Chapter 12 Chapter Five The Creation of the Eight Banners Empire

Nurhachi took advantage of the opportunity of Li Chengliang's death and grew up rapidly.When he captured and killed his enemy, he needed a new pretext for war in order to continue to integrate the forces of the Jurchens' armed groups.What is the reason?Nurhachi's reason is very funny and very primitive: he asks every tribe, including powerful tribes, for women, and if any tribal chief has a beautiful daughter, he asks the chief to give him his daughter.If you give it, it will be easy, it means that you obey me, I can rule you, you want to be with me and we will continue to beat others, if you don't agree, then you have to rob.

As if he had been humiliated, Nurhachi mobilized elite soldiers to fight. Counting Nurhachi's lifelong struggle, he only has two slogans. The first slogan is to avenge his father, and the second slogan is to give me a woman. If you don't give a woman, he will never end with you.When the war lasted to a certain stage, Nurhachi's power was already quite strong, and he had more than 10,000 fighters.At this time, another genius military thought of Nurhachi appeared-this military thought was praised by the historian Mr. Yan Chongnian as Nurhachi's contribution to human civilization. This is nonsense-Nurhachi created the Eight Banners Empire.

Why are there Eight Banners?What does the Eight Banners symbolize?You must know that the Aixinjueluo tribe in Nurhachi, including various small tribes outside the pass, are nomadic peoples. They have strong combat effectiveness, but they are not military units, and Nurhachi reorganized these tribes with a kind of military thinking. The so-called Eight Banners are different tribes.He integrated these tribes according to cattle recording.What is Niulu?The current name is Lian.In the past, each tribe was led by a chief to go wherever there was food, but now Nurhaci transformed them all into warriors. All the strong and strong men in the tribe must become soldiers, and all the women are the resources of the tribe.Women, land, and property are all allocated by Nurhaci to the bravest fighters in battle.When Nurhachi used this kind of military thinking to assemble the Eight Banners, a powerful Jurchen combat unit gradually formed.

This unit began to expand infinitely, and finally expanded to the Mongolian Eight Banners and the Han Eight Banners.That is to say, if we compare the Eight Banners to an eight major military region, then it was only the size of a battalion at most when it was first formed, but as each tribe conquered the city, more and more tribes were conquered, and more and more warriors were conquered. When there are more and more, and the combat power formed becomes more and more unprecedented, and when it becomes stronger and stronger, a new Eight Banners system is needed. In contrast, the forces on Daming's side were interfered by Li Zicheng, and all the war resources were spent on Li Zicheng's consumption, leaving no time for Liaodong.Therefore, Nurhachi handled his tribal personnel calmly and formed his combat unit with ease.