The Wuzhenhachao Artillery Battalion commanded by Kong Youde was specially established by the Qing Dynasty for the Battle of Jinzhou. Most of the firearms handled by the battalion were newly made by craftsmen brought by Kong Youde, and the training was also handled by Kong Youde, so this The camp is under the general jurisdiction of Kong Youde.
Wuzhenchaoha is actually a transliteration of Manchu, and its literal meaning actually means "heavy troops." The reason why Wuzhenchaoha was first founded by the Later Jin Dynasty has a lot to do with the artillery of the Ming army.
During the Later Jin Dynasty, the old slave Nurhachi had organized the surrendered Han slaves into sixteen subordinate collars. However, at this time, these Han military subordinate collars were still affiliated with the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and their status was still the same as that of wrapped slaves.
In the fourth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji, the successor slave chief of the Later Jin Dynasty, in order to balance the military power of Zhu Beile, the leader of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, allocated a separate army named "Wuzhen Chaoha" battalion to those Han slaves who were skilled in firearms. And Tong Yangxing was appointed as the camp of Angbang Zhangjing.
In the 10th year of Chongzhen's reign, Wuzhenchaoha camp was divided into two banners. Shi Tingzhu was the left wing and one banner was Gushan Ezhen, and Ma Guangyuan was the right flag and the right flag was Gushan Ezhen. Tong Yangxing was still the leader of the camp. Jing, commanding Wu Zhen Chao Ha camp.
In this way, it was not until the twelfth 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 Wuzhenchaoha camp to the four banners, and only appointed Gushan Ezhen without setting up a flag leader, his purpose was to put the Uzhenchaoha camp completely under his direct leadership and make them Become an army that only takes orders from you.
However, his move caused dissatisfaction among many princes and princes of the Eight Banners of Manchuria. To this day, there are still many soldiers in the banners of the Han army who belong to princes and princes of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and are still their coats.
In this regard, Huang Taiji did not dare to force himself. After all, the scope involved was too wide, and he could only solve the identity problem for the Han army flag soldiers bit by bit. This took time.
Originally Huang Taiji was still counting on this battle of Jinzhou. If the Ming army was defeated in this battle, he could use the power of this battle to change the status of the Han army's soldiers and make them free citizens of the Qing Dynasty. This makes them more loyal to themselves.
However, his military strategy has been frustrated step by step. Now, even he himself does not know whether the next step of liberating the identity of the Han army flag officers and soldiers can be carried out as scheduled.
Of course, these are all things for later. We will have to wait until the end of this big war before we have time to study them.
However, fortunately, there was such a big war. In the name of concentrating the army's combat power, Huang Taiji mobilized soldiers from the four banners of the Han army who were good at handling guns and artillery, and then formed a new army based on the Tianyou Army and the Tianshu Army. heavy firearms unit.
The muskets and artillery equipped by this unit were all made under the personal supervision of the obedient Wang Kong Youde, especially the more than thirty red cannons known as the mighty generals, which were even more sharp.
The Wuzhen Chaoha battalion commanded by Kong Youde no longer had any contact with the Eight Banners of Manchuria. It took orders directly from the Qing Emperor Huang Taiji. Even the selected sergeants were separated from their original masters.
At this time, Wang Shixuan, Shang Kexi and other Qing and Han generals were all gearing up. Looking at the Ming army forming formation on the bank of the Nerv River, preparing to advance north, Shen Zhixiang even smiled and said: "Mother, I can't wait for a long time. I want to Let’s go on a killing spree!”
All the Han generals beside him laughed wildly and expressed their agreement. They even talked about how they would kill the Ming dogs later, without paying any attention to the Ming army in front of them, who were their former compatriots.
Only Liu Lin, the commander of the North Korean navy's third navy, had the same smile on his face, but he was very contemptuous of them in his heart. He thought to himself: "A bunch of dolphin-tailed slaves have just joined their new masters, but they are worse than The old days were even more cruel, and they were really a bunch of vulgar warriors who had no sense of etiquette, justice and integrity. It is so sad that even the glorious Ming Dynasty could have such scum!"
Seeing these evil traitors performing in front of her eyes, Liu Lin couldn't help but think of the surrendering gangs in the country, and secretly cursed them for forgetting their ancestors and abandoning the Ming Dynasty and defecting to the barbarian Tatars.
In this way, he couldn't help but become more determined that after returning home, he would further suppress the capitulationists and never allow these dirty villains to succeed in their plan to defect to the barbarians!
At this moment, Kong Youde suddenly raised the telescope in his hand again and looked at the river section on the north side of Nvhe Rufeng Mountain. For some reason, the soldiers and horses of the Ming Army in Ji Town and Shanhai Town seemed to be shot with blood.
The river bank over there was already covered with soldiers of the Ming Army, flags were waving wildly, and the array continued to expand towards the north. Kong Youde's doubts increased greatly: "Could it be that the Ming Army's main attack is not over there?"
At this time, Wang Shixuan, Shang Kexi and others also noticed the situation over there. At the same time, they forgot about the verbal dispute just now, and they all pointed at that side.
Then, they heard bursts of blaring horns coming from the west direction of Jinzhou City, and the faint sound of hoofbeats shook the ground beneath their feet.
"What happened?"
While everyone was doubting, they all turned to look to the west of Jinzhou City, and saw waves of sentry riders rushing back and forth on the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners elite cavalry positions over there, as if conveying military orders back and forth.
These sentries are all wearing bright helmets, with eagle feathers on the helmet tubes, and flying tiger and fox tail flags on their backs. They are strong and agile, and they are all elite warriors from the Xian Chao Ha camp in Gebushe. They are all great warriors. His Majesty the Qing Emperor's retinue.
Although Huang Taiji's people had returned to Shengjing, they did not completely ignore the Battle of Jinzhou. They only took with them 500 Gebushexianchaoha soldiers to protect them, and most of the rest still stayed under Jinzhou City to serve.
As these Gebusixian sentries conveyed back and forth, they saw the rapid sound of conch shells coming one after another on the cavalry position of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia in the west of Jinzhou City, and then nearly one-third of their elite cavalry formed one military formation after another. The departure of the military formation.
In the smoke and dust rising all over the sky, they could be seen rushing towards the daughter river section on the north side of Rufeng Mountain. The smoke and dust were rolled up all the way, which showed the urgency of the move.
Kong Youde turned his head and looked towards the south where he was. The Ming army on the south bank of the daughter river was still unmoved. Although the flag was that of the more elite Ningyuan Wu Sangui's troops, there was no movement at all. Formation on the banks of the river.
These Han army troops, including the Wuzhenchaoha Artillery Battalion commanded by Kong Youde, were actually designed to defend against the Ming army Wu Sangui's troops. After all, in the eyes of the princes of the Qing Dynasty, the Ningyuan Army was the strongest in Jiliao Town. One must be guarded against.
Wang Shixuan, Shang Kexi and other Qing and Han generals all looked dumbfounded: "What's going on? Even the warriors of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia were dispatched. Why are you here alone without any military orders?"
Just when everyone was in a state of turmoil and thinking wildly, they saw several Bagaras under the Manchurian Zhengbai banner flying towards them, conveying to them Prince Rui's military order, asking the Han army to set up a red flag and rush to the front as quickly as possible. On the bank of the Nerv River, they blocked the soldiers and horses of the Shanhai Town of the Ming Army's Horse Department.
Wang Shixuan did not dare to delay here, and without even saying hello to everyone, he and Liu Zhiyuan hurriedly got out of Tucheng, and the whole army quickly headed towards Nvhe Rufeng Mountain.
Wang Shixuan had only left here for a moment when he saw Gebusixian Zhangjing Lausa, leading some cavalrymen from Gebusixian Chaoha camp, rushing towards him.
He did not go to Tucheng, but shouted loudly outside the first trench: "Obey the King, Prince Rui has ordered, the Wuzhenchaoha Artillery Battalion will stay here, and the remaining Han armies, including the Tianzhu Army and the Tianyou Army, will be stationed here." , and the Korean army, immediately move to the Nerv River to form a formation to guard against the Ming Dynasty Ningyuan army crossing 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, the troops and horses of the four banners of the Han Army staying in Tucheng, as well as the troops and horses of the Tianzhu Army, Tianyou Army, and Korean Army, all moved to the shore of the Daugher River to form defenses. .
Except for the Wuzhenhachao Artillery Battalion under the direct command of Kong Youde, which remained unchanged, there were no other Han or Korean troops stationed in Tucheng, and all the troops moved to the banks of the Nuer River.
After leaving a final sentence of "Anyone who dares to disobey the order will be killed!", Rausa hurriedly rode back to reply.
The Han generals in Tucheng did not dare to ask more about the reason. Although they held high positions in the Qing Dynasty, they were just in name only. In fact, few of the Manchu officials and generals really took them seriously.
Now, at the time when the military situation was urgent, they did not dare to ask more about the reason. After responding to the order in unison, they all left Tucheng to assemble their troops.
Tucheng, which was crowded with people just now and had constant verbal disputes, now only the respectful king Kong Youde and Xushun Gong Shen Zhixiang were left standing there blankly.
As Han generals who were also born in Dongjiang Town of the Ming Dynasty, Kong Youde, Geng Jingzhong, Shang Kexi, and Shen Zhixiang had to stick together tightly. After all, they all had no foundation in the Qing Dynasty.
Moreover, when they served under Dongjiang Commander-in-Chief Mao Wenlong, they also regarded the Qing army as their mortal enemy. Their hands were not stained with the blood and lives of hundreds or thousands of Qing soldiers.
Among the officials and generals at all levels in the Qing Dynasty, especially among the middle and lower-level generals of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, some of their relatives may have perished under their swords, or perhaps under the swords of their subordinates.
Although they belonged to different camps and were enemies of each other, it was inevitable, but there were always those stubborn people who couldn't get out of this grind, and there was no telling when they might find a reason to kill them.
Could it be that Huang Taiji really wanted to kill those fierce generals of the Eight Banners of Manchuria in order to avenge them?
Even though Kong Youde had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty for nearly ten years and had become the respectful king of the Qing Dynasty, he still could not be taken seriously by the Manchu princes, Baylor, officials and generals in the Qing court.
In fact, not to mention these bright generals who surrendered later, even Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanwo and others who surrendered early on have already become Huang Taiji's close ministers, so what?
They were not always humiliated by the princes, belles, officers and generals of the Qing Dynasty, not to mention that their hands were not stained with the blood and lives of the Manchu soldiers.
Moreover, there were some secret battles among the surrendered Han officials and generals within the Qing Dynasty. After all, the most important thing in the Qing Dynasty was military merit. However, military merit could not be obtained with words. It had to be led by oneself to lead the soldiers under his command with blood. Fight with life.
Therefore, in the eyes of these Han generals, what they were fighting for was not only their status in the minds of the Qing monarchs and ministers, but also the number, quality and inferiority of their soldiers, as well as their assigned land, weapons, etc., because these were all It is an important factor in determining the quality and morale of his soldiers.
The fight between them is not all about face, most of them are about survival and a better life!
Most people in the Qing Dynasty, from Emperor Huang Taiji down, were happy to see healthy competition between them. After all, they didn't want to raise a bunch of losers.
Whichever one is more outstanding and more loyal to the Qing Dynasty will be more useful. It is also the talent they want to retain first, and will definitely receive more high-quality resource allocation.
Therefore, regardless of how many disputes Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, and Shen Zhixiang had for their own interests when they were in Dongjiang Town, now they can only be tied together and work together for their own living space.
Looking at the bottom of Tucheng, King Zhishun Shang Kexi's Tianzhu Army took the lead. Their team left Tucheng with banners and marched neatly to the bank of the Nvnu River in the south.
Kong Youde watched for a while, and then he said leisurely to Shen Zhixiang beside him: "I have never seen the Xuanfu military flag. I wonder where Zhang Cheng is hiding. Is there any conspiracy?"
Regarding the battle at Shimen Mountain that day, Kong Youde was still terrified in his heart when he thought about it.
Although Yang Guozhu, the Xuanfu commander-in-chief who originally injured him, was killed on the spot by Qing warriors on the same day, the heroic performance left to him by the Xuanfu army was still very profound.
Afterwards, under the leadership of Zhang Cheng, the Xuanfu army made many achievements. Even Prince Duduo of Yu, who was famous for his bravery and good fighting skills, died in front of the Xuanfu army.
Not only the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia attach great importance to Zhang Cheng and the Xuanfu Army, but even their group of generals also attach great importance to Zhang Cheng and the Xuanfu Army, and are even very afraid of them.
Kong Youde even asked himself in private: "I didn't expect that the Ming Dynasty had more powerful military horses than the Liaodong cavalry? Alas, I don't know if I am right or wrong in defecting to the Qing Dynasty!"
However, he kept this question in his heart. Even his comrades Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde, who had caused trouble in Shandong and finally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, did not dare to tell him this question.
In fact, even the relationship between Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, and Shen Zhixiang does not have complete trust. It's just that the current situation is such that they have to stick together, and they are just using each other.
Shen Zhixiang was also a little afraid of Zhang Cheng's Xuanfu army. After hearing Kong Youde's words, he looked at the banner of Ningyuan Army on the other side of the Nuer River.
After a while, he said: "The matter has come to this. I have no way out. There is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire ahead of me, so I have no choice but to close my eyes and jump in!"
Shen Zhixiang's words exactly represent the aspirations of most Qing military generals.
Although they all swore not to take Zhang Cheng, Xuanfu Army, etc. seriously on weekdays, if they were really going to fight against them, they would still be very panicked in their hearts!
However, at this moment, Prince Guorui of the Qing Dynasty issued another military order. How could they dare to disobey it?
Even though I was worried about it, I had to bite the bullet and go for it. It was nothing more than "life and death are determined by destiny, wealth and honor are in heaven"!
