The so-called government soldier system is actually different in all countries of the Dali Dynasty. √ text ↘? Learning ↖ Network

In some small countries, there are not even government soldiers.

At the beginning, Cangguo also had no government soldiers.

However, in the process of later expansion, it was either incorporated or needed to defend the place, so it developed into a government army.

The most typical is that when attacking Zheng State, the rebel army that was subdued was basically a group of peasants who got together, and after the war, the imperial court could not be too reckless, so it was divided into two parts.

One part was peasant soldiers, and some were local troops.

Among them, the peasant army has been retained, and even developed into an annual training, which can be organized very quickly as soon as the conscription begins.

The local army gradually developed into a government army.

This government soldier is different from the government soldier that existed in Chinese history, and it refers to the military strength under the name of the local government.

Although it has the nature of a militia, its establishment and tasks in peacetime are very different.

The government soldiers have the dual task of guarding and defending.

The tasks of the guards are relatively fixed and frequent, and in the stable areas of the country, there are fewer wars, so the guards naturally become the most important task.

In the newly annexed territory, it is responsible for counterinsurgency and local maintenance, and near the border, it is necessary to be ready to defend at all times.

At present, there has not been any civil strife in Cangguo, and the role of the formation defense is not very much.

The government soldiers are responsible for the main task of the guards, which is combined with the guards of the forbidden soldiers, but they are different from each other, and the soldiers are divided into guards in the Imperial City of Beijing, called Shangfan, and the upper is the regular task of the government soldiers.

When the government soldiers take up the task of conscription and defense, they are often regarded as the backbone of the local soldiers or border guards, and the task of conscription and defense of the government soldiers is to be temporarily dispatched, and the defense is fixed.

In addition, the government soldiers occasionally fought alone when they went out, such as the previous crusade against Shengguo, in fact, after deciding to join the alliance to attack the Jin, its attack task basically fell on the heads of the government soldiers, but because it did not have much merit, it did not cause much repercussions in the country.

Yang Mu made a rough estimate, the current government soldiers in Cangguo are about nearly one million, and the reform of the government soldier system mentioned by Ge Lie, the secretary of the Ministry of War, is this?

"Your Majesty, the soldiers of my Cangguo, although they are named after the imperial court, but there is not much war in peacetime, and they are almost the same as conscription, in addition to heavy weapons and war horses, bows, arrows, clothing, food, etc. need to be prepared. As early as the time when the internal stability of our Cangguo was stable, the minister thought that it was really a move that consumed people's strength. ”

Yang Mu nodded, Ge Lie's point, which also made him realize.

The so-called seven things refer to clothing, quilts, assets, things, bows and arrows, saddle bridles, and weapons.

The soldiers of the government are usually at home and have the task of practicing martial arts.

Every year, we also have to focus on teaching and reading, and check the results of ordinary practice, which is also a kind of temporary training;

The military system of Cangguofu is actually "soldiers don't know generals, and generals don't know soldiers." ”

The household registration of government soldiers is under the control of the Ministry of War, and the local government distributes them in detail, but they do not have the right to transfer.

During the period of stability, the government soldiers farmed the fields, and carried out daily training under the leadership of the generals appointed by the Ministry of War, and when the war occurred, the imperial court sent another general to gather the government soldiers from all over the country to go out to fight, and the government soldiers generally could not be out for a long time, and they rarely went on expeditions, and they could not change the original garrison at will.

After the end of the war, the local government soldiers were still under their own towns and returned to local jurisdiction.

This kind of government military system is conducive to preventing local separatism, reducing national military expenditures, partially solving the problem of logistics supply, and expanding the source of soldiers, just like the Ming Dynasty's guard system.

However, in the current situation, the government soldiers are indeed more wasteful.

Because, in peacetime, the government soldiers are not used, but in wartime, the combat effectiveness is still not enough to catch up with the armies of the rest of the countries.

What is this concept?

You know, at present, in the entire Dali Dynasty, the individual combat ability of the Cangguo army is the first, once the formation of a large-scale team battle, it can be said that the world is invincible, in such a big environment, even the combat effectiveness of other countries' armies can not be compared to the government soldiers, what is the use?

If only to facilitate conscription, then the militia reserve may be enough.

So......

"What do you think Ge Qing thinks?" Yang Mu raised his hand and asked.

"Your Majesty, in the past few years, our military department has also been anxious about the affairs of the government soldiers, why don't you reduce the scale of the government soldiers and change the conscription to recruitment?"

Recruitment?

Yang Mu's eyes lit up, the so-called recruitment system, Yang Mu once talked to the Ministry of War, and Ge Lie expressed great interest at that time.

Unexpectedly, this time Ge Lie proposed the reform of the military system of the government, saying that he would change it to a conscription system.

The conscription system is one of the military systems in ancient China, and since the Tang Dynasty, the conscription system has replaced the conscription system, which is a major change in the military system in the feudal era.

The Song Dynasty, whether it was a forbidden army, a box soldier, or a garrison army in the Southern Song Dynasty, generally adopted the method of recruitment, and it was a traditional national policy of the Song Dynasty to recruit displaced and hungry people as soldiers in disaster years.

The rulers believed that after recruiting the able-bodied as soldiers, it would be impossible for the old and weak to rebel, which was a countermeasure to prevent the outbreak of peasant uprisings in disaster years, and recruiting 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.

The people selected by the conscription system are also called military soldiers, and after admission, they are formed according to their strengths, and their duties and weapons have their own sequences.

For example, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Wu Qi adopted a step-by-step training method from individual soldiers to multiple soldiers and detachments to composite forces, so that the military soldiers were completely separated from production, concentrated on drills, and became standing soldiers.

The biggest characteristic is that these people will become professional soldiers, brave and good at fighting, compared with today's soldiers with uneven quality, combat effectiveness will definitely increase by a section, in this way, not only can improve the combat effectiveness of the army, but also liberate the productive forces, why not?

In fact, there is no inherent superiority or disadvantage between the conscription system and the conscription system, but only the circumstances that determine it.

What Shangshu Ge Lie proposed in the Ministry of War probably means that in the part of the local army, the government soldiers have been changed from conscription to recruitment, and as the regular six major army corps, the conscription system is adopted.

As for the money and other issues that were temporarily considered, in the eyes of Yang Mu and the courtiers, it was not a big deal at all.

Money is earned, with the technology of Cangguo ahead of the other countries, the money earned is enough for the expansion of the army, and the most urgent problem at present is the problem of food and logistics, and the efficiency of the entire system.

The government soldiers use the conscription system, which is very suitable in today's Cangguo.