Chapter Forty-Nine: Ancient Military System and Frontier Warfare

Last time, I talked about urging the carpenter to fly through the states, prefectures, counties, and health centers on Quang Nam West Road, and after landing, he asked a farmer and grandson for directions to "mahout the elephant guard".

"Report - report to the Hou Ye, there is a stranger surnamed Xuan, who claims to be entrusted by the political envoy of Chengxuan to come to help fight against the Japanese." The guard said.

"Oh? Entrusted by the political envoy Lord Lu? Interesting! Could it be his cronies? The "Hou Ye" is the descendant of the first generation of the supreme military commander of this guard, but because the Ming Dynasty implemented hereditary official positions for the feudal kings and Tusi in various places, although the status and influence of the "Nantong Hou" are not as good as those of the ancestors, the title remains unchanged.

"I don't know if Master Hou sees it or not?" The guards saw the hesitation on the face of their boss, thinking that they were worried that the would-be would-be true and repeat the trick.

"Don't be in a hurry, let him stand outside the gate for a while, so that Ben Hou can observe more in the dark to see if he is pretending to be a 'hermit'."

"Order!" The guards gave a military salute, then withdrew from the camp tent of the guard, came to the gate and saluted the carpenter with his fists, "Please wait." ”

"Haha, it doesn't matter." Seeing this, the carpenter pretended to find a stone pier by the road and meditated cross-legged to breathe in Qi refining, but in fact, he completely released his powerful spiritual power, instantly covering a radius of twenty or thirty miles, and immediately saw the layout of the entire guard camp clearly.

The Ming Dynasty was equivalent to the garrison camps of the previous dynasties, but there were also obvious differences, because the Ming Dynasty implemented a hereditary "military cantonment system" in which "military registration" and "civilian households" were mixed, especially in the border areas with harsh conditions, such as the northeast, northwest, southeast and southwest where wars were frequent.

During the Ming Dynasty, there were a total of ten garrison guards on Guangnan West Road, which were under the jurisdiction of the "Guangxi Metropolitan Division" under the "Right Army Governor's Mansion" under the "Five Army Governor's Mansion", which were divided into "Guilin Right Guard", "Liuzhou Guard" and "Nandanwei". "Nandanwei" and "Liuzhouwei" respectively undertook the battle against Burma and the Japanese invaders.

At this time, the carpenter passed the divine scan, and it was known that the "Elephant Guard" was a special garrison guard under the jurisdiction of the "Liuzhou Guard", in addition to the barracks for officers and soldiers to stay and the training ground, there were also peripheral sites for domesticating elephants, as well as hereditary real estate and real estate for the families of the garrison guards.

When it comes to the ancient military camps, many people are not clear, because the Zhou Dynasty adopted the policy of "feudal state-building", only allowing "countrymen" to participate in the war, while "savages" did not have the right and obligation to participate in the war, that is, military service was levied on the basis of "well fields". "Idada" means "village" in layman's terms.

The army of the Zhou Dynasty was mainly composed of royal troops, and the vassal states had a small number of troops to vassal the Zhou Dynasty. Although the main target of conscription is the "countrymen", it does not leave the "well field". Zhou Tianzi directly governed the three armed forces of the "West Sixth Division", "Cheng Zhou Eighth Division" and "Yin Eighth Division", with a total strength of more than 200,000 troops.

By the Spring and Autumn period, the Zhou royal army was weakened, and local armies and private armies rose. In the Warring States Period, the private army was abolished, and the monarchs of the vassal states unified their domestic military powers, and implemented the "military symbol system", dividing the duties of generals and each other, and organizing and establishing a leadership system, which was similar to that of the six countries.

However, the Qin State implemented the "All the People Are Soldiers", that is, the "Military Merit Knighthood" and "Grain Grant" system in the "Shang Dynasty Reform Law". Both new and old "countrymen" are all organized according to the principle of proximity to their places of residence, and they are engaged in farming and production in peacetime, and are conscripted as soldiers in wartime.

The army of the Qin Dynasty was generally composed of three parts: the Beijing division soldiers, the county soldiers, and the border guards, of which the Beijing division soldiers were divided into three separate units: the "Palace Guard", the "Miyagi Guard", and the "Beijing Division", but they were only responsible to the successive Qin kings or the later "Qin Shi Huang" and were completely controlled by the royal power.

The county soldiers of the Qin Dynasty were stationed in the local area in peacetime, and they were uniformly dispatched by the central government of the Qin Dynasty during war, and this part of the army was also the main force of the Qin army.

The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, and its military system was similar to that of the Qin Dynasty. The tents set up by the general's headquarters in the field were called "shogunates", and by the time of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the army structure and establishment were still quite chaotic, and the historical records were not very clear, after all, it was at the stage of great ethnic integration.

In the Western Wei and Northern Zhou dynasties, the imperial court created the "government soldier system", and the Sui and Tang dynasties inherited the "government soldier system" and abolished the "army" that had been used since the Warring States period. After Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the "government military system" was replaced by the "conscription system", and the long-term recruitment of troops formed a warlord separatism, and finally collapsed the Tang Dynasty.

During the confrontation between the two Song Dynasty and the Liao, Jin, and Yuan, the northern Jin Dynasty implemented the "Meng'an Mouke" system; The Mongol Empire practiced the "Thousand Households System"; The Song Dynasty implemented a "professional military system", that is, spending a lot of money to recruit young and middle-aged people to join the army, and firmly controlled military power in the hands of civilian officials, and crowded out military generals.

The main reason for the low combat effectiveness of the Song army is that in addition to the fact that those in power have always guarded against the emergence of "warlord secession" similar to the five dynasties in the late Tang Dynasty, it is the Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin who won the country through the "Chenqiao Mutiny, Yellow Robe and Body" is not right, and has a bad reputation among the people. In addition, it was the strategic contraction of the Song Dynasty.

The difference between the establishment of the Song army in peacetime and wartime is too great, and the operation effect is very unsatisfactory, except for the slightly remarkable combat strength of the "Yuejia Army" that appeared in the later period, it is useless, even if the famous anti-gold general Han Shizhong intercepted hundreds of thousands of gold soldiers in the "Huang Tiandang" for more than a month with 6,000 sailors!

Therefore, the best construction of military camps in ancient times was the Ming and Qing dynasties, that is, the Ming Dynasty's "guard station" system and the Manchu "Eight Banners system". However, the "guard system" of the Ming Dynasty can also be traced back to the ancient camp model, because when the Ming Dynasty was first established, the world was divided, the lives were devastated, and the mourning was everywhere.

At that time, the Central Plains had long been ravaged by war, and the people could not pay taxes at all. Therefore, since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang has been thinking about how to make the army both effective and self-sufficient, so he thought of "Tuntian".

The historical "cantonment model" is "cantonment and garrisoning", and Cao Cao's "tuntian system" in the late Eastern Han Dynasty gave Zhu Yuanzhang great inspiration. Although the "Tuntian System" was developed by Cao Cao, it was used in the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang, because this "Emperor Zhu" was from a humble background and was most well versed in the suffering of the people.

As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang, also known as "Zhu Chongba," set up a system of "garrisoning troops on the spot" and "family members tuntian," and the deserted land was developed by the garrison, and when the land was developed to a suitable point for cultivation, the people were relocated to the tuntian, and the displaced people with less land resources were moved here to live in harmony with the garrison.

As a result, cultivation became a "hereditary system" in the Ming military camps, and laborers were allowed to own the land they developed, which encouraged reclamation.

This is an interesting phenomenon discovered by the carpenter through the scan of spiritual power, which must be the characteristic of the Ming Dynasty guard, which is conducive to the development of the local economy.

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