Chapter 71 Green Camp
Two Qing soldiers pulled one out of the crowd and pressed him onto a stool. The barber walked up and untied the soldier's hair. His razor pushed over his head. After a while, most of the soldier's hair was shaved off, leaving only a small thigh behind his head. Then the barber tied the small thigh into a braid that could pass through the eyes of the copper coin.
The shaved soldier knelt on the ground and cried loudly, and the Qing soldiers beside him burst into laughter: "These Chinese dogs, haha!"
"We have been fighting with Hangou for so many years, but in the end they shaved their hair like us?"
"The prince is still too kind to them. According to me, he should cut all these Han dogs and avoid future troubles!"
"It's ominous to kill prisoners, not to mention that they surrendered themselves."
When the Qing soldiers escaped a soldier, the soldier struggled desperately. The two Qing soldiers pressed the soldier on the chair, but the soldier struggled and twisted his head. The barber's razor could not be pushed down.
Two Qing soldiers were in trouble. One of them drew out his knife and raised his sword and fell down. The Guanning soldier's head fell to the ground.
The Qing soldiers raised their bloody heads and shouted loudly in front of the crowd: "Leave your hair but not your head, leave your head but not your hair! Do you see? Those who resist shaving their hair will end!"
Dorgon then ordered that more than 15,000 Guanning Army with shaved hair be incorporated into the Han army flag and be organized into fifty-seven auxiliary leaders.
"The Regent, didn't you say that you gave Xiao Wang a hundred and fifty subordinates? Why did you give fifty-seven?" Wu Sangui expressed dissatisfaction with Dorgon's promise to give him fifty-seven subordinates. It wasn't that the one hundred and fifty-seven, so he became fifty-seven? But he was still not used to calling himself a slave, so he called himself a little king.
Dorgon laughed: "Brother Chang, you have more than 15,000 people under your command, so why do you have 150 assistants? One assistant leads three hundred, so why do you have 45,000 people?"
"But the main force of Xiao Wang Guanning's army still exists. After entering the pass, it will definitely be expanded to 50,000 troops to pacify Jiangbei for the prince." Wu Sangui defended.
"You can Tuoba and Tuoma pacify the world for my Qing Dynasty!" Dorgon smiled, "And, the new flag is not included, and they are all built into green camps."
"Green Camp?" Wu Sangui was stunned.
"Yes, Green Camp!" Dorgon nodded, "When I entered the Qing Dynasty, I will definitely recruit troops and horses. How can I order more flags to enter? Therefore, all new recruits are green camps."
Next, Wu Sangui began to expand the Green Camp. The nearby landlords, the captured and surrendered Shun Army soldiers, and the refugees who lived in the Shanhaiguan area were all formed by Wu Sangui. More than 10,000 Green Camp soldiers were recruited.
The Green Camp Army, like the Eight Banners Army, had braids, but the clothes on their bodies were completely different. The Green Camp Army did not have a lightning rod helmet. In summer, they wore a red tassel hat that was the same as the Qing officials, but they only had a fewer tops. In winter, they wore a red tassel warm hat, of course they didn't wear it either. They wore a robe with "soldiers" written on both sides, and if they were qualified, they wore a piece of armor on the outside.
The fresh green camp soldiers are out, and all green camp soldiers wear light blue clothes and use green flags.
These newly recruited Green Camp soldiers were not in conflict with shaving their hair and changing their clothes. Although the heads of the landlords were Han gentry, Dorgon had not fully implemented shaving their hair and changing their clothes at this time, but only shaving their hair and changing their clothes in the army. As long as the Han gentry did not shave their heads, their trainers would shave their heads, which was all their business? These gentry hated Li Zicheng even more. The torture paid by the Shun Army in the capital frightened them. In order to protect their vested interests, they let the trainers join Wu Sangui's Green Camp Army.
As for the surrendered Shun Army soldiers and the recruited refugees, they were even more inconsistent with shaving their hair and changing clothes. Many of the surrendered Shun Army soldiers were Ming soldiers or refugees before, and they couldn't even eat. Compared to shaving their heads, it was of course more important to eat. Easy clothes? It would be nice to have clothes to wear, no matter whether they were wearing Tartar clothes or Han clothes?
The newly recruited green camp will soon be used by the Qing army. Although Dorgon adopted Hong Chengchou's strategy, the Qing army must first reach the capital through the Shun Army's defense line. The Shun Army built a defense line in the seaside corridor, and the Qing army had to open the seaside corridor to reach the capital smoothly. To open the seaside corridor, the Qing army could not fight the precious Eight Banners soldiers, so the task of attacking as cannon fodder was handed over to the newly formed green camp soldiers.
There is a line from Lianpeng Mountain to Qixingzhai ten miles away from Shanhaiguan. There is only a twenty-mile wide passage from Yanshan Mountain to the seaside. It faces the Bohai Sea in the southeast and the Yanshan Mountains in the northwest. Gu Junen chose this terrain to build a defense line, blocking the Qing army's road to the capital. The task of building defensive fortifications was handed over to Zhao Peng, who was good at attacking and defending.
At this time, Zhao Peng was leading the auxiliary troops of the Shun Army to build fortifications along the seaside corridor from the Yanshan Mountains.
Under the command of Zhao Peng, the auxiliary soldiers and refugees sweated heavily and dug trenches on the ground. The digging of soil piled up low-high soil cities behind the trenches. The ground in front of the trenches was dug into a bumpy pit, and irregular pits were dug out. The trenches were not simple one-line trenches, but crisscrossed and complex trenches.
Seeing that the earthen city that Zhao Peng built was not high, only three feet above the ground, Gu Junen asked curiously: "General Zhao, the higher the city of man, what do you do to build three feet?"
"Mr. Gu, the ancients built a city, the higher the better. But now is different. Can a few feet tall city block the red barbarian cannons? Unless it is a strong city like the capital. But how can we have so much time to build such a strong city? Since it is a dirt city, it will be built a little lower and reduce the area hit by the red barbarian cannons." Zhao Peng replied.
"But so short, hasn't our army lost its condescending advantage?" Gu Junen asked in confusion.
"The ravines are three feet, and the earth city is three feet. The sum of the two items is six feet. Six feet is enough to kill the enemy with a gray bottle and a turbulent oil tank! With a long-range attack from the firearm, it is enough to resist the Jiannu army." Zhao Peng replied. The fortifications in the firearm era did not need to be too high. Low fortifications can better defend against enemy artillery attacks.
The bumpy surface and crisscrossing trenches can block the advance of the Qing army's shield chariots. The trenches that are not deep and the dirt city that are not high can make the defenders throw various weapons to block the Qing army.
There are many layers of Tucheng. There are countless small forts scattered between Tucheng and Tucheng, and between trenches and trenches. These small forts look messy. In fact, the shooting boundaries of each small fort are carefully calculated and echo each other. There is no dead end of firepower. No matter which direction the enemy attacks, they will be subject to fire from three sides. There are also trenches between the small fort and Tucheng. Once a small fort is about to be lost, the defenders can withdraw through the trenches.
"But such a bumpy terrain is not conducive to fighting in formation." Gu Junen said. In the era of cold weapons, formation battles were the most important, and there was no way to fight without formations.
Zhao Peng pointed to the low-high Tucheng behind: "Behind Tucheng is a relatively open platform. Our army can form formations on the platform, but the enemy climbs onto the Tucheng but cannot form formations. Once an enemy attacks Tucheng, our army can repel the enemy with a spear formation. If the enemy enters the gully, our army's turret tanks and gray bottles can kill the enemy. The straight trenches in front of Tucheng are for Jiannu to drill. As long as they enter, our cannons can set a straight line and kill the enemy in large quantities. When the enemy approaches, we still have thunderstorms and thousands of enemies can use it."
Gu Junen was also a smart man. After looking at it for a while, he saw that Ni Duan was suitable for a large number of firearms. Once the enemy entered the trench, let alone the powerful Franchise, Turtle Dove guns and Lumi guns, even bird guns, or even three-eyed guns, can greatly damage the enemy at close range.
The three-eyed gun has a very close range and its effective range is only twenty steps, but it is extremely powerful within ten steps. It can even break the three-thick thick armor of the white armored soldiers about eight steps.
Chapter completed!