There are one hill and eight buildings in the Northern Prefecture of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Chapter 5368: Military Responsibilities Focus on Internal Defense
Chapter 5368: Military Responsibilities Focus on Internal Defense
Qinglong curled up his lips and said: "Actually, it's not that we can't form an army. From ancient times to the Spring and Autumn Period, the nobles in the tribal era had to bear the responsibility of fighting. Later, although after the Warring States Period, a large number of barbarians and slaves were recruited into the army.
, but this does not mean that nobles, aristocratic families, and nobles cannot join the army and fight. It is just that they can serve as officials without fighting, and they naturally lack motivation. After all, to fight in battle, they not only have to learn the six arts of archery, but also
Controlling these requires blood, sweat, and life-threatening. If wealth is secure, why bother to fight like this?"
Suzaku nodded and agreed: "Yes, and during the Spring and Autumn Period, there were many countries and wars were frequent. Many wars had to be fought. If not fought, the country would be destroyed. Therefore, there were nobles, and the people of the country fought, and there were many savages.
They are the tribesmen and people of the enemy country who have been destroyed. Strictly speaking, they are prisoners of war, or even enemies. Let them join the army and fight. Loyalty is a big issue first. The most extreme example is the Battle of Muye when Zhou destroyed Shang. The Shang Dynasty was destroyed.
The Zhou army made a surprise attack, and the main force was far away in Dongyi. There were no soldiers at hand. In desperation, they armed hundreds of thousands of slaves and went to the battlefield. As a result, these people directly defected and the Shang Dynasty was destroyed."
Qinglong laughed: "Yeah, haven't we experienced such an example before? Liu Yu's Jingkou Jianyi, and the final decisive battle to overthrow Zhoushan outside Jiankang City. Huan Xuan was desperate and used the Beifu army as the main force.
The main force of the vanguard formed an array to resist Liu Yu's rebel army. As a result, Huan Xuan's Chu army had been bullied and humiliated at will for a year. The officers were killed, and the soldiers were beaten, scolded and insulted. The soldiers of Beifu, who were like slaves, defected directly before the battle.
, helped Liu Yuquan destroy tens of thousands of the main Chu army. Isn’t this a living example?"
Bai Hu nodded: "So, what you are trying to say is that whether it is savages or ordinary people, the loyalty of these people is actually questionable. Unless they have to go to the battlefield as a last resort, they still have to go back to the past, where the noble families and noble families
Isn’t it an era when the gentry and landowners controlled everything and the army?”
Xuanwu sighed: "Sir Baihu, if we talk about this, let's not mention the issues of defection, the country's barbarians, etc. We will only talk about pure military affairs. Why were there so many feudal states in the Spring and Autumn Period, and even earlier in the Xia and Shang eras, there were still
We are in the period of transition from nomadic pastoralism to settled farming. At this time, there are many small countries and small tribes, and the main force in conflicts and battles is played by the tribal scholars and the people of the country?"
Bai Hu smiled slightly: "More countries mean more tribes, and relatively speaking, each tribe has fewer people. Maybe a country or a tribe only has hundreds of households or thousands of people. Excluding women and children, there are more tribesmen than
Slaves, and at that time, many of the conflicts between tribes did not keep many captives, because in the early days of production, many relied on the sky to collect fruits, livestock, fish and hunt. Before farming became popular, there was not much need for male labor.
, and the adult men of the conquered hostile tribes often had deep grudges, and the benefits of letting them work were not as good as the risk of them taking the opportunity to cause chaos. Therefore, many tribes, like the barbarians on the grasslands today, used barbaric and cruel wheel killings to deal with them.
The men, women and children from the enemy's tribe can be kept as tribesmen and future slaves. Therefore, there are more tribesmen than slaves, and fighting is the tribe's task. Trying to avoid slaves participating in the war is a popular principle in ancient times."
"After entering the era of Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors from ancient times, farming gradually began to be known and mastered by people. The Central Plains became fertile soil for farming. The once nomadic tribes also settled down to become city-states and then countries, but their numbers were still small.
, a country only has a few thousand or tens of thousands of people. There are still more tribesmen than slaves, and there are more Chinese than savages. But now there is a social division of labor. People who are engaged in farming are often savages. They live outside the city and work for
The people living in the cities provide food and cloth to keep them fed and clothed, while the people bear military responsibilities. On the one hand, they must resist foreign enemies and protect all citizens, including savages. On the other hand, they must also
Suppress and monitor the savages at all times to prevent them from starting a rebellion. The latter function is even more important."
Qinglong nodded: "This is still the case even today. The number of state and county troops in Dajin is greater than the permanent main field army. In name, it is to arrest bandits and maintain public order, but we all understand its real role.
The most important thing is to prevent the rebellion of powerful local landowners and common people. The reason why Sun En's Rebellion suddenly became so big is that many of the state and county troops who were supposed to monitor and prevent and control the people directly defected to Sun En's army.
After going over there, he became their spy and monitored every move of the officers and soldiers."
Bai Hu smiled slightly: "This is the problem. I will talk about it in detail later. Let's talk about the military system first. Until the Spring and Autumn Period, the size of the country was not large. When the Zhou Dynasty was first established, it was said to have eight hundred princes. In fact,
In addition to the tribes that he cannot control, there are about one or two thousand tribes scattered all over the world. Some have transformed into farming and started to settle down, but most of them are still wandering around. It is not even easy to find them, so among the tribes,
The wars between the princes continued for hundreds of years. Gradually, the princes and tribes in the Central Plains settled down. The nomadic barbarians who had no fixed settlements and were killing and plundering everywhere were cleared out of the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins.
After further retreating towards the remote areas of the four barbarians, the order in the Central Plains area was basically established, that is, the world of princes under the co-president of the Emperor Zhou, and most of these princes are farming city-states."
Xuanwu nodded: "Master Baihu said it very well. By the Spring and Autumn Period, the Central Plains region had basically stabilized, with numerous cities and towns, and each country also had its own territory and territory. Even countries like the Zhongshan Kingdom built by Hulu
, also learned the farming methods of the Central Plains people, transformed and settled down. From then on, the pattern of Zhuxia living in the Central Plains and the four barbarians retreating to the four sides, even if it was determined, the Zhuxia in the Central Plains, after thousands of years of integration, also became
The vassal states with the Zhou rites as their common values and the core concept of founding the country, nominally regarded the Emperor of Zhou as their co-lord, but privately they continued to fight and annex each other for various excuses and reasons. By the Warring States Period, they were called
There are less than ten major countries headed by Qixiong, and the war at this time can also rise to the scale of hundreds of thousands of people. This is probably what Lord White Tiger said, starting to relax the restrictions on savages participating in the war." (This chapter.