"Taibao, it's not satisfactory. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" Zhang said.

It was definitely impossible to negotiate peace, so Wang Ju left the capital very early, and did not go to Shaanxi Road, but to Hedong.

In the future, Hedong is the top priority, not the Xia, and the Western Xia has gone through many encroachment-like expeditions by Wang Ju many times, and it is no longer Li Yuanhao's tenacious Western Xia. But there is a strong neighbor in the north, the Liao State can go south from the Fulin Road to surround Wei to rescue Zhao, support the Western Xia, can pass through the desert, directly increase the thickness of the Western Xia, and can move south from the gap in the Song Dynasty, there is no doubt that in the future, the Hedong Road may undergo a huge test.

And at the critical moment, Hedong Road also has to support the Xia, including soldiers, people, materials, a large number of livestock and vehicles, and at the same time, how to take the Western Xia at the lowest cost and the fastest speed, Wang Ju also has to negotiate with Zhang Qi.

But the two said something else.

When Chen Tang, a famous Han general who went to Central Asia and defeated the Northern Xiongnu Zhishan and the Roman army, wrote to Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty that the barbarian mansion on Touqi Street in Yixian County was in order to show that those who committed a strong man would be punished even if they were far away! The severed heads should be hung on the streets where the barbarians lived, so that they would know that if they dared to violate the dignity of the Great Rulers, they must be killed even if they lived thousands of miles away.

Many people know this allusion.

However, when Wang Ju looked through the Han book, he also saw a passage from him: In the world of the past, the five Hu were the first Han soldiers, without him, the armor was strong, and the moon was a little bit stronger today, and the Hu people also knew the law of the Central Plains, and they could also be a soldier and three Hu.

In the past, the combat effectiveness of five Hu soldiers was equivalent to one Han soldier, without him, the armor was strong, and today, with the exchange of nationalities, the enemy also knew some methods in the Central Plains, and the armor followed, but that's it, a Han soldier is still equivalent to three Hu soldiers.

Wang Ju was stunned.

He still remembers a passage that a Tatar warrior is equivalent to the combat strength of five Ming soldiers, so he can't remember that the minister of the Ming Dynasty said it.

Of course, these two evaluations cannot be fully believed. Just like the soldiers of the Song Dynasty, to be fair, if it is placed on an individual, one-on-one is indeed inferior to the soldiers of the Western Xia or the Liao State, but when integrated, it is difficult to say, so the competition is often the command and planning ability of the main general, the logistics supply capacity, and some other factors.

And the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were not as weak as they imagined, for example, the Yongle Emperor entered the desert five times to sweep and almost swept the entire grassland, can the Song Dynasty do it?

However, the soldiers of the Han Dynasty were indeed fierce.

Some say that Sima Qian and other historians exaggerated the results of the Han army, such as the 400,000 Xiongnu army besieging Liu Bang in Baideng, and the 400,000 Xiongnu army.

This must be a wrong statement, just like the upper reaches of the Shiyang River, there used to be two large lakes, one was called Zhuyeze, with an area of 16,000 square kilometers, and there was a larger lake to the west of it, called Xiutuze, think about how much area Poyang Lake had in later generations, three or four thousand square kilometers!

Even after the Song Dynasty began to deteriorate, the two lakes still covered thousands of square kilometers. The two lakes in the upper reaches of the weak water are known as the West Sea, and the area is even more frightening.

Another example is the Badain Jaran Desert, which was almost inhabited in the desert in later generations, but there are still many oases, so Western Xia had to put three military forts to maintain order.

There is also the west of Sun Moon Ridge, where there is so much population in later generations, how many people are there there? But in the Tang Dynasty, Tuyuhun could easily draw hundreds of thousands of troops, and think about how many people lived at that time.

Therefore, in the Han Dynasty, although the north was bitter cold, but far stronger than the later generations, it is not strange that the Xiongnu drew out hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, even if the north is now bent on war, it can also make up 100,000 soldiers and horses, and the territory of the Xiongnu is much larger than the territory of the current north blockade.

Therefore, the number of casualties recorded in the Han-Hungarian War is credible in the historical records, and it is impossible to beautify the results of the Han army with Sima Qian's hatred for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, his disgust with the war, and his yearning for "Huang Lao Wuwei".

With these premises, Chen Tang's words can indeed be used as a reference.

Could it be that one Han soldier is really equivalent to the combat effectiveness of five Hu soldiers?

It has nothing to do with horse pedals, even if there are no horse pedals, they are all cavalry, although the Han army also has cavalry, but it is the same as the army in the early Song Dynasty, which is an army that combines infantry with a small number of cavalry as a supplement.

So with this question in mind, Wang Ju wrote a letter to Zhang Ji.

The two discussed for a long time and finally came to some conclusions.

First of all, the Han Dynasty did not carry out serious constraints on the main general, just like Li Guang's fate was a bit miserable, but after careful analysis, the Han Dynasty cannot be blamed, the people are that system, when the war comes, you will be given free room to play, make meritorious contributions, reward and promotion, and if you fail and make mistakes, you must be punished.

Not only Wei Huo's two famous generals, but also Chen Tang, Zhao Chongguo, Feng Fengshi, and Cheng Buzhi These people were also not weak in foreign wars.

Therefore, this little constraint is very important, just like Pan Mei going south, if Zhao Kuangyin sends eunuchs or scholars to restrain Pan Mei, I am afraid that Pan Mei may not be able to successfully pacify the Southern Han Dynasty. and Wang Ju came to the northwest this time, if the court restricted, or even did not need to be restricted, as long as he did not cooperate, the consequences would be worrying.

It is precisely because of this that the Lord will be given room to display his talents.

The second is that this armor is excellent, and when it came to the Song Dynasty, because of the developed exchanges, the armor was not obvious, just like the Western Xia had Xia State Sword, Cold Forging Armor, and Western Xia Crossbow, but on the whole, the technology was relatively backward, and there was a lack of resources, and the Western Xia was relatively backward.

However, the bad is bad in two points, the first point is that the officials of the Song Dynasty were corrupt, and the quality of many weapons and armor was seriously unqualified, even if Wang Ju went to the military supervision and carried out a systematic reform, the imperial court also dealt with many corrupt officials and craftsmen, but it could not be eliminated.

There was also corruption in the Han Dynasty, but the problem was that the system of the people was a system of generals, and the armor was directly related to whether they could win on the battlefield, and whether they could make a fortune by adding officials and worshipping the lords. This effectively prevented some unqualified armor from circulating into the army.

The Song Dynasty changed from the "flow general system" to the art of war, which seemed to be a system of generals, but the fact was still controlled by the civil ministers, and each military force would continue to be a puppet, so the nature of the two was different, and it was also destined to produce many inferior weapons.

Why is it from this Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, which is one as the five, in fact, it is a reference.

As a result of these discussions, Wang Ju later informed Zhao Ji and the prime ministers, and then said a problem, it is impossible to copy all the Han system, the Han system also has serious flaws, but it is better to copy a part, such as this general's art of war, the same general, but the Song Dynasty has only a few battalions of generals, at most 4,000 people will ascend to the sky, what harm will be generated, so it is better to further liberalize the rights of the generals.

There is also the problem of smuggling, just like the original northwest, northwest merchants bought green salt from the Western Xia and sold pig iron to the Western Xia, the former relieved the economic pressure of the Western Xia, and the latter allowed the Western Xia to arm more armor.

There was a similar phenomenon on the Song-Liao border, such as Hebei because of the flood of Liao, and the salt system has not been implemented.

According to Zhang Qi's meaning, as long as the relevant behavior is found, whether it is the person involved or the person behind the scenes, it must be executed.

But this is impossible, the best example is the Jin merchants, the Later Jin army broke through the Ming Dynasty towns, robbed a large amount of gold and silver, but these gold and silver can not be eaten and drunk, on the contrary, it caused inflation, so Fan Yongdou, Wang Dayu, Wang Dengku, Tian Shenglan and other eight Jin merchants led by violated the ban of the imperial court, smuggled eighty percent of the grain, gunpowder, sixty percent of the metal and salt and other materials to the Later Jin, and even provided relevant technology to the Later Jin, so that the Later Jin gunpowder technology was no less than the Ming Dynasty, and also provided the Ming Dynasty intelligence for the Later Jin, The names of the guards, the number of soldiers, and the details of equipment at each pass were all revealed to Houjin.

There are also.

The richer and more greedy these few businessmen became, and the more greedy they were, the more unpatriotic they became.

The problem is that the relationship circle behind these people is complicated, and it is okay to kill chickens and monkeys with a very small number of people, if you want to put an end to it, it will definitely cause an uproar, dare to warn Yan Junqi, dare to warn rural teachers? Even if the country has this ambition to sort out, it still can't be eliminated, life is precious, love is more expensive, if it is for money, both can be thrown!

However, in the Han Dynasty, because the Xiongnu were barbaric, the situation was much better, so the difference between the two weapons and armor was so large that it was enough to ignore the role of war horses.

The third is that it is well-trained, the same reason as before, in the Song Dynasty because of the system problems, it is impossible to achieve, and depending on the command of each battalion, eat empty salaries, deduct military salaries and logistics, and use soldiers to do private work, so Wen Tian is martial and low.

But that's it, it's much better than the stragglers in Western Xia.

The fourth is the actual battle, the confidence brought by repeated victories, and the strong support of the imperial court and the rear.

As for the most important thing, whether one Han soldier can withstand five Hu soldiers, Wang Ju and Zhang Qi do not believe it, because the soldiers of the Han Dynasty are also vegetarian soldiers, mainly beans and millet.

It's just that because of the combination of the previous reasons, one Han soldier may not be able to resist one Hu soldier, but a group of Han soldiers can be able to resist five groups of Hu soldiers.

For this reason, even if the population of the Three Kingdoms was so small (when Wu died, the number of households in the country was 1473423, and the number of mouths was 7672881, the actual number of mouths was estimated to be no more than 16 million, so Cao Cao wrote a poem, there are righteous people in the eastern part of the country, and the army is raised to fight against the murderers. In the early days, the alliance was in Jin, and the heart was in Xianyang. The forces of the army were uneven, and they hesitated and walked wildly. The power makes people fight, and the heirs fight each other. The title of Huainan brother is engraved in the north. The armor gives birth to lice, and all surnames die. The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles. The people are left behind, and the thought breaks people's intestines. Calling around, there is only one person left of a hundred ordinary people! But that's it, Cao Wei still pressed the northern nomads to fight.

Then to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in fact, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was not weak in combat effectiveness against the Sixteen Kingdoms, not to mention the Battle of Weishui, Huan Wen and Liu Yu made two northern expeditions, and almost recovered their homeland, but unfortunately these two people were ambitious Lords, unintentionally in the Central Plains, and they withdrew their troops to take Guanzhong respectively. Song Qi and Liang Chen after Liu Yu are rotten, so don't mention it.

and then to the Sui and Tang dynasties, the overall performance of nomads is not weak.

However, in the Song Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the Han people immediately changed!

In fact, it is a problem of the system.

Of course, it is impossible for Wang Ju or Zhang Qi to let the Song Dynasty return to the system of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and that system may form a powerful army, but there are no restrictions on military generals, unlimited delegation of power, and too many troops, which is powerful to the outside, but it also has a fatal tumor inside.

It's helplessness.

But for this, one is five, and both of them are envious.

Think about it, with the financial resources of the Song Dynasty, if you can train 200,000 troops like "one for five", where can you care about the Liao State, just fight!

However, this is not possible.

So Zhang Ji mentioned that Wang Ju used sufficient financial resources to train the fierce army in Huachi County.

Wang Ju also moved, because in the future, the West did not need to think about taking down the Western Xia, and the Black Khan was not enough to form a deadly threat, either some nomads in the desert west of Helan Mountain, or a small number of Tubo Uighurs west of Chiling, there might be some plundering, but because their population base was too small, it would not shake the rule of the Song Dynasty at all.

Therefore, the center of gravity immediately shifted to the north, and the territory of Western Xia changed from the entire Shaanxi Road to the North and South Hetao and Helan Mountain, and possibly Juyanhai. But the real center of gravity is on the line from Fulin Road to Daizhou in Hedong and extending eastward to the front line of Hebei Road.

But it is impossible to play like Wang Ju, not because Zhang Qi's ability is weak, but because the regular forbidden soldiers, township soldiers and archers on the entire Hedong Road, reaching more than 100,000 people, not to mention how much money is needed for equipment, it is said that Wang Ju bought a large number of pigs and sheep alive and forcibly improved the physical fitness of the soldiers, which will also lead to the loss of control of the entire price. Besides, if Hedong Road does this, what will happen to the more than 300,000 forbidden soldiers on Shaanxi Road, which is the main theater of war?

So at Wang Ju's suggestion, the imperial court slightly increased some money for the officers and soldiers brought by Yao Lin.

That's what the two are talking about now.

There are some effects, but they are not very ideal, and it is impossible to achieve the so-called one as five.

"Taibao, the main thing is the lack of expeditionary actual combat."

"Expeditionary?"

"The reason why the Han and Tang armies were strong was not only because there were many battles and the soldiers were familiar with the battle, but also because they often traveled thousands of miles to fight in the rivers and deep deserts, which not only increased the cooperation of the soldiers and soldiers, but also improved the resilience of the soldiers. Although we mobilized many soldiers to fight in Yinxia last year, the distance was not far, and because of the advance arrangement, our army defeated the Xia people by an overwhelming margin, and there was a lack of cruelty in the war, so the combat effectiveness of the soldiers was limited. ”

"yes."

"In addition, unlike the Shaanxi Road soldiers, although our dynasty occasionally transferred Hedong Road soldiers to reinforce Shaanxi Road, but the number of troops was limited, Song Liao Chengping for a long time, Hedong Road became the second line, born in sorrow, died in peace, Hedong Road soldiers are far from the strong army in the Northern Han Dynasty."

Wang Ju sighed slightly, he knew this more clearly than Zhang Ji.

"Taibao, in my opinion, it is best to mobilize a group of elite forbidden soldiers to Hebei Road to change guards."

The soldiers of Hedong Road have experienced some wars, and Zhang Qi has been training for more than a year, but Hebei Road is not even worse.

This is just in case, if the Liao army goes south from Hebei Road, and the soldiers of Hebei Road are defeated, then maybe the Song Dynasty will not be able to extinguish the Western Xia.

But it is impossible to transfer the Shaanxi Lufan Army to Hebei, they are also equivalent to township soldiers, how can they be transferred to Hebei? Moreover, the Shaanxi Road battlefield still counted on them to be the main army.

That's a tall man in the short, although the forbidden soldiers stationed on Shaanxi Road can't do it, but over the years, after some wars many times, it is much better than the soldiers on the Hebei Road, and the number of guards will pass, plus a group of border troops trained under Wang Ju's suggestion, although it can't be said that one is five, or even one is one, but it's much better than nothing, so if there is a case, Hebei Road will be safe and sound, and it can hold on for at least a few months. But in just a few months, Western Xia will be taken, and the troops will be drawn out at that time. Moreover, at Wang Ju's suggestion, last year, the imperial court deliberately allocated a large amount of money to widen several mountain roads between Luliang Mountain and Taihang Mountain.

However, it is not so easy, and it is useless to transfer those officers and men to Hebei if they can fight, and they still expect to receive awards for meritorious service.

When spring officially arrived, it was necessary to rush to the Hebei front line from the Shaanxi Road, and to ask for the court's permission in advance, and the time was very tight.

If part of the troops are transferred to Hebei, then some troops must be drawn from the capital to support, but there is that one piece of earth, and the Gyeonggi troops cannot let it be empty, so it is necessary to transfer some more troops from Hebei Road back to the capital, "in case" of Wang Ju's cover......

This is where it comes in.

Wang Ju pondered.

"Taibao, I heard that there are some rumors in the capital."

"Brother Qianfu, did you hear that too?"

"Well, this rumor is not good, why doesn't the court ask?" (To be continued.) )