Anti-Qing: I'm actually an honest person

Chapter 178 Big Victory (Two in One)

At this time, Labu was yelling loudly, trying to prove his innocence: he did not run away.

I just want to change to a safer place to command.

After all, he is the prince of the Qing Dynasty and Shuojian. How embarrassing would it be if he was shot to death by artillery when he was supervising the battle team?How embarrassing is this way of death?

However, Zhu Man and the soldiers of the Green Camp rushed back in a mess. In fact, they just wanted to escape at this time. God damn La Bu, let us be cannon fodder!

To be honest, if Labu is willing to change a method, such as encouraging them with heavy rewards, before charging, they will be given 100 taels of silver to each of them to settle down, and then promise to give these green battalion soldiers high officials and generous salaries after rushing over. The Green Camp really might not be so cowardly.

However, La Bu did not, but adopted the simplest and most brutal method of persecution, purely using these green camps as cannon fodder.

This is another major factor that stretched the fighting power of the Qing court, and that is the internal conflict between Manchu and Han, which has indeed reached an almost unsolvable point. More precisely, it is the contradiction between the Eight Banners and the Green Camp.

In fact, the so-called San Francisco Rebellion was essentially the result of the cumulative outbreak of conflicts between the Eight Banners and the Green Camp. The so-called Green Camp were basically defenders from various places in the Ming Dynasty. As soon as the clothes are changed, they become soldiers of the Qing Dynasty.

However, in this way, the Qing government did not have a systematic exchange process for the soldiers of the green battalion in various places.

For example, in fact, the positions of Wu Sangui and other three vassals were originally dispatched temporarily. King Pingxi, King Zhennan, and King Pingnan were all temporarily assigned positions for the purpose of fighting for Nanming. When they were originally arranged, they had to be removed after the battle. Yes, but the result is that the war was completely over ten years ago, but the father of San Francisco passed on to his son, and those without sons even passed on to his son-in-law. The court just couldn't withdraw.

They don't even need San Francisco. Zu Zeqing is the son of Zu Dashou, and Huang Fangdu is the son of Huang Wu. The green camps in the entire Jiangnan area already have the meaning of father death and son succession. This is definitely a warlord!
But Kangxi is determined to be the great emperor, or any emperor who really has a long-term vision and hopes that his dynasty can be a few hundred years longer, he will never allow you to play like this, so he not only wants To withdraw the vassal, we must try our best to control the green camp in the south of the Yangtze River, so that the green camp will be de-warlordized, and the specific method of de-warlordization is naturally to send the elite of the Eight Banners to resident places, and try to seize power from the hands of these Han generals.

On the other hand, the Qing Dynasty is indeed different from the previous dynasties. In fact, if it is only for grabbing power, it is not difficult in itself. There are too many methods that can be used for reference in history. Song Taizu drinking wine to release military power is an excellent way.

After the founding of the country in all dynasties, the way to deal with heroes is nothing more than spending money to redeem power back. If it is really impossible to buy it back, then extreme methods will be used. Even Zhu Yuanzhang, who claims to be innocent, really If you count carefully, only about one-third of the heroes were killed, and the remaining two-thirds are alive and well.

However, the Qing court, Kangxi was really too poor. The Manchu Qing court, especially in the early days, was really like a tribal regime. Because of the Eight Banners system and bugs such as investment and charging, the country’s wealth hardly fell to the country. In the national treasury, he actually has no financial resources to appease the so-called heroes, and he can't even afford to support them.

This led to the fact that in the early Qing Dynasty, although the military pay of the Green Camp was not low on the surface, it was still a common thing to be owed military pay. Even Wu Sangui's own soldiers and horses needed all the tax revenue of the six southern provinces to supply them. military pay.

Therefore, the Eight Banners were raised as uncles, and the Green Camp was raised as a dog. This became a normal social phenomenon in the early Qing Dynasty, which in turn led to the Eight Banners soldiers looking down on the Green Battalion soldiers, bullying and humiliating them frequently, and wanting to use others as cannon fodder at critical moments. Still can't come up with money.

Although Labu has been scraping land for the past six months, all the money obtained from scraping land has fallen into the pockets of the Eight Banners soldiers, and under the current background of ethnic conflicts, he just wants to spend money on himself. If the money is given to Zhu Manhua, he has to worry about the thoughts of other Eight Banners generals.

So why should these green battalion soldiers work hard for Labu?In particular, Liu Dapao's gun array is too powerful. His set of military equipment is almost the same as that of Napoleon in history. He has played a generational difference against the Qing army. The first batch of people who rushed up were obviously cannon fodder.

On the contrary, it seems that there is nothing wrong with surrendering to the Ming court. If they change their skins, they can become the Ming army. Isn't this better than being a dog with Labu?
However, because Labu really doesn't have much prestige in the army, the 20-year-old general relies entirely on his grandfather and his father's cute goods. Bu's handsome flag is indeed moving backwards. For a moment, who can tell whether he really just wants to retreat a little, or really wants to run away?
If it is said that Labu will flee in battle, the soldiers really believe it!

The big guys are fighting to kill, after all, it's not for your Aixinjueluo family's country. Now that the two armies are in front of the battle, you run away as soon as the fight starts, so why should we fight for your family?
So morale plummeted, and it was only natural.

Then the reverse charge of the front army and the rear army directly messed up the formation, and Labu himself was even more confused, and was swept away inexplicably, walking further and further back, further and further close Afterwards, the more he looked at it, the more he looked like he was fleeing from battle.

Then La Bu couldn't help thinking: "Hey, forget it, the Ming army is powerful, I'm afraid I can't win this battle anyway, I'm also Prince He Shuojian, I can't really die here, even if I escaped , after I escape back to Nanchang, there will always be a chance to make amends, even if I don't... For the sake of my grandfather, the emperor will never be too harsh on me."

Then, he actually ran away.

Then, this Qing army was inexplicably defeated.

On the opposite side, Liu Dapao was in a state of bewilderment.

What's the situation, I just fired a few shots!
How did you defeat yourself?
It was Jin Guangzu who reminded him: "Prime Minister, is it possible for Zu Zhentai to lead the cavalry to pursue?"

Zu Zeqing was confused.

Isn't this just the beginning of the fight? Why is it my turn to clean up the battlefield?

As for Li Chenggong and Niu Dabiao, who were ambushing on the mountains on both sides, they were completely confused at the moment.

Okay, let us men make a great contribution.

Why did you end up beating it out of nowhere?We haven't fired yet!
So this morning, before dawn, our 1 people pushed more than [-] cannons up the mountain and were exhausted. After all, it was for a ball!
Thinking about it this way, my heart is too unbalanced, so although the Qing army did not outflank the two wings as expected, Li Chenggong and Niu Dabiao still set up cannons at the same time, boom boom boom boom boom boom Damn.

These shells landed randomly in the Qing army's position, and the killing effect was naturally the same. It was originally shot blindly, but it greatly damaged the morale of the Qing court. I don't know who shouted: " The Ming army still has magic artillery, this, their artillery has already hit the army~"

"Oh my god, isn't it three thousand steps away?"

Then, the Qing army was in complete chaos, and even trampled on each other, and no one thought about organizing a counter-charge, taking out the flanks and the like.

Liu Dapao couldn't help it, and asked Jin Guangzu: "The army of the Qing court...is it really so incompetent? No matter how quickly the Eight Banners soldiers degenerate, they can't be like this?"

In fact, what he wants to say is, if the soldiers of the Eight Banners really have this virtue, how did Kangxi defeat Wu Sangui in history?

No matter how hard Lao Wu pulls back, he won't be unable to defeat such a mob-like army, right?
When Jin Guangzu heard the words, he analyzed rationally: "The Prime Minister's words are both right and wrong. In fact, although the military system of the Qing court has begun to corrupt, it is far from corrupt to the root. The Eight Banners soldiers and horses themselves are still good at fighting."

"The reason why it looks so vulnerable is because the army in Jiangxi is quite special, and it is not the main force in the true sense of the Qing court. Labu himself is young and inexperienced, not a general. It’s a bargain for us.”

"Secondly, there are many internal contradictions in the Qing court. Not only the contradictions between Manchu and Han are sharp, but even the Manchus are discordant with each other. How can Rabbi Hede, at an age of just over 20 years old, be able to serve as the Grand Master? The position of a general, as the commander in chief of a large battlefield? In the final analysis, it is nothing more than the meeting of kings discussing politics not only does not want to give up military power, but wants to take this opportunity to seize power wantonly."

"That's why I said that Kangxi faced more than ten times the constraints of the prime minister in employing people and troops. You don't have to think too hard about them at all."

Liu Dapao couldn't help but said: "If this is the case, wouldn't it be easy to recover the Central Plains on the day my Master Wang went north?"

"Of course it can't be that simple. Firstly, the other lords won't be all idiots like Labu after all. Secondly, it's like what you said, no matter how fast the Eight Banners fall, they will never fall to this level." If you want me to say it, it cannot be said that the Eight Banners have fallen, but that Aixinjueluo has fallen. It may be more realistic. A group that has clearly fallen still wants to hold military and political power, so it will naturally be backlashed. However, in the final analysis, the Qing court is not just the Qing court of the Manchus, and the Manchus are not just the Manchus of Aixinjueluo."

Liu Dapao thought for a while, then nodded and said: "I understand what you mean. Although the Eight Banners are rotten, they are not rotten to the root. If they hurt, they will naturally change. Those who are capable go up, and those who are mediocre come down. The fighting power of the Eight Banners is It can be recovered quickly, that’s what it means.”

"Exactly."

Hearing this, Liu Dapao couldn't help but think a lot more.

In fact, such a statement can really explain why it took eight years for the Qing court to put down a mere Wu Sangui rebellion. On a larger scale, this was a process of blood exchange within the Qing court. A process in which the old people such as Tuhai who were not taken seriously, and the low-level Manchus like Mu Zhan who climbed up from the soldiers gradually replaced the princes of various ministries, Baylor and Beizi.

In my impression, it seems that after the San Francisco Rebellion, the five-character record of the meeting of kings discussing politics is rare in history books. The predecessor of the Military Aircraft Department, the South Study Room, was also established during this period.

If you even think about it a little bit more, if you regard the entire San Francisco rebellion as a contradiction between the Eight Banners and the Green Camp, it is difficult to say who will win and who will lose in the end, because the status of the Green Camp soldiers and horses after the war will not be reduced. Instead, Han generals represented by Zhang Yong and others have gradually risen since then.

The entire San Francisco Rebellion was probably a long process of shaping the tribal politics of the Qing Dynasty into a dynastic political body.

"So, at this early stage of the war, when the Manchu Qing army was weakest and the management of the top and bottom was the most chaotic, it was also the best window for the rise of my Ming Dynasty. After this wind, the Manchu Qing will reform and become more and more powerful. It is getting stronger and stronger, it seems that after this battle, I will also find a way to force Wu Sangui to fight a few big battles and fight a few decisive battles."

"Prime Minister Shengming."

After finishing speaking, Liu Dapao laughed loudly, and said, "Understood, but the most important thing now is to clean up this Labu first, Zu Zeqing, it's your turn."

"Yes."

After all, Zu Zeqing led the rebels to pass through the green camp of the Qing army without hesitation, chasing and killing the defeated Eight Banners soldiers and horses. Liu Dapao followed behind and led the infantry forward. Incorporate and surrender those Han troops from the green battalion.

However, the green battalion is okay, but in fact, the defeat of the Eight Banners is doomed to fail to achieve much results. In other words, there are too few cavalry, which is the biggest disadvantage of Liu Dapao's Ming army Zu Zeqing's cavalry is not only inferior in quantity, but also in quality, it has long been unable to compare with the Guanning iron cavalry of his father's birthday. Okay, it's simply unrealistic to point at others and try their best.

Therefore, if the Eight Banners soldiers wanted to leave, they really couldn't keep them. This was actually one of the reasons why the Eight Banners soldiers were defeated so quickly.

They don't have much fighting spirit at all, and many of them may even be eager to return to Nanchang if they lose. Anyway, they won't die if they lose, so even if Liu Dapao wins this battle, he shouldn't win the battle It is too big, so even if it is chasing, it is supposed to be chasing some infantry.

Ordinarily, it should be so.

However, Liu Dapao and the others were chasing and chasing and chasing, chasing and chasing, and suddenly, some of the Eight Banners' defeated soldiers who had already run away without a trace of the former army ran back again.

The battlefield, which was already calm and was about to end, suddenly became chaotic.

"What's going on, what's going on? Come and see, what the hell is Zu Zeqing doing, what's going on?"

After a while, I saw Lei Zhentian himself riding a horse and running back excitedly, shouting: "My lord is overjoyed, overjoyed! Our reinforcements have arrived!"

"Reinforcements? What reinforcements, where did they come from?"

"Just as General Zu was chasing the enemy chieftain, suddenly a cavalry of our army came from the north and blocked the way of the Qing army. Together with General Zu, they had already formed a double-sided posture against the Labu army. The Qing army It's completely chaotic now, if this battle is fought well, maybe the whole army of La Bu can be wiped out!"

"What?! Who, what reinforcements have you seen clearly?"

"I only saw a flag with a horse character written on it."

"Horse? The word for horse? Ah! Quzhou, treasure Ma!!"

Jin Guangzu also excitedly said at the side: "According to the distance, only Ma Bao and Hu Guozhu are left for reinforcements nearby, and the word Ma must be Ma Bao! Yes, he used to be Li Dingguo's old general, prime minister, God bless Daming!"

Liu Dapao was also so excited that he clenched his hands into fists, his cheeks were flushed, and he couldn't help muttering: "God bless Daming, God bless Daming, God bless Daming! Soldiers, this is a god-given opportunity, let me kill you!"

(End of this chapter)