"Can Eight Banners fight?" That's an interesting question.

Theoretically, in practice, the Eight Banners also have all kinds of military training. Even these trainings are still very traditional training, such as drawing a bow and releasing arrows, and training is always training. If you let the Eight Banners go and slaughter the people, I'm afraid they can still do it.

It's just that after the Empress Dowager Ci'an met with Zeng Guofan, she asked Prince Gong that the Eight Banners could go to the battlefield, and Prince Gong Yixin opened his mouth for a while, but he couldn't answer. If you go to the battlefield, you have to face life and death, and if it's just some innocious battles, it's just a matter of losing some Eight Banners personnel. But now it was a battle that would decide the fate of the Manchu court, and if the Eight Banners Army were to be devastated, the foundation of the Manchu would be shaken.

But in the face of Ci'an's calm but firm gaze, Prince Gong Yixun didn't dare not answer, he said ruthlessly: "Back to the Queen Mother, the slave thinks that the Eight Banners are probably capable of fighting. ”

Prince Gong Yixun also made a great determination to make such an answer, although the Eight Banners were the foundation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the current situation was that if the Eight Banners could not fight, they could only let Zeng Guofan, these Han ministers, lead the troops to fight. But Wei Ze and other forces on the opposite side are also Han Chinese, and if the Han minister feels that he can't hold on, he surrenders. The Han people will naturally accept this group of Han people. But what will happen to the flag man? The bannermen of Nanjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou, Fujian and Xi'an. These bannermen disappeared after the loss of the local area. If the bannermen don't even have a chance to surrender, then they will die in battle. If the Han people are completely unreliable, then when the Qing Dynasty falls, it will be necessary for the banner people to be buried together.

Ci'an didn't care about Prince Gong's psychological struggle at all, and after listening to the answer of the banner people's ability to fight, Ci'an replied: "Then let the Eight Banners also send troops, the full number of people is not more than 10,000, and more than 10,000 are invincible." At this point, if the bannermen can't fight, what else do we have? ”

Prince Gong was stunned for a moment, and after meeting Zeng Guofan, Ci'an commented that Zeng Guofan was a loyal minister. But now it is said that the banner people cannot fight, and there is no one in the court to use. This is obviously inconsistent.

Ci'an didn't ask Cixi to help explain this time, she directly said her thoughts, "The country of my Qing Dynasty is originally a banner man, if the flag man can fight, the ministers and soldiers of the Han people can have confidence." If none of the bannermen could fight, how could the Han people be truly loyal to the imperial court. ”

"The Queen Mother is wise!" Prince Gong hurriedly praised.

Ci'an is a melon seed face, although his eyes are not big, but he is very delicate. At this time, Ci'an's face was solemn, her eyes widened, and she showed some heroism in her delicate spirit, she said calmly: "The twisted bandits are raging in Zhili, if the Eight Banners can't even protect Zhili, other places will be even more detached." Miao Peilin of Shandong actually asked the imperial court to crown him as the king of Qi and seal the territory in Shandong. This is actually the other way around. If it weren't for the imperial court's blind use of the Han army, how could such a thing happen? ”

Speaking of Miao Peilin, Prince Gong's face became very ugly. He never expected this guy to be so bold, if he couldn't defeat the Guangfu Army and surrendered, then it would be fine. Miao Peilin asked the court to give him the title of king, and also indicated that he was the king of Qi. It's more terrible than surrender. If the imperial court agreed, it would have set an extremely bad precedent, and officials from all over the country who were still part of the Qing Dynasty would definitely follow suit. Henan's can ask the court to crown him as the king of Yu, and Shanxi's can naturally ask the court to crown him as the king of Jin. There is no need for the Liberation Army to come over, and the scheming armies in various places will divide the Qing Dynasty first.

"Prince Gong, I still said before, if the Eight Banners can't fight, you don't really need to count on the Han people. The imperial court is dead, can the banner people of the Eight Banners become Han Chinese? Early death is death, and late death is death. So why wait for someone else to come to the door? Ci'an calmly stated his opinion, although it was difficult to say the kind of blood-boiling feeling of feminine softness, but Prince Gong Yixun could still feel a kind of determination.

After understanding Ci'an's attitude, Prince Gong knelt on the ground, "The slave obeys the will of the Queen Mother!" ”

Eight Banners is going to war! This news completely detonated the feelings of the flag people in the capital in August. For the flag people, although there are also errands that can only be done in the capital, such as driving cars, it is also a few employment opportunities. Hardcore crops are the only income model for most banner people. The banner people are not stupid, they also know that their fate is closely tied to the Qing Dynasty. From the news from all over the country, the Taiping Army, the Twist Army, and the Guangfu Army killed the banner people when they caught them, and they never let them go. If the Qing Dynasty is really destroyed, the banner people will be finished.

From the time when all the places south of the Huai River were lost, the training of the Eight Banners also began to be strict. When the Twist Army began to wreak havoc in Zhili, the banner people also knew very well that it was inevitable for the Eight Banners to send troops to fight. Deputy Chief Soldier Etuhai is one of the people who has a deep understanding of this, and the reason why he dares to make irresponsible remarks about Zeng Guofan as a deputy chief soldier is that he knows that he will inevitably go to the battlefield to fight.

Deputy Chief Etuhai drank with several flag officers at night, and after a few glasses of wine, the blood flowed faster, and the face of Deputy Chief Etuhai was even more oily. He said loudly: "Brothers, the war still depends on our old Manchurians, who in this world is really loyal to the master?" It's not those Han people, it's our old Manchurians! ”

There was already an institutional hierarchical gap between the banner people and the Han people, and even among the banner people, the rank gap still existed. The so-called Eight Banners are not all Manchurians, and there are also Han military flags in the Eight Banners, which are all composed of Han people who defected to the Manchus when the Manchu Qing Dynasty started. So the "real Eight Banners" are other flag people who look down on non-Manchurians.

The people who came to drink together were all "old Manchus", and these people listened to the bold words of Deputy General Etuhai, and they also responded one after another, "That's right, only the old Manchus are really loyal to the court in this world!" ”

Blowing up the loyalty of the old Manchurians, the deputy chief soldier of Etuhai shouted: "When we entered the customs with eight banners, who did not kill hundreds or thousands of Han people, the Manchurians were not more than 10,000, and they were invincible. Now we have 200,000 people in the Eight Banners, and we will definitely be able to kill all the Han people who rebelled, as far as I say, what is the use of keeping the Han people, I think that if we kill the Han people, the world of our Qing Dynasty should only be the world of the Eight Banners! ”

Anyway, after drinking too much wine, I can say anything when I am interested, and the deputy chief soldier of Etuhai and the brothers of the "old Manchurian" are full of spirits, expounding their expectations for the future. When it comes to the excitement, some people can't help but burst into tears. I feel that I have shouldered the heavy responsibility of the world at this time.

However, although the interest was high, the wine was quickly drunk, and since the defeat lost the south, the grain from the south could no longer enter the capital, and the price of grain began to soar. Sake requires food, and the price of wine has doubled. Even the deputy chief soldier of Etuhai can't get everyone to drink drunk.

The love xù stimulated by alcohol is hanging like this, and everyone's passion has slowly become another kind of love. A small Eight Banners banner owner who became the general suddenly said: "I'm not afraid when I die, I'm just afraid that after I die, who will raise my mother?" ”

The question was so realistic that the other people at the table didn't know how to answer it. If you just think about killing the enemy and making meritorious contributions, it is not impossible, but if you go to the battlefield, you may be killed. After all, fighting a war is not a drill, and after the drill, you can go back to your own home regardless of whether you win or lose. After going to the battlefield, if you lose, you can't even save your life. These bannermen also have parents, wives and children, and if they die, what will happen to their parents, wives and children? What's more, if they choose between death and promotion and wealth, they don't want to die at all. R1058