Just after the Lantern Festival, on the official road leading to the capital in the counties under Kaifeng Prefecture, the township soldiers wearing leather armor and carrying bows and crossbows, swords and guns, under the leadership of the soldiers and horses of each county, rushed to the township military academy parade camp located in the southern suburbs of the capital.

The main purpose of this review is to inspect the training and combat readiness of the township troops in Gyeonggi counties.

According to the official military order issued by the Privy Council, the township army (militia) in each county of the capital was divided into two, one stayed in the hometown and the other participated in the spring review.

Wait until the autumn review after the autumn harvest, and then change to another township army and enter the capital to participate in the review.

In the vicinity of Gyeonggi, the movement of troops and horses within a radius of 300 miles, as long as it exceeds the strength of a capital, and the movement is to carry weapons and equipment, is by no means an idle matter.

According to the provisions of the regulations, if there is no military order signed by Li Zhongyi himself, no matter who mobilizes soldiers and horses at or above the capital level into Beijing without authorization, they will be regarded as complicit in rebellion.

Li Yong's cavalry battalion was scattered early, and the capital was used as a unit to closely monitor all the main roads into Beijing.

Li Yunxiao's Jiumen Admiral Yamen, in cooperation with Li Yanqing's police temple, adopted a strategy of loose and tight, and the number of bright posts inside and outside the capital did not increase much, but the number of secret posts was several times more than on weekdays.

Although martial law was not declared in the Gyeonggi region, a discerning person close to the center of power knew at a glance that it was impossible for Li Zhongyi to review the township army for no reason, and I was afraid that a big battle was about to be fought!

There are currently more than 40 million people in the entire Great Zhou, including hidden men. Among them, there are about 600,000 people in the Gyeonggi region.

Thanks to Zhao Kuangyin's uprising and the blessing of taking the initiative to sacrifice the city, when Li Zhongyi entered Kaifeng City, the entire political and economic center of China fell into the hands of the new regime with almost no loss.

Because of this, Zhao Lao Er, who has always been cared for by Li Zhongyi, always has to find a righteous and bright reason that makes no one speechless, so that he can do it, right?

For similar examples, after the liberation of Beiping, Fu Zuoyi regretted it again and made a lot of small actions in secret.

Fu Zuoyi, who had already lost his army, was no more difficult for the leaders of the new regime to strangle him than it was to pinch a small ant to death, but they never took a ruthless hand to clean him up and tolerated him as much as possible.

The times are different, but the logic of leniency is the same!

After all, Zhao Kuangyin is already alone, and he doesn't have a single soldier in his hands, if Li Zhongyi wants to pinch him to death, it is simply easy.

However, the country had not yet been truly unified, and Li Zhongyi had no excellent excuse to slaughter the meritorious ministers who had contributed to the city. Once the rumor spreads, it will be tantamount to adding great difficulty to the future war of reunification. By that time, I don't know how many precious lives of the Li family's soldiers will be taken?

To put it bluntly, it's just a Zhao Kuangyin, and it's not worth it at all to exchange the lives of thousands of elite soldiers for his head!

The commander-in-chief of this township military academy parade is not a bystander, but Liao Shanhe, who is the commander of the Guards.

The school parade camp located in the southern suburbs was built by Liao Shanhe supervising the prisoners in the engineer battalion and the prison to work overtime.

The scale of the township army's review exceeded 30,000 people, which was only half of it.

According to the Privy Council's prior plan, after the completion of the parade of the village army, it will be reorganized to replace the guards guarding Gyeonggi and the Chenqiao camp to which Ma Guangda belongs.

The Chenqiao Battalion, similar in nature to the Fengtai Battalion of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, is the elite garrison of the Gongwei Beijing Division, as the name suggests.

The Fengtai camp is to the south, but the Chenqiao camp is to the north of Kaifeng, and the different locations prove that the main threats faced by the imperial court are different.

At the beginning, after Kang Mazi completely defeated the Galdan in the north, he adopted a two-handed strategy against the Mongolian tribes, which in the final analysis were three major policies: 1. The south is not crowned king, and the north is constantly close; 2. Divide the kings to control their power; 3. Worship Lamaism to control their lives.

The Manchu government spent huge sums of money to build lama temples on the Mongolian plateau, encouraging young and middle-aged Mongolian herdsmen to become lamas monks as much as possible, so as to weaken the capital of the Mongolian princes to make trouble.

After hundreds of years of division and disintegration and military suppression, the princes on the Mongolian plateau were all tamed and obedient, and did not dare to blow up the thorns.

Even, after the rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, tens of thousands of cavalry under the command of the Mongolian prince and monk Greenqin actually became the ruling pillar of the Qing court.

There is no worry in the north, then, the basis of the existence of the Fengtai camp is: to guard against the Han rebellion in the south!

Objectively speaking, the land frontier policy of the Qing Empire was the most disciplined and effective.

The Chenqiao camp, stationed at the important gateway to the north of the Beijing division - Chenqiaoyi, is the most important object of prevention and the only mortal enemy - the Khitans.

After entering Beijing, Li Jiajun has formed a complete set of compulsory military service system, and the conscription system has become a thing of the past.

In today's Li Jiajun, the basic process of replenishing soldiers is as follows: all recruits are selected from the most basic township army, and after three months of intensive training in the recruit battalion, they are added to the regular garrison troops stationed in various places. The best in the Xiang army were then selected into the ranks of the forbidden army and served as auxiliaries to assist the soldiers in battle.

Not everyone can fill the post of soldier of the township army, and they must be innocent, have no criminal record and have property. The property here refers to the land production, the quantity of which is more than five acres and less than one hundred acres.

With regard to the members of the township army, Li Zhongyi made a strict stipulation: as long as the simple rural landowners and the urban property-owned, including chartered tenants, small merchants and hawkers, no matter how rich they were, were not allowed to join the army.

Historical lessons tell Li Zhongyi that the soldiers in the city have a broader vision and a more lively heart, and it is even more difficult to cultivate the spirit of decisive death.

The reason why the Central Plains Dynasty in history often occupied the population when resisting foreign aggression sometimes fell behind. In addition to the lack of war horses, what is more important is that by adopting a policy of ignoring the people, we have neither the awareness nor the courage to mobilize national defense.

In 1644 AD, Dolgon commanded 120,000 Eight Banners Army into the customs, of which 120,000 people, there were only 70,000 true Tartars, 26,000 Han Army Eight Banners, and 24,000 Mongolian Eight Banners.

However, the armed forces of the Ming Dynasty in various places, when summed together, exceeded at least two million people. The 2 million Han army was defeated by tens of thousands of real Tartars, which was really a great shame for the people of the Han Dynasty.

Unlike previous rulers, Li Zhongyi was a loyal supporter of the mass line and adopted a graded national defense mobilization military service system that incorporated soldiers from the people.

The national defense mobilization system of hierarchical selection and echelon replenishment has been institutionalized to ensure that the regular forbidden army of the imperial court is always the strongest warrior in combat effectiveness!

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