Chapter 4 Section 28 Military System

No one expected that it was not Gao Shun who fired the first shot in Liaodong, but Liu Hun.

After receiving Gao Shun's order to "feint the whole army of the Lelang defenders", Liu Hun keenly smelled the fighters in it. Therefore, he ordered the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Army Corps of Wanghaicheng Infantry (the 11th, 12th, and 13th Army Corps of Qingzhou Criminals) to enter the Boshan defense line and make a feint to attack Boshan, but he led 3,000 cavalry privately supported by the Tianma tribe to bypass Boshan, ignoring the fact that our side had not yet declared war with Goguryeo, and roared through the territory of Goguryeo.

Liu Hun had few soldiers, in order to strictly conceal the route of the march, where he passed, he met the village and the town and slaughtered the town, brandishing a bloody butcher's knife, and 3,000 cavalry suddenly appeared in Mazishui (the Han Dynasty name of the Yalu River, the Tang Dynasty was called the Yalu River, because its water color is green, just like a duck's head and it is named) Xi'an Pingcheng (now Sinuiju, North Korea) by the river. The troops were all on the front line, and the empty Xi'an Pingcheng had no time to respond, and Liu Hun's iron cavalry was already running on the streets of the city.

When the 30,000 garrisons of Boshan heard the news of the fall of Xi'an Pingcheng behind them, the whole line collapsed, and the first, second, and third armies of Wanghai City immediately gathered their troops and entered Xi'an Pingcheng, and confronted Dong'an Pingcheng (now Dandong City) across the river.

Liu Hun then repeated the old plan, led the cavalry up the Mazi River, crossed the river from the upper reaches of Goguryeo, and conquered the city of Kuandian in Goguryeo. Obtained the submission of the Goguryeo subordinate tribe Kumoxi (a branch of Yuwen Xianbei, the origin tribe of the Khitan tribe). It just so happened that not long after Gongsun Du burned down the domestic city of Goguryeo, Goguryeo was forced to move its capital to the mountain city of Marudu (Ji'an, Jilin). In order to build a new national capital, Goguryeo conscripted all tribes to be young and strong, leaving behind the old, weak, sick and disabled. Because of this, Liu Hun's 2000 cavalry was able to repeatedly cross Goguryeo.

After blackmailing 1,000 cavalry and 2,000 horses, Liu Hun entered Shangliao County again and assaulted Fengcheng.

Fengcheng fell, and the defenders of Dong'anping City (now Dandong City) were in panic. At this moment, Liaodong was terrified, and the Xiangping defenders continued to drive to the eastern front in an attempt to contain Liu Hun's advance.

The house leak happened to be a rainy day, intercepted the information of the Xiangping defenders, Gao Shun waved the army straight forward, within three days, the thunder rode the wolf to bypass all resistance, appeared in the west of Xiangping City. It's a pity that due to Liu Hun's preemptive action, Xiangping City was prepared, and after encountering stubborn resistance, Lei Riding Wolf Rider turned to besiege the city without fighting.

Xiangping was surrounded, the rest of the counties in Liaodong have lost their sense of resistance, Zhao Yun then led the rangers, swept the land of Liaodong, in April of that year, the whole territory of Liaodong only left Xiangping war, but unfortunately, the ironclad infantry who are good at attacking the city has rushed to the city, and the days of Xiangping are counting the fingers.

Liu Hun made such a great achievement, however, he violated several precepts: privately mobilized 2,000 tribal cavalry, violating the precept of "no more than 100 soldiers, more than 100 must be reported"; Goguryeo and Gongsun Du were hostile, and when we sent troops to attack Gongsun Du, Liu Hun entered Goguryeo without permission and captured Goguryeo's vassal state, creating a fait accompli of a two-sided war and violating the rule that "the right to declare war lies with the Senate and the lord".

Fortunately, Liu Hun's harassment made Goguryeo feel an imminent threat, and he stepped up the construction of a new capital so that Izumo, who was overstretched, would not start another war.

After Gao Shun rewarded Liu Hun with 30,000 acres of Liaodong fields according to the regulations, he did not dare to punish him. So he tied it up and handed it over to the Qingzhou messenger to send it back to Qingzhou - let the lord worry about himself, this is Gao Shun's idea.

When Sun Ce and Zhou Yu entered Guanghuan, they saw such a picture: a carriage was moving forward in the Wangcheng Lord's Mansion. A child of their grade was tied to the carriage with loose ropes, and in the sun, the child squinted his eyes and lay triumphantly on the carriage, basking in the sun. The carriage passed by, and from time to time someone on the street asked: "Liu Hun, what happened again...... It's tied up, and it's not a small disaster. ”

The child in the carriage let out a "snort" from his nose with disdain, and replied lightly: "It's not a big deal, I'll just beat half of Liaodong County." ”

In that answer, I couldn't hide my pride.

Several children ran after the car, laughing and saying, "Liu Hun Liu Hun, this time you are afraid that you will be spanked by your father again." ”

Liu Hun's face was gloomy, and he argued forcefully: "You want to ask my father to spank, but you can't think of it...... However, this time it's too bad, I'm afraid it's not just a spanking, is my mother there? ”

A child replied, "I just went to Donglai, but I heard that the city lord has come back and is rushing here?" ”

Liu Hun muttered: "Oh no, no, I hope this time it's just a spanking." ”

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu glanced at each other, and each could see the shock from the other. The folk customs of Qingzhou are so fierce that children of the same size as them don't care about the war and killing. The important thing is that Liu Bei returned to Qingzhou, and everyone thought that he had suffered such a big blow and should be dormant for a while, however, he used troops against Liaodong. Liaodong has lived in the north of the Han Dynasty for many years, and it is so vulnerable that half of Liaodong County was captured by a half-old child. It is conceivable that there is no suspense about the future war in Liaodong.

At this moment, Liu Bei was in the Senate to report to the elders on the situation of the battle in the Tiger Prison. This is Liu Bei's own request - in the name of reporting to his teacher Lu Zhi, he invited all the elders to sit together, and by the way, he also wanted the elders to introduce the situation, so as to improve the awareness of the elders to participate in politics.

The current Qingzhou Senate is, generally speaking, a four-dissimilar institution. Although it is not like the "raised hand organization" in later generations, however, the group of veterans composed of squires, scholars, retired soldiers and big businessmen from all over the country is always not enthusiastic about participating in politics, and they all raise their hands on all the work that the Qingzhou government needs to do.

Now, the Senate has been reduced to a civil grievance body, a public opinion body, which has deviated from Liu Bei's original intention of setting up the Senate, which made Liu Bei very unhappy. Therefore, I took this opportunity to hold a meeting to show my support for them.

"Overall, this battle has exposed a big problem with Qingzhou's military system. It's all my fault, I underestimated the combat power of the Bingzhou cavalry, and used infantry to meet the cavalry, so that Qingzhou suffered such a big loss. Liu Bei lowered his head and confessed his mistake to Lu Zhi.

The elders thought that they were admitting their mistakes to them, and they moved their bodies in embarrassment, with a look of disdain on their faces.

In the spacious hall, several rows of old chairs are arranged on different steps. At the front of the hall, Lu Zhigao sat on the chief veteran's chair, stroked his beard under his chin, and pondered: "Xuande, don't worry, they serve the country and die well." It's just that you have to take the experience from it. ”

Lu Zhi's words were very brief, and it could be seen that he was not suitable for the position of a patriarch, and he didn't know what to do when he sat in this position.

Liu Bei then said: "In this battle, Lu Bu repeatedly broke into the battle formation with his personal bravery, and finally led to the collapse of our army's formation, which inspired me. If, if we Qingzhou strengthen the force of the soldiers in the front row of the formation, give them appropriate honors, let the best soldiers in the whole army, the soldiers with the most personal bravery, be proud to be in the front row of the battle formation. Then rely on their powerful force and strong personal assault ability to break into the enemy position when the two armies are facing each other, in this way, it is equivalent to transforming one Lu Bu's assault into tens of millions of Lu Bu's assault, how can the formation not be broken? ”

Lu Zhi became interested, sat up straight, and asked, "Oh, this is a good idea, what are you going to do?" ”

Liu Bei smiled and replied: "It may be difficult for others to do this, but it is easy for me in Qingzhou to do this." All counties and counties in Qingzhou have martial arts halls, and people who practice martial arts abound. In addition, Qingzhou holds agricultural and animal husbandry festival performances and competitions every year; In the army, there are also non-commissioned officers trained by us.

I am going to officially grant the most courageous people selected every year the treatment of 'samurai', so that they can enjoy the same treatment as scribes, and get the same opportunities to participate in politics and become officials. At the same time, in the future, Qingzhou government officials will be officially divided into two major systems: civil officials and military officials. Each has its own assessment and promotion system. Military attachés can engage in civilian careers, and civilian officials must go through military academy studies and pass the assessment before they can hold the position of military attaché, and then be promoted according to the evaluation and promotion system of military attachés.

I plan that when each unit is evaluated, in line with the law of 'first row', the combat merits will decrease in turn. In other words, with the battle merit, the warriors at the front of the battle formation receive the first merit, and the second row receives the most 'half merit (half merit)', and then descending. Then, the soldiers and generals were given the opportunity to be promoted based on the accumulation of military merits.

In this way, those who are the most courageous in our selection are awarded the title of 'samurai' without going through a cultural assessment, and from there, they are directly treated with the rank of lieutenant. In this way, many illiterate but courageous people can get the opportunity to develop - honor and temptation, so that no one will rush to be the first row of 'samurai'. ”

Lu Zhi nodded appreciatively, and the elders echoed.

Liu Bei continued: "And after this war, I found that cavalry has a natural advantage over infantry. Instead of spending a lot of energy and money to train infantry to compete with cavalry, it is better to train cavalry directly. Qingzhou has a natural cavalry advantage. The large use of horse-drawn carriages makes Qingzhou people good at using animal power, and they all have the habit of raising horses. Izumo Liaoxi is also a grassland that produces good horses, and we can form a large number of cavalry.

I suggest that the Izumo Senate issue a ban on the castration of horses in the future, not even warhorses. Good horses are registered, and horses are allowed to trade freely. Soldiers raise horses, and the government can give tax deductions without allocating fees. Horse races, equestrian shows, etc., are held once a month, so that horse breeders can earn income from the races and maintain their breeding.

A person with a knighthood must fulfill the obligation to provide war horses in case of war. Those with titles were allowed to share the cost of raising horses. This subordinate, when the war comes, he must bear the obligation to ride a horse into battle, so he is called a 'knight', which is a branch of the warrior clan and belongs to the ranks of samurai. The titles at each level are different, and the number of subordinates in the division is different.

In this way, we hide troops in the people, once the war is mobilized, Qingzhou will become a country of ten thousand cavalry, tens of thousands of cavalry roaring past, who can resist? ”

After Liu Bei finished speaking, he muttered in a low voice: "Perhaps, it is better to plan a polo match every month." By the way, in the polo game, there are not only rapid collisions, dodges, but also fast horse sprints, and the body also needs to cooperate to make various movements, which can be said to be the culmination of equestrianism. If tickets are allowed to be sold and bonuses are made, it can be regarded as increasing Qingzhou's entertainment projects, which is even better. ”

This muttering was very small, and Lu Zhi couldn't hear Liu Bei's calculations, so he put down his hand holding his beard and interjected in annoyance: "Xuande, are you done with business?" I have a few serious things that I don't want to ask you? Ladies and gentlemen, you have nothing to do. ”

The Qingzhou elders dispersed violently, and Lu Zhi sat deeply in his chair and fell into deep thought.

When everyone was gone, Lu Zhi waved his hand and ordered the guards to handle the door, called Liu Bei, and couldn't wait to ask: "Xuande, you called me from the front line and let me sit this chief senator, just now, I have been sitting here pondering, what is this senate for?" In the Spring and Autumn Period, all countries have special envoys to collect folk customs and convey public opinion. You, the Senate, are you a wind watcher? Not like.

You are fighting for the country, and the country is also fighting. After returning, why do you need to convene this senators' meeting to report to the senators on the war and state affairs, and you need to report to the people and get the people's approval? Since ancient times, there has been no such reason.

I have been holding back these words for a long time, and I believe that all the senators also have the same doubts, what is the role of the senate? ”

Liu Bei sighed - it's time to clarify the positioning of the Senate, the positioning is not clear, the senators don't know what to follow, and in the end, it will inevitably be a formality.

"When preparing for a study tour in Liaodong, the treacherous place in Liaodong, a single tribe, a county and township can not resist the continuous plunder, therefore, the establishment of this senate organization, each county and township is elected once every five years, each time a person is elected to the senate to participate in politics, in case of robbery, the senators discuss the strategy, decide the number of troops sent by the tribes and counties. In this way, we will fight against the outside world. The elected elders represent the interests of the county and township, and decide on the policies, tax rates, laws, and so on that everyone jointly implements.

Since the Yellow Turban disaster, the squires from all over the country have formed villages to protect themselves, and this situation is the same as when Izumo was founded in Liaoxi, relying only on the government's own strength to fight against the bandits in all directions, which is beyond the reach of the government. So I gathered the squires together and watched over each other. Qingzhou has no taxes for five years, and in the past five years, if it were not for the squires to manage themselves, the Qingzhou government, which has no revenue, has no financial resources to govern the whole county of Qingzhou.

Now, according to common sense, it is time to dissolve the Senate and bring them back into the administration of the government, however, a new situation has emerged, and the Senate is not yet dissolved.

This new situation is that we are about to face the situation of Liaodong's surrender. If we want to live in harmony with these tribes for a long time, we must know their feelings and know their opinions. In addition, the five major tribes that depend on us have paid a lot of price with our blood and sweat in the Central Plains, and we must also listen to their voices.

The most important thing is that I made an agreement with King Tatsuhan to establish a friendship between the states and the alliance, and now, the appointed time has come. In addition, this time I signed the "Mutual Trade Agreement" with Cao Mengde, and Qingzhou must announce its confederation system as soon as possible to determine its relationship with its allies. At this time, the Senate was the place where the representatives of the city-state expressed their intentions."