Chapter 919: Kangxi, who became more and more brave the more he fought
The Zhao Hu Corps spent a year and a half to conquer Yanjing, and consumed a total of 3.41 million Qing people around Yanjing of the Great Qing Dynasty, 150,000 Manchu soldiers of the Great Qing Dynasty, 350,000 Manchus, 110,000 soldiers of the Mongolian Eight Banners, 130,000 Mongols, 330,000 soldiers of the Han Eight Banners, 560,000 bannermen of the Han Eight Banners, 110,000 soldiers and horses of Goguryeo, 80,000 Japanese soldiers and horses, 30,000 captured soldiers of the Chinese Army, and 110,000 soldiers of the captured Japanese servant army of the Chinese Army. There were 40,000 captured Goguryeo servant soldiers of the Huaxia Army, 330,000 soldiers of the Southeast Asian servant army of the Huaxia Army captured, and a total of 1.37 million Japanese and Southeast Asian civilians were captured.
The field army of the Huaxia Army suffered 78,000 casualties, more than 1,800 artillery pieces were damaged, 31,000 horses were killed or wounded, 210,000 Chinese people were killed or wounded, 3.18 million Japanese people were killed or wounded as cannon fodder of the Huaxia Army, and 1.37 million people in Southeast Asia were killed or wounded.
It can be said that both sides suffered heavy losses, and in the end, the Huaxia army got a white land in Yanjing City.
What the Old Summer Palace, what the Forbidden City, what the Eight Hutongs, Dongjiaomin Lane, what various monuments, in addition to the Ming Dynasty Great Wall still standing there, Yanjing has become history.
After the war, Zhao Hu mobilized almost all his forces, the remaining 1 million Japanese people, 800,000 Southeast Asian people, 600,000 servants of the two tribes, the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty recruited from 200 kilometers away, and 3 million Manchu people, cleaned up, mobilized two garrison brigades in the rear, and all the soldiers of the field army who did not carry out the vigilance to clean up, and it took three months to clean up the ruins of Yanjing.
I found a valley in the nearby mountains, dug fifty meters deep, buried all the garbage, the unburned corpses in it, and then cleaned the street with water, sprinkled white lime, dug the foundation, and dug out nearly 30 million taels of silver from the foundation, plus those silver nuggets that were burned and melted, a total of 200 million taels of silver, gold, 6 million taels, 1.5 million taels of gold, worth 100 million taels of silver, plus those jewels that could still be identified in shape, after being cleaned up, were not burned, a total of 500 million taels of silver were obtained. It is almost equal to the property of 540 million Chinese dollars.
The original place is no longer usable, at least in recent years, what if it is not cleaned up thoroughly and a plague occurs?
So the huge project of rebuilding a Yanjing city on the plain twenty miles away from the original Yanjing City began.
The task of the Zhao Fox Corps was taken over by the garrison brigade, leaving half of the servant army and the people, and taking the other people and the servant army Zhao Hu Corps to Shanhaiguan.
And far away in Shengjing, this is far smaller than Yanjing, and a much simpler place, Kangxi and his ministers have gloomy faces, Yanjing has been captured for half a year, but each of them is still frightened, thinking of the hundreds of thousands of souls who called the heavens and the earth in the fire, and even Kangxi had nightmares for half a year, and was often awakened.
What can be done to stop the indomitable pace of the Huaxia Army?
The loss of Hebei Prefecture, the loss of Shanxi Prefecture, the loss of most of the Mongolian steppe, the loss of Yanjing, and the great Qing State that retreated outside the customs suffered a great loss.
The original population of 50 million plus the population of Shaanxi and Gansu Prefecture was nearly 67 million, plus the population of Shanxi Prefecture was 90 million, but now it is all lost, the population of the Great Qing Kingdom has suddenly become 30 million people, and most of the people in the Guannai are Han people, and some were sent to labor reform and naturalized, which is obedient, and the disobedient were sent to the meat grinder that attacked Yanjing and were killed by the Qing army in Yanjing, and the last fire, even the remnants of the people in Yanjing were killed.
Don't look at the white mountains and black waters, there are still some people who can squeeze out a little bit of population, or the brave warriors of the Manchu Dynasty, but in front of the cannon muskets, that is the material for cannon fodder, and now the soldiers that the Qing Dynasty can use, plus there are still a lot of cannon fodder, but the muskets that can really fight, the soldiers and horses armed with artillery are less than 300,000.
There were 18 million Han Chinese, 3 million Mongols, 1 million Japanese, 3 million, 3 million, and 5.1 million Manchus.
It seems that there are many more Manchus than before they left the customs, and after losing the rivers and mountains in the pass, the Manchu race still retains more than half, but the Manchus have lost their original bravery, and most of the people who come back are nobles, and now Kangxi is dissatisfied with his Praetorian Guards and the Imperial Forest Army among the Manchus, and many people are unwilling to serve as soldiers to eat food.
What is even more anxious is that the Japanese servant army has 150,000, but the combat effectiveness is far superior to the Manchu banner soldiers, and the Goguryeo servants are slightly weaker, but there are 200,000 people, but the combat effectiveness can beat the 800,000 Manchu and Han soldiers and horses all over the place.
It can be said that in this case, not to mention the counterattack, it is dangerous to maintain the apparent Qing Dynasty from being annexed by Japan and Goguryeo.
Fortunately, now the Japanese and Goguryeo people are also panicked, and they are intimidated by the strength of the Huaxia army, and no one thinks about this problem, otherwise, the Great Qing Kingdom may be annexed by the two foreign brothers who have been enslaved by them.
Thinking of this, Kangxi sweated all over his face, and convened several iron hat princes overnight to discuss.
Prince Yi said: "On this issue, we can provoke the relationship between the two by sending Hosaku into Japan's Silla Province to spread the national issue that Goguryeo wants to drive them down to the sea and recover their Silla Province, and in the case of provoking Goguryeo to provoke Japan, we can provoke Japan to want to occupy all of Goguryeo to get the living space of the Japanese so that the Japanese can act against Goguryeo, and then we will adjust as the suzerain, and always keep the two sides in our hands, and it is beneficial for us not to let them make peace, In this way, we can continue to use the Japanese and Goguryeo to block the attack of the Huaxia army for us. ”
Kangxi clapped his hands and said happily: "Uncle Huang is right, Uncle Huang is responsible for this matter." ”
Prince Su also stood up and said: "Your Majesty, at present our current threat is the Russians, when we are fighting to the death with the Huaxia army, the Russian gang of horse bandits are occupying a large number of our land behind our back, the minister thinks that with our current weapons and combat effectiveness, we can completely fight the small number of people, and supply the Russian horse bandits who are thousands of miles away, so the minister suggested sending the Mongolian cavalry and our cavalry to surround and eliminate the mobile force of the horse bandits, and draw elite soldiers and horses from the Japanese and Goguryeo servant armies, Coupled with the fact that most of our elite soldiers and horses are expanding our territory to the Far East, we still have room for maneuver in the event that the Huaxia Kingdom fights in the future. ”
"Okay, Prince Su is responsible for this matter, we must regain our lost territory, and we must follow the footsteps of the Russians to approach them in depth, and we will fight as far as the Russians gain from us. In addition, it was ordered to form new soldiers and horses. ”
He glanced at one of the full guards, "Roncodo," he said.
The Manchurian guard said, "Your Majesty, the minister is here." ”
"Draw elite soldiers and horses from the Han army banner, recruit loyal and brave men from the Han people, and form my new Imperial Forest Army, and those wastes will be distributed to the Praetorian Guard, and re-form the Praetorian Guard, 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Imperial Forest Army, 70,000 soldiers and horses of the Praetorian Guard, I want a brand new army that can compete with the Han people. In addition, where did the Mongols draw 10,000 Mongol cavalry from the Horqin Mongols, and 20,000 cavalry from the previous soldiers and horses to form my dragoon troops. The other soldiers and horses were disorganized and reorganized, and after selecting good generals to supplement the full number of soldiers and horses, the army was expanded to 600,000 soldiers and horses. All the unqualified ones were brushed to the patrol battalion on the local area, and let them garrison the place. ”
Zhou Peigong, the only remaining official in the Han Dynasty who holds the highest position in the Great Qing Dynasty, stood up slowly, "Your Majesty, the household department has no money." ”
(End of chapter)