Chapter 405: The First Northeast Campaign 8
The name of the Jurchen people seems to be quite interesting to pronounce in Chinese. But if you really want to investigate the meaning of these good-sounding Jurchen names, they are often some relatively simple and straightforward ordinary names like "dogs" and "pigs".
In the case of Nurhachi, the founder of the Jin Jurchen regime, his name means wild boar skin in Chinese. This is not to say that the father and mother of the wild boar skin had a grudge against him, so they gave him a name that was a bit insulting in the eyes of the Han people, but in the eyes of the Jurchens who were in a relatively primitive and backward state, the name of the wild boar skin represented the good blessing of being as fierce as a wild boar and resisting beating.
There are not too many such names among the Jurchens. For example, Nurhachi's third brother, "Shulhaqi", whose name surhaci means "little wild boar". Nurhachi's fourth brother, "Yarhaqi", means "leopard skin". Emperor Shunzhi's eldest son, "Niu Niu" nionio, means "eyeball". Nurhachi's fourteenth son, "Dolgon", don means "badger". The son of Nurhachi's eldest son, "Dudu", means "mountain dove".
Unlike the Han people who give their children cheap names for the sake of making a living, the Jurchens give their names simply out of a primitive animal worship. In the case of backward productivity, in the case of human beings' transformation of nature is very rudimentary, it is indeed a good wish to hope that their children and grandchildren can have the same characteristics as animals and can better survive in this cruel jungle world.
Halgi Hun Qi is an ordinary flag man in the Zhengbai Flag. Halji is his surname, and Hunzi is his first name. The seventeen-year-old knew that his name meant sheepskin.
Harji Hun Qi is a new generation among the Jurchens. Unlike his grandparents and fathers, who used to hunt and fish in the old woods, Halgihun was not as disgusted by conscription as his grandparents and fathers.
Most of the Jurchens of the older generation were relatively pure fishing and hunting peoples. They think that the regime should be a loose alliance like the tribes. When it's okay, everyone hunts and fishes to fool their stomachs. When something happens, everyone helps to maintain the survival of the tribe.
For them, hunting and fishing is the main thing, and going to war is an idle matter without yield. Of course, the main thing is that they live a free and unorganized life, and they are not very suitable for the relatively organized life of slavery and feudal society.
Actually, there is nothing difficult to understand. When Wang Shuhui's hometown of Heilongjiang was just liberated, the government departments specially organized a large number of people to go to the mountains and forests to do ideological work among the people of the Oroqen and Daur ethnic groups, and mobilized them to move to the cities to live a modern life.
However, many Oroqen and Daur masses who are accustomed to "freedom" still adhere to that primitive life. In winter, I go out of the woods and live in a heated house. But as soon as summer came, they went into the primeval deep forests of Heilongjiang in droves. It was only after two generations or so that the descendants of these minorities finally became part of the industrial society.
For the older generation of Jurchens, participating in the military operations of the post-Jin Jurchen regime of the "big tribe" had to be controlled and obeyed by others, and under the Eight Banners system, the banner people also had to accept the oppression and exploitation of the banner owners and officers at all levels. Although they can sometimes get some leftovers in military operations, for them, what they get is disproportionate to what they give.
People in primitive societies are also human beings, and if they are individuals, they will measure their own inputs and outputs. The older generation of Jurchens did not feel any benefits from the Eight Banners system, and most of them were afraid of being beaten and cleaned up, so they gave up the fishing and hunting life in the past, which was not very rich, but was better than being a soldier.
But then again, Khargi Hunzi's father and grandfather were both from the time of wild boar skins. In that era, although ordinary bannermen could also share some benefits in the Liaodong Massacre, these benefits were negligible compared to the benefits of the dominant tribal leaders in the massacre.
Halgihun Qi is a man of the new era. As a Jurchen in the Huangtaiji era, Harji Hun Qi was able to feel the benefits of the new system introduced by the new Khan. Regardless of whether it was to attack Korea or Mongolia, whether to rob the steppe tribes or the Han people in the Central Plains, the relatively reformist policy adopted by Huang Taiji expanded the beneficiary group of the Jurchens to a certain extent. This made the younger generation of Jurchens like Harji Hunqi unprecedentedly support the Later Jin regime and their heartfelt support for Huang Taiji.
Whether it is "Gou Fugui, don't forget each other" or "Follow me, there is meat to eat", whether it is a hero on Liangshan or a tribesman in Baishan and Heishui, if you want to make people loyal and want to gain support, it is nonsense if there is no real benefit. Whether it was the reactionary Kuomintang of the past or the well-known big V in modern society, anyone who clamored for "brothers to resist" and relied on blind foolery to let others be cannon fodder will eventually be hated and spurned by everyone.
The propaganda of ideas must be combined with material support. In those days, the Party did not merely appeal to the people with revolutionary ideals, but the income of the soldiers of the Red Army was much higher than that of the soldiers of the reactionary army.
The main reason why Harji Hun Qi did not have the slightest aversion to fighting and was very positive was that his gains in the war, in addition to having to hand over one-third to the Great Khan, and then one-fifth to the banner owner, as long as he had done enough to kill and wound the enemy on the battlefield and made enough contributions, he could keep the rest of the looting gains.
Under such material stimulus, the family already has two Mongolian servants who specialize in taking care of livestock and four Han Chinese slaves who specialize in cultivating the land allocated to the family, and Harji Hun Qi hopes to continue to increase his property through constant fighting.
It was with the support of such hope that although it had been less than a month since he returned from the Guannai, Harji Hun Qi rode on his horse and hurried along with the large army of Shangsanqi, and still felt that he was full of strength.
Unlike ordinary bannermen like Harji Hunqi, because the revival army did not deliberately block the information of Nurhachi's large army, Huang Taiji, who had always been cautious in military affairs and widely dispatched reconnaissance cavalry during the march, led more than 3,000 elite Jurchen bannermen from the Shangsan Banner, 6,000 Mongolian bannermen, and more than 10,000 troops of 5,000 or 6,000 who were attached to the Han Chinese armed forces, and constantly received information from the surrounding areas in the process of marching.
When Huang Taiji's large Chinese army had just arrived in Haizhou City, the Han armed forces called the Fuxing Army fired incredible flames in Gaizhou City with large ships and huge cannons, and burned nearly 4,000 Jurchen soldiers of the Lower Five Banners, capturing thousands of Mongolian soldiers and Han slaves, and the news was directly sent to Huang Taiji's hands.
More than 10,000 people were wiped out, including those who can be called elite, Huang Taiji took a lot of effort to pull out from the hands of the banner owners, and the more than 3,000 elite Jurchen Eight Banner soldiers who were originally going to arrange for them to be stationed in southern Liaoning after the war were actually wiped out in a burst of artillery.
If it weren't for the words of a few spies who came to report the news, and if it weren't for the fact that a few Mongol and Han Chinese slave deserters who had witnessed the bombardment of the Fuxing Navy came to corroborate, Huang Taiji would not have believed that such a thing would have happened in the world. His understanding of artillery was still at the level of a solid iron ball being fired into a mile or two.
This huge gap between the level of understanding and the reality of the situation made Huang Taiji's head feel dizzy for a while.
At this time, several high-ranking generals suddenly broke into the big tent to report to Huang Taiji, and a large group of cavalry attacked the Mongol Qiding and Han annexed troops who were camping outside the city. They asked Huang Taiji, who was blackening in front of them, for instructions.
When Huang Taiji immediately walked out of the big tent with several high-ranking generals, he had already heard the sound of explosions outside the city one after another.
These explosions were none other than the sound of the cavalry brigades of the Baxing Army bombarding the Mongol and Han garrisons outside Haizhou with rocket launchers