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What is the Houjin Army, the children of the Eight Banners in history, how it was formed, these situations, Su Tiancheng knows only a little about these situations, and has seen from many novels that the Eight Banners Army of the Later Jin Dynasty is very powerful, with the courage of ten thousand people, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, on the field battlefield, met the Eight Banners Army, and only sent to death.

However, what the real situation is, he needs to give an answer through his own contact and judgment.

Perhaps sensing that Su Tiancheng had an unusual interest, Sun Chengzong gave a detailed introduction to Houjin's army.

"Master Su, the old man can see it, you are very interested in the Eight Banners of Houjin, the old man will talk about it in detail."

"Nowadays, a lot of civil and military officials in the imperial court, when it comes to the Eight Banners Army, the color of their faces has changed, the old man feels ridiculous and pathetic, a few years ago, some officials in the imperial court, have not been to the front line in Liaodong, take it for granted that the army of my Ming Dynasty must be invincible, Houjin is just a barbarian, no need to worry, once my Ming Dynasty's army is overwhelmed, it is not a wind to flee, therefore, extremely despise the Eight Banners Army of Houjin."

"The imperial army, fighting with the Eight Banners Army several times, has learned the power of cavalry, and has begun to become cautious again, as if the Eight Banners Army of Houjin is a demon, a flood beast, a jackal, a tiger and a leopard, and there is no chance of winning if you fight them head-on."

"Because of the influence of this extreme self-confidence and excessive inferiority complex, the Houjin Eight Banners Army is even more invincible, often going deep into Shanxi Datong, North Zhili's Xuanfu Town, Yongping Mansion, Yanqing Prefecture, Baoan Prefecture, Baoding Mansion area, wanton plundering, hating my Ming army, can only be to stick to the city. Don't dare to confront it head-on. ”

"It's the common people who are suffering, especially the people in the villages and towns, I don't know which day the road will come, the Houjin Eight Banner Army will come, trembling all day long, rich gentry and rich households. They have moved to the city a long time ago, but those poor people can't move away. ”

Su Tiancheng nodded, this is the actual situation.

With Sun Chengzong's introduction, he slowly learned some details.

The so-called Eight Banners Army in later generations is actually the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, a total of twenty-four banners, but the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty do not exist today. The main one is the Manchurian Eight Banners.

The Eight Banners system is the military system of the Later Jin, the Eight Banners are divided into four positive and four inlays, the four are the yellow flag, the white flag, the red flag, and the blue flag, and the four inlaid are the yellow flag, the white flag, the red flag, and the blue flag, and the four flags are not bordered, and the four flags are bordered. Among them, the red flag is white-edged, and the remaining three flags are red-edged.

The four flags of the Yellow Flag, the White Flag, the Red Flag, and the Blue Flag are the strongest. Especially the Zhenghuang Banner, the banner owner is the supreme leader of the Houjin, that is, Nurhachi and Huang Taiji.

The organizational form of the Eight Banners Army is also fixed, and the banner owner calls it Gushan Ezhen, who is also the supreme commander. Under the solid mountain Ezhen, there are left and right Melle Ezhen, who is the deputy of the flag owner, and below is Jiala Ezhen and Niu Lu Ezhen.

Niu Lu is really the most basic officer, and each Niu Lu is 300 people.

Jiala Ezhen commanded the five oxen and recorded the Ezhen. Sergeants numbered fifteen hundred.

Gushan Ezhen commanded five Jiala Ezhen, and the number of soldiers was 7,500.

During this period, the titles of officers of the Eight Banners Army have changed, Gushan Ezhen called it the chief military officer, Ang Bang Zhangjing, Jia Lae Zhen called it the general, Jia Lazhang Jing, Niu Lu Ezhen called it Beiyu, Niu Lu Zhangjing and so on.

Houjin is not rich, the Eight Banners Army is an organizational form of integration of soldiers and civilians, military and political integration, every school-age man in the Eight Banners has a dual identity, he is a civilian in peacetime, he has to engage in agricultural production, hunting, etc., and he is a soldier in wartime.

Interestingly, Nurhachi absorbed the characteristics of the Ming Dynasty's military tun, and also required Niu Lu to pay taxes, and the sergeants under Niu Lu Zhen's command also had to carry out agricultural production, from this aspect, Niu Lu Zhen was not only a military general, but also an organizer of production and labor.

What's even more strict is that the soldiers of the Eight Banners have no salary, and the weapons and horses are all provided by the sergeants.

But Nurhachi and Huang Taiji both have a rule, that is, after each battle, a part of the captured spoils can be taken out and distributed to the sergeants, which has also become one of the most important incomes of the Eight Banners sergeants.

This can also explain why after the Eight Banners Army went deep into the pass, it burned, killed, and robbed, and looted it frantically.

When Sun Chengzong introduced the situation, Su Tiancheng was already thinking about it.

The Eight Banners Army of Houjin is not a very regular army, if it is according to the professional soldiers, they still have flaws, but the Eight Banners Army has one of the biggest advantages, that is, they often hunt, not much time to engage in agricultural production, the process of hunting, that is, the process of training, and the fight with large animals, can stimulate their fighting spirit, but also make them vigilant enough, which is not much different from actual combat drills.

From this point of view, it can also be understood that the Eight Banners are not good at attacking cities.

Such an army is indeed a little terrible, especially their reward system, people die for money, birds die for food, every time you enter the customs to fight, as long as you grab enough property, you can also get a large part, throughout the ages, financial rewards, are one of the best ways to motivate the army.

On the other hand, the army of the Ming Dynasty, the military cantonment system, has been because of the gradual change of the situation, it is difficult to continue, the military household has become synonymous with poverty, many sergeants in the guard, when they come out, they are almost like beggars, they can't eat enough, not to mention feeding the mother-in-law and dolls, and letting such a sergeant go to war is equivalent to sending them to death.

Some of the soldiers in the guard station, who were poor, couldn't bear it, took advantage of the opportunity of the conquest to kill the good and take the merits, and even robbed the people's money, and even worse, directly mutinied, joined the ranks of the rogues, and lived a life of burning, killing and looting.

The officers also turned a blind eye to those acts of killing good people and robbing them, which was equivalent to acquiescing, and those mutinous sergeants, a large part of the court, also had a sympathetic attitude.

Such a vicious circle, it is strange that the Ming Dynasty did not fall suddenly.

It seems that the fundamental problem of the Ming Dynasty is that there is a huge loophole in the fiscal revenue, and everyone knows that it is impossible to imagine that there is not enough money to support the maintenance of political power.

There are also some historians, made an analysis, that the end of the Ming Dynasty was corruption that led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty, this point of view, Su Tiancheng does not approve, corruption is indeed hateful, should be ruthlessly cured, but there is corruption in all dynasties, and the final demise of the dynasty is not the main cause of corruption, but some other reasons, but corruption plays a role as a catalyst, so that the dynasty will fall faster.

Seeing that Su Tiancheng hadn't spoken for a long time, Sun Chengzong was a little strange.

"What is Master Su thinking?"

"Master Sun, the younger generation thought of some things, but also felt that the Zhongxing Society, to be established as soon as possible, the younger generation will continue to play for the emperor, my Ming Dynasty gentry and rich households, has an unshirkable responsibility, to make their own contributions, the skin does not have hair will be attached, such a simple truth, they should know the Tao, see some of the situation here, the younger generation thought of those gentry and rich families in Jiangning County, they have the ability to help the people and farmers here."

Sun Chengzong was a little moved, touched his gray beard, and spoke with emotion.

"Master Su, you think of the people and farmers all the time, the old man admires, the old man has long found out, when you look at those poor people, there is an unbearable look in your eyes, the old man was also young, but unfortunately not as far as you think, you can rest assured, the old man is fighting for this old life, and he must also run the Zhongxing Society."

"The heart of the adult, the younger generation admires it to the extreme, the younger generation should learn more from the adult, in the future, the younger generation has something bad to do, the adult criticizes."

"Hehe, Master Su, the old man knows countless people, although he doesn't dare to boast that he sees it accurately every time, the old man has not been in contact with you for a long time, but he dares to assert that the one who prospers my great master must be you Lord Su."

Su Tiancheng's expression was a little serious, according to what Sun Chengzong said, the evaluation was very high, but the truth of the three of them becoming tigers, he kept it in mind, all the people who met him said that he was the mainstay of the Ming Dynasty, the meaning of this is varied, different people, the meaning of saying it is not the same, there is a sense of praise, but there is also a warning of high merit.

In the afternoon of the next day, it had already entered the territory of Dingxing County.

I saw some people in the distance, standing on the side of the road, as if waiting for someone.

Seeing these people, Sun Chengzong's emotions became excited, and he jumped forward.

"Shanji, why did you come here to greet you, you are a teacher, you are not teaching in the township, what are you waiting here for?"

Hearing Sun Chengzong say this, Su Tiancheng hurriedly followed.

The person at the head is none other than Lu Shanji.

Lu Shanji is burly, looks powerful, and has a dark face, not like a court official at all, but like a general in the army, but maybe it is the erosion of the years, and he still has a feeling of old age.

Su Tiancheng hurriedly dismounted.

"Su Tiancheng, the magistrate of Jiangning County, meet Lord Lu."

Lu Shanji looked at Su Tiancheng and paused for a moment.

"It turns out that you are Su Tiancheng, Master Su, you look so young, the old man almost can't believe it."

Sun Chengzong on the side opened his mouth with a smile.

"Good follower, since ancient times, heroes have come out of the youth, Lord Su is a person with great talent, these days, the old man and Lord Su talked, admired to the fullest, Master Su knew a lot, the old man never thought of it, how about it, old man, follow the old man, go out of the mountain again, do something, break out of the world."

Lu Shanji is very bold.

"The old man has commanded, how dare he not obey, as long as the adult has orders, he will go to the soup and go to the fire, and he will not give up." (To be continued.) )