However, what frightened Leng Sengji was that after the six or seven thousand cavalry, there were more than four thousand infantry. These people were not wearing Zhenglan Banner uniforms. They were wearing animal skins.
Judging from their furs and the chain mails that were open to reveal their inner parts, these people were Jurchens from the Changbai Mountains. They were semi-subordinated to Shenyang and were not incorporated into the Eight Banners.
In fact, the origin of the Eight Banners is very complicated. Generally speaking, various tribes in the Northeast have some. They are slaves captured in the war. Those who brought their families with them were assigned to Beile, Beizi, heroes, and bannermen. They formed a kind of Many levels of slave-slave-owner relationships.
The slaves assigned in the early days became older bannermen. In the subsequent battles, they were assigned slaves because of their military exploits and became masters. Thus, a slave society with a pyramid structure was formed.
There were also many savage tribes that were defeated and conquered. The method adopted by Jianzhou was to take away the elite soldiers and organize them into the Eight Banners. The remaining old and weak people were consuming the population, not producing the population, and they did not want it.
They only want the strongest warrior who can bring them robbery benefits.
Therefore, besides the Eight Banners in the Northeast, there are still many tribes that exist. The Eight Banners are just elite military organizations of these tribes.
The war losses of the Eight Banners were replenished by re-drawing elite populations from these tribes. In recent years, as the climate has become colder, survival has become difficult. In addition, Maozi's continuous expansion to the Far East has caused a large number of Tungus ethnic groups in Siberia to flee south. These populations have also He was incorporated into the Banner Corps as a slave.
The population of Tunguska who fled south is very large, which is also the reason why Siberia is empty.
What we see in history books today are records of the Ming Dynasty left by the Qing Dynasty, and there are very few historical books that have not been edited. What we see are how brave the Eight Banners were and how the Ming army was weak.
Actually, this is not the case. The Qing Dynasty was not that strong, they exaggerated. The Ming Dynasty was not that weak, they deliberately belittled it.
The sixty years between the fall of the Ming Dynasty and the rise of the Qing Dynasty were the sixty years when the world collapsed. Many soldiers died in the Ming Dynasty, but there were also many in the Qing Dynasty. The early bannermen were basically consumed in the war.
After entering the customs for twenty years, I could no longer ride a horse. During the Yongzheng Dynasty, the bannermen began to become unusable.
This is not only because the luxurious life after entering the customs has worn away their will. From another aspect, it also shows that their elite soldiers suffered heavy casualties. After entering the customs, their vitality was severely damaged.
After Shunzhi arrived in the imperial capital, he began to use the green battalion troops adapted from the surrendered former Ming army to go south. In fact, except for Shanxi and northern Hebei, large areas of land were pacified by the green battalion.
When Hauge conquered Zhang Xianzhong, most of his troops were Han Chinese. After pacifying Sichuan, the main force in both the Yangzhou and Guangzhou battles was not the Eight Banners. The limited Eight Banners were actually just a supervising team. Even the Yangzhou Jiading Many of the massacres were carried out by Green Camp soldiers.
Leng Sengji understood that they were doomed. After trying every possible means, they defeated Mangguji, but lost to Zhenglan Banner. Because he had already seen the ferocious-looking giant under Zhenglan Banner.
He was the eunuch of Mangguji. Although he was later secretly instigated by Xitangzi to spy on Manggurtai and Mangguji brother and sister for Huang Taiji. However, he was very familiar with the brothers and sisters.
This new force of the Zhenglan Banner has suffered enough abuse and beatings in the past two years. The Mongolians in Duolun will not treat them well. They have been working hungry. At this time, they have been working for more than a year.
The anger of the mistreatment was vented on these Mongols.
After all, they are all Mongolian. They all look the same and speak the same language.
This is where Yang Fan's evil deeds lie. Let the Mongols manage the slaves and make them more antagonistic. These slaves will hate the Mongols.
When they were released, Zhao Shuigan mobilized all the doctors in the city to treat their illnesses. Then they ate wine and meat every day for half a month before letting them go. These people's physical strength quickly improved.
Zhao Shuigen explained to many dissatisfied Mongolians and Han people: "I often say that you can't let the horses run and not eat grass at the same time. There is no such truth in this world. Since they are sent back to cause trouble for Huang Taiji, it cannot be done.
Let them drag their sick bodies back. The emperor still needs hungry soldiers."
When the cavalrymen of Zhenglan Banner saw the Mongols, their eyes turned red. Moreover, these Mongols were surrounding and killing their nephews.
As for those Changbai Mountain Jurchens, they are completely mercenaries.
Mang Gurtai promised to let them challenge the spoils, women and livestock first. They immediately became as excited as if they had been given blood.
In this era, ethnic minorities sent troops basically for the sake of loot and the benefits of robbing the people along the way. To be loyal to the emperor and patriotic, only a few generals would have this idea. For example, Qin Liangyu from Shizhu, and Zhenxiong from Yunnan
Mother and daughter, as well as the three female chieftain sisters of the Bai family, etc.
These people were persuaded by Amin because they heard that these Donghai people had robbed the entire northern tribe and were very fat. They must have brought their property, women, children, cattle and sheep with them all the way.
They robbed them all. Now you only need to rob them and you will get them all.
They felt that what Uncle Amin said was reasonable.
What a bargain this is! So what are you waiting for?
As a result, they did not encounter the Donghai people, and were beaten up by the Sauron people. Half of them died. They were beaten like fools.
This made them realize that their attempt to rob the Donghai people was completely hysterical.
Moreover, after being defeated and captured, they were all in panic. They were afraid of being killed. As a result, the Sauron people did not plan to take them to the Daxingan Mountains to be slaves. Instead, they transferred them to the people of Zhenglan Banner.
In this wild land, the rule is that whoever is captured is his slave and the other party is his master. They became slaves of Zhenglan Banner. Then, they went to join forces with Mang Gurtai, the leader of Zhenglan Banner.
How can these mountain people understand the affairs of the slaves? But they all know that the flag owner of the Zhenglan Banner is Mang Gurtai, one of the Four Belles. This is not false.
They simply planned to follow Zhenglan Banner. Because Mang Gurtaixu gave them the benefits they could get. After all, it was hard to be empty-handed. Then they just followed Zhenglan Banner, so these people became
Mercenaries of the Zhenglan Banner.
The cavalrymen of the Zhenglan Banner are not brats like Shang Jian and others. They are real veterans. They are all the people who followed Nurhachi. Their fighting power is very strong.
They joined the battlefield, and the Mongols collapsed immediately.
But they couldn't escape anymore, because they were all fighting on foot. At this time, it was impossible to find horses and mount them to fight the Zhenglan flag outside.
A large number of Jurchen infantry also surrounded them. They were surrounded both inside and outside.
"Ama, it's Ama. Ama is back. Auntie, look quickly." Shang Jian shouted with tears.
"It's them. The Zhenglan Banner that disappeared on the grassland has returned, and it has brought people from various tribes in the Changbai Mountains." Mangguji said excitedly.
Sonomuduleng was so frightened that he fell to the ground. Their tribe was finished. They had begun to kneel down and surrender in large numbers, begging Zhenglan Banner not to kill them. They were already willing to be Zhenglan Banner's slaves.
