Yang Fan looked at the Zhenglan Banner and the Han Army Flag in the distance.
From the telescope, I looked very carefully. Because the performance of the Type 62 telescope was very good, I could clearly see the uniforms of the Han military flag.
"Hey! These Han military flags are so strange. At first glance, their clothes are very similar, but upon closer inspection they are different. It seems that some are wearing armor and some are not." Yang Fan said strangely.
"Of course, they are actually slaves of the Eight Banners. How can they be treated the same as their masters?" Lin Yueru curled her lips and said.
"That's right, they thought that they would live a good life if they surrendered to the Jiannu. Hmm, it's not that simple. They were not strictly separated by Huang Taiji and the Eight Banners of the Jiannu. When marching, they were the vanguard, leading the battle, and the vanguard. They set up camp independently.
Camp. Normally, I have to serve as an auxiliary soldier for the Eight Banners of Jiannu, cooking, feeding horses, washing clothes, and doing chores." Xiao Niangpi said with disdain.
"Then what's their armor rate?" Yang Fan asked.
"The Jiannu clan is all wearing armor, and the Mongolian Eight Banners have two strong men and one is wearing armor. The Han Army Banner has five strong men, and one is wearing armor." Lin Yueru said.
She is in charge of intelligence, so of course it is up to her to explain these situations clearly to the master.
Yang Fan also curled his lips, it seems that the puppet soldiers have always been third-class people in any era. They are also looked down upon by their new masters.
"However, even though there is a gap in status between them and Jiannu, Jiannu is still quite capable of winning over them." Lin Yueru said.
Then Lin Yueru introduced Huang Taiji's methods to win over and control the Han army flag.
After Huang Taiji came to the throne, on the one hand he actively engaged in expansionary policies, on the other hand he still paid attention to easing ethnic and social conflicts.
Yue Tuo once suggested to Huang Taiji to implement the strategy of marriage between Manchu and Han Dynasty.
Any Han official of the first rank who returns will be given a daughter from the Baylor as his wife.
The second-grade Han official is to marry the daughter of the belle and minister in the country.
Even though I already have a wife, I still give her the beauties and ministers’ daughters to show my integrity.
As for the ordinary soldiers who surrendered, the widows belonging to each Niulu were checked and given a wife, or the state treasury paid for them to find another wife from among the people.
In addition, different pieces of land were allocated to the officers and soldiers of the Ming army for their livelihood.
The best way to make someone feel at ease is to start a family for him.
If he has a wife and children, he will be tied down. Even if he is treated unfairly, the thought of his wife and children will make him cringe.
After the Han army surrendered, regardless of whether they had family records or not, they all remarried wives who were slaves and gave birth to half-bloods as their legitimate sons. Only the legitimate sons could inherit their father's errands and benefits.
Coupled with the allocation of land, the morale of the military was basically stabilized.
If you are single, you can eat enough for one person and the whole family will not be hungry. If something happens, you will be impulsive. If you are bullied by the slaves, you will easily resist or escape back to the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, Huang Taiji is still scheming and has a good way of controlling people.
Yang Fan took a closer look and found that these Han military flags belonged to the Zhenglan Banner. They were indeed one for every five people, wearing short armor with cloth face armor. That is, the armor skirt reaches the stomach of the knee. (It is convenient for infantry to march.
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Although the remaining four people's clothing and cloth armor look the same, but if you look closely, you can see the difference. Their clothes are soft because their armor stomachs are made of cotton armor and there is no iron plate sandwiched inside.
The normal Eight Banners cloth face armor is made up of two layers of cotton armor with a layer of iron sheets sandwiched between them. The two ends are fixed with copper cannon nails. Yang Fan can tell whether he is wearing armor just by looking at whether there are cannon nails on his clothes.
"The leather armor rate of these fifteen thousand people is so low. How can they be the opponents of our militia? It seems that I really think highly of them. How many Niulu are there in the Han army flag? How does it compare with Jiannu and Mongolia?"
Yang Fan asked.
"Sir, Huang Taiji must not only use them, but also guard against them. Their number must be much smaller than that of Jiannu, otherwise the Eight Banners will not be able to deter them," Lin Yueru said.
"The current information we have is that there are 300 Niulu in the Jiannu headquarters, and each Niulu has 300 people. Among these 300 people, there are 100 guards, that is, Baiya La soldiers. Among them, they are divided according to their elite level.
There are three levels of white fang soldiers, red fang soldiers, and black fang soldiers. Looking at it this way, there are about 90,000 combat soldiers. This does not include the private soldiers owned by each banner owner, Baylor, and the commander.
Ya La Bing."
Yang Fan said doubtfully: "I heard that the Jiannu had 100,000 cavalry and 100,000 heavy infantry. It seems to be more than this."
Tu Shanyue knew that Yang Fan sometimes didn't know much about common common sense issues.
Explained: "Sir, Niu Lu is a pure combat force. An army consists of many other personnel, and the number must be larger than that of a pure combat force."
As soon as Tu Shanyue reminded him, Yang Fan suddenly realized.
It is indeed the case.
Take the modern army as an example. The company is the one that really fights, and the rest are not combat units.
According to the three-three system, a battalion has three companies, a regiment has nine companies, and a division has twenty-seven companies. Including the companies directly under the division headquarters, there are about thirty companies.
Generally, a company has about 100 to 120 people, and 30 companies only have more than 3,000 people. However, a division has about 10,000 people.
In other words, there are only more than 3,000 real combatants in a division. This is also the reason why a unit loses its combat effectiveness after losing 30% of its combat effectiveness. Because all combatants are lost.
In the same way, Niulu is a pure combat force, and the actual army must be much larger than this.
Yang Fan nodded and said: "I understand, how many cows are there in the Han military flag and the Mongolian flag?"
"The Han Army Banner and the Eight Mongolian Banners each have only 200 Niulu, and each Niulu has only 200 people. The difference is that they do not have a guard army, and they are all ordinary soldiers." Lin Yueru said.
Yang Fan noticed that Lin Yueru used the name Han Junqi, while the Mongolians became the Mongolian Eight Banners. He knew that Lin Yueru spoke strictly and it was not a slip of the tongue. There must be a reason.
"Isn't the Han army divided into eight banners? Only the Mongolian army is divided into eight banners?" Yang Fan asked.
"The Han people did not have the term "Eight Banners" when it came to establishing slaves. Lin Yueru said.
Yang Fan was stunned. Could it be that the famous Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty hadn't appeared yet.
Tu Shanyue saw that Yang Fan was not sure about the situation and gave Yang Fan a brief introduction.
It turned out that after Nurhaci raised troops to rebel against the Ming Dynasty, many Ming guard troops and battalions surrendered. At first, he called these people the Han Army instead of the Han Army Banner.
Moreover, the name Han Army on the Jiannu side did not appear for a long time.
The word "Han Army" first appeared in the eighth year of Tianming. Before that, the Han army had another name - Han soldiers.
The name "Han soldiers" formally formed a fixed military organization no more than four years after Tianming. At that time, the Han soldiers had six Jia La and more than 30,000 men.
During the Mandate of Heaven, Nurhachi fought against the Ming army in the Liaodong region. At that time, the main military forces of the Hou Jin regime were the Eight Banners of Manchuria and a limited number of Mongolian soldiers (the Eight Banners of Mongolia were not yet complete at this time, so they were called the Eight Banners, but actually there were two banners).
