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Although the Eight Banners Mongolia of the Qing Army was officially established in the ninth year of Tiancong (1635), there were actually many Mongolians and Han people in the Eight Banners Army as early as the Nurhaci period.

It's just that at that time, there was no distinction between the Eight Banners Manchuria, the Eight Banners Mongolia, and the Eight Banners Han Army. They were collectively called the Eight Banners Army. Manchuria was created after Huang Taiji came to the throne. It was previously called the Eight Banners Army of the Later Jin Dynasty.

At that time, when there were the largest number of Mongolians in the Eight Banners Army, there were seventy-six Niulu (each Niulu usually had two to three hundred people).

As for the Han Niulu during the Nurhaci period, there are very few, with only sixteen at most.

Among the Eight Banners Army today, the Eight Banners Manchurians naturally still have the highest status and the largest number, with about 60,000 to 70,000 people (official bannermen).

As for the Eight Banners Mongolian and Eight Banners Han armies, firstly, the number of troops is small, and secondly, the top management of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties have always been wary of the Mongols and Han people. It is more clear that in the Eight Banners military system, the Eight Banners Manchuria is the backbone and core. The Mongolian and Han armies are just branches.

Therefore, the Eight Banners Mongolia, whose status is second only to the Eight Banners Manchuria, currently only has more than 35,000 people, which is only an increase of more than 10,000 people from the Nurhaci period.

As for the Han army, which was officially expanded to the Eight Banners in June this year, its number was originally only more than 20,000.

But in August, Kong Youde and other Sanshun kings were deeply uneasy, so they asked their troops to be integrated into the Eight Banners Han Army.

Huang Taiji began to build the Eight Banners Han Army in the early years of Chongde. He had long wanted to integrate the soldiers and horses of King Sanshun into the Eight Banners to further strengthen his control. However, due to the promise made by King Sanshun when he surrendered, he did not do so. He was thinking hard and didn't speak.

King Sanshun took the initiative to join the Eight Banners Army, and he naturally agreed readily.

However, the names of King Sanshun and Duke Yishun sound very impressive, but in fact, since they joined the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they have rarely been supplemented by soldiers - firstly, there are indeed few Han people in the Manchurian territory who can serve as soldiers, and secondly, the Manchurian high-level officials Intentional suppression.

Therefore, the total number of soldiers and horses of King Sanshun and Duke Yishun is only more than 10,000.

Their joining the Eight Banners increased the Eight Banners' Han army to 36,000 to 7,000 men.

Even so, neither King Sanshun nor Duke Yishun got the position of banner leader of the Eight Banners Han Army. This shows that the Manchus were deeply guarded against Kong Youde and others.

In addition, in order to further control the Eight Banners Mongolia and Eight Banners Han armies, when the Qing army dispatched soldiers and horses for battle, they often drew some from the Manchu, Mongolian, and Han armies to form one army. The leader must be a Jurchen, and even the deputy generals most of the time. Jurchen.

In a word, among the soldiers and horses along the way, the Manchurian soldiers are the absolute core force, and the Mongolian and Han armies can only provide support to the Manchurian soldiers.

Even sometimes the positions such as Jiala Zhangjing and Gushan Ezhen of the Eight Banners Mongolia were held by Jurchens.

However, because the soldiers are basically Mongolian, the combat style is still similar to Mongolian light cavalry, with riding and shooting as the main focus. It's just that the Eight Banners Mongolians have better armor, their cavalry bows are slightly more powerful, and their infantry combat capabilities are stronger than those of the Mongolian light cavalry.

The Eight Banners Mongolian soldiers in these two groups have been fighting against the Ming army all year round. They are wary of guns and artillery. They also know that their attack is to test the firepower of the Ming army in front of them...

Although the Yi army did not have many cavalry, it had accumulated a lot of experience in dealing with cavalry charges in its battles with the Ming army and the Shun army.

Seeing more than a thousand Mongolian soldiers charging towards each wing, the officers and soldiers of the 5th Brigade of the Wei Army changed their formations in an orderly manner under the command of the general, and placed the loaded Tiger Crouching Cannon in the appropriate position.

Seeing that the Mongolian forwards had entered two hundred steps in front of the formation, hundreds of tiger squatting cannons started firing almost simultaneously under the command of the flag!

Bang bang bang...

Although the Eight Banners Mongolian soldiers had long been mentally prepared, they were still startled when they suddenly heard such a dense and crisp sound of artillery - whether it was the Ming army's squatting tiger artillery or the Qing army's own, they had never been fired so intensively.

"Withdraw! Quickly withdraw!"

The leader of the army, Jia La'erzhen, shouted loudly in Mongolian.

In fact, these Eight Banners Mongolian soldiers were not in close formation. When the intensive artillery fire sounded, they fled to one side.

However, the Yi army sent too many Crouching Tiger Cannons at the same time, and most of them were Gongsun bombs (a type of shotgun). In just one round, nearly a hundred cavalry were shot down and dismounted!

This was only the battle situation on one side, and the battle situation on the other side was no different. There were even more cavalrymen knocked off their horses by the Crouching Tiger Cannon.

In front of the Qing army formation.

Abate's face turned ugly when he saw this scene.

Although the Yi army had hidden its artillery in the military formation before, and he couldn't see clearly due to the distance, he did guess that the Yi army had some artillery, but he didn't know how many there were, and how powerful the artillery was.

The Eight Banners and Mongolia tried this test, but lost more than 200 riders!

You must know that since they entered the customs this time, except for the battle at Shanhaiguan Yishi and the pursuit of Li Zicheng, the total number of Eight Banners Mongolian soldiers lost after entering the capital may not be 200.

It would be nice if he could win a big victory in today's battle. If he lost, or if he retreated in such disgrace and only lost more than two hundred Eight Banner Mongolian soldiers, I'm afraid Huang Taiji would confiscate a lot of gold, silver, and livestock.

Thinking of this, Abatai said with a fierce look on his face: "It seems that this Yi army is similar to the Ming army, also relying on guns and artillery.

Tell the generals to let Aha and Baoyi be the vanguard pushing the carts, and then move the Han army from Wuniulu and the Manchu soldiers from Sanniulu to follow.

Wu Zhenchaoha follows at the end, looking for a suitable location to fire, and must suppress the enemy's squatting cannon! "

After hearing this, Turge hurriedly advised: "Master Beile, the strength of the Yi army in front of you has not been fully tested. I'm afraid it is not good to suppress more than half of the troops now." Abate frowned and said angrily: "How can Ben Beile suppress more than half of the troops? How many troops are there? Most of them are just coats and aha. The flag soldiers only use more than 3,000 people.

Besides, if you don't send more troops and horses, how can you know the full strength of the Yi army in front of you if you really go to fight? ! "

Turge couldn't say much, so he could only sigh heavily and said: "General, please come to the front to supervise the battle."

Abatai was feeling upset that Turg was always objecting to this and that, so he immediately agreed.

Soon, the Qing army moved to further test the Yi army using the same methods they used to deal with the Ming border troops.

I saw heavy carts driven by Baoyi and Aha people, driving towards the Wei army's formation at a leisurely pace.

These carts are modified from two-wheeled carts - the front is made of hardwood and thick wooden boards as the skeleton, and is wrapped with cowhide, iron sheets, and even wet quilts.

The shield is one person high and three or four people wide. There are concave holes (like battlements) on the top and sides specially for watching and shooting.

A cart must be driven by at least four or five Aha, with the higher-status Bao Yi hiding behind the cart, ready to attack at any time.

Although Baoyi is called a slave, his status is much higher than that of a real slave (Aha) - after Hong Chengchou was surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he was accepted by Huang Taiji as a Zhenghuang Banner Baoyi slave.

The Qing army soldiers currently participating in the war have different strengths and equipment due to their different masters' financial resources and status.

Among them, the poor ones are in ragged clothes and only have a cold weapon, which is not much better than most Aha.

But there are also those whose masters are wealthy and favored themselves. Not only are they physically strong, they can even afford to wear armor, and even have a set of equipment such as a bow, long and short weapons, and a firecracker.

The troops led by Abate this time had prepared more than a hundred carriages. At this time, almost all of them were pushed out, forming three relatively loose rows and slowly approaching the Yi army.

On one side, there were two to three thousand Mongolian cavalry and a few hundred Manchu cavalry watching eagerly.

If in a field battle the enemy dares not to fight when faced with an approaching carriage, and wants to withdraw his troops and escape, the Qing cavalry will take advantage of the situation to pursue them, or intercept them directly, or pursue them one after another, eventually defeating the enemy.

This was also the first time that the Yi army encountered the tactic of throwing chariots - at least, they had never seen any Ming or Shun army fight with so many chariots before.

Zhang Xin stood on a lookout car and looked carefully for a while with a telescope (made by Da'ei). He couldn't help but shake his head and said with a smile: "This Qing Dynasty's fighting method is quite novel, but unfortunately for our army, it is only a little more powerful." It just takes some effort."

After thinking and watching for more than ten seconds, Zhang Xin said: "Send my military order to have the land artillery be ready to bombard the Qinglu artillery position at any time. After telling other ministries, move the Qinglu carriage to about a hundred paces, and then fire the Tiger Crouching Artillery .”

"As ordered!"

As Zhang Xin's military order was issued, flags were waved in the formation and guards rushed back and forth, the Wei army's military formation also changed.

About two or three minutes later, when the Qinglu troops advanced two to three hundred steps in front of the Wei army formation, the Wuzhen Harbin Chao troops moving slowly behind finally found a suitable artillery position and began to install large and small artillery.

In later dramas, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties conquered the world with their cavalry and archery, which is naturally a lie. In fact, the Qing army successively defeated the Ming army, Shun army and other opponents, relying on heavy armor and heavy bows plus the strong mobility of horseback and infantry warfare, and then artillery.

In fact, as early as the Nurhaci period, great emphasis was placed on the development of artillery.

Because Nurhachi was originally the Dragon and Tiger General of the Ming Dynasty and was considered one of the frontier generals. He also participated in the war to aid Korea during the Wanli period, and he was very aware of the status of artillery in the current war.

Therefore, after Nurhachi raised his army, he established a special artillery establishment in the banner army in the first year of Tianqi and strictly trained it.

Later, Kong Youde and other Sanshun kings brought Western-style trained artillery and musketeers to join, which only made the Qing army's firearms more diverse, the artillery technology more advanced, and the firearms troops stronger.

Up to now, there are strict requirements on how many artillery, muskets, carriages and other weapons each organization in the Eight Banners Army should have at least.

At present, this thousand-man Wuzhen Chaoha carries two red barbarian cannons, which are specially used to break the city; there are hundreds of ordinary red barbarian cannons, general cannons, flange machines, etc.!

As for weapons such as the Crouching Tiger Cannon and the Lifting Gun, they are also directly allocated to the infantry, but not as many as the Wei Army.

In the early Qing Dynasty, there was no saying that generals liked to rely on bows and horses for riding and shooting, and hated artillery and guns. Instead, they would use cannons every time they attacked a city; they even went to the point where they would not attack a city if there were no Hongyi cannons.

Therefore, in the early Qing Dynasty, most Qing army generals were proud of and full of confidence in their firearms units (mainly artillery units).

At this time, Abatai saw that the artillery positions were about to be arranged, and he couldn't help but tilted his beard and smiled: "These Yi troops probably don't know that we have so many artillery, and it's time to let them taste the power of our Qing artillery. "

Just as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of cannon.

I can't help but wonder: Ben Beile didn't even give the order, why did Wu Zhenchaoha fire? (End of chapter)