18th century total war

Chapter 408 The Qing Army Polished in the Flames of War
On a plain in Chaozhou Prefecture, GD Province, the Qing army's various military flags covered the sky and the sun, almost covering the entire plain, stretching for tens of miles!

The original decadence of the Qing army in this world was wiped out in the war of attrition with the Undead Corps. It is no longer the useless army that could be beaten by a few thousand people in the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland.

Under the rule of the Eight Kings, all resources were turned to the military, and in order to inspire the bravery of the Han people to fight for the Qing government, the originally fixed social hierarchy was opened up.

Raising the flag for military merit has become easier than ever before, catching up with the time before the Eight Banners of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties entered the customs!

After the Qing government established the Central Plains, the barracks, as the main force of the Han army, almost cut off the opportunity to raise the flag.

Because at that time, the Eight Banners royal family clearly stipulated that only coated slaves were eligible to raise the flag, and the social status of the barracks was even lower than that of coated slaves!

After the establishment of the Qing government, the Eight Banners and the barracks seemed to have a relationship between superiors and subordinates, but they were actually completely different military systems.

The barracks is a professional soldier system in feudal society, that is, under the barracks system, the Qing government is in charge of generals and soldiers, which is a pure military system.

Although Shibing is also popular in the military camp, the so-called Shibing is more like a measure to replenish the source of soldiers through blood connections. Before a soldier enters the barracks instead of his father, he is an ordinary civilian.

But the Eight Banners are different. Whether it is the Manchu Eight Banners, the Mongolian Eight Banners, or the Han Eight Banners, they are all military systems that integrate soldiers and civilians!
Whether it is a strong man or a female family member, even an old man or a baby, they will be incorporated into the Banner Army on a family basis!
In Li Wei's previous life, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty fell, many bannermen in the inner city were massacred, but afterwards there were still a large number of bannermen living incognito, because of this reason.

Because the Eight Banners include families, and these Eight Banners families have multiplied for two to three hundred years, and the number of them has multiplied many times since the Eight Banners entered the customs!
But if you enter the Eight Banners once, you will be the Eight Banners for generations, and you will be expelled unless you commit a heinous crime. The Eight Banners system is much stricter than joining the party later...

Of course, it is precisely because of this reason that in the late Qing Dynasty in the original history, the Qing government would cause the hard-core crops of the Eight Banners to lose money every year because of the geometrical reproduction of the Eight Banners' heirs, forming an involution among the Eight Banners, causing a large number of lower-class The Eight Banners are destitute!
And the rigid Eight Banners system, because only Eight Banners children were allowed to serve in the army to make a living, and could not do other business to make a living. In the late Qing Dynasty, many Eight Banners children even starved to death!

However, in Li Wei's world, the Qing government had already been wiped out by the undead corps before that time, and even the old nest in the Northeast and the vassal state of Korea and Korea fell.

The undead corps has always had sufficient sources of troops, which is inseparable from the contribution of Korea and Korea.

Because of the blockade strategy of the Qing government at that time, the Outer Northeast did not allow the Han people to immigrate there in large numbers, so the population was small, and there were not many additional troops for the undead.

Now, in the Eighth National Congress... oh, now it is the Seventh National Congress, Prince He Shuoli, who inherited Daishan, committed suicide after being defeated in Guangzhou Fucheng.

The Qing army, who had been trained with the Undead Corps for a long time, responded quickly. When the dwarves who had just entered the Far East rectified their internal affairs and adapted to the new world, they arranged for Guangzhou to capture humans in World War I and established the dwarves—the human ruling class in the new world. , gather all the troops except the undead frontline.

Today, the Qing government, which has completed full mobilization, has not only expanded the number of military camps, but also formed a large number of regiments through the local gentry class.

These regiment training troops were originally not strong in combat effectiveness, they were just armed militias.

However, the Communists sincerely distrust the regiments in these places, which have a strong Han ethnicity, and force the regiments from all over the place to take turns to fight against the undead army.

As a result, almost all the current regiments have actual combat experience, and their combat effectiveness is not weaker than the reborn barracks!
In order to improve combat effectiveness, the Qing government had already opened up the threshold for raising the flag, and armed the coated slaves wantonly, sent them to the battlefield, and used the raising of the flag as a motivation to encourage them to fight.

Perhaps in the eyes of later generations, raising the flag is not a great favor, but for the coated slaves at that time, raising the flag can be said to be the highest dream in their lives!
Moreover, the raising of flags under the Eight Kings Discussion System is directly under the banner of the eight princes, which is equivalent to reaching the sky in one step!

Now the emperor's line has no power and power, and has been reduced to a rubber stamp. Under the banner of the eight real powers, they are the slaves of the former emperor!
Don't underestimate the slavery culture of the Manchu Qing government, the Qing government was able to unite and rule the majority of Han people, relying on the slavery culture!
Everyone is proud of being a slave. If you can become a slave in clothes, your social status will not be lower than that of those Han ministers!

After all, Han Chen is an outsider, and the slave is his own!

Of course, according to the system of the Qing government, if soldiers in the barracks want to raise the flag, they must first become coated slaves, and then get the opportunity to raise the flag by making meritorious service.

Therefore, under the liberalized military merit system, the Eight Kings have established an open and transparent discussion of politics, and the military merit incentives are no less than the military advancement system before the Eight Banners entered the customs.

Barracks—coated slaves—carried into the Han army flag!

It was this set of clear and clear military system that greatly inspired the slavish culture of the Han people, and they scrambled to work for the bannerman lords, keeping half of the Qing Dynasty!
As for regiment training, it is a different system. It is not that the **** are stingy enough not to give regiment training a chance to raise the flag.

Rather, these regiments have their own system of military training. The officers are basically the children of the local gentry, and the soldiers are either their tenants or the strong men under the control of the clan. The cohesion is very strong, similar to the Hunan Army in Li Wei's previous life.

Therefore, it is difficult to dismantle the regiment training army. It is not that the power cannot be extended, but that the Qing government discovered that after the regiment training army was forcibly separated from the generals, the combat power immediately fell into a mess. Crack down on their enthusiasm for preparing their own food, grass, ordnance to form a regiment to train the army and defend the country...

Anyway, the Qing government didn't invest much in regimental training, so they simply let them maintain their own system, as long as they obeyed orders on the battlefield.

Therefore, the weak regiments were used as cannon fodder by the Qing government, and the strong regiments were used as mercenaries by the Qing government...

Since the Qing government established a military camp with slave culture as the core-coated slaves-Han army banner promotion system, coupled with the fact that there are undead to help train and eliminate soldiers, the Qing government in this world does not rely much on local regiment training. Don't mention letting the regiment train the army to grow up, and become the Hunan Army in the world of Li Wei's previous life.

Even if the barracks soldiers worked hard to become a glorious bannerman, and the whole family followed suit, and the chickens and dogs ascended to heaven and entered the ruling class of the Qing government, there are still distinct classes in the Han army banner.

Concerned with bureaucratic appointments.

The **** directly copied the 24 futures when the Eight Banners entered the customs, which is similar to the military merit system in the Qin and Han Dynasties, with 24 levels.

After all the 24 futures were won, the flag Ding of the Han Army Banner immediately stood up and became the master, and he could be directly released as an official!
Moreover, you can also get the chance to enter the Shang Sanqi!
There are also upper and lower levels in the Eight Banners, which are divided into the lower five banners and the upper three banners.

Those who carry the flag normally can enter the lower five flags. Only those with outstanding military achievements or those who take the back door can hope to enter the upper three flags.

In the past, the Shangsanqi had the status of the emperor's pro-army!
Under the Eight Kings Dispute System, the Son of Heaven's personal army naturally became worthless, but the banner men and even the coated slaves of the Three Banners still had the opportunity to enter the elite imperial guards.

Yes, the current imperial guards of the Qing government are no longer guards and guards of the imperial city, but real elite troops, similar to the imperial guards in the West.

**** Geshha around him has been re-limited and must be selected from the imperial guards.

This is actually an incentive system.

Facing the life and death of the country, the pace of reform of the Qing government is still very large.

Of course, this is just a gimmick. Ghoshha next to the **** is actually still the original confidant, but there is an extra process, first register with the Imperial Guard.

For those in power, the system is always a place that opens the door to convenience.

Whether it is the barracks army or the coated slave army, the officials are all bannermen who have won 24 future prospects and officers drawn from the full Eight Banners.

For the current Qing government, the Mongolian Eight Banners have existed in name only, and the independence of Outer Mongolia also made the Qing government no longer trust the Mongolians.

Now the core of the Qing government is the Manchu Eight Banners and the Han Eight Banners.

Among them, the number of Manchu Eight Banners is small, but they have assumed the main force of the bureaucratic team of the Qing government. Whether they are civil servants or military officials, there are a large number of Manchu Eight Banners.

Naturally, the Manchus do not need to be like the Han people, starting from a small pawn in the military camp, step by step to upgrade to a coated slave, and then raise the flag to get 24 prospects before becoming a real mid-level official!
Although the Manchu Banners also have 24 future military merit indicators, when the Qing government selected officials, the Manchu Banners' military merits were obviously much more valuable than the Han Banners.

The same officer may be promoted as long as he gets one or two prospects in the Eight Banners, but it takes more than a dozen prospects in the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty.

Of course, now the **** are promoting the Banner family as one family, uniting the Han Eight Banners and the Man Eight Banners as much as possible in the official face, and even shamelessly shouting the slogan of the Man-Han family...

But a slogan is a slogan, and a system is a system. If it is implemented to its advantage, the gap between Han Chinese and Manchus is not a secret at all to those who enter the system.

On today's battlefield, the formation of the former army is all regiment training troops. Regiment training troops from different places form a phalanx, which is suppressed by the real Qing army masters behind.

The military camp army is the supervising team for these regiment training!

Behind the barracks is the Coated Slave Army, behind the Coated Slave Army is the Han Eight Banner Banner Army with a relatively high proportion of cavalry, and behind it is the Imperial Guard Army.

The Eight Banners are full of baby bumps, and the **** will naturally not let them form an army alone on the battlefield.

After all, most of the Manchu Eight Banners are busy being officials. Even if they don't become officials, they can get a good job in the Qing government. No matter how bad it is, it is still very easy to enter the Royal Guard.

In fact, many soldiers of the highest-ranking imperial guards are the children of the Eight Banners.

Without the talent to be an officer, but with a good physique, he seems to be able to fight like a full Eight Banners, most of them are stuffed into the imperial guards.

This guarantees the absolute loyalty of the imperial guards to the Qing government!

As the front-line regiments, the armaments are uneven. Good regiments have completed full-scale firearms, and everyone has at least one flintlock.

The main body of poor regiment training is broadswords, spears and bird guns.

The equipment of the barracks at the back looks much more uniform. After all, this is a unit trained by the Qing government in the war. The original barracks have been replaced in the war for several years!
The barracks soldiers wore uniform battle robes, and many soldiers also wore cloth face armor with iron plates, and the weapons in their hands were also very neat.

Because there are no decent cavalry in the Undead Corps, the pikemen are no longer seen in the Qing army today.

The soldiers in the barracks are all equipped with bayonet flintlock guns, waist knives and shields.

It is the easy-to-form military characteristics of muskets that ensure that the regular army of the Qing army can quickly replenish the source of troops and give full play to the population advantage of the Far East.

The armored slave army behind the barracks soldiers is equipped with even more luxurious equipment, all iron sheet cloth face armor, and all members wear iron helmets on their heads instead of the battle hats on the barracks soldiers' heads.

These coated slaves are not the coated slaves in peacetime, they are all carefully selected strong men, and then rolled out on the battlefield. After the survival of the fittest, most of them passed through the barracks step by step A combat slave who has been promoted by military exploits!
When the coated slave army was first established, the main body was the strong coated slaves selected from various households of the Eight Banners' powerful people. These coated slaves had little combat experience, but because of their status as slaves, they were used to death by the ****. .

The battlefield is the best whetstone, and the Coated Minion Army has also ushered in a new life. The best of them have already raised their flags and even joined the imperial guards!

Of course, many of those who served as officials in the barracks were just slaves in coats a few years ago.

Frequent wars made promotion in the Qing army much easier.

Several years of wars not only failed to reduce the number of Eight Banners who were the main military force of the Qing government, but actually increased them!
Behind the coated slave army, the Han army flag with a relatively high proportion of cavalry is basically the Iron Man of the Eight Banners that Li Wei often saw in film and television dramas in his previous life.

The lightning rod helmet on his head is a unique equipment of the Qing army and is very conspicuous.

Of course, the current Han army flag is not what it looks like. Everyone of them is wearing double armor. Whether it is musket salvo or melee combat, they are enough to be called the peak combat power of the feudal era, not weaker than those who just entered the Han army back then. The Heavenly Soldiers of the Eight Banners at the closing time!

The Qing government was able to accumulate so many elites, thanks to the tempering of the Undead Corps.

(End of this chapter)