"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"
In Zhending City, the drums were beating like thunder, and a fierce battle was breaking out on the city wall of Zhending.
In the east of Zhending City, thousands of Qing troops were arrayed outside the city. Right in front of the Qing army's formation, two tall blue Jia La Zhang Jing flags stood on the left and right in the wilderness of the eastern suburbs. The strong wind blows and the hunting moves.
The two blue Jia La Zhang Jing flags are surrounded by countless blue and white flags, like an ocean.
A large number of rangers were galloping in the Qing army formation, and the two flanks were protected by Mongolian rangers. Most of them wore furs and furs, and the armor on their bodies was relatively old.
Most of the horses under the seat do not wear horse armor, and most of them only have a pair of stirrups and a saddle.
One ladder after another is attached to the city wall of Zhending. The upper and lower parts of the ladder are densely packed with human heads, and one slave soldier after another is working hard to climb up.
Those slave soldiers were thinly dressed, and many of them were not wearing armor. Therefore, when the flying arrows on the city attacked, their thin clothes did not bring them much protection at all, and were directly penetrated, shooting them directly. Fall down the ladder.
Several gaps have been opened on Zhending's city wall, and a steady stream of slave soldiers are pouring upwards along the ladders at the gaps.
"Get away!"
Fende Bashiku, who was wearing bright silver armor and a high-topped helmet, kicked away the slave soldiers and slaves in front of him.
Fendebo Shiku is also called Daizi, which means "lead reminder" in Chinese translation. The best person in the vest is selected as the leader, who is responsible for the registration and salary.
Lingcui is the adjutant of Niu Lu, and his status among Niu Lu is second only to Niu Lu Zhangjing.
The shape of the armor on his body is very similar to that of the Ming army. In fact, it was actually made after the elite Liaodong army of the Ming Dynasty.
The nail pieces are on the outside, unpainted, polished and as bright as a silver plate, and are called Ming Jia.
The armor is as distinct as three winters of ice and snow.
Of course, the armor of the Qing army has begun to change differently from the armor of the Ming army. It is not obvious on the body armor, but the helmet has changed.
The Qing army still wore high-topped helmets, but unlike the Ming army, the top of the helmet was decorated with a high-topped lightning rod-like decoration.
There was a black tassel hanging on the pin that divided Shiku's head, and he also carried a two-foot-square flag on his back.
Beside him were several Qing army horse soldiers wearing cotton armor with copper nails and spiked helmets with high peaks on their heads, holding swords and shields to protect him behind him.
The military system of the Qing army was slightly different from that of the Ming army. Among the troops in the Qing army.
Soldiers in the army are mainly divided into three levels, from bottom to top, namely guards, infantry, and horse armor.
Niu Lubing was also called Pijia or Jiabing, while the Ming army was called Pijia.
Ordinary Jurchen men, starting from the age of ten, take an exam every three years. If they meet the standard, they will become guards, then infantry, and then vests.
The top of the waistcoat is Boshiku, and the winners in the waistcoat are selected for appointment, with the official registration and salary. The Chinese translation of Bashiku means to receive reminders.
Boshiku was named Daizi, also known as Fende Boshiku, which was later called the Xiaoqi School in the Qing Dynasty.
On the top of the allocated treasure is Niu Lu Zhangjing, who is the head of the three hundred soldiers of Niu Lu.
The smallest unit of the Eight Banners is Niulu. The Manchu people are engaged in hunting. Every year during the hunting season, clans or villages are used as units, with famous people as leaders.
This organizational form of collective hunting based on blood and geography is called cattle hunting.
Niulu is not only a social organization, but also a unit during combat.
There are three hundred households in a Niu Lu, and each household has one strong man. There are three hundred people in a Niu Lu. It is assumed that Niu Lu has one real person.
The father dies and the son succeeds, the brother dies and the younger brother succeeds, just like the Ming army's guard system.
To understand it simply, Niulu Zhangjing in the Qing army can be understood as the commander-in-chief, and Fende Bashiku as the deputy commander-in-chief.
The Boshiku is the commander-in-chief, the vest and the like are the commander-in-chief, and the infantry commander is the captain.
The remaining guards and slaves correspond to the ordinary soldiers in the Ming army.
"Armed soldiers ascend the city!"
Fende Bashiku, who was wearing white armor, held a sword in his hand and pressed forward suddenly, shouting in a cold voice and giving the order to attack again.
The siege had lasted for almost five days, and there were not many defenders in the city.
Most of the defenders were civilians recruited temporarily in the city. However, they continued to attack for several days, but still failed to break through the city. Instead, they suffered three to four hundred casualties.
Although most of the casualties were the auxiliary soldiers and servants in each Niulu, these auxiliary soldiers and servants were also the precious population of each Niulu, and their loss was not a small loss.
A fierce light flashed in Fende Bashiku's eyes, and he turned his head to look south.
Tan Ma came to report that a large group of Ming troops were rushing in from the southwest for reinforcements. Their vanguard had already approached the Hutuo River. It was roughly estimated that the number was greater than ten thousand.
There are only three Jia La people in total. Counting the Mongolians in the team, as well as auxiliary soldiers and followers, there are only more than 4,000 people in total.
After the Eight Banners system was established, the five cows were recorded as one Jia La, and one Jia La Zhangjing was established, that is, the leader.
There are 1,500 people in the Yijia Lamanbian, which is almost the same number as the ordinary first battalion of the Ming army. The actual number fluctuates greatly.
If we insist on converting them into official positions in the Ming army, Jiala Zhangjing is almost the same. The weak ones are Qian Zonghe garrison and guerrilla-level battalion generals in the Ming army, and the strong ones are the staff generals and generals. A soldier-level battalion general.
Above Jia La, there is also a solid mountain. A solid mountain is actually a flag.
Take Wujiala as a Gushan, and set up one Gushan Ezhen person and one deputy person, which are called left and right Meile Ezhen.
Gushan Ezhen, as the chief of a banner, manages the household registration, production, education, training and other matters of the entire banner.
Gushan means "flag" in Chinese, and Ezhen means "lord", so Gushan Ezhen directly translates to a hint of "flag master".
However, although Gushan Ezhen has the same meaning as the flag owner, he is not the real flag owner, but the next level of the flag owner.
Gushan Ezhen is still the owner of the banner, and there is a master-servant relationship between the two parties. The command of sending troops to fight still belongs to the banner owner. It is actually more appropriate to regard him as the deputy of the banner owner.
It turns out that before Huang Taiji proclaimed himself emperor, there were only eight banners in the country.
In the ninth year of Tiancong, which was the eighth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji conducted a large-scale review of many Mongolian tribes after conquering the Chahar Mongolian tribes, and completely changed the system of belonging to the Mongolian grassroots.
The various Mongolian tribes were unified together and organized into Niulu and divided into eight banners, which later became the Eight Banners of Mongolia.
In the second year of Chongde, which was the tenth year of Chongzhen, the Han military flag was added to the second flag, and the flag was dark green.
Up to now, the Qing court has eight Manchu banners, eight Mongolian banners, and two Han banners, a total of eighteen banners, that is, eighteen Gushan.
According to the calculation of Niulu three hundred, Jia La one thousand and five, and Gushan seven thousand five, the eighteen banners are 135,000 people.
Of course, the number of soldiers the Qing court currently has is naturally not this number.
Each of the eighteen banners of the Qing army has a different number of people. There are more or less people, some are strong and some are weak. Naturally, it is impossible to have exactly the full complement.
"Woo————"
A low horn sounded, but there was no deafening cry of death, no earth-shattering cry.
At the foot of Zhending City, those Qing soldiers who were hiding behind shield chariots and shooting at the Ming army on the city also took action. They put down their bows and arrows, held the swords at their waists, and buckled the thick swords. Cowhide shield.
The defenders go first, followed by the infantry, followed by the horse armor, and the guards hold down the formation.
A group of soldiers of the Qing army climbed up the ladder towards the Zhending city in an orderly manner according to the preset order.
The so-called guard army is actually Bai Baya, which is also a white-armored soldier.
They wear mail and cotton armor on the inside and polished bright silver armor on the outside. Those with white armor wear a total of three layers of heavy armor, carry a heavy bow, a sword, a tiger spear, and a round shield.
During the Lao Nu period, Hou Jin drew one hundred Dingkou for each Niulu, and selected ten white Baya soldiers, forty red Baya soldiers, and fifty black camp soldiers.
The White Baya La and the Red Baya La were the predecessors of the Manchu Guards and Forward Battalions in later generations.
After Huang Taiji came to the throne, he began to gradually reform the military system and eradicate its shortcomings. As a result, systems such as the White Bagara and the Red Bagara were gradually abolished.
During the Tiancong period, Huang Taiji established the Bagala camp to centralize the management of Bagala in each banner, and each banner had a Bagala camp.
The chief officer of Baya Laying was Baya Lahu Ezhen, and in the eighth year of Tiancong's reign, it was renamed Baya Lahuzhangjing.
The Obai in The Deer and the Cauldron was originally Baya Lazhangjing with a yellow flag.
The Qing army changed its name, but the Ming army still called these guards Baijia soldiers, or elite soldiers and sharp soldiers.
The man who was assigned the golden sword of Shiku was standing at the foot of the city. He was not worried about his own safety at all. Not only was he wearing three layers of heavy armor, he was also surrounded by armored soldiers holding cowhide shields.
The Ming troops on the city wall had been shot so hard that they could not even lift their heads and did not dare to appear at the crenellations.
As soon as the crenel appears, they will be killed by the Qing infantry archers who are already ready with their bows and arrows in the city.
The distance of dozens of steps is the best killing range of the heavy bow in the hands of the Qing army's infantry archers.
They had been living a life of fishing and hunting before they came out of the white mountains and black waters. The long life of fishing and hunting made almost every adult Manchu man possess good bow skills.
From a distance of thirty or forty steps, they can even easily hit the enemy's face, throat and other vital parts.
Because of this, the Qing army has always had a great advantage during field battles and during sieges and defenses.
There were not many regular Ming troops in Zhending City. During the initial confrontation, the Ming troops defending the city used the narrow crenels to shoot at the Qing troops. As a result, they suffered heavy losses. After that, they did not dare to pop out of the crenels to shoot arrows and muskets.
Just waiting for the soldiers of the Qing army or their followers to board the ladder, they fired arrows and blunderbuss from a distance.
The Qing army's offensive intensity was not strong, because every manpower was very important to the Qing army. If they could capture, they would attack, and if they could not, they would retreat. They mainly focused on looting.
Now that they saw most of the Ming army coming for reinforcements, the generals of the Qing army who were attacking the city gave the order to attack by force. If they could not defeat it, they were not prepared to attack Zhending City again.
The siege of Zhending City has reached a feverish stage. The armored soldiers of the Qing army launched an attack, and even the guardsmen started to climb the city with their swords in hand.
There are not many regular defenders in Zhending, most of them are civilians recruited temporarily.
There are very few people with armor, and most of the swords, guns and guns they hold are stock in the arsenal.
But the battle has already reached this point, and the militiamen and soldiers guarding the city have become cruel.
The slave builders were ruthless, and they would slaughter the city if they broke it. If they did not seal the sword for several days, they would even take the captives to the bitter cold land of Liaodong.
Once the city is broken, families and families will be destroyed. All the militiamen are all real residents. Their wives, children, and children are all in the city. Even if they have never been on the battlefield before, no one is willing to retreat at this time.
Moreover, there seems to be a large group of reinforcements arriving outside the city. As long as we persist for a little longer, we can save the city!
…
At this time, the commander of the Qing army outside the city, Jia La Zhang Jing Zha Suka of the Zheng Lan Banner, Zheng Yi, holding the reins, stood in front of the formation.
But his eyes were not focused on Zhending City, where the fighting was going on not far away, but in the direction of the southern suburbs of Zhending.
There was something wrong with the Ming army coming from the south of the city. This Ming army had bright uniforms and strong momentum. From a distance, a murderous aura rushed towards them. It was completely different from all the Ming troops they had seen along the way. .
"To the west..."
Zhasuka frowned slightly. He had seen the map of the Ming Dynasty. To the west of Zhending was the Taihang Mountains. After climbing over the Taihang Mountains, he reached Shanxi.
These Ming troops came all the way from the west, looking dusty and dusty. They might be the border troops from Shaanxi and Shanxi.
The servants of the generals in border towns such as Liaodong, Xuanfu, and Datong were relatively good at fighting, but the other Ming armies were nothing more than trash.
After fighting for so many years, the Ming army's courage had long been frightened, and they did not dare to go out to fight with them at all.
But the current situation is obviously wrong. This Ming army brings a very dangerous feeling to Chasuka.
It's just like……
Just like the Sichuan army we saw when we were in Hunhe, which was said to have come from the southwest of the Ming Dynasty...
A chill slowly rose from the depths of Zhasuka's heart, and then spread to his head, feet, and limbs.
Even though more than ten years have passed, that bloody battle is still vivid in my mind.
At that time, he was just an ordinary infantryman. They fought continuously along the way, defeated all the Ming troops who came for rescue, and broke Shenyang!
But on the banks of the Hun River...
By the time Chasuka came to his senses again, the golden sound had already sounded in the formation, and the soldiers who went to attack the city had already retreated.
After all, they still failed to capture Zhending, and the Ming army's reinforcements were close at hand.
The cavalry that went to stop the Ming army from crossing the river had already turned back, and they were unable to stop the Ming army's cavalry from advancing.
In the southern suburbs of Zhending, the vanguard cavalry of the Ming Army had already spread out their formation and cleared the river bank.
Later, a large group of Ming army cavalry was crossing the river to the north...
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Nurhaci’s edict in April of the eighth year of Tianming:
The Khan sent a letter saying: "Each Niulu will send a hundred armored soldiers, ten of them Baiba Yala, carrying two cannons and three spears."
"Then divide the ninety-armed soldiers. The forty-armed soldiers are red bagara, carrying ten cannons, twenty spears, ten men, two shield chariots, and two kettles."
"There are fifty men in the black camp, carrying ten cannons, twenty lances, and twenty men carrying two shield carts, one ladder, two chisels, two adzes, two fishing hooks, two sickles, and two axes. There are handles, four mats, two forks, a stick, two kettles and a month's worth of charcoal, and fifteen pairs of cotton armor. Each armor carries two cannons."
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