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In the east of the Shilka River in today's Russia, south of the Trans-Khingan Mountains, and in the middle and upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, there used to be an elite army called the "Sauron Soldiers". This is a strong special force of the Qing Dynasty, bravely crowned the Eight Banners, and followed the Qing army to fight across the country. To the west, Sauron's troops were stationed in Ili, Xinjiang, to the north, Sauron's troops defeated Tsarist Russia, and to the south, Sauron's troops repelled Burma. But if there is one of the most fierce battles of the Sauron soldiers, it must be to cross the Himalayas, penetrate deep into Nepal, and defeat the Gurkhas.
In the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Sauron soldiers were almost invincible, invincible, and had great achievements, better than the Eight Banners Army, but more hard-working than the Green Battalion soldiers. However, such a brave and combative special forces disappeared in the late Qing Dynasty. How did the Sauron soldiers decline, and why did the Sauron soldiers disappear from the Qing army in the late Qing Dynasty?
Today, Yilin will talk to you about the Sauron tribe that has gone from merit to the abyss of suffering.
Since the reform of the Shang Dynasty and the establishment of the "military merit system" in the Qin State, military merit has become a ladder for countless soldiers to change their fate. Military merit can be exchanged for land, food, and titles. Shang Ying directly linked military exploits to life leaps, and promoted countless young people of the Qin State to go to the battlefield and fight bloody battles. But for the Sauronians, military exploits are like a shackle, locking the fate of every Sauronite, and bringing the entire Sauron army into the abyss from which it will never recover.
"Sauron" is not the name of a tribe, it means "upper river" in Manchu. The Sauron tribe is a tribe living in the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, mainly including the Daur, Evenki and Oroqen tribes. They mainly fish and hunt, and are good at riding and shooting. Because they live in the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, at a higher latitude, and are in an extremely cold place, this makes the Sauron people not only particularly hard-working, but also particularly able to fight.
But the military talent of the Saurons was not strong from the beginning, and hunting and fighting were two different things entirely. The first time the Saurons were conscripted into the army on a large scale took place during the Qingzhun War during the Kangxi period. This Dzungar was located in the northwest of the Qing Dynasty, which is the region of present-day Xinjiang. To the north of the Qing Dynasty was the Khalkha Mongols. Although the Khalkha Mongols were annexed to the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty was also worried about a rebellion in the Khalkha Mongols. In the unlikely event that the Khalkha Mongols and Dzungaria went south together to attack the Qing Dynasty, the entire northern border would be ablaze.
In order to contain the Khalkha Mongols and form a two-sided attack on Dzungaria, the Qing army recruited a large number of Saurons to join the army in Heilongjiang, and the troops were divided into two routes, one army was stationed in the Khalkha Mongolia and fought from west to east, and the other army went out of the Hexi Corridor and fought from south to north. As a result, the Sauron soldiers stepped onto the stage of the Qingzhun War. But on the first battlefield, Sauron's performance was poor.
Because when an army fights, the first thing is discipline. An undisciplined army will never be able to win a war. Sauron's soldiers had just entered the battlefield, and they were not yet able to adapt to the war. In the battle with Tongbo, as soon as the Sauron soldiers saw that the situation was not good, they ran first, and at once the whole army collapsed, and all the troops followed. At this time, the Sauron soldiers were still a rookie army, and they had just moved from a fishing and hunting life to a military career.
So, how did the Sauron soldiers become an elite army? The core lies in one point: absorbing the Sauron soldiers and integrating them into the Eight Banners Army. The Eight Banners were the elite of the elite of the Qing army. The Sauron soldiers charged with the elite of the Eight Banners, killed the enemy together, and soon came out of the woods. The Sauron soldiers were already good at cavalry and archery, and the people were fierce, and with the Eight Banners leading in front, the Sauron soldiers quickly learned to war. With strict discipline in war, the Sauron soldiers quickly rose to prominence and became powerful all over the world.
At the peak of the Sauron soldiers, conquered all directions, opened up more than 20,000 miles of Xinjiang, entered Burma, forced the Burmese king to call the minister Nagong, the battle of Jinchuan, the Sauron soldiers were invincible, across the high mountains and snowfields, knocking on the door of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, almost invincible, invincible. Normally, a tribe with great achievements in war should have a bright future and be greeted with flowers all the way. However, for the Saurons, the greater the feats they built, the deeper the disaster for the tribe.
Because the Sauron soldiers were born in the upper reaches of the White Mountain and Black Water, they were more brave and good at fighting than the Eight Banners. The emperors of the Qing Dynasty were familiar with history books and knew that the nomadic peoples such as Khitan and Mongolia were sinicized after they entered the Central Plains, and completely lost the wildness of the nomads. The Qing army was also worried that their Eight Banners would sooner or later be corrupted by a comfortable and prosperous life. For this reason, the Qing Dynasty held a grand "hunting" activity every year, which was actually a "large-scale actual combat Xi."
However, this kind of "actual combat Xi" is ultimately a symptom but not a cure. When the Manchu Eight Banners nobles from the White Mountain and Black Water lived in Beijing, their living Xi were already turned upside down, and it was impossible to go back to the past. However, the Saurons were an exception.
The children of the Eight Banners are their own people of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and can enjoy the gifts of the Central Plains civilization, but the Sauron people are not. The emperors of the Qing Dynasty forbade the Saurons to engage in farming, forbade them to develop into the middle and lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River, and imposed heavy taxes on the Saurons. No one wants to hunt all their lives, and they don't have a meal. Due to the entry of the Eight Banners into Beijing, the Sauron people finally migrated to the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River, cultivated farmland, and sought a stable life. As a result, the Qing army came, confiscated all the land of the Saurons, handed it over to the Ningguta garrison, and converted it into military land.
The Saurons were driven out of the black land and returned to the Outer Khing'an Mountains to hunt. Even if hunting, the Qing Dynasty also required each Sauron family to pay a mink every year. The pastures in the middle and lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River were all encircled by the Qing army and turned into horse farms, and the Sauron people were not allowed to go south, so they could only go north to hunt. In that cold place, there was no shortage of mink, but in order to hand in mink skins every year, it took a lot of time for the Saurons to be handed in, which seriously delayed the work of the family.
It was also difficult for the Saurons to make money through trade, because the Russian merchants brought large quantities of mink into the northeast, and the price of mink was very low. In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the Sauronians, the Qing army artificially forced the Saurons to insist on a life of fishing and hunting, struggling to survive in hardships and hardships.
The total population of the Qing Dynasty grew from 70 million to 400 million, but the total number of Saurons never exceeded 100,000. In the late Qing Dynasty, there were only 3 to 40,000 people in Sauron, so why couldn't the population of Sauron grow? First, the living conditions were too hard. The second is that the Saurons are either at war or on the way to war.
Originally, Sauron had a small population, but he participated in more than 70 battles, large and small, and fought every three years on average. On the battlefield, the Sauron soldiers, as a sharp knife unit, have always been responsible for charging into battle, and they have the highest casualty rate. Even if the battle is won, not to mention the lack of rewards, the consumption of ordnance will be deducted from the salary of the Sauron soldiers. The number of arrows shot and the loss of armor were to be converted into silver and deducted from the wages of Sauron's soldiers. In the most difficult time, the women of Sauron were arranged by the Qing government to go to the Sauron military camp to ensure the reproduction of offspring.
Sauron people are not allowed to study, they are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination, and if they want to obtain the official establishment of the Eight Banners in Beijing, they need to give up their identity and betray their ancestors. Otherwise, one day for Sauron, for the rest of his life, he will have to work for the Qing court.
Suffering has created the great feats of Sauron's soldiers. But these exploits did not free the Sauron soldiers from the shackles of fate, but instead became the shackles that crushed the Sauronians.
If Sauron had been born in the Qin State, he would have left a strong mark in history, but after all, the Sauron people were born in the wrong era, and they were all brave and loyal, and they were mistakenly paid to the Qing Empire.
The Saurons were not defeated by the enemy, but by the Manchus.