How important are the Wildlings? Before the Qing army entered the customs, the Ming army was beaten to the point that it only dared to defend the city. Why? Because the Qing army had a group of barbarians who were not afraid of death as a death squad to charge forward and resist the guns of the Ming army.

And the real Qing army's "own people" hid behind these savage death squads to cover up and kill. As a result, the casualties were all from the Savage Death Squad, but the head battle exploits were all from the Eight Banners Army.

What casualties and how many collapses? I do not know...... Anyway, the casualties were all captured by the savage death squad, and they were not really Eight Banner soldiers. So, there are no casualties and collapses......

As for the Savage Death Squad, they're dead? It's a big deal to go to the forest to catch the wild Jurchens again......

But after entering the customs, the Qing army was a bit current. Because he can no longer catch the savages in the northeast jungle as death squads, he has to rely on the Eight Banners to go by himself. Then, the Qing army was not so fierce.

By the time Wu Sangui rebelled, more than 200,000 Eight Banner soldiers showed their decline and were almost finished. If it hadn't been for the Green Battalion soldiers standing up, the Manchus might have lost and fled back to the Northeast.

Of course, this is also related to the corruption and depravity of the Eight Banners after entering the customs. However, without the captured savages as cannon fodder for the death squad, the impact on the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners is also quite large.

Then, the Manchu Qing continued to arrest the birth girl Zhen as a death squad until the Qianlong period. However, since the arrest of the Jurchens and Sauron (the old names of the Shaomin such as Evenki, Daur and Oroqen) as death squads was stopped, the combat effectiveness of the Qing army was even worse. Later, no one could beat it at all.

In fact, this was not original to the Manchus, but was used by the Mongols during the time of Genghis Khan. The Mongol cavalry had heavy cavalry death squads at that time, which were responsible for charging ahead. Of course, it's not the brain-dead anti-double-knife death squad in the "Mongolian King" movie, but a normal death squad.

But the Mongol cavalry death squads, like the Central Plains army, consisted of death row prisoners who had committed capital crimes and people who had violated military law. Unlike Houjin, who directly caught the innocent wild Jurchen. In other words, it was not a Jurchen person at all, but a person of another race, who was captured as cannon fodder by the Houjin Dang savages. After all, there were only 100,000 Jurchens in Jianzhou at that time, but they couldn't find so many death row prisoners, and they didn't dare to waste the population, so they could only catch those fierce Jurchen savages as cannon fodder death squads.

However, it worked wonders. The Jurchen and Sauron people who were captured in the deep mountains and old forests, when they were captured, they could see whether they were brave and savage. If it is fiercely resistant, it will be slowly tamed by boiling eagles. Then, use it as a death squad to charge ahead. As for those who are not fierce enough, they simply become ordinary slaves and go to graze and farm.

And those unruly Jurchens and Sauron savages, once they were successfully boiled and were willing to serve the Qing army, were often savage and stunned young people who were not afraid of death, and were very suitable for resisting a round of guns and artillery fire from the Ming army.

It is said that some of the daredevils who were caught from the deep mountains and old forests, because of their poor riding skills, simply tied to their horses before charging......

And after the death squad in front attracted the Ming army to finish a round of guns, the real Eight Banners soldiers in the back just rushed to the front of the formation and slashed the Ming army's gunners with knives......

Nurhachi worked as a house slave for Li Chengliang, mixed in the Ming army for a long time, and read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which belongs to people who are more familiar with the Ming army. He is not like those Mongolian cavalry who do not understand the routines of the Ming army, and will not charge blindly. He knew that the Ming army had only one chance to shoot in front of the cavalry. As long as they withstand this round of fire, the cavalry breaks into the formation of firecrackers, and they can be slashed at will.

But there are very few Jurchens, and if you let yourself be a death squad, after a few battles, the Jurchens will be wiped out. Therefore, he pioneered the idea of capturing the wild people in the old forests of the northeast to become a death squad and survive that round of shooting for the real Jurchens. Then, all that remains is the time for the Jurchen cavalry to play.

It has to be said that the boar skin is indeed a tactical genius. And his tactics just restrained the Ming army's fierce first round of shooting and avoided the casualties of the Eight Banners. In addition, he also invented the cart tactic.

No, the car is not an invention. Because, Qi Jiguang had already made a partial carriage to resist the cavalry of the Mongolian cavalry. The boar skin is to strengthen the side van so that it can withstand firearms.

The chariot and the savage death squad are the main tactics used by the wild boar skin to restrain the Ming army, and they are also very effective tactics.

However, the car tactics are not so invincible. As long as you have a row of hundreds of guns, like the French, you can destroy the cart. It's a pity that the artillery of the Ming army is mainly deployed on the city wall, and there are generally only a few tiger squat cannons in front of the field formation, which cannot restrain the car.

Therefore, the Ming army always suffered losses in field battles. But when defending the city, because there were many cannons on the city, the Houjin army was also helpless. It is said that the wild boar skin was also shot.

This was mainly due to the fact that the Ming army did not have modern movable artillery mounts and could not march with too many infantry guns. If it is changed to the army of the Beihai Kingdom, it can carry hundreds of cannons at will, and it can bomb Houjin's chariot into flying debris. After all, the artillery of Marin's army has wheel-type movable gun mounts at the level of battle, which is very convenient to carry on the march.

In fact, the approach of the Turkish army is also worth learning from - the Turks put artillery directly on carts. At the same time, the carts that fired artillery were lined up, and iron chains were tied between the carts to block the enemy's cavalry from breaking through. Therefore, the Persian cavalry suffered a great loss in the face of the Turkish artillery array.

Fortunately, at this time and space, Marin gave Persia an early warning, and Ismaili I did not stupidly rush the Turkish artillery array, so he did not suffer heavy losses, and retained the capital to confront the Turks. And as long as Persia is not crippled, Turkey will not dare to attack Europe with all its might. Because, they are also afraid that the rear will be copied by Persia.

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Marin summoned Kohler, Schwartz, Kahn and others to discuss going to the North American jungle to capture the barbarians as death squads. Schwartz was puzzled and asked:

"The Indians don't know how to ride horses at all, how can they be used as cavalry death squads?"

Marin smiled smugly and said:

"It's okay, just tie them up on the horse!"

But Kohler hit the nail on the head:

"But Your Majesty, our enemy does not have great firepower, so why should we send death cavalry to attract the enemy's shots?"

Marin was stunned for a moment - yes, he patronized the savage death squad tactics of copycat wild boar skin. But the problem is that his opponents are not the Ming army, so they don't have that much firepower......

And if it is not to attract fire, what is the point of tying a barbarian who does not know how to ride a horse to charge on horseback, except to give the head of the opposing spearman?

Marin began to reflect and realized that he had made a mistake......

At this point, Karn also interjected:

"Why should the Indian barbarians act as death squads? Those people are not easy to discipline. Moreover, it is difficult to communicate. If you're looking for a brave daredevil, why not the Ruthenian brutes on Simon's side? I remember the last time His Highness Simon told me that there are a lot of Ruthenian barbarians on the Ukrainian side, and they can be captured as brutes and charge ahead as death squads......"