Strictly speaking, Wu Sangui's army was the strongest opponent that the Qing army encountered when it entered the pass. The Qing army against the Ming army outside the Guan, the Southern Ming army in the Guannei, the Da Shun army and the Great Western Army, in fact, were all cutting melons and chopping vegetables. Nanming, Dashun, and Daxi joined forces to fight, and the Qing army fought without any effort. The real bitter battle and the battle of fierce enemies was the San Francisco Rebellion.
When San Francisco was at its strongest, it once held the land of ten provinces of Yunguichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Xianggui, Gansu, Fujian, and Zhejiang. Inner Mongolia Chahar Khan and Qinghai Morgen Taiji also raised troops in response to the anti-Qing. In many battles, Wu Sangui's army achieved results far exceeding the records of all ming armies, from the Battle of Salhu to the killing of the Yongli Emperor. Therefore, he dared to claim that "more than 900 soldiers will be killed."
The Qing army immediately dispatched all the Eight Banners Legions such as Leerjin, Shangshan, Yue Le, and Labu to the battlefield, and only the Eight Banners household slaves remained in Beijing, which was absolutely unprecedented in the Ming and Qing wars. However, the decisive battle of San Francisco was still in the northwest region, and with the defeat of Wang Fuchen, the main force of the Qing army would all attack Wu Sangui. Finally, the Qing army mobilized the last of the Mongol legions.
In 1676, the Qing Dynasty minister of the Interior, Hadei, and the first-class bodyguard Arni went to Inner Mongolia to dispatch all the Mongol troops to participate in the war, including the Ten Banners of Inner Mongolia, including Liangha Laqin, Liangtu Mot, Liangwen Niute, Ao Han, Naiman, The Fourth Son Sunit, and the King of Qimuzhan Erzhu County. Even ninguta armor has already entered the customs.
Speaking of which, Wu Sangui's army can indeed fight, the Qing army in a battle outside Guanwai, the Ming army can behead hundreds of Qing troops, that is a rare victory. In the Battle of Guannei, Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong could annihilate more than 1,000 people in the Eight Banner Army at a time. However, in the San Francisco Rebellion, Wu Sangui defeated the main force of the Eight Banners several times.
According to the "Book of Sacred Martial Arts", the information is as follows: Sangui Domain belongs to the fifty-three collars, the Green Banner Soldier has 2,000, and the Dingkou counts 10,000. ...... Broken Stream Thieves, Ding Shaan, Ding Chuan, Ding Dian, took the Yongming King in Burma, and pingshui Xi Tusi An clan, and the elite soldiers of the four sides were mostly returned to their subordinates. Counting five dings out of one A, A two hundred set up a collar, accumulating fifty collars, and administering the left and right capitals. There are four towns in front, rear, left and right, divided into ten battalions, and each battalion has 200 soldiers.
Wu Sangui's core elite is 30,000 elites, after the uprising, the Qing army in Yunnan and other places also surrendered to surrender in large numbers, and the "Records of the Ancestors of the Qing Dynasty" also has relevant records: 10,000 officers and 60,000 surrendered soldiers. In addition, a large number of people from ethnic minority areas in Yunnan were recruited to join the army, the so-called "tens of thousands of soldiers who also instigated the toastmasters", And The Inspector of Guizhou Cao Shenji, the general of Guizhou Wang Yongqing, the general of The Yuanzhou Commandery Cui Shilu, and the Governor of Guizhou Li Benshen joined Wu Sangui's camp after Wu Sangui rebelled, so when Wu Sangui raised his army, there were 250,000 soldiers.
At that time, there were 200,000 Geng Clan, 100,000 Shang Fan, tens of thousands of soldiers of Wang Fuchen of Shaanxi, and tens of thousands of soldiers of the Ming Zheng Clique. In addition, tens of thousands of people rose up in Chahar, Inner Mongolia, and more than 500,000 troops participated in the war.
Moreover, a large number of personnel participated everywhere they went, and the former army that attacked Zhejiang expanded rapidly, and soon reached more than 100,000 people. The local anti-Qing people, vigilante groups, and the troops led by the middle and lower-ranking officers of the Green Battalion all wrapped their heads in white scarves to join the San Francisco troops.
Wu Sangui's defeat was in addition to his own mistakes, and the collective mobilization of the Qing court. There was also the superiority of the Qing army in weapons. Beginning in 1674, Kangxi ordered the Western missionary Nan Huairen to preside over the casting of field cannons. Among them, the 240 "Shenwei General Cannons" built by Nan Huairen let the Eight Banner Gunners train for 3 months and fired a total of 21,600 rounds.
The Kangxi Emperor said happily to Nan Huairen: "In previous years, you made various cannons, and the provinces of Shaanxi, Huguang, and Jiangxi already had effects. Seeing new guns today, there has never been such a quasi-gun. "The 905 cannons made by Nan Huairen for the Qing Dynasty, as well as the elite Eight Banners Artillery Unit trained, exerted great power on the battlefield.