Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 530
Three years later

Yan Gong 340 summer (540 years)
Buyeo Castle

Thirty miles south of the city
Huang Zongxi joined the army on behalf of the Peony Guild and assisted the imperial guards in resisting the invasion of Goguryeo.

He is holding a strong crossbow in his hand, a continuous crossbow hanging on his waist, and many two barrels of arrows on his back. He is patrolling with other comrades in arms. As a wealthy son of the Peony Guild, he is naturally different from ordinary soldiers. He has just joined the army It was a small officer commanding 25 recruits who had just joined the army.

After 20 years of expansion, Goguryeo reached its peak. Not only did it completely eat away at Wuji, but it also went south to annex Fuyu again, absorbing some artisans who escaped from the grasslands, and further developed its iron-smelting technology. Today's Goguryeo people, He already knows how to make low-quality ironware, low-quality iron armor, etc., which can barely be regarded as breaking the iron-smelting technology blockade of Yan State.

After Yan Lian spent two years relocating the population and wealth of the Qingzhou area to Gwangju, she immediately called the nobles to discuss the plan for the northern expedition to Goguryeo.

After defeating Goguryeo, fight the rebels, after defeating the rebels, fight the Central Plains, and after defeating the Central Plains, fight Goguryeo.

Fortunately, the intensity of the war is not too high, so the economic damage is not too great.

At this time, a general riding a tall horse came to the front line to inspect. It was Hou Jing who had been promoted. At this moment, he was already the governor of Taizhou on the Shandong Road of Yan State and the general of Wei Guozhu State of Yan State.

"Tao" is a new military region system that has emerged in recent years. Originally, Gao Huan divided the ruling area into different military regions/supervisory regions/roads for the convenience of conquering rebels from all sides and adding military government rule. .

Since Gao Huan's regime was not orthodox and unstable, it relied purely on the army to maintain its rule. Like the Shu Han, it was ruled by a military government, which was not the same concept as the generally imagined civil service system.

Therefore, he set up the [Tao] military region/supervision area in the border area of ​​​​the ruled area. The so-called [Tao] is to appoint a military supervisor. County, for military rule and surveillance.

It is the same purpose as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty established [State]. It was not an administrative area at the beginning, but simply supervised local counties and counties, and gradually evolved into a formal administrative area.

Following Gao Huan's example, Yan Lian also established a military region/supervision area in the newly occupied Shandong area, that is, [Shandong Road].

Yan Lian's elder brother Yan Ji became the first "Jiedu envoy" of [Shandong Road], and Hou Jing became the governor of Beiqingzhou.

The so-called "Northern Qingzhou Governor" refers to the military governor of the counties and counties in Northern Qingzhou, and the so-called [Shandong Road] Jiedushi refers to the chief person in charge and supervisor of all the governors in the entire Shandong Province.

In [Shandong Road], in addition to Hou Jing, the governor of North Qingzhou, there are also the governors of South Qingzhou, Taizhou, East Qingzhou, and Guangzhou.

Yan Lian deprived the governor of the military supervision power, gave the governor's military supervision power to the governors of the states, and deprived the governor of the administrative judicial power, and distributed the administrative judicial power to specific officials. The governor only retained the administrative supervision power and judicial inspection right.

It is worth noting that the Jiedushi in this period was not the chief executive, nor the chief justice, nor even the military chief, but the chief inspector of the military, that is, to monitor how the generals in this area use military power to prevent local generals from embracing their own strength. .

The purpose of Jiedushi's initial appearance was to prevent local generals from supporting themselves, but who would have thought that the Jiedushi, which was originally used to prevent others from supporting themselves, would end up supporting themselves?
Just like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty founded the governor of the state, the original purpose was to monitor the local officials' deception, but who would have thought that in the future, the governor of the state would take the lead in deception?

So in theory, he can't manage the city and the people in detail, but many things can only exist in theory. Once it runs for a long time, it can gradually affect other adjacent powers through various means.

For example, the governor of the state, who originally only had the power of supervision, can use the power of supervision to influence the administrative power of the local chief executive, and finally obtain the administrative power of the local chief executives in a legitimate way.

Jiedushi has military power, that has to wait until Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, and Jiedushi has administrative and judicial power, that has to wait until after the Anshi Rebellion.

Yan Lian specially transferred Hou Jing, the governor of Beiqingzhou, because he valued his military ability and asked Hou Jing to command the Northern Expedition against the Goguryeo people.

The purpose of this Northern Expedition was not to capture the city, but to burn, kill and loot, to carry out production and destruction in Goguryeo, and by the way, help the Fuyu people and the Wuji people to restore their country again, so that these northern barbarians can continue to resist Goguryeo for Yan.

For the Northern Expedition, Hou Jing served as the commander, a representative of the nobles, a representative of the guild, and a signatory sent by Lord Yan. These three served as military inspectors accompanying the army, and several veterans served as deputy generals and generals for Hou Jing. staff.

There is still a difference between a staff officer and a staff member. Although both provide advice to the military chief, the staff member is a small private team of the military chief, while the staff officer is appointed by the court to the military chief.

兵力构成为：1000禁卫军、1000行会兵精锐、2000行会兵新兵、3000贵族兵、3000扶余复国军、3000勿吉复国军、3000黑水土司兵、2000燕属魏兵、2000燕属晋兵，一共20000士兵，对外号称20万大军。

Hou Jing let the imperial guards sit in the base camp, the guild recruits led the Wei soldiers and Jin soldiers to attack the city, and the Wuji people and Fuyu people entered the hinterland of Goguryeo to burn, kill and loot, and the guild soldiers supported them at any time.

There is nothing outstanding about the steady and steady style of play, and there are no major problems.

"Throwing stones can continue to smash the city wall. Let the recruits of the guild get ready. Be careful that the Goguryeo people imitated Zhang Liao of Hefei and suddenly went out of the city to fight back." Hou Jing told the generals.

"understand!"

The generals agreed, and the standard bearers and messengers of each army also got busy.

A messenger came to Huang Zongxi's position on a fast horse and shouted to them: "Check whether the catapults, crossbows, firearms, spears, and shields are damaged, and be ready to fight at any time!"

"Received!" Huang Zongxi's superior replied respectfully to the messenger soldier, and then ordered Huang Zongxi and other small teams: "Check whether the catapults, crossbows, firearms, spears, and shields are damaged, and be ready to fight at any time!"

"Received!" Huang Zongxi replied, and then, according to the knowledge he learned directly in the military camp, he led his team members to check again whether there was any problem with the weapons and equipment around him.

The most important thing is naturally the catapult, then the bow and crossbow, then the spear shield, and finally the firearm.

A year ago, the young man who invented the "bamboo tube musket" spent 12 years improving the "bamboo tube musket". After that, he felt that each bamboo tube can only be fired once, and then the bamboo tube will be damaged by the explosion of gunpowder, and it needs to be replaced with a new one. This is too much trouble, so he replaced the bamboo tube with an iron round tube .

Because it uses an iron round pipe instead of the previous bamboo round pipe, it was named "Fire Gun" by the inventor.

However, the current iron smelting technology is not advanced enough. Although iron round pipes can be made, the quality is very poor. The iron pipe is burned in the ground, and there are many impurities in the iron pipe, which leads to a high rate of bombing.

In short, with the current technical level of Yan State, although iron muskets can be made, it is unnecessary, because the power is low, the cost is high, and the risk factor is still high. It is better to continue to use bamboo muskets.

However, after his invention of the "iron tube firecracker" was submitted to [Shensmith Institute], [Shensmith Institute] further improved it, replacing the currently unsuitable iron barrel with a bronze barrel.

Bronze has lower technical requirements for smelting. In this period when iron smelting technology is not yet mature, using bronze has a greater fault tolerance rate, and its power is similar to the current iron pipe musket.

The current bronze musket is finally stronger than the slingshot, but it is still far inferior to the bow and crossbow. It is only used as a supplement to the bow and crossbow. Used in close combat.

In addition to the emergence of a new weapon that is more powerful than the slingshot, the bronze firecracker, for the cognition of the Yan people, the more powerful weapon improvement is a new type of catapult (returning cannon). The distance and power have been greatly increased, and it was named "Yuan Shen Cannon" by the inventor, just because the inventor is a believer in the Taoism of Tianshi, and Taoism of Tianshi believes that the source of all laws in the universe is "Yuan Shen", plus The catapult casts huge stones, so it was named "Yuan Shen Cannon".

Compared with the currently useless [Fire Gun], the [Original God Cannon] was an invention that amazed the nobles of the Yan Kingdom. Gun] inventors are much more.

This is not because of how short the nobles of the Yan Kingdom are, but because firearms were in the early days of their birth. They seemed useless, and their performance was far inferior to that of a crossbow. So as long as he was a normal person at that time, if he had to choose, he would choose to use a crossbow. Instead of using firearms.

In the early days of the firearms era, firearms were used as a supplement to bows and crossbows. If the bows and crossbows were accidentally broken during combat and there was no time to repair them on site, then you could use more trash-looking firearms to destroy them first. Just one click, and the barrel can also be used as a melee weapon.

(End of this chapter)