"Does my father have any other orders?" Prince Jia, who was already thirty-six years old, stood respectfully in front of Emperor Qianlong, who had lost much weight and was more like an old horse monkey two years ago. [Full text reading]

"Well, you go down first, I'm a little tired." Qianlong leaned back on the chair, closed his eyes tiredly, and raised his hand to signal Prince Jia Yongyan to leave. After the Prince of Jia, Yongyan, handled the government affairs in the morning, Qianlong, who was already over eighty years old, could not support it.

However, even though Qianlong closed his eyes, Yongyan still looked extremely respectful and gave a long salute, and said in a low voice: "The minister there retired first." He took a few steps back before turning to leave the room.

Qianlong opened his cloudy old eyes, looked at the back of Yongyan leaving the room, and sighed silently, this son is obedient and obedient, but the surname is too weak, and he has to hesitate to do anything, and he can't hold back a fart if he doesn't knock on a stick, which makes Qianlong speechless and helpless, after all, compared to the other two adult princes, this is already good enough, at least the short man pulls out the general, this one is quite conspicuous.

Qianlong squinted his eyes and was thinking about it, but he heard hurried footsteps outside the door, and couldn't help frowning slightly. "These guys, why are they so disturbed all day long."

"Father, sons, see father. An emergency military report of 800 miles came from Manchuria. Yongyan, who had just left not long ago, was extremely angry and rushed in with a vote of military ministers. The displeasure in Qianlong's heart was also frightened by the last sentence and flew out of the sky.

"What did you say?!" Qianlong stood up from the chair, and the thin slit eyes that had drooping eyelids for many years suddenly widened.

Yongyan saw Qianlong's expression of choosing people and devouring people, and he was so frightened that he quickly lowered his head. "Erchen didn't go far away, and he met the Lord and the Minister of the Military Aircraft Department, saying that there was an emergency military report from Manchuria, and Erchen would ...... without delay."

"Heshen, what did the military newspaper say?!" Qianlong didn't care about scolding Yongyan for his crooked nonsense, and he didn't know the severity, so he directly asked the leader who was lying on the ground, who was now the foreman of the Military Aircraft Department.

He Shen's head full of cold sweat was buried even lower: "Your Majesty, General Sheng Jing sent an urgent military information, on May 31, Jilin City was attacked by a group of unidentified troops, and Jilin City was destroyed ......"

“…… What did you say?! Qianlong was stunned for a long time, as if he had let a thunderbolt go straight into his head, and he was stunned in place, and only after a long time did he raise his trembling hand, as if he wanted to say something, but his throat was sweet, and he spurted out a mouthful of blood, and fell directly in front of the throne.

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"The city of Jilin was destroyed, and the generals of Jilin and the deputy capital of Jilin, the deputy capital of Hunchun, and the deputy capital of Ningguta...... A total of more than 20 ministers of the third grade and above, all died, after hearing the news, Qianlong vomited blood and fainted, although the court blocked the news, but, for more than ten consecutive days, the news is not difficult to inquire. Sun Shijie stood in front of Liang Pengfei, so excited that he couldn't speak.

Although Liang Pengfei looked confident, as if he had expected the result of today, in fact, the cigar ashes he was holding in his right hand kept scattering to the ground. "Okay, very good, Fang Laosi and Ye Zhengchang have finally lived up to their expectations, but isn't there any reaction from the court?"

"An order has been issued to transfer 7,000 Shenji Battalions, 3,000 Firearms Battalions, 2,000 Xiaocai Battalions and Eight Banners of the Beijing Division...... A total of more than 25,000 soldiers and horses were sent to Manchuria, calculating the time, and now I am afraid that they are ready to start. In addition, the garrison of the Eight Banners, which was originally fortified on the border of Mongolia and Manchuria, also transferred 5,000 soldiers and horses to defend Shengjing. In addition, those Eight Banners soldiers who were originally transferred out of Manchuria and were quelling rebellions in various places have also received orders and returned to the north. ”

"Do they think they can deal with our soldiers?" Wang Jing chuckled, with a look of disdain. "The army is not strictly governed, the training is lax, and appeasement is the norm, even if they are so rotten that they are even worse than the green battalion, can they also be called the army? As early as a few decades ago, the Eight Banners were unavailable, and now, does Qianlong really think that the Eight Banners are less than 10,000 and invincible? Joke! ”

It's really a joke, by the time of Shunzhi, the Eight Banners had almost all turned into scum. The Eight Banners system stipulates that military positions are hereditary. The soldiers were recruited from among the children of the banner people, and the banner people were not allowed to intermarry with the Han people in order to maintain the purity of the bloodline; Junior officers were mainly selected by hereditary or by the children of the Eight Banners officers who learned the Manchu and Chinese languages and cavalry and archery kung fu from the official school. There are various kinds of subordinate officers who belong to the middle-level officers, including the old, the hereditary, the mutual management, and the public middle school, and in addition to the public middle school leader, they are all inherited by the children of one or several families. High-ranking generals, such as the capital and deputy capital, were all monopolized by the Manchurian aristocracy for generations.

Due to the wide scope of hereditary lineage, the promotion of the Eight Banners military posts has lost its competitiveness and its fair surname, making the ranks of the Eight Banners officers full of mediocre and incompetent people who do not want to make progress. In particular, the Qing court often sent relatives of the emperor who lacked military experience and war experience to serve as commanders of large armies. Most of these people do not have the quality to serve as commanders of the army, but they are forced to be placed in important positions related to the victory or defeat of the war and the safety of the country, and the seeds of defeat are often planted.

The Qing army suffered repeated setbacks in the conquest of Galdan and the pacification of Dzungaria, all of which were caused by the appointment of the incompetent nobles of the Eight Banners as the commander. For example, when the Qing army used troops against Dzungaria, Emperor Yongzheng successively sent cowardly, incompetent, scheming and reckless Manchu nobles Fu Erdan and Mar Sai as generals.

As a result, the army was defeated and defeated. However, Emperor Yongzheng did not reflect on the lessons of improper employment, but tried his best to protect the generals of the defeated army and became angry with the Han generals. He gave Fu Erdan the imperial belt, but put Yue Zhongqi, the general of the Han Ning Yuan, in prison, and Ji Chengbin, the general of the Han Ning Yuan, to death.

Some of the Eight Banners generals were not only incompetent, but also afraid of death, and made a lot of jokes on the battlefield. In the battle of Ulan Butong during the Kangxi period, the deputy capital of the Zhengbai Banner, who served as the former enemy general, was cowardly in battle, and dismounted due to heat stroke. His family said: The second-grade senior member is so cowardly, what face will he have to meet people when he goes back in the future? And he lifted him up to his horse. But Sege rolled out of the saddle again and hid in the grass. When he returned to the camp after the battle, he was still trembling, wearing armor and being covered with a large body of shaking, which was rumored to be a joke in the army for a while. The adverse effects of a closed employment system can be illustrated in the above examples.

As early as when the rebellion of the three feudatories was quelled, the army of the Eight Banners was under the fortified city of Kunming and did not want to forge ahead. The Han general Zhao Liangdong wanted to launch an attack, but was opposed by Zhangtai, the general of Dingyuan Pingkou, on the grounds that "Manchuria, which was raised by the emperor, could not advance lightly and entrust it to the enemy?" In fact, not only Zhangtai, but also Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong Emperors were reluctant to use more Eight Banner soldiers in all previous Civil Wars.

For example, in the 32nd year of Qianlong's campaign against Burma, 25,000 soldiers were used. Among them, there are 20,000 soldiers in the Green Battalion and only 3,000 soldiers in the Eight Banners, and the number of soldiers in the Green Battalion is more than eight times that of the Eight Banners. In the 52nd year of Qianlong, he suppressed the Lin Shuangwen uprising in Taiwan, with more than 10,000 soldiers from the green battalion, and only 100 people from the Eight Banners went to the front enemy. The number of troops sent by the Green Battalion was more than 10 times that of the Eight Banners. Even so, when the Eight Banners Army was sent to the battlefield, the battle was often led by the Green Battalion soldiers or even the temporarily recruited brave battalion soldiers, and the Eight Banners soldiers followed.

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However, from the rulers of the Qing Dynasty to the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners, they all tried every possible way to avoid going to the battlefield, and were only satisfied with going through the motions and putting up flowers in the ordinary drills and lectures in order to receive food and salary. In the late Qing Dynasty, except for the Mongolian, Jilin, and Heilongjiang horse teams, most of the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners in Beijing and the Eight Banners stationed in Beijing were incapable of binding chickens and would have no talents. The officers and men of the Jingzhou Banner Battalion could not even protect the property in their own barracks, and they still had to spend a large sum of money to hire people to stand guard for them to prevent thieves from stealing their property.

Isn't it the biggest joke that such an army is out of Manchuria?

And Ni Ming next to him smiled and said, "Because, that's Manchuria." ”

"That's right, because it's Manchuria, the land of Manchurian dragons, there, if there is a foreign army, hehehe......" Liang Pengfei sneered a few times and said no more.

"My lord, in this way, most of the Eight Banners of Manchukuo are all stuffed in Manchuria." After Sun Shijie calmed down, he carefully scrutinized and said with a smile.

"Today's Manchuria, more than ninety percent, are Manchurian, even if there are displaced people, I am afraid that there will be no more, and most of them will be driven away. In the twelfth year of Yongzheng, only in the jurisdiction of the Jilin general, the number of Han people increased by 2,387; In the 36th year of Qianlong, it increased to 13,802; In the forty-sixth year of Qianlong, the number of Han people increased by 27,407. Therefore, in December of the 41st year of Qianlong, he issued an edict, 'Shengjing and Jilin are the places of Longxing in this dynasty, and if you listen to the miscellaneous places of the homeless people, it is very related to Manchurian customs. Nowadays, there are more and more rumors, and it is rumored that the Jilin general Fu Chun found out and handled it, and ordered Yongxing to prohibit it. ’……”

"It's fine, it's troublesome." Liang Pengfei spat out a smoke ring, and then poked it with his finger, poking the smoke ring into a scattered smoke. Hearing Liang Pengfei's murderous words, the people present couldn't help but feel their hearts skip a beat.

"This nation has never regarded itself as a part of this country, so why should I keep them." Liang Pengfei saw the change in the expressions of the strategists around him, and couldn't help but smile faintly.

"My lord, do you want to ......" Ni Ming's face turned a little pale, thinking of Liang Pengfei's big hand, hundreds of thousands of heads fell to the ground, I don't know how, Ni Ming felt that his heart was tight.

"Who said they were going to be slaughtered?" Liang Pengfei rolled his eyes stupidly. "As long as they don't resist, I'll still leave them with a way out." However, Liang Pengfei's sinister smile, as well as the vicious cold glint that flashed in his eyes, Ni Ming and the others felt that they were afraid that Liang Pengfei would leave a way for the Manchurians to live, and they would not be much different from slaughtering them.

"Lao Tzu is actually very kind." Liang Pengfei, who had a bad stomach, rolled his eyes reverently, while making a statement about his character, but in exchange for a disdainful and hidden white eye from his subordinates.

(To be continued)