The transformation of a social system from a loose state of peace to a compact state of war is like upgrading a computer's operating system from x to vista.
It is a painful experience.
Various incompatibility problems such as crashes, crashes, information loss, etc. will come one after another.
If it can survive, then a strict and efficient wartime system will rationally use every social resource for the war and play a great role in winning the war.
But if you cannot survive, you may be defeated from within by your own people before the enemy attacks.
It is a pity that the Song Dynasty has been in a state of being defeated from within by its own people from beginning to end.
There has never been a wartime system that can maintain operation.
During the entire upgrade process, the vast majority of programmers and scholars in charge of the keyboard, out of Their own short-term interests are all working hard to do harm, trying to make the computer freeze forever and prevent the wartime system from ever appearing.
Therefore, this cowardly empire with splendid culture was destined to go from one collapse to another until its final destruction.
For example, Emperor Qinzong Zhao Huan at this time was shocked to discover that even if the invading Jin soldiers had been destroyed, the court still had no way to regain the lost territory.
Specifically, it is impossible to even send several groups of people to serve as "reception officers" in the fallen states and counties.
"It's really unreasonable that the current imperial court is actually full of troops and only has 10,000 soldiers and horses available, and even the imperial guards who guard the palace are included.
Am I the lord of the Central Plains who rules over tens of millions of people, or am I the chief of some remote country?"
In the imperial study room of the Bianliang Palace, Emperor Qinzong Zhao Huan, who had just returned from a banquet in "New Tokyo", knocked on the imperial desk angrily and scolded with great displeasure, "Don't you know, if this is the land of Hebei?
If it cannot recover for a long time, will the world be in trouble from now on?"
"Your Majesty, although it is difficult to discuss this matter, the imperial court does have only 10,000 troops left, which is barely enough to defend the capital."
Prime Minister He Su replied helplessly, "Although I am interested in the Northern Expedition, there are no more available troops in the court.
What can I do?"
Comrades who have read Water Margin should all know that the Northern Song Dynasty had the so-called "800,000 Forbidden Army", and its standing force size was second to none among all Chinese dynasties, far superior to that of the Han and Tang Dynasties.
But the combat effectiveness is a bit terrible.
In the military system of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Forbidden Army was equivalent to the national regular army, the Xiang Army was equivalent to the local armed police force, and the rural soldiers were the militia.
Unlike previous dynasties, the "Forbidden Army" in the Northern Song Dynasty did not refer to the Royal Guards, but a collective name for the standing regular armies of all countries.
Theoretically, the Forbidden Army does not recruit soldiers from the civilian population, but selects the best from the Xiang army.
But starting from the middle of the Song Dynasty, laws and regulations in this area became useless paper.
Not only did a large number of soldiers begin to be recruited from the private sector, but the source of the soldiers and the purpose of recruiting soldiers are simply unbelievable in the eyes of future generations.
Like other feudal dynasties, famines often occurred during the Northern Song Dynasty, and when famines occurred, they would inevitably produce a large number of victims and refugees.
These people often number in the hundreds of thousands or even millions.
If not handled properly, a peasant uprising will inevitably break out.
In other dynasties, most of the hungry people were given food relief or divided land for resettlement, but the Song Dynasty was completely different.
Once a famine occurs in a certain place, the first thing the emperor does is not to release food for disaster relief, but to send officials to raise flags and recruit soldiers, and recruit all the young and middle-aged men among the victims into the Forbidden Army.
As a result, after every famine, the number of the Song Dynasty's forbidden troops increased significantly.
Why did the emperor of the Song Dynasty do this?
Because in the emperor's view, the large number of victims who gathered was a huge threat to the ruling order.
If we simply provide relief, there will definitely be oversights.
For example, officials are corrupt and falsify accounts, etc.
If the rescue fails, it will trigger civil unrest.
In this case, it is better to take the opportunity to recruit him into the army.
Because the army is the most organized and has dedicated barracks and guaranteed funding.
In this way, it not only appeased the victims and avoided civil unrest, but also took the opportunity to recruit a large number of young and middle-aged people and expand its military strength.
It was the best of both worlds.
Even if someone wants to take the opportunity to cause rebellion, because all the able-bodied men of the victims have been taken away to join the army, the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled cannot be fought.
Even if they want to rebel, they cannot start a rebellion.
Under this kind of thinking, the Forbidden Army of the Song Dynasty quickly degenerated from the country's elite armed force into a refugee camp for all kinds of losers in life.
Starting from the Renzong era, the number of imperial guards in the Northern Song Dynasty expanded rapidly.
By the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the number of forbidden troops nationwide had reached an unprecedented number of more than one million.
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With the addition of Xiang troops and rural soldiers, the total number of troops in the entire Northern Song Dynasty reached a terrifying two million.
The number of forbidden troops stationed in the capital Bianliang alone exploded to A full 800,000.
This is the origin of the so-called "Tokyo 800,000 Imperial Army" in literary works such as Water Margin.
What's even more frightening is that this "800,000" is only the number of soldiers.
In fact, more family members accompanying the army must be included because the Forbidden Army has recruited a large number of victims, and most of the victims are young and middle-aged people with families and dependents.
To be accommodated.
So an incredible scene happened: in Kaifeng, the majestic capital of the Song Dynasty, the Forbidden Army barracks that was supposed to be heavily guarded was actually as busy as the family area all day long.
It was filled with a large number of old, weak, women and children.
The Forbidden Army soldiers were in the barracks.
He lived with his wife and children, and even opened a restaurant, tea shop, etc.
And this was actually legal Such a rapidly expanding army soon exceeded the imperial court's financial capacity.
Coupled with the massive corruption of military pay by officers at all levels, many imperial officers and soldiers could not survive and became deserters.
For this reason, the court had to allow the army to do business or farm to support itself.
Because there has been no war for more than a hundred years and the economy is highly developed.
As a result, the imperial army in Bianliang, the capital, had no intention of training soldiers and martial arts.
The officers are busy collecting money all day long, and they have no time to rectify the army.
The soldiers opened small workshops, and the officers opened black brick kilns; the soldiers saved money to buy land to plant small vegetable gardens, and the officers seized the land to open large farms; the soldiers relied on themselves and their families to run the business, while the officers directly drove the soldiers to work as coolies.
The entire Imperial Forbidden Army grew from small soldiers to Officers, the whole army no longer practices martial arts, but instead engages in business and farming to make money.
As it later developed, the "Song Army Enterprises" had covered all aspects from grain sales to brothels, creating huge profits for officials' private pockets every year, and saving the country a lot of military expenditures but leading to the collapse of the military.
The complete destruction of combat effectiveness.
Due to the low status of soldiers, officers generally withheld military pay, embezzled soldiers' property, and even seized soldiers' wives and daughters.
They even sold the soldiers' wives and daughters to their own brothels, which resulted in a large number of deserters.
In the beginning, the imperial court also pursued deserters or recruited soldiers to replenish its troops.
But the officers found that they could take advantage of the opportunity to embezzle military pay by reporting empty quotas, so they concealed deserters, reported false names, and even took the initiative to drive soldiers away from the barracks.
Then they reported false names and even died for more than thirty years.
Weird things like the ghost of the emperor still being paid on the salary list of the imperial court caused a serious shortage of personnel in the Bianliang Forbidden Army, but there were not a lot of them on the books.
Such an absurd approach eventually led to a ridiculous scene: In the first year of Jingkang, the Jurchen cavalry drove straight in.
When crossing the river south to Bianliang, facing the Jin army approaching the city, Song Qinzong finally broke through many obstacles in the preparation process and completed the battle against Bianliang.
An inventory of Liang's Imperial Guard revealed that the capital had 800,000 Imperial Guards on its books, but in fact, it only had a mere 30,000, eating up the free wages of 770,000.
What's even more terrible is that even the remaining 30,000 Bianliang Imperial Army are mostly of no use.
You must know that the Song Dynasty has lived in peace for more than a hundred years.
Not to mention young people, even the white-haired old people on the border will not know how to fight in their lifetime.
After more than a hundred years without war, the capital's armaments have long been ruined.
Those soldiers of the Forbidden Army are experts at provoking chickens and chasing dogs in the market, bullying good people, but when it comes to fighting in battle, few of them can hold a sword and a gun firmly.
In general, the Bianliang Forbidden Army in the late Northern Song Dynasty was like the Eight Banners in the late Qing Dynasty, and there was basically no need to count on their combat effectiveness.
In the just-concluded Second Battle of Bianliang, the Song army defending the city was said to number 70,000, but most of them were "irregular troops" such as rural soldiers and militia recruited temporarily.
Even monks and Taoist priests were forcibly A completely untrained force like this is sent to fight.
At best, it can guard the city and throw stones.
Going out of the city to fight in the field is tantamount to seeking death for the real Forbidden Army.
Originally there were only 30,000 warriors, but 10,000 of them escaped during the first attack out of the city.
Although the subsequent second raid was fruitful, the 4,000 warriors who left the city were almost completely wiped out.
In addition, during the battle to defend the city, Due to the heavy losses, Bianliang now only has about 10,000 imperial troops left, plus those very unreliable militiamen.
How can they still go out to recover the lost territory?
The Imperial Guards in the capital are completely rotten, and the remaining good ones have been destroyed.
So what about the local Imperial Guards?
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Since the main military pressure of the Song Dynasty was in the north, the local Forbidden Army was mainly divided into two parts, the Hebei Forbidden Army stationed on the border of Song and Liao and the Guanxi Forbidden Army against Xixia.
Among them, after the Tan Yuan Alliance was signed and the Song and Liao truces were suspended for peace, the Hebei Forbidden Army, like the Capital Forbidden Army, had not fought for a hundred years, and they were also in a terrible state.
The Kansai Forbidden Army maintained a certain combat effectiveness due to their constant struggle with the Xixia people, and became the only mobile combat force capable of fighting in the late Northern Song Dynasty.
Whether it was the Northern Expedition to Yanyun, the annihilation of Fang La, or the fight with the Jin soldiers on the battlefield in Hebei, They all rely on the Kansai Forbidden Army.
But the problem is that after a full year of high-intensity war of attrition, the Kansai Forbidden Army has been annihilated by the Jin soldiers with more than 200,000 active forces, and 200,000 more have become deserters.
In addition, when the Song and Jin Dynasties formed an alliance to conquer the Liao Dynasty, there were two major defeats at the gate of Yanjing.
Now in Shaanxi, every household was crying and every family was mourning.
Even the strong men who cultivated the land were almost wiped out, and what little was left was left.
We still have soldiers and horses to resist Xixia.
We really can’t send out any more troops.
As for the Forbidden Army in various parts of the south, they were already sparse in number, and together they were less than a fraction of the Forbidden Army in the north.
However, the deterioration of their armaments was even more serious.
The only troops that could barely fight had already been pulled to King Qin of Bianliang, and were annihilated one by one by the Jin soldiers.
The Jiangnan and Huguang areas at the moment were completely undefended.
If the Fang La Rebellion broke out again, I'm afraid it would be It can sweep hundreds of states and counties in an instant Faced with such an unprecedented predicament that "there are no soldiers in the world", what should the war-minded scholar-bureaucrats in the court do to go to the Northern Expedition to regain the lost territory?
The army of the Song Dynasty adopted a professional mercenary system.
There was no local reserve system.
Once the limited number of professional troops were exhausted, it would be difficult to quickly replenish them.
It takes at least half a year for an army to recruit young men and train officers until it becomes combat effective.
What's more, today's Song Dynasty is not only in ruins, but also facing the haze of internal fighting among the royal family.
"I am reporting to the officials that the current Kansai Forbidden Army has suffered heavy casualties and cannot be mobilized anymore in such a hurry, otherwise it will be like giving the west of Tongguan to the Xixia party members.
The Hebei Forbidden Army and the Capital Forbidden Army have been beaten to pieces, ten Without a single glance, the Song Dynasty has no soldiers left to fight."
Prime Minister He Su said, "Besides, with all due respect, the family's biggest worry now is not within the Jinlu, but within Xiao Qiang." oshow7: