Zhao Zhen pondered for a while and said, "Qin Fenglu's troops are insufficient, but if he is transferred from several other roads, he is afraid of accidents-"

Li Di put on reading glasses, looked at the map carefully, and shook his head after listening to Zhao Zhen's words: "Other roads can't be adjusted!" Xu Ping's recital also repeatedly said that this year, the party project will inevitably use troops on the two roads of Yanyan and Linfu in the east, and it is precisely because of the use of troops on those two roads that the party will be empty in the west and seized by Qin Fenglu. The war is concentrated on the two roads of Jingyuan and Qinfeng, no matter how it is said that it will be a matter of the coming year, this year's defense of the party's invasion is still on the two roads of Yanyan and Linfu. ”

From Xingqing Mansion to the Hengshan area, there is a desert in the middle, and it is not easy for the party to make such a transfer. At this time, the main forces of the party had actually been concentrated on the Eastern Front, but they had not yet made a major attack. Yuan Hao urgently needed a quick victory, a victory on the eastern front, and put pressure on the Song Dynasty, and then came to see the army move westward and fight for the important places around the Huluchuan Valley Road.

Zhao Zhen nodded, thought about it and said: "Yes, the troops of Yan Yan and Linfu Road cannot be transferred, do you want to transfer the forbidden army in the capital again?" ”

Lu Yi said simply: "Most of the forbidden army in the capital has been transferred, and it is not good to transfer it again." Moreover, except for Qinfeng Road along the border, several other kinds of people said that the forbidden army in the capital could not fight, and the cost was large, which made the local garrison forbidden army dissatisfied. To replenish Qin Fenglu's troops, let's recruit them separately, now that the imperial court has enough money and food, and another 120,000 people can be recruited, and it can still be supported. ”

Hearing the recruitment, Zhao Zhen felt a little trembling. The party was in chaos, and the size of the army expanded rapidly during this year, and the forbidden army in the world was less than 450,000 during the Tianxi period of Zhenzong, of which 380,000 were directly under the Sanya. And now, the total number of forbidden troops in the world has exceeded 600,000, and the forbidden army directly under the Sanya is less than 300,000, and a large number of troops have been transferred to the northwest. If you recruit another one or two hundred thousand, you will go straight to the scale of a million forbidden troops, which is really a bit scary.

Li Di said: "There are four roads along the border in Shaanxi, totaling 220,000 people. There were 70,000 each in the two roads of Yanyan and Jingyuan, 50,000 in Huanqing, the original number of personnel in Qinfeng Road was less than 30,000, and there were only more than 35,000 people in Xu Ping's training department and the forbidden army directly under the army. If the war is transferred to Qinfeng and Jingyuan in the next year, Qinfeng Road must increase its troops, at least to 70,000 or 80,000 people. Whether it is re-recruited, now the money and food of the three divisions are enough to support, and it takes two or three years to defeat the party, which is the plan for long-term peace and stability. ”

To start a war with the party, the Khitan is eyeing the tiger, and it is also necessary to increase troops to Hebei and Hedong. Now most of the forbidden army is actually still guarding against the Khitan, but it can't be moved there. Most of the forbidden army in the capital has been transferred, and it really can't be transferred again.

The situation is here, and Zhao Zhen has no choice, and said: "In the past year or two, there have been a lot of recruits, and if we recruit again, I'm afraid that there won't be so many idle people in the north." And the young men along the border, even if they are not affiliated with the army, are also village archers—"

Lu Yijian understood what Zhao Zhen meant, the traditional source of troops was located in the border areas, and recruiting people from there was actually weakening the local defense ability in disguise. At times like these, we should be very cautious.

Seeing that Li Di didn't speak, Lu Yi said simply: "Your Majesty, Xu Ping proposed to recruit troops from Sichuan and Shu. The population is dense and the place is rich, and recruiting 120,000 people will not cause a shortage of local manpower. ”

Yan Shu, who had not spoken, shook his head: "The people of Shu are weak and unbearable, how can they be recruited into the army?" ”

"People are ordinary people, how can there be a place where people are unbearable? As long as people are recruited according to the soldiers, only those with a Chinese-style body are recruited into the army, and what is the difference between the soldiers in Hebei and Shaanxi? ”

Li Di said: "Prime minister, that's not what I said. The recruitment of troops in this dynasty has always been to use Hebei, Hedong and Shaanxi along the border three roads, less Jingdong and Jingxi roads, Sichuan Gorge four roads and Jiangnan roads have very few forbidden troops. The people there are not only thin and weak, but also do not practice soldiers, and they are afraid that they will only make up the numbers when they join the army, and they will waste money and food in vain. ”

Lu Yijian still insisted on his opinion: "Cao Keming brought the Shu soldiers into Long, and Xu Ping tested it. The recruitment of troops from Sichuan and Shu was also proposed by Qin Fenglu himself, and they fought by themselves, so it should not be a matter of words. ”

Although the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty is not small, in fact, the source of troops is very narrow, mainly along the border three roads. The world generals of the forbidden army are also related to this recruitment policy. The population of the three roads along the border was not large, and a large number of manpower was recruited into the army, which directly caused the population growth of these roads to be slow. Xu Ping wanted to recruit troops from Sichuan and Shu, not only because it was close to Longyou and convenient for recruiting, but also because he intended to break the traditional recruitment pattern. Recruiting troops only from the three sides of the border is intertwined, and the relationship between the army and the Chinese army is intertwined, and there is too much resistance to reform.

Naturally, there are differences in the size of the population in different places, but this is just an excuse to limit the source of soldiers. From the time of the Five Dynasties, the main force of the army of the Central Plains regime was born from the Shatuo regime in the Later Tang Dynasty and formed its own military culture. The source of soldiers in other regions is not suitable for joining the forbidden army, not so much because of physical reasons, but because of the estrangement from this unique army culture.

The military culture of the forbidden army is different from the traditional military culture of the Central Plains Dynasty, with a strong Huhua color. The traditional generals of the Northern Song Dynasty were either Sinicized Hu people themselves, or they were Han people who had a relationship with the Hu people and were once Hu, including the Yang generals who were born in Yang Wenguang. It was extremely difficult for soldiers from the Northern Song Dynasty scribes to integrate into the forbidden army system, and it was difficult for people who had not been in the army for generations to get ahead in the forbidden army, all of which were related to this unique military culture.

If it cannot break free from this military culture, the forbidden army will not be able to be reborn. Xu Ping's restructuring in the army is one thing, and changing the source of the army is another, and his own army rarely uses the sources of troops along the three roads along the border.

Seeing that Li Di and Yan Shu still disagreed, Zhao Zhen said: "Xu Ping is organized, so he naturally has his own reasons. He wants to recruit troops from Sichuan and Shu, thinking that he has thought it through, and this kind of thing can be done by him. ”

"Your Majesty! Xu Ping's recent recital tells more about the story of Zhuge Wuhou's Northern Expedition. At that time, what Wuhou brought was the Shu soldiers, and they did not fall behind against the Wei army, which shows that the Shu soldiers were not unable to fight. ”

Zhao Zhen nodded and did not speak again. He trusts Xu Ping, but whether Xu Ping can fight or not, just a big victory over Yuzang Huama can't give him enough confidence. Cao Wei's victory in Sanduchuan has gained countless honors, that is, he was born in the Cao family, and there are countless relatives and friends who advocate for him, and the army is full of praise. Xu Ping is just the opposite, he defeated Yu Zang Huama, and the Jiangmen family who spoke beside Zhao Zhen all said that the Tibetan Department could not fight, and this big victory did not show that Xu Ping could fight. also specially reminded Zhao Zhen that he could not give military power to Xu Ping because of such a victory with great moisture, so as not to make a big mistake in the future.

Originally, because of such a victory, Zhao Zhen was glad that he used Xu Ping correctly, and he was looking forward to the victory of the party. I have been instilled by the people around me that this victory is nothing, and after a long time, my heart is also beating.

Li Di looked at the map, took off his reading glasses and said: "Judging from the geographical map of the mountains and rivers on Xu Ping, the following party items will inevitably fight with this dynasty for the area north of the Zhenrong army. Qin Fenglu is its left wing, and there will inevitably be a lot of war. Of the more than 30,000 forbidden troops under Xu Ping's department, in fact, only one or two thousand people from the Guiming Shenwu Army were the elite of the forbidden army in the capital, and it was really hard to say what the strength of the rest of the newly recruited forbidden army was. Since he wants to recruit troops from Sichuan and Shu, it is not good to disobey him. In this way, in addition to recruiting troops from Sichuan and Shu, he was allowed to use the local Han and Tibetan households to select Qingzhuang as the commander of Baojie and Baoyi. The natives there are good at fighting, which is something that all the generals along the border mention, just in case of accidents. ”

Remember the mobile version URL: m.