The army of the Song Dynasty was composed of the forbidden army, the Xiang army, the township soldiers, and the fan soldiers.

The Xiang army is a local army, which is under the control of the state, the government and certain central organs; It is subordinate to the Guards Mahan Division and the Guards Walker Division.

The Xiang soldiers were mainly engaged in labor, such as the East and West Eight Divisions of the capital, the Cattle and Sheep Division, the Imperial Courtyard, the Armory, the Houyuan Workshop, the Houyuan Craftsman, the North and South Workshops, the Ayajin Courtyard, the Bow and Crossbow Courtyard, the East and West Water Mills, the East and West Kilns, the Imperial Kitchen, the Imperial Kitchen, the French Wine Depot, the Oil Depot, the Vinegar Depot, the Buku and the Foot Post (Horse Delivery Paper) in Kaifeng Mansion.

The Xiang army also undertook the construction of cities, the production of weapons, the construction of roads, the construction of bridges, the transportation of grain, the reclamation of famine, as well as the guards of officials, greeting and sending off, etc.

The Xiang army generally has no training and combat missions, but it also goes to the battlefield at critical moments.

The Xiang Army has two arms, the Infantry Army and the Horse Army, and the establishment is divided into three levels: army, command, and capital; The commander of the army is the same as the forbidden army, but his status and treatment are lower than those of the same rank in the forbidden army.

The source of the Xiang army is recruitment, and there are also prisoners who are assigned to serve in the state and government; It's called "arming".

In the book "Water Margin", there are many scolding words about "thieves with troops", which shows how low the status of the Xiang army is.

The prisoners of the assassination army, the state, and the government made the van army, and they couldn't help but tattoo words on their faces; When I saw people, I was three points shorter, but heroes like Wu Song, Yang Zhi, and Lin Chong who killed people quickly emerged, which is really interesting.

This is probably called the deeper the oppression, the stronger the resistance, people say that the Song Dynasty is a peaceful and prosperous era, can only be said to be a façade; For literati management, it may be a peaceful and prosperous era; But for low-class soldiers and ordinary people, they can only rise up and resist if they want to survive under the oppression of officials, which is also the reason why "Water Margin" is a household name; Killing became a fashion, a pleasure that could only appear in the Song Dynasty.

Of course, the killings of the Song Dynasty were based on ethnic discrimination against the Yuan Dynasty established by the Mongols and the Qing Dynasty established by the Manchus; The filthy work of killing the Han people cannot be said in the same day.

The forbidden army of the Song court was a field army and a garrison of the capital; Those soldiers in the forbidden army who are not strong in combat are called "falling boxes" after being demoted to the box army; Recruiting the forbidden army to act as a box army if the height requirements do not meet the standard, it is also a channel for the box army to enrich the source of troops.

The total number of Xiang troops in the Song Zhenzong Dynasty has reached as many as 400,000, and there are more than 200 Xiang army numbers; Soldiers of different numbers were subjected to different types of labor.

There are only a few number of Xiang Army, especially the Ma Army in the Xiang Army, which is mainly used as a local army to maintain social order; It was mainly the infantry soldiers in the box army who were engaged in hard labor.

The army in front of him is all horse army, which is a local army directly commanded by Huang Wenyong, the governor of Xiangzhou.

is also unlucky, Xiangzhou Zhizhou Huang Wenyong personally led the two people (200 people) to the Bun Mountain to arrest thieves today; I didn't expect to bump into Xiao Tart's 300 Sini Iron Rider in the bone crisp ditch.

Gu Shugou is the place where Chun Yu Wanyun and more than 200 girls from the Red Sleeve Fragrance Team rest and eat, and Xiao Tzu Rin heard the news that "a team of Song troops are coming to Gu Shugou" after the school captain; Immediately ordered the Sini Iron Cavalry to stop eating, and mounted their horses to annihilate all the Song troops who came in ignorance.

After Xiao Tzu Rin gave the order to destroy the enemy to the soldiers of the Sini Iron Cavalry, he said to Chun Yu Wanyun: "Princess Nalan in the night, you lead the girls to find a place to hide; When the end of the army is finished, we will set off for Yunmeng Mountain! ”

How easy is Xiao Tzu Rin to say this? was so confident that he thought that God was the greatest, and he was the second, and said disdainfully: "When the last general finishes destroying this Song army, we will set off for Yunmeng Mountain!" The words are undoubtedly a kind of arrogance.

When God wants to destroy a person, he will always let him go crazy first, and Xiao Tzu Rin will lose two more in the catty? Previously, the Sini Iron Cavalry was beaten by Wei Yan and Qin Shihuang near Liyangjin by the two Song armies before and after, and they had to follow the story of Guan Yunchang's defeat and defeat of Maicheng.

But Huang Wenyong's Xiang Army was not the Eastern Wu generals Pan Zhang and Ma Zhong, Xiao Tzu Rin heard that it was a Xiang Army; Immediately, I had the idea of being angry.

It's not that Xiao Tzu Rin looks down on Huang Wenyong's Xiang Army, but that the combat ability of the Song Dynasty Xiang Army really can't be the same as Xiao Tzu Rin's Sini Iron Cavalry.

Xiao Tzu Rin's Sini Iron Cavalry was no match for the Song Court Forbidden Army's Shang Four Armies of the Song Dynasty, such as the Sun, Tianwu, Longwei, and Shenwei, and the poorly trained anti-theft team of the Xiang Army, was it their opponent?

The predecessor of the four ace armies of the Song Army's forbidden army, Zhuri, Tianwei, Longwei, and Shenwei, was the Dianqian Army formed by Chai Rong of Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty.

After the failure of Zhou Shizong's expedition to the Northern Han Dynasty, he realized that the generals of the forbidden army were arrogant and domineering; In the face of the ills of cowardice, he was determined to carry out drastic reforms.

Chai Rong first beheaded more than 70 generals below He Hui who had escaped from the battle, making the whole army frightened.

Chai Rong also carried out the reorganization of the army in view of the situation that the old forbidden army was not of great use, and he said: "The soldiers and horses guarding the pro-army are mixed with many old and weak soldiers, which greatly affects the combat effectiveness of the whole army. ”

He also said: "Only a hundred peasants can feed a soldier, and the soldiers are good but not many, and the army should be kept capable." ”

Subsequently, Chai Rong enabled Zhao Kuangyin, who had made great contributions in the Battle of Gaoping; The forbidden army led by the guards and pro-army was comprehensively reorganized, and the other army was supplemented with the strength and courage of the world.

The Battle of Gaoping was a key battle fought in the first year of Xiande of the Later Zhou Dynasty (954 AD), when the Northern Han and Khitan armies and the Later Zhou army fought in the area of Gaoping City in Zezhou (now Gaoping City, Jincheng).

In this battle, the early battle of Hou Zhou was unfavorable, and Chai Rong braved the arrow stone to come to the battlefield in person and finally turned the tide of the battle; After this battle, Zhou's complete victory ended, and the Central Plains Dynasty turned from weak to strong.

According to Chai Rong's arrangement, Zhao Kuangyin selected elite soldiers who were good at fighting from the guards and pro-army, various feudal towns, and even the green forest heroes and criminals, and formed a strong forbidden army, which was the front of the palace and the army.

After Zhao Kuangyin's selection and training, the palace army is very elite, and the history books say: the soldiers are strong, incomparable in modern times, and they conquer all directions, and they are all successful.

It is not difficult to find from the composition and selection criteria of the army in front of the palace that this army is actually a collection of all the essence forces in the Later Zhou Dynasty and is a symbol of the times.

After Chai Rong had this vigorous army, he began to embark on a war of unification; He successively conquered the Southern Tang Dynasty three times, defeated Houshu, and attacked the Khitan in the north, laying a solid foundation for the Song Dynasty to unify China.

Chai Rong died young, and soon Zhao Kuangyin was added to the yellow robe and usurped the Later Zhou to establish the Great Song Dynasty.

As the main force, the palace army also became the most relied on army of Zhao Kuangyin in the early days of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty; This army swept away the southern countries and defeated the elephant soldiers in the Shenwu army of the Southern Tang Dynasty; To call it invincible is not an exaggeration.

Since the first year of Song Taizu Jianlong, Zhao Kuangyin further absorbed all the essence of the forbidden army into the four armies in front of the palace, and laid off the old, weak, sick and disabled.

After Zhao Kuangyin released the military power with a cup of wine, he once again incorporated the elite soldiers of various feudal towns, taking the soldier sample as the standard; All the tall and powerful soldiers were in the bag.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the height standard of the elite of the forbidden army was higher than 178 centimeters, and the soldiers had to draw a hard bow of more than 100 catties - the famous general Yue Fei could only pull a bow of 300 catties at most.

Once Fanbang paid tribute to a tiger, and Song Taizu ordered to feed a leg of mutton; As a result, the tiger got stuck in the throat with a sheep bone.

At this time, a guard in front of the palace put his hand into the tiger's mouth and took out the sheep bone, which shows how brave and brave his courage and momentum are.

The former army of the early Song Dynasty inherited the characteristics of the soldiers who were brave and ruthless in the five dynasties, and did not have the disadvantages of the arrogant soldiers and fierce generals in the late Tang Dynasty; In addition, the long-term war of unification is extremely rich in actual combat experience.

It is a pity that Zhou Shizong and Song Taizu have worked hard for many years to fight the palace army in the hands of Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi, and Zhao Guangyi, who is very talented and talented, has almost wiped out the elite of the palace army after the two battles of Gaoliang River and Yongxi Northern Expedition.

Although the names of the four armies of the Upper Four Armies still existed in the forbidden army, such as the Sun, Tianwu, Longwei, and Shenwei, the combat effectiveness had been greatly weakened.

During Zhao Guangyi's operation, the four armies of Zhuri, Tianwei, Longwei, and Shenwei did not win in several battles with Xiao Tzurin's Sini Iron Cavalry.

Xiao Tzu Rin confidently led the heavily armed Sini Iron Cavalry towards the mouth of the bone crisp ditch, and Wu Wei and Hou Fang were a little anxious; came to Chun Yu Wanyun and whispered; Wu Wei said: "Niangniang, what should we do?" Is it to help the Xiangzhou Xiang army who came to resist Xiao Tzulin's Sini Iron Cavalry or ......"

Chun Yu Wanyun raised his arm to interrupt Wu Wei's words: "Our task is to lure Xiao Tzu Rin's Sini Iron Cavalry to Yunmeng Mountain and hand it over to Marshal Zheng Shuang for total annihilation, and we must not act rashly!" ”

Wu Wei turned his head around his neck and said, "If this is the case, the Sini Iron Horse must be a meat grinder, and will slaughter our compatriots with impunity; Do we want to watch our compatriots being slaughtered by the Khitans! ”

Chun Yu Wanyun frowned and said: "I can't bear to let the baby beat the wolf, in order to completely annihilate Xiao Tart Rin and Sini Iron Horse; We can only endure it! ”

Chun Yu Wanyun said and suddenly said with an "oh": "Xiao Tzu Rin led the Sini Iron Cavalry to encircle and suppress the Xiangzhou Xiang Army, why don't we take this opportunity to rescue Wei Chun!" ”

"Okay!" Wu Wei said impassionedly: "This matter is handed over to Zai Xia and Hou Fang!" ”

After Wu Wei finished the above words, he and Hou Fang covered their faces with black cloth; Take a detour to the place where Wei Chun was trapped......