This breakfast was really hard to swallow. Fang Jun waved his hand: "You guys can eat it!"
Several soldiers looked at each other, and the youngest Wei Ying said: "This... I heard from the brothers in the Left Guard Army that the army will set off today and will march in a hurry. If the young master does not eat breakfast, I am afraid that it will be difficult to maintain his physical strength..."
Fang Jun did not want to take Wei Ying with him on this western expedition. This boy was indeed clever, but he was too young, which always made Fang Jun feel like he was hiring a child laborer...
However, she really couldn't stand this kid's bullying, so she had to take him with her. For this reason, Wei Ying's mother wiped her eyes with worry and kept asking Fang Jun to take good care of him.
Fang Jun frowned and said: "Is this stuff for people to eat? It's bland and tasteless, it doesn't even have any oil star, so it's impossible to eat..."
The few soldiers were all speechless. In the past, they had ignored the character of their young master, who was good at amassing money and had a bad temper. However, they forgot that he was a big playboy. How could he endure the hardship?
However, in Fang Jun's opinion, this breakfast was not much better than pig food, but in the eyes of the soldiers, it was an excellent meal. They looked at each other, and Wei Ying rummaged through the package and found out that when he left yesterday, Mistress Lu
and the snacks brought by Mrs. Du, and then happily ate with a few soldiers, sharing the food of the general.
Fang Jun choked on two mouthfuls of the dry pastries and stopped eating. He was wondering if he had really had too many good times and couldn't bear any suffering?
It is undisputed that you enjoy when you should enjoy, but you cannot endure hardship when you should. This is not a good phenomenon...
After a while, bugles sounded, the time had come, and the army set off!
Although the Shenji Camp was arranged by Hou Junji at the end, together with the ordnance supervisor who accompanied the army to repair the ordnance and the baggage battalion, and was in no rush to leave, Fang Jun still put on his armor and walked out of the camp out of curiosity about ancient marches.
See the grand scene of thousands of troops rushing to the battlefield.
When they walked out of the camp, they saw Liu Rengui standing not far away, with a helmet on his head and armor on his head. He looked at the groups of soldiers marching in front of him, and he was very excited and inexplicably excited...
"Hey! What are you doing?"
Fang Jun walked over and said hello.
Liu Rengui had long been accustomed to the indiscriminate titles and vocabulary used by his admiral, and sighed: "With such a powerful army, why worry about the Tang Dynasty not being able to win every battle and expand its territory? My military generals are lucky to be born.
At that time, being able to stain the battlefield with blood and cast Xuanyuan was truly a joy in life!"
"hehe……"
Fang Jun looked at the army in front of him, but he was a little disappointed.
At least from this time period, which was deeply influenced by the powerful armies of later countries, the mighty soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who were victorious in every battle... were actually not that good!
Apart from the strong physique and heroic spirit of the men from Guanzhong, that's all.
The sparse queue, the chaotic pace, the crooked military appearance, the chaos of talking and laughing while walking...is this called a strong army?
Liu Rengui felt Fang Jun's disdain and asked curiously: "Does the Marquis look down on Guanzhong soldiers?"
Fang Jun glared at him: "I'm familiar with it, be careful to sue you for slander! Which of your ears heard that I look down on Guanzhong soldiers? In the entire Tang Dynasty, the first-class soldiers are Guanzhong soldiers!"
This is really not a compliment.
The only soldiers of the Tang Dynasty that could compete with the troops of the highlands were the Qin soldiers in Longxi and the Yan soldiers in Saibei. The Yan soldiers in Saibei also had to guard Beiping to guard against foreign tribes such as Xue Yantuo, Goguryeo, etc. They were unable to move. The task was equally severe, so the heavy task of dealing with foreign tribes in the west had to be placed on
The Qin soldiers in Longxi were caught.
In other areas, although military mansions have been built in Jiangnan and Shandong, the number is still small. It is no longer easy to maintain local security. If you go abroad to fight, I am afraid you will only embarrass the Tang Dynasty. Let’s not talk about training, just talking about physical fitness.
The south of the Yangtze River is warm and humid, and the people are short and weak. Their strength is not as good as that of the northern soldiers, and they are not good at bows and horses. The southern soldiers who go north to fight have mostly lost since ancient times.
Sun Quan of the Eastern Wu Dynasty marched north to Hefei with 100,000 troops, but was defeated by Zhang Liao's 7,000 troops. After the Jin Dynasty moved south, there were also many Northern Expeditions, with more defeats and fewer wins. If it is a defense, it is still feasible, but in terms of offense, except for Chen Qingzhi's 7,000 white horse army
Apart from Liu Yu, Emperor of the Song Dynasty, they really didn't have any impressive achievements, so the Tang Dynasty was always unsure about the southern troops going north. The main combat strength was the Guanzhong troops.
Due to the great war in the late Sui Dynasty, Shandong was devastated, with almost no roosters crowing, and sparsely populated areas. The once tyrannical Qingzhou Army had declined. During the Tang Dynasty, when it came to the most powerful army in the world, it was the Guanzhong Army!
It's just that the Guanzhong soldiers, who were so glorious in the Tang Dynasty, seemed a little disappointed in Fang Jun's eyes.
"But how do you think these government soldiers compare with the soldiers of the Shenji Camp?" Fang Jun asked.
"Of course the soldiers from the Shenji Battalion are superior!" Liu Rengui said proudly.
Fang Jun asked again: "What's the reason?"
"Um..." Liu Rengui hesitated for a moment and replied, "Is it because the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion can concentrate more on training?"
Fang Jun nodded and said: "Spells have specializations. Only by concentrating on one thing can you do your best. How can you accomplish something half-heartedly? It's the same with being a soldier. Today you are farming with a hoe, and tomorrow you are carrying a knife on the battlefield.
, can they beat professional soldiers who don’t practice drills all year round?”
Speaking of the "Fu Army System", it can be regarded as a feat of stabilizing the world, but it is precisely because of the "Fu Army System" that the overall quality of the soldiers is actually not high.
Do you expect a group of farmers who were tilling the fields yesterday with rakes and hoes to be invincible on the battlefield today?
The ultimate state of the army must naturally be professionalism.
The main reason why the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were able to dominate the desert in the early Tang Dynasty was because of their military service system!
With military merit, you can be called an officer, you can be exempted from taxes, and you can be called a master!
And these are based on the Qingming rule of officials in the early Tang Dynasty. Didn't you see that in the middle Tang Dynasty, after the official rule of the court was made into a mess by the romantic emperor "Tang Minghuang", the government and military system collapsed?
There is another big flaw in Fubing.
The government soldiers were taken from the local area and used on the frontier. They served as soldiers in wartime and as farmers in their free time. They were not completely separated from the land. There was still a considerable part of farm work that needed to be done by the government soldiers. Once the Western Region Protectorate was established, they would be in the local area.
I'm afraid it's not feasible to set up a military government and an army. They are all foreigners and they are not of the same mind as the Tang Dynasty. If we want to immigrate, we can't just move hundreds of thousands there at once. In a bitter and cold place, even the people of Guanzhong are not willing.
Go ahead?
In this way, the garrison time will be lengthened. Even if the army is rotated, it will inevitably have an impact on agriculture. The construction of Guanzhong will be damaged, and the grain output will also be affected. To defend the Western Regions, at least tens of thousands of troops will be needed. In this way
, how much cultivated land will be affected?
The entire Tang Dynasty only had 600,000 soldiers, so how could they take care of it?
Therefore, after the early Tang Dynasty, the so-called Protectorate of the Western Regions could no longer be fully controlled. The reason was insufficient military resources...
Liu Rengui frowned: "The soldiers of the government must prepare their own weapons and rations when they go to war. The court will only prepare part of the food for emergencies. After the battle, they will go home to receive rewards. If they die in battle, the court will give them a pension. But if the court spends money to support the world,
The army's consumption is not very large. How much food does it cost every year? And if there is no war, the court must provide food and clothing, which is a bit wasteful. Our soldiers in the Shenji Battalion are paid on a monthly basis, and the expenses are already
This is appalling, if the whole country is like this, it won’t work at all!”
He is not a simple-minded general. He has been familiar with military books and tactics since he was a child, and he also knows a little about government affairs. Where did the court get so much money and food to support the entire army?
If this is true, the corvee tax will inevitably increase, and the already difficult people's livelihood will probably become even worse, making it difficult for the people to live!
Liu Rengui swallowed his foam, but he knew the temperament of his chief, and said worriedly: "Master Marquis, we cannot make such a suggestion to His Majesty! Let alone success or failure, this method will inevitably increase taxes. Then
But you have to be poked in the back by people all over the world!"
Fang Jun rolled his eyes: "Do you think I'm stupid? Besides, it's not as good as dismantling all the soldiers in the country and recruiting 100,000 troops, which is enough..."
Liu Rengui felt a little relieved now. He was really afraid that Fang Jun would be guilty of something stupid. If he went up with a memorial, he would be bitten by those censors who saw the blood...
"Get ready and set off!"
Fang Jun patted Liu Rengui on the shoulder and said.