When Xian Yufu heard this, his eyes lit up and he said: "If there are really these 10,000 armored troops, the combat effectiveness between us and the Tengjia Army can be quickly shortened!"
Xian Yufu did not think that the strength of the Han army was worse than that of the Tengjia army. It was just that the armor of the Tengjia army was too defensive, which put them at a disadvantage. If they had these 15,000 sets of iron armor, what would be the difference between them and the Tengjia army?
The gap in combat power can be made up quickly! Maybe they can actually turn defeat into victory! And now that Huangfu Song is the general of Zhenbei, it is within his scope of responsibilities to recruit Yuan Shao's troops!
Huangfu Song looked at them all staring at Yuan Shao's armor and said: "Iron armor is not invincible. As long as you use heavy weapons, you can still kill the Tengjia Army! This time, I brought 10,000 soldiers with the equipment."
Equipped with such heavy weapons!”
When Huangfu Song first came to Jizhou, the Tengjia Army had 30,000 armored soldiers. He knew that it would be difficult to break through the Tengjia Army's armored defense with the swords, guns, swords and halberds equipped by Han soldiers today.
And these armors were also powerful enemies that Huangfu Song had to deal with! In this case, in order to deal with the heavily armored soldiers of the Tengjia Army, Huangfu Song thought of armor-breaking heavy weapons and built a large number of whips, maces, and hammers in Jizhou.
Heavy weapons such as maces.
Then 2 battalions of 10,000 elites were trained to use these heavy weapons, but Jizhou's financial resources could only feed these soldiers. The requirements for soldiers who can use heavy weapons are very high. They must be strong and have excellent arm strength, otherwise they cannot
Keep swinging the weapon.
Secondly, when using strike weapons, the user's own body is the center of the circle and the arms are used as levers to swing. This way of fighting means that its response speed is inevitably not as fast as that of stabbing weapons. If the blow misses, it needs to re-find the center of gravity and the weapon needs to be re-centered.
Swiping takes a long time, which will inevitably leave the body full of flaws, giving stabbing and slashing weapons the chance to attack calmly. It is almost impossible to escape, so such soldiers must go through a long period of training before they can cooperate with each other tacitly.
What disappoints Huangfu Song is that it took him 2 years of training to barely find more than 10,000 soldiers suitable for using heavy weapons. He wants to continue to expand, but Jizhou's soldiers can no longer keep up! If only 100,000 soldiers like this could be trained
A soldier who uses heavy weapons, he is confident that he can defeat the Tengjia Army!
Fortunately, Huangfu Song's inner thoughts were not known to Lei Gong, otherwise he would have laughed to death. He was already in the best era of military commanders. If he went to the Song Dynasty, not to mention 10,000 soldiers, even 1,000 such soldiers would not be found.
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There is no imperial examination system for the Han Dynasty. If you want to get ahead, you can only get a good child and join the noble family. Ordinary good family members and small landlords can only let their children and grandchildren learn military law and basic common sense of the army, and at the same time work hard to exercise.
, learn knowledge related to killing.
Therefore, each battalion of the Northern Army only has more than a thousand people, but they are basically trained by the officers. During the war, as long as they recruit Sanhe disciples, the number can be increased several times in an instant. And with a little training, their combat effectiveness can be very powerful to suppress all parties.
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It can be said that this military system is extremely advanced and is almost the same as the modern military system. It is by relying on this advanced military system that the Han Dynasty can suppress all parties!
But when the Song Dynasty emphasized literature over martial arts, small landowners and good family members did not practice martial arts, but learned the techniques of killing people, and also learned the military system. Instead, they began to study the Four Books and Five Classics hard without private investment. This caused the Song Dynasty to be known as the Hundred
But the army of ten thousand was no longer able to defend the frontier, and was even defeated by small tribes with less than one million people, and the country was subjugated!
Because the Song Dynasty could no longer find excellent recruits and excellent basic officers, and the millions of troops in the Song Dynasty became civilians under the oppression of the Song Dynasty officials, and the military generals became corrupt officials, waiting for these officials to use their
At that time, I realized that I had no soldiers left to use, and I couldn’t find any basic officers, or even generals who could fight!
This means that only a man with strong martial virtue can find so many tall and burly soldiers. Huangfu Song should be satisfied. When Xian Yufu and the others heard that Huangfu Song had made so many preparations for this war, they naturally
What a surprise. The iron armor can deal with the Tengjia Army, and their chances of winning are even better!
But Zhang He said: "Ming Gong, if we have these 10,000 Iron Armored Army, our chances of winning will be higher. After all, we are facing the most elite soldiers of the Tengjia Army. The stronger the power in our hands, the better! The Yellow Turban thieves in the Central Plains have already
They have become homeless dogs, and ordinary county soldiers are enough to deal with them!"
Huangfusong thought about it and felt that the main force of the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou had been defeated. Leaving 10,000 armored soldiers to fight against the Yellow Turban Army was really overqualified, and they might continue to increase their troops here, so they agreed to Zhang He's proposal.
In response, a levy order was issued to levy the 10,000 armored soldiers in Yuan Shao’s hands!
After they discussed how to deal with the Tengjia Army, Huangfu Song stayed in Yuyang to guard against the Tengjia Army's attack, while Liu Yu sent his envoys to the eastern Xianbei tribe and Wuwan tribe respectively to persuade Mika and Lou Nan
Join the battle against the Tengjia Army.
Liu himself went to Ji County, Guangyang County, to help Huangfu Song, Gongsun Zan, and Yan Gang transport grain, grass, and various military supplies.
And with Liu Yu, the brain of Youzhou, being liberated, the originally scattered Youzhou forces once again found their backbone. Under Liu Yu's mobilization, grain, grass and various ordnance and equipment were quickly and effectively mobilized to the three battlefields in Youzhou.
The three battlefields also have communication channels!
In mid-September of the first year of Chuping (AD 190), Bingzhou Mayi!
The grain harvest time in Bingzhou this year is earlier than in previous years! People everywhere are frantically rushing to harvest. Xu Wei personally appeared on the front line of the harvest. The entire Tengjia Army, including the prefect, county magistrate and township head, were also fighting on the front line.
, all these efforts are to harvest the grain back to the granary as soon as possible.
Zhang Baiqi and other senior officials at the Tengjia Army Central Committee are extremely busy. Not only do they have to arrange grain harvesting in various places and rationally allocate labor, they also help more than 200,000 Tiejia Army transport grain, grass and military supplies. In order to maintain these fronts
In terms of logistics, the entire Tengjia Army recruited more than 1 million civilians.
The Iron Armor Army's ordnance and supplies consumption rate can be the best in the world. Not to mention anything else, in just one month of fighting, hundreds of millions of long arrows were consumed on all battlefields, emptying several of the Teng Armor Army's arsenals.
There are also various spears, swords, and armors. It can be said that half of the transportation volume of the Iron Armor Army is transporting various weapons and equipment. It can be said that half of the strong combat effectiveness of the Tengjia Army comes from these weapons and equipment!
Zhang Baiqi was very lucky at this time. Their rail carriages had already established a network connecting the entire Bingzhou. The weapons, equipment and grain of Mayi and Taiyuan counties could be quickly transported to various battlefields through these rail carriages, and they were still in a
In internal operations, most of the 1 million civilians were used to maintain Bingzhou's internal transportation network and support the army attacking Juyongguan and Yuyang. The consumption of this logistics system was not huge.
Of course, if the subsequent battlefields start to counterattack, the number of civilians needed will increase several times. This is why Xu Wei thinks that defense should be carried out before the autumn harvest, because fighting out will cause the entire Bingzhou to lose millions of young people to harvest wheat!
Then don’t even think about this year’s harvest.
The scorching sun was shining brightly, and the roads in Mayi were full of bullock carts, transporting crops harvested from various places! Not far away from the fields, the wind blew waves of wheat from time to time, making the golden wheat make a clattering sound!
The farmers in Mayi kept cutting the wheat with plunders at a distance of ten feet. The fallen wheat was quickly packed into bundles by the living people, and then thrown into the bullock carts specially used to transport wheat, and then the wheat was sent to the road.
In front of a special threshing machine, farmers step on this drum threshing machine and thresh a bundle of wheat in a matter of seconds!
All this is like an assembly line, extremely efficient, more than five times faster than a single farmer harvesting. But even so, the farmers in Mayi have become extremely busy because of the war. Everyone wants to harvest the grain as soon as possible to help
My nephew is serving in the army!
And beside the cement road not far from the field, there were two people looking at everything here in amazement. Such an assembly line-like acquisition scene was something that no big man could see!
These two people were Guo Jia and Xi Zhong. After they graduated from Yingchuan Academy, they began to travel around the world. The first stop they came to was Luoyang City. However, they were unlucky and happened to meet Dong Zhuo when he entered Luoyang City.
Then Luoyang City continued to be turbulent, and they wanted to escape, but they encountered the Kwantung Allied Forces' crusade against Dong Zhuo. The entire Central Plains was in chaos, and they did not dare to leave Luoyang City. Instead, they hid in Taixue and observed the general trend of the world.
Originally, the two of them thought that after Dong Zhuo's chaos and the feudal lords in Guandong attacked Dong, the Han Dynasty would definitely be torn apart and the world would be in a state of separatism among the feudal lords. However, they did not expect that at this time, the Tengjia Army would forcefully intervene in the overall situation of the world. First, they used 5,000 sets of weapons.
Iron Armor replaced Shangdang County in Dong Zhuo's hands.
Then Dong Zhuo threatened the nobles of Sili by forming an alliance with Lei Gong, so that they would not dare to continue to follow the Kantung clans to oppose Dong Zhuo. In the end, Liu Bei and Dong Zhuo defeated the Kwantung Allied Forces of 200,000 troops with an army of 70,000, and suppressed the Kwantung separatist forces forcefully.
Let the Han Dynasty maintain its perfection, and the strength of the Han Dynasty's martial virtue is beyond Guo Jiahe's expectations!
At the same time, they also promoted Teng Jiajun's Datong book among the Imperial College! Guo Jia and Xi Zhong have read these books, and they commented that they were the same as other Taixue students, with nothing interesting about the stitches.
But the various policies recorded in it made Guo Jia and his friends shine. The land equalization system, the land sharing system, the government-run system, and the taxation system that allocates a small share of land to an acre were all solving problems that the Han Dynasty had difficulty solving.
It happened that Wang Guojun and Yang Xiu were debating in Taixue, and they also went to see it several times. The various governance concepts of Tengjia Army aroused their interest, because in the Datong Book, there were many systems that they could not understand.
The craftsman level system is particularly strange. The highest status among the Tengjia Army is actually various craftsmen. The status of the master-level craftsmen is actually comparable to that of the senior officials of the Tengjia Army. At the same time, the Tengjia Army kills the powerful gentry fiercely, but for various merchants
But it is in a state of encouragement. For example, the Tengjia Army's most profitable industry, woolen cloth, Lei Gong is actually willing to let businessmen join, which conflicts with the government-run system.
So the two decided to go to Bingzhou to see what kind of changes these new policies of the Tengjia Army would cause! There was more than one person in Taixue who had the same idea as them, and many scholars from poor families could not see it here in Luoyang.
With hope of getting ahead, I wanted to go to the territory of the Tengjia Army. After all, the Tiejia Army was now considered the second largest power among the feudal lords in the Han Dynasty. It was very difficult for the court to do anything about the Tengjia Army!
Although the Tengjia Army has been demonized by the wealthy nobles, it is naturally impossible for the imperial students to regard the Tengjia Army as murderers like ordinary people. It can even be said that they know the Tengjia Army very well and know that the Tengjia Army rarely kills people.
Even if they are powerful gentry from a wealthy family, they will not kill them as long as they are willing to hand over their land. Of course, those powerful people who bully the people and have lives in their hands will still be publicly tried by the Tengjia Army and then hanged!
Compared with other rebel forces in the Han Dynasty, the Tengjia Army already looks a bit like a regular army, but now the situation in the Han Dynasty is deteriorating. This is something that even a Tai student can sense. Going to see the situation of the Tengjia Army may not be the same.
A way out.
So when Wang Guojun and others began to spread the Datong Book in Taixue, all the students from poor families who had read the Datong Book left Luoyang City one after another and headed towards Bingzhou!
Just at this time, Dong Zhuo defeated the Kwantung Allied Forces, and the Kwantung Allied Forces surrendered to Dong Zhuo. The war in the Central Plains eased slightly. Guo Jia and Xi Zhong and a group of imperial students attacked Hanoi County all the way from Luoyang City, and then entered Shangdang County to reach the territory of Tengjia Army.
As soon as they arrived at Shangdang County, they felt the difference between the Tengjia Army. Although these people were poor, they did not want to be as miserable as other places in the Han Dynasty. The entire Shangdang County was full of busy people. They were not cultivating land.
The land is being built with water channels and roads, and the entire Shangdang County is completely renewed and full of vitality.
Later, after communicating with the local people, they found that Lei Gong really did what he said. All the land belonging to the noble families was divided among the common people. Each common people could be allocated 30 acres of land. If the land was not enough, Lei Gong led the people to cultivate it.
Wasteland, if there is not enough thunder, let the people become workers! Work to earn money to support your family!
To be honest, this change made Guo Jia and Xi Zhong feel a little surprised. They thought that Lei Gong's character would lead them to attack other territories and occupy enough land to settle these people! But they did not expect to let the people work.
Of course, the monthly salary of working in the Tengjia Army is not low, usually more than 600 yuan. A couple working together can earn more than 10,000 yuan a year. This big man can be considered a middle-class family.
Only then did Guo Jia realize that the hundreds of thousands of people he saw along the way were not doing corvee service. The Tengjia Army paid for the construction of various infrastructures.
Apart from that, there is no longer any corvée. The government has to pay to arrange things for the people!
Xi Zhong said with a smile: "This is how it should be. The Tengjia Army collects 30% of the tax. If they still collect taxes and serve as corvees, the people here should rebel. From ancient times to the present, there is no imperial court that charges such a heavy tax.
Endow.
Although the 30% tax of the Tengjia Army seems high now, it combines all the taxes. This is not high for the common people. What really can't bear it are the people with thousands of acres of fertile land. Luoyang City
The princes should learn from Lei Gong’s policy. If he really collects 30% of the tax, our minister will not have to worry about the court not being able to support his army! The people of the world will not be forced to rebel!"
In the eyes of Xi Zhong, the Han Dynasty has been in decline since the Yellow Turban Uprising. This is because the imperial court cannot collect taxes and can only continue to squeeze the people. However, the people are already overwhelmed. Before the Yellow Turban Uprising, thousands of people from the Han Dynasty showed up almost every year.
rebel group.
After the Yellow Turban Uprising, the finances of the Han Dynasty completely collapsed, and the number of rebellious people expanded to hundreds of thousands. When the Kwantung Allied Forces attacked Dong, the number increased to several million. This is simply unheard of! This is also the martial virtue of the Han Dynasty.
Abundance can also suppress these rebellious forces.
Although this time the Yellow Turban Uprising was suppressed by the princes of all parties, all knowledgeable people in the world know that it is impossible to solve the problem of people's rebellion without solving the financial problem of the imperial court. The scale of the Yellow Turban Army is getting larger and larger, and sooner or later the imperial court will suppress it.
I can't help it. In fact, I can't suppress it for a long time. Xiliang is rebellious, and the Tengjia Army in Bingzhou is an opponent that the court cannot suppress!
Guo Jia said angrily: "How can such a policy continue to be implemented? All the powerful families in the world will rebel!"
Now more than half of the land of the Han Dynasty is in the hands of the powerful gentry, and it is also the most fertile land. They have to pay 30% tax, which can indeed solve the financial problem of the Han Dynasty. However, Guo Jia's family is also powerful, and he knows that the powerful gentry of the Han Dynasty are willing to use it.
This 30% of the tax was used to rebel and overthrow the court that asked them to pay 30% of the tax!
Xi Zhong sneered and said: "This is a matter of choice. The imperial court chose to appease the nobles, so the people rebelled. Lei Gong chose to appease the people and simply killed all the nobles in Bingzhou. You see, the current Shangdang County is not a completely renewed scene.
Without the powerful gentry, everyone’s life would not be much worse. One Shangdang County can feed millions of people!”
There are big and small families, and Xi Zhong is the most thoroughly poor. His family only has a few hundred acres of land. If he hadn't been smart since he was a child, he would have been able to study in Yingchuan Academy if he was exempted from studying at Yingchuan Academy by offering wine as a sacrifice. However,
It is conceivable that a poor student like him was bullied in the academy. He did not have a good sense of the wealthy nobles!
Although Guo Jia's family was in decline, he did come from a declining aristocratic family and could be regarded as the top poor family. Even his family should not be a poor family. Guo Jia was born in Yangdi. The Guo family was a wealthy family in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The family passed down the law of punishment.
He majored in "Xiao Du Lv" and had a great influence. Since his ancestor Guo Gong, Yangzhai Guo's law has a strong Confucian flavor, and even quoted from "The Analects of Confucius" and "The Book of Songs" when judging cases
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Many of the children of the Guo family in Yangzhai were able to hold law-related positions such as Sili Xiaowei and Tingwei because of their family education.
"Book of the Later Han Dynasty" records that the Guo family has passed down the law for several generations since its rise, and its descendants include one duke, seven court officers, three marquises, governors, two thousand stones, ministers, and twenty generals.
The rest of the people serve as censors, chiefs, supervisors, and ordinary people, and there are many of them.
This is why Guo Jia can study in Yingchuan Academy and become Yuan Shao's guest, because Guo Jia's family can hardly stand out in a place like Yingchuan where there are many wealthy families, but it can become a wealthy family in other places in the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, Guo Jia still has some opinions on the Tengjia Army's method of equalizing land and killing noble families!
So Guo Jia said: "The current policy of the Tengjia Army cannot continue at all. Judging from what we see now, only half of the people in Shangdang County have land, and the other people rely on the Tengjia Army to perform various corvee services.
To make money, but in Shangdang County alone we have seen hundreds of thousands of people relying on the Tengjia Army for work, and the entire Bingzhou may rely on the Tengjia Army to feed more than a million people!"
"The Tengjia Army now has money and food collected from noble families. It can feed these millions of people for a while, but it is impossible to feed these millions of people for a lifetime. Sooner or later, the Tengjia Army's finances will be unable to bear it, and the big man like now is trapped in Crisis, how will millions of people live when the time comes!"
Xi Zhong smiled and said: "Since Lei Gong can expand the Tengjia Army and feed these people, he must have some means that we don't know about!"
Then they continued to go north, seeing the elevated water canals built along the way, steel plants and industrial zones as big as the city, and a textile industrial zone that was as densely populated as Luoyang City. This made Guo Jia and the others feel like they had entered a new world. The world is the same.
And after they entered Mayi, for them this was no longer the land of the Han Dynasty, but a strange and strange world. Everything here was novel. Along the river bank, you could see endless industrial zones and towering... Chimneys, cement roads that look like rocks, and even the wheat in the farmland in Mayi are denser and fuller than in other places. The yield of one acre of field is higher than 2-3 acres in other places.
Then they asked local farmers and found out that the high food production here was due to the use of struvite dug from overseas, and these production-increasing fertilizers had begun to spread rapidly throughout the coastal areas of Dahan.
Even if they only saw this scene, they could still see the power of the Tengjia Army. The Tiejia Army, which only occupied one state, was no longer inferior to the big man!
"No wonder Huangfu Song led an army of 200,000 people and did not attack the Tengjia Army. I originally thought that Huangfu Song had the intention of separatism, but now it seems that the Tengjia Army is indeed extremely powerful. If the sunset is red for me, the sun will rise here in Bingzhou. When I was born, Mayi was full of new things and positive people and things. Unlike Luoyang City, even though it was prosperous, it was still full of the smell of decay! Huangfu Song couldn't defeat Thunder God, so he had to garrison in Jizhou Two years!" Guo Jia exclaimed.
Seeing everything like this in Ma Yi was so shocking. Guo Jia's three views have not been shattered yet. His nerves are already strong enough!