Zhang Xiaoqi from the Han Army of Zhenghuang Banner is also among this group of "Eight Rides and Eight Banners Soldiers". He is now the Wu Zhen Chaoha Soldier of the Han Army of Zhenghuang Banner, which is also a "heavy soldier" or a firearms soldier.
As the name suggests, firearms soldiers are soldiers who use firearms to fight. In today's Eight Banners of the Han Army, each Niulu must provide 40 Wuzhenchaoha soldiers, which are firearms soldiers.
After seeing the truly powerful firearms, Houjin now also began to pay attention to firearms, and not only imitated the Hongyi cannon. They also learned from the methods of camel artillery and built light saddle-borne cannons, and also found some camels to carry saddle-borne cannons.
Fireguns also began to appear in the Eight Banners of the Han Army and the Eight Banners of the Korean Army. But it's not a three-eyed fire gun, but a Korean bird gun.
The so-called Korean blunderbuss is actually the Korean version of the small-caliber Japanese blunderbuss. There are some similar equipment in the Ming army. However, after Zhu Youjian came to power, it has been gradually eliminated.
Zhu Youjian chose the powerful Turtle Dove Gun and the high-precision Lumi Gun for his army. The former is equipped with infantry fire gun soldiers, while the latter is equipped with cavalry in front of the tent and cavalry in front of the palace.
However, among Hou Jin's Eight Banners Han Army and Eight Banners Korean Army, bird cannons were still a rare good thing. Each Niulu was equipped with at most thirteen or four, and they were all second-hand and third-hand bird cannons seized from North Korea.
Therefore, most of the firearms soldiers of the Eight Banners Han Army and the Eight Banners Korean Army did not have muskets to use... They were all firearms soldiers equipped with bows and arrows.
Zhang Xiaoqi is such a firearms soldier equipped with bows and arrows.
Of course, the so-called Han Eight Banners and Xian Eight Banners firearms soldiers and the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners red-armored soldiers are almost the same.
Red-armored soldiers do not necessarily have red armor, and firearms soldiers do not necessarily have firearms.
In addition, the Eight Banners Han Army and the Eight Banners North Korea also have special forces similar to the White Armored Soldiers, called the Guards. The pay is good, and it's easy to get promoted, but it's hard to get selected - there are only ten places for each flag.
Zhang Xiaoqi was not chosen, so he was just a firearms soldier.
However, it is still satisfying to be a firearms soldier. After all, a Niulu can only have forty firearms soldiers at most... Now a Hanjun Niulu of the Later Jin Army has a population of about 300 households. There are three to four hundred strong men among them, but there are only forty places for firearms soldiers. Zhang Xiaoqi can be selected, which shows that he has worked very hard in the past few years!
Being able to get this position, Zhang Xiaoqi can be regarded as an above-average level even among the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty. However, in the past two years, the Eight Banners have become eight times eight banners, with a total of 64 flags, and Niu Lu has as many as 1,465 flags, which is really a bit excessive.
So many Niulu have quotas for white armor (army guards) and red armor (firearms soldiers). They all have 10 people in white armor (army guards) and 40 people in red armor (firearms soldiers)... that is Said that the number of Baijia (guards) was at least 14,650! The number of red armor (firearms soldiers) is as high as 58,600!
The number of people has increased, but the quality of these white armor (guards) and red armor (firearms soldiers) is uneven. Among them, the old Manchu white armor and red armor are very capable of fighting, but the white armor (guard troops) and red armor (firearms soldiers) of the Eight Banners Mongolia, Eight Banners Han Army, and Eight Banners North Korea are a bit useless.
Since they are just making up numbers, the treatment of the Eight Banners Mongolia, the Eight Banners Han Army, and the Eight Banners North Korea is not as good as that of the Eight Banners. Even if they are selected as red armor (firearms soldiers), they can only live a makeshift life - life is unimaginable It’s so good!
But there is still hope! The Kingdom of Jin still has a system of carrying the flag for meritorious service... Zhang Xiaoqi's current dream is to one day be able to carry the Eight Banners.
Only by carrying the Eight Banners of Manchu can one become a true Manchu!
Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaoqi, who was supervising the work of several North Korean wrappers, came to the end again and shouted: "Damn it, haven't you eaten? Even if you haven't eaten, I still have to use the strength of feeding." Come out! Well done, I will go back and fight for a good opportunity for you to go into battle to kill the enemy... Only with the opportunity can we make a contribution and raise the flag, and give him a good life!"
Someone immediately echoed.
"Good job, work harder, you can only survive if you raise the flag!"
"Yes, you must raise the flag!"
A wrapper who doesn’t want to raise the flag is not a good wrapper!
Moreover, with the emergence of the Eight Banners, the non-Manchu Eight Banners' regular members of the Eight Banners were devalued, and the coated slaves were of course even more miserable. If you don't get promoted quickly, your whole family may starve to death during the next famine!
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Shenyang City, Yamen.
The weather in Shenyang is too cold now to hold court meetings outdoors. It would be a big joke if a few people freeze to death.
Therefore, Huang Taiji did not hold any meeting of the Eight Vehicles and Eight Banners, but instead convened a few political affairs ministers and ministers to hold a small meeting in the Yamen.
This Huang Taiji has also learned bad things now. Although he has long announced that he will go on a personal expedition, he has not left Shenyang with his troops after a big fanfare.
Although he did not leave Shenyang, his troops still left. The troops were sent out in two groups. One group was commanded by Beile Abatai, who led an army of 5,000 men (selected from 64 banners) and 5,000 coated slaves. They marched out of the pine forest thousands of miles west - they were the ones who captured Xilin City and Qingping Town.
The other group was led by Amin, also with 10,000 people. After leaving Jinzhou, they bypassed the three cities of Songshan, Xingshan, and Tashan, and then raided Beacon Mountain (Beacon Mountain is on a peninsula, and the channel connecting the mainland will be submerged at high tide) , then walk on the ice to fight towards Juehua Island. Although the attack on Juehua Island failed because a castle was built on the island, Beacon Mountain was occupied by the Hou Jin army. Amin had people build a fortress on Bijia Mountain and stationed more than 1,000 people, assuming that he wanted to drive a nail between the three cities of Songshan, Xingshan, Tashan and Ningyuan.
Although the posture was very good, Ming's response was beyond Huang Taiji's expectations. Zhu Youjian did not return to Beijing at all. Instead, he asked a five-year-old nephew of the emperor to leave Beijing and stationed in Xuanfu City in the name of Fujun expedition.
Although Huang Taiji has not yet left Shenyang City, he also made a sign of being a chariot himself... As a result, Zhu Youjian asked his five-year-old son to deal with it. Isn't this looking down on people? Isn't this a slap in Huang Taiji's fat face?
Huang Taiji wanted to compete for the title of Great Khan of Mongolia - not to claim it for himself, but to hold the title of Kulitai Conference. If he can't even defeat a one- to five-year-old child, then why is he a sweat?
Yes, he felt that there was a certain possibility that he would be defeated by Zhu Cixiang... It wasn't that Zhu Cixiang was so good, but that Zhu Youjian had already set up an impregnable situation.
Huang Taiji felt that he was like Zhuge Kongming in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Although he was an expert in astronomy and geography, and could do calculations, it was really difficult to open up the situation in the face of Cao Wei's favorable weather and location.
And uniting Mongolia to form a United Manchuria-Mongolia country seems to be the only plan that can fight against the Ming Dynasty.
But to become the Great Khan of Mongolia, you need to have a record of defeating Zhu Youjian, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty... Of course, defeating Zhu Cixiang will also do. But he must not be defeated by this little kid Zhu Cixi.
Just thinking about it gives me a headache!
"Khan, are you worried that you won't be able to defeat that kid Zhu Cixi?"
The one who doesn't open the pot is the clever Belle Dorgon.
Huang Taiji glanced at Dorgon angrily, "How can I not defeat Zhu Cihong?"
"Khan, it's hard to say." Dorgon said, "Zhu Cixiang just put up a name, and it's Zhu Youjian who is manipulating it behind the scenes!
Moreover, the Southern Army has become more and more stable in the past few years. It does not easily give us a chance for a decisive battle. Instead, it slowly consumes us... We are just like the Shu Han Army in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". We don't even get a chance for a decisive battle. easy! "
Huang Taiji frowned, "Old Fourteen, do you have any clever ideas? If so, just tell me!"
"Great Khan, you can treat others with their own treatment!"
"What's the meaning?"
"Great Khan, Zhu Youjian has a son, and you also have a son! Aren't you just sending your son to fight now?"
"Ben Khan's son? Haug?"
Dorgon shook his head, "It's not Hauge, it's Fuquan."
"Fuquan? But he is only two years old!"
