Those Han people who were captured or voluntarily surrendered and became slaves did not have the right to wear armor and serve as soldiers.
Assigned to Jianzhou as slaves by Nurhaci, they could only follow their masters on expeditions, work as fodder to feed horses during wars, collect firewood for cooking, or assist their owners in robbing people and animals.
During this period, there were relatively few Han people.
But since Nurhachi continued to win, and successively captured important towns such as Qinghe, Kaiyuan, Tieling, Guangning, Jinzhou, and Yizhou.
A large number of Han people surrendered. These people were incorporated into civilian households and recruited into the army during wartime. They were similar to the militia recruited by Yang Fan.
This group of people was the core of the Han Army Banner later.
In the later period of Tianming, with the frequent wars, the scale became larger and larger. Due to the needs of military strategy, many Han people began to wear armor and join the army.
From this time on, the system of selecting one person from twenty men to serve as a soldier was implemented. The household registration of these strong men was still civilians, not military household registration.
This is different from the Manchurian Eight Banners' "one out of three" military system. In terms of military and other management systems, Han soldiers and Eight Banners soldiers are also completely different.
Nurhachi became very irritable and mediocre in his later years. He implemented a series of incomprehensible measures, which caused the conflict between Manchu and Han to rapidly intensify.
His policy of massacre caused an unprecedented catastrophe to many Ming Dynasty landlords, gentry, and generals who had defected to Hou Jin Dynasty. Almost no one survived.
After killing poor ghosts, killing rich households and other catastrophes, the surviving Han people were scattered in pieces and had no organizational system. They were forced to reorganize them into Zhuangtun. They were divided into eight banners and given to princes and ministers as slaves.
In Nurhachi's later years, the Han soldiers were completely banned by him and basically disappeared, and they no longer formed an army.
Only the prince-in-law Li Yongfang was deeply trusted and his troops were able to be retained in an organized form.
That is to say, Yang Fan now faces this part of the army. They are informally called the Han Army Banners. (The real Eight Banners of the Han Army were reorganized after Huang Taiji came to power, not Li Yongfang's army. Now, they don't exist yet.
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"The fact that Li Yongfang's army can be preserved is related to their nature. Jiannu's intelligence system has two armies. One is the secret cavalry, and the leader is Bobai who was killed by the master himself. The other is the infantry. Right in front of you.
This special agent army, nicknamed the Han Banner, often wore makeup and sneaked into the Ming Dynasty's cities, working together to open the city gates." Lin Yueru said.
"Although they are temporarily affiliated to the Zhenglan Banner, they are Nurhaci's subordinates. After Nurhaci died, they were temporarily under the management of the Zhenglan Banner."
Yang Fan understood clearly that the so-called Eight Banners of the Han Army, Huang Taiji, should still be in preparation. The army in front of him is an out-and-out traitor and puppet army with no national bottom line. It also serves as a detective team to spy on the Han people.
Resistance work. At the same time, a large number of people sneaked into the Ming Dynasty to spy on intelligence.
None of these bastards are good.
Yang Fan asked: "What are the coated slaves and the aha slaves in Jiannu? What is the difference between these two kinds of slaves?"
This is a problem that has troubled Yang Fan for a long time. For example, Cao Xueqin's family is a servant of the Han army. General Nian Gengyao is a servant of the Zhengbai Banner of the Han Army.
It seems that promising slaves are all born in Baoyi, and I have never heard of nobles coming from Aha.
Xiao Niangpi said: "Master, I know this. If you are a slave serving the master's family, you are a slave. For example, Zhang Guda and Xiang Yi are your slaves. They are the people around the master, trusted and even favored.
.So there is a great chance of being reused. Those who work and are slaves outside the family are Aha. For example, the 100,000 households below are farming."
At this time, the two armies had stopped advancing and were facing each other in formation about fifty meters apart.
Li Yongfang didn't have a telescope. When he walked to the confrontation between the two armies, he saw clearly that the gray patch on the opposite side was not clothes at all. It was a whole body of armor and stomach.
These armor stomachs are not the style of the Ming Dynasty and Daijin at all. They are pure metal armor stomachs. And they are not composed of armor pieces. They are all large and solid metal sheets. They look very flexible and the workmanship looks very sophisticated.
These armored stomachs are completely covered from head to toe. Even the backs of the hands and the outsides of the fingers are covered in sections by metal sheets, and the insides are chainmail gloves. Even if you can grab a sword with bare hands, it will be fine.
Even with the frosted surface, it does not reflect light in the sun. It seems that even if you attack at night, it is not easy to be discovered because it does not reflect firelight.
His Han army was fairly well equipped. Only one of the five men was wearing armor. This difference in equipment made him gasp and almost fall off his horse.
The weapons on the opposite side were also very strange, he had never seen them before.
The spear is not a spear, and the spear is not a spear. Under the spearhead, on the left is a sickle-like hook with two blades on both sides, and on the right is an axe. The long pole is actually flat, and is a full foot long.
He was an old man and an intelligence officer, so he immediately understood that these strange weapons should be a special kind of halberd. The curved hook was used to kill horizontally, or to hook the cavalry's armor.
Used by cavalrymen from their horses.
He was a personal participant in the Battle of Hunhe in Shenyang. The spears of the white-poled soldiers at that time also had a small steel hook, but it was not as big as this one and did not look as sophisticated.
At that time, a large number of charging Eight Banners cavalry were pulled off their horses by these hooks and sickles, and were either stabbed to death or captured alive.
At that time, Shi Shan reported to Nurhaci: "The infantry of the Ming Dynasty are all elite soldiers, brave and good at fighting, and they will not retreat. One of my generals and two guerrillas were captured. The generals attacked bravely, but were defeated by the Sichuan army first.
(white flag), and defeated the yellow standard soldiers (i.e. yellow flag), killing two or three thousand people who fell off their horses."
At that time, the Sichuan barracks were very strong, and many attacks by the Hou Jin Dynasty failed. "Thousands of people from the Eight Banners' strong force were killed by guns and crossbows," so Nurhaci rushed to "rear troops to help."
However, after increasing the number of troops, it was still a stalemate without any progress.
At that time, it was his own idea to the Great Khan to use the Luzon bronze cannon on the Shenyang city wall to bombard the white-armed soldiers to clear up the mess.
Li Yongfang rushed to Shenyang and found the Ming Dynasty artilleryman who had just been captured in Shenyang. He personally untied the gunner and rewarded him with a large sum of money. He persuaded the artillery general He Shiyan to use the captured heavy artillery and drag it to the front of the formation with oxen to attack the Sichuan army.
At that time, these cannons played a huge role. The twenty-four-pound artillery shells directly destroyed the military formation of the white soldiers.
Those who were hit by the cannon were all smashed to pieces. One cannon shot filled the alley with blood.
After a fierce battle, the Sichuan army was finally hungry and fatigued, unable to support itself, and was completely wiped out.
Today, I actually saw these strange weapons here again. Unfortunately, I did not have the support of the red cannon team at this time.
His palms were covered in cold sweat, and he began to regret taking this job.
However, Dajin's military discipline was very strict, and he did not dare to retreat without permission, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet.
"Archers from the rear team, fire heavy arrows. Attack from the front team!" Li Yongfangsheng ordered.
The bows of the Eight Banners are all heavy bows and can only fire heavy arrows. Their infantry bows cannot be strung longer than 1.8 meters. Because the bow power is huge, when firing light arrows, the power cannot be fully consumed, and the remaining energy will damage the bow body. Therefore.
It can only fire heavy arrows of one meter and two meters.
Li Yongfang secretly hoped that the heavy arrow could penetrate their armor. Otherwise, this battle would be really difficult to win.
