Chapter 663 Mobilization ability that surpasses the times
Chapter 663: Unparalleled Mobilization Ability of the Era
The people of Chang'an were disappointed because Zhang Shengren finally chose Luoyang, the sacred capital, as the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty. This made them, who had always considered themselves orthodox to the Tang Dynasty, feel a little uncomfortable.
But soon, the people of Chang'an found a place where they could comfort themselves.
Because although the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty was in Luoyang, the name Jingzhao Mansion in Chang'an still existed.
Everyone knows that Jingzhao Mansion is the official name of the capital of the imperial court, and Shendu is just a nondescript name given by the crazy bitches of the Great Sage Zetian.
'Compared to our Jingzhao Mansion in Chang'an, it's still inferior!'
An old man who was lame in one leg and had a terrifying scar from the corner of his left eye to his left cheek was talking to himself on the Ba Bridge.
"The Saint's frame is coming! The Saint's frame is coming!" Someone shouted, and the crowd suddenly became commotion, and the old man with the scarred face also stood on tiptoes to look out.
The carriages and flags and drums did appear vaguely in the distance, but before they could see clearly, there were more than ten knights in brocade robes riding horses from a distance.
The first knight, wearing a purple silk robe, shouted loudly to the crowd greeting him in Baqiao.
"The saint will not enter Chang'an City today. He will order all the civil and military officials, honorable ministers and relatives to come to the mausoleum to see the saint."
The so-called Xianling Mausoleum is actually Zhang Yichao's mausoleum located in Liquan County, northwest of Xianyang. This may be the most shabby mausoleum among the emperors of the past dynasties.
Whenever a new dynasty is established, if the ancestors are to be honored, even if they don't know where they are buried, they will definitely build mausoleums, but Zhang Yichao did not.
This mausoleum is not a common mountain tomb in the Tang Dynasty, nor does it have a cemetery.
Because when Zhang Yichao was buried, he was only buried according to the specifications of ordinary officials, and he was not eligible to enjoy the mountain mausoleum and mausoleum Xuan Palace.
After Zhang Ding established the new dynasty, he only built a memorial temple, Shinto and stone beasts for Zhang Yichao's mausoleum. Even the tombstone still reads Taibao of the Tang Dynasty, Zuo Shenwu Commandery of the Army, and Nanyang Founding Duke Zhang Baoyi Chao Gong.
of words.
It's completely unworthy of the name Xianling.
"It's too crude! It's too crude!" Gao Baorong, who was beside Zhang Zhan, said repeatedly: "Sage, the craftsmen who built the mausoleum for King Wu Xin in the former Jing Dynasty are still there. I would like to ask someone to go back to Jiangling to summon them to choose for Huanzu.
rebuild the mountains and mausoleums."
After Gao Baorong expressed his stance, some people immediately spoke out. How come Ma Xiguang is so rare in such things as flattery?
Although this guy is a bit stingy, this is not the time when Ma Chu is still here. In order to save his life, Ma Xiguang is quite willing.
He first gave Zhang Huaiqing a betrothal gift worth 8,000 guan, and now he was thinking of spending more of the 100,000 guan left by Zhang Huaiqing to avoid disaster.
"I second the proposal. When I was in Changsha, I heard that there are fine trees in Chen Shen Mountain by Wenxi River. I would like to ask the sage to allow me to cut down the trees in Wuling Mountain and build a mausoleum for my uncle."
Zhang Gao smiled and waved his hand, "The country is newly established, and everything is in ruins waiting to be revitalized. The people of the world have suffered from two hundred years of war and do not have enough food and clothing. It is not appropriate to carry out large-scale construction at this time.
I want to build a cemetery here, surround it with an earthen wall for three miles, move twenty families here, exempt them from taxes, and let them clean the cemetery."
After saying that, Zhang Yan glanced at Gao Baorong and Ma Xiguang, who were still a little worried. These two people, how should I put it, it was definitely not their intention to donate soil, but their arms could not twist their thighs.
Although I have offered the soil now, I still feel uneasy because from ancient times to the present, not many of them, the lords of subjugation, have been able to die a good death.
The two wanted to play a show of being happy and reluctant to miss Shu, but their skills were not good enough and they did not have the cheekiness of An Le Gong, so they only thought about how to curry favor with Zhang Li to save their family and their lives.
In Zhang Yan's view, Gao Baorong and Ma Xiguang were both somewhat cowardly and not very thoughtful, so it was difficult for Zhang Yan to regard them as threats.
Moreover, sometimes the flattery of these two people was very blunt. It was uncomfortable for them to be photographed, and it was even more uncomfortable for Zhang Yan to be photographed.
At the same time, Zhang Yan still needs the example of the two of them.
If the expedition against Shu goes smoothly, there will only be six countries left in the world: Southern Tang, Qian Yue, Nan Han, Qing Yuan Jun Liu Cong Xiao, Dali, and Jing Hai Hai.
Among them, Nanhan, Dali, and Jinghaijun will definitely be attacked.
The Liu family of the Southern Han Dynasty was a bunch of perverts, and even if they were not beaten, it would not be enough for the common people to get angry.
Dali, where Tong Haijun is located, has not even been completely conquered by the Tang Dynasty, so it must be fought.
Since the death of Wu Quan, Jing Haijun has fallen into a state of separatism between his general Yang Shaohong and the twelve envoys, and must be eliminated by force.
But for the rest of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Qian Yue and Qingyuan's army stayed and followed, and Zhang Yan really didn't want to fight.
Not only are these three places rich, they still have a developed shipbuilding industry. It would be a pity to destroy them.
Moreover, both Li Jing, Qian Yueguojun and Liu Congxiao can be recruited and have no bad records, so Zhang Yan still needs Gao Baorong and Ma Xiguang to set an example for the others.
So Zhang Gao was ready to praise them. He took Gao Baorong and Ma Xiguang's hands and said to them.
"Huanzu was in Hexi in the past and always followed the policy of diligent administration and caring for the people. If he wanted to build a large cemetery and inflict hardship on the people, he would definitely not be willing to do so. If he could be kind to the people, it would be far better than building a mountain mausoleum.
Today I will give you one thousand guan, Dechang (Gao Baorong) and Depi (Ma Xiguang) will each give 500 guan. How about rewarding the old and young in Guanzhong?"
After hearing this, the two of them were extremely moved, and Gao Baorong even choked up.
This is a real promotion. Although they are kings, Zhang Gao does not allow it. They are not qualified to use this kind of reward.
At the same time, it also gave them an extra layer of protection, and Zhang Hao expressed that he was not suspicious of them and had no intention of doing anything to them.
Near noon, civil and military officials and men from all over the country who had been ordered to arrive began to gather outside the Xianling Mausoleum.
Zhang Gao looked around and saw that in addition to the imperial guards from Huwei, Changguo, and Zhenguo towns, and the guard troops from the three guards of Chang'an.
To the north and east of Chang'an, the Inspection Yading, United Archers, Long Spear Yi Cong and Xiao Qi Yi Cong under the control of the seventeen Inspection Departments have all arrived.
There were probably no less than ten thousand people around the Xianling Mausoleum alone. Most of them were wearing linen clothes, and a few were wearing cotton clothes. They were the wealthy people among the common people. Of course, there were even fewer people with horses and armor.
Zhang Zhou's control over armor was different from that of previous dynasties.
Previous dynasties had extremely strict management of private armor. It didn't matter who you were or how high your position was. If you hid more than a certain amount of armor privately, it was a capital offense.
But Zhang Zhou was not. First of all, there were a large number of meritorious soldiers among the people who were given armor by the emperor.
Most of these are military-level officials who have made great achievements. The Privy Council has made rough statistics that there are at least 5,000 sets of civilian cloth-covered iron armor, iron-clad armor, ring mail armor, Central Asian chain mail, etc.
The reason why so many armors are given is to maintain the inheritance of martial arts masters, and also to prepare for future exploration. After all, fighting with armor without armor will be one of the trump cards for Zhang Zhou's warriors to go out.
At the same time, among the people, Zhang Zhou did not prohibit people from owning various leather armors and paper armors with less than three layers. They only needed to register at the Yamen.
Therefore, as long as the folk solidarity athletes and righteous followers have the ability, they will often choose to buy themselves a set of leather armor.
This kind of three-layer leather armor is definitely not good at defending against spears and axes. Needless to say, crossbows and hard bows can also break through this armor.
However, it is still useful to defend against horse-riding bows, horizontal knives, and long and short daggers that are less than eight dou.
Of course, you can also make some magic modifications and embed iron pieces into the leather armor, which will immediately double the defense. But again, once you are found out, you will be exiled at best, or beheaded at worst.
Also strictly prohibited are crossbows, which have a high number of stones and cannot even be defended against cloth-covered iron armor or pierced armor, so they must be banned.
Amidst the sound of golden drums, Zhang Gao walked to the magpie platform where Zhang Yichao's mausoleum was displayed. He ordered his bodyguards in Jinyi to wave flags to signal the athletes of the Qiji Club, Bow and Arrow Club, and Gun and Stick Club of the inspection departments in the distance.
Righteousness comes forward from us.
Each inspection department inspected, and all Qiji, gun clubs, and bow and arrow clubs saw the flag, and immediately organized their athletes and followers to slowly step forward with bows and guns in their hands.
Although these athletes do not have uniform attire, they only wear blue, white and gray linen clothes, which makes them look uneven.
However, they all had red bandages on their foreheads and marched in line under the banner of their respective inspection departments, which looked quite orderly.
When they were fifty or sixty steps away from the magpie platform where Zhang was standing, seven or eight thousand athletes followed the sound of the golden zheng and shouted "Yu Lin! Yu Lin!" twice, and then stood still.
If Meng Shu were here at this moment, the officials of the Southern Tang Dynasty would definitely be shocked, because the discipline displayed by these seven or eight thousand athletes would far exceed that of many of their regular armies.
Zhang Zhi was also very happy. Zhang Zhou had been fighting in these years. The first battle was a bitter battle between Liu Zhiyuan and the Khitan, which lasted until September. Then he immediately started to conquer Nanping and Ma Chu southward, and did not move until the Yuan Dynasty.
Now it is only the end of the first month, and a large army will be sent out to attack Shu.
The frequency of wars cannot be said to be infrequent. Even if they defeated Liu Zhiyuan, the Khitans and pacified Nanping and Ma Chu were not the same group of people, but even if Liu Zhiyuan was pacified, it had only been four months.
The fatigue of the elite in the army is inevitable, so Zhang Gao needs to recruit a large number of auxiliary troops such as united archers and Yicong Xiaoqi.
One is to use them to do dirty and tiring work, and the other is to supervise the elite pro-army and forbidden troops to fight hard.
But don’t think that you are irreplaceable. If anyone dares not to work hard, there are plenty of people who can replace you.
Therefore, the large-scale mobilization in Guanzhong this time was a drill for mobilizing force below the county level in the Guanzhong area. The results made Zhang Yan very satisfied.
With the Forbidden Army and the Guards Army spreading across the countryside, the inspection departments in various places controlled the Qiji, guns and clubs, the bow and arrow clubs, and the martial arts students. The Guanzhong countryside, which was cross-controlled by various government departments, burst out with extremely powerful
mobilization ability.
It was only when Zhang Gao arrived in Huayin County that he issued an edict to start mobilization in Guanzhong. As a result, in just eight days, 6,000 united archers, 4,000 righteous followers with spears, and 2,500 righteous followers and heroic cavalry were mobilized.
Judging from the current situation, these people can be dragged to the battlefield almost immediately, and their combat effectiveness may even be stronger than that of Meng Shu's Zhenya soldiers, because they have a visible promotion path to boost their morale.
Zhang Yan believed that if the time was extended to one month, he could mobilize an army of 100,000 from Guanzhong with a population of 1.7 million in Dingkou.
In addition to the more than two million Dingkou in Longyou, Hexi, half an arm of Northwest alone can provide him with at least 350,000 troops.
Although Zhang Zhi could not bring out so much food, baggage and rewards for such an extreme mobilization, it seems that it is still possible to mobilize 30 to 50 thousand people, and the combat effectiveness is not bad. The troops to conquer Shu will be sufficient at once
stand up.
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Under the banner of the inspection department, there are pairs of shining eyes of adoration and admiration, especially those inspectors standing at the front, who are basically Zhang Yan's acquaintances.
Zhang Shengren walked off the stage, and the scarred face on his head felt extremely familiar to him.
Before Zhang Hao opened his mouth, Scarface knelt on the ground with one knee whimpering, his gray head raised, and he was already shouting.
"Sage, my servant is Zhao Scarzi from Feng'an Town!" After shouting, Zhao Scarzi seemed to have just remembered, and he pretended to shout loudly.
"I, Zhao Yan, the inspection envoy of the Zhaolingdu Inspection Department, come to see the Holy Emperor!"
With that said, Zhao Scarzi was about to kneel down, and Zhang Hao quickly grabbed his arm and pulled him up, and kicked his lame leg unceremoniously.
This guy was a tooth soldier of the Zhangwu Army recruited in Weizhou when Zhang Yan first entered Guanzhong. He injured his leg after the battle at Yanshi City and retired as an officer of the forty-eighth rank Zhongxu Lang to become an inspection envoy.
"Zhao Scarzi, why do you age so fast? Did you just retire and find your aunt?"
Zhang Yan always looked rough when facing such grassroots warriors, which was completely different from when he was with civil servants like Sun Guangxian and Lu Yan.
When Zhao Scarzi heard the emperor talking so intimately to him, he was so excited that he just wanted to jump three feet high. He looked at Zhang Hao with a red face and defended with a laugh.
"Sage, Zhao Scarzi's mother-in-law has been looking for her for a long time. This is all the kindness of the saint. She rewarded Scarzi with three hundred gold and silver, which of course she will use to marry more aunties.
But the saint can rest assured, Scarzi himself is lame, but he has trained several warriors for the saint."
With that said, Zhao Scarzi got up, pulled a person behind him and stood in front of Zhang Gao.
"This is Han Huzi from Zhaoling Village. He can stay awake for three days on a horse. He can shoot a bow from left to right. He can shoot fifteen arrows in a row with more than eight fights of hard bow without resting. He is only seventeen years old this year."
The ability to continuously fire a bow is approximately equal to the magazine capacity of a gun in later generations. This is a very important indicator for archers.
Shooting fifteen arrows in a row with a hard bow of more than eight fights is a very terrifying standard. Generally, such people are very accurate. Fifteen arrows can knock down at least eight or nine people.
This is still at the level of an elite. If he were just a handyman, he might be able to shoot down twelve or thirteen people.
In an army, there are fifty or sixty of these elite archers, and they can shoot almost two to three thousand miscellaneous soldiers so that they dare not step forward, or even directly shoot them to pieces.
Besides, Han Huzi is only seventeen years old, so he has a bright future!
Zhang Gao looked up and down for a few times, then laughed loudly with satisfaction. He looked at the Zhongshu Provincial Luantai waiting for the imperial edict behind him, which was specially used to serve as Zhang Gao's personal military secretary.
"Remember, Zhaolingdu Inspection Department Han Huzi is good at shooting!" After speaking, Zhang Gao patted Han Huzi on the shoulder.
"Kill the enemy bravely, and after passing the provincial martial arts examination, I will promote you to Hanshan Capital."
Han Huzi was so excited that his whole body was trembling. He looked at Zhang Hao eagerly, whimpering but could not say a word. Zhao Scarzi was even more excited when he saw Zhang Hao giving him face like this.
"Saint, I also have warriors under my command." A strong man in the distance howled with hot eyes.
Zhang Hao then patted Zhao Scarzi on the shoulder and walked forward.
Zhang Zhi was already familiar with this strong man. He was from the Shen family of the Liugu tribe in Liangzhou, and his name was Shen Zhixun.
He was originally a warrior of the Zuo Yu Lin Guard and had a promising future. Unfortunately, when he was attacking Du Chongwei of Songzhou, he was shot in the shoulder by a stray arrow. As a result, it became inflamed and he had to cut off his arm to survive.
Call it lucky, he was just as unlucky as Zhang Xiaobao, a promising general who could only retire sadly.
To be honest, unfortunately, with the medical skills of this era, it is difficult for one person in thirty to survive having one arm amputated.
"Shen Zhixun, the inspection envoy of the Hanpi Crossing Inspection Department of Chenhu County, paid homage to the saint!"
"Get up! Get up!" Zhang Hao also quickly helped Shen Zhixun up, touching his empty left sleeve, his eyes turned red very naturally.
"You are my warrior! How can you still get used to life without your left hand?"
A strong man like Shen Zhixun was reduced to tears by Zhang Gao's words.
"It will be difficult for me to serve the saint in this life, and I will be the slave of the saint in the next life.
It’s nothing without my left hand. I have one wife and one concubine, and fifteen tenant households. Whether it’s daily living or farming, I don’t need to do anything myself.”
"That's good! That's good!" Zhang Hao said happily, and he connected the dots like a chicken pecking at rice.
"Gongsun Chai! Why don't you come and pay homage to the saint!" Shen Zhixun shouted, and saw a strong man from the Hanpi Crossing Inspection Department coming out.
Zhang Hao took a look and saw that he was a strong man with a build similar to that of Qiongre Duojin. He was not as strong as a wild bear, but he was more agile. He just walked like a dragon and a tiger, and the earth was shaking.
"This is the chariot of Gongsun, a native of Hu County. His hands have the strength of a thousand catties. He once overturned a bullock at the ferry. He can also fly across the mountains. He often goes to Niushou Mountain to catch apes with his bare hands. Once he enters the forest, he can defeat hundreds of enemies. Soldier."
Good guy, you can knock down bullocks by their horns, and you can catch apes in the mountains. This is a war machine! The roads in Shushan are steep and steep, and it is just right to use such people.
"Also note that Gongsun's chariot when crossing Hanpi was extremely brave and will be used again in the future!"
After Zhang Yan finished speaking, Shen Zhixun and Gongsun Nian burst into joy.
At the same time, the other inspection departments became even more excited. They waved flags and pushed the brave men to the front like a competition.
Zhang Gao went down all the way, and Luantai waited for the imperial edict to record more than a hundred brave men.
There are those who are extremely powerful, those who are great shooters, those who have unparalleled riding skills. There are also those who are good at water fighting, those who are good at mountain fighting, there are all kinds of people.
After the review, Zhang Gao rewarded the athletes and Yi Cong with a piece of white cotton each, and held a banquet outside the Xianling Mausoleum to have a good time with these grassroots soldiers.
They will be key members of the expedition to Shu.