Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Land of the East of the River

Three days later, the army marched to Zhengzhou, met with the 20,000 forbidden troops stationed there, and went to the northwest to reinforce the northwest.

The Song Dynasty implemented a conscription system, and family members lived in military camps. Song Taizu created the forbidden army to change the law, divided into the cantonment forbidden army, the garrison forbidden army and the food forbidden army, take turns to change the place, and the commander is the unit, usually for a period of three years at a time, the family is not allowed to accompany them, and they return to the original station when they expire, and select the strong soldiers to supplement the forbidden army at the upper level, and eliminate the old and weak soldiers to reduce the ban army or the box army or retire from the next level.

Most of them are sent to inland prefectures and prefectures, and are under the jurisdiction of local governors and governors. Local prefectures and governments have set up military and horse prisons or prisons, which are specifically responsible for the management, training, and dispatch of the garrison forbidden army and the box army, as well as local public security and the handling of military-civilian disputes. Later, the forbidden army increased greatly, and a large number of forbidden troops were stationed in a certain place in other places, and they were also sent to other places in accordance with the law of changing military forces, and returned to their original places for three years, two years, or one year.

Where it is changed to the border areas such as Hebei and Shaanxi, there is a local garrison deployment (capital governor) or deployment (general management), jurisdiction over the garrison of forbidden troops, with the nature of the border guards sent by the imperial court to the border areas, all military ministers are stationed or deployed, and the border affairs can be handled by themselves without consulting with the local governors such as Zhizhou.

The third way to move to other places is called the food ban army, and you can bring your family members to go, "those who go to the grain, the soldiers of the Beijing division will eat outside, so they listen to their families"; Forbidden troops stationed in other places can also "take food" in areas with abundant grain production, usually returning to their original camps after a bumper harvest or a grain problem has been solved in the original camp area, that is, where to go and where to eat. However, Hedong Road is not an area rich in food, but because of its proximity to Liaoxia and Xia, most states have grain ban armies, which is actually the same as stationing forbidden troops, because they can carry their families, which is conducive to stabilizing the military situation.

However, whether it is stationed, stationed, or barred for food, the forbidden army stationed in the same area usually does not belong to the same system, but belongs to each division; Even if they belong to the same division, they also belong to different number armies. In addition, they are respectively under the jurisdiction of the local governor Zhizhou, the deployment department of the local military organization, and the Ling jurisdiction, and the metropolitan supervisor and the prisoner are specifically responsible for each other, so as to achieve the role of mutual restraint.

Zhao Ta was helpless against this rule, that is, although these soldiers followed him, they had no subordinate relationship with him, and they still protected themselves nominally to strengthen their prestige. The march of 20,000 people is already very spectacular, and then mixed with family members, soldiers and civilians, the number of people has increased several times, if you march in a single column, the front troops have already camped, I am afraid that the people behind have not moved the place, some caravans have also seen the business opportunities, tens of thousands of people eat and drink is a large number, so they follow the ass behind the army security!

Looking at the long and slow procession, Zhao Ta panicked, listening to the adults shouting and the children crying, and although these people had soldiers to maintain order, there were still people who kept crashing into their marching team, although he was horizontal, he didn't dare and couldn't do anything to these women and children at this time, so he could only get into the carriage and come out of sight and out of mind!

The nearby states and counties saw the army crossing the border, closed the city gate early, sent people to put the grain and grass they needed outside the city gate, and the purchase was in vain with the certificate issued by the army, no matter how much they shouted, they no longer opened the door, looking at them like a thief, fortunately, there was a caravan to follow, otherwise they could only eat white rice and drink white water!

The camp was even more lively at night, and the military camp, which should have been quiet and solemn, became a vegetable market. Some shrewd family members are not idle, in the open space in the camp spread out stalls to sell some small commodities to the soldiers, the outside of the camp is even brighter, the various caravans set up tents, full of all kinds of goods, food, drink and clothing are all-inclusive, it can be said that only you can't think of it, you can't buy it without you! …,

Although the pro-army camp of the Economic Strategy Division has set up a separate camp, there are too many people around, and the smell of urine and the smell of mule and horse feces fills the entire camp. Zhao Ta is the highest commander here, and he is also the person with the highest military rank, but he can't do anything about it, he can only smile bitterly, the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army is so lazy that there is no help.

At dinner, the leader of the army into the northwest led the military attachés of all sizes to meet the prince, of course, gifts are indispensable, Zhao Ta, who was squatting in the sergeant pile to eat, only said two words of thanks, and asked them to bring them back, which made several people extremely embarrassed, and their hearts were even more bottomless, I don't know how the famous 'Hades' will toss them. But their worries seemed to be superfluous, three days later, one morning, the camp of the Jinglu Division suddenly left quietly alone without saying hello, only leaving more than a dozen military schools that had been beaten with military sticks at the door of their camp.

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After walking for three days with the Western Forbidden Army, not only Zhao Ta was tortured and couldn't stand it, but even everyone was driven crazy by the speed of the march of thirty miles a day, and if it went on like this, I was afraid that the year would have to pass on the road.

The speed of this march was much faster, everyone felt sorry for the prince, and in order to ensure his safety, they stuffed him into the carriage, in fact, the two old men rode the horse for a few days, and they couldn't stand it, but the prince didn't sit in the car, how could they be embarrassed! In the wide car, there are two people accompanied by Jianxi and Zhao Xin, there are two guards of Wu Song sitting on the wheel in front, and there is a guard holding a gun on the pedal behind him, safety is no problem, Zhao Ta pondered that if this is changed to a jeep, he will be the general of Patton!

Riding in a car is more comfortable than riding a horse, Zhao Ta is half lying on a thick felt mat, covered with a big coat, the brazier in the carriage is not cold, the red clay stove is boiling tea, there is a box full of books around him, he is holding the local chronicle, while reading and checking with the map hanging on the wall of the compartment, to understand where he is going...

The northwest frontier of the Song Dynasty was mainly Yanyan Road, Jingyan Road, Huanqing Road, Qinfeng Road, Xihe Road, Hedong Road and Hebei Road, which were named Yanzhou, Weizhou, Qingzhou, Qinzhou, Xizhou, Bingzhou and Daming Luzhi respectively. The northern military defense area is mainly Hebei and Hedong regions, and the two places have been military important places to resist the northern nomads since ancient times, the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu, the Northern Wei Dynasty and Rouran, the Sui and Tang Dynasties and the Turks, the Five Dynasties, the Song Dynasty and the Khitan all attacked and defended each other here. In the Song Dynasty, the strategic position of Hebei and Hedong regions was unprecedentedly improved compared with the past. Because the Northern Song Dynasty was not in the Guanzhong area where the mountains and rivers were solid in the past, nor was it in the Yiluo River Valley, which was heavily congested, but in Kaifeng City, which had convenient transportation but no danger, then the Hebei and Hedong regions replaced northern Shaanxi and Hexi as the most rear-back barrier to protect Gyeonggi.

Hedong Road "its east is Changshan, the west controls the party, the south ends up in Jin, Jiang, and the north controls Yun and Hu, when the danger of Taihang, there is salt and iron. "In addition to the north for the Khitan basis, the mountains and rivers are still relatively complete, mainly the landform of the combination of mountains and the Loess Plateau, and the regional differentiation is obvious, the east and west sides are mountains and plateaus, respectively, Taihang Mountain, Luliang Mountain as the main body, the middle is the river valley basin interspersed among them, since ancient times there is the reputation of "mountains and rivers in the surface". …,

Because the geographical environment of Hedong Road is intertwined with mountains and rivers, from north to south is the Hengshan Mountains in the north of Shanxi, the Xinding and Taiyuan basins in the middle of Jin, and the Linfen, Yuncheng and Shangdang basins in the south of Jin. Its national defense is commonly used to rely on the undulating mountains of the Beiheng Mountain Range to build pass fortresses, especially the four main communication channels from the Khitan invasion of the Jinzhong region, but also to select elite soldiers to refuse.

In the Song Dynasty, the Hedong region was mainly east of the Yellow River, roughly equivalent to most of Shanxi Province and Shaanxi, and governed the three prefectures of Taiyuan, Longde, and Pingyang, and the fourteen prefectures of Dai, Xin, Xian, Feng, Fu, Lin, Lan, Shi, Xi, Ci, Fen, Jiang, Liao, and Ze, and the eight armies of Ninghua, Baode, Volcano, Jinning, Pingding, and Weide.

Luzhi Taiyuan Mansion controls the mountains and rivers, stands on the shoulders of the world, is the root of the east of the river, and looks down at Chang'an to say Kaifeng, only hundreds of miles, and the ancient and modern must fight for the place. Song Taiping rejuvenated the country for four years, after Song Renzong destroyed the Northern Han Dynasty, he destroyed the old city and relocated to build a new city, thinking that the northern important town "controlled and strangled the Liao people, and the Xia people". Taiyuan Mansion is divided into east and west roads to the south, and Fenzhou Avenue can go to Pingyang Mansion and Jiangzhou to control the two basins of Linfen and Yuncheng to the southwest, and then go to Yongxing Military Road to attack Guanzhong. Taiyuan Mansion to the southeast is the southeast avenue, through the Tuanbai Town, Dawei Shengjun to govern Tongba County, and then south to Ze, Luzhou Shangdang area. Due to the eastward shift of the economic and political center of the Tang and Song dynasties, the southeast road connecting the Hedong region prospered, and Ze and Luzhou also became the key points and the focus of military contention between the Central Plains and Hedong. And since then, the southeast piercing path can reach Xiangzhou, and the northeast can also meet with the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain through Huguan. To the south of Longde Mansion is the Tianjing Pass in Zezhou, and you can go to Mengjin Port to cross the river.

Zhao Ta's finger crossed the map, directly crossed these areas, and stayed in the northern Shaanxi region, where there is only a little fingernail of Linzhou, Fuzhou and Fengzhou, but here is the junction of the Song, Liao, and Western Xia three kingdoms, its west and north are the territory of Western Xia, and the northeast is across the river and the Liao State's Dongshengzhou and Wuzhou, which is the intersection of the borders of the three kingdoms, and it is also the only way for the Western Xia to invade Hedong.