Chapter 675: Huang Taiji's Northern Expedition! (The gains outweigh the losses!) )
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The Solon tribe is a collective term for the Daur and Evenki, Oroqen and Buryats. They share a shamanic religion and are closely related to each other. "Sauron" is the name of the Daur people for the Oroqen people, which means "people living in the mountains and forests", because the Evenks are brave and good at fighting, so their surrounding tribes are also called Sauron. The Sauron tribe was not an ethnic entity, but a collective name for the surrounding tribal groups, which were incorporated into the Eight Banners of Butha by the Qing Dynasty.
The sharp decline in the population of the Daur, Hezhe, Oroqen, and Evenki ethnic groups, in addition to the Qing Dynasty's continuous dispatch of Ding Zhuang from these tribes to fight in the pass, the Rakshasa people who continued to invade the east could not escape the responsibility.
How could the Saurons, who had not yet completed their evolution from primitive to slave societies, with wooden bows and spears in their hands and animal skins, be able to compete with the Rakshasa hooligans with firearms and artillery? Large quantities of property were looted, villages were burned, and people were taken captive. It is recorded that more than 6,000 people from one of the captives reached the vicinity of Moscow.
You know, it was the 17th century, what did it mean to cross Siberia to Moscow in Europe?
There are a few more famous examples of transiting Siberia and Central Asia that you can use as a reference.
According to the records of the Qing court archives "Manchu Wenlu Auxiliary Fold", the 170,000 Turks who left the Volga steppe, after a vicious battle along the way, coupled with the plague of disease and hunger, "only half of them reached Ili". In other words. About 80,000 to 90,000 people lost their lives.
And the one with an even higher proportion of deaths was the death march of Kolchak, the supreme ruler of Russia. The 6,000-kilometer march from Omsk to the Far East was only halfway through, and there were only 500,000 troops and 750,000 followers left with him.
Soon after. Li Du and Su Bingwen, the generals of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, with more than 40,000 subordinates and dependents, also crossed Siberia through Central Asia into Xinjiang and returned to China. With the Soviet side providing maintenance and transportation, more than 40,000 people and more than 10,000 people died on the road.
It can be seen from this that the Saurons who were able to reach Moscow were struggling out of the bones. The number of people taken captive by the Rakshasas should be more than ten times!
However, due to Li Peiting's trade in furs and native products of the Sauron tribe in the Heilongjiang Valley, the fate of the Sauron people changed greatly, and the warriors and hunters of the tribe no longer had only wooden guns and bows in their hands. Rather, it is the same armor and weapon as the Liao thieves. The Rakshasas became vulnerable to these brave warriors.
But. Swings and roundabouts. To put it another way, if you dodge a knife, you may not be stabbed.
This time the battle in the north of the Songhua River caused the Sauron tribe to lose at least fifty or sixty thousand people. These populations were quickly incorporated into the formation sequence of the Two Yellow Banners, and became the armor men of the Two Yellow Banners, which is commonly known as cannon fodder. However, the generals and officials who accompanied Huang Taibei's expedition were not happy.
Those red-eyed soldiers with two yellow flags. Hunting and killing day and night, he swept four or five hundred miles north. Hundreds of villages along the route were razed to the ground.
Ilde, Chen Tai, Zhuo Butai, Baha, Surda, Durde, and other two yellow banners of Mel Zhangjing and Jia Lazhangjing kept shouting wildly, whipping those soldiers who were tired and left behind.
"Quick! Catch up! Catch up! If you don't kill all these barbarians, you minions will go back and beware of the emperor's marching method to kill your whole family! ”
The military system of the Qing army, if the main general has casualties and misses when going out on the expedition, all those who join the expedition are guilty.
Let alone. This time the main man will be Huang Taiji himself!
"Mistress Mailer! We've been chasing it for four or five days! The two families of Ecuador and Bomu Bogol, even the horses are tired to death, how far can they run, it is better to let the minions take a breath of rest and slow down. Chase it forward! ”
"No way!" Chen Tai, the grandson of Eyidu, whipped the shoulder of the minion under him fiercely, "We are tired, and those Sauron barbarians are even more tired!" What's more, the emperor was shot in the left leg by the Ecuador, and we as slaves, if we don't capture this barbarian alive and send it to the emperor to be disposed of. Do we still have a face alive?! ”
"Chase! Even if you chase Heilongjiang and Jingqili River, you have to chase this group of barbarians! Ilde, one of Yanguli's nephews, was also unusually resolute, and whipped his horse's buttocks with his scabbard, and led his two subordinates to ride their horses away.
"Humph! What is the spirit? Beware of being lured into the swamp by those brutes! Chen Tai cursed in his heart, as a vested interest in the Battle of Tashan, he was not so interested in the life and death of Huang Taiji, who was more than a thousand miles away at this time. He performed well in the Battle of Tower Hill and was promoted to Meljangin by Dolgon, where he took charge of the two Khala's coated soldiers. Moreover, after the war, Dolgon graciously allocated to him the number of soldiers he should have.
However, the return of these horses to Manchuria with the Yellow Flag aroused the covetousness of many people. Some people even say that Chen Tai's own official position is just a third-class Lazhangjing, and this time, it is a great reward to be awarded the second-class rank.
How can this make Chen Tai and the others swallow this breath? Lao Tzu suffered shells in Tashan, earned military merits, and had more soldiers and horses, and the master of Prince Rui acted cheaply according to the emperor's orders and promoted us to official positions, but you came out to say irresponsible things!
For a time, these young generals sent by various banners to Tashan to help in the war were all in a raging mood, and if it were not for the strict discipline of the Qing army, it would have been inevitable to fear a mutiny and noise.
Fortunately, Huang Taiji was able to see the situation clearly. Knowing that the situation in front of him was a pit dug by Dolgon for him, the Qing Emperor, no matter how he dealt with it, he would offend a group of people. All he could choose was whether to uphold the emperor's authority or offend those old guys. However, after all, Huang Taiji is also a generation of heroes, and he decisively chose to maintain the imperial power.
"The matter of Tashan, I have already made a clear purpose. It is up to Prince Rui to act cheaply. Today's war is settled, but you come here to make noise, don't you want me to look good? Chilled the hearts of the loyal and brave soldiers of the Eight Banners? In the future, military orders will not work, and military discipline will not be sluggish. It's all your fault! After some reprimands, those veterans could only leave in a huff. However, both Huang Taiji and Dolgon knew that within the Eight Banners, a rift had already arisen between the new generation and the veteran generals. It depends on how it goes.
In this northern expedition, Huang Taiji led these young generals out. I didn't have the heart to take the opportunity to win over. Once the battle is won, those Sauron soldiers will be added to the coat of soldiers and horses to improve the combat effectiveness of these new armor lamas.
However, these thoughts were shattered by Iguador, the barbarian of the Xibe tribe!
On the bank of the Songhua River, there is a large camp of the Qing army that cannot be seen in the sky, and thousands of tents in the camp are arranged according to their respective formations, and countless military flags are blown by the southeast wind. Around the camp. Deep trenches and wooden walls one after another, and at intervals, there were arrow towers towering, heavily defended.
Groups of coated auxiliaries came and went, fetching water in the rivers to make food, cutting wood in the forests, and cutting grass on the meadows to feed the horses. In the past, such actions would form a hustle and bustle. But today. These coated ahabs are trying their best to be light-hearted. lest you accidentally cause a catastrophe to yourself. The bleak howls in the camp were heard from time to time, which made people upset and greatly affected the morale of the army. Mixed with these howls was the muffled sound of whipping the Sauron captives with their scabbards.
Two of Huang Taiji's confidants, Kabush Xianga, Laangbang Wu Bai, and Hubu Chengzheng Ying Ordai, accompanied the Horqin Tushetu Prince Badali, the Prince of Heshuo, Chahar Gulun, and Zhang Cunren, the political counselor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, who were high-ranking and powerful Mongolian and Han ministers who accompanied the Northern Expedition, to inspect the camp. From time to time, the officers and soldiers of the Two Yellow Flags were not allowed to beat or abuse the Sauron captives.
"These people. The emperor will send them to great use in the future! You minions, don't make a mistake! ”
Originally, it was a battle without suspense, who would have thought that those Sauron barbarians, in addition to using the terrain to the extreme. Even in a hard-fought battle with the elite of the two Yellow Banners Manchuria, it did not fall behind at all, and even caused a lot of casualties to the Qing soldiers.
In addition to knives, guns, bows, arrows, bones, flying axes and other things, Bomu Bogol, Ecuador, Aldi and other subordinates even used various firearms to teach Huang Taiji a shocking lesson.
"This group of barbarians, in addition to the extremely sharp archery of the bow and horse, I can't imagine that my firearms have been used by them so amazingly in the hands of this generation!" Huang Taiji endured great pain in his big tent, and explained to several civil and military officials accompanying him, "After returning to Shengjing, you remember to remind me that my Qing soldiers must also learn to gallop on horseback. ”
After saying this, Huang Taiji was hit by a sharp pain and almost fainted.
"Quick! Spread the Great Shaman! ”
"Quick! Chuan Langzhong! ”
In front of Huang Taiji's royal couch, several shamans began to dance and dance differently, and held a healing ceremony for Huang Taiji. Before jumping the gods, an unknown mountain grass was also ignited, emitting bursts of faint aroma, diluting the pungent smell of blood in the big tent, so that the gods could be summoned.
Huang Taiji's right leg was hit by a fire gun, and the projectile went deep.
This shot is the reason why Chen Tai, Yierde, Zhuo Butai and others are chasing for thousands of miles!
This shot was given to him by the leader of the Xibe tribe, the Ecuador who flaunted his might in front of Huang Taiji.
Speaking of which, this is also to blame on Huang Taiji himself. If he hadn't given the order, like the hunting in the past, the soldiers of the Eight Banners would drive the prey to him for him to hunt, where would there be today's situation? He forgot that even those desperate beasts also have the phrase that trapped beasts still fight, let alone those who have weapons in their hands?
The more than 200 riders of Ecuador's subordinates who were driven to Huang Taiji's front by the four Niu Lu like wild beasts were no different from the prey they had hunted in the past.
Unexpectedly, under the leadership of Eucuador, this group of Xibe warriors, seeing that they would definitely die today, since there was this big leader and noble man of the Liao thieves on the opposite side, they simply pounced forward like wild boars and black bears in the forest, and they had to pull a noble man as a cushion when they died!
The bowstring rattled, and a dense stream of arrows flew towards Huang Taiji and the Kabush soldiers who were guarding him, causing casualties among more than a dozen Kabush soldiers at once.
"Surround me! Kill! ”
The fall of the people around him not only did not make Huang Taiji retreat slightly, but made his chest suddenly rise with pride. In a trance, he seemed to be back to the time when he followed his father Khan to fight Sarhu, and the young Baylor who swung his knife straight into the glacier was in front of him.
But. Huang Taiji forgot that it was now the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, not the Wanli year. His body was no longer the young man who could sleep for days and nights on horseback.
The war horse under his crotch struggled to carry his fat and heavy, heavily armored body and galloped forward, and the Kabush soldiers around him did not dare to be too advanced. So, this gave Ecuador a fleeting opportunity!
"Brothers. When we get closer to the Jurchen nobleman, we will greet him with a firecracker! Knock him over, and these Jurchens will be in chaos! Let's find a gap and rush out! ”
A few vertical jumps of the fierce horses on both sides shortened the distance between them a lot.
"Shoot the arrows!"
"Shoot the arrows!"
The warriors on both sides made a move almost simultaneously, each using his horse bow to shoot arrows at the rushing crowd on the opposite side. With such a trick, if Huang Taiji faced the Guan Ning army and the Ming army in the Guannei, I was afraid that the opponent would have already shouted and scattered. It's a pity that today he didn't encounter a Ming army like elk sheep. Rather, they are as ferocious as dying wild boars and black bears.
In the face of the arrows of the Kabush soldiers, Ecuador led dozens of musketeers to rush to within fifty paces of Huang Taiji unscathed. At this distance, it is already the effective range of the firebolt.
Over there, Huang Taiji had already pulled the sword out of its scabbard, ready to use the blood in Ecuador's neck to make the sword drink.
"Aim at that Jurchen nobleman and fire!"
"Master, it's not good!"
Ecuador and Wubai roared almost at the same time.
Ecuador grabbed the reins of his horse and, together with a dozen firecrackers, aimed the guns at Huang Taiji's location. Wu Bai, who discovered this scene, hurriedly jumped forward. He grabbed Huang Taiji's horse's head and tried to cover his body. Wait until this round of firearms is fired, bring the emperor back to the main formation, and don't let His Majesty the Emperor take risks!
But, it's too late! He just forcibly pulled Huang Taiji's horse's head to the side, and before he could cover his body to cover Huang Taiji, a bean-like fire sound sounded on the opposite side. Puffs of white smoke came out.
Most of the firecrackers used in Ocuador were the Nanzhong firecrackers that he had captured from the mire, although they were not as light as the ones made in Nanzhong using ductile iron, but at such a close range, they were still powerful enough to break through heavy armor. Three or five Kabush soldiers were shot. Screamed and fell off the horse. The huge impact of the projectile instantly pierced through their outermost polished and expensive Nanzhong cuirass, then pierced through the iron-inlaid cotton armor on the inside of the cuirass, and then broke through their innermost chain mail and crashed into their bodies.
After the lead bullet rolled in the body, the wound met the air, and the strong pressure in the body caused the blood in the body to turn into blood arrows gushing out, and they screamed and fell backwards from the horse.
The horses, who had been shot, let out a long scream, jumped and rolled, and threw the knight off the horse.
Before Wu Bai came back to his senses, the second round of firearms rang out again.
The cheap projectiles rampaged through the air, easily piercing through everything that stood in their way, whether it was the southern cuirass, the iron-inlaid armor, or the chain mail worn in the innermost part, no matter what kind of armor it was. Buckshot deformed in the bodies of the Kabush warriors, who had always pretended to be brave. Rampage, tossing everything inside, the Kabush warriors fell to the ground, letting out a howl that was by no means human. The crimson blood in the body gushed out, moistening the dry and hard earth in the spring of Liaodong.
There's a good saying, don't be happy when you win the 5 million jackpot, because there may be a worse chance of danger waiting for you in the next second. During this time, Huang Taiji was too smooth, Chongzhen helped him, the Li family helped him, and even God helped him. But he had to pay it back sooner or later, but today, it was his turn to have something unlucky happen. Huang Taiji is one of them!
In the second round of Ecuador's shooting, a lead bullet hit him squarely in the right leg!
Seeing that Huang Taiji was shot and fell off the horse, Ecuador and others howled, and they were about to rush up and cut off his head, but Wu Bai and others led hundreds of Kabush soldiers to fight desperately and snatched Huang Taiji down.
"The Jurchen nobleman is dead!"
"The Jurchen nobleman is dead!"
Seeing that they couldn't get their hands on it, Ecuador and the others simply kept shouting and spreading this heart-rending news to every corner of the battlefield. Taking advantage of the brief moment of the soldiers of the Eight Banners, they were thinking about which Jurchen nobleman had died, and Ecuador and others were looking for a vacancy. Riding a horse to break out of the encirclement of Manchuria with the Yellow Banner!
Taking advantage of the chaos, Bomu Bogol also led more than 1,000 remnants of his own army to break out of the encirclement and threw more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to Huang Taiji.
This is the reason why Chen Tai, Zhuo Butai and others pursued thousands of miles and captured Ecuador and Bomu Bogol alive.
In Huang Taiji's big tent, the shaman continued to do rituals for the emperor.
Shamans, since the time of the Xiongnu, appeared in the north of the Saiwai, many tribes. Wars or other events of hesitation ultimately depend on the shaman. Temujin's unification of Mongolia and his election as Genghis Khan had a lot to do with shamanic support. Its leader (Tongtian Wu) came out to prophesy the will of heaven and raise the prestige of Genghis Khan, thus helping him to accomplish his great cause. And this broad, even more so, is the son of Temujin's stepfather, Monlik.
Coronation of Emperor Genghis Khan of the Mongol Empire. In the name of Heaven (i.e., Emperor of Heaven), it was this broad and broad that confirmed that Temujin had the imperial title of "Genghis Khan". It is precisely because of this merit that Kuokuo is becoming more and more proud. With his father's background, he has seven brothers, who are powerful and prestigious. More and more herdsmen came to his disciples, and his divine power gradually threatened Temujin's royal power.
So Temujin had to get rid of it as soon as possible. However, due to the huge influence of shamanism, Genghis Khan could not blatantly regain his authority by death, so he could only use intrigue to achieve his goals. Thus implying that Timuq was executed broadly. After the death of Babel Witch, the influence of shamanism declined. Genghis Khan only then got a taste of what it was like to be a real emperor. Gone are the days of theocracy interfering in state affairs.
At that time, the Qing Dynasty also prevailed in shaman culture, healing diseases, sending souls, praying for prey, praying for rain, stopping rain, spells, spells, divination, and dancing gods, all of which were within the scope of these shamans.
However, this is just a primitive religious ritual, and perhaps there is some psychological comfort for the subconscious, similar to the hypnosis of a psychiatrist. It has some unknown curative effect. However, the pain of artillery and fire guns is not something that these shamans can suppress, even if they finish dancing the great god and apply Huang Taiji with the elixir he asked for from the gods.
However, Huang Taiji himself, who is gradually waking up. But he is not very interested in shamanism. He admired the culture of the Han people in the Central Plains. And after succeeding to the throne, he relied more and more on the trust of Hanchen, and rejected the shamanic culture more and more, believing that this was the witchcraft of the Yuer tribe, and since he founded a country, he should have the rules and etiquette of a country. Indeed, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs in history, shamans were introduced to the Central Plains, but they have always been circulated among the people and cannot be put on the table.
In addition, after these shamanic ceremonies, you can only do some simple bandaging, dressing, etc., and the main treatment depends on those Langzhong and doctors.
"I've been wounded, what are you doing here? Stand back! Call Lang Zhong to come up and treat me! ”
Several of the entourages came forward tremblingly, examined Huang Taiji's wounds, and made a diagnosis for him.
Although the penetration of lead bullet is not strong, it cannot cause penetrating injuries. But when it hits a person, the damage to the human body is stronger than that of a penetrating injury. First of all, it is like a sledgehammer slamming into the muscles of the human body, and at the moment of being shot, the part of the bullet will be beaten to pieces with necrotic muscles, internal organs or something. When digging out the lead bullet, it is also necessary to prevent the remaining gunpowder and projectile rags in the wound from not being cleaned, and if you are not careful, it will be infected.
This is no more than knives, guns, bows and arrows, dealing with the wounds caused by guns, is a very complex and meticulous work, the wound leaves a little iron filings, gunpowder residues, or rags and dirt and other dirt, all kinds of sepsis, infection and high fever will come one after another, so that the wounded taste the pain and die.
In this era, wound infection is a major fatal factor, under the premise of no antibiotics, or this kind of hot weather, to the wounded cause sepsis, infection, high fever, blood loss, all kinds of factors, the injury caused is enough to be fatal, especially in the backward medical conditions of the Qing army.
Therefore, the doctors in the Qing army, most of these soldiers who were shot were amputated, and those who were hit in the torso could only be made to wait for death. It is also necessary to prevent heavy bleeding and wound infection during amputation.
"How? Can I save my wounds? Huang Taiji stared at a pair of eyes and looked viciously at the Lang Zhong at his feet. His forehead was hot, his whole body ached excruciatingly, and his head seemed to explode. (To be continued......)