NCCnovel Chapter 167
Chapter 167
Zong Ze owed himself and said: "The training of the new army is also very smooth, and now there are four large camps in Yuncheng, Jeju, Qizhou, and Dengzhou.
Yuncheng has both infantry and cavalry here, Jeju is mainly infantry, Qizhou is mainly cavalry, and Dengju is mainly Shuiying.
The recruits mainly come from Xu, Hai, Chu, De, Liao, and Bo prefectures, all of which are from the prefectures and counties around Liangshan.
The land of Yanzhao in Hebei, as well as Huaidong and Huaixi are all places where elite soldiers are produced, and the quality of the soldiers is still quite good.
Under the current high-intensity training, formations, queues, physical fitness, and housekeeping will be completed in another month and a half.
Then the cavalry master trains horsemanship, as well as artillery, infantry, crossbowmen, archers, etc.
, and then it will take about four months to train skills and tactics, and then they can be assigned to each command.
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Speaking of this, Zong Ze said with a smile: "In terms of the quality of soldiers and horses, the degree of elite, the recruits of our army are not inferior to the Great Song Forbidden Army, as long as they train for a few months, they will become elites." "
Wang Lun nodded slightly as he listened.
Just a slight smile.
It does not mean that Wang Lun agrees.
From common sense, what Zong Ze said is right.
Bo, Liao, De, Hebei and Shandong regions of later generations, the people in these places, Chongrannuo, generous and sad Yan Zhao people, body shape, strength, courage are quite outstanding.
All of them are big men, near Bozhou and other places in Cangzhou and other places, the folk atmosphere is still martial, and there are really many people who practice martial arts.
Like northern Shaanxi and northern Jin, there are also many bow and arrow societies in Hebei.
Moreover, in fact, it is not only the Bow and Arrow Society, the Bow and Arrow Society is just a kind of name.
The names include "Bow and Arrow Society", "Loyal Patrol Society", "Stick Society", "Overlord Society", "Outlaw Society" and so on.
The "Bow and Arrow Society" is one of these martial arts associations.
The history of the Song Dynasty recorded: "Since the peace of the Yuan, the people have united themselves into the Bow and Arrow Society. Regardless of the family's business, there is one person in the household. He also recommended that the person who was served by the family and martial arts was the head of the company, the deputy of the company, and the secretary, and was called the leader. "
Each member of the club has a bow, 30 arrows, and a knife.
According to Su Shi's investigation in Dingzhou at that time, at that time, only Dingzhou and Baozhou, the three armies of Ansu, Guangxin, and Shun'an, as well as the bow and arrow societies in 05 and Yizhai in seven counties on the border, had grown to 588 villages, 651 gangs, and a total of 31,411 people.
It can be seen that the Bow and Arrow Society had a wide range of influence at that time.
In the eighth year of the reign of Zhezong of the Northern Song Dynasty, Su Shi, the governor of Dingzhou, said: "Since the peace of the Yuanyuan, the people have united as the Bow and Arrow Society...... With a bow and a hoe, with a sword and a wood, in and out of the mountains, the long skills of eating and drinking are the same as those of the enemy country".
In addition to the Bow and Arrow Society, from the end of the Northern Song Dynasty to the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, the rural people in the Central Plains also organized the "Zhongyi Patrol Society", an anti-gold organization that served soldiers and farmers, and often gathered to "place guns, sticks, weapons, and armor" and "teach martial arts".
"Each one unites according to the number of villages, and selects those who are feared by the righteous and right, thinking that they are the right and second, and they are the ones who put guns, sticks, and armor. "
It not only "farms according to the time", but also "teaches martial arts" and "prepares for war". At that time, the Zhongyi Patrol Society spread throughout Shanxi, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, and Fujian provinces, and its development scale was very large.
During the reign of Renzong Jingyou, Hebei and other places "have unscrupulous people, yin friends and friends, called the stick society, also known as the lifeless society". In the countryside, there are also martial arts associations in the form of "she", "fort", and "cottage". Such as "Stick Society", "Overlord Society", "Outlaw Society" and so on.
During the reign of Emperor Shenzong Xining, there was a Bawang Society in Licheng and Zhangqiu in Shandong Province that "gathered dozens of parties and ran rampant among the villages"; during the reign of Huizong Chongning and Daguan, there was a Death Society in Yangzhou that was "a chivalrous man in Changli".
Therefore, the situation in the Song Dynasty was completely different from that in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
The righteousness of the Great Song Dynasty is far less than that of the Ming Dynasty.
However, the control of the people is loose and strict.
Especially during the period of Ming Taizu, the people needed to guide the road when they went out of the county, and Ming Taizu made extremely cumbersome and strict regulations on the style of houses, robes, shoes, means of transportation, daily contacts, commerce, and people's travel.
The people are qualified to fight with the sword, and only the talented members have the privilege.
It is difficult for the people to go out, so don't talk about martial arts associations.
Lao Zhu's character, he will not allow civil associations under his nose.
Although the Great Song Dynasty is respectful and humble, it inherits the legacy of five dynasties and ten countries, and the folk atmosphere is fierce and martial, light on life and death, and the inheritance of heavy promises still exists.
In the Ming Dynasty, one was the strict control of the imperial court, and the other was the suppression of hundreds of years during the Mengyuan and Yuan dynasties, and the practice of martial arts by folk associations had become extinct in most places.
Kitchen knives are shared by five households, and you still practice bows and arrows and practice knife skills?
The Great Song Dynasty also discussed the folk practice of martial arts and bow and arrow.
Some officials have suggested a ban.
Under the opposition of most officials, the Song Dynasty never banned it, and even many local officials advocated the folk bow and arrow society, thinking that it was the stamina of officers and soldiers.
Even if they recruit soldiers, they will be recruited from these martial arts societies first.
After studying the Song Dynasty folk bow and arrow society, you can understand where the millions of Hebei rebels came from after the invasion of the Jin Kingdom.
Without the tradition of martial associations, it would have been impossible for so many rebels to emerge at once.
As for the Liao State entering Kaifeng, it retreated in embarrassment, except that the feudal towns in various places were not satisfied and could not rule.
It was also hundreds of thousands of rebels who suddenly appeared, which frightened the Liao people.
These rebels, of course, are also composed of members of the martial arts society.
According to Su Dongpo's report, there are tens of thousands of men in Dingzhou alone.
Hoes with bows, woods with swords!
Han people are not weak!
The rebel army in the Jingkang period was maintained until the period of Xiaozong in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Xin Qiji was also from the Shandong rebel army, after which, after decades of struggle, the northern rebel army finally extinguished even the embers.
The people of the Great Song Dynasty were no worse than the Han and Tang Dynasties.
Unlike at the end of the Ming Dynasty, when faced with the attack of the braided soldiers, many people would only stretch their necks and wait for someone to cut it.
And the Song people just rose up to resist.
The Zhao family can't do it, but it doesn't mean that the Song people can't.
Lost the Yanshan and Hetao areas, there was no horse breeding land, and there was no place to defend against the invasion of the nomads.
Didn't Da Song still carry it down?
For more than 300 years before and after the two Song Dynasty, it also created a brilliant civilization, if it were not for the existence of the Mengyuan Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty would continue.
On the other hand, the Ming Dynasty, except for the brief expansion at the time of the founding of the country, only had more Hetao and Yanshan Mountains than the Song Dynasty, as well as Yungui that was defeated by the Meng Yuan.
Economy, military, culture, mining, industry, trade, Ming Dynasty is inferior to Song.
The court is hard-boned, but the people are a mess of sand.
The civil officials are incompetent, and the military generals are despicable.
The people are powerless to resist.
Although the reign of the Yuan Dynasty was only a hundred years, it was a devastating blow to the Chinese spirit, internal cohesion, and non-governmental organizations.
The area around Yangsan is a place where elite soldiers are produced, and it is also the place where there are the most associations.
Hebei, facing the pressure of the Liao State, was the place with the most associations and the most dense members in the early years.
Later, it was Shaanxi Zhulu, that is, Ganyan Road, Xihe Road, Jingyuan Road, Qinfeng Road, Huanqing Road, which were in northern Shaanxi, Hanzhong, Shanxi and other places, and were also the front line of Western Xia.
In the past few decades, from Renzong to Shenzong, all the way to Huizong, the Great Song Dynasty has always used troops in the northwest, so there are many people in the northwest who have established a village association, and the folk talk about martial arts, tough, tenacious, and more than Hebei.
In addition to these two places, including Xuzhou on Jingdong Road, the land of the two Huai, that is, Huaixi and Huaidong, is also a place where elite soldiers are dispatched.
The Xuzhou soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are also famous, and several important events in the Tang Dynasty are related to the Xuzhou soldiers.
Including Pang Xun, the Huangchao Rebellion was the rebellion of thousands of Xuzhou soldiers stationed in Guangxi, which destroyed countless imperial court garrisons and town festival envoys along the way, and developed to hundreds of thousands of people, traveling tens of thousands of miles, and the core was never dispersed, which is the reason why the core of Xuzhou soldiers has never dispersed.
During the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Chen and Cai Bing in Huaixi were also strong, cruel and daring to die, and the towns were difficult to beat.
The military sources of Hebei East Road in the north, plus the military sources of Xuzhou and Huaidong, can be said to be the best military sources in this era.
It's not just this era.
Including Liu Bang's Fengpei Group, the Danyang Soldiers during the Three Kingdoms, the Beifu Army during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and Zhu Yuanzhang's Huaixi Group in the early Ming Dynasty, the source of soldiers and generals are all in this large area.
Some people on the Internet later said that this large area is a base for entrepreneurship.
It's a joke, but it's completely true.
After 2,000 years of Chinese beacon smoke, there are really many places that can finally go to the center of the stage.
The only thing that can match it is that the western army in the northwest has a superior number of soldiers.
There are significant gaps in the rest.
But what Zong Ze didn't understand was that Liangshan's previous military resources, except for the last expansion of the army to more than 100,000 people, the previous soldiers and horses had always taken the elite route.
The most ordinary soldier is also a minions of various villages that have experienced a hundred battles. (If you read a violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)
Dozens of heroes, including Liangshan's original minions, formed the Liangshan army with a scale of tens of thousands at the beginning.
It also includes the people in the green forest who have come to vote one after another.
Their skills can't reach the heroic class, but they are far beyond ordinary people.
Courage, experience, courage, skill, the most ordinary person in the green forest or minion, against three or five ordinary people, even if it is an ordinary person in the bow and arrow club, there are still more wins and fewer losses.
But after several years of development, the cottages in many nearby states have come to invest in Liangshan, and all the minions can keep it.
The people in the green forest are also, and those who are willing to cast into Liangshan and can stay are also stayed.
Most of these people are now middle- and lower-level military attachés, and they were ordinary soldiers in the early days.
In terms of quality, even the elite of Lianghuai and the Great Han of Hebei cannot be compared with these people in the green forest and the elite minions of the cottage.
After all, the people in the green forest and the minions are all licking blood with knives, and they have experienced a hundred battles, and I don't know how many times they have experienced life-threatening battles.
Ordinary people, even if they have been practicing martial arts and practicing bows and arrows, these experiences and actual combat are also two different things.
The people on the side, compared to Zong Ze and Li Gang and other civil officials, also knew the inside story, and they all shook their heads and smiled at the moment.
Six months, it can only be said that the training is similar to that of the elite minions.
Actual combat experience, courage, and blood have to be practiced on the battlefield.
"At the beginning of the summer, we captured the states, and it took two or three months for the imperial court to mobilize, prepare, and send troops, and the time was in time. "
"An army of 200,000, forty of them are all commanded, and they are not afraid of the soldiers of the imperial court, and they have the strength to fight. "[]
"But if you capture Bo, Liao, De, as well as Xuzhou, Huaiyang Army, Chuzhou, Haizhou and other places in the south, at least tens of thousands of troops must be stationed there, and the frontal troops are afraid that there will be insufficient. "
"At that time, we will have to recruit at least ten troops to command in order to hold the newly acquired territory. "
"The main thing is that the enemy is on all sides, and once you attack, it is like a fist that has been punched out, and you have to prevent others from counterattacking. It's not like we are here on Jingdong East Road, it is a clenched fist, easy to defend and difficult to attack. "
Zhu Wu's words are still quite clever.
Attacking the Hebei Prefectures, as well as the Huaidong Prefectures, this was all the plan of the General Staff.
Manpower, material resources, and territory will all jump.
But at the same time, it will also expose the very different states of Liang Shan, Tian Qing and Wang Hu.
The imperial court will be extremely vigilant.
The elite of the crusade against Fang La has been resting for nearly a year, and when the time comes, the main force of the Western Army will be the mainstay, the garrisons in various places, the garrison in Beijing, and the imperial court will not be able to dispatch two or three hundred thousand troops.
All states will face 293 attacks.
The development is too fast, and the lack of military strength is Liangshan's shortcoming.
The important thing is that Liangshan should take the route of elite soldiers, and try to keep the enemy outside the borders, not to fill the trenches with the lives of the people, and not to destroy his own territory.
The pressure is given to the military training divisions.
In a short period of time, from 200,000 to 256,000, or even 300,000, it is a big challenge for the Military Command Department and the Military Training Department.
In fact, the root is in Wang Lun.
Divide the fields into farming, construction, mining, trade, road construction...... In recent years, Liangshan's main material and financial resources have been consolidating the foundation.
The land of the twelve states is thriving.
The states and counties are becoming more and more prosperous.
If half of the financial resources had been used to expand the army two years earlier, Liangshan's military strength would have exceeded 300,000 long ago.
Liangshanjun has a good image, good welfare, and high frightening, and the division of fields also takes care of the soldiers' homes, and the price of the mansion, taxes, and job fields all have corresponding benefits.
With a whole set down, few people can resist this temptation.
However, Wang Lun used most of his financial resources to consolidate the foundation of internal affairs, engage in trade, and build, and used it in the army to engage in the strategy of elite soldiers, and it was normal for the number of soldiers and horses not to increase.
"It's okay, just train as usual. "
Wang Lun smiled slightly, signaling everyone to relax.
With Liangshan's current strength, it is still a little difficult to sweep the Great Song Dynasty, but it is more than enough to defend himself and counterattack.
He has not expanded his army on a large scale, mainly because of the number of skills covered by the troops.
From the Tuifeng Battalion to the White Horse Yicong, the Trap Camp, the Baier Soldiers, and then to the Beifu Army and the Qi Family Army, the number of people added up did not exceed 100,000.
Although many elites are quite strong without blessings, after a large-scale expansion of the army, it would be good for recruits to be able to train to withstand the state.
Large-scale military expansion will cause many recruits to be unable to withstand even the blessing of status.
It doesn't make sense.
But there are more than 100,000 elite veterans, plus more than 100,000 elites after rigorous training, which is enough.
Wang Lun stood up.
The eye was cast on one side of the wall of the chamber.
"Hebei East Road, no, the entire Hebei Road, must be won within this year!"
Take the Hebei Road, face the Liao State, and the subsequent Jin State, plus the strategy in the south.
The core is on Jingdong East Road, that is, Shandong, and Liangshan is equivalent to opening two giant pincers, one south and one north, to firmly clamp the Great Song Dynasty.
The main reason why he wanted to take Hebei Road first was because the war between Jin and Liao was advancing fiercely.
Because a lot of grain, cloth, and medicinal materials were obtained from the Liangshan trade, the heritage of the Jin State has increased significantly, and it seems that the Liao State can still carry it for two or three years at most, unlike the original time and space, the Liao State can still carry it for seven or eight years and nearly ten years.
Time is running out, which is why Wang Lun will send troops in a big way at the beginning of this summer.