There are many reasons for the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty in history, one of which is that the combat effectiveness of the Dumen Forbidden Army, which was the main force surrounding Bianliang City at that time, was extremely poor.

No, it can't be described as bad anymore. It should be said that there is no combat effectiveness at all!

It's hard to imagine that in a land that has given birth to peerless strong armies such as the Han Family Feather Forest and the Xuanjia Tiger Ben. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, among the large army calculated in millions, it was impossible to find a strong army that could fight with the Jurchen savage army!

The Jurchens' combat effectiveness is really not how strong, the only thing they are stronger than the Song army is that they are not afraid of death! Because they just had nothing in the first place. And at that time, he had lived in the most prosperous country in the world for hundreds of years, and the army of the Song State was already rotten.

Even if it was the Western Army that was known as the most capable of fighting in the Song Kingdom at that time. Compared with the time of the founding of the country, the powerful forbidden army led by Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, who conquered the south and the north, conquered the world, and swallowed mountains and rivers was also far away. Not to mention the fierce legions that have left their names in the history books.

The hundreds of thousands of elite forbidden troops at the time of the founding of the Song State were able to go north to break the Northern Han Dynasty that supported the fortified city of Taiyuan, and to defeat the powerful Liao State with millions of armor.

Going south to destroy Shu made Madame Hua Rui cry out angrily, '140,000 people are disarmed, and none of them are men!' The peerless powerhouse of the world!

If it weren't for Zhao Guangyi, a super loser, who buried the hundreds of thousands of elite forbidden troops that his brother had worked so hard to build in the next battle in Yanjing City, then history would definitely not be what it is now.

Wait until everything is peaceful and the country is a little more stable. What followed was the continuous decline of the status of the warriors, and the continuous collapse of the army in peace and ease.

The literati and doctors began to suppress in every possible way, and even let the eunuchs command the army! The Northern Song Dynasty was an era when doctors could not be punished, and no matter how big the civil officials committed, they were only exiled at most. No one loses their head.

However, the soldiers had a completely different story. All the immediate bosses are civilians. These scholars, who have only read a little history books, indiscriminately command the army to fight. If they win, it will be their credit, and if they lose, they will directly pull the generals to cut off their heads!

Coming and going, whose heart is not cold? Who will die for this country?! The soldiers are not fools either!

In addition to the repression of civil officials. There are also those military generals who are full of fat brains and deduct military salaries and use the soldiers who have been in the army for generations like pigs and dogs.

Those who have been in Bianliang City for more than a hundred years have been passed down from generation to generation in Bianliang City to the end of the world, and one by one they have become fishermen, royal hands, cooks, musicians, anti-bag coolies, and so on.

They can cook, settle accounts, fish, build houses, play and sing, but they can't fight!

In fact, the Song Dynasty was burdened with the heavy burden of redundant soldiers and expenses from the very beginning. While supporting a large number of officials, all the refugees and homeless people were gathered into the army.

Over time, the number has reached a point of collapse. In fact, this situation was unsustainable by the middle of the Song Dynasty.

Wang Anshi's change is in essence an extreme overdraft of the country's potential! In the absence of any other choice, without daring to touch those interest groups. In order to continue the country, Wang Anshi can only fill the endless hole with future hope, that is, overdraft!

The million-strong army in the country is not enough, but the Western Army, which is capable of fighting, is suspected of being too big and supporting its own troops. As for the Bianliang Center, there are no usable troops at all.

The morale in the officialdom is very bad. Corruption and cowardice have become the norm. Everyone is busy making money, climbing up, and party fighting! There are no more humble gentlemen, all that remains are a bunch of villains and eunuchs!

As for the descendants of those who made meritorious contributions to the founding of the country, those who have inherited the command of the Metropolitan Gate Control Army for generations. They were suspicious of the emperor and could not go to other places, nor could they lead troops to fight. The only thing you can do is to make money desperately!

Fight? Hughti!

These generals and nobles are extremely fierce and cruel to the military households who can only be the gate control army for generations! It's not much better than the blacks who were trafficked into the New World!

A few years ago, after the Northern Expedition Yanyun was beaten by the remnants of the Liao Army. A small number of people of insight in the Song State also found that the combat effectiveness of their own army was not good, and they faced the terrifying Jurchen Army that had destroyed the elite army of the Liao State. I want to rebuild an army that can fight.

It's just that what was originally a good starting point turned into a carve-up transaction of red fruits. It has become a new money-making tool.

Those men who still have blood in their hearts and voluntarily stand up and join the new army are all used as tools of trade. A tool used to deceive Song Huizong.

Tens of thousands of men who still have blood are discarded like garbage, and they have no identity and no household registration. can only wait silently for death in a corner where no one cares.

And the new army formed in their name. It has become a completely empty salary institution! Tens of thousands of people's weapons, armor, clothing, horses and equipment, settling-in expenses, and monthly silver and rice have all become a new source of wealth for those corrupt officials and military generals!

These parasites who lie on this country and suck the blood don't care what happens to the country, and they don't care what happens to the soldiers who have been removed. In their hearts, only how much they can get!

The whole world knew about this matter, and the only person who was concealed was the emperor alone. This incident completely chilled everyone's hearts. This is also the reason why the army of the Jin Kingdom was able to enter the strongest city in the world at that time, Bianliang City, almost unscathed!

Did Song Huizong want to surrender? He doesn't want to, but there's no way!

After the siege of the Jurchen army. When those literati, doctors, and military generals and nobles went to urge the Dumen Forbidden Army to defend the city and fight, no one came forward! They were greeted only by extremely resentful and indifferent eyes!

Those people and soldiers who have completely despaired and died, they want to die with this court!

Mourning is greater than heart death!

Those garrison troops in other places are much better than the capital gate guards in Bianliang City. This is especially true for those armies that are on the border and often fight.

The Jinning Army and the Volcano Army were such armies. They are in the position of connecting with Western Xia all the year round, and there is still some combat effectiveness between life and death after all. The front-line generals did not dare to do too much with the deduction of civilian officials.

The defeated soldiers of the Song State who came to serve the victorious army of Gaoyang were generally veterans who had been in battle. However, after all, they are just ordinary local van troops, and their combat effectiveness is definitely not good for the Jurchens. After being defeated by the powerful Jurchens, they were exiled in the vast Taihang Mountains, unable to enter or retreat.

When the grain and grass were exhausted and they were about to be starved to death, the news came that the Chang Shengjun had defeated the main force of the Golden Dog. After hearing that the news was true, these sergeants didn't care about anything else, and hurried out of the mountains to serve.

Fang Mingjing is a smart person, he knows what Gao Yang needs at the moment. For these people who took the initiative to serve, he treated them with kindness and served them with good food and drink. Because he knows that Gao Yang needs these people.

No one can rely on only a few thousand men to fight the world, and even the Jurchens, who are so proud, have received a large number of new annexes. Gao Yang needs it even more.

At this moment, these former Song sergeants in the brand new camp were eating a sumptuous dinner in groups according to the original organization. For them, it's really hearty.

The border troops are not as good as in Bianliang City. The long distances made it extremely difficult to transport long distances, and there were no refrigerated transport options in those days. Coupled with the layers of buckles from top to bottom, what can fall into the hands of ordinary sergeants is just a full stomach.

Arriving here at the victorious army is like coming to heaven. Eat as much as you want about the steamed buns of the big white noodles. Everyone can serve a large bowl of broth, and there are large chunks of fatty meat floating in it! In addition, there are a large number of pickles that cannot be named, but have a very unique taste.

This kind of food treatment, coupled with being able to sleep peacefully in the military tent at night, is enough to make these former Song sergeants who originally had some doubts in their hearts honestly submit!

"Uncle Qin Shan, you see that those people who pacified the army are here again. Do you want us?" a young man with no hair on his mouth whispered something to a captain beside him.

Before he could finish speaking, the Wu Commander named Qin Shan immediately interrupted him, "Silence! You kid doesn't want to go on his own, don't bother me! The tone was very hard, as if something was a big deal.

After a pause, he looked at the aggrieved look of the young sergeant beside him, thinking of the kid in his family, and his heart softened for no reason. sighed lightly and said to him, "Qi Gui, you don't understand things, I don't want to be good to you." You remember, don't talk nonsense and do things in the army in the future! Otherwise, I don't know how I was unlucky! ”

"Uncle Qin Shan, what's going on? We are not all Song Jun," Qi Gui was knocked on the head by Qin Shan before he finished speaking.

"Shut up! Idiot! Qin Shan looked around nervously, and found that everyone was enjoying the delicious food, and no one noticed them, so he quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

Turning his head to look at Qi Gui with a face full of grievances, he said viciously, "Why are you disobedient!" What Song Jun? We are no longer Song Jun! Since we entered this camp and ate this full meal, we are no longer Song Army! We are all the people of the victorious army now and in the future, and we are the people of the high generals! ”

"That, that" The young Qi Gui hadn't been able to react yet. Qin Shan stretched out his hand and held his ear and whispered, "At noon this day, when the two fighting men of the Volcano Army were eating, they saw that those pacifying troops were pitiful, so they sent them some food. Do you know what the fate will be? ”

"Huh?!" Qi Gui really didn't know about this matter, and hurriedly looked at Qin Shan with an inquiring gaze.

Qin Shan sighed, let go of his hand, looked around again, and said in a low voice, "We are now the victorious army, and those fighting men of the pacification army are unwilling to serve the high generals, they are the Song army!" We're each our own master now. Do you take the food of the victorious army to the Song army? What is it? This is a violation of military law! (To be continued......)