Chapter 289: People (Four Watches)
"Yes! None of those who were dragged out to fight came back! Jiang Shuisheng remembered and said in surprise, "We all saw reinforcements." ”
"A person without roots is more than auspicious!" Lin Nanzheng sighed, "It's been a few months, and I haven't heard from them." ”
Han Baohu smashed Lin Nanzheng with his elbow, if you don't speak, no one will treat you as a dumb person! It's really a pot that can't be opened.
"What are you doing with me?" Lin Nanzheng tilted his head slightly, looked at him inexplicably, and said.
"Don't shout." Han Baohu glanced at him angrily and said.
"And what do you want to say?" Lin Nanzheng raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at him, and said in a low voice.
"Don't talk about catching strong men." Han Baohu muttered quietly.
"Why?" Lin Nanzheng looked at him with puzzled eyes and said.
"Because many of our family members here have been arrested and dragged to the battlefield, and they don't know if they live or die." Hong Lianshuo's dark eyes looked at the two of them and shook his head slightly, "Including, father, father-in-law and grandson." ”
"Uh......" Lin Nanzheng looked at them with his mouth open, "Me? ”
"You're telling the truth." Hong Lianshuo looked at him gently and said, "There's nothing to shy away from." He deliberately added, "You don't need to mess with other people's southern expeditions." ”
Han Baohu, who was exposed, scratched his head embarrassedly, "You continue." ”
Hong Lianshuo smiled when he heard this, "That is, we are farmers now who carry the hoe, and we are farmers who carry the big knife." ”
"The integration of soldiers and peasants." Lin Nanzheng's phoenix eyes lit up, looked at her and said.
"The advantages and disadvantages of this kind of integration of soldiers and farmers are obvious." Hong Lianshuo looked at them with dark eyes and said, "There is a way to raise soldiers for a thousand days and use them for a while. Training on weekdays, and when using troops, you can quickly assemble a group of troops with high combat effectiveness. However, the disadvantage is also obvious, with the current road conditions, light takes time on the road. The transfer of young and middle-aged people will certainly affect the agricultural season and increase the burden on the peasants. ”
"This is something that cannot be ignored, especially since we are few people." Han Baohu said keenly, "People are wrong for a while, people are wrong for a year, and there is not enough food and grass, how can this be fought?" ”
"The advantages of the conscription system are obvious, it can reduce the burden of military service on the peasants, save the consumption on the road, and concentrate on training and combat effectiveness is relatively strong!" Lin Nanzheng thought about it when he heard this, looked at them and said.
"And what about the disadvantages?" Sixi's eyes turned around with dripping eyes.
"Downside?" Jiang Shuisheng thought about it carefully and said, "If this and that general goes to recruit troops, then he must first recruit his own people, that is, relatives and fellow villagers, which is easy to hold together and is not conducive to unity." ”
"Then who will recruit if you don't recruit yourself! I have the same accent, so I don't have to be unintelligible. Chen Zhong said as a matter of course.
Hong Lianshuo snapped his fingers, looked at them with bright eyes and said, "That's right, but its biggest fatal flaw is that this group of people get together, as long as the control of the imperial court declines, it is easy to turn into a private army, and finally lead to the division of feudal towns and wars." ”
"Ahh Ye Yunyu stroked the broken hair around her ears, "Then what should I do?" ”
"The integration of soldiers and farmers is a perfect fit for us now. In peacetime, everyone farms, and when they fight, they prepare their own clothes, food, knives and guns. Heavy equipment such as horses, bows, crossbows, and armor were uniformly issued by the imperial court. Hong Lianshuo raised his index finger and said, "The advantage of this is that there are few people and strong labor, and farming in peacetime and serving as a soldier in wartime is indeed conducive to agriculture and can also reduce the burden on the imperial court." He pursed his lips and looked at them and said, "But the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, in the middle of the dynasty, because of the serious land annexation, it will be easy to go bankrupt if the army and agriculture are combined." So it was popular in the early part of a dynasty. ”
Hong Lianshuo looked at them with dark eyes and said, "What kind of military system is used by various dynasties is not immutable, it is basically two words: practical!" ”
"You've said you're a pragmatist." Han Baohu looked at her with a torch in his eyes and said.
"It's not just me, it's everyone else. Know Qin Zhao's Battle of Changping! Hong Lianshuo looked at them with inky eyes and said.
"I know, Bai Qikeng killed 400,000 soldiers of Zhao State." Jiang Shuisheng immediately said when he heard this.
Hong Lianshuo's dark and bright eyes looked at them and said, "And as I said just now, Qin Law stipulates that only men over seventeen can join the army, but the Battle of Changping forced King Qin Zhao to be anxious, and children over the age of fifteen in Hanoi were pushed up. ”
"And now that they are born in the water, when they joined the army, they were not very old, and many of them were child soldiers, and they were directly pulled to the battlefield." Hong Lianshuo's deep dark eyes looked at them and said, "Grab the strong men in a big way, no matter what kind of military system you have, let's get enough first." ”
"They don't even have the simplest training, and if they are sent to the battlefield, they will undoubtedly be sent to death." Han Baohu frowned tightly and said, "The combat effectiveness can be imagined. ”
"So! No matter what kind of military system, it is certainly not the reason for the strength of the dynasty, nor the main reason for its decline. Hong Lianshuo looked at them sharply and said, "Any military system can build a strong dynasty, and any military system can make a dynasty perish." ”
"Then why?" Han Baohu looked at her suspiciously and asked.
"There are many reasons for this, such as lax military discipline, lax armaments, corruption no less than temples, military salaries being deducted from officers, and widespread corruption. Now most of the soldiers are displaced people who are forced to enlist in the army for the sake of stuttering, second-rate people, prisoners who have committed crimes, soldiers are mostly low, and the barracks are also full of three religions and nine streams. There was no military discipline at all, and the soldiers were loose and slack, and they were negligent in their combat readiness. There are a lot of vices, and soldiers and bandits are rampant. It is simply too much to read, Hong Lianshuo said casually, "As far as the army is concerned, soldiers do not know generals, generals do not know soldiers, and they are stronger than weak branches." ”
"Which general isn't with the soldiers every day?" Lin Nanzheng said without thinking about it, "Besides, no matter which emperor would dare to use generals like this." It is easy to recognize only the general, not the emperor, and support the army with self-respect. The generals will not be subject to foreign military orders, in case the head of the gun is aimed at their own emperor, I think no matter which emperor can not sleep well. ”
"It's not all when there is a war, the emperor sends the generals out, and after the battle, the military power, the tiger talisman will be withdrawn, and it will be returned to the court." Han Baohu's brown Tong Ren said slightly, "This is a difficult problem, it's really hard to solve, trust is too fragile." didn't sow discord, and he returned the bow and snake shadow! Not to mention that people with intentions deliberately resort to discord. ”
"So! In terms of the military system, the conscription system, the conscription system, the conscription system, and the integration of soldiers and peasants. Hong Lianshuo looked at them with deep and upright eyes and said, "No system is the fundamental reason why a dynasty is strong, and there is no system that is the most successful. ”