The military system in the ancient world is nothing more than three kinds: one is the feudal military system, that is, the military service and land are linked, and the land income supports various expenses for military service.

The characteristic of this feudal soldier is that it was strong at the beginning of its rise and declined in the middle and late stages. With the passage of time, some feudal soldiers were transformed into the aristocratic class and even large feudal lords; The other part will go bankrupt and lose the financial resources to support military service, and will become mercenaries in Europe where the world is in turmoil, and serfs and tenants in peaceful China.

The second is the conscription system, which is to spend money to hire soldiers. After the decline of the military system in the Tang Dynasty, until the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, conscription became the mainstream of China's military service system. In ancient society, there were about two types of conscription, one was that the soldiers were mercenaries. The feudal towns of the Tang Dynasty, the barbarian mercenaries of Rome and the mercenaries of modern Europe, as well as the famous Mamluk soldiers (before feudalism), the three bezel copies of the Goryeo Kingdom were all soldiers. In addition to Europe, where there are many small countries, in other parts of the world, soldiers are mercenaries, and big warlords will be born in the end.

Another form of mercenary is the direct control of mercenaries by the civilian government, which is mostly the case in later modern countries when the conscription system is implemented. However, this system of civilian government recruitment has extremely high requirements for the efficiency and integrity of the bureaucracy, and it is also necessary to have a system for training military bureaucrats. China's Song Dynasty, on the other hand, did not have an efficient and clean civilian government, let alone a military bureaucratic training system controlled by a civilian government. The mercenaries came into their hands. Naturally, only corruption and decay.

In ancient China, mercenaries and feudal soldiers were corrupt. When the responsibility of defending the country and suppressing the rebellion can no longer be assumed. A kind of regimental training between feudal soldiers and mercenaries came into being.

And in a sense. This kind of regimental training and armament with clan blood and fellow villagers and classmates as the link, Confucian scholars as the backbone, and fellow villagers and tenants of scholars as soldiers is the most ideal military model in the minds of the scholars of the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties.

At least in the Quanzhou Prefecture Regiment Training Army Gangzi Battalion Management Army, Chen Zilong, who was born in Taixue, believes that the establishment of a regimental Yong armed force controlled by scholars is the only way to save the Great Song Dynasty and defend the Confucian and Mencian Holy Dao.

Since those warriors who do not read the books of the sages are either rotten and useless, or they are disloyal to the king. Then what else does the Great Song Dynasty want these martial artists to do? Since the Great Song Dynasty is a scholar and a doctor, the scholar is the right way to take charge of the army.

It seems that the way of governing the army and soldiers in the three hundred years of the Great Song Dynasty is still wrong, it should not be to use literature to control the military, but it should be a scholar to take charge of the army, and the integration of civil and military!

If a group exercise could have been held decades or hundreds of years earlier, why would the Great Song Dynasty be in danger today?

Chen Zilong, who was born in the Xinghua (Xinghua Army, close to Quanzhou) clan, and his great-grandfather Chen Junqing, who had worshiped Prime Minister Zuo in the Xiaozong Dynasty, looked at the more than 1,000 Chen family members standing neatly in the school field at this time. It's a bit emotional.

Not to mention the martial arts of these more than 1,000 strong men, just they stopped for an hour under this hot sun, and they were so strict and orderly, not chaotic at all. And there is not even half a complaint, which is that those imperial soldiers inside and outside Quanzhou City cannot be compared.

Although Chen Zilong was a scribe, he was also skilled in martial arts. Historically, he also taught a martial artist's daughter named Chen Shuzhen (Mrs. Xu). He was a well-known figure in the anti-Mongolian struggle in the late Southern Song Dynasty.

When he was studying in Lin'an, he intersected with Chen Huaiqing, who was a doctor in martial arts at that time. I often discussed the art of war, and I also read Chen Dexing's book on military tactics -- these are the most practical methods for training troops and fighting wars. More than 1,000 of his clansmen. It was strictly trained in accordance with Chen Dexing's method of military training. Even the righteous instructors moved over as they were, and they were all young scholars who read poetry and books in the clan. And the ordinary soldiers are also members of the Xinghua Chen clan. Their training on weekdays was also carried out in accordance with the requirements of the Northern Ming soldiers.

The only difference is that the weapons and equipment are not as luxurious as those of the sergeants. It's not too bad, though. The whole army is equipped with 200 pairs of infantry armor, 400 pairs of leather armor, 400 pairs of paper armor, 200 crossbows, 200 infantry bows, 200 spears, 400 pairs of swords and shields (Fujian is mountainous, and the cavalry does not have much room to play, so it is equipped with more sword and shield soldiers and crossbow soldiers), as well as miscellaneous equipment and arrow clusters.

All the armor equipment, including an arrow and a bow, were personally placed by Chen Zilong to various handicraft workshops in Quanzhou and personally inspected and accepted! The quality is absolutely guaranteed - spend your own money, of course, you have to open your eyes and repeatedly accept, even if there is a little problem, you have to rework and redo!

This regiment training is a soldier's own! The Quanzhou government only allocated some funds, and did not care about the rest. The recruitment and placement of weapons are all self-care of the scholars in charge of the soldiers, that is, Chen Zilong takes care of himself. Moreover, the funds allocated from above are insufficient, and Chen Zilong still paid more than 10,000 yuan out of his own pocket to paste it, how can he be sloppy?

Spending one's own money and training one's own soldiers is naturally very attentive. It's just that this kind of regimental training for soldiers is different from mercenaries for generals? What is the difference between a scholar who regards regimental training as an official capital and a martial artist who supports soldiers and respects himself?

These two questions, the ancestors of the Zhao family have long thought through - otherwise, where is the Wenwu Shu Path and only the high level of reading?

However, Chen Zilong, a scholar who had just become the head of the army and had actually transformed into a samurai, had not thought about it at all.

A Ji Yi surnamed Chen ran to the school yard and said loudly with joy: "Gangzhong (Chen Zilong), the order of the regimental training envoy has come down!" ”

Chen Zilong turned around and pressed his sword in his hand, "Are you going to send troops?" ”

The surnamed Chen Jiyi handed over the arrow to Chen Zilong with both hands, and Chen Zilong took a look at it and threw it to his guards. The Chen surname Jiyi said: "The regimental training envoy told us to take the lead, first go to the main gate of Taiyi Temple to block the door, and don't let the Heavenly Daoists in there go to Thornton Port." ”

"Where's the reward? Has it ever been awarded? Chen Zilong asked--Doing things for the imperial court actually asked for a reward first! He had never thought of this for a year. But now, these more than a thousand Chen family members have entrusted their lives to him, how can he let them give them away for nothing?

"The opening fee is 1,000 guan, the head of a heavenly Taoist disciple is worth 50 guan, Fang Yumen's head is worth 5,000 guan, and the property in Taiyi Guan is up to us to wash."

Chen Zilong nodded, the price is okay! Strode in front of his clan's formation, waved his arm, and said loudly: "Sons, send troops!" Go with someone to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions! ”

"Someone is willing to die for the camp!"

The Chen family Ding responded loudly - not to die for the imperial court, but to die for Chen Zilong! These more than 1,000 Chen family members only listen to Chen Zilong, even if the Quanzhou regiment training envoy Zhao and Yu are in person, they can't do it if they want to cross Chen Zilong to command this army!

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"A certain person is willing to die for the group training!"

Quanzhou regimental training envoy Zhao and Yu are also facing the two Chengzi battalions (Zhao and Yu character filial piety) at this moment, and there is a very unreal feeling.

He was a distant relative of the Zhao dynasty, and he should have stayed away from such a thing as military power - the Zhao clan was in charge of military power, and Emperor Lao Tzu could still sleep peacefully? But now, the two thousand elite soldiers of the Chengzi battalion are actually his Zhao and Yu's private soldiers, and the battalion managers and officers in charge of the troops are either his brothers or his sons and nephews. Although the soldiers are not members of the Zhao family, they are all Ding Zhuang of the Zhao family's customers (tenants).

Needless to say, these two thousand elite soldiers also ate the meals of the Zhao family (Zhao and Yu's family), wore the clothes of the Zhao family, and the weapons and armor and military salaries were all raised by Zhao and Yu. They are Zhao and Yu's private soldiers! also only listen to Zhao and Yu's orders! Even the emperor Lao Tzu came over in person, and without Zhao Youyu's order, he couldn't command it!

Of course, the current Zhao Youyu just felt a little untrue, and didn't feel that things were wrong-he still felt that he was a scholar doctor who was admitted to the back door, a reliable civilian official, not a rebellious minister and thief who supported the army and respected himself, absolutely not......

"Out of the battle! Go with a certain meritorious service! ”

Zhao and Yu's skills are actually quite vigorous, and after giving the order, he jumped on a horse, and then walked in front of the horse, leading his two thousand practice bravery, and went to the south gate of Quanzhou.

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"Angel, look at those group exercises......

The south gate of Quanzhou is also called Tumen (originally probably the meaning of Tumen), the long street that runs through the inside and outside of the city gate is called Tumen Street, it is the most prosperous area in Quanzhou, there are high-rise buildings on both sides of the street, among them, there is the South China Sea Moon Tower that belongs to the old thief of Ji. This is a three-storey restaurant, behind the window of a private room on the street on the third floor, Ji Zhiji, the old thief, Ji Zhiji, is pointing to the brave soldiers of the regiment who are passing downstairs, and talking to the ink shadow girl beside him.

"It's not weak, these regimental warriors don't look like weak soldiers!" The beauty of the ink shadow girl is slightly frowned. Although she is a woman, she is also a soldier. "It's much stronger than Lin'an's three soldiers, if you command it properly, with more experience, you will definitely be able to become a strong soldier." However, this time they still couldn't keep Quanzhou. ”

"That's, that's, they're all farmers who are new to the battlefield." Ji Lao Thief stroked his beard, but his brows furrowed even tighter. "But as soon as they leave the city, only us and Bai Fan's men and horses are left in Quanzhou City, and this must be killed behind closed doors, and our people don't seem to be sure of victory."

Mo Ying Niang sneered a few times and said, "How can you kill it behind closed doors?" When the time comes, won't it be okay to take down Tu Gate and let Quan Yong outside the city in? Most of those Quan Yong leaders have settled in the city, even if it is not a big house, it is shameless for those people to be humiliated by the outer room. Isn't it? (To be continued......)