Chapter 256: Hongyi Cannon

In the Qing army besieging the Xuanda camp by Julu, there were all the armies of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the White Flag, the White Flag, and the Blue Flag. This battle can continue to be fought.

In the battle of Furi, he was leading several flags with white flags to attack the front of Wang Dou, and the casualties of each banner were nearly 1,000, but the total casualties of the armored people and the bannermen were less than 300, although the losses were large, but for Dolgon, it was too bearable.

It's no wonder that Dolgon thinks so, the structure of their Eight Banners Army is somewhat special, roughly there are three types: Ahha, Armored People, and Bannermen.

Aha is a slave, or a Han Chinese, or a Korean, or a member of the tribes of the Northeast. These people had no armor, and some of them even did not have weapons, and when they went to war with the army, they were generally only used as miscellaneous labor or cannon fodder, or to feed horses and make weapons, or to fill in ditches, or to dig city bricks.

Although the number of soldiers accompanying each time is large, sometimes up to tens of thousands, it is not listed as the number of Qing ** troops. These people were the largest of the Qing army's auxiliaries, and since these people were left in the rear, if they fled, they would not want to live, so they would not want to sell their lives.

The Clothed people are mostly the tribes of the Northeast People, and the ethnic groups are diverse, mostly the Oroqen people, Xibe people, Evenki people, Sauron people, Daur people, Hezhe people, Kuyi people, etc., and the Manchurians call them savages, and they are mostly collected from various mountain rivers.

Because these people are strong, they are the main targets of cannon fodder in the Qing army. The dead soldiers are in front, the sharp soldiers are behind, and the soldiers who should be executed, many of them are from these tribes. Due to the frequent battles, these soldiers of the Northeast tribe who were used as cannon fodder, and in the back, many tribes disappeared.

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it was still a large tribe with a population of tens of thousands, and after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, only a few thousand people died in the whole clan. Until later generations, the total population of the Hezhe people in the world was less than 30,000. This is a typical representative of the Northeast cannon fodder drum.

Although they are known as dead soldiers and heavy armor, they are actually slave soldiers, they have no freedom, and they must not escape, otherwise they will all be left waiting to be exterminated. But it is certain that in the end, Lu Xiangsheng, Wang Dou and others will be eliminated, and the casualties of the Eight Banners Army and the Manmeng Zhengpai Banner will probably exceed 3,000.

The Qing soldiers who entered the customs this time were about 30,000 people in the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Five Banners, plus more than 20,000 people in the Eight Banners of Mongolia and Outer Mongolia, and the total strength of the small tribes was more than 60,000. There are also nearly 30,000 miscellaneous servants, known as 100,000.

So far, nearly 10 percent of the Qing army's casualties have been lost, and according to their ability to bear less than 6 percent of the casualties, they are actually on the verge of collapse.

After the casualties of each banner were counted for a few days, everyone present was in a state of silence, and the owners of the banners of the Eight Banners of Manchuria were all distressed by the casualties of the soldiers in their banners. Although most of the deaths in the past few days are miscellaneous servants and cannon fodder of various flags. But even if there were hundreds of casualties among the people wearing armor and the non-armoring bannermen, they couldn't stand it.

The armored men and miscellaneous servants who were cannon fodder had no representation in the tent at all, so naturally it was not their turn to speak. The bannermen of the Outer Mongolia and the Eight Banners of Mongolia are also secretly angry in their hearts, those Manchurians who are as timid as rats, will only hide behind when they fight, let them go to death as the great Mongolian warriors, as the descendants of Genghis Khan, of course they will not do it! They entered the customs to get a flattery, not to come desperately with the Ming people. If you want to fight hard, let those Manchurians fight well!

However, the Eight Banners of Manchuria are powerful, and their main force is still there, although the banner owners slander in their hearts, everyone on their faces is just pondering, groaning, and grieving.

Of course, Dolgon knew what the Mongols thought, especially the Eight Banners Mongolia, which was even more out of the tail end of the name, and only when there was a benefit, but when there was no benefit, it flashed faster than anyone else. hated that the Manchurians were trying their best to entrap them, and Huang Taiji's daughters were all lost.

Looking at their expressions, it is obvious that the cruel war in the past few days has made them cold, and it seems that they have to rely on their own Manchurian warriors, Dolgon sighed in his heart for a while, and spoke first: "Today's battle, my warriors of the Great Qing Kingdom have already attacked the Ming army trench wall, and the Ming army on both wings has almost collapsed. They have lost their courage, as long as we take advantage of the victory to pursue, continue to storm the two wings, and break through the Ming Guoxuan camp, it is only a matter of one or two days. ”

The white flag master Duoduo immediately echoed his brother's words: "Yes, the Ming army has lost its spirit, as long as our army takes advantage of the victory and mobilizes the elite to attack the two wings, the two wings are broken, and the Ming general Wang Dou is attacked on several sides, and his subordinates are brave and able to fight, and they are also powerless (). "Here's your chance!" Dodor concluded.

A middle-aged Mongolian general with a leather helmet on his head, wearing willow leaf armor inside, and a short stature glanced at Duoyi: "Prince Yu doesn't know how powerful that Ming general Wang Dou is, this afternoon, our army has already attacked his defense line, but it was killed and defeated. Seeing that he still has the strength to defend the frontal line, what if he sends reinforcements to support the two wings? ”

This person has a scorched face, a big cake face, small eyes, and a typical Mongolian appearance, but he is the Gushan Ezhen Gurusi Shibu of the Karaqin Department of the Outer Mongolian Domain, he didn't dare to do anything to Dolgon, but when he heard Duoduo say this, he couldn't help but make a sarcastic rebuttal. Hearing him say this, the banner owners of the Mongolian and Eight Banners of Mongolia were all watching the show on the sidelines.

Duo Yi glared, and was about to say something, Dolgon said: "Don't worry about Duo Lengbeizi, tomorrow the battle, my Qing soldiers will continue to attack the front with heavy troops, and I will definitely let that Wang Dou not divide the army." Wall. His eyes swept to Duoduo: "Tomorrow's battle, Prince Yu will attack Wang Duoduo with the general for a while, so he has to get up and receive the order." When he sat down, he secretly cried out in his heart.

Dolgon had left him in the camp for the past two days, and he had already attracted numerous complaints. It seems that in the next few days, if you want to avoid the war and save your strength, it will not work.

After he suffered heavy losses in Dingzhou, he had to carry a part of the unarmored banner as an armored soldier. Some of the miscellaneous servants were raised to unarmored banners, and the number of sergeants in the Alihaha battalion in the banner was barely replenished, but the combat effectiveness of this was naturally far from being compared with before. Duoduo has already suffered enough of Wang Dou's suffering, and tomorrow's battle will be this ......

Dolgon continued: "Moreover, a few large general's cannons transported from Tongzhou will arrive tomorrow morning, and under the artillery bombardment, Wang Dou is afraid that it will be difficult to protect himself." ”

Hearing Dolgon say this, all the Mongolian banner owners of the Eight Banners were excited, they had already tasted enough of the loss of the Ming artillery, and also let the Ming troops on the opposite side taste the power of the artillery.