"I have been fighting in Annan for decades, using hundreds of thousands of soldiers, but I have never really pacified Annan, Lord Yang is not ashamed to say that he only needs 8,000 people, I don't know whether Lord Yang regards the people of Annan as tofu, or regards himself as the soldier saint Sun Wu!" Liu Guan said sarcastically.

Zhu Zhanji has long been disgusted with Liu Guan, if it weren't for the fact that Jinyiwei's incriminating evidence has not been collected, how could he tolerate Liu Guan until now, but although he was angry in his heart, these words still spoke to his heart, he trusted Yang Zheng 100%, but 8,000 people went to pacify Annan, either the people of Annan were really made of tofu, or Yang Zheng was a famous soldier saint, maybe there was this possibility, but it was obvious that neither of these two things were possible, so 8,000 people went to evaluate Annan, it is undoubtedly a fool's dream?"

"Yang Aiqing's arrogant army will be defeated, although it is very old-fashioned, but it is also a righteous truth, you don't want to underestimate the enemy, then the Annan people are not so easy to deal with?" Zhu Zhanji reminded slightly.

Yang Zheng said respectfully: "Back to the emperor, this truth Weichen understands, Weichen said so, he has his own reason for Weichen, and Weichen still has requirements, please ask the emperor to agree?"

When Zhu Zhanji heard him say this, he relieved himself and said, "What is your reasoning, and tell me about it!"

Yang Zheng said: "Don't hide it from the emperor, Weichen was going to say it, but Lord Liu was too anxious, so Weichen didn't finish his words, and asked the emperor to forgive him?"

Zhu Zhanji secretly laughed: "This little brother Yang is really a master who refuses to suffer?"

Liu Guan's face was red and white for a while, as if such a shameful thing was the first time he had done it, at this moment, he couldn't wait to crack a crack on the ground and get into it, but there was no crack on the ground at all, so he had to stand aside with a red face and glared at Yang Zheng viciously.

Yang Zheng snorted, turned a blind eye to the angry eyes, and hugged Zhu Zhanji and said: "As the saying goes, there are not many soldiers, but you are fine, I want Chen Youliang to have 700,000 soldiers and horses, and I Hongwu is only 200,000, in the battle of Poyang Lake, I Hong Wuye listened to Guo Xing's construction, attacked with fire, trebuchet, and burned more than 20 buildings and ships of the Chen army, the Han army suffered heavy casualties, I Hong Wuye took advantage of the situation to recover Nanchang, and part of the Ming fleet withdrew to the Ganjiang River and the Yangtze River, leaving only part of the fleet to fight with Chen, waiting for the Ming Bu army to come to help complete the land and water encirclement. On August 26, Chen's army tried to break through and retreat to Wuchang, but was intercepted by the Ming army's infantry on the shore with 10,000 arrows covering the sky at the mouth of the lake.

Zhu Zhanji laughed and said: "There are not many good soldiers, but in the fine, these eight thousand soldiers and horses are on time!"

Yang Zheng hurriedly said: "Weichen thanked His Majesty?"

At this time, Yang Shiqi stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, Annan is not a child's play, no matter how elite the eight thousand soldiers and horses are, I am afraid of ......?"

Zhu Zhanji also meant this, glanced at Yang Zheng and said, "Yang Aiqing has already made arrangements, right?"

Yang Zheng smiled and said, "Otherwise, how can I say that the parents of the person who gave birth to me are also, and the person who knows me is also His Majesty!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone on the field shuddered, and each muttered: "It's too shameless, it's too shameless......?"

Yang Shiqi shook his head: "This little brother Yang is really good at grasping the time, and he is still very shameless!"

Zhu Zhanji was very useful, and said with a smile: "Don't slap my ass, just say what you want?"

"It seems that this sycophantic sentence is really useful?" Yang Zheng muttered, and then said with a straight face: "My Ming Jingshi soldiers and horses are only more than 100,000, in addition to defending the Beijing Division, but also guarding the imperial tomb, Weichen really can't bear to follow me thousands of miles to Annan, moreover, Weichen has proposed one country, two systems, Annan people govern Annan, and it is good to use Annan talents?"

Zhu Zhanji's eyes narrowed slightly, and said, "What does Yang Aiqing mean by this?"

Yang Zheng said: "It's very simple, Weichen heard that Annan still has 20,000 soldiers and horses of my Ming Dynasty, and 60,000 people, plus over the years, the people of Annan who have been appeased by my Ming Dynasty are almost more than 100,000, even so, I can use it, first, I can relieve the pressure of my Ming Jingshi, and second, if I can use Annan people, it will also be greatly beneficial to one country, two systems in the future!"

"What do you want to do?" Zhu Zhanji squinted his eyes and thought for a moment, then said in a deep voice.

Yang Zheng said: "It's very simple, Wechen wants to ask His Majesty to allow Wechen to recruit troops in Annan, and use the eight thousand soldiers and horses brought by Wechen as the backbone to establish a Yuejia army!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was in an uproar, even Zhu Zhanji was slightly surprised, the conscription system is understandable, and all the weak in the court will adopt this method, and the Song Dynasty generally adopts the method of recruitment, regardless of whether it is a ban on soldiers, box soldiers, or the garrison army of the Southern Song Dynasty. Recruiting displaced and hungry people as soldiers in disaster years was a traditional national policy of the Song Dynasty. The rulers believed that by recruiting the able-bodied as soldiers, it would be impossible for the old and weak to rebel, and that this was a countermeasure to prevent a peasant uprising from breaking out in a disaster year. The recruitment of military children also became an important source of soldiers in the Song Dynasty. In addition, sturdy criminals were also stabbed into soldiers, especially as vanguards. In the case of the exhaustion of the source of soldiers, it can still be used, this method began to be used in the early Yuan Dynasty, when the Tartars leveled the south of the Yangtze River, and recruited warriors to form the Tarakhan army. Answer, which means to be at ease, allows the people and property plundered by the army to belong to him. Later, the army was disbanded, and the soldiers went out to plunder. In the seventeenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Lingjiang and Huai Zhulu resumed recruiting the Tarakhan army.

Until the end of the Yuan Dynasty, sergeants were recruited many times in various places. During the Jianwen period of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di raised troops to "Jing Difficult", and recruited the people of Beiping, Baoding, and Yongping as the army, and then this method was followed by the imperial court, but where there was a shortage of soldiers, it was often supplemented by the method of recruitment. Although this move has increased the burden of military spending, the combat effectiveness of the recruited soldiers is far higher than that of the military households, which is indeed a good way for the current depletion of the capital's troops, but from this to form a Yuejia army, this is not what the emperor wants to see?"

Yue's army was mainly assigned by the imperial court, plus Niu Gao, Dong Xian and other generals who returned to the right (served in Jin or pseudo-Qi, and later returned to the Song Dynasty), and then successively incorporated Yang Qi and other subordinates, absorbed Liang Xing, Li Bao, etc., from the Shandong Lianghe Zhongyi Society, and merged into a large army. Fei affirmed discipline, strengthened training, and called "freeze to death without demolishing the house, starve to death without plundering", and the Jin nobles have the saying "Shake the mountain and shake the Yue family". The troops have been stationed in Ezhou (now Wuchang, Hubei) and Xiangyang for a long time, and they have lived in their places, and the soldiers who fought against Jinmeng in the late Southern Song Dynasty have many of their descendants.

Unlike the Song army in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Yuejia army and other factions had their own military establishment and personnel arrangements, and the imperial court could hardly interfere. The imperial court could not send a prison army to interfere with the command of the operation as before. It's really a big tail.

This system ensured the combat effectiveness of the Yuejia army, and at the same time it was a nightmare for Song Gaozong. The reason why Song Gaozong wanted to instruct Qin Hui to kill Yue Fei was that later generations speculated that it was related to the uncontrolled Yuejia army, although Zhu Zhanji was a Ming monarch and was quite confident, but it was not his own wish to let such a Yue family army appear around him, Yuejia army from Yue Fei to join the army in the Northern Song Dynasty Huizong Xuanhe four years, to the Southern Song Dynasty Gaozong Jianyan four years of independent army, because most of the time was in the north of the Yellow River to resist Jin. Therefore, the basis of the formation of the Yuejia Army is the Hebei people, "the defender of the army, the Hebei Province of the Yue Fei Song". Some important generals in the Yuejia army also participated in the anti-Jin struggle with Yue Fei at the same time, and they became the original subordinate generals of the Yuejia army.

In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, the society was turbulent, the political situation was disturbed, and the army was full of bandits. The imperial court is unable to control the various military forces, and the soldiers are arrogant and difficult to control, "the armies will be defeated when they move, and if they are defeated, they will be robbed, and if they are thieves, they will be recruited, and if they are recruited, they will be recruited, and there will be no end to it." Armed groups often break up and merge with each other, and there is no definite situation of separation and integration. Yue Fei was known for his strict discipline in administering the army, and his army had always been relatively stable, and many disbanded armed groups had defected to the Yuejia army and became the generals in the Yuejia army, making his ranks continue to grow.

As long as the border guards are urgent or the interior is full of bandits, the Yuejia army will be transferred to deal with the war, and a part of the local army will be assigned to Yue Fei's command. Gaozong even sometimes had a whim, and Zhao Yue Fei "Zhongxing matter, I am the secretary, except for Zhang Jun and Han Shizhong, who are not controlled, and the rest are controlled by the secretary." "Some generals still returned to the division after the war, but a considerable number of generals were assigned to the Yuejia army because of this, and became the subordinate generals in the Yuejia army, thus also strengthening the Yuejia army.

In the five years of Shaoxing, the size of Yuejia's army increased from more than 30,000 to about 100,000. This is because most of the 50,000 or 60,000 strong men of Yang's army were incorporated into the Yuejia army, plus Qi Chao and Gao Dao (about 8,500 people) under the command of the Jiangnan West Road Pacification Division, and Qiu Yunsuo's department (nearly 1,500 people), Ren Shi'an, Hao Xi, Wang Jun, and Jiao Yuan, who were under the command of the Jinghu South Road Pacification Division (about 10,000 people), and several thousand Caizhou soldiers brought by Du Zhan, the commander of the left army of Zhang Jundu's Governor's Mansion, who was reassigned to the Huangzhou military general Zhizhou under the command of Yue Fei. The Yuejia army also generally maintained the number of about 100,000 until Yue Fei was killed by the Jurchen chieftain Jin Wushu, Ha Mi Chi and Qin Hui of Han Jina, this number is enough to make any emperor feel uneasy, not to mention that to create such a war must be taken, the leader of the army must also be a first-class talent, Yuejia army from Yue Fei's original creation in Du Chong's rebellion to invest in gold, transferred to the area of Jiankang (now Nanjing), Huaidong (now western Jiangsu, eastern Anhui), destroy Cao Cheng, destroy Yang Qi, After only five years, the Southern Song Dynasty became the most powerful military organization in the world at that time, and its cavalry defeated the cavalry of the Jurchens.

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The third watch, that's all for tonight, I can't open my eyes, I'm very tired, go to bed early!