The expansion of the number of troops is actually normal, after all, when the Qingkou War was at the beginning, Yang Xingmi had not captured Huainan for a long time, and the Jianghuai states had not completely come out of the cruelty of Sun Ru's army, but in the next few years, the Huainan army expanded significantly, and now the size of the whole army has nearly 200,000 people. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Of course, with the expansion of the size of the army, the number of elite soldiers in the army has not increased much, but there are more and more old and weak soldiers, and some children of twelve or thirteen years old or old people of fifty or sixty years old have been recruited into the army.

Yang Wu's plan was to take advantage of the opportunity of reorganization, on the one hand, to change some military generals who served as assassins into pure military generals, and on the other hand, to eliminate the old and weak in the army and form a "forbidden army" that only belonged to the command of the Jiedu Embassy.

Historically, after Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, ascended the throne, in the third year of Qiande (965 AD), the elite soldiers from all over the country were collected into the central government and became the forbidden army, and the remaining old and weak soldiers stayed in the local area, called the "box army".

Yang Wu also planned to do this, following the system of the Song Dynasty, selecting from the entire Huainan army, selecting the elite among them to form the "forbidden army", and the army composed of the rest of the old and weak was handed over to the local assassins to undertake secondary tasks such as maintaining law and order.

In this way, it can not only ensure the combat effectiveness of the "forbidden army", but also ensure the absolute strength of the Jiedu envoy against local forces.

Of course, even if the forbidden army is established, it cannot be said that the Jiedu embassy will be able to completely control the army, and ensure that the rebellion of local forces will not happen again.

Today's Huainan army is divided into the Jiedu envoy pro-army, the Yawai army, the foreign town soldiers, and the state soldiers, among which the pro-army and the Yawai army are easy to say, because the garrison is in Guangling, and the Jiedu envoy is completely controlled, but the foreign town soldiers and state soldiers are not easy to say.

Theoretically, the soldiers of other towns are also owned by the Huainan Jiedu, but they are stationed in places, such as the army of Taimeng, which was stationed in Haizhou in the past, and is now stationed in Xuanzhou, are all soldiers from other towns. As the name suggests, the state soldiers belong to all the armies of the local assassins, and do not directly belong to the Jiedu envoys.

In this civil strife, An Renyi and Tian Yan's army were completely state soldiers, while Zhu Yanshou's army was partly state soldiers and partly foreign town soldiers, because it was far away from Guangling, and Jiedu could not be fully mastered.

The selection of the forbidden army actually only strengthened the strength of the foreign army and the foreign town soldiers, and weakened the strength of the state soldiers, and the key to the problem lies in the foreign town soldiers.

In the Northern Song Dynasty in history, even if the army was divided into two types, the forbidden army and the box army were only weakened, but the box army equivalent to the nature of the state army was weakened, but the forbidden army was still divided into three kinds, one was the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, one was stationed in the capital, and the other was stationed in the place, which was actually no different from the division of the Huainan army today.

The real means for the Central Committee of the Northern Song Dynasty to control all the forbidden armies was actually the change of defense system.

Song Taizu stipulated that about half of the forbidden army was stationed in the capital and its vicinity, and half was stationed on the border and several important towns in the interior; The forbidden army must change its guard once every year or two years, one is accustomed to hard work and is free from laziness, and the other is because the commander is not easy to defend anywhere, thus creating a situation in which "soldiers do not know generals, and generals do not know soldiers", "soldiers are impermanent and commanders are impermanent, and commanders are impermanent", and "they will not be allowed to specialize in their troops".

However, today's Huainan army does not have such a system, and the result is that the soldiers from other towns stay in the local area for many years, and they have completely become the private ownership of the generals. Although the situation of the Yawai army stationed in Guangling was better, in fact, the generals' control of the army was also very serious.

Although it is said that the situation of "soldiers do not know generals, generals do not know soldiers" caused by the change of defense system, later generations have criticized it, and believe that this is an important reason for the low combat effectiveness of the Song Dynasty army.

However, Yang Wu felt that things had priorities, and although the change of defense system would cause a decline in the combat effectiveness of the army, it would have a very good effect on solving the situation in which the army was controlled by private individuals, and what Huainan urgently needed to solve was a relatively serious problem of privatization of the army, while the problem of declining combat effectiveness of the army was still secondary.

In addition, there were many reasons for the low combat effectiveness of the Song Dynasty army, such as the insufficient number of horses, such as the use of literature to control military and so on. Yang Wu felt that the influence of the change of defense may not be so great, not to mention, in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, in the era of Zhao Kuangyin, the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army was still very strong, which shows that the decline in the combat effectiveness of the Song Dynasty army is still a problem for later generations.

Therefore, Yang Wu planned to imitate the system of the Song Dynasty and divide the main force of the Huainan Army into two, which belonged to the Yawai army stationed in Guangling and the Waizhen soldiers stationed in the place, and the Waizhen soldiers and the Yawai army also changed their guards every three years, so as not to cause the situation of generals controlling the army.

Of course, these are Yang Wu's preliminary ideas, and he still has to think about the specific details.

On the side, seeing that Yang Wu was in deep thought, Yang Xingmi also cared, and said with a smile: "Okay, about the reorganization of the army, you can tell me when you think about it." Now my father has one thing I want to hear your opinion, Qingzhou Wang Shifan sent his younger brother Wang Shilu to my Huainan for help, and my father plans to send troops to the sea and land to rescue, but the general has not yet decided, do you have any plans to lead the troops there? ”

When Yang Wu heard this, he hurriedly shook his head and said: "Father, the child has already made a lot of meritorious contributions in the war this year, and there is no need to lead the troops to the expedition for the time being, it is better to help my father manage Huainan Wenzhi." ”

He and Yang Xingmi also spoke very casually, saying whatever they wanted, and there was no seriousness and caution when ordinary emperors and princes spoke, this is because Yang Wu's younger brothers are still young and have no competitors, and secondly, Yang Xingmi's easy-going personality is very satisfied with his son.

Yang Xingmi nodded with satisfaction and said: "Yes, you are the successor of your father, and you will become the new Huainan Festival envoy in the future, how can you just lead troops to fight?" It's good that you can think of more to do with the Bunji. ”

After praising Yang Wu, Yang Xingmi continued to ask: "Then which general should lead the troops there, do you have any suggestions?" ”

Yang Wu asked with some confusion: "Why does my father have to send troops to help Wang Shifan?" In the child's opinion, don't wait until the end of the year, Wang Shifan will inevitably fail, why should I send troops in Huainan? On the contrary, it is Qian Biao, this person is ambitious, and good at employing people, and has won the support of his people, which can be said to have a deep foundation, and is my fierce rival in Huainan; Fortunately, after the rebellion of Wuyongdu, its forces were hit hard, and there were many betrayals in local states, and now is the time to attack on a large scale and not let Qian Biao breathe, how can he abandon Qian Biao and send troops to Qingzhou? ”

Yang Xingmi glanced at him and said seriously: "Because of faith!" It is okay to not be tired of deceit on the battlefield, but it is important to be faithful elsewhere. You are the heir of my Huainan, so you must pay more attention to faithfulness and righteousness, and you can't be a treacherous villain, otherwise there will always be a time when you will suffer! ”