One year before the founding of Nurhachi, that is, the forty-third year of Wanli (16 15), four flags of yellow, white, red and blue were added to establish the Eight Banners system. The original four flags, the front hall? Positive? Words. The white flag has become a famous white flag.
What are the three flags? The son of heaven will himself? , mostly owned by the emperor, the highest status, dint, become the core; They are: yellow, yellow and white inlay, guarding the imperial city, and choosing guards. Being the emperor's guard is a pro-army.
The cavalry of the Eight Banners Army has strong operational mobility, and its hand-to-hand combat capability is much stronger than that of the Ming Army. Han cavalry is even less likely to shoot arrows at once. The Ming army really can't take the Eight Banners. Even Li Zicheng, who survived many battles and killed countless Ming troops and landlords, was killed by white flags and inlaid white flags with fighting capacity of 20,000-30,000 Manchuria like chopping vegetables. The Ming army can't even beat the blue flag with the weakest fighting capacity among Manchu soldiers.
Among the Eight Banners, the fighting capacity is the strongest and the most lasting is Zhengbai Banner.
Because the Eight Banners are divided into left and right wings, with yellow inlaid collar on the left and yellow collar on the right. Therefore, the Eight Banners of Manchuria have a strict order, from high to low: yellow, yellow, white, red, white, red, blue and blue, which are not written casually.
Before Nurhachi's death, Huang Zheng and Huang Xiang were directly commanded by Hanwang, and the other six flags were commanded by his nephew and grandson respectively. The original white flag owner Baylor was Chu Ying, the eldest son of Nurhachi. After Chu Ying's death, the white flag was divided into three parts. The true white flag was given to Nuerhachi's son-in-law and one of the five ministers, and later became Huang Taiji.
Dourgen of Zhang Fengyi and Huang Taiji of Jiang Wen in The Storm of the Qing Palace
When Nurhachi died, the strength of Zhengbai Banner was not strong among the Eight Banners, but Huang Taiji, the flag owner, was strong and became the final winner. Huang taiji took the opportunity to possess Du's white flag and took his son Haug as the flag owner. After that, he used the excuse of switching his two white flags with the yellow flags of Azig, Dourgen and Duoduo brothers, adopted a differentiation policy towards the two white flags, formed a new two-sided yellow flag and two-sided white flag, abolished the flag owner of Azig, and named Dourgen, who was 14 years old, as the flag owner. After that, the two white flags were mixed, with Dourgen as the main white flag and Duoduo as the main white flag. Due to the relationship between Dourgen and Duoduo and the long-term war experience, the unity of the two white flags was affected, and the strength of Zhengbai Banner ranked first among the Eight Banners.
In December of the seventh year of Shunzhi, Dourgen died of illness. The emperor shunzhi was in charge of state affairs, and soon put the white flag under the jurisdiction of Dourgen under the command of the emperor, forming the five flags of Shangsan. The white flag and two yellow flags become the top three flags.