Counting the past dynasties, the only one that can achieve the ultimate in mobilization is the Qin State during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
After the Qin State became the Qin Empire, only the Qin land enjoyed the fruits of the past reforms, and the population registration and management system ensured the basis of mobilization capacity, and the rest of the expansion territory became worse with the later it was defeated.
The population of the Zhuxia dynasty has always been much larger than that of the surrounding areas, but a large population does not mean that the war potential is high, and even the national strength cannot be used by more than 30%.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population was about 50 million to 60 million, but the troops that could be called the Ming army never exceeded one million, and some relevant data showed that it was 800,000, but in fact, this data was very false, or even just data, at that time, the army had no combat effectiveness for a long time, and the real combat effectiveness was the so-called "family ding" of the generals.
According to the economic strength of the late Ming Dynasty, the central government was able to receive less than 6 percent of the total commercial output.
Therefore, it is really difficult to see whether the central center can hold the country's shelf all the time, or maintain the country's operation under the current situation of internal and external troubles.
"From now on, you need to be prepared for big battles and tough battles."
Liu Yan needs to be careful, maybe one day Constantius II and Shapur II will have a convulsion together, and they will not be able to unite more countries and the Han State: "The absurd thing of the Han Dynasty will never happen to the Nanshan, and the training of the township community cannot be absolutely stopped."
Liu Yan kept repeating these words, the military attaché listened very energetically, and the civilian officials also knew that there was no trivial matter related to national defense.
Their generation has gone through the darkest of times, and everyone knows the importance of military power.
After going through the tragedy of the Wuhu Rebellion, everyone understood the tragic end of having no ability to protect themselves, and ensuring national defense strength is also the common aspiration of officials and the people, which is also the reason why Liu Yan has always been reluctant to use military force and still be supported.
However, Liu Yan is not really reckless, but he ignores people's livelihood many times.
"Maybe it's time to get rid of the two and concentrate on dealing with Rouran, Xigaoche and Donggaoche."
The two parts that Xu Zheng said were the remnants of Murong and the remnants of Tuoba who had been fighting and stopping: "It's also made them gasp long enough." ” Ran Min immediately became interested: "If you start a decisive battle, please make sure that Your Majesty makes Min a general." ” Liu Yan looked at Ran Min, just smiled, and seriously thought about whether Ran Min should finish it.
It is not easy to say how many real generals there are in the Han State, but the Han army has never relied on a certain general to ensure its combat effectiveness, but it is the strictly trained officers who support the army's shelf.
It is no exaggeration to say that in the structure of the Han army designed by Liu Yan, the existence of the generals is only the existence of decision-makers, and their biggest role is to coordinate the offensive direction of the army, and the army will never fight because of the lack of excellent generals.
The contemporary Han army does not rely on the charisma of a particular general to have high morale, and the soldiers may not know what they are supposed to do, but the officers are very clear about what they should do.
Without a commander to take command, the army would be stiff and sluggish without a commander to coordinate in a timely manner, and the offensive might be insufficient, but the defense would be more than enough.
In the current Han army, the background of the senior generals who can fight is very distinct.
Taiwei was born in the north, the hussar general was also a northerner, and the general of Zhengbei and Zhengnan were also northerners.
General Zhengnan and General Zhengxi are southerners, but their appointment to the rank of general is a later thing, and they have no sense of existence at all in the early war.
Liu Yan later arranged for Xie An to go to the Western Regions and for Huan Wen to go to the Asan Continent, mainly to make these two generals from the south have a sense of existence, which is also part of the balance of the royal family.
Not only is there a balance at the top, but the army also needs to be balanced, for example, most of the soldiers who went to the Asan Continent were from the south.
Balance is everywhere, and as a ruler, you must be well-informed about how to ensure balance, otherwise it will not be a "map cannon" abuse between each other, and the mutual discrimination between the north and the south will evolve into a gap between different regions.
In many cases, because of the lack of attention to balance, a small seed planted may grow into a towering tree that overwhelms balance and leads to the destruction of the country.
For a very long time, the various dynasties of Zhuxia were mainly related to the north, and the people who personally participated in the war were basically only northerners, and the war was hardly directly related to most southerners.
But it is not that the southerners do not contribute without any contributions, that is, the resources that the southerners pay taxes and produce are used for national defense.
Road constraints make it difficult for the southern army, including people, to appear on the battlefield in a short period of time, even if they are deliberately mobilized.
Many times it was the army of the South that did not arrive on the battlefield and the war was over.
In the end, the country did not easily mobilize troops from the south, and it did not come in handy after repeated transfers, and the waste of military spending was one thing, and it also dealt a great blow to production.
Either the southern army is still halfway there, the northern defense has been broken through, the war is no longer fought on the national border, but in the hinterland, and the southern army that has gone halfway has been broken up to various cities as city defense forces.
It was dismantled, and the regional label was infinitely weakened in an instant.
Then the commanders of each city must not be the southern officers who lead the team, either the city guards of the city, or the northern generals who are temporarily transferred to familiarize themselves with the northern enemy, whether they lose or win, anyway, the southern army is inseparable from a dragon trick.
There are really not many examples of the southern army showing its might in history, and the most famous but also tragic is the Danyang soldier under Li Ling.
The same southern army is also full of tragedy, the Beiwei army and the Qi family army are full of dirt and have been destroyed by the national center.
So if you count it, you can really fight if you are born in the south, and the key is that all three legions died at the hands of the imperial court.
In the early wars of the Han Dynasty, there was nothing to do with the southerners, that was when Liu Yan and the Zhuhu led by the Qiang people were dead, and the south of the Yangtze River was still under the rule of the small imperial court.
The Han army fought a unified war in the sixth year of Yuan Shuo, and for a long time after the settlement of the small imperial court, the war with the Tuoba Dynasty and Murong Yan did not use the southern army.
At that time, the army in the south was either commanded by Huan Wen to clean up the uncooperative families and Haoqiang, or they were fighting against the southern barbarians.
Even now, there is actually no formed army from the south in northern Xinjiang, and the army composed of the south is either in the Indochina Peninsula or has been transferred to the Asan Continent.
"This time, Huan Wen has played a majestic role in the Asan Continent."
Xu Zheng couldn't help but be a little sour, counting that there were already two countries under the direct command of Huan Wen, and they were not even big countries: "Four pavilion marquis, two township marquis and one county marquis were fought at one time, and there were as many as twenty-four feudal monarchs, which can be compared with Li Guangli's expedition to Dawan." ” Liu Yan was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and compared Huan Wen with Li Guangli, Xu Zheng was slandering or cursing Huan Wen: