Defend the order and open the information collected by Taipei Prefecture about the strength of the Tatars.

The Manchurian, Han and Mongolian Eight Banners are set at 80,000, and the actual number is a mystery.

Lao Baqi entered the customs, due to the battle array, smallpox, influenza, dysentery and other causes of many deaths, during the period there were some measures to capture the birth of Jurchen, recruit scattered Mongols, to the Han army and carry the flag to the cloth and other measures to supplement the population. It is difficult to find out exactly how many soldiers there are in the Eight Banners, but it can only be roughly estimated to be between 50,000 and 70,000.

There are no flag fields in the Green Battalion, and Taipei distributes military salaries and other materials that can be collected through the Tatar Household Department, which are organized as follows.

Green Flag Soldiers Stationed in Each Province:

Jingying, 2000.

North Zhili, 44800.

Shanxi, 20000.

Shaanxi, 90000.

Shandong, 20000.

Henan, 14100.

Jiangnan, 71602, including 3000 coastal water divisions.

Jiangxi, 27600.

Huguang, 49460.

Sichuan, 57200.

Zhejiang, 62,500, is estimated to be nearly 10,000 water divisions in various towns.

Fujian, 77,345 land divisions, 25,000 water divisions, a total of 102345.

Guangdong, 76820.

Guangxi, 32640.

It is very obvious that the green battalion has the largest number of soldiers in Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangzhou, and the total number of troops in the four coastal areas exceeds 340,000. In addition, there were nearly 110,000 troops on the two inland fronts of Sichuan and Huguang, and a total of 450,000 troops in the six provinces of the battlefield, accounting for more than half of the total number of Tartar troops.

There are more than 690,000 officers and men, which is the number of soldiers who are paid. However, many of the front-line combat units in the south were drawn from the northern provinces with the Eight Banners and Green Battalions. The two are superimposed, and the troops stationed in the provinces of the front line will not be much less than 400,000.

The above does not include Wu Sangui, Shang Kexi, Geng Jimao, Shen Yongzhong, Kong Youde, the leader of the line De'an, and the soldiers of the Five Han Domains.

Not included in the Tatar-controlled zone, subject to the Tusi soldiers.

It also does not include the banners of the Inner Zasak of Outer Mongolia, such as Horqin, Chahar, Karaqin, etc.

There are more than 100 leaders in the Five Han Domains, with Wu Sangui being the strongest, with 53 leaders alone, accounting for half of them.

There are less than 100 people in armor under the Eight Banners, and there are generally more than 200 leaders under the Five Han Domains, and the household registration and minions are much larger than those of the Eight Banners, and the troops are sufficient.

The number of troops stationed in the green battalions in the provinces is the basis for the payment of military salaries to the Tatar households, not the actual number of troops. In the battlefield, the green battalion soldiers can recruit village soldiers and strong men to supplement the army, and the expenses of these people are very small and difficult to estimate.

The Tartar army raised so many troops, of course, at the expense of the country's financial resources.

Inheriting the Ming Dynasty, the treatment of Tartar officers and soldiers is mainly divided into two parts, folding military salaries, and rice and horse materials.

Excluding the special treatment of Qitian and other Eight Banner soldiers, the Eight Banners vest is 3 taels, and the monthly salary is one-third higher than that of the Green Battalion vest 2 taels. Eight Banners Vest Lu rice 23 stones, Green Camp vest 3.6 stones.

The Eight Banners soldiers went out to fight in their uniforms, salt, vegetables and silver, and the Eight Banners were also twice as large as the Green Battalion.

Basically, the Shunzhi Dynasty's regular military salary was 24 million silver, about 2.2 million stone of rice and horse material, 100,000 stone of soybean material, and 10 million bundles of horse grass.

In addition, there are detailed standards for wartime military salaries, munitions and munitions, logistics stations, horses, and shipping expenses. The Tatars managed this aspect stricter and did a better job than the Ming Dynasty.

Generally speaking, the military expenditure should be about 40 million yuan (unit: guan, stone, horse, two, and bundle) for one year.

During the war, of course, this money was not enough, as well as assessments and extortions. The expenses of the army should be apportioned to the localities, including iron pots. This amount cannot be counted.

In addition, it is necessary to forcibly recruit strong Ding and pull fibers and transport grain. Save money with human life, and it is impossible to count how much silver is discounted.

It is not enough, only military salaries can be owed.

It is very common for non-field Green Battalions to be underpaid. The Green Battalion soldiers could do some handymen and other small businesses as officers and soldiers on a daily basis, and the imperial court acquiesced to this.

Even for the green battalion soldiers on the battlefield, it is common for them to be in arrears of pay and food. Of course, soldiers who are owed wages can also do business subsidies, but that is too troublesome, and the easier choice is to slaughter the city and slaughter the village, which is more convenient to grab directly. Cannot be counted.

The above is not all the strength of the Tatars, they still have the potential for mobilization. In particular, several provinces in the north, such as Henan and Zhili, have been peaceful for more than 10 years, and their productive forces have been greatly restored. Advance borrowing taxes, extortion and apportionment, and the limit broke out, and it was not a big problem for the Tatar people to get 70 million in the five units of Guan, Shi, Pi, Liang, and Shu, that is, the level of the Song Dynasty.

Hong Chengchou's more than 11,000 elite green battalion soldiers from various towns in the north to Hunan were carefully selected, and all the weak soldiers in the belly were all good at the border army. The army is not large in number, and there are a lot of fierce generals.

Bai Guangen (one of the thirteen general soldiers of the Battle of Songshan), Li Benshen (the commander of the Gao Jie Division), Hu Maozhen (the general soldiers of the Gao Jie Division), Wang Fuchen and other nearly 20 veterans.

Lao Hong was a veteran of suppressing peasant uprisings, and he had the most experience in dealing with the armies of Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo. This guy pulled a 5,000-mile-long border in Huguang, using Hubei to face the rest of the Shun army and the Ming army in the Kuimen area, and using Hunan to Xiying.

These elite soldiers and fierce generals were all miserable in arrears, and nearly half of them fled in Hunan.

Hong Chengchou's strategy is to "defend by war, and defend by war." ”

Translated in human terms, it is to stabilize the defensive line, replenish the tuntian, compress the scope of activities of the Ming army, and drag the war from the battle of the meeting and the movement war to attack the city and defend the city. Yang Wen is weak in four corners and four corners, and he has an old routine of spreading the net on all sides.

Hong Chengchou is powerless to forge ahead, but he can basically hold the defensive line.

The eastward advance of the Kuimen Shun army and the Ming army was blocked.

Qian Qianyi planned a plan for the Ming army to advance east and west along the Yangtze River at home, that is, the Ming army of Zhoushan left Zhoushan and entered the Yangtze River to fight westward. Sun Kewang went out of the Xiangjiang River into the Yangtze River to fight eastward.

The plan was very ambitious, the two armies of Xiying and Zhoushan were separated by more than half of China, and Qian Qianyi was in the middle and almost succeeded. Lao Qian has a lot of friends in Tatar officialdom, and with this cover, it is more convenient to do things.

On the east side:

Zhoushan fought a decisive battle with the Tatar army from Zhejiang and Jiangnan. Shen Tingyang basically annihilated the Wusong Water Division of Wang Liao, the general soldier of Suzhou. Zhou Hezhi, Zhou Rui and the reinforced Zheng Cai blocked the half-hearted Taizhou general soldier Ma Jinbao. Ruan Jin blocked Zhang Jie, the chief soldier of Dinghai.

Half of the more than 600 warships assembled by the Tatars were lost, and the pressure on Zhoushan was greatly reduced. So Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan led the fleet to Chongming Sha and surrounded Chongming County but did not fight down. Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan themselves went west, crossed the goose nose mouth of Jiangyin, Zhenjiang Yuanshan Gate, Jiaoshan Gate, the combat effectiveness of the Rong Ke ship was really a little weak, and the Ming army could not beat the important land on the shore, so they had to worship the Ming Tomb in Jinshan Temple.

On the west side:

In May 1655, Sun Kewang sent Liu Wenxiu to lead 60,000 horses and more than 40 war elephants into Hunan. This is the second wave of strong soldiers that Sun Kewang has saved.

Beijing, of course, sent the Eight Banners to reinforce Hong Chengchou.

The two armies fought a decisive battle in Changde.

There was no suspense, Xiying was defeated and returned to Guizhou again.

The results of the battle are the most real, peel off the hypocrisy and disguise of the literati, and directly look at the results of the previous battles since the Xiying sent troops is very cruel.

Li Dingguo won the battle in Hengzhou, which consumed a lot, resulting in the loss of Guilin and the cutting off of the back road for a time.

Liu Wenxiu was defeated by Wu Sangui in the decisive battle of Baoning, and the whole army collapsed, losing tens of thousands of troops.

Sun Kewang was defeated by Tunqi at Baoqing Zhoujiapu-Sanchakou and suffered heavy losses.

Li Dingguo was defeated by Zhaoqing in Guangdong and Xinhui in the second. Building a castle is the easiest to learn, Geng Jimao recruited the Portuguese and the Dutch, and built the strategic Xinhui City into a star castle. Dingguo could not be moved, besieged the city for more than half a year, and was pursued by the Tatar cavalry when he finally retreated, collapsed, lost more than ten war elephants, and lost most of the elite.

Liu Wenxiu was defeated again in Changde, not only ruining the plan to join the Yangtze River, but also ruining the future of Xiying. This guy is really not good at fighting, and Sun Kewang will him when he goes back this time.

Since Xiying came out of the mountain, Li Dingguo won a tragic victory in Hengzhou in the decisive battle, and the rest were all defeated. has been able to survive until now, all thanks to Sun Kewang's ability to scrape the ground and have some resilience.

Xiying's performance on the battlefield can barely be evaluated by the word tenacity.

As the potential of Yungui is exhausted, Xiying will inevitably go to infighting, which has nothing to do with character and morality.

The Ming Dynasty called Huazi soldiers a regular salary of 20 taels per stone a year, below this level there is no need to fight, no matter how many troops are waiting for death.

Because there is no money and no food, infighting is a standard process, the Ming army can't escape, the Shun army can't escape, Zheng Chenggong can't escape, and of course Xiying can't escape, no one can escape.

Without 10 million taels of silver income and 10 million stone of grain production as the foundation, there is no play in fighting with the Tatars, the difference in strength is too big, and it is all a desperate battle.

Orderly close the Tatar troops, financial resources, and military intelligence reports.

He became a little interested in Hong Chengchou.

There was no decisive land battle in the four provinces of Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian, and the land battlefield was all in the southwest.

The Tatars had 3 commanders.

Wu Sangui in Sichuan, Hong Chengchou in Huguang, and Shang Ke in Guangdong. Among them, Hong Chengchou sits in the middle of the road, which is the most critical.

Emperor Shunzhi chose Hong Chengchou as the coach, which was really the right person.

Lao Hong has rich experience in actual combat and old qualifications, and almost all of the generals of the Green Battalion were his subordinates who were governors and supervisors in the Ming Dynasty.

It's as if history has come into a cycle.

The main force of the Ming army in the southwest is to break into the camp and the west camp, the Tatars to the Ming Dynasty buckle a rogue hat, the battlefield seems to have returned to nearly 20 years ago, Hong Chengchou led the Ming army to encircle and suppress the peasant rebel army.

Lao Hong is too good at this.

Hong Chengchou had been suppressed by Dolgon before, and the salted fish turned over because Dolgon hung up, and Zilharang supported him.

Hong served as the governor of Huguang, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangdong.

In the area under its jurisdiction, all the governors, governors, admirals, and general soldiers, including Shen Yongzhong, the general who guarded Hunan, listened to his moderation. Later, Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao jointly protested, and Beijing considered that it was indeed a bit unreasonable to let a low-ranking servant with the rank of third-class light car commander rule the vassal king, so it became independent of Guangdong from Hong's jurisdiction.

In 1645, Hong Chengchou passed through Jiangnan for the first time.

At that time, he had no right to mobilize the Eight Banners, and even the Green Battalion soldiers, Hong Chengchou had to discuss the use with Ye Chen, the commander of the Red Banner, and he had to listen to the dispatch of Pingnan's general Le Kedehun, in fact, there was not much real military power.

In 1654, Hong Chengchou opened Changsha.

First, the matter of suppression should not be made from the middle, and it should be reported afterwards. All military can be done cheaply. Within the jurisdiction of the five provinces, civil and military officials were promoted, transferred, replaced, and transferred, and Hong decided with a word. Below the fifth rank of civil officials, below the deputy chief of military generals, Hong Ke can be cut first and then played.

This power is so great that it scares people to death, and the last time the Tatar court had such a powerful courtier, it was still the general of the Southern Expedition of the kings of Duoduo and Bolo in the early days of entering the customs.

Hong Chengchou set out from Beijing, all the way in high spirits, as he said, "Hengqiu looks at the sword qi, and the prancing horse crosses the golden wave." Sit on the clouds and ride, and wave your fingers. ”

It's really high-spirited, soaring into the sky.

Along the way, many people knelt on the side of the road and surrendered to Hong Chengchou.

When Changsha opened the mansion, Hong Chengchou used his protégés, Ma Zai, and staff to replace the officials in Hunan Province, and recruited local talents and generals to expand the ruling base and disintegrate the foundation of the Ming army.

The situation in Hunan was very miserable, and it was the main battlefield where the Ming army and the Tatars fought for ten years. "The people of the world, the suffering of the people, no one is worse than Hunan."

When all forces came, they had to rob the people of Hunan several times, and Jierharang even carried out several massacres in the southern expedition, especially in Xiangtan. When Shen Yongzhong was there, he levied three years of tax grain on the remnants of the people of Hunan.

Hong Chengchou resumed production in Huguang (Lianghu), which was directly under his jurisdiction, and paid an additional 9 cents of flood salary.

The flood salary is the Liao salary, the Tatars once abolished after entering the customs, the abolition of the Liao salary itself is a moral policy, the Tatars in the early days of many places spread the sage, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Wangfeng to welcome the fall and the three salaries have a direct relationship. The Ming Dynasty Jiangnan was extremely taxed, and it was even more miserable after the addition of the three salaries, and the gentry were made desperate for the Ming Dynasty by the three salaries. The legendary Manchurians in the south of the Yangtze River in Hongguangnian have great kindness, which refers to the abolition of the three salaries.

Because of the urgency of the war in the southwest and southeast, the Tatars quickly spread the flood salary to the whole country and collected it even more ruthlessly in the south of the Yangtze River. According to the Tatar Emperor (Kangxi)'s own evaluation, Jiangnan is very poor, the gentry are poor, and the people are poor, not as good as the north, and they were miserable by the three salaries. After the reopening of the three salaries, the Manchu fiscal revenue soared by 10 million taels, and they collected it even more ruthlessly in Jiangnan.

It needs to be emphasized again and again that the logical relationship is by no means that the Ming Dynasty could not collect the Jiangnan gentry tax, the Jiangnan gentry were inclined to the Tatars, and the Tatars drew heavy taxes after they came, and the Jiangnan gentry rebelled.

The historical truth is that the Ming Dynasty oppressed the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River too harshly, and the taxes collected were too heavy, and several governments in Jiangsu and Zhejiang bore nearly half of the country's central financial revenue, and they were even more miserable after the three salaries were added, so the Ming Dynasty lost the hearts of the people in the south. The Tatars came to lightly pay for the meager and abolish the three salaries (not implemented in some areas), and Jiangnan looked at the scenery from here. It wasn't until the shaving order was issued that it provoked a general revolt in the South. The military pressure of the Tatars increased, and it was only after more than 10 years of entering the customs that the three salaries were reintroduced, and the salaries were severely pursued in the south of the Yangtze River. At this time, there was no mass resistance.