Monthly pass, come on, big Luo Luo, little Luo Luo rolling all over the ground, begging

"Lord Wang! The front is already Guangzhou, and the horse team sentry has seen the banner of the Guangdong Green Camp around Baiyun Mountain, and we have arrived! ”

Several fast horses came running from the front, and the knights on the horses were sweating profusely, with their sleeves rolled up high, and they returned in succession. Under a huge banner of monk characters, the king of Zha Sak County, the general of Guangzhou, and the minister of the Guangdong Battalion, was riding steadily on a Mongolian horse, watching the elite of nearly 8,000 eight banners under his command slowly advance with an expressionless face.

These more than 8,000 elites of the Eight Banners are real elite soldiers! Unlike the children of the Eight Banners who only knew how to carry cages and frame birds and play leisurely in later generations, the Eight Banners in the Daoguang period were not completely decayed. In particular, the Outer Firearms Battalion and the Jianrui Battalion, which are stationed in the "Outer Three Battalions" outside Beijing, are definitely the elite of the current army of the Qing Dynasty!

This time, it was these two elite Beijing flags that went south with the monk Greenqin. Among them, 3,800 people were dispatched from the foreign firearms battalion, all of whom were equipped with foreign guns and cannons, and were personally supervised and trained by Seng Lingqin for a long time.

The Jianrui battalion produced more than 4,000 soldiers. They were the Eight Banners Army, which was formed relatively late. It was established in the early days of the Jinchuan War in the twelfth year of Qianlong in order to deal with the watchtowers of the Tusi in western Sichuan. He performed well in the battles of Jinchuan, the Rebellion of Hezhuo, the Qing-Burma War, the Second Battle of Jinchuan, the Battle of Lin Shuangwen in Taiwan, the repulsion of the Gurkha invasion and the White Lotus Uprising, and was repeatedly rewarded by the Qianlong Emperor and the Jiaqing Emperor. Although Daoguang has been lazy and arrogant for many years, he was also reprimanded by Daoguang. But it is still much stronger than the ordinary Manchu Eight Banners and Green Battalion.

In the Second Opium War in history. The Jianrui Battalion participated in the Battle of Bali Bridge as the elite division of the Gyeonggi Garrison. There were heavy casualties, among which the white flag of the Jianrui Battalion was shattered except for one person! Although it was a failure, the death of so many people at least proves that the banner men in the Jianrui battalion are still not afraid of death. Therefore, the weakness of the Eight Banners Jianrui Battalion is not due to the arrogance of the officers and men, but to the overall backwardness of the Eight Banners military system, training, tactics, and training.

If the so-called Eight Banners are decayed and unable to fight, and they are all useless, at least in Daoguangnian it is not a fact. Monk Grinqin was even more dismissive.

"Is there any sign of fighting?" Monk Lingqin looked in the direction of Baiyun Mountain with his eyebrows, but there was no gunsmoke, and there was no sound of guns and cannons shouting and killing.

Several sentry detectives had already dismounted, and one of them reported loudly, "There is no fighting, the rebels are entrenched on the mountain, and the official barracks are closed!" ”

Monk Greenqin's voice sounded beside him again, "Okay, this battlefield is peaceful, and both families are sitting quietly. What kind of battle is there to fight? ”

"It's not the 117 rebellious Green Battalion military attachés who are making trouble! Where are the Han officials in the green camp in Guangdong still have the fighting spirit? I'm waiting to go home and eat my own! Monk Greenqin looked at the Eight Banners he brought and sighed. It seems that this battle of Guangdong has to rely on the Eight Banners and our own people to fight! ”

Sai Shang twisted his beard and shook his head, "There are 6,000 under General Guangzhou, let's bring 8,000, and a total of 14,000 Eight Banner soldiers can calm the chaos in Guangdong?" ”

Monk Greenqin touched his beard and sighed, "What else can I do?" The emperor said that the Hanchen are shameless, what else can we count on them? ”

"Isn't there still a flag general to control the Han soldiers?"

Monk Greenqin waved his hand and said: "It's all scholarly and unreliable." The big men of the green battalion are all fired, and the rest of the general soldiers still have any strength? No matter how well you play, you can't be promoted...... Without the hope of promotion, who would be willing to sell his life for such a small salary? If the thieves were guarding the city of Guangzhou, they could still use the looting and slaughtering of the city to motivate their fighting spirit, and now they are on Baiyun Mountain, how much oil and water can they have? ”

Saishana smiled and said, "Lord Wang, you are also honest." The emperor sent me and others to the south to quell the chaos, not to get along with those Han officials. As long as the chaos can be calmed down, those green camp Han officials will not be saved with a single break? I think the emperor is not trying to seize the military power of the Han ministers, in fact, he is encouraging and urging those Han ministers to work hard, our Qing Dynasty is still the Manchu and Han families after all. ”

Monk Greenqin's eyes were deep, and he nodded slowly: "It seems that I want to fork it." ”

Saishan'a nodded lightly and said, "The 14,000 Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers in our hands are actually used to deter, not only against Zhu Rebel and Thief, but also against the Han soldiers of the Guangdong Green Battalion. You can't easily take it out and fight with the traitors, if there is a ...... in case," he lowered his voice, "Don't worry about the 14,000 Han green battalion soldiers, there are many Han people, and they can't die!" But we have few flag people, how many 14,000 are there? If they are all dead, there is no need to wait for Zhu Yi to rebel, these Hanchen who have military power in their hands will rebel first!

Lord Wang, in this battle of Guangdong, we have to rely on the green battalion to stand in front, and our Eight Banners must be used on the knife edge. ”

Although Saishana can't fight, he knows very well how to control the Hanchen Han soldiers, and who is not proficient in these principles if he can become the banner man of the Minister of Military Aircraft? The banner man cannot simply suppress the Han, but must use both grace and power. It is usually them who are the ministers of Manchu and Mongolia who are evildoers, and the emperor Laozi who is a good person. But this time the wicked man let Emperor Daoguang do it, and he Sai Shang'a naturally wanted to be a good person and appease the Han officials in the green camp in Guangdong, so that they could take the green camp to the front and fight hard......

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"This is the Eight Flags powerhouse, right? Look, it's better than the Green Battalion. ”

On the Davis Ridge of Baiyun Mountain, Yanping Hou Zhenghong put down the binoculars and said to Lu Siyuan beside him. Zhu Jishi's order to change the people of Sanyuanli to the coast of Guangdong has already come down, but Zheng Hong, this guy, is addicted to Baiyun Mountain, tired of defeating the Qing soldiers, and feels better and better, thinking that his ability to fight with soldiers is about to catch up with his cheap ancestor Zheng Chenggong. Therefore, he did not immediately follow the order and ran away, but continued to entrench himself on Baiyun Mountain and look at Guangzhou City.

Of course, it was not willing to stare at it, but stepped up the training team to build weapons, and also transported 1,000 bird guns up the mountain through the secret channels of the Heaven and Earth Society.

These shotguns were secretly created by the bigwigs of the Heaven and Earth Society in Foshan. Although the proprietors of Foshan Iron Industry are reluctant to get involved in the cause of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, the blacksmiths below are all Hong brothers who have worshiped the five ancestors, and it is easy to build some shotguns. And Zheng Hong didn't give silver, each shotgun was given double the official price, which was actually 8 yuan Qingyang, which was about the same as the cost of the brown bass smoothbore gun. Therefore, the quality of the bird guns created by these Foshan blacksmiths is also better than the goods in the hands of the Qing soldiers, I don't know how much!

You get what you pay for! In fact, it is not difficult to make a smoothbore gun (shotgun), in Europe, it can be produced in an ordinary blacksmith shop, and it does not have to be a large factory to make it. As for the bird guns in the hands of the brown bes and the Qing army, there was not much progress, but the flint was used to replace the arquebus. If the shotgun in the hands of the Qing army was not cut corners, coupled with high-quality black powder, it would be completely comparable to the brown bass of the British army.

Now the shotgun in the hands of the people in Sanyuanli is a product comparable to the brown bass.

"Now we have 1,500 musketeers and 3,500 hand-to-hand fighters in our hands, I'm afraid it's not the opponent of these more than 10,000 Eight Banner soldiers, they seem to have foreign guns in their hands."

Through the monoculars, Lu Siyuan had already seen the situation of the Qing army brigade meandering down the mountain.

"Master Hou, it's almost time to retreat to the beach, right? Ming Gong does not have many soldiers and horses, and the 5,000 people here are all elites who have been in battle, train well, and with good guns, you will be sure to win when you come to fight the Eight Banners. ”

"Retreat? Do you really think these Eight Banners can fight? What kind of virtue did they have when they were twenty-one years of Daoguang, you don't know? ”

Zheng Hong sneered, he naturally wouldn't take the Eight Banners disciples too seriously, he really wanted to meet them outside the city of Guangzhou, and it was not too late to go if he really wanted to fight.

He looked back at Lu Siyuan, "It's time for us to play the Sun and Moon Tonghui Flag, the first Sun and Moon Flag on this continent is erected on Baiyun Mountain!" This credit alone is enough for the two of us to eat for a lifetime. ”

Lu Siyuan thought for a while, nodded and said: "Okay, sooner or later, this matter will have to be clarified with the villagers in Sanyuanli, now that He Wu of the He family has been persuaded by me, the Wang family will not openly oppose it, I believe that the sun and moon flag can be raised." (To be continued......)