While drinking tea, several people introduced to Zhao Yu the situation of the Yingtianxiang Army, as well as the wartime command and daily management system.

Below the battalion level, the wartime command and day-to-day management are roughly the same, and the personnel and structure remain the same. However, in the event of a battle, the commanding brigade level may assign officers to the battalion to serve as a backup for the battalion commander and to supervise the execution of orders from above. However, command at the battalion level must be the responsibility of a few officers of the battalion, and the assigned officers only play an auxiliary role and cannot directly issue orders. Whenever an order is given, the officer commits a military discipline, and a subordinate executes the same military discipline. His most direct task is to ensure that the execution of the orders of his superiors is not out of shape, and he only has the right to interpret the orders. Or because of the combat mission, the brigade will strengthen part of the army to the battalion, or the infantry, or the cavalry and artillery.

In wartime, it is not necessary for a higher command structure to send officers to the next level, but it is often done. When the combat mission is clarified, people are sent to supervise the implementation. This was the original intention of the prison army, but instead of sending cronies from superiors, people who knew each other would cooperate with each other. The rank of the officer sent is the same as that of the subordinate commander, or slightly different, and there is no clear relationship between the superior and the subordinate. The lower the tier, the clearer the battle order will be. At the battalion level, they may be ordered which military positions to attack and which important places to capture, and the specific command is the responsibility of the lower ranks. At the team level, it is very detailed, how to organize the formation, where to attack, what to do to complete the task, and there is not much flexibility.

The organizational structure is fixed, but the hierarchy in wartime is flexible, and it can only be understood but not spoken. Depending on the situation on the battlefield, the subordinate level to which the order is directed may change. In the case of skirmishes, the level of the squad may be raised, and they can freely command the battle.

Above the brigade level, including the division and corps levels, the function of day-to-day management is very weak, and the main function is wartime command, including daily drills. When training and going into battle, these ranks will be complete and strengthened, and professional armies such as artillery, cavalry, and baggage will be clearly attributed. Generally speaking, brigades correspond to ordinary battles, with two armies lined up and responsible for a battlefield section. Divisions are responsible for one direction, and in addition to the combat team, all kinds of auxiliary units are readily available. The military is responsible for all the way, has a clear strategic task, and uniformly organizes all branches of the military to fulfill orders. The marshal's mansion was set up temporarily, and several armies were commanded to fight the enemy in a unified manner. Not only commanding the army, but also managing and coordinating civil affairs to serve the military, about the same as the current economic and strategic envoys.

Zhao Yu listened in detail, nodded and said: "The promotion is arranged like this, but it is secretly in line with the current arrangement of the imperial court. The Marshal's Mansion is the Economic and Strategic Envoy Division, and the army is deployed from all directions, and the divisions and brigades below are actually the Governors and Governors. It's just that the battalion has more people and more officers than the current battalion, and the battalion is more complicated than the existing one. In this way, it is easy for people to understand. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "The ruler is right, but there are still some differences. At present, the level of the governor and the metropolitan supervisor are all involved in civil affairs. In the front-line areas, the general governors and governors also served as the lords of the villages, and some also served as governors. As for the arrangement of the camp and the army, only the marshal's mansion can also manage civil affairs. ”

Zhao Yu said: "There are many garrisons along the border areas, and the sources are different, so it is inevitable that there will be many political departments. The general also served as a magistrate, also in order to fight better. When it is there, it is better to raise the arrangement of the army in the camp field, which is neat and uniform, and it is clear at a glance. This is a good thing, I will review the three government and the Privy Council, along the border can actually slowly change to this. ”

In fact, Du Zhongxiao didn't think about it before, he reorganized the military structure with reference to the system of later generations, but he didn't expect that there was already a framework at this time. It's just that the arrangement at this time lacks vertical management from top to bottom, the operation is ineffective, and the command is even more chaotic. For example, the jurisdiction and the capital supervisor are divided according to the rank of the general and the number of troops under their control, and the responsibilities are duplicated. According to the system, the governor led 5,000 soldiers, and the capital supervisor led 3,000 soldiers. The number of soldiers and horses they brought could not be compared with that of the battalion and field army, and the other subordinate troops were even more unspecified and very chaotic.

With the Marshal's Mansion corresponding to the Economic Strategy Division along the border, the management level below is very clear. The corps corresponds to the deployment of military roads, the divisions correspond to the jurisdiction of the soldiers and horses, and the brigades correspond to the commanders of the soldiers and horses. Below are the battalions, which are also permanent units, the basic components of the army.

There is no difference in the general framework, but the management and command system in the middle is very different. As far as the military road is concerned, the large ones such as the Hebei Road are deployed to command more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, which is far more than the number of troops in the camp. If you add the van army and village soldiers that they can directly command, as well as archers, brave, and strong men of various names, there are hundreds of thousands of people at every turn, which is far from being comparable to an army. Small military roads, such as the special Dunfu Road, have about 20,000 soldiers and horses, plus the auxiliary personnel are also equivalent to the battalion Tianxiang army.

Both the soldiers and horses and the capital eunuchs evolved from the supervising army and gradually became the generals who commanded the battle. The big rulers, such as Zhao Yu, can manage all the soldiers and horses, but they only lead 5,000 soldiers when fighting. In fact, the small ruler is only in charge of the soldiers and horses of one state, and has the power to bring 5,000 people in wartime, but in fact, there are no 5,000 people to bring. The same is true of the capital prison, there are road capital supervisors, there are state capital supervisors, and even county capital supervisors, and some village owners are also called capital supervisors. Like the Governor, he led 3,000 troops in wartime, but it is difficult to say how many soldiers and horses there are in the actual jurisdiction.

It can be said that below the road level, the jurisdiction and the capital prison are very chaotic, and often the imperial court is not clear, the Privy Council and the three government are also not clear, and some even themselves will be mistaken. Management is chaotic in peacetime, let alone wartime.

If the border roads are like the camp and the field army, and the jurisdiction and the capital prison are neatly unified, it is actually a large-scale reorganization of the army. The interests are intricately intertwined and widely implicated, and it is difficult to succeed.

The fact that Du Zhongxiao's reorganized army is secretly in line with the existing system shows that some truths are common, not that the current people do not understand, but they are very clear at the macro level. The military road is not only a first-class establishment, but also a military arrangement, the integration of military and government, and can be used as a way to fight in wartime. It's just that although the truth is understood, it is too difficult to sort out a clue. At this time, there was a military command organization, in fact, it was the Department of Economic Strategy, which was also in charge of the transfer envoys accompanying the army. The road level is purely military and basically does not involve civil affairs. However, the jurisdiction and the capital prison were changed from the prison army, and the history is very complicated, so it is difficult to say.

As far as the interior is concerned, the governor of Dazhou brought pacification envoys, such as the Jia Chang Dynasty on Jingxi Road, which is the military capital state of this road. In general, the state is the first to know the military, and to manage the soldiers and horses of the state. Then it is the governor of the state, in charge of civil affairs, for the governor. In fact, the official position of the governor is the same as that of the governor, and he should be in charge of the soldiers and horses of several states, and has special tasks, such as Zhao Yu's arrest of thieves. The magistrate and the county order at the next level are not in charge of the army, and the magistrate is the magistrate of the county, not the military and county affairs of a certain county like the governor. If the county magistrate leads the troops, he will generally add a prisoner or prison who is also the capital of the county. Such a level is quite clear, the status of the capital supervisor in the army is equivalent to the status of the county magistrate at the local level, which can be called the county regiment level. The jurisdiction is in charge of the soldiers and horses of several states and counties, which is the same as the state and can be called the state military level. But in fact, there are many kinds of jurisdictions, including road jurisdictions, state jurisdictions, and garrison jurisdictions and city jurisdictions, and there are also those who serve as governors of the state and the army of governors along the border. The capital eunuch comes directly from the prison army, which is more complicated. There are camp governors, road governors, state governors, and county governors. There are various kinds of garrison governors, as well as those in the city. In terms of management, the distinction between the jurisdiction and the capital is not clear at all.

From a macro point of view, in fact, the imperial court is very clear about how the military hierarchy should be set up and how to command in principle. However, when it comes to historical evolution, practical interests, the management of the army by the Privy Council and the Sanya, and the arrangements for the imperial power to control the military power, it will be a mess.

At some levels, the military power is terrifyingly large. At some levels, the military power has shrunk pitifully, and the daily management can barely cope with it, and the wartime command is a mess. There was no distinction between the daily command of the army and the wartime command, and the imperial power could not fully control the military power, which not only the emperor was afraid, but also the ministers of the imperial court were also terrified. In wartime, command cannot be separated from daily command, orders cannot be carried out, mistakes cannot be punished, various units cannot cooperate in a fight, and no matter how many troops there are, they cannot form a single unit.

For generals, the marshals valued their combat capabilities, while the imperial court and the emperor valued their ability to command the army, and the two could not be unified. The consequence is that the marshal wants important people, and they are always excluded, and those who want to be removed are protected by all parties and cannot be managed. Of course, the exception in these years is Di Qing, who has entered the Privy Council, who was appointed by Ban Zhi, and was appreciated by the handsome ministers, and he took care of both sides.