The armed forces of the Song Dynasty were mainly composed of the forbidden army, the box army, the village soldiers, and the Fan soldiers, in addition, there were also Turkish troops and archers. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The forbidden army is the Central Army. Including the emperor's guards and the army of the army, which were subordinate to the three ya. Its task is to defend the imperial palace, guard the capital division, prepare for the conquest and garrison the border counties and important places. There are two branches of the infantry army, the Indian and horse armies, and the naval army and the artillery army are attached to the infantry army. Its establishment is divided into four levels: box, army, battalion (command), and capital. It has jurisdiction over 10 armies, 5 battalions under military jurisdiction, and 5 battalions under its jurisdiction. 100 people each. The commanders at all levels are: Xiangdu Commander; The commander of the military capital, the military capital is waiting, the commander is the commander, the deputy commander; Dutou (Ma Jun called the military envoy), deputy head (Ma Jun called the deputy soldier and horse envoy). The command (battalion) is the basic formed unit of the forbidden army, and the number of troops is often calculated by mobilizing, garrisoning, and fighting. In order to prevent the rebellion of the generals, the forbidden army roughly defended half of Gyeonggi and half of the counties of Wuzhu in terms of troop deployment, and the auxiliary forces of the capital and Gi were also roughly balanced, so as to control each other internally and externally. At the same time, the "change method" was implemented, and the forbidden army of Kifu and the prefectures regularly changed their garrisons, so that the soldiers did not know the generals and there would be no special troops.

The Xiang Army belongs to the local army. It is called the Standing Army, but it is actually a miscellaneous army of the state capitals and certain central agencies. It is under the control of the state government and certain central organs, and is always subordinate to the Guards Mahan Division and the Guards Walker Division. The main tasks are to build cities, make weapons, build roads and bridges, transport grain and reclaim famines, and guard officials, welcome and send-off, etc. Generally, there is no training, combat mission. There are two types of troops, the infantry army and the horse army, and the establishment is divided into three levels: army, command, and capital, and the commander is the same as the forbidden army. The township soldiers are also called militias. It is a local people's armed force composed of local people who are selected or recruited according to the proportion of household registration. Usually do not detach from production, farm leisure assembly training. Undertake tasks such as repairing the city, transporting grain, catching thieves, or cooperating with the forbidden army to defend the border. There are many names of township soldiers in various places, and the establishment is not uniform, or according to the command, the capital, or according to the A, the team, or according to the sequence of the capital, the big security, and the security, at the most, the total number of Shaanxi, Hebei, and Hedong Zhilu reached more than 420,000. The Fan soldiers were the frontier guards in the northwestern part of the Northern Song Dynasty. It is composed of the Qiang people and the Shuhu tribal army in the border areas of Shaanxi, Hedong and Western Xia. The chiefs of the tribes were given military positions. Lead the tribal army to guard the border. Its establishment varies from clan to clan, or according to tribe, sex, clan, or according to clan, standard, and team, and it is not until the time of the Divine Sect that the establishment of command and capital is uniformly adopted.

The Turkish army and archers are part of the local security forces. It is under the jurisdiction of the county lieutenant of the inspection department. The Turkish army was set up during the time of the Divine Sect and was subordinate to the inspection department of various places; Originally, he was a servant, and he served as a servant in turn, and later changed to hire and recruit people, and was subordinate to the county lieutenants. The number of native troops and archers was small, and they were usually organized at the capital level. During the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty, in order to enhance the national defense strength, Wang Anshi's new law of reforming the military system was implemented, mainly including the provincial art of war, the art of war, the law of protecting armor and the law of protecting horses. The provincial art of war, that is, the compendium and the consolidation of battalions, the elimination of the old and weak, redundant soldiers. The art of war, that is, the separation of soldiers and generals caused by changing the system, so that the generals have the right to command the battle with the subordinates. More than 100 generals were set up in Zhulu (except Sichuan) across the country, each general commanded a number of troops, mainly under the command of the forbidden army, and mixed with the soldiers of the Fan and the township soldiers; The commander of the army is called the general and the deputy general, and the forbidden army under the command of the general is called the general and the forbidden army; Those who are not subordinate to the generals in various places are not called generals and forbidden troops, and their status is secondary. The forbidden army stationed in the capital is also known as the forbidden army in Beijing. It is not related to the general forbidden army and the forbidden army in Beijing to retain the original establishment; Department of the forbidden army in Beijing forbidden generals, department: team 3 level compilation, a team of 50 people. Later, an army was set up above the general, with the commander and commander as the chief and deputy commanders. The Baojia Law is a reform of the township soldier system, that is, in the whole country, 2 households take 1 to act as a Baojia, 5 households are 1 small Bao, 25 households are 1 big Bao, regularly learn martial arts, and take turns patrolling the police at night. Among them, all the township soldiers who had undergone strict training became the auxiliary force of the forbidden army, and a few were even promoted to the forbidden army. The armor protection law, that is, on the basis of the implementation of the armor protection law, changed the herding supervision and raising of horses to the protection of armor and horses, so as to expand the source of military horses and enhance the combat effectiveness of the army.

The army of the Southern Song Dynasty changed greatly. In the early days, most of the main forces of the Northern Forbidden Army were dispersed, and the Central Army was reorganized; Although the generals and non-generals in various parts of the south retained their original numbers and structures, they were no longer the main force, but were reduced to miscellaneous soldiers similar to the box army. The Southern Xiang Army followed the old system of the Northern Song Dynasty, * miscellaneous service. Nothing to do. There are many names of township soldiers, and they have played a certain role in fighting injuries with Jin and Yuan. Due to the fall of Shaanxi, the good soldiers no longer existed. At the beginning, it was the Imperial Camp Army, the Tokyo Left-behind Army, and the Shaanxi Army, and then it was changed to the Camp Escort Army, which was divided into 5 armies, including the front, rear, left, right, and middle. In the eleventh year of Shaoxing (1141), it was changed to the imperial army, in order to show that it was directly under the emperor, and was under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council, not under the three ya. In the middle of the period, 10 front-line armies were set up at the junction of the Yangtze River and Sichuan-Shaanxi, and their commanders were the capital commander and the deputy capital commander. The power of the three governors was reduced, and they were roughly equal to the 10 capitals, each commanding one army, responsible for guarding the capital Lin'an (present-day Hangzhou) and Jiankang Mansion (present-day Nanjing), and in fact stationed large soldiers. These 13 garrison troops are all organized according to the order of army, general, department, and team, and their commanders are respectively commanders, commanders, generals, generals, generals, generals, generals, and team generals. The sergeants stationed in the garrison are generally divided into two levels, utility and sergeant, and there are several grades within the utility Ke soldier to show the difference in status and treatment. In addition, there is a certain proportion of "non-conscripts" in each cantonment, including non-combatants such as fireheads and baggage soldiers.

In the middle and later periods of the Southern Song Dynasty, in order to strengthen the control over the garrison troops, the military command functions of the officials appointed by Wenchen and Xuanfu envoys were further expanded, so that they gradually replaced and deprived the commanders and commanders of the various capitals, and the new armies with various numbers were successively created outside the 13 armies to develop into the main force, while the original garrison troops gradually weakened.