Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 229 Zhu Wei's Military System

Up to now, Tai Shici is still a guest general. Originally, Zhu Wei also promised Tai Shici that he could lead the army independently, so Zhu Wei gave Tai Shici [-] soldiers when he was in Lingyang County.

Now that Zhu Wei's army has expanded, naturally Tai Shici can't let Tai Shici still only bring the original [-] soldiers.

In fact, in the military system constructed by Zhu Wei, generals do not have direct jurisdiction over the army. Even for Pang Yan and Mu Lan, Zhu Wei only gave two or one personal guards at most, that is, a maximum of one thousand To about 500 people.

The other soldiers are under the command of Pang Yan and Mulan only when Zhu Wei gives the military power, but these soldiers are not normal, and the commander-in-chief may change at any time.

This was also a common method used by the military branch system of the Han Dynasty to control the power of generals and commanding troops.

In the military system of the Han army, the formation is usually based on a team of 500 people, and the military marquis who manages an army is regarded as the most senior permanent military attache among the grassroots officers.

Such a unit of 500 people usually will not easily change the commander of the military, unless the military is promoted.

But even if the military marquis is promoted to a school lieutenant, the troops he originally commanded can follow the promoted military marquis to other army formations, and in the end it can even become the military marquis' personal guard formation.

Anyway, a military lord can command at least one trilogy that he is very familiar with, and he will train his soldiers wholeheartedly, so that he can command this trilogy to fight well on the battlefield.

Of course, when it comes to real wars, a few troops often make up an army. At this time, the imperial court needs to order a lieutenant and a military commander to command a army of thousands of people to fight.

Generally speaking, these lieutenants and military commanders who command several troops are enough to fight an independent battle and have the strength to complete a military order.

However, in the event of a large-scale war, the imperial court would appoint a senior general with the title of general to command several troops, and then there would be assistant officials such as Chang Shi and Sima to provide logistical, administrative and military assistance.

However, in order to prevent their generals from supporting themselves, the emperor of the Han Dynasty usually could not control a large number of troops for a long time. Unless there was a big war, the emperor could not conscript himself, so he had to go to the stage to pay homage to the generals, grant the senior generals certain military power, and lead the troops to fight. .

But the Chang Shi and Sima under the senior generals actually wanted to decentralize their powers for surveillance, so as to prevent the senior generals from having any other ideas after receiving military power.

Once the war is over, these high-level generals will naturally not be able to continue to lead the army. They must return the commanding talisman such as the tiger talisman to the emperor and surrender their military power.

And the school lieutenant who commands a few soldiers and horses also cannot have such military power for a long time. Generally, they will be rotated to other troops within one to three years.

That is to say, except for low-level officers who can only control five hundred soldiers, other high-ranking generals and lieutenants cannot control a large number of troops for a long time. This is the strict control of military power by the emperor of the Han Dynasty.

At most, senior generals can be allowed to have about one or two personal guards. These personal guards are also paid for by the state, which can be regarded as the state's protection for the life safety of senior generals.

After all, high-ranking generals are valuable resources on the battlefield. If they are not protected, the enemy can assassinate them one by one before the battle begins. If there is no high-ranking general to lead the troops, how can they go to war?

It's just that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the central court lost its control over the localities, so the warlords in various places became self-reliant, and they could often call themselves the title of general, or ask the court for the title of general, so that they could rule themselves for a long time in a fair and honest manner. The army has become the local emperor.

Of course, the names of these generals are also hierarchical and fictitious.

For example, in the Han Dynasty, the first rank in the military was the general. He had the authority to establish a government and select his own subordinates. This was equivalent to the fact that under the emperor, he could control the appointment of generals in the army.

Basically, the warlords who hold the emperor to order the princes will give themselves the title of a general, so that they can assign official positions to their cronies without having to discuss with the emperor.

And under the generals are Hushi Generals, Cheqi Generals, Generals of the Four Conquests of the East, South, West, and North, and Generals of the Four Towns of Zhendong, Zhennan, Zhenxi, and Zhenbei, etc. No. These general titles can basically have the right to command the army in name.

Therefore, these titles of generals belong to generals with real power, and the emperor of the Han Dynasty would not easily grant them titles, because granting them titles would be equivalent to bestowing military power.

However, during the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, local warlord forces such as Liu Biao, Liu Zhang, Liu Bei, etc., actually had the title of such powerful generals, so that their behavior of commanding the army became an officially recognized behavior.

In addition, there are all kinds of messy general titles, such as the mighty general, the tyrannical general, etc., which are just honorary titles. Most of them do not give real power. But with such a general title, you can become a general after death. A posthumous title or something like that can be regarded as a kind of honor, so it is imaginary.

Well, these are just casual mentions. Anyway, Zhu Wei is now continuing the trilogy military system of the Han army.

In the previous battles, Zhu Wei's subordinates such as Pang Yan, Mulan, Taishi Ci, and Zu Lang led the battle. In addition to the five hundred to one thousand personal guards around him, the other soldiers were all Zhu Wei had on hand. Any soldiers can be assigned to them for use at any time.

So Pang Yan can command the Shanyue soldiers under Zu Lang, and Zu Lang can also command the new soldiers formed in Lingyang County, but in fact these soldiers are temporarily handed over to them for command.

This is also the reason why Tai Shici's status on Zhu Wei's side is a bit embarrassing.

It is said that Tai Shici belonged to Liu Yao's generals, and Zhu Wei was assigned to Tai Shici's army, so Zhu Wei could not be used. Taishi Ci could only be under the control of Tai Shici himself, or obey Liu Yao's military orders.

But the problem is that all the soldiers were recruited by Zhu Wei, and Zhu Wei assigned them to Tai Shici. Now that there is a war and you say that you can't use these soldiers, Tai Shici can't say it.

Therefore, in the previous battles, even though Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan had dispatched [-] soldiers to Tai Shici in name, when commanding the battle, they still called each other regardless of each other, and Tai Shici did not have any objections.

It can be said that the 500 soldiers assigned by Zhu Wei to Tai Shici now, except for Yiqu's personal guards who directly belonged to Tai Shici, the other [-] people are actually composed of private soldiers of various ethnic groups in Lingyang County, not originally belonging to Taishi Ci. Ci's batch of Lingyang County recruits.

In fact, Zhu Wei also did this on purpose. On the one hand, it also meant to actually control his military power, but on the other hand, he said that he did not mean to regard Tai Shici as a guest general.

And Tai Shici seemed to have blurred this boundary, and didn't mind such an arrangement. It can be said that although Tai Shici is still a guest general in name, in fact he has already regarded himself as someone on Zhu Wei's side...

(End of this chapter)