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In the spring of the third year of Tianfu (903 AD).
After being hungry for half a year, the Emperor and the Li and Tang royal families returned to Chang'an after a long absence. This city that was once the center of the world has been in decline. After another fire, most of the Daming Palace, Taiji Palace, and Xingqing Palace were destroyed.
Everything has become a piece of rubble. The broken walls after fire, the courtyard overgrown with weeds, and the collapsed pavilions and buildings all indicate the end of Li Tang's life.
The emperor brought dozens of members of the royal family to live in the Shaoyang courtyard that Cui Yin rushed to repair. They were served by twenty or thirty palace maids. There were no longer the middle-ranking officials who always followed them, and there was no longer the imperial army that formally swore allegiance.
The Li and Tang royal families have truly become lonely. However, the emperor no longer pursues these things. Being able to have a full stomach is a kind of happiness.
With the support of the Xuanwu Army, Cui Yin became the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. He had the final say in the entire court, and all the officials in the court followed his lead. Although Cui Yin's ideal of eradicating the middle officials and integrating the court was realized, Cui Yin
Yin was not happy. He found that this formal power was of little use in reality. All government orders still did not leave Chang'an, and all policies were still unable to be implemented. In fact, Cui Yin's power is even smaller now than in the past.
, he can't control many affairs in Chang'an City.
The new Beiya Shence Army, with 10,000 infantry and cavalry personnel, served as the Xuanwu Army. The new Shence Suweidu Commander Zhu Youlun was the nephew of King Liang, the new Palace Envoy Zhang Tingfan was the favorite of King Liang, and the new Imperial City Envoy Wang Yin
It was the assistant school under Yang Shihou's account, and the new envoy Kong Ji was the servant of King Liang... Under this situation, Cui Yin felt very depressed, so he used the excuse that Li Maozhen was ready to make a move and wanted to invade the capital. The capital's military was weak, so he wanted to
The Nanya Imperial Army was re-recruited. Poor Li Maozhen didn't have the strength to attack. It can only be said that he was stabbed even while lying down.
In the Tang Dynasty, the imperial army was divided into North Yamen and Nanya. The North Yamen was controlled by Zhongguan and was dominated by the Shence Army. The South Yamen was dominated by the imperial court. It has long since disappeared. Cui Yin’s plan to recruit the Nanya Imperial Army again is
In the early stage, we first recruited twelve guards from the six armies, namely the left and right Jinwu guards, the left and right gate guards, the left and right leading army guards, the left and right Qianniu guards, the left and right Xiao guards, and the left and right Wu guards. He is now in charge of three divisions and judges the branches, although the finances are very tight.
, but he still decided to start working on it step by step. After this matter started, Cui Yin's depressed mood finally began to improve.
King Li Maozhen of Qi lost most of the areas within the pass and Shannan, and the territory he controlled was in shambles, so he had to shrink his troops. Only Qi, Long, Jing, the original four states and the relatively barren Longyou were left. Even so, he still
Trying to deal with Xichuan's encroachment was very stressful. If Xuanwu hadn't sent troops to the east, he wouldn't have been able to save Qi, Long, Jing and the original four states.
Hedong was weakened by Xuanwu's defeat. King Li Keyong of Jin now had no intention or strength to pursue the Xuanwu army that had withdrawn from the battlefield. He had to turn his energy to Yunzhou in the northernmost part of Hedong - taking advantage of Hedong's exhaustion, Tuyuhun
The person shows signs of instability.
This spring, the Fengxiang and Jinzhou battlefields that had been fighting extremely fiercely suddenly came to a standstill. As the main force of Xuanwu returned one after another, the eyes of the people in the world turned from the west of the Tang Dynasty to the east, and the focus of the entire Tang Dynasty began to focus.
In the direction of Qingqing.
Zhu Quanzhong and his commander-in-chief returned to Bianzhou from their own army. At the same time, Xuanwu's army divided into three groups and was advancing rapidly towards Mianqing.
The north road is composed of Ge Congzhou, He Delun, Zhang Guihou group, with Ge Congzhou as the commander. It has Taining Army, Huazhou Army, Mingzhou Army, etc., totaling 50,000 soldiers, marching eastward along the south bank of the Yellow River, passing Huazhou, Pu
Prefecture, Yunzhou, and attacked Yanzhou captured by Pinglu Army.
On the middle road were Zhu Youning, Shi Shucong, and Hou Yan's group. With Zhu Youning as the commander, they organized the Wu Army, the Baoda Army, the Zhengzhou Army, etc. A total of 100,000 soldiers marched through Bianzhou, Songzhou, and Xuzhou to attack Yizhou.
On the south road, Yang Shihou and Li Hui were the main forces, and they combined Caozhou soldiers and Shaanzhou soldiers, about 20,000. They used a partial force to maneuver towards Sizhou to defend Huainan.
In addition, the king of Liang used Kang Huaiying to control Shaanzhou and Zhu Yougong to control Hezhong to intimidate Hedong; he used Yuan Xiangxian to control Weizhou, Zhang Cunjing to control Pu and Hua, and Liu Chongba to control Dizhou to build a northward defense line to cover the flanks of the Eastern Expedition army;
The emperor ordered Du Hong, the military envoy of the Wuchang Army, Zhao Kuangning, the military envoy of the Zhongyi Army, Ma Yin, the military envoy of the Wu'an Army, and Lei Yanwei, the military envoy of the Wu Zhen Army, to send troops to Ezhou to contain Huainan; he also ordered Wang Yin, the new imperial envoy who stayed in Chang'an, to go out
He sent Xichuan to make good relations with the King of Shu.
King Wu Yang Xingmi led Li Shenfu to lead ten thousand people by sea into Dongting to resist the enemy, and General Wang Maozhang led seven thousand troops northward to rescue the Pinglu army.
Seeing the green land covered with smoke and clouds, war is about to break out.
This spring, Li Chengzhong also received a letter asking for help from Pinglu Jiedushi Wang Shifan, but there was great controversy within Lulong. The civil service system headed by Feng Dao strongly called for a halt to military operations in order to stabilize Hebei; even the military
Among the General Staff Office, the prudent faction is also the current mainstream opinion.
Looking back at the rise of Li Chengzhong, in just four years, he started with 24 people, and finally dominated the corner of the world, occupying the entire Hebei and outside the customs, becoming a festival.
This speed is no longer slow - of course it is not particularly fast. Thanks to Huang Chao and Qin Zongquan, many people stepped on their corpses and quickly became a vassal town, which also established the world situation of a new generation of warlords.
It took Zhu Quanzhong, the king of Liang, six years to go from joining Huangchao's army to becoming the military envoy of Xuanwu; Li Maozhen, king of Qi, also took six years to move from the army to Fengxiang the military governor; Wang Jian, the king of Shu, went from being a private salt dealer to being the military envoy of Xichuan
, it took five years; it also took five years for another private salt dealer, King Qian Liu of Yue, to go from conquering Huangchao to being granted the title of Zhenhai Jiedushi; King Li Keyong of Jin became King of Guanqin and took three years to serve as Hedong Jiedushi.
; It took the rebel Yang Xingmi a little longer from surrendering to the emperor to becoming the governor of Huainan, but it did not exceed ten years...
In the four years since Li Chengzhong started his career, countless tragic wars have been fought in Hebei. If we only count the wars led by Li Chengzhong himself, they include the defensive battle of Yuguan in the winter of the second year of Guanghua and the battle for Bailangshan in the spring of the third year of Guanghua.
war, the bandit suppression war in Xiaoling River Basin in the summer of the third year of Guanghua, the battle of Lumingwa in the autumn of the third year of Guanghua, the Bohai and Silla Conquest War in the winter of the third year of Guanghua, the Battle of Raoleshan in the autumn of the first year of Tianfu, and the winter of Xiliao in the winter of the first year of Tianfu.
The siege of Ze, the battle to destroy Liu Shouguang in the spring of the second year of Tianfu, the battle of Cangzhou in the winter of the second year of Tianfu, the battle to unify Hebei in the spring of the third year of Tianfu...
An average of one war per year!
In addition to frequent wars, they also face various difficulties. For example, it is the spring plowing season and production needs to be arranged properly; and blood transfusions to Hedong have not stopped, which is also a burden.
The biggest difficulty is the stability of the newly added states and counties. After the unification of Hebei, the Lulong Army added Yizhou, Dingzhou, and Hengzhou that originally belonged to the Yiwu Army, and Jizhou and Zhaozhou that originally belonged to the Chengde Army, and were originally Wei Bojun.
Dezhou, Beizhou, Bozhou and Weizhou were controlled, as well as Xingzhou, Mingzhou and Xiangzhou jointly controlled by Wei Bojun and Xuanwu Army.
Now the territory controlled by the Lulong Army has reached 22 prefectures and 78 counties, and the total population has exceeded 3.3 million, which can be said to be one of the ten common people in the world! This does not include the vast fertile fields outside the customs, nor does it include Bohai, Silla and Ungjin Prefecture!
A large number of officials need to be appointed, a large number of people need relief, a large amount of land needs to be restored to production, and the Jiedu Prefecture Magistrate's Office has a mountain of affairs on hand!
Militarily, the current establishment of the field army together with the General Staff Office totals 40,000 people, and the state and county reserve brigades and battalions total 20,000 people. The total number is only 60,000, accounting for about one-fiftieth of the total population. This number can be
Easily bearable.
According to the standing army system of the General Administration of Military Staff, the recruitment ratio of the standing army is one in thirty, which means that the Lulong Army can expand its army by 40,000 troops. However, in order to reach this number, judging from the current actual situation, it is almost impossible.
It's very possible, unless Li Chengzhong abandons his usual mechanism of raising troops and training them.
The recruitment mechanism of the Lulong Army is mainly carried out by the Training Department. The recruited young men first need to train for three months in a recruit training camp, teach them simple literacy, let them learn and recite various doctrines and regulations, and train their queues
, supplement their nutrition, strengthen their physique, cultivate their habit of strictly observing military discipline, and teach them preliminary battle skills. Until these trainings are completed, they can be regarded as qualified recruits and then be assigned to various armies.
At present, the Lulong Army has three major recruit training bases: Liucheng Training Camp, Huaiyuan Training Camp and Youzhou Training Camp. The normal training capacity of the three bases for recruits totals 6,000, with Liucheng 3,000, Huaiyuan 1,000, and Youzhou 2,000.
In other words, if one period is three months, it would take at least seven periods—nearly two years—to train 40,000 people.
New recruits still need training after joining each army. This period is called the combined drill period, which is mainly to further learn doctrines and regulations, become familiar with military camp life, complete various battle formation drills and cooperate, complete various field march training, and further enhance their professional knowledge.
Training - such as archers focusing on archery, swordsmen and shieldmen focusing on close combat skills, spearmen focusing on lining up to stab, logistics troops focusing on logistics, cavalry focusing on riding tactics, etc. At the same time, a certain degree of training is required.
The actual combat exercises can be friendly forces, bandit suppression, or even regular battles between the enemy and ourselves at low intensity.
The time required for the combined exercise is variable, and it mainly depends on the situation of each army. For example, for units with many veterans, such as the Cangzhou Army, Mozhou Army and the Huaiyo Allied Forces, the combined exercise time is relatively short and can be put into actual combat in three to five months.
In fact, the effect is not bad; if it is an army with few veterans, such as Yingzhou Army and Youzhou Army, the combined exercise will take longer. Even now, Li Chengzhong is somewhat afraid to put these two armies into the battlefield.
In addition to new recruits, the Lulong Army attaches great importance to the training of officers. The tactical system of the Lulong Army has very high requirements for grassroots officers, sergeants and staff officers. If you have not received systematic training in a military school, you want to lead troops in the army, even if you only lead one man.
Even ten people are beyond our capabilities. (To be continued.)