On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the common people are still enjoying the last two days of the Lantern Festival.

Because there has been no Beijing inspection for many years, after the change of dynasty, the number of Beijing officials is a little excessive, and the pandas of the Ministry of Officials are continuing to work overtime in the small black room with the dark circles under their eyes that have been boiling for half a month.

It is estimated that it will take a few days, and if the officials do not finish their work, the Jingcha on the civilian side will not be able to continue.

However, the military reform of the three major battalions operated by the military ministers is about to be successfully implemented.

The reason for this is very simple, this round of reform is a demotion or a loss of black hats for civil officials, and for military ministers, it is a redivision of the interest cake, and the enthusiasm is naturally different.

And there is also one thing involved, that is, the so-called "bad name is not good".

After the Battle of Jingnan, the Ming Dynasty's five military governors changed from the Hongwu founding nobles to the Jingnan nobles who suddenly jumped to a high position, and Jiang Xinghuo's proposal for the restructuring of the three major battalions in Beijing was very much in line with the interests of the Yan army and the Jingnan nobles.

Because of this change, it is logical to pinch the core military power of the Ming Dynasty in his own hands.

In the same way, this is also in Zhu Di's interests.

Therefore, on the day when the reform of the three major camps in Beijing began the last round of high-level discussions, and then the system was about to be formally formed, Jiang Xinghuo, as one of the few civil officials, was also invited to attend the discussion.

In fact, except for Jiang Xinghuo and half of the military minister Ru Yu (although he is a secretary of the military department but has the title of earl), the other civil officials involved, even the two squire-level bigwigs of the military department, can only listen and cannot speak.

Today's meeting hall of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies was packed, and the generals in helmets and armor lined up all the way outside.

These generals generally have the rank of major general, but there are also a few lieutenant generals, all of whom are observers and have no qualifications to go to the table for discussion.

Of course, no one requires them to be neatly draped, and it's not impossible to wear a big cotton jacket, but the workers are afraid of involution, just like no one strictly requires them to wear formal clothes on the occasion of a formal meeting, but the low-level workers will definitely be afraid that others will wear it themselves, so it will become a little green among the flowers?

If the emperor sees it at a glance and writes it down, the future will be ruined.

And for the fierce generals of the Yan army who often go out to fight in the snow, what is the matter with standing in armor for a few hours? It is necessary to start the new year to leave a good impression on the above.

Under this kind of involution, even some of the second and third generations of nobles who have become embroidered pillows have to endure the cold and weight at this time, and put on heavy armor that starts at forty pounds at every turn.

"Hello national teacher!"

For Jiang Xinghuo, the welcoming attitude of the nobles was very positive and warm.

Because the national teachers not only give them benefits, but also really give money!

But all the noble and military ministers who contributed money to participate in the initial investment in overseas trade did not say that their family did not have a fat year during the Chinese New Year this year.

And with the return of Luzon and other battles, the rewards were given, which also made more depressed generals begin to consider transforming into sailors or sailors to find a new future for development.

After all, it is very necessary to change the iterative play style of the track and consider the new blue ocean industry.

"Hello colleagues."

Jiang Xinghuo deliberately wore a unicorn suit as a sign of respect, with a straight posture and a forest of trees.

In the conference hall, Ru Yu, who was silently sitting on a chair and looking at the ceiling in a daze, looked at Jiang Xinghuo enviously.

Shi Kui, the right attendant of the military department, is a very famous Qing official, but he is more rigid in dealing with people, so he really turned his head and asked Qiao Wen, the left attendant next to him, "Why don't we have this treatment." ”

"Alas"

Qiao Wen sighed and only said, "Don't invite people to see you." ”

It's almost all here.

At the end of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, Li Jinglong, the Duke of Cao, was the emperor in Annan, Xu Huizu, the Duke of Wei, drank the northwest wind in Beijing, and the remaining princes, in order of seat, were Zhu Neng, Duke of Qi, Qiu Fu, Duke of Rongguo, Yao Guangxiao, and Duke Xu Jingchang. The first two are the actual chief and deputy of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, the old monk was in charge of military logistics and overall planning in the past, and Xu Jingchang is the God of Wealth in the current military.

As for the marquis, the Marquis of Hongwu, with the death of Geng Bingwen, Marquis of Changxing, and Guo Ying, Marquis of Wuding, it has withered completely, and those who came are all the marquis of the second and third generations who stand aside, belonging to the group of people who were officially cut off the cake of power today, and they have no right to speak, Marquis of Anlu, Marquis of Fengxiang, Marquis of Luancheng, etc., are now sitting in the corner silently, although they have the right to speak, but they must be slaughtered by others and dare not speak out.

No way, who let the Southern Army lose? The strength is not worthy of the position, so it is an excellent ending to keep the glory and wealth, and no matter how much you have, you don't have to ask for it, which is why An Luhou will decisively abandon the pawn and protect the commander in the Lianghuai salt tax case.

And those who can say a few words, but have little right to speak, are the marquis of Jingnan Xunguili.

These include Si'en Hou Fangkuan, who represents the Daning lineage, Li Yuan, the Marquis of Anping, who represents the Ulzhou lineage, and Wang Cong, the Marquis of Jing'an, who represents the Shui Shi, and Wang Cong, the Marquis of Wucheng, who represents the water division.

In addition, it is the marquis of the Yan military lineage and the Hebei lineage, the two are actually the relationship between the dragon time, and there must be a difference between far and near in Zhu Di's heart, but from the outside, it is basically one, including Yongkang Hou Xu Zhong, Wu'an Hou Zheng Heng, Chengyang Hou Zhang Wu, Tong'an Hou Huoli Huozhen, Taining Hou Chen Qi, Cheng'an Hou Guo Liang and several others.

In general, on the Wuchen side, the dukes who can make a decision say a few more words, the marquis of Jingnan, as the representative, say a few words, the marquis of Hongwu shut up, and the other counts all listen to the side.

Not long after, Zhu Di also arrived.

Zhu Di was also dressed in military uniform at this time, his face was full of murderous aura, and he walked with a tigerish style, which was daunting.

Coming to the front of the princes of the country, Zhu Di lifted his skirt armor and sat upright in the first place, his eyes were like electricity, and he was majestic, and after sweeping the generals in the hall, a cold light flashed in his eyes.

"Everyone, Aiqing!"

Zhu Di shouted in a deep voice: "At today's meeting, I intend to reform the system, establish a Beijing camp, and want to implement a new system!" In the past, some of the systems had to be abolished, and in the future, the new rules will be followed, and it has been agreed today that if anyone dares to break the rules in the future, they will be severely punished and will not be tolerated. ”

All the generals praised in unison: "Your Majesty is wise! ”

Under the intervention of Jiang Xinghuo, the reform of the military system in Beijing was much earlier than the historical line of the previous life, the previous life was completed in Yongle, set in Renxuan, and scattered in Baozong, but in essence, there is not much difference, they are all emerging military nobles, in order to get their own interests from the hands of the founding heroes, this is the general trend, and it is only a matter of time before or too long to carry out military reform.

Moreover, after more than 30 years of evolution, the military system set by Hongwu when he founded the country in the past is indeed no longer suitable for the current situation.

Anyway, now that Zhu Di has made up his mind, he must have seen through something.

Zhu Di nodded and continued: "Let Cheng Guogong say it." ”

As the mainstay of the Ming military circles, Zhu Neng, the Duke of Chengguo, is young, senior, and capable, and is the absolute first person in the Ming military circles in the next few decades, and it is natural for him to preside over the reform of the military system.

The report in front of Zhu Neng is very long, because this meeting is very important, although I have basically said hello and passed the breath before, but it cannot be completely regarded as a formality, the content to be prepared is extremely complicated, and the situation of competing interests will inevitably occur.

Zhu Neng said slowly: "The role of the three major battalions of the Beijing camp is similar to that of the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty, but it is not exactly the same, it is more used for the garrison center, as a reserve for strategic decisive battles, and it is also required to assume the responsibilities of the field corps. ”

"The reason why we plan to establish Jingying is because according to the founding system of the Hongwu Dynasty, that is, the system of the Wei Institute, there are indeed some shortcomings."

"According to the principle of separating the soldiers and generals who go out to fight in the guard system, the military households are responsible for the reclamation and training in their respective guard posts when there is no war on weekdays, and when the time comes, they are called to the designated assembly place and handed over to the command of the generals sent by the Governor's Office of the Five Armies."

Well, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is still the Song Dynasty's "soldiers don't know the generals and don't know the soldiers", but it's not so outrageous, under the system of the guard, the middle-level and grass-roots officers still lead the troops, but the high-level generals usually don't contact them, and the advantage of this system design is that a little bit of people will be mentioned, and a guard, at most, is about 5,000 people, even if they are really familiar, 5,000 people can rebel or what? Impossible.

In an area, there is basically only one guard stationed, and there is no contact with other brother guards on weekdays, and these military households are essentially no different from peasants, and information and communication are very closed, and if there is no joint combat mission, it is normal to not see soldiers from other guards for more than ten years or even a lifetime.

"However, the drawback of the conscription system of the guard station lies in the fact that tasks involving tens of thousands of people, such as exercises and coordinated operations in military formations, cannot be achieved by a single 100 households, 1,000 households, or even a full number of guards, and once a large corps of 100,000 or hundreds of thousands of people is hastily put into battle, it will cause extremely serious command imbalance and disjointed coordination."

Hearing Zhu Neng's words, none of the generals present showed disapproving looks.

Because although Zhu Neng didn't say much, he really made sense of every sentence, and almost couldn't delete a word.

-- These are all lessons learned from blood and the shortcomings of the system.

The simplest question is, why in the early and middle stages of the Jingnan Campaign, the large corps of the Southern Army was 450,000 people at every turn, and the Yan Army was more than 100,000 people but could not win?

The reason is what Zhu Neng said.

One of the command problems that the large corps of the Southern Army, whether Geng Bingwen, Li Jinglong, or He Fu, could overcome was that the quality of the various armies was seriously uneven, and they were extremely lacking in the ability and awareness of joint operations.

There are more than 5,000 guards for one guard, and more than 500,000 people are 100 guards!

Think about it, a hundred guards transferred from various places in the north and south of the world, they have never met at all, they speak with different accents, they are used to different tactics, you are the commander, how do you coordinate? Just thinking about it makes my head blow up.

In fact, the simplest example is that for ordinary modern people, you don't understand that you have to command 100 atomized military units in a timely and accurate manner on a battlefield dozens of miles wide, under the accumulation of massive information, relying on war intuition and extremely stretched communication conditions, and timely and accurately command 100 atomized military units to fight?

And what about the Yan army on the other side?

The main forces of the Yan army on the opposite side are the Yanshan and Daning systems, and the surrendered Hebei and Ulzhou departments are responsible for filling in the line and fighting, while the armies of the Yanshan and Daning systems are not only second to none in combat quality, with tacit understanding, but also extremely mobile ability.

This resulted in every strategic decisive battle, the tactics of the Yan army were actually the same - let the infantry of the Hebei and Ulzhou systems and the infantry cavalry of the Daning system be responsible for the frontal defense, these armies were commanded by Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng and Qiu Fu respectively, and then when the battlefield was fully developed, Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu led the elite cavalry of the Yanshan system and the Mongolian Tatar officials to break through from the flank.

The routine is very simple, but so many generals of the Southern Army can't break the trick from the beginning.

The reason is not that the coach can't see through it, but that the tactics are set, and the players can't implement them.

Because if you want to catch the Yan army with strong mobility, the southern army, which is dominated by infantry, must conduct an imminent decisive battle in the field, so it must maintain a certain frontal width, otherwise there are too many people to spread out at all, and hundreds of thousands of people need at least a dozen miles of front.

Spreading out the width of the battlefield means that one wing of the left and right flanks will be broken through by the Yan army's elite cavalry, and then threaten the Chinese army around its back.

With such a wide battlefield, hundreds of thousands of people are crammed together, all of them are temporarily gathered together, and most of the Wei, who have never cooperated before, and even most of the Wei, who are extremely inexperienced in warfare, under the communication conditions of extreme crotch pulling, once they are surrounded by the elite of the Yan army, and the front cannot break through the main force of the Yan army, it will inevitably collapse.

Zhending and Zhengcunba all fought like this.

Later, during the Battle of Baigou River, Li Jinglong pondered hard and came up with a countermeasure, that is, to let a small number of elite cavalry such as Songpan Jingcai also wrap around the back of the Yan army, which directly led to the Battle of Baigou River When the battle of Baigou River reached the most difficult moment, the vitality of the Daning Department in charge of the rear was greatly injured, and many middle and high-level generals were seriously injured or killed.

Everything tactical converter looks simple, doesn't it? However, in the era of cold weapons, being able to organize and coordinate a force of tens of thousands of people to break away from the rear on the battlefield for tactical detours is really something that only top famous generals can do, and there are very few troops that can execute, and there must be years of cooperation and actual combat training to achieve this effect.

As for the later stage of Jingnan, Yan Jun's routine was indeed basically ineffective.

These are two reasons, the first reason is that with the acceleration of the war process, a large number of Southern Army units have completed the process of washing the sand in the big waves, and the degree of cooperation between each other has increased, or those who will not cooperate with friendly forces have basically been eliminated naturally; The second reason is that the Yan army shifted from strategic defense to strategic offensive, and in the later period, the Yan army took the initiative to attack, and the southern army was in a defensive state, so there was no need for too wide a front to surround the Yan army (there were not so many troops to carry out two-wing encirclement operations), and while the battle line was shortened, it also began to use vehicle formations and firearms troops to deal with the detour of the cavalry, and the defense effect was very good.

Whether it was Dezhou, Gaocheng, or Jiahe, the cavalry of the Yan army did not get any bargain in a roundabout, and even hit their heads several times, causing them to lose many generals.

When it came to the battle of the Xianghe River in the fourth year of Jianwen, the Yan army fiercely led Wang Zhen and Bai Yi and Liu Jiang to carry out long-distance maneuvers, but they fell into the trap of peace, and the reinforcements were blocked by the southern army, Wang Zhen and others were besieged heavily, and their people shouted "I am righteous and do not die the enemy" and committed suicide.

Wang Zhen's death means that the tactics of the Yan army have basically been ineffective against the southern army that is the king in the shell of the turtle, but it has become as much as you can give in, and directly lost the confidence of all the generals of the Yan army, including Zhu Di.

At that time, all the generals persuaded Zhu Di to withdraw his troops, because the logistics supply line behind the enemy line could be cut off at any time, and the army's grain and grass would be exhausted immediately, and now the field war could not gnaw the southern army, and if he did not withdraw, the whole army might collapse.

Zhu Neng assured Zhu Di that he would definitely be able to iterate on tactics and come up with a solution, so Zhu Di scolded him sharply, and the generals did not dare to say anything more.

Later, Zhu Neng really changed his tactics, relying on the "firearms + heavy infantry" to defeat the silver medal army of the Ping'an Department head-on, and defeated Chen Hui, the governor who came to the rescue, which led to the later decisive battle of Lingbi, which is why the cavalry generals of the Yan Army obviously looked down on firearms, but there were really few objections to the use of firearms.

Two words, it's so fragrant!

Five words, who uses who knows!

Looking back at history and looking at the present, everyone knows that if you want to win the war, the system of defense will definitely not work.

What if there is no guard?

"Therefore, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies tentatively decided to change some of the military systems of the Nation and the DPRK, establish the system of three battalions in Beijing in the center, and set up the system of hanging seals in the frontier, while the interior will still maintain the system of guards."

The system of chief officers is not unexpected, because it is already the default current system.

Ningxia General Military Officer Ningyuan Hou He Fu, Gansu General Military Officer Xining Hou Song Sheng, Liaodong General Military Officer Baoding Hou Mengshan

During the Hongwu Dynasty, in addition to the Sai kings responsible for guarding the frontier, Lao Zhu often sent noble military ministers to the areas where the non-Sai kings were stationed, and in the current Yongle Dynasty period, in order to replace the system of the Sai king's border guarding, it also formed a situation in which the key areas were responsible for the overall armament of the town guard chief military officer.

Therefore, the most concerned issue of the noble and military ministers is the three major battalions of the Beijing camp.

Once the Beijing camp is formed, it must be the so-called forbidden army, which is the core component of the entire Ming army.

In the past, it was not that there was no such proposal, but Lao Zhu was afraid that if the story of the Five Dynasties was like the story of the Five Dynasties, he would come up with a matter of "checking to be the Son of Heaven", and it was not allowed to set up a Beijing camp of this nature similar to the former division of the Five Dynasties Palace.

But there are dozens of guards around the Jingshi, and there is indeed one thing that is different from the other guards, that is, they share the training ground.

"Daming Huidian" contains "the system of the Beijing camp of the national dynasty, and the main training is in the Beijing official army...... At the beginning of the country, large and small teaching fields were established to train the soldiers of the five armies (not the five military camps, referring to the subordinates of the five armies). ”

But that's about it.

Until the fourth year of Jianwen, when the Yan army went south, Emperor Jianwen only asked Xu Huizu, the Duke of Wei, to lead the Beijing division and Zhuwei to aid Shandong, which was very different from the same command, training, staff and logistics unit as the Beijing camp.

After the Battle of Jingjing, Zhu Di left the main force of the Yan army, which was his closest trust, in Nanjing, and returned to garrison some troops from Beiping and Daning, but there was still no unified Beijing camp.

In fact, in Jiang Xinghuo's previous life, it was Yongle six years when he mobilized 80,000 internal and external horse infantry troops to tour Beijing in the north, the whole army was divided into the front army and the fifth army, Yongle seven years because Qiu Fu was wiped out in Mobei, Zhu Di had no commander to use and had to personally march north, so he sent a total of 85,000 soldiers and horses from all the capitals to Beijing to join the expedition, adding up to 160,000 or 170,000 people, forming the Northern Expedition Army, that is, the Beijing Battalion.

For example, Chen Mao, the chief military officer of Ningxia who succeeded him after Ho Fu, recorded in the history books that "the town will be returned in the winter of the eleventh year, and in the spring of the twelfth year, the prince will still be the general of the left army, and the town will be returned to the town next year." In the spring of the twentieth year, he went on a northern expedition, and the army was returned to Beijing with the troops of the Gong Division.

After the end of the Second Northern Expedition, the foreign armies were also disbanded and returned to their hometowns, so the Third Northern Expedition needed to transfer troops into Beijing again, and then the three Northern Expeditions were launched year after year, and the vast majority of the foreign troops were never repatriated.

The reason why it is said that the three major battalions of the Beijing camp are "formed in Yongle and set in Renxuan" is because after the first two northern expeditions, the troops were disbanded and defended, and even the elite troops before the drive were not retained, but the last three northern expeditions were launched in three consecutive years, and the army was stationed in Beijing, and it was too late to disband and return to the guard, and with the death of Zhu Di in Yumuchuan, Renxuan ascended the throne one after another within a year, and there were internal and external troubles.

The most obvious example is that if it were not a battle in the "Records of Taizong of the Ming Dynasty", there would definitely be no names of the three major battalions, and the later records would appear frequently, that is, the three major battalions of the Beijing battalion began to become permanent institutions, and from the first year of Xuande, a total of 80,000 soldiers from Henan, Shandong, Daning, Zhongdu, Zhongdu, Zhili Huaiyang, and other guards and Xuanfu sergeants were transferred to Beijing for exercises.

"What about the three major battalions of the Beijing camp?"

At this time, without waiting for Zhu Neng to answer, Zhu Di said lightly: "According to the old system." ”

In just five words, it can be regarded as setting the tone for the meeting, and it also broke the only remaining hope of the Hongwu nobles.

What is the old system? To put it bluntly, it is the old military system of the Yan army.

And this so-called "old", if you trace it carefully, it is actually a matter of four or five years, at the beginning of Beiping was besieged, Zhu Di ran thousands of miles to attack Daning, incorporated the army of the Daning system, and then reorganized, at that time ordered Zhang Yu to lead the Chinese army, Zheng Heng, He Shouchong left and right deputy generals of the Chinese army, Zhu Neng to lead the left army, Zhu Rong, Li Ruichong left and right deputy generals of the left army used the five army system in the front and back, left and right, in fact, it is the set of the five armies governor's mansion.

Later, with the acceleration of the war, a large-scale exchange of soldiers began, and the system began to be adjusted.

As I said before, the Yan army won in the early and middle stages of Jingjing, relying on the detour of the elite cavalry, this elite cavalry commanded by Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu is also famous, the whole process is called "Da Xuxia 3,000 Small Tartar Battalion", this is the original name, well, it is the later 3,000 battalion. In fact, in the middle of the Jingyan Campaign, the establishment swelled so much that there were far more than 3,000 people, and some of them became the current loyal and righteous guards.

Although it doesn't sound good to say, but in fact, due to the serious Huization in the north, the Yan army really did the long-distance detour of this kind of knife edge licking blood, basically the Tatar officials who were attached to the Sinicization and Sinicization, of course, there are also some Yan Han'er, but objectively speaking, the Mongolian Tatar officials accounted for the majority, which is also the fundamental reason why the Wenchen of the Jianwen Dynasty always promoted the argument of "another Mongol invasion of the south" in the war.

However, the elite cavalry does have a high proportion of Mongols, but in addition, seventy or eighty percent of the Yan army is still Han, which is not quite the same as the nature of the Yan army in the Anshi Rebellion.

In addition to the 3,000 battalions, it is the main five army battalions, as well as the sentry horse battalion in charge of scouts.

In the fourth year of Jianwen, when the Yan army entered Nanjing, when discussing the merits of Jingjing, the Yan army was divided into five military battalions, three thousand battalions, sentry horse battalions, defending the city and other miscellaneous categories, and the three battalions were the first to take shape.

As for the reform of the three major battalions, in Jiang Xinghuo's previous life, when Zhu Di went on his first northern expedition, he used the system of 3,000 battalions, sentry horse battalions and five army sentry posts, which were basically the same as the Jingnan system, and could be regarded as a complete inheritance, but the five army camps were changed to the Chinese army, sentry and sentry that were more conducive to command; By the time of the Second Northern Expedition, it was a little more complicated, the whole army was divided into 3,000 battalions, Shenji guns, Daqi battalion horse team and sentry horse officer army, weijiman, young officer and young army and flag drummer, horse infantry officer army of the fifth army, herald battalion, Sheren and other logistics, subordinate officers and soldiers, the establishment was very complicated, and the Shenji gunner led by Liu Sheng was in the second Northern Expedition of the battle of Hulan and Sudden Hypothermia, which gave the Shenji Battalion the opportunity to be established separately later; The Third Northern Expedition is clearly recorded, "When the camp is in formation, the big camp is in the center, and the five armies are stationed outside the camp, including the left post, the right post, the left sentry, and the right sentry." The infantry army is inside, the cavalry is outside, the Shenji battalion is outside the cavalry, and there is a long perimeter outside the Shenji battalion, each week is 20 miles", and there are officially three major battalions, namely the Shenji battalion, the five military battalions, and the three thousand battalions.

Sure enough, since there is Jiang Xinghuo as a traverser, there is no need to grope so slowly, this time it can be regarded as a one-step approach.

"The Beijing camp has three major battalions, including three thousand battalions, five military battalions, and the Shenji battalion."

"In the first version of the system, the 3,000 battalions have four guards, the Shenji battalion has two guards, and the five military battalions have 30 guards, with a total of 36 guards and 201,600 people."

(End of chapter)