Chapter 236: Eight Banners Force
Early the next morning, the reorganization work began in the camps of the rebel army, and the regiment commander and battalion commander personally sat in the town, and were arranged to serve as the captain of the brigade and the squadron leader to select men and horses in batches.
A pair of homeless people walked by, and the captain first examined his personal appearance.
All the recalcitrant people, or those who seem to have bad habits, will be brushed off, and the old, weak, sick and disabled will be brushed down.
Then there is the assessment, including the use of guns, bows, crossbows, knives and spears, according to the level of skills, or assigned to the supplementary battalion, or assigned to the security regiment.
Before coming, everyone had heard that the volunteers were well paid, not only to eat and eat, but also to pay for the tooth sacrifices.
The monthly salary of the supplementary battalion is 1 tael and 5 coins of silver, and the battlefield meritorious service is counted separately.
When the militia fights, it will receive a monthly subsidy of 1 tael of silver.
Although there are not many people, as long as they are selected, at least the food and clothing of the family are settled, and suddenly there is such a good opportunity, and everyone is quite enthusiastic.
Many of those who were eliminated were crying and mourning, and some even begged repeatedly, while the secretary and assistant next to them stood next to them and continued to enlighten.
Everyone is not afraid of such a thing as going into battle to kill the enemy, how can they worry about farming?
If you choose Guantun, the government will provide cattle and grain, and implement 4,6 accounts, as long as you cultivate for 20 years, these lands will belong to everyone.
If you choose Mintun, each person gets 10 acres of land, and the government does not levy any taxes in the first two years, and after two years, the Ding Fu Tian Fu is normally paid.
Although the military discipline of the Great Western Army was very strict, many people still had broken silver hidden on their bodies, and when they heard that there were fields to plant, the fertile fields were only 6 liters of rice per acre, the dry land was only 6 liters of wheat per acre, and the Ding Fu was only 1 money and 2 cents, and many people turned to laughter.
Of course, there are also people who are not convinced, especially those who are senior leaders in the Great Western Army, who are obviously the commanders of a battalion, but here, how can they only become a small commander, and some are even a captain.
But there was no way, the army was newly defeated, and many of the various departments fled, and there were not many people left around now.
Besides, many brothers recognize the righteous soldiers, not to mention that everyone has food, clothing, and money, how can they be willing to be thieves all day long.
In the process of reorganization, the old, weak, sick and disabled, as well as the displaced people who had been eliminated, were dispersed to the counties under their jurisdiction under the protection of the militia soldiers to participate in the cantonment farming.
If a large number of displaced people are resettled in the city, it is necessary to send troops to monitor them to prevent them from causing chaos, and to provide everyone with three meals a day.
In the process of reorganizing the Great Western Army, Tan Ma reported that a military horse of more than 20,000 people went straight down the Fujiang River to Hezhou, and Yang Lin was quite shocked when he heard the news, and hurriedly summoned Yan Ximing and others to understand the news.
Yan Ximing knelt on the ground and pounded his head like garlic, hoping for forgiveness.
Yang Lin was quite annoyed, and said angrily: "Yan Ximing, since you defected to this governor, you shouldn't deceive this governor, your approach is really disappointing." ”
After Yang Lin dragged Yan Ximing and Gong Wanjing out and fought thirty boards each, he thought about it again and again, and still sent Gong Wanjing and Zhang Lang as envoys to the camp of the Great Western Army, hoping that the two families could form an alliance, and that Zhang Kewang and Zhang Dingguo could lead their troops back to northern Sichuan to jointly resist the Manchu Tartars.
It took Yang Lin six days to complete the disposal of Zhang Xianzhong's remnants, as he had heard in his previous life, in these six days, Yang Lin also became more and more aware of the combat power of the Barbarian Qing.
Although the 20,000 soldiers of the Daxi Army were reduced to less than 5,000, most of the soldiers who remained were strong and had skills on the battlefield.
As a result of this reorganization, the size of the Volunteers has also expanded, and the number of Volunteers now exceeds 30,000, which is much more than in the past.
During this period, through the memories of those soldiers who had experience in fighting with the Manchurian Tartars, Yang Lin had a deeper understanding of the strength of the Manchurian soldiers and horses.
Each banner is set up with one person in Gushan Ezhen, two people in Meler Ezhen, and one person in command of the escort army to lead the soldiers and horses of the banner.
Among them, the commander of the Protector and his command of the Baya Lama, composed of the most elite soldiers of the banner, often wore two or three layers of armor to charge the enemy.
Ao Bai, who was familiar in his previous life, now serves as the commander of the Yellow Banner Protector, and as the vanguard, he shot Zhang Xianzhong and then rampaged into the enemy formation.
The Eight Banners of Manchuria are mainly cavalry, including heavy cavalry and light cavalry, and a certain number of infantry, according to Kangxi's "Great Qing Huidian" Volume 81: Beijing Banner Manchuria Zuo Ling, set up 2 strikers, 2 pro-army, 17 guards, 6 Pashiku (leading and urging), 40 horsemen (vest, also known as Xiao Cai), 2 infantry Pashiku (infantry leading), 18 infantry (infantry armor, also known as infantry army), 2 blacksmiths, a total of 89.
Including the forward battalion and the pro-military battalion, although the strength is strong, after all, the number is too small (there are a total of 35 cattle records in the Manchurian Zhenglan Banner, even if it is full, but there are only more than 70 company-level units), the main escort general, generally will not be put into battle.
The real combat force of the Eight Banners should be the guard battalion, the cavalry battalion, and the infantry battalion, and their number is mostly 2:6:2.
The real offensive force of the Eight Banners Field Attack should be the guard barracks, and the guard barracks are also the main combat forces of the Eight Banners, and the guards have two more war horses to transfer during the battle, not only do the soldiers wear two layers of three-layer armor, but some of the war horses are also covered with armor to guard against long-distance shooting with firearms bows and crossbows.
How long has the protector been in battle, and its commander is the most outstanding general of the Eight Banners, just like Aobai, who shined in later generations, is now just the commander of the Manchurian Yellow Flag Protector Army.
The strength of the Manchurian Eight Banners Cavalry Battalion is also quite strong, and the battlefield is mostly shot from a distance with firearms such as strong bows or three-eyed guns behind the guards.
At close range, the Tartar cavalry also used javelins, often throwing javelins more than two feet long at more than ten paces, killing and wounding opponents.
After the opponent collapses, they rush up, gallop back and forth with the help of war horses, and use sabers to slash and kill condescendingly.
In addition to light cavalry and heavy cavalry, compared with the Mongol soldiers and horses, Manchuria also had a considerable number of heavy infantry, each Niu Lu was about 18 people.
Most of the people wore heavy armor and hid behind the escape car to attack the city and other fortifications.
When attacking the city, through the Han Eight Banners, the firearms in the hands of the Han people, blasted through the city wall, and then the green battalion soldiers and horses entered the city in an endless stream, fighting with the panicked defending troops.
At this time, after several years of operation, the Volunteer Army has become a strong force in the late Ming Dynasty, and it is even better than the Han Eight Banners and the Green Battalion in terms of firearms.
After several years of development, the Volunteers have developed a strong firepower, with about 6 large Franc cannons in each regiment and 6 No. 3 Franc cannons in each battalion, which can provide tactical fire support.
Each squadron has about 1 Tiger squat gun, and each squadron has a grenadier group that can provide medium fire support in the fight.
In addition, due to the heavy use of spurs, the various units of the Volunteer Army have gradually transitioned from cold weapons to hot weapons.
More than two-thirds of the squadrons were firearms squadrons, and although most of them used arquebuses, the main forces at the disposal of the battalion commanders and the guerrilla officers of the regiments mostly used flintlock muskets.
On the battlefield, artillery is mostly used, and the opponent is suppressed through firearms, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack.
On the battlefield, a three-triangle offensive is carried out with brigades and battalions as combat units, often one is designed from a long distance, one is covered, and the other is assaulted, and when the opponent is defeated, most of them rush up from three directions to defeat the opponent.
In the process of defense, each cold weapon squadron also adopted a mandarin duck formation to reduce the defensive front and increase the defensive depth.
If it is said that at the beginning, it was quite jealous of the Eight Banners, but judging from the actual combat effect of the Xichong front-line battle, or from other directions, the volunteers did not fear the Eight Banners of the Han Army at all, and they did not fear the soldiers and horses of the Green Battalion.
In order to defeat the Manchu army, Yang Lin blocked the attack on the one hand, consuming the sharp spirit of the Qing army, and on the other hand, he built a large number of fortifications along the north of Shunqing City, and practiced infantry and cavalry confrontation tactics every day, and carried out targeted real exercises.
With the news coming from the front, especially after hearing Hauge's strategy of attacking from all sides, Yang Lin knew that the time had come to defeat the Manchurian Tartars, and now he was secretly planning a feast against Hauge.
On the front leading to Fucheng Nanchong, Jing Keqin, Feng Youqing, Yang Bingyi and Liukou fought for six consecutive days, and in these six days, the two sides went back and forth, killing happily.
After hearing that the attack of several soldiers and horses in front of him was blocked and blocked by the volunteers outside the large cottages, Haoge, who was coordinating various departments in the rear, could not sit still, especially on the third day, Haoge personally commanded the soldiers and horses of the green battalion on the front line to launch an attack on the various camps garrisoned by the volunteers.
Regardless of the green battalion is equipped with a large number of crossbowmen, bird guns, and the eight banners of the Han army are equipped with many artillery pieces (due to the rugged road, the red-coated cannon is difficult to push over, just like the battle of Duoduo's attack on Tongguan, wait for a few days to wait for the red-coated cannon, the Qinling mountain road is rugged, plus this is a thousand-mile attack, the red-coated cannon can not be transported to the front line at all), such a small cottage is simply difficult to block the brigade of men and horses to attack with all their might, after a fierce attack, the green battalion soldiers will rush into the cottage, and then fire and burn the houses, burn and loot, all evil.
Jing Keqin, Feng Youqing, Yang Bingyi and others relied on the big cottage to block the Tartars one by one.
Dujiamiao is different from other cottages, it is a well-known large cottage, and it has now blocked the attack of the green camp for five days.
As everyone knew in the previous life, to attack the fortifications needed to use heavy artillery bombardment, and Bai Yongfu, the chief soldier of the Green Battalion, began to bombard the Franco machine gun with a horizontal heart.
It's okay that it's not used, but the battlefield users find a huge difference between each other.
In addition to the use of iron core copper body casting cannon technology, the Volunteers also use iron mold casting technology, cooling method, multiple forging method, casting cannon not only has a short cycle, high pass rate (more than ninety percent, and the clay mold is only one percent), and each Franc cannon is installed on the gun carriage, can easily adjust the shooting angle, can be more accurate shooting, compared with the green battalion of the earthen cannon, the Volunteers cast Franc cannon not only hit far and accurately, but also not easy to blow up.
The other party is condescending, their own Franc cannon just fired two or three shells were blown up by the opponent, see that the other side is not afraid of danger, the battlefield often uses flowering shells, a shell falls on the ground often rolls several times to explode, seeing their own Franc cannon was blown to pieces, in the rear watching the battle of Heluo will be even more angry and bleeding.
Nikan was very annoyed, and Jing Keqin on the cottage was also quite annoyed, especially after receiving the order to withdraw the troops just now, because the cottages in other places around were broken one after another, and seeing that the Tartars and the green battalion soldiers would continue to slaughter the surrounding people, Yang Lin considered that the defense of Shunqing City had been basically completed, and ordered all the troops to retreat to the suburbs one after another to fight a decisive battle with the Manchurian Tartars.