang had to hug each other tightly, after all, they had no roots in the Qing Dynasty.

Moreover, when they served under Mao Wenlong, the General Soldier of Dongjiang, they also regarded the Qing army as their deadly enemy. Which one of them did not have the blood and lives of hundreds of thousands of Qing army soldiers on their hands.

Among the officials and generals at all levels in the Qing Dynasty, especially those in the middle and lower ranks of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, some relatives may have died under their swords, or died under the swords of their soldiers.

Although, at that time, they belonged to different camps and were enemies, which was inevitable, but there were always those stubborn people who couldn't get rid of this grind, and at some point they might find a reason and kill them.

Could it be that Huang Taiji would really kill those fierce generals of the Eight Banners of Manchuria in order to avenge them?

Even though Kong Youde has surrendered to the Qing Dynasty for nearly ten years, and has become the respectful king of the Qing Dynasty, he still cannot be regarded seriously by the Manchu princes, Baylors, and officials in the Qing court.

In fact, not to mention those famous generals who surrendered in the later period, even Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanwo and others who surrendered in the early days have already become Huang Taiji's close ministers, so what?
It's not that they are often humiliated by the princes, Baylor, and officials of the Qing Dynasty, not to mention that their hands have not been stained with the blood and lives of Manchurian soldiers.

Moreover, there were also some secret struggles among the Han officials and generals who surrendered in the Qing Dynasty. After all, the most important thing in the Qing Dynasty was military merit. However, military merit cannot be obtained by mouth. Fight with life.

Therefore, in the eyes of these Han generals, what they are fighting for is not only their own status in the hearts of the Qing monarchs and ministers, but also the number, strengths and weaknesses of their own soldiers, as well as the land, ordnance, etc. they are allotted, because these are all It is an important factor in determining the quality and morale of the soldiers under his command.

The scramble between them is not all for the sake of face, most of them are for survival, for a better life!

As for the Qing Dynasty, from the emperor Huang Taiji down, most of them were happy to see healthy competition between them. After all, they didn't want to raise a bunch of waste.

Whichever is more outstanding and more loyal to the Qing Dynasty will be more useful, and it is also the talent they want to keep first, and will definitely receive more high-quality resource allocation.

So, don't look at Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, and Shen Zhixiang. They had many disputes for their own interests when they were in Dongjiang Town, but now they can only be tied together and work together for their own living space.

Looking down at the Tucheng, King Zhishun Shang Kexi's Tianzhu Army took the lead. They left Tucheng with banners and marched to the south bank of the Daughter River in neat steps.

Kong Youde looked at it for a while, and then he opened his mouth and said leisurely to Shen Zhixiang next to him: "I have never seen the banner of the Xuanfu army, I don't know where that Zhang Cheng is hiding, is there any conspiracy?"

Regarding the battle at Shimen Mountain that day, Kong Youde is still terrified in his heart when he thinks about it.

Although Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu who injured him at the beginning, was killed on the spot by Qing warriors on the same day, the brave performance left by the Xuanfu army is still very profound.

Afterwards, under the leadership of Zhang Cheng, the Xuanfu army made more and more meritorious deeds, and even Duoduo, Prince Yu, who was known for his bravery and combat skills, died in front of the Xuanfu army.

Not only the generals of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia attached great importance to Zhang Cheng and the Xuanfu army, but even their group of Han generals also attached great importance to Zhang Cheng and the Xuanfu army, and even feared them very much.

Kong Youde even asked himself in private: "Unexpectedly, the Ming Dynasty has a military horse that can fight better than the Liaodong Iron Cavalry? Sigh, I don't know whether I am right or wrong to go to the Qing Dynasty!"

However, he kept these doubts in his heart, and even Kong Youde, his comrade-in-arms Geng Zhongming who had troubled Shandong together and finally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, did not dare to share this doubt.

In fact, even the relationship between Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, and Shen Zhixiang did not have complete trust. It's just that the current situation is such that they have to stick together and use each other.

Shen Zhixiang also felt a little afraid of Zhang Cheng's Xuanfu Army in his heart. After hearing Kong Youde's words, he stared at the Ningyuan Army's banner on the other side of the Daughter River.

After a while, he opened his mouth and said: "The matter has come to this point, I have no way out, there is a sea of ​​swords and flames ahead, so I have to close my eyes and jump in!"

Shen Zhixiang's words just represented the aspirations of most Qing generals.

Although, they all swear on weekdays that they will not take Zhang Cheng and the Xuanfu army seriously, but if they really want to fight against them, they still feel very panic in their hearts!

However, at this moment, the military orders of Prince Rui Guorui of the Qing Dynasty are issued again, so how dare they disobey them?

Even if you feel anxious in your heart, you have no choice but to bite the bullet and push forward. It is nothing more than "Life and death are fate, wealth and honor are in the sky"!

(End of this chapter)