The Rise of the European Emperor

How important is the Savage Squad? Before the Qing army entered the customs, the fighting strength was so strong that the Ming army only dared to defend the city. Why? Because the Qing army had a group of barbarians who were not afraid of death and charged forward as death squads to resist the guns of the Ming army.

The real Qing army's "own people" hid behind these savage death squads. As a result, the casualties were all attributed to the savage death squads, but the military exploits were all attributed to the Eight Banners Army.

How many casualties to collapse? I don't know... Anyway, the casualties were all captured by the Savage Death Squad, not the real Eight Banners soldiers. So, no casualties and crashes...

As for the savage death squad? If it's a big deal, go to the forest to catch the savage girl really...

But after entering the customs, the Qing army became somewhat active. Because I can no longer catch the wildlings in the northeastern jungle as death squads, I have to rely on the Eight Banners soldiers to go by themselves. Then, the Qing army was not so fierce.

When Wu Sangui rebelled, more than 200,000 bannermen showed their decline and were almost over. If the Green Battalion hadn't stood up, the Manchu Qing might have lost and fled back to the Northeast.

Of course, this is also related to the corruption of the Eight Banners soldiers after entering the customs. However, without the captured savages as cannon fodder for the death squads, the impact on the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners soldiers is quite large.

Then, the Manchus continued to arrest Nuzhen as a death squad until the Qianlong period. However, since the arrest of Jurchen and Sauron (the old name of the minor people such as Ewenki, Daur and Oroqen) as death squads, the combat effectiveness of the Qing army has become even worse. In the end, no one can beat it at all.

In fact, this is not the original of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the method used by the Mongols during the Genghis Khan period. The Mongolian cavalry had heavy cavalry death squads at that time, responsible for charging ahead. Of course, it's not the brain-damaged death squad in the movie "King of Mongolia", but a normal death squad.

But the Mongolian cavalry death squads, like the Central Plains army, were composed of death row prisoners who had committed capital crimes and those who had committed military law. Unlike Houjin, who directly captures innocent wild Jurchen. In other words, it was not a Jurchen at all, but a person from another tribe, who was caught as a cannon fodder by the savages of Houjin. After all, at that time, there were only 100,000 Jurchens in Jianzhou, but they couldn’t find so many death row prisoners, and they didn’t dare to waste the population. They could only arrest those more fierce Jurchen savages as cannon fodder death squads.

However, this has worked wonders. The Jurchen and Sauron people who were captured in the deep mountains and old forests can be seen whether they are brave and savage when they are captured. If they resist fiercely, they will slowly tame them with the method of boiling the eagle. Then, use it as the death squad charging ahead. As for those who are not ferocious enough, they can simply be ordinary slaves, grazing and farming.

And those rebellious Jurchens and Sauron savages, once they are successful, are willing to serve the Qing army, they are often savage and not afraid of death, and they are very suitable for resisting a round of gunfire by the Ming army.

It is said that,

Some daredevil savages caught from deep mountains and old forests, because of their poor riding skills, were simply tied to horsebacks and charged before charging...

And after the death squad in front attracted the Ming army to shoot a round of guns, the real Eight Banners soldiers at the back just rushed to the front and slashed the Ming army gunmen with their knives...

Nurhaci worked as a slave for Li Chengliang, and he worked in the Ming army for a long time. He also read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which is a person who is familiar with the Ming army. He is not like those Mongolian cavalry who do not understand the routines of the Ming army, and will not charge blindly. He knew that in front of the cavalry, the Ming army had only one chance to shoot. As long as the cavalry has passed this round of shooting, the cavalry can break into the formation of the fire gun soldiers, and they can hack and kill at will.

But there are very few Jurchens. If you let your own people be death squads, after a few battles, the Jurchens will exterminate the clan. Therefore, he creatively thought of capturing the savages in the old forest in the northeast to become a death squad and to endure that round of shooting for the real Jurchen. Then, the rest is Jurchen cavalry play time.

I have to say, Boarskin is indeed a tactical genius. And his tactics just restrained the characteristics of the Ming army's fierce shooting in the first round, and avoided the casualties of the Eight Banners soldiers. In addition, he also invented the chariot tactics.

No, the chariot is not an invention either. Because Qi Jiguang had already created a sidecar to resist the Mongol cavalry. The boar skin is to reinforce the sidecar so that it can withstand firearms.

The combination of the chariot and the savage death squad is the main tactic used by the boar skin to restrain the Ming army, and it is also a very effective tactic.

However, the chariot tactics are actually not so invincible. As long as you have a row of hundreds of artillery pieces like the French do, you can destroy the chariot. Unfortunately, the artillery of the Ming army was mainly deployed on the city wall, and there were generally only a few tiger squatting guns in front of the field, which could not restrain the chariot.

Therefore, the Ming army always suffered losses in field battles. However, when defending the city, the Houjin army was also helpless because there were many cannons on the city head. It is said that the boar skin was also shot.

This is mainly because the Ming army did not have modern movable gun mounts and could not carry too many infantry guns on the march. If it were the Beihai Kingdom's army, they could carry hundreds of cannons at will, and they could blast Houjin's chariot into flying shards. After all, the cannons of Marin's army all have wheel-type movable gun mounts at the battle level, which are very convenient to carry on the march.

In fact, the practice of the Turkish army is also worth learning from - the Turks put the artillery directly on the cart. At the same time, the artillery carts were lined up, and iron chains were tied between the carts to prevent the enemy cavalry from entering. Therefore, the Persian cavalry suffered a great loss in the face of the artillery formation of the Turks.

Fortunately, Marin gave Persia a warning in this time and space. Ismail I did not foolishly rush into the Turkish artillery array, and he did not suffer heavy losses, and retained the capital to fight against the Turks. And as long as Persia was not crippled, Turkey would not dare to go all out to attack Europe with confidence. Because they were also afraid that the rear would be copied by Persia.

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Marin called Kohler, Schwartz, Kahn and others to discuss the matter of going to the North American jungle to capture barbarians and become death squads. Schwartz was puzzled and asked:

"The Indians don't know how to ride horses at all. How can they act as cavalry death squads?"

Marin smiled proudly and said:

"It's okay, just tie them up right away!"

But Kohler pinpointed the problem:

"But Your Majesty, our enemy doesn't have strong firepower. Why should we send daring cavalry to attract enemy fire?"

Marlin was stunned for a moment - yes, he patronized the wildling death squad tactics of the cottage wild boarskin. But the problem is that his opponents are not the Ming army, and they don't have such strong firepower...

And if it's not to attract firepower, what's the point of tying a barbarian who can't ride on a horse to charge, other than giving the opponent's spearman's head?

Marin began to reflect, and found that he was rude...

At this time, Kahn also interjected:

"Why do Indian barbarians act as death squads? Those people are not easy to discipline. Also, it is difficult to communicate. If you are looking for brave death squads, why not look for the Ruthenian brute on His Highness Simon's side? I remember last time. His Royal Highness Simon told me that there are many Ruthenian barbarians in Ukraine, who can be captured as barbarians and charged forward as death squads..."