Chapter 60 Soldiers send troops to the Central Plains
The Qing Dynasty mobilized most of its mobile troops outside and inside the customs, leaving only 30,000 to 40,000 old and weak soldiers in the border forts. Dorgon actually gathered and mobilized about 200,000 mobile field troops, known as
300,000, making a sweeping southern expedition.
In order to raise military supplies, Northern Zhili, northern Shaanxi, and the entire territory of Shaanxi were double-exploited by the Qing government. Dorgon believed in a truth. It was not that the Ming army was not good at fighting, but that Emperor Chongzhen could not provide adequate pay to the Ming army.
Food support does not allow officers to treat soldiers well.
In terms of pure combat effectiveness, although there is a considerable gap between the general troops of the Ming Army, the Guanning Army, and the Eight Banners soldiers. This is mainly reflected in martial arts, equestrian skills, and artillery skills. However, many of the peasant soldiers of the Dashun Army picked up
Weapons and military training lasted only a few months. Are their martial arts and military skills more powerful than Ming soldiers with several years of military experience?
Dorgon didn't think so.
The Ming army paid twenty taels per year to combat troops and twelve taels per year to temporarily recruited volunteers.
Dorgon formally established the establishment of the Green Battalion, and the Ming Dynasty's border army system officially declared its existence in name only, or rather the entire Ming Dynasty's institutional framework. Except that Dorgon still retained the throne of Tongzhi Emperor Zhu Cixiang, in fact,
The entire Ming Dynasty court existed in name only and was completely replaced by the Qing Dynasty.
The green camp soldiers were mainly the Ming Dynasty Xuanda, the three-sided border troops and the soldiers and horses of the towns in the Jingying camp recruited by the Qing army, Wu Sangui's Yifan vassal soldiers, and the Han soldiers of Sanshun Wang and Yishun Gong, were not included in this list.
Even so, the treatment of the Green Camp soldiers was not bad at all. This was completely different from the treatment enjoyed by the Ming army in the past.
Dorgon used the battalion as the basic organization for the Green Battalion. The camp system was divided into four categories: Biao, Xie, Ying, and Xun. The governor, governor, admiral, and general were called Biao, and the deputy generals were called Xie, Shenjiang, and Guerrilla.
Dusi, the garrison subordinate is called the camp, Qianzong, the general, the foreign affairs commission is called the flood. The standard, the co-administration ranges from one to five battalions, and the battalions are divided into several floods.
Green camp soldiers are divided into three categories: horse soldiers, combat soldiers, and garrison soldiers. Among them, the annual salary of horse soldiers is thirty taels, and the annual salary of combat soldiers is twenty-four taels. The garrison soldiers, that is, the old and weak soldiers in logistics and garrison,
The annual salary is as much as eighteen taels.
In terms of basic annual pay alone, the Green Camp soldiers of the Qing Army are treated much better than the Ming Army's border troops. What's more, the Ming Army's salary arrears are extremely serious, but now the Qing Army does not owe the Green Camp soldiers any pay, and their salaries are as high as their salary.
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After all, Dorgon had already robbed a huge wealth of nearly 30 million taels from the gentry and common people in North China by relying on his single-handed order to shave his hair.
At least for a period of time, the Qing army did not suffer from financial difficulties at all.
As for the future? After Dorgon defeats the Dashun Army in the future, even if the wages of the green soldiers are cut, will there be anyone in the world who can compete with the Qing cavalry?
Liu Qian, who had just been promoted to the governor of Shanxi Province, was demoted to the Qing Dynasty as a deposed general. Meng Qiaofang, who relied on his military merit to become the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi Province, commanded a considerable number of green soldiers, one in Shanxi and one in Shaanxi, to control the situation for the regent.
Dorgon looked at such a good situation and such a powerful military force, so he galloped into the open and flat snowfields of North China and sang loudly. Let the flying snow pile up on his cloak and shoulders, and he still sang to himself:
"A strong military appearance, powerful in all directions. Sharpened swords and spears, forest armored battles. Cut rhinoceros with seven attributes as rotten as silver; with a shark letter, it is so bright that it is hard to describe..."
The other powerful clan kings in Manchuria, Beile, glanced at each other, and the young man followed the regent into the army on horseback. Then some famous Batulu warriors sang in succession about the construction of Liaoyang, Shenyang City, Tieling Mountain, etc. Ode to King Ting.
These carols are just like the Buer Lake that Huang Taiji once sang, and they are Manchu folk songs. However, after Huang Taiji changed his Yuan Dynasty to Chongde and established the Qing Dynasty, he specially found many Han scholars to adapt these vulgar and straightforward ballads into A catchy carol.
Sung in Chinese, these are still carols. However, some people are singing in Manchu, which sounds more like folk songs that make the older generation dream back to the white mountains and black waters.
Even Jierhalang, who had always been prudent and mature, showed a smile. Previously, because he was defeated by Li Laiheng in the Battle of Shenzhou, he was shirked by Hauge and was responsible for preventing the Qing army from winning the battle of Huolu.
Some people in the Two Yellow Banners even said that it was because Jierhalang was defeated in Shenzhou that Huang Taiji died in Huolu.
Jierhalang himself lost power for a time because of this incident. However, now that Hauge has collapsed, Dorgon felt the need to bring out a veteran prince like Jierhalang to calm down the situation, and Jierhalang's political life took a turn for the worse. A miraculous change of twists and turns.
In this area, Prince Zheng Jierhalang needs to thank Dorgon.
The east of Liaoyang is full of drums, and the city of Shenyang is favored by the king!
Hundreds of thousands of troops of the Qing army were ready to go, from Chang'an, from Yan'an, from Datong, from Beijing, from Jinan, from Baoding, and marched southward across the board. The mighty army, the banners as dense as a forest, the armies as vast as stars. Numbers, those weapons and guns as numerous as the sands of the Ganges River are scattered all over the land of North China.
The entire North China Plain has become Dorgon's personal martial arts arena.
Taihang Mountain is the iron armor that the regent will shoot through, and the Yellow River is Dorgon's sharp sword that is about to cut it off. Taiyuan City, Tongguan, Hanzhong, the four prefectures of the Yellow River, Kaifeng City, and Xuzhou City are all places that the Manchus are eager to capture. battlefield.
How will China's mountains and rivers be arranged, and how will the flowing clouds change?
This will be decided by the Regent's army of 300,000 men.
Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, Geng Zhongming, and Xushun Gong Shen Zhixiang, these four people also took the Han soldiers under their command to the side. The main force of the Han soldiers under the command of King Sanshun and Duke Shun was still in Shandong, but they were all ordered to return. Jing accepted Dorgon's rearrangement and became loyal and submitted to the power of the regent.
These people can be regarded as old friends for many years. They are all from Liaodong, and they all have many blood feuds with the Manchus. There was even a lot of hostility between these four people.
But the ingenious part of fate is that together they became traitor lackeys who first prostrated at the feet of Huang Taiji, and then at the feet of Dorgon.
As they are both high-level traitors, their past history of grudges has no value.
Geng Zhongming made great contributions in the regent's conspiracy to defeat Hauge. He looked like a meritorious official of the Qing Dynasty. He looked at the regent and said to everyone:
"It is now our time to divide the vassal and establish a government. As long as we cross the Yellow River, it will not be difficult even if we split the land and become a king."
Kong Youde expected that Geng Zhongming was so conceited and rampant, and he didn’t know what would happen in the future!
Shang Kexi was a very honest person. He looked at the Qing army's troops that continued to flow towards the south and said with some concern:
"This time our army is marching south, it is advancing but not retreating. Although Chuang Ni has lost its head, there are still millions of thieves, so we cannot underestimate them. In the Central Plains area south of the Yellow River, I heard that Chuang Ni has been rampant for many years.
Just as we are familiar with the geography of Liaodong, we must be familiar with the territory of Henan. Whether the army can successfully cross the river is still unknown."
Kong Youde followed the sword:
"We still need to get our fame from the heads of the southerners, so why should we be afraid of some bandits and bandits?"
Shen Zhixiang and Kong Youde had an old grudge and suspicion in the past, so he retorted in a low voice: "When we were in Dengzhou, who saw the pirate sail and ran west? It is not a trivial matter to commit evil, not to mention that there are hundreds of rumors on the road.
There are thousands of thieves, but our troops are limited. If we accidentally fall into the siege of thieves, we may make the same mistake as Dengzhou."
This sentence made Kong Youde feel a little embarrassed. He snorted twice and finally said no more.