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During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Solun Ministry was not a nation, but a collective name.
In Manchu, it originally meant "dwelling in the upper reaches of the river", the river refers to the Heilongjiang River, and the Solun Tribe is one of the three major jurchen tribes: the Savage Jurchens are a collective name for the many tribes distributed in the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River.
This is a habit of naming Jurchens according to regions, such as the Jianzhou Jurchens centering on the Suksu River Basin, the Haixi Jurchens centering on the Songhua River Basin, and the Savage Jurchens centering on the Heilongjiang River Basin.
The Savage Jurchens not only include the Solun Ministry, it is divided into two parts: the East Sea Jurchen and the Heilongjiang Jurchen.
The East China Sea Jurchens are distributed along the Songhua River and ussuri River, and the Heilongjiang Jurchens are distributed in the areas east of Lake Baikal, the Erguna River, the Shileka River, and the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River.
The Solun tribe refers to some of the most powerful tribes in the Heilongjiang Jurchens, and each ministry calls itself Solun, because "Solun Xiao is brave enough to hear the world", so "by its name to strengthen themselves".
Since Nurhaci's rise, the strength of the Jurchen soldiers has made the Ming army frightened, and the field battle is almost difficult to win, and can only rely on the city and firearms to hold on.
The Eight Banner Soldiers from the White Mountains and Black Water seem to have been born to fight, but when it comes to Xiao Yong and good fighting, they are still slightly inferior, because there are still Sauron soldiers.
How strong are the Sauron soldiers?
Qianlong said that riding and shooting is the foundation of Manchuria, and there is no one more to talk about the essence of riding and shooting than Sauron.
The famous Qianlong Dynasty general Hailancha was a native of the Evenk tribe of Solun, and when he was young, he was from the Zhengjun Department, and when he was pursuing his horse, an arrow hit the elbow of the enemy general Bayar and captured him alive.
When Qianlong was hunting in the Mulan paddock in forty-six years, two arrows killed two fierce tigers, "everyone was surprised by the courage", which was an essential skill for the Sauron people to survive in the primeval forest.
The Eight Banner Soldiers of the Founding Of the Qing Dynasty were also invincible, but after entering the customs, their combat effectiveness entered the downward channel. For an army, the difficulty is how to maintain combat effectiveness for hundreds of years, and the Sauron soldiers have done it, which is where their strength lies.
After Nurhaci conquered the Haixi Jurchens, he sent troops to recruit the Savage Jurchens in the first year of the Mandate of Heaven (1616), but the soldiers did not reach the tribes of Solon.
After that, during the Imperial Taiji period, he used troops against the Savage Jurchen three times, and finally completely conquered the Solon Department in the eighth year of Chongde.
Soon the Qing army entered the pass, with more than 100,000 troops to pacify the world, the use of troops is stretched to the limit, and the brave and good warriors of Sauron are naturally incorporated into the Eight Banners and enter the Guannei to fight.
The performance of the Solon soldiers on the battlefield is also impressive, more than ten years after entering the customs, the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banner Soldiers has declined a lot, while the Sauron soldiers who were recruited from the primeval forest outside the Pass have maintained their consistent bravery, played their own fame, and won the title of "Tiger Soldier".
"After the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty were determined, the four marches were not courted, the prestige was extinct, and the name of Sauron was great."
Russia is now known as the "fighting people," but in the 17th century, the title probably didn't take their turn. Tsarist Russia has been infiltrating the Heilongjiang Since the Chongzhen period, the Qing Dynasty has been busy with civil wars, and Sauron's troops have been drawn a lot, so that Eastern Siberia has been controlled by Tsarist Russia for decades.
After Kangxi came to power, Tsarist Russia continued to advance and invaded Yaksa.
Xuan Ye was furious and decided to repel Tsarist Russia, but he did not recruit troops on a large scale, but only ordered the local Heilongjiang garrison of the Eight Banners to send troops, because the Yaksa area was the place where the Solon people lived, and there were Solon soldiers, which could be saved from the xingshi to mobilize the masses.
The two battles of Yaksa ended in a complete victory for the Qing army. Sauron's soldiers were the main force, and after the war, eleven people in Sauron's various departments, including Ihatu, Tuyantu, and Sunteyi, won the first prize medal.
After the qing dynasty completed the unification, the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners of Guannei was further reduced, and the green camp that had been heavily relied on was gradually useless.
But there are not many wars, especially the border has not been peaceful for a long time, so the Sauron soldiers were used as firefighters by the Qing Dynasty, and where the war was tense, the Sauron soldiers were transferred to where they were.
The Battle of Yaksa was followed by the Battle of Qingzhun across the three dynasties of Kangyongqian.
How could Sauron be absent?
In the 35th year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Kangxi Fa's army of 100,000 imperial drivers personally enlisted Gardan, conscripted 2,000 Solun soldiers, and incorporated them into the Eastern Route Army led by the Heilongjiang general Sabusu, serving as the arrow of the Eastern Route Army.
During the Kangxi Dynasty, Sauron soldiers were repeatedly recruited to engage the Junbu, and the tiger soldiers also had a good reputation for their performance and paid heavy sacrifices.
"Sauron's Blue Plume Zarencha, Han fought well, and when he fought, he was quite brave, shooting several thieves, and committing suicide with serious injuries."
After a short respite, the Yongzheng Dynasty Qing quasi-war resumed, and solun soldiers still refused to give in.
At the Battle of Erdenezhao, the quasi-army fortress was a fortress and repelled the Qing army's attack several times.
Seeing that it was about to fall into the night, Sauron's soldiers showed their fangs.
Sauron's forward bodyguard Aranjica led 28 men to quietly approach the paramilitary line, and with his hands, he soared upwards, and the defense line was opened a gap. Solon commander Tal dai took advantage of the situation to command more than 2,000 Solon officers and men to cover up and kill, breaking through the paramilitary defense line in one fell swoop, "Sauron elite troops, ten thousand arrows fired at the same time, killing more than a thousand people", thus laying the foundation for the great victory in the Battle of Erdenezhao.
The most addictive thing about using Solun Bing is Qianlong.
At first, Qianlong did not send Solun soldiers, but only assigned the governor of Sichuan, Altai, to lead the local Toast soldiers to quell the rebellion.
Altai was soon defeated, and Qianlong executed him and sent the university shiwenfu inspector to attack him.
Wen Fu also suffered a defeat and died in the battle.
When Qianlong took a look, he could not send Soren, "urgently dispatching jianrui, two thousand firearms battalions, and two thousand Jilin Soren soldiers" reinforcements. Under the command of the Dingxi general Ah Gui, the jinchuan was finally pacified.
Afterwards, Qianlong praised it greatly, "[Solun's soldiers] actually defeated the Green Banner, attacked Mount Lobova, and shot and killed many enemies, which shows the strength of Solun in Manchuria."
Perhaps the most fierce record of Sauron's soldiers was the expedition to Gorkha.
The Gurkhas were originally a small tribe, and after the unification of Nepal, they were supported by the British, and dared to send 3,000 troops to invade Tibet in 1788.
At that time, the Qing Dynasty was still under qianlong's rule, and the Gurkha did not have the strength of the British army in the Opium War, and Qianlong said: We must go back!
However, the local government reached an ambiguous peace agreement with the Gurkha, and by the time the Qing army arrived, the Gurkha had already taken 300 yuan treasures and retired.
Two years later, the Gurkha did not get the expected 300 yuan treasure per year, so they once again raised troops and drove straight in.
Qianlong was nearly seventy years old, so he made a big fuss and gathered 12,000 people from nearby provinces to prepare for the conquest of Gorkha.
However, most of these soldiers were descended from the Battle of Jinchuan, and Qianlong could not rest assured. Therefore, Fu Kang'an, the governor of Liangguang, and Hailancha, counselor general, were also transferred to Tibet for reinforcements, the main force of which was more than 1,000 Heilongjiang Solun soldiers.
Before leaving, Qianlong specifically instructed that he must wait until solun's soldiers arrived before they could engage.
The Solun soldiers did not disappoint Qianlong, and in the Battle of Gorkha, the Qing army with them as the arrow won successive victories, regained the lost land, crossed the Himalayas and invaded the territory of Gorkha, and within two months the troops were under the city of Kathmandu, and the Gurkha had to surrender and promise never to invade Tibet.
Even today, it is a feat. More than 200 years ago, these warriors were awe-inspiring in terms of how difficult it was to march across the Himalayas entirely by manpower and animal power.
As for the Gurkha mercenaries who were later praised as the king of soldiers, they fought on the road and the Sauron soldiers on the long-distance expedition were also victorious and lost more, and they were defeated and retreated all the way.
After quelling the rebellion, Qianlong specially dispatched 1,000 Solon officers and men to form the "Solun Battalion" and stationed them in the northwest frontier to prevent the invasion of Tsarist Russia.
This army was distinguished in the northwest, and in the 1820-1826 Zhang gere Rebellion, the Sauron battalion was the main force in counterinsurgency, and also paid hundreds of sacrifices.
In 1869, Tsarist Russia invaded Ili on a large scale, and in May 1887, it sent troops directly to Khorgos, but was met with heroic resistance from the officers and men of the Solon Battalion and the Xibe Battalion, which caused many setbacks to the Russian invasion.
The Qing Dynasty knew how important it was to maintain a fighting Sauron army, and although the Eight Banners of Guannei were drunk and gold fans in the flower world, they did not relax at all to the Sauron Department, and carried out strict training every year to maintain their combat skills.
But no matter how strong the will, it will inevitably fade in the worldly dyeing vat, just like the Eight Banner Soldiers who once dominated East Asia. The Qing Dynasty's approach was to forbid the Sauron soldiers to live with other soldiers, so as not to be tainted with laziness and vices.
It seems that the Emperors of the Qing Dynasty also knew what the environment had degraded other soldiers into.
Although Sauron's soldiers are brave, in fact, their own tribe has a great weakness, that is, people are not prosperous.
There are two reasons for this.
First, the natural conditions of the hereditary land are harsh and it is not suitable for large-scale reproduction of the population.
The second reason is more important, the Sauron soldiers have suffered great sacrifices in all the conquests.
The various ministries of Sauron mainly include the Evenk, Dahan, Orenchun, and Hezhe ethnic groups. Together, the population of these tribes has never exceeded 100,000, and for a long time it was only 40,000-50,000 people.
Therefore, in all the wars, the maximum number of troops that can be recruited from Sauron's army is between one and two thousand, and if there is more, it will affect Sauron's reproductive power.
Even so, the frequent expeditions caused heavy losses to the Saurons, losing a large number of strong men.
From Kangxi to Guangxu, recorded Solon soldiers were conscripted more than 70 times, with an average of less than 3 years to go out.
Twenty-two provinces have the figure of expeditionary Sauron soldiers, these warriors are either killed in the northwest frontier or buried in the southwest frontier, never returning home.
The supplementary population could not catch up with the losses, the young adults were no longer enough to go out on the expedition, the conditions were relaxed to the point that as long as they could draw bows and arrows, they were in the ranks of the conscripts, and in the chaos of size and excellence, there were 76-year-old Sauron soldiers, which was probably the oldest grass-roots officer and soldier. By the later period, the population of Sauron's departments had dropped to 30,000.
In modern times, the Qing Dynasty was no longer an opponent of the great powers that completed the industrial revolution, and the once invincible Sauron soldiers were also difficult to support, and they sank with the defeat of the Qing army again and again.
Even so, the will of Sauron's soldiers to fight did not fade, and when the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed, Sauron's officers and soldiers raised their guns and mounted their horses as they had a hundred years ago, defending the place where they had lived for generations.
In the famous Jiangqiao War of Resistance in modern times, Ma Zhanshan recruited a large number of local Dahulsoren cavalry, who braved artillery fire to fight the Japanese cavalry team to the death, and the cavalry unit was also one of the few troops under Ma Zhanshan that had the advantage over the Japanese army, winning the respect of everyone.
Over the past few hundred years, Sauron soldiers have made great contributions to the defense of the country and endured great sacrifices, and their efforts are worth remembering for future generations.
Let's remember the contributions made by the Sauron soldiers in history:
"The state has cut down siyi, opened up more than 20,000 miles in Xinjiang, drove Burmese yi in the south, cut jinchuan in the west, but relied on solun's light and healthy teacher, wind and an electric shock, endured hardships and hard work, and was difficult to pick up its sharpness."
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