You should know that the fourth year of Jingde was in the Northern Song Dynasty, and this situation became even more serious in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Moreover, every year of disaster, the court will recruit hungry people who have been scattered due to disasters and famines into troops.

Therefore, prisoners with tattoos on their faces, robbers who gather in the mountains and forests, and farmers who cannot eat, are the main components of the Song Dynasty's Xiang Army.

... Speaking of this, I think everyone understands why whenever a general who can fight in the Song Dynasty appeared, the first thing he had to do was to find a place to train troops.

That's because when the original Song Dynasty official army was handed over to the generals, it was no longer a question of whether they could fight. The biggest problem was... They were not soldiers at all!... I mentioned the imperial guards and the wing army before, and then the village army next.

The third part is also quite large, and the more remote the area, the more it is.

However, these armies are completely dependent on local clan forces.

To be honest, his function was not to fight for the court, but to protect the landlords and powerful people in every place.

Just like when Shen Mo first arrived in Tongzhou, the 500 troops of Zhao Ge's son-in-law whom he killed were in this situation, and it was very common throughout the Song Dynasty.

...In addition, the army of the Song Dynasty also had a serious disadvantage when fighting.

At that time, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was the general who led the troops. He relied on the Huangqiao mutiny to overthrow the home of his old master.

So he was afraid that the Zhao family, whose children and grandchildren, would be overthrown because of a mutiny... By the way, that was really a naked retribution.

Therefore, the Emperor Taizu of Song Zhao Kuangyin formulated an extremely strange system, which was to separate the army and generals.

In other words, in the imperial guards and the wing army, they had soldiers but had no authority to move.

Even if you just want to mobilize a soldier... I'm sorry, I won't be able to do without the court's words.

On the other side is the Privy Council where Shen Mo is now in charge.

They had the command of the army, but they did not have a single soldier under their command! Therefore, every time the court fought, they had to order the Privy Council, and then the Privy Council selected generals to go out to fight.

This general actually only held a tiger talisman in his hand, and then he could mobilize the army with his seals after he arrived in the military camp... Do you think such an army can fight?

To be honest, before the general descended into his own team, he was facing a big battle immediately. He didn't even know how many people there were in his army, whether his head was round or flat! At the same time, the soldiers of course could not trust this completely unfamiliar general.

This is what history calls it: "A soldier does not know the general, and a general does not know the soldiers."

Under such circumstances, both soldiers and generals neither trust nor understand.

Want to defeat the enemy when you send troops to fight?

It would be nice if they didn't fight themselves! So when Shen Mo summarized these situations to Zhao and Rui, he told the emperor all the shortcomings of the Song Dynasty's military system in one breath.

After that, Zhao Yurui nodded, and couldn't help but be secretly surprised.

Zhao Yurui believed from the bottom of his heart that there were very few people like Shen Mo who looked like a torch in the dynasty... In fact, he didn't know that this was because Shen Mo looked at the problem from a historical perspective.

So when Shen Mo analyzed and judged, although what he said was true, even Emperor Zhao and Rui knew about many things for the first time.

Yu Rui didn't expect that the Song Dynasty's army was so weak, but it actually originated from the idea of ​​building the army at the beginning of the establishment of the army... It was decided in the system! After that, Zhao and Rui naturally asked Shen Mo.

What will he do when he wants to restructure his army?

Then Shen Mo immediately launched his entire military reform plan to the emperor.

...First of all, when Shen Mo said it, he almost let the emperor Zhao and Rui turn from the dragon throne to the back! Shen Mo wanted to remove the imperial guards and re-select them to form a group.

He wanted to set up a war zone and establish a field army in this Song Dynasty! According to Shen Mo's ideas, in the army of three parts, the local soldiers would not need to be cared about for now.

Shen Mo wanted to eliminate the imperial guards with a total number of 1.1 million and the wing army, and retain the strong, and then select the best.

Become a strong and combat-ready army.

The second thing Shen Mo said after this was to completely solve the chronic disease of the soldiers of the Song Dynasty's army who did not know the generals and generals did not know the soldiers... He wanted the generals who led the troops, that is, those who usually led the army, to become the generals who led the army to the battlefield! Since the local generals have the power to lead troops to fight again, the incident of sending generals from the Privy Council to fight will of course be abolished naturally, so this is the third article suggested by Shen Mo.

Among these three suggestions, the entire Song Dynasty military system from the court to ordinary soldiers has been overturned again. Such a move is really amazing! Moreover, Shen Mo basically decided on Taizu Zhao Kuangyin that those methods of controlling the rebellion and rebellion of martial artists... were also abolished when it was also a means to seriously weaken the combat effectiveness of the army.

...When Zhao Yurui heard Shen Mo's plan, his first reaction was: If this matter is not done well, it will probably cause a lot of chaos! So when Zhao Yurui told Shen Mo about his worries, Shen Mo nodded and said, "This matter is actually not difficult to solve."

"As long as I reform, I don't move the entire Song Dynasty troops at first, but change them all the way.

This will prevent the sudden change of the entire Song Dynasty army and the turmoil and chaos caused by the sudden change."

"And I have changed all the way and I can work hard to organize and organize the troops in every place."

Then Shen Mo smiled and said to Zhao Yurui: "We can solve the place first and then solve the court."

After I have reorganized all the troops from all over the Song Dynasty, we will find a way to deal with the matters in the court."

...After this, Zhao Yurui pondered for a long time.

To be honest, during the process of getting along with Shen Mo, he had never hesitated for such a long time about Shen Mo's suggestions. This is the first time.

Obviously, the emperor was also filled with uneasiness at this time.

Just as the emperor was hesitating, Shen Mo looked at Zhao Yurui with a smile and asked him: "Do you know Empress Xiao of Liao Kingdom?"

"Then why didn't I know?"

After hearing Shen Mo's words, Zhao Yurui, who was wandering, was stunned! At this time, Zhao Yurui didn't understand why Shen Mo mentioned this person.
Chapter completed!