Now the Eight Banners are no longer as strong as they were at the beginning, and the reason why the Manchurian Jurchens were able to enter the Central Plains when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs has a certain relationship with the strength of the Eight Banners, and the reason why the Eight Banners have strong combat ability is inseparable from the Eight Banners system created and designed by Nurhachi.

However, after the Eight Banners Army entered the customs, it began to corrupt almost at the same time, and its combat ability plummeted.

By the end of Kangxi's reign, in just a few decades, the Eight Banners Army was no longer competent for the country's standing armed battles, so that the Han people's green battalion soldiers became the main combat force.

So to what extent did the Eight Banners Army become corrupt? The decline of the Eight Banners Army to the Qianlong period, has been out of control, Emperor Jiaqing once said in the edict that in the early days of the founding of the Qing Dynasty, the Eight Banners Army elite brave, invincible, soldiers fighting is also brave to be the first, brave and invincible.

But in the Qianlong period, the decline of the Eight Banners could not even be compared with the green battalion soldiers, so that even the generals of the unified army were unwilling to lead them anymore.

Indeed, at this time, the Eight Banners were already in vain and difficult to go to the battlefield. Most of the generals of the Eight Banners were relatives of the emperor or descendants of the emperor, and it stands to reason that as military aristocrats, they should share the glory and disgrace with the Qing court.

But the front line in the Jiaqing period, it was a different scene, the generals of the Eight Banners falsely reported their achievements, embezzled military salaries, and solicited bribes, which was a waste of time and wine, and there was a middle-level officer of the Eight Banners who had just arrived in the army, and he actually accepted more than 10,000 Shu brocades, three pearls and a large amount of property from the magistrates at one time.

The generals on the front line made a fortune and also played the bad behavior of raising their own dignity, while the front-line soldiers were also much worse than before, they did not do production and labor, and had developed the bad habit of idleness and idleness.

When fighting, the Xiangyong was at the forefront, the Green Battalion soldiers were in the second layer, the Manchurian Sauron from the northeast was in the third layer, and the Eight Banners themselves were hiding at the end.

And their opponents, whether they were bandits or the White Lotus Sect rebels, knew about the Eight Banners' style, so they captured a large number of refugees and put them in the forefront, so that during the Jiaqing period, a large number of wars, after a battle, the thieves and the soldiers never met.

Even the most elite of the Eight Banners, the Jianrui Battalion and the Firearms Battalion, are the same. The sharp decline in the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Eight Banners is directly related to the class differentiation within the Eight Banners.

The front-line generals deducted the soldiers' salaries, so that the soldiers did not have enough to eat and did not wear warm clothes, and many soldiers of the Eight Banners wore clothes that were as rotten as beggars.

How could such a soldier lift his spirits and kill the enemy for the sake of his country? In the Daoguang period, the Eight Banners Army was even more in a mess, and the generals did not regard the rectification of military affairs as a serious matter at all, but imitated the literati and started the literati fashion.

Due to the system of the Qing Dynasty's literati commanding military generals, the generals also pretended to be Sven, bought some four treasures of the scholar's room and pretended to be a slap to the chief.

He didn't know the formation, he didn't know martial arts, and he fled in all directions when he heard the sound of cannons. When the military generals play the four treasures of the study, the soldiers = more uncontrolled, rampant and domineering all day long, becoming a scourge that harasses local law and order.

The soldiers of the Eight Banners in Taiyuan unscrupulously gathered in the mountains and forests, unable to distinguish whether they were officials or bandits, and the local residents called them Liangshanbo, and even the local security officials could not help it.

Once again, the Eight Banners violated the curfew and injured the local officials who came to enforce the law.

Who knew that these Eight Banners soldiers were still not satisfied, and after a few days, they even framed the local county commander for raping the people's daughters and beat the county commander violently.