The threat of the war ended temporarily, and Wu Sangui also acted very respectfully and gave enough face to the Qing Dynasty. Dorgon's first fire after his comeback finally burned well and received a lot of praise. Therefore, Dorgon's status has been temporarily stable.
Come down
Of course Dorgon knew that the biggest danger to the Qing court was the Shang army. Although the Qing court had agreed to make peace with Shang Yi, this was just a unilateral idea of the Qing court. What Shang Yi thought was hard to say because Dorgon
I don't know that Shang Yi actually had the plan to truce for a few years, so Dorgon would not sloppyly initiate the process of making peace with Shang Yi without any concern.
At the same time, Dorgon also understood that peace was also supported by strength. From the current situation, the merchant army stopped marching and was only subject to the movement of Huainan. As long as the merchant army in Huainan was stable, the merchant army could launch an attack on the Qing army at any time.
The time to be maintained until the end of this year is that no matter whether the peace between the two sides is successful or not, the Qing court must be prepared to fight the attack of the merchant army in the remaining seven months of this year.
At this time, Hong Chengchou had recruited more than 8,000 people in Yulin and began training according to the training method of the merchant army for more than two months. However, the biggest difficulty facing the Qing court at present is that its troops are insufficient. Now the Qing court's troops are generally distributed as: Liaodong is still
The Qing court has restrained more than 100,000 troops, so in Henan, the Huaibei line, there are only about 100,000 troops. The troops in Henan were only more than 40,000, plus the 70,000 troops in Shandong, the Qing court competed for less than 180,000 troops on the border.
At present, the Qing court's adjustable troops were less than 100,000, and they were all second- and third-rate troops stationed in various places. Not only was the combat effectiveness not guaranteed, but it was also extremely unreliable.
Because after the defeat in the Southern Expedition, the Eight Banners Jingying was almost completely lost. Now the remaining troops of the Eight Banners of Manzhou are less than 30,000. Among them, Abatai from Shandong has 10,000 hands, and the three camps of the capital are about 15,000.
In Henan, the first line competition in Huaibei was less than 5,000, and the Han army lost nearly two-thirds of the Eight Banners. Only the ancient Eight Banners lost slightly better. This is mainly because the southern expedition of the Eight Banners did not participate in many troops.
Among the eight banners of Manchu, the ancient eight banners had higher status than the eight banners of the Han army, and the relationship between the Qing court and the ancient ancient was obviously closer. However, during the war after the Qing court entered the pass, the eight banners of the ancient eight banners did not go out for many battles.
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The reason is that the population of the ancient tribe was not large. Before the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, the eight banners of the Manchus had been improved. The eight banners of the Manchus had a total of 309 Niulu; the eight banners of the Han army had a total of 157 Niulu.
; and the Eight Banners of the ancient times only had 117 Niulu; it was the least one. In addition, there were also many forces that were not satisfied with the Qing government's rule. Therefore, the Qing government rarely transferred.
Ancient flags go to war
Although it is inevitable that the army is expanded now, Dorgon's focus is mainly on the Eight Banners of Manchu and Han, but the Qing court mainly aims to expand the army based on the Eight Banners of Manchu. First of all, the Eight Banners of Manchu were restored to the eight Banners of Manchu.
However, the total population of the Manchus is less than 2 million, and the second southern expedition has suffered nearly 100,000 losses. The young and middle-aged men in the banner now have less than 300,000 men of the age left in the banner and their quality is far inferior.
Therefore, Dorgon could only order all men over 15 years old and under 45 in the Eight Banners of Manzhou to participate in the test and be promoted to the flag army and then participate in military training. In addition, the eight banners are also coated and the followers are also
Those who can pass the test can be exempted from being promoted to a formal flag student. Those with excellent test scores can be selected into the three major camps with the status of one level higher than the flag soldiers.
This also expanded the source of the Eight Banners' forces and basically cut off the garment of the accompanying army, and followed the Eight Banners' soldiers into pure national troops instead of tribal scattered soldiers.
At the same time, the Qing court's battalion was officially divided into three large battalions: the guard camp, the vanguard camp and the cavalry camp. In addition, the personal camps, infantry camps, the sharp camps, tiger gun camps, and the five small battalions of Shanpu camps were established.
The fourth-level soldiers are mainly composed of the Eight Banners and the eight banners of the ancient Eight Banners. A small number of soldiers are transferred from the eight banners of the ancient Eight Banners. The total number of soldiers is about 180,000. This is almost the same as the Eight Banners can be compiled.
The biggest force
Of course, at this time, the ancient Eight Banners must also be used. Therefore, Dorgon also decided to expand the ancient Eight Banners to 187 Niulu, so that the ancient Eight Banners' troops reached about 50,000, plus other alliances of the ancient
The total force of the flag envoy reached about 80,000, which greatly expanded the source of the Qing court's troops.
In the establishment of the Han army, Dorgon also decided to restore the system of the eight banners of the Han army and expand it to 208 Niulu. The total strength of the Han army's flag exceeded 60,000. At the same time, the Han army that were not the Eight Banners were selected and all of them were organized into
The Green Camp and expanded the Green Camp's troops to make the total strength of the Green Camp reach about 300,000, and it also became the largest expansion of the Qing Dynasty.
The green camp is divided into four types: Mark, Associate, Battalion and Flood. The green camp belonging to the governor, governor, admiral, and general is only called Mark, and the deputy general is called Mark, and the deputy general is called Mark, and the governor, guerrilla, and garrison are called Battle. The following camp is
It is divided into several floods, each flood, each designated officer, and each standard, and a management of one to five battalions; the number of people in each battalion is as small as two or three hundred, and the number of people is as small as six or seven hundred.
The first choice for the green camp to supplement the military force is the Liaodong Han people outside the pass. Now Liaodong is destroyed by the merchant army, causing a large number of homeless refugees. It also provides enough troops for the Qing court to expand the green camp. Its choice is Shanxi, northern Zhili, and Hebei.
Northern Han people in the area
Because in the late stage of the Southern Expedition and the Battle of Hubei, the Qing army surrendered to Shang Yi on a large scale, which made Dorgon very worried about the Ming Dynasty's surrendered soldiers and generals from the southern surrender.
The Han people in the north are more reliable than the southern ones, and Shang Yi's power has now expanded to the Central Plains. Therefore, the Han people in the three provinces of Henan, Shandong and Shaanxi do not consider whether they are selected into the green camp at the same time.
This will also help the management of this soldier in Beijing.
Finally, there are about 200,000 to 300,000 local garrisons in each province, which are originally soldiers selected by the Green Camp and local rural soldiers from various places, militia, etc., which are just used as auxiliary personnel to maintain public security in the official battlefield.
troops
In this way, the total strength of the Qing court will reach about 800 to 900,000 to nearly one million, and its main strength will reach 600,000, respectively. The 300,000 Han Eight Banners Army and 300,000 Green Camp Army is enough in terms of number of people.
Be
The army was established in this way. Dorgon ordered the eight banners and battalions to begin rigorous training. At the same time, 1,500 people were transferred from the banners of the Han Dynasty, each with one thousand people, each with one thousand people, each with the eight banners.
The camp has produced 20,000 people, the green camp has produced 15,000 people, plus the 8,000 soldiers recruited by Hong Chengchou, a total of 71,000 soldiers, which has begun to conduct new training mainly on the use of firearms. This is also the hope of the Qing court in the future.
Of course, each battalion has its own commanders and the troops stationed together, and Hong Chengchou and the merchant army he surrendered were just instructors and assigned to various places to supervise the training of the banner troops of each battalion. The troops directly under the jurisdiction of Hong Chengchou were only the previous ones
After all, Dorgon could not teach all such an important army to Hong Chengchou alone to manage.
At the same time, Dorgon ordered the formal establishment of two departments, Shenji and Fire Department, in Beijing, and the Qing court recruited blacksmiths, carpenters and craftsmen, and collected iron ore from all over the country to make cannons, muskets and other weapons to prepare fire.
Ensure the supply of new army training and use
The merchant army's surprise attack on Liaodong also sounded a wake-up call to the Qing court. After that, the dangers from the sea must be prevented. Therefore, Dorgon decided to establish a Qing naval army in addition to strengthening the garrison along the coast.
Recruiting sailors to build ships in coastal areas of Liaodong
However, the Qing court had no experience in establishing a naval army. Therefore, Dorgon was also very troubled. Fortunately, Zheng Zhilong, who is now under house arrest in Beijing, is a specialist in this regard. So Dorgon also ordered Zheng Zhilong to be appointed as the Tianjin Mén Water Division.
The Admiral was responsible for building ships and practicing water military affairs, but Zheng Zhilong was deceived and threatened by the Qing court, but he was taken hostage to Beijing and the Qing court did not dare to trust him completely. The Admiral of the Navy was actually just an advisor.
There is no real power and there are people watching you when you walk there
Zheng Zhilong also knew in his heart that he had to continue to endure and wait for the opportunity, but the Qing Dynasty's naval army began to form amidst bumps.
While training troops, Dorgon did not forget to resume agricultural production. Because the Qing government's finances had reached the verge of collapse, and fighting was a competition of national strength. Without enough food, the Qing government could not fight Shang Yi.
Although Hong Chengchou is the military farming ambassador, his actual task is to train troops, so he needs to select another person to fully account for military farming affairs across the country. Dorgon chose Fan Wencheng.
After this comeback, Dorgon also re-recognized the value of Fan Wencheng. At least in terms of governing the country, no one in the Qing Dynasty can compare with Fan Wencheng. Even Hong Chengchou is inferior, especially in the area of governance.
In the current situation, Fan Wencheng's role must be fully utilized. Therefore, Dorgon also ordered Fan Wencheng to be fully responsible for the military farming affairs of the whole country. Except for the Ministry of War, other officials, households, etiquette, punishment, and work must cooperate fully and not be restricted.
After several years of silence, Fan Wencheng once again gained the trust of those in power and entered the forefront of the purging politics.