No one knows better than Xinlingjun the significance of these 100,000 Wei troops to the Wei State.

The core of Wei's military power has always been the Wushu, an elite hoplite created by Wu Qi more than a hundred years ago, and its soldiers are selected strong men. In order to maintain the survival of the soldiers, Wu Qi gave the soldiers what seemed to be a very good treatment at the time: 100 acres of tax-free land, and the whole family was exempted from service! It can be said that the merit awarding system implemented by Shang Ying in the Qin State is an upgraded and expanded version of the military pawn system.

But the military system has its drawbacks. In war, soldiers are consumables, and after every battle, a large number of soldiers are killed. And his privileges can be inherited. Although the Wei State has always controlled the number of military soldiers at about 50,000, the expansion of the war and the replenishment of military soldiers after their deaths have made more and more people have the privilege of military soldiers, and the number of soldiers has not risen.

The Wei state also retained the Nationalist Army system, a conscription system linked to the Jingtian system. The state divides the land within its rule to the lower levels, and the lowest peasant (adult male) is a hundred acres per person, known as a household or a ding. This peasant usually worked as a farmer at home, and when he was fighting, he had to take up arms, organize himself according to the rank and division of the fief, and become a soldier of the army; And the nobles who received the fief were the commanders of this army. For example, Xinlingjun's fief is in Xinling, and there are 100,000 households. In the event of a war, if all these 100,000 peasant households were mobilized, it would be an army of 100,000 people, and Xinlingjun would be their commander.

This system has been deformed to varying degrees after the reform of the law in various countries, and the most important point is the establishment of the township system. Those lands that have not been divided into different levels of administrative divisions according to the number of households, generally speaking, they are one hundred households and one li (or yi), ten li and one township (or pawn), and ten pawns and one county (or township). Under normal circumstances, it is 10,000 households in a county. This was the ideal state at the time. Whether it is a township or a county, the number of households will not be so neat. But this is the basis for the mobilization of troops. Under normal circumstances, the conscription ratio is 100 to 100 to 100 conscription, and a county can usually retain 100 people's troops to maintain law and order, and 500 people will be conscripted when a war starts. The weakness of the civilian army lies in its poor cohesion and lack of training, and it is often difficult to withstand the continuous brutality of combat, and it is easy to collapse. Therefore, the Wei army was supplemented by the people's army, and the core force was professional soldiers.

The combat effectiveness of the Qin army aroused the general envy of the princes. The Qin army is 100% a civilian army, even if it gets a high title, it is still a peasant in the final analysis! However, the combat quality of the Qin army was close to that of the soldiers. The princes all knew that the basis of the Qin army's combat effectiveness was to be knighted by merit, because winning battles was the only way to be promoted, and the peasants of Qin had the enthusiasm and motivation to devote a lot of energy to military training in their free time; The harsh Qin law only rose up to supervise and strengthen the role. But this point is generally not accepted by the princes. Conferring a knighthood with the number of beheaded people is barbaric and cruel no matter how you look at it, and it has nothing to do with righteousness and enlightenment!

After the king of Wei ascended the throne, he intended to imitate the system of Qin to build Wei's army, but hoped to retain Wei's image as a benevolent and righteous teacher. The compromise solution is to strengthen military training for peasant households. The soldiers who survived the catastrophe became the core force of training.

After the Battle of Huayang, the Wei State had more than ten years of peace, and all the efforts of the Wei State lay in this! For more than ten years, they have devoted almost all their energy to the cause of training the people's army, hoping to build a people's army that can produce in peacetime and be recruited to fight like the Qin army. At present, these 100,000 people are the crystallization of Wei's efforts in the past ten years, and they are the hope of Wei's ability to return to a great power!

According to Xin Lingjun's idea, it is most appropriate to let the Liang Lieutenant, who has always commanded the military soldiers, preside over the training work. But the king of Wei disagreed, and insisted that the doctor Jin Contempt preside over the training. The reason is that Captain Liang is old and frail, and it is difficult to undertake such a heavy workload. Jin also lived up to expectations, rushed to various places to inspect, supervise and train work, and solved a series of specific problems.

King Wei also asked Duan Zigan to set up an arsenal to recruit craftsmen from all over the world to make weapons, especially iron weapons. It has also been very successful for more than ten years. In the past, the weapons of the military guards were provided by the military soldiers, and the quality was uneven, and the quantity also varied from person to person, and it was not enough to use. Now it is produced by the state in a unified manner, and it is distributed to the soldiers when the troops are dispatched, and the short and thin weapons no longer appear, and the combat effectiveness is greatly improved. The defensive weapon of the soldier is leather armor, and the shield is generally not equipped in the pawn due to the need for the coordination of all arms. After the beginning of the training of the people's army, the use of shields gradually became widespread in the Wei state. Qin's Shang Ying's reform used to refer to the system of Wei, and this reform of Wei used Qin's system as an important reference!

The training of the Wei army was carried out with the military pawn as the core. Restricted by the number and quality of the soldiers, as well as the acceptance of the people, the training was not carried out smoothly, and more than 100,000 soldiers were trained in the townships around Daliang for more than ten years. The rescue of Handan was the first battle after the reform of the Wei army, and both the King of Wei and the King of Xinling regarded it as a test of their work in the past ten years.

Xinlingjun brought Liang Wei Gongzi to assist him in commanding the battle. After the Battle of Huayang, although Captain Liang was still in office, he had actually left the decision-making level, and his health was not as good as day by day, and he finally died. His only son inherited the official position of Captain Liang, but he was reduced to an idler who only received a salary and did not do anything. Liang Wei Gongzi was born in a family, although his body is weak, but he has always been a martial artist, and has never relaxed his requirements for himself. Wen Tao Wu Luo, family history.

Xinlingjun's fiefdom, Xinling, is not within the scope of this more than ten years of training. However, the Xinling Lieutenant Si Mang, who was appointed by Xinling Jun, had served as the commander of the military battalion and had rich experience in army management. Xinlingjun let him manage Xinling's people's army. There are 100,000 households in Xinling, and there are 1,000 militia troops in peacetime, which are rotated annually. Si Mang took the opportunity of the people of Yi taking turns to serve in the army, and trained all the households in the fief in rotation. This time, the people of Xinling were not within the scope of the conscription, they did not come to Handan, and Si Mang did not come. However, Sikong and Si Sheng, who had been stationed around Huayang City, were currently in the army, and they had both been promoted to partiality. -- No longer taking charge of the army on the basis of kinship is an important part of this military reform, which gives those distant sons the opportunity to get ahead.

The 100,000 Wei troops were not easy to come by, and Xinling Jun regarded them as treasures, and was very cautious in using them, trying his best to avoid unnecessary losses. Zhu Hai's sudden killing of Jin Contempt was actually a surprise to Xinlingjun, but he didn't say much. On the one hand, Xinlingjun reorganized the army, and on the other hand, he got in touch with Handan. When Pingyuanjun learned that Xinlingjun had come to the Dangyin army, he immediately sent someone to contact Xinlingjun. In Yecheng, Pingyuan Jun and Xinling Jun held a joint meeting with their respective disciples. In the end, it was agreed that the Zhao army would hold Handan, and the Wei army would attack the flank of Wu'an, forcing the Qin army to withdraw. At that time, everyone imagined that after the Wei army attacked the upper reaches of Fushui and Zhangshui respectively, the Qin army should gradually retreat to protect its own lines of communication and eventually return to Shangdang in order to avoid being cut off from the back road. In the process of the retreat of the Qin army, the coalition forces could achieve victory by attacking the Qin army in the tail. The Wei army's attack was only containment, and there was no need to really break the Qin army's defenses, as long as enough pressure was given to force the Qin army away! In Fukou, this is how the Wei army fought.

At the Fukou Pass, it was not easy for the Wei army to attack, and it was also difficult for the Qin army to counterattack, so the Wei army made a show near the pass. The Wei army relied on the strength of the outnumbered people and rotated the soldiers into battle, which consumed the physical strength of the Qin army. This road is not dangerous and the technical content is not high, so it was personally commanded by Xinlingjun and gathered 50,000 people. Zhangshui all the way, the mountain is high and the water is dangerous, the road is rugged, and it is not easy to walk. After arriving at the designated position, it is necessary to complete a series of offensive and defensive actions according to the enemy's situation, which is technically difficult, and 30,000 people led by Liang Weigongzi to complete the outflanking.

However, contrary to the expectations of the coalition forces, the Qin army did not retreat to Shangdang one by one, but went out of Handan to the east, completely disrupting the plans of the coalition forces. Xinlingjun, who was stationed in Yecheng to command the battle, urgently evacuated and turned to the upper reaches of Zhangshui. In fact, the way for the Qin army to go east was opened. And the Qin army did not deal with the Wei army in Yecheng, and quickly crossed the Zhangshui River and headed south.

In any case, the Qin army, which had been stationed under Handan City for a year, finally retreated, and Handan City completely lifted the alarm! Although there were still remnants of enemies in Wu'an, after Lian Po led the army into Wu'an to join Li Chong's division, Wu'an's remnants were already the turtles in the urn. Handan has turned the corner.

Shinling-kun was naturally the leading figure in this turning point. As the situation in Handan stabilized slightly, Pingyuanjun personally went to the Fukou army to invite Xinlingjun, who had just been transferred here, to enter Handan.

Even if he had just withdrawn from Yecheng in embarrassment, Xinlingjun still rode to Handan with a group of doormen, riding more than 100 chariots. Outside the city of King Handan, King Zhao personally held a broom and welcomed Xinlingjun and his party to the pavilion. There is no atmosphere of war in the pavilion at all, and the luxurious pomp and sumptuous food show the deep friendship of the guests and hosts everywhere.

At night, King Zhao and Pingyuan Jun and his entourage discussed how to settle Xinlingjun. Pingyuan Jun said: "Wuji to the army is a private act." Correcting the king's order, killing the general, and seizing his army, Yu Wei is also a capital crime; And save Yu Zhao. May the king be merciful! ”

Zhao Wang said: "Why wait for it? ”

Pingyang Jun said: "The defeat of the Qin army is also, the six cities have nothing to offer, and I am willing to seal the five cities without taboo." ”

Pingyuan Jun said: "There is no jealousy in Wei, and Xinling Jun is also." 100,000 households in Xinling. Now it is sealed with five cities, and the households are only 350,000, which is still not enough. May it be a great city! ”

When King Zhao heard that so much blood was going to come out, he was immediately a little vague. said: "Let's talk about it again." Xinlingjun is credited to Zhao, and Gai is also credited to Wei. The widow wrote to the king of Wei, and asked for it to be sealed, but what? ”

When Pingyuanjun heard this, he was a little anxious, and said, "No! The angry son of the King of Wei stole the talisman, killed the Jin contempt, and wanted to kill him! Mowgli can not return to Wei Ye! ”

King Zhao said: "Xinling Jun, benevolence and righteousness are widely spread, and all heroes in the world want to return to him." Living in Handan for a long time, the tiger is on the side, don't be in danger! ”