According to the understanding of Yongzheng dynasty, Fengtai camp undoubtedly occupied a high position in Qing dynasty, which was related to the stability of imperial power. So, is there a Fengtai camp in history? How many soldiers and horses are stationed in Fengtai camp? This is probably a topic that readers are more concerned about.
If we want to understand these two problems, we should start with the garrison system of the Eight Banners.
After entering the customs, the Eight Banners are divided into two systems. One is the Eight Banners in Beijing, also known as the "Beijing Banner", and the other is the Eight Banners in the province, known as the "Eight Banners Garrison". If you subdivide it, then there are troops stationed in Kyrgyzstan. The first two are easy to understand, and the key is the garrison of Kisuke.
In the Qing Dynasty, the total number of troops in the Eight Banners was about 200,000, that in the Beijing Banner was about 6,543.8+million, and that in the provinces and Kyrgyzstan was about 6,543.8+million. The Beijing flag is stationed in the inner city of Beijing. After the Qing Dynasty made Beijing its capital, all the Han people in the inner city were expelled, and the inner city of Beijing was divided into eight districts, which were guarded by the Eight Banners respectively.
The Beijing flag is divided into two wings. The left wing is: Yellow Flag (located in the northeast corner of the imperial city, on both sides of Andingmen and on the north side of Dongzhimen), Zhengbai Flag (located in the east side of the imperial city and on the south side of Dongzhimen), White Flag (located in the east side of the imperial city and on the south side of Chaoyangmen) and Zhenglan Flag (located in the southeast corner of the imperial city and on both sides of Chongwenmen). The right wing is: Huang Zhengqi (located in the northwest corner of the imperial city, both sides of Deshengmen), Zhenghongqi (located in the west of the imperial city, south of Xizhimen), inlaid with red flags (located in the west of the imperial city, south of Fuchengmen) and inlaid with blue flags (located in the southwest corner of the imperial city, both sides of Xuanwu Gate).
The above is about the garrison position of Beijing Flag, which is composed of different arms and services in the military system. Specifically, it is divided into Xiao Qi Battalion, Escort Battalion, Infantry Battalion and Pioneer Battalion. These four camps are all elites of the Eight Banners. In addition, there are Tiger Artillery Battalion, Firearms Battalion, Jianrui Battalion, Good Rescue Battalion and Ji Shen Battalion. These battalions belong to special forces.
From the late years of Kangxi, especially in the early years of Yongzheng, with the construction of Yuanmingyuan, the garrison position of Beijing Banner changed again, and some troops of Eight Banners were transferred to guard Yuanmingyuan.
As the name implies, Kibaki's garrison is an army stationed near the capital, and its main responsibility is to defend Gyeonggi. There are eight banners garrison troops in Jifu area, namely: Cangzhou, Baoding, Tianjin, Zhengjiazhuang, Cai Yuli, Shanhaiguan, Miyun and Jehol.
From the map, the eight garrisons are located in Shuntianfu, Baoding, Tianjin and Yongping. If Shi Jing is taken as a reference, Cai Yu is the nearest, followed by Miyun, Tianjin, Baoding, Cangzhou, Zhengjiazhuang, Shanhaiguan and Jehol.
In terms of the deployment of troops, the number of troops stationed in the above eight places is generally small, with 525 in Cangzhou, 55 in Cai Yuli, 526 in Baoding, 225 in Tianjin, 62 in Zhengjiazhuang, 0 in Miyun, and 0 in Shanhaiguan.
It is not difficult to see that there was no Fengtai camp in the garrison of the Eight Banners in the Qing Dynasty, whether it was the Beijing flag or the foreign flag. I'm afraid this is quite different from what you think. No matter from which angle, it is impossible for Qing rulers to station troops in Fengtai for two reasons.
First, it is too close to the capital.
Fengtai is now the urban area of Beijing. It belonged to the southern suburbs in the Qing Dynasty and was designated as a municipal district in the late Qing Dynasty. Fengtai and Shi Jing are dozens of miles away at most. Such a short distance, under the cover of Beijing flag troops, can be reached in less than an hour.
The nearest garrison to the south of the capital is Cai Yuli, which is only a few hundred miles away from the capital, with Tianjin Prefecture in the south and Baoding Prefecture in the southwest. Both places have large-scale Eight Banners garrison troops. Fengtai is just caught in the middle, and there is no need for fortification at all.
In addition, in addition to the garrison troops of the Eight Banners, there are two offices in the capital, Bujun and Shuntianfu, which have tens of thousands of troops under their jurisdiction, but most of these troops are not the Eight Banners, mainly green camp. Fengtai is under the jurisdiction of Shuntianfu. Even if there is a garrison, it is mainly green camp, and its rank will not exceed that of junior officers such as General Qian and General Ba, and its number will not exceed 500.
Second, the Eight Banners are short of soldiers.
In "Yongzheng Dynasty", Yong Zhengdi once said that the military forces in Fengtai camp are much more than the troops in the yamen head, and the number of troops in the yamen head is well documented, about 20,000. Based on this calculation, the strength of Fengtai Camp should be no less than 30,000.
Obviously, this statement is untenable. As mentioned earlier, of the eight Kyrgyz auxiliary garrison troops, Jehol has only 226 1 unit. This can also be compared from the forces of the eight banners garrison provinces, such as: Xi 'an garrison is 67 1 1, Jiangning garrison is 2620, Chengdu garrison is 2064, Jingzhou garrison is 5839, Hangzhou garrison is 1986, and Fuzhou garrison is 265438+.
None of these military towns has the Eight Banners garrison with more than 1 10,000 people, but Xi 'an and Jingzhou have only about 6,000 people at most. Such a force configuration can basically meet the basic defense needs.
Through the above analysis, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion that the so-called Fengtai camp is just a myth, and there is no such thing as Fengtai camp in historical materials, let alone how many troops there are. The Fengtai camp in Yongzheng dynasty is just a film and television rendering. Don't take it seriously.