The northern country is late in spring. When it was already early spring and February in the south of the Yangtze River, and there were miscellaneous peanuts, trees, grasses and warblers flying everywhere, there was still a hint of chill in the air on the ground outside the plug. However, even this kind of climate can't stop life's yearning and longing for spring. The treetops and branches on the banks of several large rivers have sprouted a hazy yellow-green color. In the distance, the apricot blossoms, which had been silent for a winter, couldn't wait to poke their heads out of the loneliness, and greeted the somewhat steep spring breeze with their bloody frozen faces, happily blooming. Clusters, clusters, mountains and fields.

Across the wide loop, the big river, which had been frozen for a long winter, came from under the thick ice from time to time with a muffled rattling sound, which was that the ice felt the breath of spring, and gradually began to thaw and burst. As the ice melted, the water in the loop widened, and the locals said that the river began to fertile. The sound of rushing water brings people bursts of joy. Occasionally, a fish or two would leap up from under the ice, twist their waists and jump out of the water, do a wonderful somersault, and then fall into the water, so frightened that a group of roe deer drinking on the shore spread their hooves and ran away, and turned back from a distance to see what had splashed it in the face.

Seeing that there was nothing unusual, the group of stupid animals slowly walked back to the riverside where they were drinking, and continued to drink, and by the way looked for the young grass sprouts that were eager to sprout to improve their food.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! ”

A few sharp arrows swept by the wind from a distance, and shot squarely at the necks and heads of these roe deer, and before they could scream a few times, they fell to the river, and the blood flowed down the river, melting the ice.

"People say that our Liaodong is 'beating roe deer and scooping fish', which is really good!"

A dozen fast horses galloped from south to north along the barren grass. The riders on horseback were all dressed in armor, and the leader had a strong flag behind him.

Seeing that the prey fell to the ground where the arrow went, the strong and satisfied put away the hard bow in his hand and motioned to his subordinates to fetch the roe deer.

Several subordinates in cotton armor deliberately teased and curryed favor in front of the commander, shaking their horsewhips and urging the horses away. The most beautiful one leaned down, picked up a roe deer, and urged the horse to rush to the river, where he washed and peeled it off, and prepared it for meat for the evening.

The same scene is still being seen along the banks of the great river, known as the Second Songhua River. Most of these riders were horsemen with only a piece of cotton armor and a helmet, and they were not elite soldiers in the Eight Banners of Manchuria. It can only be used as a light cavalry for forward sentinels and pathfinders. Their errand was to search for roads and campsites for the caravan. Water source, prepare firewood and grass.

About a day's journey from these sentinels, the overwhelming brigade of men and horses hung over the ground like a dark cloud. Thousands of military flags of various colors fluttered in the queue, and all kinds of flags were even more starry.

Bands of cavalry and infantry were mixed together, forming a torrent of steel, and the road had not yet thawed, and tens of thousands of hooves were pounding on the frozen ground, and there was a rumbling.

A group of knights in the team is even more eye-catching. Needless to say, horses are like dragons and tigers, all of them are iron-clad and black-tasseled. He carried a horse lunge bow on his back, and the quiver was full of good arrows. On the saddle hung long knives, bones and other weapons, and in his hands held eight flag spears and tiger guns. One by one, the appearance of the army is strict and murderous.

These people are the core of the Qing army, the most elite part, the Kabush Xianchao Ha Battalion.

The use of Ge Bush Xianchao Ha soldiers was a power that only the Qing Emperor Huang Taiji had. These soldiers are the strongest and most elite in the Qing army, and they are very strict from the time of selection......

Huang Taiji's Kabush Xianchaoha Battalion, like Temujin's Cowardly Xue Army and Li Shouhan's Guards Brigade, was the core of the army's combat effectiveness. Be prepared to invest in the most important direction at the most critical time.

These Kabush virtuous soldiers, at this time, were the imperial forest army of the Qing Emperor Huang Taiji, and they were also the predecessors of the forward battalions of the so-called guard battalions, forward battalions, and cavalry battalions of elite troops after the Qing army entered the customs.

In the ranks of the Kabush elite soldiers, several iron helmets with feathers flying, with a two-foot flying tiger flag on their backs, and a fox tail on the pole, and officers with two hanging fox tails under the iron helmets surrounded the two generals and rode horses fiercely. These Kabush officers of the rank of virtuous and strong, and the stars and the moon are generally gathered in the center, and they are naturally not ordinary people.

Kabush Xian Ka Ra Ang Bang Wu Bai and Ka Bush Xianzhang Jing Laosa were in the middle of this horse team, but they had their own thoughts.

According to the Gebush Xianchao Ha battalion system established by Huang Taiji, the ranks in the camp are only a few levels of Kala Angbang, Zhang Jing, Guards, Zhuangda, and A Soldiers.

However, Wu Bai did not have the high-spirited feeling when he accompanied Huang Taiji on expeditions and inspections in the past.

In his mind, he still kept replaying the scene of the discussion in front of the Shengjing Grand Hall that day.

In front of the main hall, the banner owners of each banner, the prince and the Belle, still stood in line according to their respective formations. However, in the eyes of Huang Taiji on the throne, at this time, there is no longer the so-called yellow, white, blue and red Eight Banners Manchuria, Eight Banners Han Army and Eight Banners Mongolia, there are only two camps.

"One is loyal to me, and the other is in cahoots with Dorgon's Archina!"

At the end of the Liaodong War, although Huang Taiji's Liaodong anti-thief group won the victory, Huang Taiji and his advisers carefully calculated the results and losses, but they wanted to cry without tears.

Although they defeated more than 100,000 Ming troops led by Hong Chengchou in the western Liaoning corridor, and received and captured a large number of heavy weapons, they did not get much food, the most urgent material for the thieves in eastern Liaodong.

Although the three Dingliao general cannons and mountains of armor weapons and gunpowder were captured, as well as tens of thousands of Ming army prisoners, such a result made Huang Taiji very excited at first. However, when several princes and confidants who stayed in Shengjing, Liaoyang and other places reported the losses and consumption figures of the Liaodong War, he couldn't laugh.

And when he learned that if dozens of cities in Liaoyang and other places were rebuilt, or if they were to help the victims there, it would be a little insufficient to put all the spoils of the Liaodong War into it, Huang Taiji even cried, "There are nearly 100,000 more mouths out of thin air." Where can I find so much food to feed them?! ”

However, it is very different from Huang Taiji, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, who wanted to cry without tears, and the two white flags that were originally sent by him to Tashan and prepared to use the artillery fire of the Nanyue Army to consume and weaken them were a windfall! Not to mention the seizure of a large number of armor and weapons, the large amount of grain and grass hoarded in Songshan Fort made the waist of the three Dolgon brothers a lot thicker.

"Your Majesty. As far as the minions know, after the battle of Prince Rui, a total of more than 130 coated cattle records were compiled, and there were about 30,000 people, plus the dozens of cattle records that were incorporated into the Eight Banners Han Army handed in before, the strength of the two white flags Manchuria has been, has been ......" Fan Wencheng stuttered a little. This kind of blood splattered between brothers for the sake of power is nothing new in the Liao thief. He's tired of seeing it himself. For the sake of a position of power. A father can force his son away and kill his son, and a son can kill his biological mother. What's more, the Dolgon brothers, who were originally in private with Huang Taiji, were constantly making small moves?

Now the troops directly controlled by his three brothers have been on par with the two yellow flags and the positive blue flag in the hands of Huang Taiji's father and son, not to mention, there are two red flags, a group of minions who obviously fell to the two white flags, although these people are not many soldiers and horses, but the victory is huge, once Shuo Tuo and others suddenly attack at the most critical moment of the confrontation between the two sides. Then he Huang Taiji will have a big fun!

In Bao Chengxian, he proposed that in the name of celebrating the great victory, he invited the flag lord to enter the palace to drink. He ambushed the knife and axe hand at the banquet, and chopped the three brothers into meat sauce after an order, and then sent troops to attack the two white flags.

"It's not hot yet. Your idea is already rancid! Fan Wencheng was very disdainful of Bao Chengxian's proposal and came to a conclusion. Such a method is too risky, and Huang Taiji can't afford the consequences of being attacked by the princes and nobles of the Eight Banners. What if the news leaks, or if one of the three brothers doesn't show up? If it's not a secret. When Dolgon learned the news, he made the conspiracy public, and then asked the emperor to give everyone an explanation, do you plan to sacrifice your pig's head of six catties and four taels to let the emperor calm the anger of the nobles of the Eight Banners?

Several times back and forth in the direction of Quang Ninh, Jinzhou, and Tashan to convey the will to Dolgon, Fan Wencheng can be regarded as witnessing Dolgon's two white flags as the core, using Huang Taiji's right to arbitrarily grant him the right to arbitrary, wantonly rewarding meritorious soldiers, and creating a process of Tashan system covering almost all the departments of the Eight Banners. You have come at this time to offer this method of ambushing the axemen in advance, and you know which of the relatives of the two Yellow Banner officials has been promoted and rewarded by Dorgon in Tower Hill?

However, Fan Wencheng peeked to observe the look on Huang Taiji's face, but found that he was also uncertain, thinking that he was weighing the pros and cons.

To tell the truth, at this point, even if Huang Taiji can endure it again, he plans to cut off the three Dolgon brothers in his heart, swallowing the tens of thousands of horses into his stomach, leaving no scum at all. Hearing that Bao Chengxian offered this simple and direct plan, Huang Taiji couldn't help but move a little in his heart. However, after thinking about it for a while, he had to give up this plan. It's not that he can't bear it, but now is not the time. Now Dolgon's prestige is high, his morale is high, and his military exploits and strength cannot be underestimated. If you kill him at this time, not to mention the probability of success, even if you succeed, a lot of finishing work behind is extremely complicated, how to consolidate the results of victory, how to stabilize the Eight Banners nobles, how to appease them, when this war has just stopped, it is indeed very difficult to make such a big move.

Huang Taiji's three Han strategists, Bao Chengxian and Fan Wencheng, all expressed their attitudes. Only Ning Wan and I were thinking hard there, it seemed that he had ideas in his heart but had not matured.

"Your Majesty, the slave is a little foolish, please give your Majesty advice." Finally, the expression on my face became very calm, and I slowly said my idea in a confident tone.

Ning Wan's proposition is actually very simple, during the Liaodong War, Jinzhou's article started from Guangning, and now Shengjing's article also starts from another place.

"Your Majesty once told the minions that when our Qing soldiers fought against the Ming soldiers and horses on the front line of Jinzhou and Songshan, the savages of various departments of Sauron in Heilongjiang rushed out of the mountains and forests one after another, attacking and burning the villages of our Qing soldiers and civilians. Your Majesty, you told the minions and others that day, this generation of savages has become the maggots of my tarsal bones in the Qing Dynasty. How can you not take advantage of the opportunity to sweep the border troubles in the north and cut off this current Phi Island Mao Wenlong, and make a good article? ”

"Good!"

"Mr. Ning is really scheming!"

"Mr. is highly talented, and the student is ashamed!"

The three of them are all people who have been born with a seven-trick exquisite heart, and after listening to Ning Wan's opening chapter, they immediately guessed Ning Wan's follow-up methods.

Northern Expedition with large soldiers. The threat of the Sauron tribes that swept away the back could not only expand the territory, plunder the population and property, and thus improve the prestige of Huang Taiji, but also through this campaign, lay the territory of the northern frontier for the Qing Dynasty, and send officials and soldiers to garrison it. There were large quantities of food and grass for sale to the uncivilized savages. After fighting this battle, the merchant station he set up on the side of the Heilongjiang River was the food in the mouth of the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong. It's a big deal to go back and say a few polite words to him, and give him more silver taels!

Thinking of this, Huang Taiji couldn't help but sigh for a while, hey, I don't know when I started, I have to find the second son of the Li family to find out the wind first when doing things inside the Eight Banners, who is this Qing Dynasty?

Northward. Solve the Sauron people of Bomu Bogol, the big head of the Heilongjiang River Basin, in addition to these gains. There is also a harvest in which the four monarchs and ministers have never spoken.

In the final analysis, this harvest has a lot to do with the military strength structure of the Qing army.

From the time when the old slaves raised troops to rebel in Liaodong, the so-called Eight Banners system was formulated. Whether it is a military organization or a civil affairs organization, it is based on the cattle record. Three Ding draw one, one Ding wears armor, and the rest is scattered. Among these armored soldiers, some of them were Bayala soldiers, and the rest were infantry and horse armor soldiers. In wartime, the armor banner is the main force. The rest of the bannermen were used as ordinary soldiers, and most of them had to go into battle with the army and fight.

However, every time they go to war, the military personnel can be roughly divided into three types: Ahha, armor people, and flag men. Aha is a slave, either a Han Chinese or a Korean. or people from the tribes of the Northeast. These people had no armor, and some of them even did not have weapons, and when they went to war with the army, they were generally only used as miscellaneous labor or cannon fodder, or to feed horses and make weapons, or to fill in ditches, or to dig city bricks.

Although the number of soldiers accompanying each time is large, sometimes up to tens of thousands, it is not listed as the number of Qing troops. These people were the largest of the Qing army's auxiliaries, and since these people were left in the rear, if they fled, they would not want to live, so they would not want to sell their lives.

Most of the people in the armor are the tribes of the Northeast people, and the ethnic groups are diverse, mostly the Oroqen people, Xibe people, Evenki people, Sauron people, Daur people, Hezhe people, Kuyi people, etc., and the Qing army called them savages, and they were mostly collected from various mountains and rivers. The combat effectiveness of these tribal soldiers is much stronger than that of the descendants of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and in the era when the Eight Banners have decayed, the Sauron soldiers and the Ula soldiers are still synonymous with strong combat effectiveness. In several major battles in the Central Plains, the Sauron soldiers performed well.

Elephants die because of their tusks, and rhinos die because of rhino horns. Because these people are strong, they are the main targets of cannon fodder in the Qing army. Due to the frequency of wars. These soldiers of the Northeast tribesmen who were used as cannon fodder, and when they got to the back, many tribes disappeared.

Just like the Hezhe people, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it was still a large tribe with a population of tens of thousands, and after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, only a few thousand people died in the whole clan. Until later generations, the total population of the Hezhe people in the world was less than 30,000. This is a typical representative of the cannon fodder tribe in the Northeast.

If you can pacify the Sauron tribes, not to mention the wealth and prestige, you can just capture a large number of Sauron tribes to supplement their strength, or simply compile the Eight Banners of Ula to deter the other five banners, this is the most satisfying goal in Huang Taiji's heart!

Thinking of Li Peiting, who helped Dolgon sit up, Huang Taiji couldn't help but twitch on his fat face, and his muscles kept squirming, and he could see that he was constantly gritting his teeth. If it weren't for your trade with my Qing tribes, how would Dorgon have such an opportunity to obtain a large amount of silver and supplies? Without salt cloth and the like, how could he put his hand into the various parts of the Eight Banners?

Forget it, no matter how bastard the second child of the Li family is, he is just a businessman, and it is reasonable that he plans to make more money. It's better than those guys who want my money and my life.

Speaking of which, the Northern Expedition is also a multi-task, which can expand the influence of its own power, can directly do business with the second child of the Li family, take advantage of the water transportation of Heilongjiang and Songhua River, and by the way, it can also force Dolgon to send troops to defend the fortress of the Songhua River or go to southern Liaoning to reclaim. What the? If you don't agree, that's good, Heilongjiang's trade doesn't have your share, and you have to fall into a notoriety of not paying attention to the border defense of the Qing Dynasty.

In addition, in the future, you can also use the name of preventing Wu Sangui's landing and sneak attack, and transfer a part of the strong men to Liaonan to build ships, so that although the core elite of your Dolgon is indispensable, the strong men who swallowed before will spit out some. And as long as these Ding Zhuang are in my hands, if they are trained for time, they will not be used as soldiers. Then I'll find another time to kill your brother, and I'll see who dares to say a word.

Although the sequelae of doing this are quite big, it is better than having your brothers use similar methods against me in the future. If you can make peace with Daming again, it will be even more foolproof.

"If the Li brothers are willing to sell grain and rice and share the Qing Dynasty with me. Why should I bother like this? Huang Taiji threw aside the historical records in his hand that he had never read for half a night, "Mr. Fan, I am sorry for you to pass on my will, and the Great Government Hall will discuss the matter!" (To be continued......)

PS: I'm sorry, I got the chapter order wrong for a while. Forgive me, everyone. I'm going to Changsha on a business trip tomorrow and I'm going to take a few days off. Come back and try to make up for it. The subsequent episodes will be somewhat exciting and unexpected.