Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 26 The Great Song Military System
But Ye Chen didn't think so, and even took it for granted.After he learned how to use a bow and archery, he discovered that the art of bow and arrow and his strong sniper are basically the same, with similarities but minor differences.The principle of three points and one line is the same between aiming and shooting, and whether it is the sniper's eyesight, steady hands, strong psychological quality, and more precise calculation of wind direction and general direction, etc., the same is true when archery. Useful, and seems to be more useful than snipers.

Compared with the rapid progress of bow and archery, Ye Chen's progress in sword fighting is too far behind.Of course, compared with normal people, his sword fighting skills have improved rapidly.

In addition, Ye Chen also discovered a problem, or a change in the body, to be precise, a good change in the body.

He found that he seemed to have inexhaustible strength, and his physical strength was extremely long. After a day of uninterrupted training, he only sweated slightly and was a little out of breath.In addition, his strength has also improved and seems to be getting stronger every day.This is mainly reflected in the ease when he draws the bow and the strength he uses when swinging the knife.

This change, Ye Chen faintly felt that it had something to do with the Heavenly Star Jade Pendant in his bosom, to be precise, it was related to the pain that he experienced at that time in the deserted temple in Yongle Border City more than 20 days ago.

But based on Ye Chen's current knowledge and information, the judgments and speculations he can make are limited to this.The specific reason and the extent of the final changes in the body are beyond what he can know.

During these days, Ye Chen has already learned a lot about the Great Song Dynasty and the situation in the Great Song Army from Cao Bin's personal soldiers such as Wang Chao and Li Hu.

Combined with his own understanding of the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, he has roughly understood the situation in the army of the Northern Song Dynasty in his mind.

As far as Ye Chen knows, Zhao Kuangyin launched the Chenqiao mutiny, added a yellow robe, and established a unified feudal regime. After learning the lessons of the late Tang and Five Dynasties warlords' separatist regimes, he first took a drink and calmly lifted the military power of the generals of the forbidden army, but Zhao Kuangyin felt that the forbidden army The military system is still a soil that can breed ambitious people.Therefore, he immediately strengthened the centralization of power, weakened the military power of the generals, and used civil servants to control military affairs; further strengthened the centralization of power, and the military system underwent tremendous changes.

The emperor directly controls the establishment, mobilization and command of the army.The military power under it is divided among three institutions.The Privy Council is the highest military leadership organ, which is in charge of military power and military orders. The three yamen, namely the Commanding Division in front of the palace, the Guarding Horse Army Division, and the Guarding Infantry Division, are the highest commanding organs of the central government, commanding the Forbidden Army and the Xiang Army respectively.The generals who led the ministers to go out for the imperial army or garrison them were temporarily appointed.This is a big change from the situation in the past where one person led the army or led the horse infantry with heavy troops.

In addition, it is stipulated that the military symbols come from the privy secretaries and cannot be controlled by them; the soldiers are subordinate to the Sanya and cannot be controlled by them.The Privy Council has the right to deploy troops, but not the army; the Sanya is in charge of the army, but has no right to dispatch troops; in case of war, the emperor appoints his ministers to lead the troops, thus realizing the "right to send troops" and "the right to hold troops." Heavy" separation.This system has indeed played a major role in eliminating the separatist rule of feudal towns that had lasted for more than 200 years since the mid-Tang Dynasty.

In terms of the allocation of troops, the military system of the Northern Song Dynasty followed the principle of "strong stems and weak branches, and internal and external maintenance".The most elite Dianqian army in the forbidden army is stationed in the capital, and the guards are stationed in various places.The men and horses in the capital are the strongest, and all towns know that their troops are outnumbered, so they dare not rebel.This is "strong stems and weak branches".If there is a change in the capital, the Forbidden Army stationed in various places combined with local forces will be sufficient to deal with the disturbance.In this way, "the internal and external are controlled, and there is no serious problem", which is "the internal and external maintenance".

Moreover, the thick salary of military officials is also a characteristic of the salary system in the Northern Song Dynasty. Ye Chen remembered that a man named Zhang Yan once said in history: "The Song Dynasty also treated military officials more generously than their ceremonies."

And this is also the reason why a man like Liu Nan, who is poor in his family, urgently needs money to treat his mother's illness, and has to support his wife and daughter, is willing to participate in the desperate effort.

In addition, when a general reaches a certain level, he can also favor his wife.

Enyin, also known as "Renzi", "Menyin", and "Shishang", refers to the system in which the imperial court confers official titles or dispatches to their descendants or relatives according to their official positions and ranks.

Regarding the establishment of the army, the army of the Northern Song Dynasty was composed of banned soldiers, Xiang soldiers, rural soldiers, and fan soldiers. With the forbidden soldiers as the main body, it formed an armed force system that combined the central army and local army, regular army and irregular army.

Among them, the Forbidden Army led by Cao Bin was organized into four levels: Xiang, Jun, Battalion (command), and Du.The chamber governs the ten armies, the army governs the five battalions, and the camp governs the five capitals.100 people each.Commanders at all levels are: Xiangdu Commander; Military Capital Commander, Military Capital Yuhou, Commander, Deputy Commander; Dutou (Ma Jun is called Military Envoy), Deputy Butou (Ma Jun is called Deputy Bingma Make).The command (battalion) is the basic organizational unit of the Forbidden Army. It is often used to calculate the strength of troops for mobilization, garrison and combat.

The Xiang Army is a local army.It is called the standing army, but it is actually the miscellaneous soldiers of the state capitals and some central agencies.It is under the control of the state capital and some central agencies, and is subordinate to the Guard Mahan Division and the Guard Buche Division.The main tasks are building cities, making weapons, building roads and bridges, transporting grain and reclaiming wasteland, as well as guarding and welcoming officials.Generally no training, combat missions.There are two arms, the infantry and the cavalry, with three levels of organization, division, command, and capital. The commanding officer is the same as the imperial army.

Township soldiers are also called militiamen.It is a local people's armed force composed of local people selected or recruited according to the proportion of household registration.Do not break away from production at ordinary times, gather training during slack farming.Responsible for building cities, transporting grain, and capturing
Stealing or cooperating with the Forbidden Army to guard the border and other tasks.There are many names of township soldiers in various places, and the organization is not uniform. They are organized according to command, capital, armor, team, or capital protection, large protection, and protection. In terms of numbers alone, they are the largest among all military branches. .

The Fan soldiers were the frontier guards in the northwestern part of the Northern Song Dynasty.It is composed of the Qiang acquaintance tribal army in the bordering areas of Guanzhong, Hedong and the current Dangxiang tribes.The chiefs of the tribes were given military posts.Lead the tribal army to guard the border.Its establishment varies from clan to clan, or by clan, sex, clan, or by clan, standard, and team.During the Great Song Conquest against Han, one of the troops was the largest group of Fan soldiers in the world, led by the very brave Fan general Chen Shixiong.

The logistics and supply belonged to the Three Divisions (the highest financial institution in the Song Dynasty), and the "Three Offices", "Privy Council", and "Three Divisions" formed a three-legged force, and the three forces checked each other.As a result of such mutual restraint, the military power was actually concentrated in the hands of the emperor. This was Zhao Kuangyin's biggest reform of the military organization.In this way, the possibility of generals launching a mutiny is basically eliminated.The emperor is on top of it, using the contradictions between the three forces to manipulate them freely.

As for the source of soldiers, Zhao Kuangyin adopted the method of recruiting soldiers. In addition to replenishing soldiers at ordinary times, he also recruited a large number of soldiers in times of famine and calamity, so as to recruit bankrupt farmers who had left their land into the army. This not only served the purpose of disaster relief. , and prevent rebellion.Ye Chen remembered that Zhao Kuangyin once said to the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs about this: "The only thing about my family is to raise soldiers for the benefit of a hundred generations. Because of the bad years, there are rebels but no rebels; unfortunately, when you are happy, there are rebels Soldiers and no traitors."

Ye Chen is a person who has led soldiers in later generations, and has experienced the education and training of military academies in later generations. He knows that if he wants to stand out in the army and make military achievements, he must first understand the situation in the army, and then on this basis, Only then can things be accomplished.This is also the "confidant" in "know yourself and the enemy, and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles" in the Art of War.

Therefore, Ye Chen attached great importance to understanding all aspects of the Great Song Army, and it sounds like he spared no effort.

More than 20 days ago, after Ye Chen mutated in the deserted temple outside the border city of Yongle, and rushed away at an unimaginable speed, Guo Wuwei and Si Luoyi teamed up to fight Yu Daoxiang, because the two had previously After being poisoned and injured, he lost to Yu Daoxiang in the end, fled desperately, and hid to heal his wounds and expel the poison.

After more than ten days, the two recovered from their injuries and joined forces again to activate the jade pendants in their respective hands, only to find that Ye Chen was actually in the Song army, knowing that it would be difficult to get the Tianxing jade pendant in a short time.The two turned against each other on the spot and started fighting, because the two were of equal strength, and worried that Yu Daoxiang was lurking nearby, but in the end they left without success, looking for a countermeasure to enter the Great Song Army.

When Guo Wuwei came near Jinyang, he accidentally discovered that the Song army was overhauling the dam in the Fen River, passing the letter with birds. After asking his master Zhang Wumeng for instructions, he thought of a way to freely enter the Song army to find people.

He first used his superb skills and the support of his inner circle in the city to sneak back to Jinyang City at night, and lied to the Lord of the Northern Han Dynasty that he went out of the city to inquire about news, and rushed the Song army to repair the dam in the Fen River, preparing to flood Jinyang Liu Jiyuan, the lord of the Northern Han Dynasty, was informed about the matter in the city, thus dispelling the crime of missing without reason and leaving his post without authorization, and easily became the first and assistant prime minister.

Just after the Northern Han Dynasty, the army and the people were shocked and began to prepare for the flood, Guo Wuwei started his plan.That is to be an inside thief, help Da Song take Jinyang, so as to gain a foothold in high officials in Da Song, and then try to find Ye Chen.

In fact, the Taiping Sect was willing to give up the Northern Han Dynasty for another reason besides the Heavenly Star Jade Pendant.

Zhang Wumeng and Guo Wuwei, the head teachers of the Taiping Sect, analyzed and compared the strengths of the two countries in detail. They felt that the future of the Northern Han Dynasty was bleak and it was already difficult to accomplish anything. Persuading Liu Jiyuan to surrender to the Song Dynasty, based on Song Emperor Zhao Kuangyin's past habits, Guo Wuwei could gain a high position in the Song Dynasty.

These days, Guo Wuwei led his party members to encourage Liu Jiyuan, the leader of the Northern Han Dynasty, to surrender to the Song Dynasty. Unexpectedly, Liu Jiyuan was convinced that Khitan would send troops to rescue him, and he would not surrender. With nothing to do but to wait for the opportunity to find countermeasures.

(End of this chapter)