After Wu Sangui and Dorgon reached a political alliance against Haoge, he led all the soldiers of the Yifan vassal to shave their hair and change their uniforms. So now when Li Weiqun and other cavalry raided the camp, it was difficult to identify the braided heads alone.
It is necessary to distinguish clearly whether Wu Sangui received a large number of real Manchu reinforcements.
The main body of the Yifan vassal troops was the elite of the Guan Ning Army, which also included Gao Di and other troops. It can be regarded as including the Guan Ning Army, an elite army that exhausted the last financial reserves of the Ming Dynasty and exhausted three wages and extra supplies.
In addition, Wu Sangui also took advantage of the opportunity of assassinating Sun Chuanting to recruit Qin army veterans trained by Sun Chuanting.
It can be said that by this time, Wu Sangui, the righteous king of the Qing Dynasty, had collected all the elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty under his command, and had long since become a very important figure.
Wu Sangui's military strength and prominent status, judging from the current situation, are even greater than the same period in history - after all, the "Pingxi King" in later history was idled by Dorgon not long after he opened Shanhaiguan.
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Although this "Pingxi King" was transferred to the Pass in the fourth year of Shunzhi to suppress the anti-Qing rebels in the northwest, his status was only equivalent to that of the Eight Banners general Li Guohan.
It was not until Li Dingguo became famous in two places, the strength of the Eight Banners of Manchuria declined significantly, and the Qing court began to adopt the policy of using the Han Dynasty to control the Han Dynasty that Wu Sangui's status gradually became prominent. On August 19, the 10th year of Shunzhi, the Qing court presided over the imperial congress
After Pingxi King Wu Sangui married the princess to Wu Yingxiong, Sangui's eldest son, Wu Sangui and his "Pingxi Fan" truly became independent.
In other words, the strength and status of King Wu Sangui of Yi at this time were actually equivalent to the "King of Pingxi" ten years after Shunzhi in later history.
This is naturally because Li Laiheng defeated the Eight Banners soldiers in three battles. It can be said that every improvement in the status of the Han people in the history of the Qing Dynasty was due to the defeat of the Eight Banners soldiers. It was because the Manchu Eight Banners soldiers could no longer suppress the Han people.
Only the Qing court would improve the status of the Han people.
There is not much difference between Wu Sangui, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang.
He should also be grateful. If it hadn't been for Li Dingguo's fight in later history, and if it hadn't been for Li Laiheng's three battles and three victories today, Wu Sangui, a shameless, despicable, inferior to pigs and dogs, and a traitor scum spurned by animals, would have received the attention of the Qing court.
, can we divide vassals and build a government in a real sense?
Most of the time, the traitors and scum who betrayed their nation should also be grateful to Li Dingguo and Li Laiheng, who were indomitable fighters. Otherwise, how could the traitors sell their nation for a good price?
After the Yifan vassal troops were reorganized, the elite among them, that is, the troops belonging to Wu Sangui's direct lineage, were mainly elite cavalry with as many as 15,000 people.
These cavalry were all reorganized using the Eight Banners military system and were reorganized into Yifan Left Banner, Yifan Middle Banner, and Yifan Right Banner, a total of 75 elite troops under the three banners.
The rest of the troops, composed of the weaker remnants of the Guanning Army from Qiantun Town, Shanhaiguan Town, Qin Army, Shandong Bing and other towns, were reorganized into Yifan's Assistance Suppression of Left Town, Yifan's Assistance Suppression of Right Town, and Yifan's Assistance Suppression of Qian.
Town, Yi Fan assisted and suppressed Hou Town with a total of more than 20,000 infantry and artillery troops in four towns.
In addition, Wu Sangui also has many Shaanxi green battalions assigned to him by Dorgon and local downgraded officials and gentry under his command. The strength of the Yifan vassal soldiers is quite considerable, both in terms of individual combat strength and the overall number of troops.
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Although the night was dark at the moment, there were still a lot of lights in the barracks of the Yifan vassal soldiers, and there were also quite a lot of night guards and listeners on patrol. After Li Weiqun divided his elite cavalry into several teams to strangle the surrounding Qing troops, he
Knowing that with the night vigil force arranged by Wu Sangui, it would not be long before the Qing army would be aware of the existence of the Shun army's night attack force.
Therefore, Li Weiqun did not wait for any further delay and immediately ordered each team of cavalry to break into the Qing camp from different angles.
Because Wu Sangui built the camp very wide and the roads in the camp were also very spacious, this was not only conducive to the Qing army's organization of counterattacks, but also conducive to the galloping of the cavalry during night attacks.
"Come in!"
Li Weiqun gave the order, and the knights of the army raised fire one after another. After igniting the special ten thousand enemy filled with gunpowder, they vigorously waved their arms and threw it into the Qing army's camp.
Thousands of enemies were detonated by the flames. In the orange-red explosion flames, the rumbling thunder opened the prelude to the night attack of the Shunjun cavalry. The soldiers then drew out their blunderbuss, charged forward and threw torches, while using the weapons they had already loaded.
The short-handed musket concentrated its fire and killed the patrolling knights and the night watchmen holding torches in the Qing army camp.
The firelight illuminated part of the night sky, but overall, the Qing army camp was still dominated by darkness. Most of the Yifan soldiers were caught off guard and were still in shock and chaos, but the Chu Chuang knights showed their organization
With an astonishing advantage, under the leadership of cavalry sergeants, a small team of dozens of people rushed wildly into the depths of the Qing army's camp.
They either threw thousands of enemies at them, burned them with fire, or directly killed the enemy soldiers with short-handed blunderbuss and sabers, trying their best to create chaos in the Qing army's camp.
As for the Qing army, because the camp was built not long ago, their footing was not stable, and even the watchtowers and camp walls had not yet been built. Although Wu Sangui's troops were indeed very strict in keeping watch at night, they were still in a panic when they were suddenly attacked at night.
What's more, in the darkness, the side with a higher degree of organization already had a huge advantage. Due to the darkness of night, most of the Yifan soldiers could only fight on their own, and only a few troops reluctantly gathered together in brightly lit areas.
However, the Chu Chuang knights all came well prepared, and there were a large number of cavalry non-commissioned officers in the army to restrain the troops at all times, so that the Chu Chuang cavalry detachment of dozens of people could use their arms and fingers to cooperate with friendly forces in interspersed operations.
, causing a wave of blood in the Qing army camp.
Wu Sangui's lieutenant Yang Kun just woke up from his dream. An enemy bomb with ten thousand enemies was falling near his tent. The earth-shattering explosion made Yang Kun break out in cold sweat. Several servants rushed into the tent in panic, waiting for him to escape.
The good armor took him out.
As soon as Yang Kun was taken out, he came back to his senses. He took down the torch in front of the tent, lit the tent where he was sleeping, and shouted loudly:
"Gather the archers and gunmen here!"
He shouted repeatedly: "Light the fire, light the fire, light the fire quickly. Archers and gunmen are here, Yang Kun is here, don't be alarmed, troops!"
Wu Sangui's subordinates who were originally attacking in Ningyuan Town, Song Yougong, were the first to react. He rushed to Yang Kun's camp with dozens of servants, and then other generals successively brought about two to three hundred soldiers.
After these troops gathered together, Yang Kun breathed a sigh of relief:
"Generals, please do not be disturbed by the bandits. Go quickly and call on all ministries to gather troops... The bandits are still outside the main camp. King Yi's middle camp has not yet been plundered by the bandits. Immediately send people to the camp of the middle camp to report the military situation to King Yi.
, we must urgently mobilize troops and reinforcements to drive away the bandits!"
Yang Kun's performance was quite calm. After the Yifan army gathered together, they slowly began to launch a counterattack. It was difficult for the gunmen to fill the gunpowder and shoot the bullets in the night, and Yang Kun was also worried about the gunmen's sudden counterattack.
The sound may scare more friendly troops, and the bullets have no eyes, so there are many accidental injuries.
Song Yougong ordered the archers to gather in one place and fire arrows at the large group of people riding horses in the camp. The arrows flew out in the dark night, and the air kept making swish and bang sounds, and the feathers were flying, and they followed the army.
There were quite a few soldiers in the team who were unfortunately hit by arrows and fell from their horses, but there were also some Yifan soldiers who were unfortunately killed by friendly arrows in the darkness.
Yang Kun cursed urgently: "Gather the troops first, don't blindly counterattack...the troops must not move lightly!"