Chapter 464: Battle
At this time, after leaving 200 vests and more than 50 Ba Yala by Yue Tuo's side, Boljin took the remaining 800 cavalry and rushed out of the position with the sound of rumbling horses' hooves, and rushed back in the direction of the west.
Then, immediately after that, there was a conch horn from the rear, and Wuzhen Chaoha and Tianyou Army, a total of two different Han army troops, also obeyed the command and immediately began to march in formation.
Li Jiucheng couldn't help but secretly glance at the left side of his own queue, and now on their left, that is, on the side near the Fuzhou River, is the so-called Wuzhen Chaoha in the Houjin army, and this time, a total of about 1,500 people came.
This unit is an all-firearms team, which was established under the strong advocacy of Huang Taiji. And they are still selected to live in the Houjin army for a long time and have a small family in the country to serve as soldiers.
The most important thing is that these soldiers are all slaves of the Houjin nobles in the Eight Banners.
Of course, it won't be Aha, but a coat that is closer to the Houjin people.
These coated soldiers lacked protective measures, and even the most common cotton armor in the Houjin army was not complete, and most of them were still very thin and weak, unable to support the heavy consumption of training.
In normal times, it is quite possible to let them come out in formation, fight guns, and set off cannons.
But when it really came time to fight, the name of Wuzhen Chaoha - Heavy Infantry sounded loud and powerful, but in the eyes of Li Jiucheng, Kong Youde and others, even the soldiers and horses of Dongjiang Town, who lacked food and clothing, could not compare.
Wuzhen Chaoha is different from other Jurchen Eight Banners and Mongolian left and right wings, using black flags, so in the Later Jin Army, they are often called black flag soldiers by the Eight Banners nobles.
Although Huang Taiji was willing to use Han officials to seize the power of the original Eight Banner nobles, he himself was extremely distrustful of the Han people, so he arranged for Tong to be Gushan Ezhen, who was raised by Wuzhen Chaoha, above the Han chief military officer of Wuzhen Chaoha.
In addition, in order to distinguish those Han army commanders with higher ranks, Huang Taiji gave Tong Yangxing a Angbang Zhangjing, which means to be in charge.
Below him, there were also six Jiala Ezhen, all of whom were Han Chinese, and let them each take charge of some dingkou ranging from hundreds to hundreds.
Huang Taiji would not be naïve enough to think that appointing a Tong Yang would be able to completely control Wu Zhenchaoha, so he had other measures.
One of the most important is that the personnel relations of these middle- and low-level officers in Wuzhen Chaoha are still in the Manchu Eight Banners and have not been relocated, and the officers of the Han Army have served in Wuzhen Chaoha, which is a kind of secondment relationship.
There are various other preventive measures, and Huang Taiji has done a relatively good job.
For example, Wuzhen Chaoha is divided into two types: the camp soldiers and the guards, of which the camp soldiers are the part responsible for going out to fight, and the guards belong to the part of the people who detain their families in the cattle and are then arranged to serve as guards in various cities.
Among them, the abilities of the camp soldiers are what the guys on the scene show now, and what is even more tragic is the guards, who can only defend the city, dungeon or something, and even the weapons will not be completely distributed.
In terms of combat effectiveness, I am afraid that the so-called defenders cannot defeat the militia in the Chinese military mobilization system, and the combat effectiveness of the camp soldiers is slightly stronger when looking at the mountains, after all, the weapons are fully equipped, and everyone has something to do.
Although Wuzhen Chaoha is called the Black Flag Army, in fact, they do not have a separate establishment, and under this name, those Han Army Niulu still belong to the Jurchen Eight Banners to govern.
To put it bluntly, they were slaves when they entered, and they formed an army alone when they went on the expedition, just like the nature of the left and right wings of the Mongols in the Later Jin Army, which had not yet been reorganized into the Eight Banners of Mongolia.
The last time in the Battle of Daling River, Huang Taiji also took Tong Yangxing, and in the follow-up pursuit of that battle, Tong Yangxing became a prisoner of the Huaxia Army and could no longer lead this Wuzhen Chaoha.
So this time, the person in charge of leading the troops was another person named Shi Tingzhu, Shi Tingzhu felt that he was Han when he heard this name, but in fact, he was a Jurchen with the surname Guerjia.
He was also a Jia Lae Zhen under Tong Yangxing, plus the rank of deputy general, and he also had a position, that is, Wu Zhen Chaoha's elite soldier Ezhen.
The purpose of Huang Taiji's implementation of the six-ministry system in the Later Jin Dynasty was to reform the military system and establish a standing army under his own full control.
As a newly built battalion, Wuzhen Chaoha has been demarcated into various formations from the beginning, and Shi Tingzhu led by Shi Tingzhu is the elite members of the original Han army officers.
To put it more bluntly, it is the family members they brought out from the Ming army, and some of the strongest soldiers.
From this point of view, Shi Tingzhu is the second person in Wuzhen Chaoha, second only to Tong Yangxing. Well, if you count his Jurchen identity bonus, there is no problem with Tong Yangxing on an equal footing.
Therefore, after Tong Yangxing was captured, Shi Tingzhu naturally took over the position of the original Tong Yangxing, and there was no ripple or moth.
In this expedition, Wuzhen Chaoha selected 1,500 people from the camp, Shi Tingzhu still personally led the elite soldiers in the camp, about 300 people, and several other Jiala led a total of 1,200 campers.
Among them, the elite soldiers led by Shi Tingzhu all used cold weapons to fight, while the ordinary infantry of the marching camp soldiers were not equipped with long-range muskets and melee waist knives.
Li Jiucheng was observing Wu Zhenchaoha, but he didn't expect that Shi Tingzhu was more afraid of the Huaxia Army than him.
Li Jiucheng's troops encountered the navy and marines of Huaxia, and because their group of deserters were scattered and could not pose a threat at that time, all kinds of heavy firepower did not fire, and Li Jiucheng did not appreciate the real horror of the Huaxia army at all.
As for Shi Tingzhu, he was in Daling River last year, and it was really a life of nine deaths.
He, an old officer who was accustomed to hearing about artillery fire, discovered at the first moment of the shelling that the overwhelming explosion was completely a kind of heavy artillery that he had never heard of before.
The two-quarter-hour bombardment completely destroyed any contempt he had for the Huaxia army.
He knew that an enemy with this kind of firepower was definitely not something he could resist.
Therefore, when Tong Yang consciously led the troops to break off for Huang Taiji, he, as a Jurchen, quietly followed Huang Taiji and slipped away.
Everything that followed also verified his idea, and all the people who were cut off were killed, or fortunately captured. Including his titular boss.