Xuande

Chapter 505 Luoyang Military Reform
From a historical perspective, Liu Bei found himself facing a brand new situation.

Therefore, after the initial enfeoffment ended and the situation initially stabilized, Liu Bei planned and decided to conduct a large-scale military reorganization in Luoyang.

He wanted to fundamentally reverse the small-scale and patterned security warfare of the Central Army of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The small-scale central army of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the modelization of public security warfare were concentrated in the Northern Army.

The Northern Army consisted of five armies. These five armies originally had a relatively small number of troops. On average, each army consisted of more than 2000 people. This is more in line with the Han government, which has tended to be more and more small-scale security warfare since the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty. mentality.

Since the middle and late period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the government has become less and less fond of and not good at joint operations of large corps, and even lost the ability to command joint operations of large corps and the general training system. This is a very bad thing.

There is a big battle to be fought, but the Han government is unable to fight it, and dare not fight it. It always hopes to solve the problem in the form of a small-scale public security war.

Finally, Liu Hong decided to let go and fight a big fight. He organized more than 3 cavalry to go northward wildly, trying to clean up the arrogant Tan Shihuai, but the result was "winning the rush to the north".

That battle had exposed the drawbacks of the Han army's obsession with small-scale public security warfare for a long time and did not fight the joint operations of the orthodox large corps. Facing the new situation, the Eastern Han court's persistent small fights were no longer applicable.

Therefore, Liu Bei's idea of ​​building an army is aimed at the idea of ​​​​joint operations of large corps, abandoning the security warfare thinking of small fights, and fighting with a dog's brain.

Therefore, the scale of the army must be expanded, and the organizational structure of the army must be expanded. The increase in military power must be accompanied by the increase in the status and power of officers.

This is something that the administrative system and the financial system don't like. It's something that the bureaucrats don't like. It will hinder their interests, but it is the only way for this country to recover from the ashes.

Therefore, in the thinking of Luoyang military reform, Liu Bei decided to make a major reform and special reform, and change all the Xiaojiazi who were limited to economic and political reasons by the Eastern Han government in one go.

He wants to carry forward his power and prestige as a general, expand the army, and strengthen the military prestige.

During the Liangzhou period, Liu Bei only stipulated the battalion-level organizational system of the army. In large-scale battles, he basically led the battalion-level organizational system himself, and there was no more formal organizational system.

Mainly at that time, none of his subordinates had high meritorious service or good military literacy. It took a period of fighting and growing up to accumulate experience and enhance personal abilities. After all, not everyone is Huo Qubing.

As far as the current situation is concerned, the generals under his command have gradually grown up, and have gradually acquired the ability to command independently, and they have performed quite well on the battlefield.

Moreover, in terms of cultural literacy, the basic cultural level of military generals has also been comprehensively improved by passing the mandatory upgrade examination stipulated by Liu Bei. Generals who don't know a lot will not appear.

Therefore, from the perspective of the generals' own culture and military literacy, as well as their actual accumulated military experience and meritorious service, a considerable number of generals have been able to break away from Liu Bei's direct command and truly take charge of their own.

Therefore, in Luoyang's military reform plan, an important part is to establish a military-level organizational system, and establish a formal military-level organizational system above the battalion.

In serious battles, Liu Bei will try to use the military-level system to observe and exercise the abilities of military generals.

He couldn't go out on his own whenever he had something to do, he was a general now, except for politically significant enemies like Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, or major events like the Northern Expedition to the Grasslands, he couldn't let him go out personally for any small thieves.

Therefore, changes to the army and generals will be initiated from now on.

On the tenth day after the coup, Liu Bei convened his subordinates to discuss and set the Luoyang military reform plan, and decided to implement it as soon as possible.

This time the military reorganization is not only about adding a military-level establishment, Liu Bei also plans to make some minor changes to the original battalion-level establishment.

A battalion of 3000 people is led by a school lieutenant.

There are three divisions under the battalion, each with 1000 people, led by Sima.

The Ministry governs five Qu, each with 200 people, led by a military marquis.

Liu Bei decided to abolish the original village-level organizational system under the Ministry, and directly entered the team organizational system.

There are four teams for each song, with 50 people in each team, and a captain to lead them.

There are only five chiefs under the team, each with ten people, and then the formation of the army is directly cancelled.

From the top of the battalion, a military-level establishment was formally established, and a full-time Zhonglang general was set up to lead it.

Each army has three battalions under its jurisdiction. In addition to the three battalions, there will also be a 1000-man Zhonglang general directly under the cavalry department, which means that the full number of an army is 1.

Although Liu Bei attaches great importance to cavalry, the main force of the army is still infantry, and an army with only cavalry is incomplete.

Therefore, apart from the specially set up cavalry army, all other armies are multi-armed mixed armies, equipped with sword and shield hands, spearmen, and crossbowmen, and can undertake most of the combat missions, not just assault missions. .

For the more than 7 troops currently under Liu Bei's overall control, Liu Bei is going to carry out a mixed reorganization after a wave of selection of them.

In this process, he will complete the professionalization and expansion of the Central Army, as well as the integration of the Liangzhou Army.

Now that he is a general, the army under his command should not be a local army, but a national army, and it should also become a serious Central Han Army.

The official establishment of the Central Han Army currently in his hands is the Northern Army, the Huben Army, and the Habayashi Army. These are the three official establishments.

And that's obviously not enough.

So on the No. 20 day after the coup, Liu Bei officially announced that he would conduct a comprehensive reorganization of the Central Han Army.

While retaining the army numbers of the Huben Army and the Habayashi Army, for the Northern Army, the designation of the Northern Army was removed, and the five battalions under its jurisdiction were reorganized into five armies. The designations that had too clear symbolic directions were also changed simultaneously.

He listed the Yueqi Battalion into the Shence Army, the Tunqi Battalion into the Tianxing Army, the Infantry Battalion into the Xiaoguo Army, the Shesheng Battalion into the Xuanjia Army, and the Changshui Battalion into the Yingyang Army. .

In this way, the Central Han Army was reorganized into seven armies. Except for the palace guards, city gate captains, and Xiyuan Army in Luoyang City, the other seven armies were reorganized into the main force of the Central Han Army.

If you enter, you will protect the emperor, and if you leave, you will conquer the world, demonstrating the might of the Han army.

Regarding Liu Bei's request for reorganization, the ruling and opposition parties have different opinions.

Most of the officials of the Jinwen School objected, thinking that this would waste a lot of finances, and would not do any good to the precarious finances of the Han Empire. Moreover, after the reorganization of the army, the original supervision system would become invalid. It's not safe.

The officials of the ancient literature school basically supported it, thinking that the previous Hedong crisis fully demonstrated the weakness and incompetence of the Central Han Army, and that the mighty Han army in the past was so weak that even the bandits could not be put down. This is absolutely shameful to them. of.

Don't they worry about the second Hedong crisis?
Also, safe?
Liu Bei is a clan member of the Han Dynasty, a general, and the first assistant minister. Do you think it is safe?
Is this some cold joke unique to the modern literature school?

The struggle between the ancient and the ancient Chinese broke out again, and the water in the court became more and more muddy. The discussion on the formation of the army was really out of rhythm.

Among the four assistant ministers with actual power, Zhang Rang supported Liu Bei's opinion, Jian Shuo gave up the discussion, and Dong Zhong objected, thinking that doing so would cost too much money, and the central finance could not support Liu Bei's plan to reorganize and expand the army.

Liu Bei did not give in to this, stated his interests, and was speechless when Dong Zhong refuted it. He also raised the part of the central government's financial shortage, and he would invest part of the money obtained from the salt business into the army to subsidize the financial shortage.

Dong Zhong had nothing to say about this, he could only bow his head and acquiesce - he was not willing to spend his own money to subsidize the army, Liu Bei was a big dog and a general, and he was willing to pay, so he had no choice.

Therefore, with the support of most people, Liu Bei's plan for the reorganization and expansion of the Central Army was approved.

After approval, do what you say, Liu Bei's actions will always be super fast.

(End of this chapter)