In the past year's troop establishment table, the main force of the Yan army was allocated to the establishment of the military capital of Beizhili, but it was actually stranded in the south for a long time.

There are a total of 61 guards under the command of the military capital governor's mansion left behind, with a total of 345,418 people, and in the north of Zhili, except for some soldiers and horses left behind in the old nest, they are basically old, weak, sick and disabled, and the real essence is the main force of the 230,000 Yan army in the south.

According to the meaning of this three-battalion system table of the Beijing battalion, it is to continue to select the best among the best, with the main force of the Yan Army as the main body, and reorganize into a field mobile corps of 200,000 people.

"The Beijing battalion is mainly responsible for the three major responsibilities of garrison, intensive training, and field warfare."

"The garrison, that is, as the garrison of Beizhili, undertakes the border defense from Xuanfu in the west to Shanhaiguan in the east and the city defense of Shuntianfu."

"Intensive training is to transfer the non-commissioned officers of the entire northern defense line to the Beijing battalion in turn for training, combat readiness, exercises, and expeditions through the system of drills, shifts, dispatches, and selections, and then carry out the next round of shifts to improve the overall ability to cooperate with operations, and at the same time send qualified soldiers to the northern defense line, of which the expenses are all allocated from the military expenses of the Beijing battalion, so as to avoid the lack of firearms and consumable equipment in the localities, resulting in unfamiliar equipment mastery and low combat effectiveness."

"Field warfare is to serve as the main field cluster and core force on the nine northern sides to deter and destroy the enemy."

"Ahem. The following is answered by Qi Guogong for you. ”

This arrangement can be seen to be very ingenious, and the person presiding over the meeting is Zhu Neng, who is actually the first person in the army today.

After Zhu Neng introduced the military reform plan, it was the veteran Qiu Fu who was responsible for answering questions.

Qiu Fu, this year has been over the age of sixtieth, in the early years as a pawn, followed Zhu Di several times to the north, because of the courage of the battle and never compete with others for credit, Zhu Di with his years of hard work, awarded the Yan Mountain to guard thousands of households, cited as a confidant, to the first year of Jianwen Zhu Di raised troops, and Zhu Neng, Zhang Yu first captured the nine gates of Beiping, and Geng Bingwen's army fought in Zhending, Jianwen two years and Li Jinglong fought in the Baigou River, led the soldiers to smash the Chinese army's later Jiahe, Lingbi and other battles, the field did not fall, and the entire Jingjing was full.

"People don't accept the old, and they beat the old Huang Zhong", which is Qiu Fu.

This kind of veteran general, when evaluating the merits of Jingnan, ranks first among all military generals, and is the first nominal military minister.

It's just that Qiu Fu began to manage the military academy in the past two years, unloaded a lot of errands in the army, and handed over the work of presiding over the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies to Zhu Neng, and no longer showed up too much, but these did not affect Qiu Fu's prestige in the army at all.

As Zhu Gaoxu's staunchest and most heavyweight supporter, under the influence of Zhu Gaoxu, Qiu Fu has always been supportive of the reform, and since the reform in the army is in line with his own interests and the Ulzhou faction attached to him, there is naturally no reason to oppose it.

Qiu Fu glanced at the silent Zhu Di and said to the marquis.

"Ask whatever you want."

Since the marquises were given a chance to speak, then this time must be asked.

Li Yuan, the Marquis of Anping of the Ulzhou Department, picked up a less important topic at this time and asked: "I heard Cheng Guogong mention a word just now, the northern nine sides, what does 'nine sides' mean?" ”

Many modern people are familiar with a word called "Chuanshou Jiubian", which refers to the fact that in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, if an official such as a governor or a general soldier committed a crime, he would have to get his head off and then let his head tour around the nine sides.

But at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, because there were eight great Sai kings guarding the northern frontier, there was no such concept.

In fact, Jiubian, also known as Jiuzhen, is the nine military towns set up in the north along the defense line of the Great Wall, this concept did not appear until the Hongzhi period, and it can appear now, naturally it is Jiang Xinghuo's institutional design.

At this time, Jiang Xinghuo observed the reactions of the military ministers with great interest, highlighting the deep hidden merit and fame.

Qiu Fu slowly explained: "From east to west, the nine sides are Liaodong Town, Beijing Town, Xuanfu Town, Datong Town, Shanxi Town, Yulin Town, Ningxia Town, Shaanxi Town, and Gansu Town. ”

A lot of people immediately realize that this is an interesting idea.

According to the current actual situation, Liaodong Town, Ningxia Town, and Gansu Town, it is obvious that the three marquis have not run away as the chief military officer of the town.

And the rest, it's worth exploring.

Beijing Town, Xuanfu Town, are the jurisdiction of the North Zhili, belong to the two key areas of the Beijing garrison, Beijing needless to say, Xuanfu is an important advance base for the expedition to Mobei, Tumubao is here in Xuanfu, there is no problem with a separate town.

And Yulin Town, in fact, is Hetao plus northern Shaanxi, this area is very broad, in the past in the Northern Wei Dynasty six towns period is Woye, Huaishuo, Wuchuan and other military towns garrisoned area, Gao Huan, Yuwentai, He Bayue, Li Hu, Yang Zhong, Zhao Gui, Hou Mo Chen Chong. The heroes and heroes who influenced the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasty and even the later Northern Zhou and Northern Qi dynasties and even the Sui and Tang dynasties all came out of this land.

Therefore, it is also very necessary to set up Yulin Town on this vast and sparsely populated land, so that the entire northern defense line can be continued.

Datong Town, not to mention, Daibei this place, from the Qin Dynasty to the present, is against the outpost of the northern grassland, once occupied by the nomads on the grassland Daibei, Hedong (Shanxi) has no danger to defend, it is easy to fall, and Hedong is enough to be the foundation of the king, and even the closed terrain designated by the Son of Heaven during the Five Dynasties period is occupied by the nomads, that is condescending, the east can go out of Taihang to occupy the two rivers (Hebei + Hedong), and the west can cross the Yellow River into the main Guanzhong, and the five Hu Chaohua basically came from this.

So the most interesting ones are actually Shanxi Town and Shaanxi Town, which are in the second-tier state.

To the north of Shanxi Town is Datong Town, and to the north of Shaanxi Town is Yulin Town and Ningxia Town, why do you want to set up these two military towns?

Translation, what is Shanxi Town and Shaanxi Town?

- It's clear that it's going to cut the domain!

Moreover, it is the Qin and Jin feuds that are cut, and they must cut down all their actual control territory and elite troops, and turn them into military towns directly under the imperial court, and become the second-line reserve in the entire nine-sided system.

Everyone guessed, if nothing else, in a few months, King Qin and King Jin should have an accident

The representative of the Daning department, Sien Hou Fangkuan, asked again: "What about the shifts of the three major battalions of the Beijing camp?" Of the thirty-six guards, how many guards work shifts? If it's a shift, is it a whole guard transferred to Beizhili, or is it some other system? ”

Qiu Fu explained: "Thirty-six guards, the three thousand battalions of pure cavalry have four guards, and the Shenji battalion of pure firearms has two guards, and only one guard of these two battalions is in shifts, not from other places to complete guards in shifts, but to send elite cavalry and firearms for shifts, the main purpose is to train because the local guards are often because of the small number and poor quality of horses and firearms, the training effect is not good, and they are afraid of loss, which leads to a small number of trainings, and it is difficult to train soldiers, and the Beijing battalion provides unified equipment. It can effectively improve the level of these cavalry and firearms hands, and when they return to the original guard post after their shifts, these experienced soldiers can be used as masters to transfer to the apprentices to improve their overall combat ability. ”

"As for the five military battalions with 30 guards, one guard is drawn from each of the remaining seven towns in Jiubianli (except Beijing Town and Xuanfu Town), and one guard is transferred from Henan, Shandong, and Daning, for a total of 10 guards to work in shifts."

Fang Kuan nodded, and only said: "That is to say, the three thousand battalions and the Shenji battalion have only one guard shift and are not transferred according to the guard, and the five military battalions have ten guard shifts, which are drawn from different towns and capital divisions." ”

"Exactly."

Fang Kuan said again: "There is another question. ”

Qiu Fu bowed his head and said, "Let's say." ”

"If the Nine-Sided Military Town is established, what will the original capital do?"

This is obviously a problem, Ningxia and Gansu, Liaodong, which are basically military households and only one military town, it doesn't matter, the capital division and the military town have two brands in a set of teams, but for example, Shaanxi Town and Shanxi Town, both have serious capital divisions, and once the nine-sided military town is established, then the Shaanxi capital division will be under the jurisdiction of Yulin Town, Shaanxi Town, and Shanxi will be under the jurisdiction of Shanxi Town and Datong Town, basically there is nothing to manage the capital division, which is equivalent to being abolished directly.

Qiu Fu said simply: "The local capital division is always the upper level of the military town, and the chief military officer of Shanxi Town is appointed by the chief officer of the Shanxi Metropolitan Division, and has jurisdiction over all the original affairs except Datong Town, and the same is true for Shaanxi Town, and the rest of the military towns are not involved." ”

In the early Ming Dynasty, the organizational structure was responsible for the management of the guards within its jurisdiction, as well as various military-related affairs, and was the highest military leadership body in local peacetime.

Well, it is said that it is theoretically obeying orders, but in fact, the military department is a rubber stamp, but important orders need to be followed by the military department.

In terms of specific division and subordination, there are three types of capital divisions, namely the military and political integration of the capital division, the normal capital division, and the executive capital division.

There are three divisions of the integration of military and government, Liaodong Metropolitan Division, Liaozhongwei, Daning Division, and Xuanfuwei, which are the Eastern Liaodong Divisions and Daning Divisions, and Wanquan Divisions have directly become Xuanfu Town.

The Xingdu Division is the administrative office of the five political envoys in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Huguang, Fujian, and Sichuan, and the Xingdu Command and Envoy Division is added to strengthen control.

Except for these two, the rest are normal divisions.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were a total of 21 capital divisions and Xingdu divisions, which were placed under the jurisdiction of five prefectures.

The Left Army Governor's Office has jurisdiction over the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division, the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, and the Shandong Metropolitan Division; The Right Army Governor's Office has jurisdiction over the Shaanxi Metropolitan Division, the Shaanxi Metropolitan Division, the Sichuan Imperial Division, the Sichuan Imperial Division, the Guangxi Imperial Division, the Yunnan Imperial Division, and the Guizhou Imperial Division; The former military capital governor's office has jurisdiction over the Huguang Metropolitan Division, the Huguang Xingdu Division, the Fujian Metropolitan Division, the Fujian Xingdu Division, the Jiangxi Metropolitan Division, and the Guangdong Metropolitan Division; The Houjun Governor's Office has jurisdiction over the Daning Division, Wanquan Division, Shanxi Division, and Shanxi Xingdu Division; The Chinese Military Governor's Office only has jurisdiction over the Henan Metropolitan Division.

In the first year of Yongle, it was fine-tuned, adding the military capital governor's office left behind in Beijing, and the Wanquan capital division (Xuanfu), which was originally under the jurisdiction of the military capital governor's office, was divided into it, and then the entire Beizhili was divided below, and the establishment of the Beijing camp and the entire Beijing town must also be under its control.

"After the military reform, nine sides were set up at the local level, and Beijing battalions were set up in the Beijing division, and the original command system did not undergo major changes in principle, but only made partial adjustments."

Qiu Fu finally elaborated: "That is to say, the five military governor's mansions plus the military governor's mansion left behind in Xinghou, a total of six governors' mansions, responsible for the management of all twenty-one capital divisions and Xingdu divisions in the Ming Dynasty, at the same time, the relevant military towns involved in the nine sides, such as Xuanfu Town, are the same as the Wanquan capital division brand, such as Liaodong Town, Ningxia Town, Gansu Town, at the same time hang the corresponding capital division brand, and Shanxi Town, Shaanxi Town, is still managed by the Shanxi capital division and Shaanxi capital division. ”

In this way, it is basically understood that the nine sides are actually to take out some of the metropolitan divisions separately and prepare a continuous northern defense line, and the original command structure of the "Metropolitan Governor's Office-Metropolitan Division/Xingdu Division" remains unchanged.

Of course, if you look at the system design alone, the nine military towns that are made separately will definitely damage the original capital system, so the nine-sided shift transfer of guards into the Beijing camp is equivalent to a patch to avoid the local military towns from getting out of control, and play a strong but not weak effect, in fact, it is an improved version of the Song Dynasty forbidden army system.

Compared with the old Hongwu Dynasty system of "going out in wartime and returning in peacetime," the three major battalions of the Beijing Battalion belonged to the standing army and could play the role of centralized training, and the advantages of this new system were certainly much greater than the disadvantages.

Seeing that there were no new problems in the crowd, Zhu Neng took over: "No problem, right?" No problem, let's finally explain and discuss the responsibilities and organizational structure of the three major battalions in Beijing. ”

"The Beijing camp is under the direct command of His Majesty, and each of the three major battalions has a general military officer with a seal, whose rank is equivalent to that of the general officer of each town on the nine sides, and is under the jurisdiction of the military capital governor's office on weekdays."

"The 3,000 battalion is a pure cavalry unit, preferably elite, and it is a collection of the original '3,000 small Tartar battalions' and 'sentinel horse battalions', one elite light cavalry is responsible for reconnaissance scouts, one guard is an elite heavy cavalry responsible for charging and destroying the front, and the other two guards are responsible for guarding as His Majesty's direct troops."

"The Shenji Battalion is a firearms unit, two guards, one is the Musket Battalion, and the other is the Artillery Battalion, which is responsible for providing battlefield fire support, and the artillery battalion is directly commanded and used by His Majesty on the battlefield, and the Artillery Battalion is dispersed to assist the five military battalions in operations or a single battalion according to the situation."

"The five army battalions are infantry troops, and at the same time they are part of the cavalry, twenty guards are quota troops, ten guards are shift troops, and in the quota troops, the additional government army vanguard belongs to the young army."

Hearing the words "avant-garde of the government army", Wu Gao, Marquis of Jiangyin, shuddered directly, and glanced at Li Jie, Marquis of Fengxiang beside him, with the same expression of palpitations.

Hongwu Dynasty has twelve guards, is as the emperor's direct guard troops, from the old Zhu in the late Yuan Dynasty war set up the Gong Wei Division evolved, Gong Wei Division in the second year of Hongwu set up the pro-army Captain's Mansion, commanding five guards, later expanded into twelve guards, that is, Jinyi Guard, Banner Guard, Jinwu Guard, Jinwu Guard, Yulin Left Guard, Yulin Right Guard, Fu Jun Guard, Fu Jun Left Guard, Fu Jun Right Guard, Fu Jun Guard, Fu Jun Guard, Hu Ben Left Guard.

The avant-garde of the government army is one of the twelve guards, and the reason why the avant-garde of the government army makes these second-generation marquis of the founding of Hongwu so jealous is because the soldiers of the avant-garde of the government army have a relationship with Lan Yu and are the descendants of Lan Yu, so they were slaughtered in the Blue Party case and were killed by Lao Zhu.

Of course, Zhu Di saw the expressions of these people, and the blue jade case was extremely frightening to all the noble and military ministers, which was also the effect that Zhu Di wanted.

So Zhu Di, who was silent throughout the whole process, said at this time: "As for the young army, I have always wanted to get it, and good soldiers should be cultivated from an early age, so I took this opportunity to re-establish the avant-garde of the government army, a battalion of young officials and two battalions of the loyal and filial piety battalion, the soldiers are selected from the young military members, and the children of military ministers with military merits are preferred, and they are not affiliated with the original guard but under the avant-garde of the government army. ”

This is the meaning of cultivating the next generation of Praetorian Guards, and at the same time there is a meaning similar to the "Proton Battalion", needless to say, the children of the families of the chief military officers of the Nine Border Military Town must be incorporated into it, otherwise the emperor will not be at ease, right?

Seeing that all the generals were looking at him blankly, Zhu Di certainly knew what this meant.

In fact, the most important thing is not how the system changes, but who are sitting in these positions.

So Zhu Di simply asked Zhu Neng to announce the list.

"Among the three major battalions of the Beijing camp, the general soldier of the Shenji battalion is An Yuan Bo Liusheng (who has just been knighted for his exploits in the expedition to Annan), the general soldier of the 3,000 battalion is Tong'an Hou Huoli Huozhen, and the general soldier of the fifth military battalion is Chengyang Hou Zhang Wu."

These three appointments are not too controversial, only Liu Sheng has actual combat command experience in the firearms army, and Tong'an Hou Huoli Huoli is really a Tartar official, during the Hongwu period, he led the tribe to return to Shun Daming, and was appointed by Zhu Di to guard thousands of households in Yanshan, and Qiu Fu was at the same level, and when it came to the Battle of Jingnan, he followed Zhu Di to raise troops together, and was brave and not afraid of death on the battlefield, and made a lot of contributions.

As for Zhang Wu, the Marquis of Chengyang, he was the original Zhu Di's personal guard, with infinite strength, did not like to read, and led the dead soldiers to perform the task of death several times during the Jingjing disaster, and belonged to the captain of the death squad full of luck and courage. There are too many troops in the five military camps, it must be Zhu Di's own command and deployment on the battlefield, Zhang Wu's position is enough, and he can serve the public at the same time, he is a good candidate.

"In the Nine Sides, Ningxia Town's Chief Military Officer Ningyuan Hou He Fu, Gansu Town's Chief Military Officer Xining Hou Song Sheng, and Liaodong Town's Chief Military Officer Baoding Hou Mengshan."

There is no controversy about these three being retained.

"Taining Hou Chen Jue, the chief military officer of Beijing Town, Cheng Anhou Guo Liang, the chief military officer of Xuanfu Town, the chief military officer of Datong Town, Licheng Hou Shengyong, the chief military officer of Yulin Town, Wu Anhou Zheng Heng, the chief military officer of Shanxi Town, Jing'an Hou Wang Zhong, and the chief military officer of Shaanxi Town, Yongkang Hou Xu Zhong."

From this point of view, the marquis of Qingyishui, the general soldier of the Nine Sides, has basically inherited the high standard of the Eight Great Saiwang system.

And in this way, the counts who were standing outside and listening were all happy.

There is no other reason, the marquis go out to sit on the nine sides to control the military power, which means that there will definitely be some vacant positions in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, which gives them room for promotion.

"The rest of the guards are in command and will not move."

"But still have questions? If there is, then discuss and discuss, and after the discussion, the restructuring will be officially carried out. ”

Since Zhu Di spoke, there were naturally not too many problems, and some people had the courage to mention some, and after a slight revision, the entire military reform plan was approved in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

(End of chapter)