To Chen Tai's ecstasy, Hong Chengchou not only transferred two support armies, one of the green battalion soldiers he didn't have much hope, he was just ordered to come to meet the situation, but the other support army was the Han Eight Banner soldiers led by the Red Flag Gushan and the real gold.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Manchus, who regarded themselves very highly, despised the combat effectiveness of the Green Battalion soldiers, and in their eyes, only the authentic Eight Banners soldiers were the elite main force of the Eastern Expedition.

Objectively speaking, the actual situation in history is indeed the case, since the beginning of Huang Taiji, the Eight Banners in the early Qing Dynasty were not only proficient in cavalry and archery, rich in tactics and strong mobility, but also equipped with a large number of firearms, and their combat effectiveness was far superior to that of the Ming army and the green battalion soldiers of the same period.

Among them, the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, which became the latest in the army, although they are the same Han as the Green Battalion soldiers, are completely different from the traitors and the Green Battalion soldiers, all of whom are Kwantung Han people who formed an army before entering the customs, and many of them are from the Manchu nobles' clothed slaves who came out of the flag, so they also call themselves banner people.

Usually, among all the Eight Banners, the overall status of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty is the lowest, but because the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners are better at field warfare on the plains, and are not good at attacking cities and grabbing land, in terms of attacking the Guannei cities of the Ming Dynasty, the Han army that participated in the war not only showed the same courage and good at fighting, but also "knew how to fight in water, and learned to take advantage of the land", which also played an irreplaceable role in the creation and growth of the Qing army's naval division.

Especially after entering the customs, the Han army was more familiar with the topography, enemy situation and folk customs of the Central Plains than the Manchus, and in the face of millions of anti-Qing armed forces, the Han army showed more and more stronger combat effectiveness than the Manchu Eight Banners, making them the vanguard of the Qing army's southern expedition to the west after entering the customs.

Especially in the mountainous areas of the south, the Manchurian cavalry was often not allowed to use, and the Han Eight Banners became the main force of the Qing Dynasty to conquer such areas.

Because of this, after Chen Tai learned that Jin Li's Han Eight Banners were coming south from Poyang Lake for reinforcements, he suddenly perked up and became excited as if he had taken a stimulant.

As long as the Jin Li army enters the Ganjiang River from Poyang Lake, even if it only flanks the Ming army after going ashore, it can form a flanking attack, and then the Ming army, which is difficult to take care of, will not escape a defeat, not only Nanchang can be saved, maybe it can also turn defeat into victory and pursue all the way, and the army will attack Guangxi again......

Speaking of which, there is a more complicated reason why the Manchurians look down on the green battalion soldiers so much.

On the one hand, the predecessors of these traitors were originally the Ming army that was eroded to the bones, and their desperate heart was really almost meaningless, and they were usually only used as local garrisons; On the other hand, it has to do with their huge numbers.

After the Qing army entered the customs, because the Qing court adopted Hong Chengchou's Huairou policy of "appeasing and inducing surrender", the former Ming ministers could often retain their original official positions and titles after surrendering, and the troops under the former Ming generals were not dismissed.

Because it could not be reused, and it was necessary to appease the generals, the Qing court organized these former Ming soldiers from all over the country into a separate army, and called them green battalions because they all used green flags.

The number of these traitor armies was as high as more than 800,000 at the peak, and there were still more than 600,000 left until the Qianlong period, but the total number of authentic Manchurian, Mongolian, and Han Eight Banner soldiers was only about 200,000, so the Qing court was both using and being wary of the Green Battalion soldiers.

In this complex context, the green battalion soldiers not only have the worst treatment, but even the types of troops and equipment have been restricted, except for a small number of water divisions, most of these people have been organized into garrison infantry, and the commonly used weapons are all knives, guns, spears, arrows These cold weapons, a very small number of firearms are still brought from the Ming army, and gunpowder, guns, etc. are almost impossible to supply after they are consumed.

If it weren't for Lin Xiao's sudden multi-pronged counterattack this time, which caught Hong Chengchou off guard, Hong Chengchou would never have mobilized so many scumbag green battalions to fight across the border.

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However, history is often full of black humor.

Since the middle of the Qing Dynasty, due to the rapid corruption and degeneration of the Eight Banners, the Green Battalion has become the main force of the Qing Army.

In order to strengthen the control of the green battalion, which rose to become the main force, the Qing court began to continuously send banner men to serve as middle and senior officers of the green battalion soldiers, and since the late Qianlong period, the green battalion has gradually become an army dominated by Han soldiers and dominated by banner people.

And when it came to the Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion, the green battalion soldiers who had learned the same kind were also corrupted like meteors falling to the ground, "shooting arrows, arrows are missing; galloping horses, people fall to the ground", the battle was about to collapse at the touch of a button, and in desperation, the Hunan army, the Huai army and other local regiments had to be trained as the main force of the operation.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, when regimental training was not possible, he had to train the Beiyang New Army to maintain his crumbling rule, which created Yuan Shikai's rapid ascension.

During the 300 years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's rule, the main force of the Qing court's national defense force changed one stubble after another, but its combat power was weaker than the other, and the dim and incompetent Qing government had no ability to build an iron-blooded army with a military soul, and even when the British and French robbers set up their cannons on the country, the performance of the Qing army became the laughing stock of the world at that time!

Perhaps, the Qing emperors, who regarded themselves as the superior kingdom of the Celestial Empire and sat on the well and watched the sky, lacked this consciousness of enriching the country and strengthening the army at all, after all, under the long-term policy of ignoring the people, the Chinese people were too easy to bully.

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In the same cannon sound, different moods bring different actions.

In the rumbling cannon of the Ming army, Chen Tai, who was in a state of excitement, immediately made a faint move, he brazenly ordered the defenders at the head of the city to drill back with artillery, and at the same time ordered the remaining 5,000 full cavalry under his command to prepare for a counterattack.

"Damn, give Lao Tzu some spirit, the red-clothed cannon bombarded him for a while, and as soon as the reinforcements arrived, he would immediately go out of the city to counterattack!"

Although the 20,000 Qing troops in the city were a makeshift team, of which the green battalion soldiers still accounted for the majority, as the deputy of the banner owner Gushan Ezhen, Chen Tai had more than 7,000 elite cavalry in his hands.

In yesterday's battle, most of the 3,000 people in Gai Chaoxuan's department were lost, ten Niu Lu went out of the city, and the remnants of the soldiers who fled back could barely be pieced together into four Niu Lu.

Therefore, there were only more than 5,000 people left in the more than 7,000 full horses, and Chen Tai was so distressed that his liver trembled, and he didn't let them go to the top of the city to be bombarded at all, and gathered in the camp in the city to rest.

The yellow flag soldiers, together with the yellow flag and the white flag, are called the three banners, which are directly subordinate to the emperor's name......

After receiving the order, the artillery commander of the Qing army was furious, what kind of trouble is this?

It's obviously out of reach of others, what kind of cannon is it fired? Is it just to listen to the sound and be brave?

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Seeing this, Jiao Lian outside the city was also full of suspicion.

What is the situation, is the Qing army not afraid of wasting gunpowder and artillery?

Shouldn't the defending side save ammunition and wait for the siege infantry to charge and climb the wall before firing artillery?

"Isn't it ......"

The experienced Jiao Lian immediately sniffed out the abnormality and immediately ordered to send more scouts around......

Sure enough, in less than a meal, the scouts came to report, and a large number of Qing troops were found on the east bank of the Fuhe River behind them, and some of them crossed the Fuhe River early and appeared in the direction of due south......

"Huh? How many people are there? ”

"Back to the capital, there are more than 10,000 people!"

Jiao Lian was secretly frightened when he heard this, how could there be so many Qing troops on the east bank of the Fuhe River?

Could it be that Liu Xulei hasn't taken Fuzhou yet?

(End of chapter)