"Chapter 2: Recovering the Capital"
Don't lose faith in humanity. Human nature is like the ocean, even if there are a few drops of sewage in it, it will not pollute the whole ocean.
- Mahatma Gandhi (the founding father of modern India, India's greatest political leader, founder of Gandhiism)
Bai Feng did not deliberately make things difficult for Dolgon, who surrendered on his own initiative, and did not even put forward any harsh conditions; it was not that Bai Feng was really generous enough to let the surrendered Zhenghuang Banner soldiers go, but that he had a lot of time to rectify the surrendered Zhenghuang Banner.
At that time, no matter how dissatisfied the Zhenghuang Banner soldiers who have surrendered, as fish and meat on the chopping board, they can only let Bai Feng wantonly slaughter them; this era is not an era that pays attention to oral contracts, not to mention that the other party still has the identity of an aggressor.
With Dolgon's order, the 20,000 cavalry with the Yellow Banner who were defeated by the Knights of Light, and the 30,000 cavalry with the Yellow Banner who were still fighting with the Yulin Legion, all laid down their weapons.
Pursued by Donald's 20,000 cavalry, the cavalry of the two banners, which were struggling to run more and more on their horses, suffered heavy casualties, so much so that when Dorgon gave the order to surrender to his Zhenghuang banner, the cavalry of these two banners, which could not escape, also laid down their arms as a matter of course.
However, the banner owner of the yellow flag, Bel Shulhaqi, and the banner owner of the red flag, Bel Murhaqi, were unwilling to surrender to the pursuing Dragoons, and were finally killed on the spot by the Sky Dragoons who surrounded him.
Shulhaqi and Murhaqi, whose own soldiers were all elite cavalrymen selected from a hundred miles, and their own strength was extremely strong, how could they be killed on the spot by the ordinary cavalry of the cavalry corps? Their deaths revealed the atmosphere of conspiracy from beginning to end.
It's just that the high-level leaders of the New Eight Banners, who can smell the smell of conspiracy, dare to mention the conspiracy when they are all prisoners? Except for the high-ranking members of the New Eight Banners, the generals of the Tianlong Army, will they care about the death of the two enemy banner masters, Baylor?
In fact, the vast majority of the generals of the Tianlong Empire still don't know anything about the Eight Banners system tossed out by the Jianzhou Jurchens;
Because of the death of Shulhaqi and Murhaqi, the cavalry who lost the yellow flag and the red flag surrendered to the banner owner were easily controlled by the cavalry corps under Bai Feng's command, and the cavalry who surrendered with the yellow flag was still in the main heart was handed over to the Yulin Legion for custody.
Nearly 50,000 horses of the Yellow Banner cavalry were under the control of Vermaelen's 5th Division, and the horsemen without horses were guarded by Borg's 3rd Division and Bartloli's 4th Division, and all weapons collected were managed by López's 2nd Division.
Hans's 1st Division and Leonardo's Feather Wing remained on the battlefield, the former tasked with cleaning up the battlefield and the latter tasked with disposing of some special corpses, and by this we did not only refer to the corpses of Shulhazy and Murhazy.
By the time Bai Feng led the cavalry corps and the Yulin legion, as well as the Spartan legion, which had lost one-third of its soldiers, to the southern end of the D'Orville Gorge with nearly 70,000 prisoners, the more than 20,000 cavalry of the two blue flags trapped in the canyon still did not surrender to the Agni Legion.
Just as the angry Rodriguez was about to give the order for a general attack, Bai Feng led his army back, and with Dolgon, who had already surrendered, Azig and Duoduo in the canyon would naturally lead their two Blue Banner cavalry to surrender under the call of Dolgon.
And Dudu Nikan, who had no small ambition, could not have endured humiliation for many years, and it was impossible for them to fight to the death, and it happened that they were Dorgon's nominal followers, and now that Dolgon's order was issued, they naturally led their troops to surrender.
As for the thousands of Eight Banner infantry who survived in the canyon, although they were all poor people, it was also true that their hands were stained with the blood of the Tianlong soldiers;
The surrender of the Two Yellow Banners, the Positive Red Flag, and the Two Blue Banners not only brought Bai Feng more than 90,000 cavalry prisoners, but also made him only one step away from destroying the New Eight Banners;
After winning the decisive battle of the D'Auville Gorge, Bai Feng personally led all the troops under his command, with more than 90,000 prisoners, and spent seven days to march to the city of Langxiang County; compared with the swaying Tianlong army, there were only 8,000 cavalry in the red flag guarding the city.
What could Urgudai expect from his 8,000 cavalry, who were not good at defending the city, to resist the attack of the 200,000 Heavenly Dragon Army, to fight to the death or to surrender, these were the only two choices Urgudai had, and there was no doubt that he was not ignorant of the times.
After the surrender of Kaicheng with the Red Banner, the 8,000 Red Banner Cavalry, who laid down their arms, were scattered by Bai Feng and placed in three military camps outside Langxiang County by Bai Feng, and the guards were the Fire Legion, the Yulin Legion, and the Pro-Soldier Guard.
The pro-guard army, which had hardly suffered any losses, still maintained a fairly strong combat effectiveness, and its overall condition was even better than that of the Fire Legion and the Feather Forest Legion, while the four standing legions that had been seriously injured were allowed by Bai Feng to enter the city to rest.
The arrival of the Tianlong army made the people in Langxiang County, who had been repeatedly oppressed by the cavalry of the Eight Banners, cheer and jump, and the enthusiasm of the people overflowed, so that the officers and men of the standing army who had suffered heavy casualties enjoyed the heroic treatment, and their morale was actually high.
The Governor's Palace, the former county town of Langxiang, became Bai Feng's temporary residence, and the two commanders Leng Gaoda and Leng Gaofei and their five hundred special temple warriors were stationed in the Governor's Palace, and the guard on the periphery of the Governor's Palace was taken care of by Steve and hundreds of personal soldiers.
On the night when he led the army into Langxiang County, Bai Feng, who was alone in the study of the Governor's Mansion to check the losses of various armies, suddenly said after feeling the fluctuations in the air: "Ivan, how are you implementing the Eight Banners Transformation Plan?"
"Among the six flags, including the two yellow flags, the two red flags, and the two blue flags, including Shulhaqi and Murhaqi, a total of two banner owners Baylor, four Gushan Ezhen Baylor, thirty-seven staff leaders, and one hundred and seventy-six assistant leaders were secretly cut off, and no one noticed it for the time being. ”
"Didn't anyone notice?" Bai Feng, who smiled contemptuously, said in a disdainful tone: "It should be that the people who perceive it dare not speak, right?"
Ivan naturally wouldn't intervene in Bai Feng's words that were almost talking to himself, he just stood motionless, waiting for Bai Feng's new order.
In all fairness, Bai Feng was still satisfied with the attitude of the high-level leaders of the Eight Banners who had surrendered to the current affairs, so he ordered Ivan, who was speechless: "The goal of the first step of the transformation plan has been achieved, and the second step is ready to be implemented, you go and notify Luo Wang to take action." ”
"No!" replied without any emotion, and Ivan, dressed in a black suit, immediately disappeared in place.