As soon as the folding fan in his hand was closed, he gently tapped to the location of the star field in the capital of Northern Qi, Xiao Yichen chuckled: "If you say that the source of soldiers is not good, then you can still become an elite soldier with good training, but the bigger problem is the distrust of the Northern Qi royal family for military generals."

Historically, there have been several incidents of military generals rebelling in the Northern Qi Dynasty, and one of them even nearly overthrew the Li family. Since that time, the Li family's defense of military generals has reached the extreme.

First of all, in addition to the superintendent and commander of each ship group, other high-level, middle-level, and lower-ranking officers, such as commanders, commanders, adjutant generals, and staff generals, can only serve for a maximum of 10 years in the same unit, and even the vast majority need to be rotated for three years. In this way, although the situation of the generals grouping together and thus jointly rebelling is avoided, the soldiers do not know the generals, the generals do not know the soldiers, and when they really encounter a battle, they can only send a certain army into battle by luck like turning their eyes open. And the nominal commanders of each ship group probably have to do their daily work is to find out who is leading a certain unit under their command today.

On the other hand, in our empire, if there is a battle to attack the fortifications, this king must order General Gongsun Zhan to lead the dragon tooth ship group into battle. And if there is a defensive battle, then General Shen Tukun of the dragon scale ship group is the best choice. Because, this king knows what they are good at, and he knows what the two major ship groups are good at. This alone greatly weakened the military power of the Northern Qi. ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Yichen saw that his father was nodding his head and seemed to agree, and couldn't help but laugh more relaxedly: "What's even more amazing is that Northern Qi has a special official position in battle, called 'supervising the army'! Once the army is to be mobilized to fight, whether it is a defensive war or an offensive war, the monarch of Northern Qi first chooses a person from among the civil officials and gives him the official position of supervising the army. As the name suggests, this prison is to supervise the army to fight.

However, the trouble is that the power of this supervising army is greater than that of the commander-in-chief of the battlefield! The commander-in-chief of several ship groups must even ask the supervising army for instructions before he can begin to issue orders. If the prison guards don't agree, then no orders are of any use.

Who are these prison guards? Civilian officials who can only spit, stupid scholars who only know how to fight to the death to serve the country, and even internal servants who are close to the monarch. This king really can't imagine that if this king goes to war, our chief steward will stand on the side and watch without saying a word, and from time to time he will say: 'Ah, yes, Your Highness, how can you retreat if you can't fight like this? What is it to lure the enemy into the wilderness? You should rush forward, the general will die in a hundred battles, even if the horse leather shroud is loyal to the empire! Come and come, rush, the whole army will rush to me!'If this is the case, this king still has a stomachache before sending out the army, and it is better to go home to recuperate.' ”

"Hahaha......" The laughter of the princes sounded instantly, and even Xiao Cheng, who was standing beside Xiao Lingtian, couldn't help laughing: "The old slave is not so bold, besides, if it is the temper of our Third Highness, the old slave is talking nonsense like this, and his head is cut down by His Royal Highness many times." The old slave still keeps his head and carries shoes for His Majesty. ”

"Hahaha, old thing!" Xiao Lingtian couldn't help but look back and scolded with a smile, looking like he was in a good mood.

"Then the Northern Qi didn't perish, it's really lucky. Xiao Weigeng couldn't help but say out loud at this moment: "This kind of military power is really insulting to their ancestors for eighteen generations. ”

Xiao Yichen blinked a few times and said with a smile: "Do you think this is the end?

With these words, everyone's attention was more concentrated, and it really looked like listening to a story.

"The source of soldiers is poor, the generals don't know the soldiers, and the supervision of the army is enough to ruin an iron-blooded lion, but the real reason for the low combat effectiveness of the Northern Qi is its ridiculous reward and punishment system. Xiao Yichen himself felt very helpless, waved his hand and said: "This king really doesn't know, how did they come up with such a 'distinctive' reward and punishment system.

For example, in our country, after the end of a big war, there are only two points to evaluate the victory or defeat of this big war. First, whether the long-term strategic goals have been accomplished. Second, whether or not to accomplish the tactical objectives in the near future. For example, if our army's losses after the battle are twice as high as the enemy's, but the enemy's retreat is choked, then this is a victory. For another example, if our army completes the encirclement of the enemy army, although the battle loss is higher than the enemy's, but it gets the opportunity to encircle and annihilate the enemy army, then it is also a big victory.

However, in the Northern Qi Dynasty, it was to look at the battle damage first! Hear clearly, look at the battle damage first!

As a result, when the generals of the Northern Qi heard that they were going to fight, they first considered how to save their troops from participating in the war. The reason is very simple, if you don't participate in the war, there will be no war damage, that is, there is no merit and no fault. If you participate in the war and fight to win the war, because the war damage is too high, okay, I will first deduct a big hat for you that 'wastes national strength'. Good luck, demotion, bad luck, head move! Tell me, such a reward and punishment wit, what fool will come to sell his life?

As far as the king himself is concerned, when he stormed and captured the Ghost Tooth Fortress at the northern end of the Bone Devouring Corridor, although he annihilated the three main ship groups of the White Wa people, the troops in the hands of this king were also reduced by more than one and a half. If it is according to the algorithm of the Northern Qi Dynasty, this king will have to cut off his head more than 30 times before it is enough to atone for his sins! ”

"Hahaha...... Stinky boy!" Xiao Lingtian couldn't help but laugh and scold, looking at the son who was slapping his chest hard, with a face full of expressions such as "This king's little heart is scared", and the doting in his eyes was clear.

When everyone's laughter fell, Xiao Yichen's face gradually became serious: "However, do you think that the military strength of the Northern Qi Dynasty is really vulnerable? It is indeed vulnerable, and it is true that the soldiers have no fighting spirit, but the Northern Qi Dynasty is strong, and the small country has seven major ship groups as early as 10,000 years ago, and our empire has not formed the seventh ship group until nearly a hundred years! What's more, the Northern Qi Dynasty has money, and it buys a large number of starships from our country, and even the entire production line. As far as the current situation is concerned, the Northern Qi is equipped with the eighth generation of the Empire's final improved starship. Its combat effectiveness is no worse than the latest cutting-edge starship of the White Wakes. There are many people and there are few defensive directions, so the monarch of the Northern Qi Dynasty has never stopped wanting to expand his territory.

However, in addition to the use of troops against our country, the Northern Qi was left with only the chaotic areas in the east and the federation of states in the west. Let's not say that Northern Qi has no reason and no courage to take the initiative to attack our country, let alone his national conditions, only that the federation of countries in the west seems to be a single weak, but together they are also a very powerful military force. For the Northern Qi, the richness of the northwest was far more attractive than the barrenness of the chaotic region, so their goal was always the Commonwealth of Northwest States. ”