On the north bank of the Yangtze River, a group of Ganshan Green Battalion troops wearing dark blue uniforms and black leather armor outside boarded the boat and were preparing to cross the river to Wuchang. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoGanshan Green Battalion, is the elite of the Green Battalion Qing Army, in real history, Ganshan Green Battalion participated in a series of battles to exterminate the Kuidong Righteous Army, and made great contributions to the Qing court.

During the rebellion of the three feudatories, the Ganxi Green Battalion first fought with Wu Sangui in Hunan, forcibly blocked Wu Sangui's pace, waited until Zhou Peigong's Huguang New Green Camp was trained, and then cooperated with the Huguang New Green Camp to defeat Wu Sangui; Later, the Ganshan Green Battalion participated in the pacification of the Chahar Mongol rebellion and the Junggar Mongol rebellion.

The Ganshan Green Battalion is the elite green battalion of the Qing army, and there are many fierce Hui officers and soldiers in this army, who have made great contributions to the unification of the world by the Qing Dynasty, and their hands are stained with the blood of the Han and Mongolians.

The combat effectiveness of the Hui soldiers is very strong, and these soldiers who grew up eating mutton have a kind of wildness of the Northwest men.

Aobai dispatched the Ganshan Green Battalion to prepare for a decisive battle in Wuchang. The original fierce and warlike Ganshan Green Battalion should have been put into the field battle, but the Qing court generals had long been frightened by the new firearms of the Qiongzhou Army and had lost the courage to fight in the field, but dug the ground in the Wuchang area into potholes, preparing to fight a large-scale positional war.

On the riverbank, the Eight Banners wearing colorful clothes and armor lined up and waited, and in front of the neat square line, there were cannons. This is the Eight Banners New Army, which arrived first, and it is all equipped with firearms. is waiting for the arrival of the Eight Banners Army behind.

The ranks of the Eight Banners New Army are neat and look majestic. But Yue Le knew very well in his heart that the so-called Eight Banners New Army was nothing more than a silver-like pewter spearhead, and these second and third generations of the Eight Banners who were born and raised in the capital had no combat effectiveness! Unlike their grandparents and fathers who came in from outside the gates, these Eight Banners soldiers have long been raised by hardcore crops into a group of waste, and in addition to walking birds and shopping, drinking tea and chatting all day long, they are pumping special offerings for the Eight Banners.

The Eight Banners Special Offering was addictive, and Bu Mu Butai finally discovered that this so-called Eight Banners Special Offering was simply a harmful thing that Wu Sangui made to collect money and harm the children of the Eight Banners! The children of Eight Banners, who have become addicted, have become even more decadent, and they don't want to do anything except go to the smoke house every day, and even the son of the scholar of Tu University has been infected with this harmful thing!

Bumu Butai was very angry, but he was afraid of forcing Wu Sangui to rebel, so he didn't dare to ban the special offerings of the Eight Banners with a heavy hand, so he could only levy heavy taxes on this kind of thing.

Eight Banners special offerings were heavily taxed, and prices were rising. But this kind of thing, no matter how high the price is, someone buys it! The children of the Eight Banners, who were already addicted, did not hesitate to spend a lot of silver taels, and even sold their property, and they had to buy special offerings for the Eight Banners to enjoy.

For this reason, Wu Yingxiong has been closely monitored by the Qing court, and as long as there is a little trouble, the Qing court will not hesitate to send Wu Yingxiong to prison.

Although Wu Yingxiong is the eldest princess of Jianning and the uncle of the little emperor Kangxi, as long as he threatens the interests of the Eight Banners Group, he threatens the foundation of the Qing court, even if it is an elu. If Wu Sangui dared to rebel, the first person to lose his head would definitely be Wu Yingxiong.

In order to prepare for the decisive battle of Huguang, the Qing court dispatched 20,000 Beijing battalion Manmeng Eight Banners, 5,000 Xi'an Manmeng Eight Banners and 3,000 Xiangyang Manmeng Eight Banners, plus Wuchang's own 5,000 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, and the 7,000 Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners brought to Anqing by Aobai before, just the number of Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners was 40,000!

Aobai, Tuhai, Jieshu, Yue Le, Zhangtai, Mulima, Suo Etu and other civil and military officials of the Manchurian Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty stood on the platform of the point generals by the river, and Tuhai and Jieshu and others were full of pride in their hearts, watching the majestic Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners firearms battalions coming one after another and assembling by the riverside.

I saw that the new soldiers of the Eight Banners of Firearms were carrying a brand-new flintlock pistol, a small cannon was placed in front of the 100-person square, a cannon was placed in front of the 1,000-person square, and the cavalry also had cavalry cannons.

"It's really a heavenly soldier!" Jieshu sighed.

However, only the two famous generals, Ao Bai and Yue Le, understood in their hearts that the so-called Eight Banners New Army was simply a good thing. When the Beijing camp was training the Eight Banners New Army before, they went to observe, these second and third generations of the Eight Banners have long lost their blood and courage, and they are all a group of people who only know how to walk birds and fight crickets. This queue stood well, but it took the Portuguese instructors an unknown amount of effort to train it.

It's just that the queue is standing good-looking, and the fight is starting, what can these guys who are greedy for life and afraid of death do? I'm afraid I can run faster than anyone else.

Meng Baqi may be better, but apart from courage, their combat skills are no longer worth mentioning.

Ao Bai knew in his heart that when it really started, the main forces were still the Green Camp and the Han Eight Banners. If these Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers are pushed to the front, they will be exposed at once, and they will not have to fight in the future, and the Han people will know that the Eight Banners will not be able to control it at all.

With the addition of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, the total number of Eight Banners soldiers who arrived in Huguang reached 100,000. The Qing court also dispatched 20,000 Ganshan Green Battalions, 10,000 Zhili Green Battalions, plus 50,000 new troops of the Huguang Green Battalion, 10,000 Jiangxi Green Battalions, 20,000 Liangjiang Green Battalions brought out by Aobai, and 10,000 Shandong Green Battalions.

40,000 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, this is already the limit of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners that the Qing court can dispatch, and almost half of the banner men in Beijing, Xi'an and Xiangyang are dispatched.

The Eight Banners are the foundation of the Qing court, and if this battle is lost, I am afraid that the Eight Banners will lose control over the Han people!

Originally, Bumu Butai was extremely opposed to letting the Eight Banners go out, but Zhou Peigong proposed that Bao Yi could carry the flag and include a large number of Mongols in the Eight Banners; In addition, you can go to the Northeast to catch the Jurchens to join the Eight Banners.

If Zhou Peigong's series of means all achieve their goals, the Eight Banners of Manmeng can reach more than 500,000! With the addition of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, the Eight Banners alone can have an army of five or six hundred thousand.

It's a pity that it will soon prove that Zhou Peigong's methods are useless at all, in addition to the clothes that can be carried into the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, the power of the Jurchens and the Mongols outside the Guanguan is being restrained by the "Rakshasa people", and the population of the Jurchens is decreasing, and the whole village of the whole village is taken away by Zheng Zheng and has become Han, and is developing the Outer Xing'an Mountains, raising horses, and training cavalry. As long as the Eight Banners outside the gate arrive in the area of Temple Street, they will be horrified to find that the birth of the Jurchen, who was originally the source of their banner people, has become the source of the Ming army's iron cavalry!

As for the Mongols, Zheng Xi had already begun to implement a plan to destroy the Horqin Mongols and unite with other Mongol tribes. As long as the Horqin Mongols were completely wiped out, the blood lesson was there, and then a document was issued to crusade against the crimes of the Horqin Mongols for betraying other Mongol tribes and betraying Lin Dan Khan, it would be impossible for other Mongols to follow the path of the Qing court to the black.

The 40,000 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, the 60,000 Han Eight Banners, the 120,000 Green Battalions, and the sporadic regimental training add up to 50,000, a total of 270,000 troops, which can be described as unprecedented and the largest troop movement in Chinese history so far.

Don't believe in the history books, what the history books say about the 500,000 army and the 800,000 army are all false, in fact, the war in the era of cold weapons, it is already a huge consumption to mobilize 100,000 troops at a time. Sometimes it is true that 450,000 men and horses are dispatched, but the most soldiers are 100,000, and the rest are migrant workers and auxiliary soldiers.

The Qing army dispatched 270,000, known as 1 million, and gathered in the Wuchang area.

However, the 270,000 troops are not all able to arrive in Wuchang in a short period of time, and the Qing army that arrived in Wuchang first has a total of more than 80,000 people, and the follow-up troops are still coming one after another.

"With such a large-scale mobilization of the Tartars, it can be said that they are desperate, their granary is occupied by us, if they don't find us to fight a decisive battle as soon as possible, I'm afraid they won't be able to support it!" Wang Yuyou analyzed.

Wang Xinyu pointed to the map obtained by the agents of the Heaven and Earth Society: "The Tartars have gathered heavy troops in the Wuchang area and arranged a dense group of fortifications like a spider's web, just to want us to attack them, and they will fight a decisive battle with us in the fortification group. ”

Wang Yuyou stroked his beard with a smile and said: "The army of 270,000 people, eating and drinking every day is a great consumption. They also have auxiliary soldiers and strong people, how much food is consumed? As long as we take Changsha and Yueyang, we will not move and do not take the initiative to drill into their defensive circle in Wuchang, and the Tartars themselves will not be able to support it, and they will not wait to come out to fight with us! Otherwise, they can't afford to consume food every day! ”

"Not bad!" Wang Xinyu nodded, "We will take Changsha and Yueyang as soon as possible, control Dongting Lake, or control the Xiangjiang route, and our grain transportation will be able to sit back and relax!" Then we will stand still in Yueyang, hold on, and wait for the 270,000 army of Tartars to slowly consume food! ”

"If it goes on, they can't bear it, and they will definitely take the initiative to attack us!" Bai Wenxuan also nodded slightly.

Wang Yuyou pointed to the map: "We will not only consume their food, but also wait for the completion of the Lingqu, and our large warships can enter the Xiangjiang River." As long as they take the initiative to attack us, our sailors will take the opportunity to attack, annihilate the Yangtze River sailors of the Tartars, and cut off the retreat of the Tartars. Then we meet them and destroy the Tartars in the field! As long as the main forces of the Tartars are annihilated as much as possible in the field. ”

"Eliminate one more Tartar in the field battle, and when we attack Wuchang, the Tartar fortification group will be less useful!" Wang Xinyu tapped his finger on the map.

No matter how strong and powerful the fortification group is, it still needs to be guarded. Destroying more enemies in field battles can reduce trouble when attacking, and this is actually the truth that everyone loses their land, and everyone loses their land. Focus on destroying the enemy's living forces to achieve the final victory.

Wang Yuyou said: "You can transfer a batch of war elephants from Annan to come over, in the field battle, first bombard with artillery, and then launch a frontal assault on the infantry, cavalry and elephant soldiers cooperate, attack in a roundabout way, I believe that the Tartars can't even withstand our round of attack!" (To be continued.) )