As for the so-called power and strength of an army, we can reflect the level of combat power from the most superficial number of troops and armament, but these do not talk about the fundamentals.
The number of the Northern Army has indeed shrunk a lot during the major reforms, but the small number only eliminated a group of old and weak people. The streamlined Northern Army's combat effectiveness has actually increased a lot.
The saint established the Seven Military Mansion. It seemed that the saint took the initiative to delegate power, but in fact it was a conspiracy to centralize power.
In the past, due to the need for war, although the border troops were of low rank, they had a high status. Even the Sixteenth Guards of Nanya became the sphere of influence of the border troops. The local Zhechong Prefecture only followed the lead of the border troops. Most of the Sixth Army of the Emperor of the Saint were also border troops. Born as a prince, the six commanders of the East Palace were mainly after the border army.
In the past, the sage Zhao Yumin relied on the frontier army when the war was urgent. In Daqian, everything in the country also turned to the frontier army. Now that the war has calmed down, how could the sage Zhao Yumin let the frontier army continue to dominate the entire country?
All armies need to seek power, and saints follow the trend. Don't they want power? They establish governments and open offices. Who wouldn't be jealous of the dividends of power?
It seems that the Border Army has four more military mansions, but they also have the Zhongjun Palace, the Forbidden Army Palace, and the Xiangjun Palace. The Border Army got a name in the major reform, but it did not get many real benefits. On the contrary, More things were given up, and the battle for military power between the generals in Border Town and the Forbidden Army turned into a battle between the seven armies.
The Northern Army suffered the most severe damage here. Zhechong Prefecture only had two roads in Guannai and Hedong Road, plus ten prefectures in Longyou, one increased and one decreased.
The adjustment of Zhechong Mansion caused disputes between the Ministry of War and the various armies.
The forces of the Sixteenth Guards of Nanya were wiped out by the Ministry of War because of a forbidden military palace. The Ministry of War had lost its reputation before, but it gained the real power of the Sixteenth Guards of Nanya that should have belonged to the Ministry of War.
The Sixth Army of Beiya intervened, and now because of the Zhongjun Mansion, the sage Zhao Yu has militia power.
In the past, the Northern Army had always been responsible for guarding against the Western Army. In the ten states of Longyou, Su Ce did not want to think about this opportunity to expand his power. The saint forced him to feed it, but this also created a gap in the previous pace of the Northern Army's Western Army.
The current situation is that the border armies are falling apart, the four sides are no longer united, and the Chinese Army and the Forbidden Army have heavy troops.
The Sage of the Ministry of War has gained military power, and the back of the Ministry of War has become stronger. The Sage does not need to deploy Ling Guards for everything. Only one Qianzhou can send out as many troops as possible. Now he also has the opportunity to recuperate and recuperate.
It was originally a battle between the Forbidden Army and the Border Army. Now the Forbidden Army is divided into two. The Ministry of War holds the Forbidden Army Mansion, the Saint holds the Zhongjun Mansion, and the Xiangjun Mansion is still empty. But among the three military mansions, the Saint Zhao Yumin has already established An invincible position, because now the border armies have long been separated from each other, and the practice of the four sides advancing and retreating together has become a thing of the past.
The Northern Army and the Western Army were at loggerheads with each other because of Longyou Ten Road. The Southern Army and the Eastern Army were at odds. After reading the Ministry of War report, Su Ce also knew that the Saint had caused the two armies to no longer be united because the Saint had brought down the neglected Daqian Navy. It is divided into three. The current naval force of the Eastern Army of the Southern Army has been designated as the Navy. There is also a navy under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War and is responsible for water transportation on large rivers. The sea has been handed over to the Eastern Army of the Southern Army. Although the two armies have just been established and opened. However, there were endless quarrels in the Ministry of War over the division of sea areas.
Su Ce wanted to safeguard the status of the Northern Army and took the first step to clean up the Northern Army's portal.
The Northern Army has been fighting for hundreds of years. If you want to maintain your position and not be controlled by others, the most important issue at the moment is not the number of troops or the incompatibility of the generals, but the preservation of the Northern Army's armament and equipment.
In the past, when there were wars, the Armed Forces Management Department needed military equipment, but the military department was not enough, so they were transferred from Qianzhou, and the baggage and supplies were sent to the Household Department. If the Household Department was not enough, they were provided by the inner government.
There is no war now, and the number of Northern troops guarding the border has been reduced a lot. It is not that Su Ce took the initiative, but that the weapons and supplies provided by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household Affairs can only support these soldiers.
Therefore, the second step Su Ce is preparing now is to unify the weapons and equipment.
Su Ce had already experimented before, and the auxiliary baggage train was a very successful attempt.
But this is just an attempt.
Not to mention anything else, although the Ministry of War has set the standards for weapons, due to the differences in craftsmen in the production areas, the weapons and equipment in the army are only similar in style, but they look the same.
Take the most common soldiers as an example. The armor and weapons are all funded by Zhechong Mansion. The armor is prepared and stored in Zhechong Mansion’s arsenal. No matter how rich you are, you cannot make your own armor privately. This causes Although the armors and stomachs on the soldiers of different Zhechong Prefectures have the same style, the thickness of the armor pieces is very different. Because the richness of the territories in Zhechong Prefecture is different, the armor-making money given to the soldiers by the soldiers is different. The armors and stomachs of the same shape, The weight can vary by five kilograms.
In addition, many armors and stomachs are passed down from father to son, and from son to grandson. The shape of the armors and stomachs of the Ministry of War has been adjusted no less than ten times in the past hundred years. This means that although the armors and stomachs in the army maintain a similar style, they are actually one armor per person.
After talking about armor and stomach, there are also weapons. Taking a newly promoted soldier as an example, the Ministry of War regulations require a long spear, a bow, two pots of arrows, two horizontal knives, and a shield, but in fact these are only the most basic weapons. , so when it comes to garrisoning, an arsenal is still needed to equip these soldiers with additional weapons.
Where do the additional weapons come from?
Given by the Ministry of War or captured on the battlefield.
And there is another biggest problem: weapons will be lost due to time and combat, and these losses still have to be paid for by the arsenal.
The Ministry of War gritted its teeth and accepted the reason for the war, but now that there is no war, the Northern Army's frontier army arsenal has been going out more and taking in less in the past six months, and its armaments have been reduced by 10%. Su Ce has sent requests to the Ministry of War several times. All documents related to military equipment were suppressed and not issued.
This problem is not only faced by the Northern Army, but also by other armies. Although each army has its own military craftsman who can repair and make weapons, this is also an emergency method.
Therefore, Su Ce's second medicine was to unify the weapons and equipment of the Northern Army.
The most important thing here is the armor and stomach. On the battlefield, you can eat wheat, rice and millet. As long as you are full, you will have the strength to kill the enemy. But if the weapons are not good and the armor and stomach are not strong, what can you use to kill the enemy?
The horizontal sword is straight and can break armor very well, but it is easy to break. This is why the soldiers of the government carry two swords on the battlefield, and even strong ones will bring three swords.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Su Ce asked the noble generals and heads of the left and right halls to discuss this matter in Zhi Ge Hall. This matter may seem inconspicuous, but as long as the effect is Anyone who has been on the battlefield understands this.
The first is the most basic horizontal sword. Jiuhu has been wiped out by the Northern Army. The next ones will face the Russians, and the Russians have a higher armor rate. In the Battle of Dashi, which Su Ce experienced personally, the old coach Li Sizhe can win. , relied on hard crossbows and heavy shots, and the heavy armored soldiers risked their lives to stabilize the position.
There were many factors for that victory, but it also woke up Su Ce.
Although the blade of today's sword is very thick, in that battle, if Su Ce had not had a thick horizontal sword to protect himself, and only relied on the standard horizontal sword, Su Ce would have been killed by the sword, so Su Ce first had to Strengthen the thickness of the horizontal knife.
Next is the crossbow, which is used in frontier battles. The significance of close combat is not to kill the enemy, but to stabilize the position. The real thing to kill the enemy is to rely on the crossbow.
The arm-shaped crossbow used by Su Ce in the first battle cannot be used by a strong person, but as for the crossbow, of course, the current way of fighting determines that the crossbow used for defense is not taken seriously. Of course, this does not mean that the crossbow is useless. Crossbows, but the military attaches more importance to fast-shooting bows.
Su Ce prepared two types of crossbows. They were called Pojun and Pozhen. Both were based on the original chariot crossbow. The original chariot crossbow was a three-bow crossbow, but they were both smaller and enlarged versions. Pojun The range is 400 steps, and it can hit ten misses. The range of breaking formation is 700 steps, and it can hit seven misses, or it can hit single misses made of iron.
Regarding the bow, Su Ce did not plan to change it, because Daqian's bow body had already reached its potential, so Su Ce paid more attention to the bow string. The main consumption on the bow was the bow string. The bow was used for fighting, and the bow string was usually kept in the skin. However, even so, the preservation of bowstrings has always been a headache, so what Su Ce could do was to classify the bowstrings and wrap them in lard-soaked paper for preservation.
In addition, the shape and load of the baggage trains, the daily ration of food, and the types of wartime food were all discussed and decided one by one. Su Ce proposed that the food needs to be adjusted during wartime. Originally, although meat was eaten during the war, there was also wine. Drink, but it is still a bit rough. Simply fry the meat, preserved fruits, corn, etc. and grind them into powder. Add salt, powdered lard, stir it into a lake shape, and press it into a mold with a stone mortar to form four. The small square strips are wrapped in oil-soaked paper and are very convenient for rationing both in wartime and in peacetime.
Because of the large volume of Royal Paper, bamboo paper is now very cheap, so oil paper brushed with tung oil really doesn't cost a lot of money.
Forty or fifty people discussed for an entire afternoon, but only five things were decided. The first was that the Northern Army's armored stomachs needed to be unified in shape. Different shapes made it impossible to identify grades and military branches. The second was that the weapons should focus on breaking armor. After all, we will face the Russians who have a higher armor rate in the future. The third thing is to update and maintain the bed slaves equipped on the fortress, and the fourth thing is to distribute the bow strings regularly.
The fifth thing is to divide the food into garrison rations and war rations. The garrison rations still follow the original method, but the types are increased, and the war rations have additional processing procedures. However, this is what Su Ce wants to do most, eat food as a soldier. , the food becomes better, and the fighting strength naturally increases.
Su Ce plans to have the Dingbei Protectorate make this kind of pressed war rations for a long time. The Su Mansion has tried to make it before, and now there is one cake among the pastries in Chang'an City. The pastry known as "biscuit" is the same.
In this way, as long as you put a lime bag to keep it dry, wrap it in so-called oil paper, and store it, you can still guarantee that it will not go bad for a month in the summer.
At present, the Anbei Protectorate only makes small batches, mainly to train people who can make it. If it is more than 20 days, it is distributed to the soldiers for teething ceremony, and then adjusted according to the taste, so that the soldiers can adapt in advance. When the war comes, they will make it with all their strength and transport it like this.
Food and grass can alleviate a lot of baggage pressure.
But after an afternoon of deliberation, everyone turned their attention to Su Ce. Su Ce knew that he still had no money to make trouble.
"The recipe and business of the biscuits have been given to the Beijun Mansion. I, who is rumored to be a wealthy man in Chang'an, will not deprive my soldiers of good food. Now that there are fewer soldiers, every registered soldier of the government must
If the names of the people are the same, how much money can you get by eating the soldiers' blood?
This business plus the oil paper business are all given to Beijun Mansion. I have a share in the paper business in the inner government, and the paper used for oil paper is exchanged with my share. In this way, no one else can take away the oil paper business. The two businesses last a year.
I will come down with 700,000 to 800,000 guan, and leave 600,000 guan for the brothers guarding the border to eat more. The rest will be given to you. How much money will you get from eating the blood of the soldiers? In the past, if you dropped a few thousand guan, you would not be afraid of cold arrows.
These five things seem to cost a lot, but in fact they really don’t cost much. There are iron ore and coal mines in Langyan Mountain. The gold, silver and copper mines belong to the saints. Whoever touches them will lose their heads. The coal mines and iron mines need the Duke of Chu to go to the court.
If you want it, let's spend some money to hire craftsmen and spend a small amount of money to do big things. The Beijun government doesn't have this money, so I'll put it down first." Su Ce didn't understand what everyone was thinking, but Su Ce was willing to pretend to be the scapegoat.
Although the copper coins were exchanged for gold and silver, gold and silver were outnumbered. Furthermore, the Su Mansion now has more than a hundred businesses. This does not mean that hundreds of shops have been opened, but that there are hundreds of industries, and the Su Mansion is involved in them.
Otherwise, the Detective Cavalry and Sword Department would not have selected hundreds of people to serve as Su Mansion's restaurants. These people are stewards from all walks of life, and there are also junior stewards and shopkeepers under them.
The Ministry of War suppressed the documents requesting supplies from the Beijun Mansion and refused to issue them. There was no saintly intention in this. Su Ce didn't believe it. No matter how powerful the Ministry of War was without the support of a saint, he would not dare to do anything to anger the Beijun Mansion.
After all, more money makes people jealous. Although the sage Zhao Yumin has more money and food, he also spends more. Looking back, he found that Su Ce was involved in the inner government business, so he said that Su Ce had so much money.
What do you want to do? If you don't find an excuse at this time, Su Ce is really afraid that the saint Zhao Yumin will accuse him of treason.
So now, even though Su Ce has a thousand households and supports so many people by farming, everyone should tighten their belts and live hard. Baiguojing is Su Ce's first business, and this business will be passed down to the Su family from now on.
Home business.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! As for other benefits, Su Ce feels that they should be used for the Beijun. Status is not given by others, but earned by himself.
Why did Duke Xiangcheng of the Chu State give in to Su Ce? Was it because the saint supported Su Ce? As long as the Duke of Chu wanted to do anything he wanted to do, as long as it was not rebellion, the saint would always give him dignity. But for Su Ce,
Nowadays, Gongxiang City of Chu State has no idea of fighting anymore. If nothing else, Su Ce's trick of throwing money at people makes people feel painful and happy.
It can be said that the morale of the Northern Army, up and down, was created by Su Ce with money and food, but this is not his ability.
Furthermore, if he forced Su Ce out of the Northern Army, the happiest person would not be the generals in the army who were suppressed by Su Ce, but the Minister of Household Affairs or the Imperial Order. These two people were very interested in Su Ce's idea of making money.
Extremely envious.
Maybe if he loses his position as military commander, then the position of Prime Minister or Minister of Household Affairs will be Su Ce's. In a few years, it will become more awkward for him to see such a tall figure like Su Ce standing among the civil servants.
No more fighting, Su Ce can do whatever he wants. As long as Su Ce is in the Northern Army, the military families who depend on the Northern Army will have a better life, and the generals are also rich. What people want in this life is not fame and fortune. Su Ce is the leader of the Northern Army.
The name given is limited, but the money is really given.
And to put it bluntly, Su Ce was forced to leave, but the relatives of the Duke of Chu's government couldn't deal with him because they had less income. Even if the army was used to a good life, who would want to live a hard life again.
Moreover, Su Ce's business has not yet been snatched. Su Ce only has a share in the business of the Saint's inner palace and cannot be robbed. Su Ce's business is still handled by the people from the Detective Cavalry and Sword Department, which makes it even more untouchable. Gao Xuan and Bei
The sword department on top of the army's head has the responsibility of supervising the army. Those who are detrimental to the Northern Army may disappear one day. Even if he is the Duke of Chu, he has the heir apparent anyway. If something happens to him in Xiangcheng, the Northern Army's
The Guogong Mansion still exists.
Looking at the high-spirited Su Ce, Xiang Cheng felt envious, jealous, unwilling, and convinced.
It seems that people who don't care about anything have not made any big moves in the military, but in recent years they have found another way and used business that no one looks down on to weave a web that no one can touch.
The sage Zhao Yumin did not dare to touch Su Ce, because with just one idea from Su Ce, the inner government had a new business that could earn dozens of dollars a year. How could this be a military leader? He was obviously the God of Wealth of the royal family.
The business wanted to distribute profits to Su Ce, but instead of buying land, Su Ce's money was given to the Beijun Army, and the money was spent on the Beijun Army. In turn, it was not that the saint Zhao Yumin spent less money.
Sometimes when Su Ce couldn't sleep at night, he would think about it. If one day he offended the saint Zhao Yumin, the first person to ask for mercy would be the imperial eunuch, and the second person would be the minister of household affairs. As for the noble generals of the Northern Army,
You still have to carry it back.
After discussing the next actions in the court with everyone, it was already approaching evening. Su Ce did not plan to entertain these people because it was not necessary, and there was still a certain age gap between Su Ce and them. Gong Xiangcheng of Chu State came today to understand
I gave in and went straight to the left hall when I didn't see it coming today.
So Su Ce said hello to everyone, and took over Jiang Lan, who had just come back and was guarding the door. They were peers. In the evening, they cooked mutton in the house. In the morning, his daughter shouted that the sheep looked good, so Su Ce went out.
Let the house kill a sheep and eat mutton on a hot day, who cares!
Xiangcheng, the Duke of Chu State, saw Su Ce pulling his son away and felt relieved. Su Ce was saving his face!
"Everyone, my master's war horse Hei Lang gave birth to a foal this morning. He is strong and strong. I am happy. Let's go. There will be a banquet at the Victory Building tonight. Everyone will join us!"
"Haha, together, together!" Zhao Tan, the Duke of Yueyang County, laughed and agreed. The others also needed a place to chat about romance and agreed to go together. As for the stallion of Chu Guogong, which gave birth to a pony in the morning
Queen Ju can still carry the Duke of Chu to the Beijun Mansion, so why is there such a small thing tied up at the door of the Beijun Mansion? Don't go into details.
Everyone arrived at the Victory Building as the sun set. As soon as Xiangcheng, the Duke of Chu State, entered, he shouted to the shopkeeper: "I'm not going upstairs today. I'll make a yard in the back so that I can hold a banquet. I heard that another car and a hundred people arrived at the Victory Building."
Make fine wine and roast ten sheep. I and the Zepao will not return until they are drunk!"
When the white-haired old shopkeeper heard that business was coming to his door, he asked the waiter to greet the guests to the courtyard behind him. He took Xiang Cheng, the Duke of Chu State, and when he saw no one around, he slapped Xiang Cheng hard:
"Boy, Baiguo Brewing, the Duke's Mansion your father gave you can withstand your spending money, you prodigal!"
Xiang Cheng had a bitter smile on his face: "Uncle Fan, the money in my house can't be withstood. It's hanging on the Marquis's account in Jingyang County. This guy is ruthless. I'll fight him for the power of the Northern Army House, and we'll lose even before we fight."
I’m not willing to accept it anymore, so I’ll spend a few stinky money on him and make him mad to death!”
The old shopkeeper patted Xiang Cheng on the shoulder and sighed: "Su Xiaothief, you have a good way to make money. We have never seen a military leader in the army who uses money to hit people, but he can hit people with money. Everyone is convinced. This is the first
This is probably the last one. After the big reform, the imperial army was in chaos. The saint wanted to mobilize the border troops, and they had to mobilize on all four sides. After getting through it, the Northern Army was still the Northern Army. You were in the Imperial Palace, and he was in the Northern Army Mansion.
, you two must make peace with the generals and protect the Northern Army!"
Xiang Cheng, the Duke of Chu State, had a bitter look on his face and nodded: "It is true that the generals should be harmonious. I thought I was a general and he was a general, but I didn't expect that I would be a general and he would be a handsome man. You shouldn't have chosen him back then."
Su Ce, this guy does things grandly, but he always drives people to the dead end!"
The old shopkeeper shook his head and said: "Su Xiaothief's work indeed forces people to go to a dead end, but he does not kill all those who go to a dead end. On the contrary, you are still close to the fire. Last year's matter, although it is urgent, a
Who can be deceived by the beast tide?"
Xiangcheng, the Duke of Chu, shook his head and said: "My military exploits cannot convince the public, so I can only rely on this fierce power. Although it is a bad idea, but Su Ce is beside me, if I don't take action to establish prestige for the Duke's government, his reconnaissance cavalry will
The sword department will take action!"
The old shopkeeper nodded, sighed and said: "The situation is too fast. We are all old and can't see clearly. We and Li Sizhe were forced to go to Nanshan by Su Xiaozi, and we will go down the mountain this time."
Let's see if you can defend the Northern Army. Now it seems that we old guys are no longer needed. You are no match for Su Xiaothief, let alone other outsiders. I should go back to the mountains tomorrow morning. Those with swords
The scouts are keeping a close eye on me, so if I stay too long, Su Xiaothief will be worried!"
"Farewell, Shibo!" Xiang Cheng, the Duke of Chu State, watched the old shopkeeper leave, followed by a young boy. Xiang Cheng just pretended not to see it and just sighed, letting go of the suffocation in his heart.
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Many times, there is no way to say who is right and who is wrong. Everyone makes their own choice in their own position, and even the choice is not their own, but a choice of interests.
Rather than saying that the older generation of Northern soldiers chose Su Ce, it is better to say that the will hovering over the illusory Northern Army chose Su Ce, because choosing Su Ce was more beneficial to the Northern Army than others.
Times create heroes, but heroes cannot create times.