Four years have passed since the first invasion of the Jurchens in the seventh year of Xuanhe, and the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty has basically disintegrated, and the Qinwang army and the volunteer and township soldiers in the state capitals have become the main body of the anti-Jin resistance. At that time, in order to appease the armies, the imperial court, Zhao Gou and Zhao Ta had appointed their own officials, who were in charge of the military power, political power, and financial power of the state armies under their jurisdiction, as a "way to save the evils" of the Jin army.

Some courtiers thought it would be better to recognize the fait accompli and set up separate envoys to restore the Tang Dynasty's law of feudal towns to some extent, so as to achieve a unified decree. Although Zhao Tan was also born in a 'feudal town', he was well aware of the harm, and the unification of the country was not only the nominal unity of accepting the appointment of the imperial court to do its own thing, but also the unity of the army and administration was the de facto unity.

If it is recognized now, it will in the long term become a situation in which the warlords will be divided, and when they monopolize the wealth and support the private army and become more and more powerful, the imperial court will face a situation where the finances are exhausted and there is no army to adjust. Of course, Zhao Ta categorically rejected this proposal, and now he must strangle this situation that threatens the central power in the cradle, and must not wait for the formation of local secession to become a big deal.

Therefore, the two generals, Gao Chong and Zhao Yong, shouldered these two important tasks during their trip to the north and south, and while completing the task of exterminating the rogue and defending the enemy country, they also had to assist the government in completing the work of reorganizing the armed forces of the various localities in order to integrate the armed forces of the whole country.

There is no possibility or necessity for the original Song forbidden soldiers to be restored. The Zhongxing Army, as the main armed force of Zhao Ta, was divided into three after more than a month of rest and replenishment. The dragon general, the lion general and the tiger general each sent three brigades to follow Zhao Yong north. The leopard general and the wolf general will send three brigades south with Gao Chong, and the rest will stay in the Gyeonggi area.

In the process of reorganizing other units, new recruits were recruited and expanded. It will become the main body of the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty, and the original generals will be the main body to prepare for the establishment of the Zhenfu Division. Commanding the troops in the area under their jurisdiction, although they were stationed in the local area, they were not under the jurisdiction of the local government, but directly obeyed the emperor's dispatch, logistics and soldiers were under the management of the military department, and training was directed by the Privy Council.

The troops going north will be organized into a mixed army of three infantry and cavalry, mainly dragoons, called dragon wings, lion wings and tiger wings, to show the origin of the inheritance. It is organized in five or five years, that is, each army has five brigades. Each brigade has five commands, and each command has five capitals; The army and brigade each set up artillery, baggage, scouts, military law and other directly subordinate teams, and incorporated the desert brigade and the hunting cavalry brigade left in Datong into its sequence; After the completion of the reorganization, the full number of troops is more than 20,000 people, and in the future, they will be stationed in Xi'an, Datong and Zhending, and become the main force of each town and Fu Division.

The troops going south are also organized into two armies, Leopard Wing and Wolf Wing, the difference is that considering that the southern water network is vertical and horizontal, it is not conducive to cavalry galloping, so the two mixed armies will be the main force of the infantry army. Under each army, an inland river fleet was set up to cooperate with the operation, and two Huai and Liangjiang towns were set up. The Lianghuai Town Fu Division is responsible for the defense of Huainan North Road, Huainan West Road, Lizhou Road, Hubei Road and other areas, and is stationed in Jiangling Prefecture; The Liangjiang Town Fu Division is responsible for the defense of Jiangnan East Road, Jiangnan West Road, Jinghu South Road, Jinghu North Road, Fujian Road, Guangnan Road and other areas, and is stationed in Hangzhou.

The troops remaining in the capital were reorganized into the Central Forbidden Army. Following the numbers and establishments of the various armies of the Zhongxing Army, the Gyeonggi Town Guard Division was set up, which was responsible for the defense of Jingdong Road, Jingdong Road, Jingnan Road, Jingbei North Road 4 Road, and Sijing Prefecture. At this point, the Zhongxing Army completed the transformation into a forbidden army. The total number of troops reached 200,000, although it was doubled. However, compared with the original heyday of the 860,000 forbidden army, the huge is still a lot smaller. They still follow the past of the Chung Hsing Army and use firearms. However, the distribution of troops still maintains the pattern of half of the central and local forces set in the Taizu era. Prevent mutiny.

The Great Song Dynasty was divided into 26 roads, including 30 prefectures, 254 prefectures, and 63 prisons, but after the reorganization, the past box army was disbanded, and it was replaced by a local army under the command of each road commander, and each road set up one or several generals to guard according to the population, public security and border conditions, and each general would be composed of 2,000 to 5,000 people. At the same time, it is possible to organize conscription troops according to the situation and take up work such as repair, water control, and transportation, but of course these troops are actually hard labor camps, and most of the soldiers are exiled and serving prison sentences and prisoners of war. The total strength of the local army is more than 250,000 troops.

The road army is stationed in various prefectures and counties, and is responsible for guarding the border and maintaining public order. In peacetime, the local troops are under the leadership of the Ministry of War and the local government ministers, and in wartime they are uniformly dispatched by the Privy Council, and implement the same military service system and enjoy the same welfare and military pay as the forbidden army, but the biggest difference is that they are still equipped with cold weapons. Although there are a large number of them, if they want to rebel, they have to weigh whether the guy in their hands is the opponent of the forbidden army...

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At the same time, Cheng Xishou also led the navy to take advantage of the fact that the rivers and lakes were not frozen to go south to receive and adapt the various naval armies of the Great Song Dynasty.

Most of the Song's naval forces were deployed in the south, and they had the nature of maintaining law and order in various places. The establishment of a coastal envoy in Mingzhou is usually concurrently served by the governor of Mingzhou, which is a permanent institution, and the military general also serves as the governor of Mingzhou when he serves as the coastal envoy. It has a navy under its jurisdiction, which is divided by the chief and deputy envoys as the commander-in-chief, and the same as the commander-in-chief of the sea vessels, and has a general sea ship station. The prefect of Pingjiang Prefecture or the prefect of Shaoxing is also occasionally held by the coastal control envoy, and the coastal control envoy is sometimes merged into the pacification department of eastern Zhejiang. When two coastal envoys were set up, they were stationed in Mingzhou and Pingjiang, and the deputy envoys were often military generals.

The naval army of the Song Dynasty was really used for border guards, mainly the naval army of Jingdong Dengzhou. Dengzhou is at the tip of the Shandong Peninsula, in the past and the Liaodong Peninsula under the jurisdiction of the Liao Dynasty, now under the jurisdiction of the Jin Dynasty across the sea, "the number is the extreme edge", "the wind is a sail, dying to the city", so the Song Dynasty "Changtun heavy troops, teach and practice water warfare, pass the beacon in the twilight, in order to pass the police emergency, send troops to garrison Jiji Island in April every year, and return to August to be prepared." In Dengzhou, there are two commanders of the forbidden Chenghai Army, two crossbowmen and two commanders of the Pinghai Army, which is the largest naval division in the Song Dynasty.

In addition, there are also envoys along the river, but most of them are temporary institutions, and the permanent envoys along the river are placed in Jiankang Mansion, and the prefect is concurrently serving as a prefect, "taking special measures to purchase naval vessels". It is also common to set up a division along the Yangtze River in Ezhou, and sometimes only a deputy envoy is set up along the river, and a separate department is set up, all of which are concurrently served by the governor of Ezhou. Now these inland water armies have been assigned to the Zhenfu Division, and they are not among them.

Zheng Xishou is now in high spirits, standing at the bow of the ship facing the sea breeze, he boiled his beard white, and finally took off the merchant's robe and changed into a military uniform, becoming the head of the Great Song Dynasty Water Army. When he received the edict of the prince's accession to the throne, he immediately arrived in Dengzhou by boat and rushed to Beijing. A month later, he was appointed to take over the navy as the commander of the navy, and before leaving, the official family summoned him to the palace for two days, explaining the importance of the navy, and explaining in detail the configuration and composition of the new army.

Cheng Xuan immediately rushed back to Dengzhou after receiving the order, he had already set up a base here with the help of Liu Zi'an, the prefect of Dengzhou, when he wore a three-grade official uniform, and walked into the Dengzhou Navy camp with the holy decree in his hand, the camp was shocked, and no one thought that Cheng Da, who had flattered them in the past, actually became the commander of the navy. When they saw a hundred warships sailing into the harbor at his command, the ground was full of teeth and eyeballs, and this was exactly what Cheng Xishou wanted to see, and he finally stood up in front of them.

At this time, with the strong support of the prince, the Shengzhongtang fleet has been developed for more than ten years, and it is not the same as when it robbed Han and returned to the north. At present, the fleet has more than 600 large and small sea ships, of which there are 20 large ships of 5,000 Hu, half of which have been converted into warships, 100 medium-sized warships of 2,000 Hu, and 200 warships of "Drill Wind".

In order to develop, under the instructions of the prince, Cheng Xishou trained 10,000 sailors by going to sea in turns, most of them had the experience of going to sea and sailing, and at the same time formed three marine brigades, established two supply bases overseas, and occupied an island group far away from the mainland as a base, with the ability to fight in the open sea and land operations. This time, the entire fleet was divided into two, the merchant ships were still managed by Sheng Zhongtang, and the warships and marines joined the Great Song Dynasty naval sequence.

Cheng Xishou's task was to take over the original naval army of the Great Song Dynasty, eliminate the old and weak, and recruit soldiers on a large scale to expand the troops, build warships, and the whole army reached the scale of 50,000 soldiers and 1,000 warships, and established four naval bases in Dengzhou, Mingzhou, Quanzhou, and Haizhou. Intensify training to clear the waters around the Great Song Dynasty of pirates, keep the sea routes open and open up shipping routes. At the same time, the coastal areas of the Jin Kingdom were blocked, the merchant ships of other countries were intercepted, and they were forbidden to trade with the Jurchens.

All the other armies were being cut down, but only the navy army not only did not compendium, but instead recruited troops to expand, a decision that many people were puzzled and even opposed. They thought that the threats of the Great Song Dynasty came from land, not from the sea, and that the duty of the navy was only to investigate smuggling and eliminate the coastal bandits. However, on this issue, Zhao Ta showed a rare toughness, which can be said to be bent on going his own way, advocating the construction of a water army, and forcibly making a plan to reorganize the water army in the midst of opposition.

Although Cheng Xishou did not fully understand the intentions of the official family, in his opinion, even with the current scale, it was enough to sweep the naval armies of the surrounding countries and dominate the sea, but he had a blind trust in the official family like everyone else in the palace. How many people could believe that a down-and-out prince who was less than ten years old could build an invincible army and a rich business empire, and reach the pinnacle of power with his own struggle? And the facts often turn out to be right by surprise... (To be continued......)