War is fought for the strength of both sides.

This strength includes all the war potential that can be mobilized.

It comes down to people.

The Ming army did not have the strength.

1. There is no personnel supplement;

Second, there is no territory;

Third, there is no money and food.

The remaining area of the entire base area is now as large as a few townships in later generations, with 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers and people, and if it weren't for the treacherous terrain, it would have been leveled by the Qing army.

The Qing court, on the other hand, owned the entire Chinese mainland except for the islands.

In terms of population, the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Qing Dynasty in the seventeenth year of Shunzhi ordered all provinces to carry out a population "census", and the population data was more than 19.2 million.

In other words, the total population of the Qing occupation area is less than that of the Shanghai market in later generations.

Following the Wuhu, China has entered another period of extreme demographic decline.

This data is said by Zhang Changgeng and is very credible.

As a high-ranking official at the level of a governor, of course, he has access to the top secret of the feudal dynasty of population figures.

Of course, there must be hidden households in various places, as well as hidden households and escapes.

For example, although Yungui under the control of Wu Sangui is mostly a no-man's land, the population reported to the Qing court is only a few hundred thousand, and the actual population will not be less than one million.

Because there were a large number of Tusi-controlled areas in Yungui, it was impossible for the population of these places to be counted by the Qing court.

The same is true for Sichuan, which has a population of tens of thousands.

In the depths of the mountains, there are no less than hundreds of thousands of fugitives.

Populations that cannot be counted cannot be utilized.

The population of more than 19.2 million people counted by the Manchu Household Department three years ago was all the manpower that the Qing court could use.

That is, the war potential of the Qing court.

The population has decreased by nine-tenths compared with the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the contradictions caused by various lands have naturally disappeared.

A new beginning, if there is no war, there will naturally be a prosperous era.

In the past, there were many people and few places, but now there are many people and few people.

Any feudal dynasty can have a prosperous era or rule the world at the beginning of the country, and this is the reason.

It has nothing to do with productivity, let alone benevolence, it is purely the reason why there are fewer people.

After the Qing army entered the customs, they continued to slaughter the city, constantly slaughtered and created no man's land, looking like they wanted to deter the Ming Dynasty from rebelling against the army and people, but in fact they didn't want to repeat Chongzhen's back road.

They just don't want to carry the burden of the Ming Dynasty, because they can't solve the contradictions brought about by land annexation.

If you don't want to revolt peasants everywhere like the Ming Dynasty, killing people has become the only and most efficient way.

The effect is undoubtedly good.

In most areas, at least, Qing rule was entrenched.

The people's hearts are also peaceful.

The people just want to have food to live, and they don't care whether they have braids or not.

This led to the doom of the anti-Qing cause.

30,000 or 40,000 people against the Qing court, which has a population of nearly 20 million and occupies the entire land of China, is a situation that is difficult for anyone to do.

Therefore, Wang Wu could only choose to take advantage of the favorable situation of Huanglongshan's victory to dance on the eggs, and at the cost of shaving his own hair and reducing the clean, he could preserve the last anti-Qing fire.

However, the typical colonial rule of the Manchu regime gave Wang Wu the opportunity to survive in the cracks and weaken its fundamentals.

This opportunity is to turn the Eight Banners, especially the Full Eight Banners, into cripples.

The Eight Banners of Jingying have been completely abolished in the battle of Huanglongshan, and what Mu Lima lost in this battle is the war potential of the entire Eight Banners of Jingying.

Within ten years, the Qing court simply had no ability to mobilize another army of 10,000 people.

Without other reasons, the total population of the Eight Banners of Manchuria itself is limited.

Including the Eight Banners stationed in various places, the number of Cheng Ding in the Eight Banners will be about tens of thousands.

After the battle of Huanglongshan, there may not be more than 10,000 people in Yanjing.

There are quite a few young Mamans, but it takes time for them to grow up.

Therefore, the Manchurian Eight Banners, which were originally green and yellow, have actually existed in name only after the battle of Huanglongshan.

This is evidenced by history.

After Wu Sangui raised his army, the Mongolian Bulni took the opportunity to raise troops to attack Yanjing, but because of the battle of Huanglongshan ten years ago, the people of the Eight Banners of the Beijing camp withered, and there was no Cheng Ding at all.

No matter how you put it together, the Qing court couldn't put together a single soldier.

There was no way, so Kangxi adopted Tuhai's suggestion and mobilized the Jian slaves from the princes and ministers' families to join the army, which allowed him to get an army of 50,000 people, thereby alleviating the "shortage of soldiers" in the Qing court.

The so-called Eight Banners slaves are brave and brave, that is, Han people.

This army composed of Baoyi was later brought by Tuhai to the northwest to pacify Wang Fuchen, and another group was led by Prince Kang Jieshu to deal with Geng Jingzhong, becoming the main force of the so-called Eight Banners in the Eastern and Western Battlefields.

Therefore, whether it is the Green Battalion or the Eight Banners who pacified the three feudatories, they are all Han Chinese.

The real Manchurian soldiers are unusable.

Tu Hai is dead, whether Kangxi will still think of the tens of thousands of healthy servants in Yanjing City in the future, Wang Wu is not sure.

What he has to do now is to constantly weaken the war potential of the Manchurian Eight Banners, shake Manchuria's core position in the Eight Banners, and loosen the military organization of the Eight Banners.

Planted the root of the fall of the Eight Banners.

Under normal circumstances, to achieve this goal, of course, is to kill a true full when he catches one.

But Wang Wu thought of a more efficient way.

You just don't have to kill them all, you just have to turn them into disabilities.

A soldier of the Eight Banners who died in battle can take a pension, but a disabled soldier of the Eight Banners needs much more "resources" than a dead person.

As far as the more than 1,000 Xi'an garrison Eight Banner captives in Zhushan City are concerned, if they are killed, the Qing court can transfer people from other places to replenish them, and even transfer people from the Mongolian and Han armies by carrying flags.

But if these captives were not killed, and only turned into wastes who could no longer go to war, the Qing court would have a headache.

It is impossible for the Qing court to ignore these disabled Eight Banner soldiers, nor can it drive them out of the Eight Banners, so that the "establishment" is occupied by these disabled Eight Banner soldiers, and more resources are invested in them, and over time, it will lead to the weakening of the war potential of the Qing court.

Most importantly, Wang Wu hoped that these disabled Eight Banners soldiers could bring terror to the Eight Banners.

Lingde Eight Banners did not dare to fight from then on.

"The Han army and the Mongols only chopped one hand, and the Manchurians chopped both hands!"

Wang Wu further refined the strategy.

That is, the captured Han Eight Banners and Meng Eight Banners can only be chopped off with one hand, but the hands of the Eight Banners have to be chopped off, so it is necessary to see how many people still dream of carrying into the Eight Banners.

Ma Bao accepted the proposal and ordered it to be carried out.

The screams of the city soon sounded, and the captured Eight Banners soldiers and the pigs and sheep to be slaughtered were dragged to the stake and forcibly chopped off.

Although he was very tired, Wang Wu still watched with interest, until someone in the crowd suddenly shouted at him: "General save me, general save me!" ”

Looking for prestige, who is it not the Cao family's Baoyi Nuta Abai?

Without much thought, Wang Wu left his hand under the knife and ordered someone to take Ta Abai aside, and was about to ask him why he didn't receive his letter, but the other party begged him if he could save another person.

Wang Wu asked him who he would save.

As a result, he was told that he was the consul in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Wang Wu didn't know who Mi Sihan was, and Ta Abai hurriedly said that this person was sent from the palace.

"What does the one sent by the palace have to do with me?"

Wang Wu doesn't want to be a good person, he instinctively refuses, but if he loses his hands, he can't die.

I didn't want Ta Abai to say urgently: "I know that the general intends to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, so why not surrender directly to the emperor?" ”