This Qing is wrong

Chapter 237

Emperor Kangxi, who was willing to give up, fled for several hours before the entire Qing army discovered the truth.

The most ridiculous thing is that the first person to discover the truth was not the Qing army's own people, but a squad of orc infantry who had killed to the periphery of the Chinese army's command tent!

This orc infantry team broke through barriers and sacrificed an unknown number of lives of their own people. They thought they would have to face the most 'elite' Manchu Eight Banners Imperial Forest Army in the Qing army.

If it wasn't for the fact that all of these orcs were locked in their loyal morale, they wouldn't have the courage to move on.

However, the orc infantry, who wanted to open a gap for the follow-up brother troops with the will to die, found that the emperor Xingyuan of the Qing army was gone!
Only a group of dead eunuchs left here to pretend...

Soon, as the news spread, most of the Qing army had been defeated, and the remaining half of the stubborn resistance also scattered like birds and beasts.

Except for the single-minded daughter who really regarded herself as a man of the Eight Banners, who dared not surrender to the Tang army, and was killed in the end when she resisted, the rest of the Qing army surrendered and ran away.

In just one day, the 30 army collapsed on its own.

And the number of Qing troops who were actually killed on the battlefield was less than 3 (excluding those who were chased and killed during the rout).

After the war, Li Changqing ordered people to count the battle damage. The Japanese mercenaries lost more than [-] people, the orc infantry lost more than [-] people, and the marauder cavalry lost the largest proportion, because they have been fighting with their own strength. The Mongolian cavalry took turns to attack.

Therefore, in the end, there were only more than 300 predator cavalry left to survive.

Only system soldiers who are not afraid of death can produce such terrible war-damaged coins.

In addition, the Yin soldiers of the Qin Dynasty also lost more than 500 people, all of whom were killed during the killing.

In the entire Tang army, only the guards who did not set foot on the battlefield were not damaged.

Regarding the loss of the soldiers of the system under his command, Li Changqing had already looked past it, after all, he had already learned the truth about the system.

After conquering the whole world, the whole world will become the nourishment of him and the system, so naturally he doesn't care about the death of his soldiers.

If it weren't for the insufficient number of system soldiers, Li Changqing would have used all system soldiers as field troops long ago.

Use it with ease and peace of mind.

This is also the reason why Li Changqing had no liking for the Japanese, so he let go of enfeoffment authority and set up a strict military merit system for Japanese mercenaries.

When the whole world is conquered, even if the land is filled with Japanese samurai fiefs, so what?

As for the restrictions on Japanese samurai becoming daimyo lords, it was mainly for the stability of the Tang Empire.

There is an essential difference between ordinary Japanese samurai feudal lords and daimyo lords.

Not only is the gap in land area and population, but more importantly, the power of independence and self-government.

The daimyo lord is almost equivalent to a country within a country, similar to the princely country of the European continent in the Middle Ages.

Although it is impossible for the strength of these famous lords to compete with the central court of the Great Tang Empire, once there are too many such famous lords, what will they do if they unite in private to fight against the central court of the Great Tang Empire?
Another counter-insurgency war?
It's okay to win, but isn't this asking for trouble?

Now that Li Changqing can no longer deploy the system's enemy forces without restriction, he is naturally unwilling to repeatedly fight internal counter-insurgency wars.

This is also the reason why Li Changqing acted first and split up all the warlords and governors who took refuge in the Tang Empire in the middle and early stages.

The reason why Li Ergou kept it was because he had no reasons for a disastrous defeat and his strength was still there.

Secondly, there is only such a single seedling warlord left, which can no longer pose a threat to Li Changqing, and Li Changqing can continue to bring Li Ergou's army with him, and use it as a pioneer.

The purpose of those Japanese mercenaries is similar. Li Changqing may grant the position of daimyo lord to the best among them, but he will never open the distribution.

This is why it is easy for Japanese mercenaries to obtain military merits in the early stage, and they only need to accumulate enough enemy soldiers below the lieutenant level.

But the further you go, the higher the threshold, especially the leap from first-class lieutenant to major general, and there is an invisible ceiling.

That ceiling is 'political censorship'!
To become a major general who is eligible to confer the title of daimyo lord, one must prove his loyalty to Datang.

Loyalty is not a matter of Li Changqing's words?

The leaders above think that you are loyal, and you are truly loyal, which has nothing to do with ability.

Of course, if the people below are evil enough and have made achievements that the leader cannot ignore, the leader can pinch his nose and agree with your loyalty.

It's just that this feat is really rare.

At least it must reach the level of expanding the territory.

The military title of the Japanese mercenaries has reached the first-class lieutenant, but they can have the qualifications to lead a regiment-level army alone, but relying on a mere regiment to expand the territory, does it mean that the enemy is too scumbag?
In a battle of the scale of the Lahore decisive battle, the entire Japanese mercenary army shared the exploits, and it was impossible to highlight individual achievements.

After the battlefield was cleared, Li Changqing made a political show in front of the surviving Japanese mercenaries and held a grand cremation ceremony for the dead Japanese samurai.

Japanese culture also has the concept of being buried in peace. It is impossible for the Tang army to carry a corpse to the Japanese island country, so it is natural to cremate it first.

The ceremony was held grandly, and this was the most cost-effective way to buy people's hearts.

And also read out in public the pensions that the families of the Japanese samurai who died in battle deserved.

The pension is not fixed, but increases step by step according to the level of military merit.

The Japanese mercenaries are willing to work for Li Changqing, relying on the guidance of this series of political shows!
Where did the Japanese samurai with backward thinking in the backcountry experience this kind of battle? How could they not shed their blood for Li Changqing?

However, what these Japanese mercenaries did not know was that the ashes of the fallen Japanese samurai in the divided urns were secretly scattered into the river after they were sent to Han, and the urns were cleaned and packaged before being sent back , waiting to be loaded with the next wave of urns of fallen Japanese warriors...

The people of the island country of the Japanese samurai, let alone the pension, can't even receive the urn!
To be precise, they couldn't even receive the news that their own samurai had died in battle.

In the Japanese island country, the propaganda machine of the Datang Empire has been fooling Japanese samurai and even Japanese civilians. The samurai mercenaries who joined the Datang Empire have all made contributions overseas and participated in low-intensity battles that beat backward natives. No one was killed!
This impression was further deepened as many families of Japanese samurai who had been granted fiefdoms were taken away from the Japanese island country.

The political propaganda of the Tang Empire in the Japanese island country is very simple. It is to use the communication inconvenience of this era to unilaterally block information. Even the top leaders of the Japanese island country don’t know the casualties of the Japanese mercenaries, and they don’t care...

Therefore, the propaganda agency of the Tang Empire can open up the feudal warriors who report good news but not bad news in the island country of Japan, never report the number of casualties, and only publicize the rhythmic family members!
The family members of the Japanese samurai who were taken away will never come back for the rest of their lives.

Even if their samurai family members were killed in the fief, and there were no males of the right age to take over in the family, those family members would be forcibly left in the local area for the redistribution of population resources.

Because of this, the people of the Japanese island country can only unilaterally know the battle situation ahead and the treatment of Japanese samurai from the court of the Tang Empire.

Under this kind of unilateral propaganda, countless Japanese samurai who want to make contributions have been attracted, and the Great Tang Empire is not wanted by everyone. The kind of Japanese samurai who messed up their samurai skills, Datang Imperial recruiters do not pass trial.

There is a strict combat skill assessment to recruit Japanese samurai.

Japanese samurai may not know how to ride a horse, do not need to know how to shoot arrows, or even use muskets (this thing is easy to learn, and a few months of simple training is enough), but they must be able to cut people!
What Li Changqing valued the Japanese samurai was their killing skills.

To put it bluntly, Japan's bushido culture is based on the technique of killing people.

Serious Japanese samurai have been practicing katana skills since childhood. After more than ten years of practice, a pig can become a master of slashing people.

Restricted by the flintlock technology of this era, the battlefield often requires hand-to-hand combat to determine the outcome.

And melee combat is the most difficult thing to practice.

Skill is difficult to practice, courage is even more difficult to practice.

However, the Japanese samurai has reached a perfect balance in these two difficult areas.

The spirit of bushido is very barbaric and advocating bravery. The average Japanese samurai who practiced killing people since childhood are relatively high in cutting skills.

Therefore, these Japanese samurai only need a few months of simple training. After mastering muskets and queue discipline, they can immediately be pulled into the battlefield, comparable to cost-effective mercenaries.

And the Japanese samurai who were born in the barren Japanese island country and longed for a fief were easy to buy and fool.

The samurai of Japan's island country fully explained the hard truth that troubles come out of poor mountains and rivers.

The reason why Japanese samurai can fight is because they are poor enough!

Even the daimyo lords only guarantee a meal of white rice, and they have to plan carefully to eat meat!

It is conceivable how difficult the life of the samurai below is...

In Japan, an island country with a large population and small land, peasant riots often broke out, but they were all suppressed by Japanese samurai, which indirectly proved the high quality of Japanese samurai in individual combat.

To put it bluntly, the actual combat experience of many Japanese samurai is obtained by hacking and killing farmers.

With a base of hundreds of thousands of Japanese samurai, Li Changqing felt that it was enough for him to unify Eurasia.

As long as Europe, America and those larger island continents are flattened, it is not a concern.

Europe is the most advanced production 'workshop' of this era.

Although Europe had not yet entered the first industrial revolution at this time, the European handicraft industry was quite developed, especially the military industry, which developed quite well in Europe where wars were often fought.

The American continent is rich, but the American continent is only rich. Their military productivity is completely incomparable with that of the European continent. There is no other reason-there is no market.

This is why Li Changqing has been committed to flattening the Eurasian continent.

In this era, Eurasia is the core stage of the world.

none of them!

The Japanese mercenaries accompanying the army are still lamenting that the court of the Tang Empire is really honest, not to mention the super high pension, and such a high honor.

Fighting for the Great Tang Empire, being able to become a feudal lord if you survive, and returning to your hometown after death, what is there not to be satisfied with?
If these Japanese samurai knew their lives and deaths, their relatives in their hometown would never know the truth, how would they feel?

Even in the 21st century, unilateral blockade of information can be carried out through technical means, let alone this ignorant and backward era.

Moreover, Li Changqing's routine of defrauding the Japanese will not arouse resentment within the Tang Empire.

After all, in the eyes of the Han people at this time, the Japanese are nothing more than foreign barbarians.

This is the same reason that Chinese people in the 21st century will not shed tears for the deaths of a few refugees in Africa.

Our Lady may have some, but by no means most.

Even fewer are willing to be Madonnas of self-sacrifice when it comes to self-interest.

Sacrificing for one's fellow countrymen is righteousness, and sacrificing for foreign barbarians, what is this called?
This is why the island nation of Japan has been kept a secret.

After the defeat, Emperor Kangxi took the main force of the Manchu Banners and marched like a whirlwind, catching up with the migrating Manchu Banners' family members and servants.

The subordinate soldiers of the Eight Banners are not only their own relatives, they are all old-fashioned soldiers who are not engaged in production. Which family does not have a coated slave?
It's just that the coated slaves who are full of Eight Banners are no longer bitter Han people, but Indian pariahs.

If Emperor Kangxi didn't want to be a loner, he couldn't just take the army with him. He had to bring all the family members and servants of the Eight Banners with him, so as to gather the morale of the soldiers of the Eight Banners!

This is what Emperor Kangxi left behind. Before the war started, he transferred away the family members of the Eight Banners and the slaves.

The reason is that Lahore has been attacked by monsters and war puppets, so it is necessary to relocate the noble family members of the Eight Banners to a safer place.

Emperor Kangxi took away quite a few people. There were tens of thousands of soldiers in the Eight Banners alone, and all of them were cavalry.

This force is enough to run amok in the fragmented northwestern India.

Even in the south-central part of the Indian continent, it is a terrifying force.

Because the Maratha Alliance at this time has no common enemy due to the disintegration of the Mughal Dynasty, those Indian states have long been disunified.

Naturally, it is impossible for the scattered Maratha Alliance to pose a threat to Emperor Kangxi's Manchu Eight Banners.

Not to mention, now Emperor Kangxi is still a member of the European Holy Alliance.

Even if the battle is defeated, as long as Emperor Kangxi still has an army in his hands, European countries will not give up.

After all, European countries still have more confidence in the experienced army under Emperor Kangxi than the Indian Asan who cannot be supported.

All European countries watched the Kangxi Emperor's war against the Mughal Dynasty.

The Maratha Alliance and even other Indian states had been suppressed by the Mughal Dynasty before that.

It's clear who is stronger and who is weaker.

With tens of thousands of Manchu Eight Banners core military groups in his hands, coupled with the diplomatic support of European countries, this is the backhand left by Emperor Kangxi.

(End of this chapter)