Since the founding of the Dai Viet Dynasty, in order to eliminate hidden security risks in the mainland, the Ban Xiang Army not only exiled prisoners who committed crimes from various places into the army, but also mainly recruited young men and women from the refugees and hungry people caused by the famine over the years to serve as soldiers for life.
In order to eliminate the damage to military discipline caused by bad soldiers, the Dai Viet Army implemented a strict and almost cruel "class law", which even gave each level of military generals the power of life and death over the generals of the next level.
However, in order to limit the personal control of the generals over the generals and avoid the possibility of the generals "going berserk", in addition to maintaining the long-standing tradition of using civility to govern military affairs and using civility to control military affairs, the DPRK suppressed the status of military ministers and routinely appointed civil servants to be in charge of general affairs.
In addition to large and small military operations, extremely strict "replacement of garrison laws" are also implemented.
Not only do middle- and high-level military commanders need to be transferred between different battalions every two or three years, but ordinary soldiers will also be rotated between different places for defense at regular intervals. In short, to the maximum extent, the traditional generals and generals will be combined.
The bottom layer breaks up the tight relationships between pawns.
Since the Jinxiang Army mainly recruits young soldiers from the homeless and hungry people, and implements lifelong military service, this also results in a huge group of generals and family members who can only follow different garrison areas and garrison areas.
Traveling from place to place, there was no way to take root in one place for a long time and to engage in production stably. This also caused the imperial court to pay military salaries and various merit rewards to the generals, which needed to cover the small livelihood of their families.
This also led to the fact that since the founding of the Dai Viet Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the Ban Xiang Army was weak, and at the same time, the military expenditure was extremely huge.
Since the founding of the Dai Viet dynasty, the two powerful enemies in the north and northwest, the Dangxiang people and the Khitan people, have had various internal problems. This has caused Dai Viet to expand its military force abroad at the expense of its military strength and waste of military resources.
Generally speaking, it has ensured long-term internal peace and stability for more than 150 years.
During this period, there were occasional turmoils in some places, but both in terms of intensity and duration, they were much lower than those in the previous dynasty.
However, Chihu invaded the south, Bianliang fell, and nearly a million troops from both sides faced off at the Qinling-Huaihe line. Even the group of officials led by Zhou He, Gaochunnian, Gu Fan and others wanted to restore the "emperor" position of the time when Dai Viet first emerged.
The grand scene and regulation of "ruling the world with the scholar-bureaucrats, and the scholar-officials controlling the power of life and death of the generals" also have to admit that the severe situation has not been fundamentally alleviated at this time. Even if it is to maintain half of the mountains and rivers of the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers, everything still needs to be done
Dispose with authority.
In order to ensure the stability of the defense line, no one mentioned the garrison method again at this time.
The status of Xu Huai, Zheng Huaizhong, Ge Boyi, Han Shiliang, Gu Jiqian, Gao Junyang and other generals in the court was far beyond what it could be before the fall of Bianliang.
In the past, major military and state affairs were decided by the emperor and all ministers. The generals in charge of the army were not even qualified to participate in court discussions, not to mention showing off to Zhou He, Gao Chunnian and other prime ministers.
In addition to the military town system that has actually been implemented in Chushan, the imperial court currently plans to set up Huaidong and Huaixi camps with the two cities of Shouchun and Chuzhou as the core. It also needs to restore to a certain extent both soldiers and farmers, farming and garrisoning.
Combined military and town system.
Otherwise, only the Huaidong and Huaixi camps will be expanded to 160,000 troops on the basis of the Huaiwang Palace Army and the Shenwu Army, as well as the Xuanwu Army on the left, the Xiaosheng Army on the right, and the Jianye Navy Army, with 100,000 troops, plus nearly 100,000 troops.
The millions of generals and soldiers were completely separated from the local area and did not engage in production. They would eat up all the wealth that the imperial court could collect from Jianghuai, Zhejiang and other places. At this time, Xu Huai proposed to set up Qiao County in the swampy land of northern Ezhou.
Recruiting refugees to farm in the fields not only uses the recruited refugees as a source of troops for the Chushan Army, but also uses part of the land for merit awards and casualty compensation. To a certain extent, it is necessary to use the newly established Qiao County as a military base for Chushan.
Used in reclamation areas.
This is naturally a further violation of Dai Viet's regulations, but other than that, is there any good way to alleviate the food problem in Chu Mountain at this juncture?
From a purely military perspective, setting up military reclamation areas on both sides of the Jingjiang River would also help curb the ravages of Dongting Lake bandits.
Finally, at the end of July, Zhou He, Gao Chunnian and others made further modifications to the compromise plan proposed by Xu Huai. At the same time, Chushan established Nancai County in Qianchapu in the north of Ezhou Prefecture to recruit refugees to reclaim the lake and cultivate land in the south.
The Cai County Government was under the leadership of Chushan Xingyingyao. It recommended officials to take charge of county administration, field encirclement, recruitment of troops, etc., but it needed to be supervised by the Ezhou government.
At the same time, it was also agreed that after the central government could bear the shortage of food and fodder for the Chushan camp, Nancai County needed to be evacuated immediately. The generals and families temporarily resettled in Nancai County would either be relocated to Chushan's garrison area north of Jingxiang.
, or transfer it to the Military and Horse Deployment Department of Jinghu North Road to receive it.
With such restrictions, Zhou He and others still thought of limiting the military town system that had to be temporarily restored to areas where they would engage in battle with enemy forces——
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In early August, autumn has quietly entered in the north, but south of the Yangtze River it is still unbearably hot.
Xu Huai bid farewell to Emperor Jian and left Jianye.
Considering that the waterway in the Jingjiang section (middle reaches of the Yangtze River) was not smooth, Xu Huai crossed the river and headed north in Chizhou, first to Songyang, and then rushed to Hanchuan along the road at the southern foot of the Huaiyang Mountains, surrounded by two hundred armored cavalry;
Han Gui took the edict of Qiao Zhi and went directly to Jiangxia, the capital of Ezhou, located on the south bank of the Jingjiang River, with Wang Fan to meet with Jinghu North Road transfer envoy Kong Changyu and others to discuss the details of the connection with Qiao Zhi.
Xu Huai returned to Shuangliuzhuang on August 12th. Twenty days had passed since he left. However, in the current environment where everything required communication between carriages and horses, it was impossible to negotiate the settlement of the overseas Chinese and obtain the imperial edict in such a short period of time.
The return can be said to be extremely fast.
If Xu Huai hadn't gone to Jianye in person, or if Emperor Jianji hadn't been watching closely, the whole matter might have been delayed for two or three years and there might not have been a response.
At this time, the bandit army had withdrawn from the ferry, but it was not due to Fan Zongqi's 800-selected vanguard armored cavalry attack.
After Xu Huai left Hanchuan, Hanyang City on the west bank of the Han River was captured by the Dongting Lake bandits. In the end, Shi Zhen failed to return to Wuyang as scheduled, but chose to stay in Hanchuan and take charge to ensure that nothing went wrong here.
There are 800 selected vanguards riding here. Even if they dismount and fight to storm the ferry guarded by 4,000 thieves, there will certainly be no problem.
However, Fan Zongqi, Zhou Jing and others may still be relatively pure military generals or intelligence officers, but Shi Zhen wanted to consider the matter of facilitating the resettlement of overseas Chinese and comprehensively weigh the deployment in Hanchuan.
The Dingkou directly under the jurisdiction of Chushan was too limited, but it had to maintain a large standing army to guard against enemies in the west of Beijing and Heluo. It had the right to recruit young men as soldiers in Jingxiang very early, but Chushan actually had
The military recruitment system implemented is different from the pure recruitment of soldiers. There has never been a large-scale recruitment of young men into the army in Jingxiang.
But this time, Shi Zhen was not in a hurry to ask Fan Zongqi and others to dismount their cavalry and attack the ferry. In addition to choosing a place to camp north of Shuangliuzhuang to block the rebel army's westward passage from the north of Xiaohe Ridge, he also mobilized
Xu Ling's navy generals went south. On the one hand, they requisitioned ships from Hanchuan and other places in the name of Lifengtang. At the same time, in the name of Chushan Camp, they recruited young men from the bottom of nearby villages on a large scale, and they continuously gathered at the ferry.
Practice in the camp in the west.
Just when Xu Huai set off from Jianye and rushed back to Hanchuan, Chushan's camp on the north side of Shuangliuzhuang (Xiaohe Ridge), in addition to 800 armored cavalry, more than 600 naval troops, and 300 armed guards from Lifengtang
, and also recruited two thousand young men from nearby villages.
The bandits did not dare to continue to increase their troops to confront Chushan elites, so they had no choice but to withdraw in despair.
Although the flood season has not completely passed, after August, heavy rains in the upper reaches of the Jingjiang River and Hanshui River have become very rare, and the water levels in the entire middle reaches of the Jingjiang River and the lower reaches of the Hanshui River have been decreasing day by day.
Xu Huai stood on the top of Xiaoqueling again:
The flooding in the south has generally receded, and Qianchapu is close to the mouth of Suolong Lake on the Han River. At this time, it is almost revealed as a natural river channel about seven or eight miles long.
Without the constraints of dams, the river channel is very shallow, about a hundred feet wide.
Suolong Lake is located to the east of the river. It is about three to four miles or one to two hundred feet wide from north to south, and about ten miles long from east to west. It looks like a dragon spreading its teeth and claws.
However, there are large and small puddles and ponds on the north and south sides of Suolong Lake and the river connecting Hanshui River. There is still a large amount of flooding that has not completely receded - the river branches and ports are blocked by siltation.
Zhuang Shouxin was a little old and his legs were weak, so Shi Zhen specially transferred Zhuang Yong, Zhuang Shouxin's son, to Hanchuan to take charge of the work.
On the basis of the many Qianchapu materials Wang Xuan collected in the early stage, Zhuang Yong and the engineers and craftsmen of the Dushui Division further elaborated and studied the topography and landforms of Qianchapu as well as the Han River, Jingjiang River, Tianmen River, and Jianshui River.
Wait for the hydrology of the river.
"...Since the Wang family and other clans established land in the enclosure north of Xiaohe Ridge in the late years of the previous dynasty, people have tried to cultivate land in the enclosure south of Xiaohe Ridge. However, due to the depression of the land, floods occur every year, except for the Tianmen River.
, Jiushui and other rivers were flooded from the upper reaches. The Jingjiang and Han Rivers swelled and there were no dikes to block them. As a result, the embankments built by the people in the early stage were often soaked in floods for several months. The wind caused the waves to surge, and the embankments
Destruction of houses and houses was a common occurrence, and people had to abandon their land and find another place to survive. In the past one hundred years, as the Jing Han Dynasty continued to carry silt down, the terrain of Qianchapu became higher and higher. According to previous local chronicles,
According to records, many sandbars and islands have only appeared one after another in the past 30 to 40 years, and can even emerge from the water during flooding periods. In the past few days, we have been digging in the silt south of Xiaoheling to look for old relics, and we have been able to confirm almost a hundred years ago.
During that time, the terrain between Xiaohe Ridge and Suolong Lake was at least six feet high. However, at this time, the reclamation in the northern part of Hanchuan River was becoming increasingly mature and the population was becoming more prosperous. People on both sides of the Han River began to build levees. In order to
To reduce the pressure of rising river water on mud embankments during the flood season, flood storage caves are needed downstream to prevent unlimited rise in water levels. Cheonchapo to the east of the Han River, Hudupo to the north of Hanyang City and other places have become natural flood discharge and flood storage.
To reduce the natural caves where the water level rises in the upper reaches during the flood season, states and counties are doing everything possible to prevent latecomers from enclosing and constructing fields in these places. Even if we do not need to care about the attitudes of the people in Hanchuan and other places, considering the complexity of the flood season
Due to the water conditions, if you want to set up a county in Qianchapu, a more appropriate way is to build stacked bunds, that is, use large stacks to surround small stacks to strengthen the resistance to floods..."
