"Taibao, it's not satisfactory." Zhang Qi said.

It is 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 attack on Xia. After many expropriation of Wang Ju, Xixia was no longer the tenacious Xixia of Li Yuanhao. But there was a strong neighbor in the north. The Liao Kingdom could go south from Fulin Road to surrounded Wei and rescue Zhao, support Xixia, cross the desert, directly increase the thickness of Xixia, and move south from the Daizhou gap that was moved out of the Song Dynasty. There is undoubtedly a huge test in the future.

And at the critical moment, Hedong Road also supports the destruction of Xia, including soldiers, civilians, supplies, and a large number of livestock and vehicles. At the same time, Wang Ju also negotiated with Zhang Yu to win the Western Xia at the lowest cost and as quickly as possible.

But what the two said was another thing.

When he went to Central Asia, he defeated the Northern Xiongnu Zhizhi Shanyu and the famous Han general Chen Tang, who wrote a letter to Emperor Yuan of Han, said that the barbarian residences in Toucao Street in Yixian were thousands of miles away. Those who violated the powerful Han Dynasty would be punished even if they were far away. They should hang their cut-off heads on the streets where barbarians lived, so that they would know that they would dare to infringe on the dignity of great governance. Even if they lived thousands of miles away, they would have to kill them.

Many people know this allusion.

However, when Wang Ju looked through the Han Book, he also saw his words: In the past, the Five Barbarians were the Han soldiers, but there was nothing else, the armor and the weapons were strong, and the moon was a little waste today. The Hu people also understood the methods of the Central Plains, and could also be the Three Barbarians.

In the past, the combat effectiveness of the five Hu soldiers was equivalent to that of one Han soldier. There was nothing else, and the armor was strong. Today, with ethnic exchanges, the enemy also knew some methods of the Central Plains, and the armor followed. But even so, one Han soldier was still equivalent to three Hu soldiers.

Wang Ju felt confused.

He still remembered a passage that a Tatar soldier was equivalent to the combat effectiveness of five Ming soldiers, so he couldn't remember what the minister of the Ming Dynasty said.

Of course, these two evaluations cannot be fully believed. Just like the soldiers of the Song Dynasty, to be fair, if placed in individuals, one-on-one is indeed inferior to those of the Xixia soldiers or the Liao soldiers, but it is hard to say when integrated. Therefore, the competition is often the command and planning ability, logistics supply ability, and other factors.

Moreover, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were not as weak as expected. For example, Emperor Yongle entered the desert five times to sweep the entire grassland, almost wiped out the entire grassland. Can the Song Dynasty do it?

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

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

This must be a wrong statement. Just like the upper reaches of Shiyang River, there were two large lakes in the past, one called Zhuyeze, with an area of ​​16,000 square kilometers. There is also a larger lake called Xiutuze, think about the area of ​​Poyang Lake in the future, three to four thousand square kilometers!

Even when the water and soil in the Song Dynasty began to deteriorate, the area of ​​these two lakes was still thousands of square kilometers. The two lakes above the Ruoshui River were called the West Sea, and the area was even more terrifyingly large.

For example, the Badain Jilin Desert was almost impossible to see in the deserts in later generations, but there are still many oasis, so Xixia had to set up three military forts to maintain order.

There is also the west of Riyue Ridge, where there are so many people in later generations, how many people are there? But in Tuyuhun of the Tang Dynasty, he could easily withdraw hundreds of thousands of troops. Think about how many people lived at that time.

Therefore, although the north was bitter and cold during the Han Dynasty, it was far stronger than later generations. It was not surprising that the Huns drew hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses. Even if Beizhubu was determined to start a war, they could gather 100,000 soldiers and horses. Moreover, the territory of the Huns was much larger than the territory of Beizhubu.

Therefore, historical records record the number of casualties in the Han-Hungary War is credible. Moreover, Sima Qian's hatred for Emperor Wu of Han, his disgust for war, and his yearning for "Huang-Lao Wuwei" cannot beautify the results of the Han army.

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

Is it really equivalent to the combat effectiveness of five Hu soldiers?

It has nothing to do with horse stirrups. Even if there is no horse stirrup, it is still a whole cavalry. Although the Han army also had cavalry, it was a army that combined with infantry mainly and a small number of cavalry as the auxiliary.

So as to this question, Wang Ju wrote a letter to Zhang Ju.

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

First of all, the Han Dynasty did not impose serious constraints on the main generals, just like Li Guang's fate was a bit miserable, but if you analyze it carefully, you can't blame the Han Dynasty. It is the system. When the war comes, it gives you space to play freely, make contributions, reward and promotion, and fail or make mistakes, and you must be punished.

Not only were the two famous foreign relatives of Wei and Huo, Chen Tang, Zhao Chongguo, Feng Fengshi, and Cheng Buzhi, these people also performed weakly in foreign wars.

Therefore, this little restraint is very important, just like Pan Mei goes south. If Zhao Kuangyin sends eunuchs or scholars to restrain Pan Mei, Pan Mei may not be able to pacify the Southern Han Dynasty. There is also Wang Ju's trip to the northwest this time. If the court imposes restraints, there is no need to restrain him. As long as he does not cooperate, the consequences will be worrying.

It is precisely because of this that the main general has room to display his talents.

Secondly, this weapon was excellent. By the Song Dynasty, due to the developed communication, this weapon was even more excellent. Just like the Xixia sword, cold forged armor, and Xixia crossbow, it was relatively backward in technology and lacked resources, so Xixia was relatively backward.

However, the bad ones are two points. First, many of the officials of the Song Dynasty had seriously failed the quality of armor. Even though Wang Ju went to the military weapon supervision and carried out a systematic reform, the court also dealt with many corrupt officials and craftsmen, but it could not be eliminated.

There were also those in the Han Dynasty, but the problem is that the system of others is a system of generals and soldiers. The instruments and armors are directly related to whether they can win on the battlefield and whether they can be promoted to the position of office and to make a fortune. If the court issued a large number of unqualified instruments and armors, will the military leaders agree? This effectively prevented some unqualified instruments and armors from circulating into the army.

The Song Dynasty changed from the "fresh general system" to the general military strategy. It seemed to be a system of generals and soldiers, but the facts were still controlled by civil officials, and each military general continued to be puppets. Therefore, the two were of different natures and were destined to produce many inferior weapons.

Why did the Han Dynasty, which was once one to five, always lead to the Song Dynasty? It is actually a reference.

Wang Ju later informed Zhao Xu and the prime ministers of these discussions, and then said a question: It is impossible to copy the Han system all. The Han system also has serious flaws, but it is better to copy some of them. For example, this general is a general, but there are only a few battalions of officials in the Song Dynasty, and at most 4,000 people will reach the sky. What harm will it cause? Therefore, it is better to further liberalize the rights of the generals and the chief generals.

There is also the problem of smuggling, just like the northwest merchants purchased the green salt from Xixia and sold pig iron to Xixia. The former relieved the economic pressure of Xixia, while the latter allowed Xixia to arm more armor.

There are similar phenomena on the border between the Song and Liao dynasties. For example, due to the flood of Liao salt, Hebei has been unable to implement the salt-debate system.

According to Zhang Xi's meaning, as long as the relevant behavior is found, both the parties involved or the person behind the scenes must be executed.

But this is impossible. The best example is the Shanxi merchants. The Later Jin army captured the Ming Dynasty towns and stole a large amount of gold and silver. However, these gold and silver could not be eaten and drunk, which instead caused inflation. Therefore, the Shanxi merchants led by Fan Yongdou, Wang Dayu, Wang Dengku, Tian Shenglan violated the ban on the court and smuggled 80% of grain, gunpowder, 60% of metal and salt and other materials from the Hou Jin, and even provided relevant technology to the Hou Jin. The gunpowder technology of the Hou Jin was no less than that of the Ming Dynasty. They also provided the Ming Dynasty information for the Later Jin, and carefully explained the name of the guard generals at each pass, the number of soldiers and equipment, and all of them were revealed to the Hou Jin.

There are, too.

The richer these very few businessmen are, the more greedy they are, and the more greedy they are, the less patriotic they are.

The problem is that the relationship circle behind these people is complicated, and it is okay to use a few people to kill chickens and monkeys. If you want to eliminate it, it will cause an uproar. You dare to warn Yan Junqiu, and dare to warn rural teachers? Even if the country has this ambition to sort it out, it will still not be eliminated. Life is precious, and love is more expensive. If it is for money, both can be abandoned!

However, in the Han Dynasty, this situation was much better because of the barbaric Huns, which caused the difference in armor between the two, which was so large that it was enough to ignore the role of war horses.

The third is that it is well-trained, and the principle is the same as before. In the Song Dynasty, it was impossible to achieve due to institutional problems. Let’s see the command of each battalion, take empty salary, deduct military salary and logistics, and use soldiers to do private work, so the civil and military play were in peace and military service, and the combat effectiveness was low.

But even so, it is much better than the military discipline of the scattered soldiers and brave men in Xixia.

The fourth is the confidence brought by actual combat, the repeated victory, and the strong support from the court and the rear.

As for the most important thing, Wang Ju and Zhang Feng did not believe whether a Han soldier could defeat five Hu soldiers, because the soldiers of the Han Dynasty were also vegetarian troops, mainly beans and millet.

Just because of the previous reasons combined, a Han soldier may not be able to resist a Hu soldier, but a group of Han soldiers can resist five Hu soldiers.

For this reason, even if the population of the Three Kingdoms was destroyed, the number of households in the country was 1473,423, and the number of households was 7672,881. The actual number of households was estimated to be no more than 16 million. Therefore, Cao Cao wrote a poem, "There were righteous men in Guandong, and they raised troops to fight against all the evil spirits. In the early days, the alliance was in Xianyang. The army was not in unity, and the geese were hesitant. The power caused people to fight, but the heirs still fought with each other. The title of Huainan brother was engraved in the north. The armor produced worms and lice, and thousands of people died. The bones were exposed in the wild, and there was no rooster crowing thousands of miles. One hundred people was left with one thought. After a while, there were only one person left for a hundred ordinary people! But even so, Cao Wei still suppressed the nomadic people in the north.

Then in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was not weak in combat against the Sixteen Kingdoms. Not to mention the Battle of Feishui, Huan Wen and Liu Yu made two northern expeditions and almost took back their hometowns. Unfortunately, both of them were ambitious. They accidentally took down Guanzhong and retreated their troops. After Liu Yu, Song, Qi, Liang and Chen were rotten, so don't mention it.

Then in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, they were not weak in their performance against nomadic peoples in general.

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

It's actually a matter of the system.

Of course, it is impossible for Wang Ju or Zhang Yu to return the system of the Song Dynasty to the Han and Tang Dynasties. Moreover, that system may form a powerful army, but it does not restrict the generals, delegate power infinitely, and possesses too many troops. It is powerful to the outside world, but fatal tumors have also arisen inside.

This is helpless.

But both of them are envious of this one for five.

Think about it, with the financial resources of the Song Dynasty, if we could train 200,000 troops like "one to five" in the army, there would be no more Liao Kingdom, just fight!

However, this is impossible.

So Zhang Feng mentioned the strong army that Wang Ju used his sufficient financial resources to train in Huachi County.

Wang Ju was also interested, because the West did not need to consider taking down Xixia in the future. Black sweat was not enough to pose a fatal threat. Either some nomadic peoples in the desert west of Helan Mountain, or a small number of Tubo people and Uighurs west of Chiling, may have some plundering behavior, but because their population base is too small, it will not shake the rule of the Song Dynasty at all.

Therefore, the center of gravity immediately shifted to the north, and the territory of Xixia changed from the entire Shaanxi Road to the North and South Hetao and Helan Mountains, and possibly the Juyanhai. But the real center of gravity was from the line from Hedong Fulin Road to Daizhou, and extended eastward to the front line of Hebei Road.

But it is impossible to play like Wang Ju. It is not that Zhang Ju has weak abilities, but that the regular bans, village soldiers and archers on the entire Hedong Road have reached more than 100,000. Without mentioning how much money is needed for equipment, just like Wang Ju, buying a large number of pigs and sheep and forcibly improving the physical fitness of the soldiers will also lead to the loss of control of the entire price. Besides, if Hedong Road does this, what should we do if more than 300,000 bans of bans on Shaanxi Road as the main war zone?

So at Wang Ju's suggestion, the court slightly increased some funds to be used for the officers and soldiers brought by Yao Lin.

This is what the two of them are talking about now.

With some effects, but not very ideal, it is impossible to achieve the so-called one to five.

"Taibao mainly lacks expeditionary-style practical combat."

“Expeditionary?”

"The reason why the Han and Tang armies are powerful is not only because there are many wars and the soldiers are familiar with fighting, but also because they often travel long distances to rivers thousands of miles away and fight deep in the desert. This not only increases the mutual cooperation between soldiers, but also improves the resilience of soldiers. Although we mobilized many soldiers to fight in Yinxia last year, the distance is not long. Moreover, because of the arrangement in advance, our army defeated the Xia people with an overwhelming advantage, lacking cruel wars, so the combat effectiveness of soldiers is limited."

"That's right."

"In addition, unlike the soldiers on Shaanxi Road, although our dynasty occasionally dispatched soldiers from Hedong Road to reinforce Shaanxi Road, the number of troops was limited. The Song and Liao Dynasty had been in peace for a long time, and Hedong Road became the second line, born in distress and died in Anle. The soldiers of Hedong Road were far from the strong army in the Northern Han Dynasty."

Wang Ju sighed slightly. He knew this more clearly than Zhang Feng.

"Taibao, in my opinion, it is best to mobilize a group of strong imprison soldiers to Hebei Road to change defenses."

The soldiers on Hedong Road have experienced some wars, and Zhang Qing came here for more than a year to train, but Hebei Road is even worse.

This is just in case. If the Liao team heads south from Hebei Road and the Hebei Road soldiers are defeated, then the Song Dynasty may not be able to pacify Xixia.

But it is impossible to transfer the Shaanxi Road foreign troops to Hebei. They are equivalent to rural soldiers. How can they be transferred to Hebei? Moreover, the Shaanxi Road battlefield still expects them to be the main army.

He had to pick taller among the short men. Although the injunction troops stationed on Shaanxi Road were not good, over the years, he had experienced some wars many times, which was much better than the soldiers on Hebei Road. The number of defenses changed over the years. In addition, a group of border troops trained at Wang Ju's suggestion could not be said to be one for five, or even one for one, but it was much better than not. So if it happened, Hebei Road would be safe and could be held for at least a few months. But in just a few months, Xixia would be taken down, and then the troops would be drawn out. Moreover, at Wang Ju's suggestion, the imperial court deliberately allocated a large sum of money to widen several mountain roads in Luliang Mountain and Taihang Mountain. Although it could not be called flat roads, it could allow thousands of cavalry to rush to Hebei Road several months in advance.

However, it is not that easy. If the soldiers who can be dispatched, the soldiers who can fight are unwilling to go to Hebei, and they are still hoping to make meritorious service and receive awards. If they cannot fight, it will be useless to mobilize troops to transfer to Hebei.

When spring officially arrived, we had to rush to the Hebei front from Shaanxi Road and we had to request the court to be approved in advance, and time was very tight.

To transfer some troops to Hebei, some troops must be drawn from the capital to support it. However, if there is a land that can cover the sky, the capital of the capital cannot be left empty, so some troops must be drawn from Hebei Road to return to the capital to "be careful" Wang Ju will cover the sky

This is complicated.

Wang Ju pondered.

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

"Brother Husband, you heard it too?"

"Well, this rumor is not good, why does the court ignore it?" To be continued.

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Chapter completed!