Chapter 1518 Double-edged sword
The Qin army was very strong and there were many.
There are millions of Qin troops, and they are invincible on land and sea. The three yamen army has an astonishing number. In recent years, the number of barbarians around them has been conquered and destroyed.
A powerful army with hundreds of battles is invincible.
This is the sharpest sword, but now the emperor is no longer considering the sharpness of the sword, but the safety of the sword.
Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje, Japan, Liuqiu, Linyi, Fuyu, Turks, Tuyuhun, Tubo, Xueyantuo, and the Western Regions countries have become historical terms.
The Qin army was spread all over the world, and was full of elite troops in a hundred battles.
These armies are basically affiliated with the Sanya, and a powerful knight class has emerged in recent years. In addition to the military nobles who have won military titles, it can be said that this is a force that is not inferior to the imperial examination civil service group that has emerged in recent years.
In the border areas, there are thousands of marquises of all sizes, most of whom are military aristocrats, from kings to barons, and ninth-class titles are all over the east, west, south and north.
In the newly conquered and pioneered areas in the border areas, the imperial court even moved and granted tens of thousands of knights. These core backbones of the Qin army were the most powerful combat officer group in the court.
It is no exaggeration to say that these military nobles and knights have indeed made great contributions to the Qin Dynasty in recent years. After they enfeoffed border areas, they also defended these border areas for the court and made great contributions again.
But now the emperor had to go in another direction, would such a powerful military aristocratic group be too powerful? Can they always be loyal and reliable? After his death, can his descendants get allegiance from these people?
Or will these people sooner or later become the border troops of the six towns of the Northern Wei Dynasty?
The emperor was not sure. He only knew that these people had made great contributions over the years, but the current military situation of the Qin Dynasty was not very good.
"I want to readjust the empire's military deployment."
Xuanzheng Hall.
The emperor rarely summoned the imperial officials. In recent years, even if there was something wrong, the emperor usually sent someone to talk to the prince first, or summoned the prince, and then asked the prince to preside over the Xuanzheng Hall meeting on his behalf and discuss with the prime ministers.
Today, the emperor unexpectedly held this meeting. Everyone didn't know the content before coming, but they also knew that things were not simple. Who knew that from the beginning, the emperor said that he would adjust his military deployment.
National affairs are in sacrifice and war.
Military and military affairs are major military affairs.
And they believed that this was by no means a simple adjustment of the deployment of troops, because if this was the case, it would not be possible to preside over the meeting personally. His imperial edict or a decree from the prince would be enough.
This will inevitably be a profound adjustment.
The emperor's temples had some white hair. Some ministers were shocked to realize that they had met the saint a few months ago last time. At that time, the saint was still covered in black hair, so why are their temples white now?
Luo Cheng gently tapped the imperial desk in front of him with his fingers. The prince sat aside, sitting upright.
"Our Qin inherited the Sui Dynasty and also inherited the Sui system in military system. At the beginning, it was established with the government troops. Later, there was a slight change and the imperial guards were added to recruit soldiers. Later, the inner government was independent of the guards and integrated into the inner government's personal army. After many years, this system has been basically maintained."
The emperor said slowly.
From the Five Left Army that Sui conquered Goguryeo, to the Liaodong Army outside the Pass, to the later entering the Pass to conquer the world, and then the powerful force of the barbarians, the Qin army became stronger and stronger as the battles took place.
"Now, the imperial army is divided into three yamen, the northern yamen has twelve armies, the inner yamen has twelve prefectures, and the southern yamen has twelve guards, and the number of guards is different."
Although the Qin Dynasty was established for only twenty years, the military system is actually changing slowly.
For example, at the beginning, the soldiers of the Southern Yafu also had to take turns to the Beijing Guards, and the imperial guards and personal troops of the Northern Yafu and the Inner Yafu also rotated alternately, with their own responsibilities.
But now, the soldiers of the Nanyafu have basically stopped joining the guards. They are mainly deployed in the four border areas of the Central Plains, with 500 people per battalion, 2000 people per regiment, and 12,000 people per army. Gradually, they have formed a frontier military region system.
Basically, one or two armies will be stationed in one road. These soldiers of the palace have moved here, and they have divided the fields and landed on the ground and took root. In each guard, the elite non-commissioned officers and sergeants are basically awarded the title of knight, with more Yongye fields in the border areas, and more sophisticated armor and mounts granted by the court.
The officers of the regiment and battalion were only responsible for commanding the troops, the knights were responsible for managing and training the soldiers of the government. As for the higher-level wings and military departments, they were just the ranks of senior officers. They had neither the power to dispatch troops nor the power to command the troops. Only when they received the orders from above, they had command power. Knights were drawn from the regiments and battalions of the military districts below, and the soldiers of the government formed a field army to fight.
The left and right commanders of each department are more responsible for the recruitment, logistics, equipment, etc., and they still have no right to transfer troops.
However, this system has not yet been formed.
But relatively speaking, the soldiers in the frontier military region have high combat effectiveness, especially those knights as the core, with strong combat power and high fighting will.
In comparison, the imperial guards and internal troops stationed in the Six Capitals, Nine Prefectures and some core passes are much worse than that.
The inner army was transformed from the original Three Guards and Five Mansions. During the Sui Dynasty, twelve of the sixteen guards were commanding the military soldiers. In addition to the external guards, there were also internal guards. The inner guards led by the left and right guards had Qinxunyi three guards and five mansions, while the other ten guards only unified the Yi Mansion, each with about a thousand people in each inner guard. There were nearly five thousand people in the five mansions led by the left and right guards alone.
The three inner guards actually have a total of fifteen palaces, with about 55,000 people, all of which are selected by the descendants of second-rank to fifth-rank noble officials. They have good backgrounds and strong martial arts skills.
After the founding of the Qin Dynasty, Emperor Luo Cheng simply set out the fifteen inner palaces of the three guards and five prefectures separately, set them up as personal troops of the inner yamen, and established twelve prefectures. Each prefecture has actually had one army of 12,000, and a total of 144,000 individual troops.
The personal army is no longer limited to the children of noble officials, and there are also the children of martyrs who died in the king's affairs. Relatively speaking, the personal army is indeed well-born, either the nobles or the loyal descendants. However, the problem is that the personal army has been stationed in the Six Kingdoms for a long time, and is responsible for tasks such as the emperor and the prince's guard entourage. He has fought fewer wars, which has led to the decline in combat effectiveness of the personal army now. If he really wants to go out to fight, he will definitely be far inferior to the military guards on the frontier.
They are well-equipped and have good channels for promotion, but they are becoming increasingly unable to fight in practice, which is a big problem for the emperor.
This means that in the near future, the frontier guards' regiments will fight strongly, but the central government's confidant army will become a fool.
Although the Northern Ya Imperial Army, which mainly recruits troops, is sometimes ordered to go to war, and is slightly stronger than the personal army's combat effectiveness, it is also weakening.
If the army does not fight and always stays in a prosperous place, it will be a matter of time before it becomes weaker.
The border troops of the Guard Mansion were trained by veterans and knights who were granted the title, and faced a complex frontier situation. They even had to fight wars to suppress rebellions and suppress bandits, and maintained their combat effectiveness very well.
The establishment of the Northern Imperial Army was considered to be the integration of military and peasants. At the beginning of the founding of the country, wars were frequent. If the military soldiers were recruited frequently, it would delay the cultivation and production of the military soldiers, which would cause the military soldiers to be extremely burdened, resulting in no one in the end.
For this reason, the imperial court set up another imperial guard in the Northern Yaya to recruit soldiers, responsible for guarding the capital and guarding important military towns. Because of recruiting troops, there is no need to rotate, so you can always guard.
"I have drawn up a new military system, everyone can take a look and discuss it."
Chapter completed!