Bolo didn't finish his sentence, but it was clear that he valued the reform and considered it a matter of life and death for the Qing dynasty.

Dolgon's hand rested on his chin, thought for a moment, and looked at Sony, "Sony, what about you, what do you think?" ”

Sony said: "Wechen hasn't thought about this problem, but listening to Bolo Beizi's words, I have a feeling of being sudden. However, the restructuring of the Eighth Banner Army is by no means something that can be completed overnight, and it cannot be too careful, otherwise there will be chaos ......., but the annexation of the DPRK is indeed what should be done at this time. ”

Dolgon looked at Sony, and judging by Sony's ramblings, he really hadn't thought about it so much that it didn't make sense to say it.

It was Sonny who proposed the annexation of the dynasty, Xian, and then Bolo strongly agreed, one of the two was the head of the Minister of the Interior, and the other was the leader of the next generation of Aisin Jueluo, and Dolgon was a little worried that the two would unite. But judging from the annexation of the DPRK and Xian, there is a high probability that the two did not discuss it in advance.

"Bolo is a bit serious, but he has to do it. At the time of the first emperor, through various means, two firearms units were established: the Han army banner and the army under the domain. It played an important role in many battles such as Songjin.

This time, Liaonan resisted the enemy, and the only thing that the eastern thieves feared was the red-clothed cannon. It can be seen that the foresight of the first emperor is that since we can establish an artillery unit in the Qing Dynasty, it is naturally not a problem to establish a musket unit. ”

Dolgon nodded: "This king has also thought about this, but he is thinking about the New Year, and then he will talk about it." After all, now that the customs are fighting, we will retreat to Shanhaiguan, and the war will not stop. It is inevitable to use soldiers to fight, and the consumption is bound to be large.

The matter of reforming the Eight Banners also needs to be put aside. I thought that the small-scale ones should try it first, explore it, and then talk about it depending on the situation, how about it? ”

Zilharang and others agreed, after all, the reality is in front of us, the Eight Banners are all on the battlefield, where is it possible to carry out large-scale adaptation?

"Bolo, what do you mean?" Dorgon asked.

Bolo said: "Prince Rui said to try it on a small scale first, I don't know how large-scale, and how to try? ”

Dolgon didn't think about this question, so naturally he couldn't answer it, and he said, "Bolo, what do you think about this matter?" ”

Bolo said: "I learned about the Eastern Brigade during this time, this army is sharp in our opinion, but they themselves are advocating 'complete horse infantry artillery, all arms cooperate', our Qing Dynasty, on the cavalry, the world is invincible, there are also Han army banners and the army under the domain This kind of artillery, only lack of musket battalions."

Nowadays, the army of the Qing Dynasty has the Manchurian, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners, plus the newly surrendered Green Banner soldiers who entered the customs this time. In terms of the use of firearms, the Han Army Banner is the strongest, our Manchurian Eight Banners are second, and the Mongolian Eight Banners are cavalry.

When it comes to the familiarity of the Green Banner soldiers with firearms, they are more familiar with firearms than our Manchurian Eight Banners, but they will not be able to take their turn for a while.

The most difficult thing is the internal obstacle, when it comes to our Qing Dynasty, it is the obstacle of the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

Therefore, I think that if you want to try, you can try it from Manchuria, as long as the Eight Banners of Manchuria can be changed, the rest can also be changed, and vice versa. ”

Everyone looked at each other and agreed.

Dorgon said, "Since you are so attentive, let you do it, and you can say what you think in your heart." But again, the current situation is not suitable for big action. ”

Bolo nodded excitedly and said, "Since we want to build an army like the Eastern Brigade, then copy everything first, make an appearance first, and then repair and change it."

The army of the Eastern Brigade has the company as the basic unit and the battalion as the tactical unit. Then we must build at least one battalion in the Qing Dynasty, that is, the scale of 600 people.

We have a total of three hundred and nine cattle records in the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and another eighteen and a half cattle records. For one ox to draw two soldiers, and to bring their own birds, they must be people who are good at using firearms.

In addition, six or seven hundred people are selected from the coat, which is also counted as a battalion.

The musket it used was brought from the Han flag. And artillery is also indispensable, and the guns of the Bandit are not measured by the number of guns, but by the weight of solid shells.

The artillery we encountered in Qinghe and other places was a six-pound cannon, and our red-coated cannons, according to their standards, were all more than ten pounds, but the artillery was often thousands of pounds, which was very inconvenient. It is said that the six-pounder cannon of other people is about 1,000 pounds, but we don't have this kind of cannon.

However, in terms of power and weight, the invincible general cannon of the Han army flag was temporarily replaced, which was 1,200 catties, capable of shooting more than 200 zhang, and had an accurate firing range of more than 100 zhang. Except for a little heavier, the rest are about the same, and can be temporarily replaced for training.

There was a hunting battalion in the Eastern Brigade Musket Battalion, which was used for vigilance, precision shooting, and chaotic warfare, and it used rifled guns, which were not owned by the Qing Dynasty. It was replaced by Lu Mi Gong, and it was also drawn from the Han military flag.

In this way, there was a two-infantry battalion and a artillery company, and Prince Rui was also asked to allocate some money and food to motivate and reward the soldiers. ”

Hearing this, Dolgon nodded slowly, and had no objection to the transfer of two Manchurian soldiers from each banner. The Manchu Qing Dynasty in this era attached great importance to artillery in terms of strategy, but also despised the bird gun, which was roughly similar to the Ming Dynasty, and in the Manchurian Eight Banners, those who used all kinds of muskets were generally considered to be weak chickens with weak bodies, unable to draw bows, and unable to wear armor.

Many times, the Zhang Jing in the Eight Banners would drive these people out of the ranks, lest they startle the horses by throwing guns indiscriminately.

As for the transfer of artillery and the mobilization of money and food, Dolgon had no problem with it, and he said: "Bolo, I can give you six thousand stone grain and two thousand taels ......of silver, and gunpowder or nitrate and yellow can also be transferred to you from the banners." ”

Seeing that Dorgon directly agreed, Dorgon said, "Wait, Bolo, I have no problem with you forming a firearms unit." It's a good life, what kind of coating camp do you get, if the number of people is not enough, it's a big deal to draw a few hundred people from the Han army flag to you.

Those Nikans, who are used to being bullied by us, are they all random mud, and they are in battle?

On the battlefield in southern Liaoning, you have also seen that the birds of the Dongfan thieves beat you, and you didn't wear several layers of armor, if the minions got such a sharp weapon, would they have a chance to devour the master? What do you think. ”

As soon as Duoduo said this, Bolo was about to argue, but was stopped by Dolgon and said: "Don't form a camp for the time being, just promote some people from the merits of this entry battle and join your army, whether it is Baoyi or Aha."

In addition, I will take this matter out and discuss it separately.

This time in the customs battle, when the fight was hard and tense, Baoyi and Aha also went into battle, and many of them also made meritorious contributions, such as Ma Mingcong of our two white flags, who saved his own master Muta. Muta also wanted to raise the flag for his minions, which was nothing, but the minions made meritorious contributions, and the master rewarded them, which should have been.

But there are too many, if they all raise the flag, in a few years, whose Eight Banners are the Eight Banners, is it our Manchurian or Nikan? ”

The war that took place in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen was a great loss to the Eight Banners, and more than 7,000 people were killed in the Eight Banners of Manchuria alone, which is equivalent to the complete destruction of one banner. Of course, the actual situation was not so serious, and most of the dead and wounded in the customs were some savage Jurchens who had been annexed from the north two years ago, and these people were consumables in the eyes of the Manchurians.

Relatively speaking, all the casualties in the battles that occurred in Liaodong, such as the Battle of Qinghe, were Zhen Manchuria, and it was precisely because Zhen Manchuria was defeated by the Dongfang Trading Company, which was inferior to them, that they attached so much importance to the army of the Eastern Trading Company.

Nowadays, the Eight Banners, especially the Eight Banners of Manchuria, is a non-renewable resource, and the reason why the war in the Guannai has not opened up the situation is that Dolgon does not want the Eight Banners of Manchuria to fight to the death again. And the rise of an enemy in the Guannai is many times more difficult than the Ming Dynasty, it is foreseeable that the Eight Banners of Manchuria will continue to wear and tear, if they continue to carry the flag to the Han people, in a few years, it will not be like that.

Zilharang said: "Speaking of which, there are also Mongols, Han Chinese and Goryeo people in the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and Prince Rui is right to be worried. These clothed Ahabs who carried the flag directly asked them to join the Taiwanese and Han people, not the Manchurian leaders.

The deficiency in the coating was supplemented by the imperial court, so that the gentry would not have any losses, and let the clothing see the day when they came out and fight with their lives. ”

"What do you mean, to form the Inner Han Army?" Duoduo asked.

Zilharang nodded, and everyone thought about it.

There are Koreans and Han people in the Manchurian Eight Banners, this is known to everyone, the Han people are divided into two kinds in the Manchurian Eight Banners, one is the Bao Yi slave who belongs to the Bao Yi Collar, and the other is not the Bao Yi, but the Han people who have the same status as the Manchurian Banner, called the Taihan people, these Han people are guarding the border with the Manchurian Eight Banners, hence the name.

The army, which was composed of Taiwanese Han people and some of the Baoyi subordinate to Manchuria, was the Inner Han Army, which was distinguished from the Han military banner.

"Although it is handled like this now, Bolo's idea of drawing out of the coat to form an army still has to be tried, which is also a rare thing in the future." Dorgon looked at the crowd and said bluntly.

Zilharang nodded: "Alas, it's true, the emperor has changed in the Guannai, and the thieves are indeed difficult, and there is still the threat of thieves at sea, and some things can't always be conservative." The use of the coats is the same as when the first emperor appeased the Han people and established the Han military flag, and there was great resistance in the early days, but it turned out to be very necessary. ”

Zilharang has said this matter, anyway, it is not a court meeting now, so he naturally does not need to be too cautious.

It can be said that the Battle of Qinghe and the Battle of Yanggezhuang completely shattered the myth that the army was full of invincible. The firearms army of the Oriental Trading Company, the cavalry with infantry against superior forces, can be called strong in combat, while the Shun army, although there is no difference between weapons and organization and the Ming army, can fight and dare to fight.

Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty is now the strongest military force on the Eastern Continent, there is a problem that the Eight Banners Army cannot withstand attrition. Although he fought with the Ming Dynasty for decades, because the Ming army was weak, he could not fight a decent war of annihilation against the Manchu Qing Dynasty at all, and he could not even play a good-looking exchange ratio, and the consumption was not serious, but it could be continuously supplemented through the conquest of Heilongjiang and the robbery of the Guannei.

With the addition of the Han Army Banner, the Mongol Eight Banners, and the army of the feudal clan, the military strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty reached a higher level, and its strength continued to grow.

But that was based on the strength of the Ming Dynasty and the fact that the army could not fight. But now, the northern part of Guannai has completed the change of dynasty, and the Shun army is obviously not comparable to the Ming army, and the future consumption will be even more tragic and abnormal.

If you want to reduce the loss of the Manchurian family, you must constantly make use of all kinds of forces, and use the coating, which can be regarded as a way.

"Let's talk about the conquest of the dynasty, let's talk about it. I thought about it just now, most of the people in the clan are too young, and their prestige is not enough, and the conquest of the dynasty is rarely related to the life and death of the Qing Dynasty.

Draw 15,000 people from the Eight Banners, and then transfer the thousands of troops under the domain to you, so that there will be artillery. More than 3,000 Mongol soldiers from other foreign domains accompanied them into Liaodong, and these Mongol soldiers were also handed over to you. There were more than 20,000 soldiers. Dorgon said.

Dordor said, "In what name? ”

"Just find a reason." Dorgon was dismissive.

Sonny immediately said: "Chao, King Xian is not deferential enough to my Daqing, and he killed the prince, and I, as the suzerain, can ask him for his guilt." ”

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