Great time travel

It is a painful experience for a social system to change from a loose state of peace to a compact state of war, just like upgrading a computer's operating system from XP to VISTA.Various incompatibility problems such as crashes, crashes, and information loss will come one after another.

If it can survive, then a rigorous and efficient wartime system will rationally use every social resource in the war and play a great role in winning the war.But if you can't survive, you may be defeated from the inside by your own people before the enemy attacks.

It is a pity that the Song Dynasty has been in a state of being defeated from the inside by its own people from the beginning to the end, and there has never been a wartime system that can maintain its operation. ), out of their own short-term interests, they are trying their best to not help, trying to keep the computer in a dead state forever, so that the wartime system will never appear.

Therefore, this cowardly empire with splendid culture is doomed to go from one collapse to another, until it is finally destroyed.

For example, at this time Emperor Qinzong Zhao Huan was shocked to find that even though the invading Jin soldiers had been destroyed, the court still had no way to recover the lost ground!

Specifically, it is even impossible to send a few groups of people to those lost states and counties as "receiving officers"!
"...It's really unreasonable! The current imperial court is full of troops and only has [-] soldiers and horses to use? And even the imperial squadron guarding the palace is counted? Chief?"

In the imperial study room of the Bianliang Palace, Qinzong Emperor Zhao Huan, who had just returned from a feast in "New Tokyo", knocked on the imperial case angrily, and scolded in great displeasure, "...don't you know that if Hebei If the land cannot be restored for a long time, will the world be in trouble from now on?"

"... Your Majesty Qizuo, although it is hard to talk about this matter, the imperial court indeed has only [-] soldiers left, which is only enough to barely defend the capital."

Prime Minister He Su replied helplessly, "...Although the ministers intend to go north, there are no more soldiers in the court, so what can we do?!"

——Comrades who have read "Water Margin" should know that the Northern Song Dynasty had the so-called "80 Forbidden Army".But this combat power... is a bit horrible.

In the military system of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Forbidden Army was equivalent to the regular national army, the Xiang Army was equivalent to the local armed police force, and the township soldiers were the militia.

Unlike previous dynasties, the "Forbidden Army" in the Northern Song Dynasty did not refer to the Royal Imperial Forest Army, but the general term for the standing regular army of all countries.Theoretically, the Forbidden Army does not recruit soldiers from the civilian population, but selects strong soldiers from the Xiang Army.But from the mid-Song Dynasty, the decrees in this regard became waste paper.Not only began to recruit a large number of soldiers from the people, but also the source of the soldiers and the purpose of the recruitment are simply incredible in the eyes of future generations!

——Like other feudal dynasties, famines often occurred in the Northern Song Dynasty, and when a famine occurred, a large number of victims and refugees would inevitably be produced.There are hundreds of thousands or even millions of these people.If it is not handled properly, a peasant uprising will surely break out.In other dynasties, most of the hungry people were allocated food or divided land for resettlement, but the Song Dynasty was completely different.Once a famine occurred in a certain place, the first thing the emperor did was not to distribute food to relieve the disaster, but to send officials to raise flags to recruit soldiers, and recruit young and middle-aged men among the victims into the imperial army.As a result, after each famine, the number of imperial troops in the Song Dynasty increased significantly.

Why did the emperor of the Song Dynasty do this?Because in the eyes of the emperor, the large number of disaster victims gathered was a huge threat to the ruling order.If it is just a simple relief, there will definitely be omissions.For example, officials are corrupt and make false accounts, etc. If the rescue fails, it will trigger civil uprisings.That being the case, it is better to take the opportunity to recruit him into the army.Because the organization of the army is the strongest, and there are special barracks and funding guarantees.In this way, it not only appeases the victims, avoids civil uprisings, but also takes the opportunity to absorb a large number of young and middle-aged people and expand its military strength, which can be called the best of both worlds.Even if someone wants to take the opportunity to make trouble, because all the able-bodied men of the victims have been drawn into the army, and the rest of the old, weak, sick and disabled cannot be beaten, even if they want to rebel, they can't make trouble.

Under this kind of thinking, the Forbidden Army of the Song Dynasty quickly degenerated from the country's elite armed forces into a refugee camp for all kinds of life losers.

——From the time of Renzong, the number of imperial troops in the Northern Song Dynasty expanded rapidly.By the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the number of banned troops nationwide had reached an unprecedented 100 million or more!After adding Xiangjun and Xiangbing, the total number of troops in the entire Northern Song Dynasty reached a terrifying 200 million! !The number of forbidden troops stationed in the capital Bianliang alone exploded to a full 80... This is the origin of the so-called "Tokyo 80 forbidden troops" in literary works such as "Water Margin".

What's even more frightening is that the "80" is only the number of soldiers. In fact, more family members accompanying the army have to be counted—because the Forbidden Army has recruited a large number of victims, and most of the victims are young and middle-aged. Family members need to be resettled.So an incredible scene happened: Kaifeng, the majestic capital of the Song Dynasty, the Forbidden Army barracks that should have been heavily guarded with gold and iron horses, turned out to be like the family quarters all day long, filled with a large number of old and weak women and children!Soldiers of the Forbidden Army lived with their wives and children in the barracks, and even opened restaurants, tea shops, etc.!And it's legal! !
——A rapidly expanding army like this quickly exceeded the financial capacity of the imperial court.Coupled with the wanton corruption of military salaries by officers at all levels, many officers and soldiers of the Imperial Army could not survive and became deserters.For this reason, the imperial court had to allow the army to support themselves by doing business or farming.

Due to the fact that there has been no war for more than 100 years in a row, and the economy is highly developed.As a result, the Forbidden Army in Bianliang, the capital, had no intention of training troops at all.And the officers are busy collecting money all day long, let alone rectifying the army.Soldiers opened small workshops, and officers opened black brick kilns; soldiers saved money to buy land to plant small vegetable gardens, and officers seized the land to open large farms; From small soldiers to officers, the whole army no longer practices martial arts, but instead makes money by doing business and farming!
Later, the "Great Song Army Enterprise" has covered all aspects from food sales to brothels, creating huge profits for the private pockets of officials every year, and also saving a lot of military expenditure for the country...but it leads to The complete destruction of the army's combat effectiveness.

Due to the low status of the soldiers, the officers generally deducted a large amount of military pay, embezzled the soldiers' property, even forcibly took the soldiers' wives and daughters, and even raped the soldiers' wives and daughters before selling them to the brothels they opened!As a result, a large number of deserters were triggered.At first, the court also hunted down deserters or recruited troops to replenish its troops.But the officers found that they could take the opportunity to steal the Mexican army's salary by reporting the vacancy!So they concealed the deserters, reported false names, and even took the initiative to drive the soldiers out of the barracks, and then reported some false names... There are even strange things like ghosts who have died for more than 30 years and are still paid on the imperial salary list. , so that it caused a serious shortage of personnel in the Bianliang Forbidden Army, but there were not many of them on the books.

Such an absurd approach eventually led to a ridiculous scene: In the first year of Jingkang, Jurchen cavalry drove straight in and crossed the river to Bianliang. Liang's imperial army checked and found that the capital had 80 imperial troops on the books, but in fact there were only 77!Eat a full [-] people!

What's more terrible is that even the remaining [-] Bianliang Forbidden Army are mostly slick but not useful.

You must know that the Great Song Dynasty has lived a peaceful life for more than a hundred years. Not to mention young people, even the white-haired old people on the border will not know how to fight in their lifetime.After more than a hundred years of no war, the capital's armaments have long been ruined. Those soldiers of the imperial army are experts in provoking chickens and dogs in the market and oppressing goodness, but when it comes to fighting, few of them can hold their swords and guns.

——In general, the Bianliang Forbidden Army at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty is like the Eight Banners in the late Qing Dynasty, and there is basically no need to count on their combat effectiveness.

In the just-concluded second Bianliang defense battle, the Song army defending the city claimed to have [-] soldiers, but most of them were temporarily recruited "irregular troops" such as township soldiers and militiamen. Even monks and Taoist priests were forcibly Conscripted to fight—This kind of completely untrained troops can at best defend the city and throw stones. Going out of the city to fight in the field is tantamount to courting death—the real imperial army was originally only [-]. Only [-] people escaped, and although the next second raid was fruitful, the [-] warriors who left the city were almost wiped out... Coupled with the losses in the battle of defending the city, now only Bianliang is left. With about [-] forbidden troops, plus those very unreliable militiamen, how can they still go out to recover the lost land?
——The Forbidden Army in the capital is already rotten, and the remaining ones that are not rotten have been wiped out, so what about the local Forbidden Army?

Since the main military pressure of the Song Dynasty was in the north, the local Forbidden Army was mainly divided into two parts, the Hebei Forbidden Army stationed on the Song-Liao border and the Kansai Forbidden Army against Xixia.Among them, after the signing of the Tanyuan Alliance and the peace talks between the Song and Liao Dynasties, the Hebei Imperial Army, like the Imperial Imperial Army, had not fought for a hundred years, and they were equally rotten.The Guanxi Forbidden Army maintained a certain combat effectiveness due to years of fighting with the Xixia people, and became the only mobile combat force that could fight in the late Northern Song Dynasty—whether it was the Northern Expedition to Yanyun, the extermination of Fang La, or the struggle with the Jin soldiers on the Hebei battlefield. Fighting, all rely on the Kansai Forbidden Army.

But the problem is that after a full year of intense attrition, the Kansai Imperial Army has been annihilated by the Jin soldiers with more than 20 active forces, and 20 people have become deserters.In addition, when Song and Jin formed an alliance to attack Liao, the two major defeats under the city of Yanjing... Now Shaanxi is already full of mourning and mourning. Those soldiers and horses still have to resist Xixia, and there is really no way to draw soldiers anymore!

As for the Forbidden Army in various parts of the South, the number is scarce, and the sum of them is less than a fraction of the Forbidden Army in the North, but the situation of the destruction of armaments is even more serious.The only troops that were barely able to fight had already been drawn to King Qin of Bianliang, and then wiped out one by one by the Jin soldiers... The Jiangnan and Huguang areas are completely undefended. If there is another Fangla Rebellion, only I'm afraid it can sweep hundreds of states and counties in no time!
Faced with such an unprecedented predicament of "there are no soldiers in the world", what should the scholar-bureaucrats of the main combat faction in the court use to regain lost ground in the Northern Expedition?
——The army of the Song Dynasty adopted a professional mercenary system, and there was no reserve system in the local area. Once the limited number of professional troops was wiped out, it was difficult to replenish quickly.And it will take at least half a year for an army to start from recruiting strong men and training officers until it becomes combat-ready!

What's more, today's Great Song Dynasty is facing the haze of a royal family infighting besides the dilapidated mountains and rivers...

"... Qi Zou officials, today's Guanxi Imperial Army has suffered heavy casualties, and they can no longer be transferred in a hurry, otherwise it would be tantamount to giving the west of Tongguan to the Xixia Party. The Hebei Imperial Army and the Imperial Imperial Army were beaten to pieces. , there is no one out of ten... Right now, the Great Song Dynasty has no soldiers invincible!"

Prime Minister He Su said, "...besides... I'm sorry to say bluntly, today's family's biggest worry is not with the Jin captives, but within the Xiao Qiang!"