A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 1013: The kings supervised the border guards and helped Yunnan and Guizhou in the initial chaos in the southwest

September 3, the 17th year of Chengqian in the Xia Dynasty

There is urgent news coming to Beijing from the southwest.

After seeing the news, Crown Prince Bai Mu hurriedly ordered the palace servants to summon two supervisory ministers and five regent ministers to hold a Southwest Military and Political Joint Conference in Xuan De Hall.

At this time, all the kings had left the capital and returned to their respective cities to take charge of important places.

Among them, Prince Bai Tao of Yan was stationed in Jibei Prefecture and was in charge of the military affairs of the Khitan tribes.

King Bailang of Qi resigned from the post of admiral of the navy and sat in Dengzhou Guard, in charge of the overseas defense of Korea, Japan, and Ryukyu.

Prince Yong Baichao was stationed in Fengxiang Prefecture and was in charge of the defense of the Tibetan tribes, Ganzhou Uighurs and other northwestern vassal states.

King Bai Hai of Chu was stationed in Jiangling Prefecture and was in charge of military affairs on the Yangtze River and in the south of the Yangtze River.

King Bai Yang of Shu was stationed in Chengdu Prefecture and was in charge of all affairs concerning the southwestern Han and ethnic minorities.

The kings monitored various places, and except for the one thousand personal guards allowed by the court, they were exempted from the actual control of the local military and political power.

They became the eyes of Bai Xi and Bai Mu, father and son, for monitoring the border and frontier troops.

Once there is any rebellion against Daxia in the local area, the kings can temporarily take over the local military and political power by virtue of their general supervisory power.

Prevent the situation where frontier generals defect to the enemy country.

However, the matter must be reported to the emperor afterwards.

Moreover, the kings did not have any fiefdoms in the local area, and their palaces were all in the capital. They were just princes who served in the local area.

In order to strengthen border military affairs, Daxia established garrisons in each military governorate to facilitate the management of local military households.

There were two types of offices under the Wei: the thousand-household office and the hundred-household office.

Each thousand-household unit has a thousand people, including a chief thousand-household unit (sixth rank), a deputy thousand-household unit (sixth rank), and a governor (seventh rank).

Each hundred households has 100 people, under which there are two general flags, each with 50 people, and ten small flags, each with 10 people. Therefore, under a hundred households there are hundred households (seventh rank), general flags, and small flags.
Each guard had three to five thousand households and three to five thousand people, divided into five groups: front, back, left, right, and center.

The Wei had officials such as the commander-in-chief (fifth rank), the associate commander (fifth rank), the assistant commander (sixth rank), and the Wei pacification officer (sixth rank).

The number of garrisons under each governor's district varied, and the governor's districts were divided into upper, middle and lower districts accordingly.

Therefore, the lower governor of the Wei Suo Shao may only be equivalent to the fourth-rank military commander of a certain department of the Governor's Office.

A senior governor who has many garrisons under his jurisdiction can be on par with a deputy governor of the third rank in the governor's office.

As a result, Daxia formed two military systems, central and local.

That is, the [Central Imperial Guards] governor-deputy governor-military commander-wing commander-battalion commander-captain.

[Local Guards] Governor-General-Commander-in-Chief-Guard Commander-Thousand Household Members-Hundred Household Members-General Flag-Small Flag.

However, they were all under the unified management of the Grand Marshal of the Grand Marshal's Office and only commanded troops.

The power to mobilize troops lies with the Privy Council, the power of logistics lies with the Ministry of War, the power of training troops lies with the various military headquarters, and the power of personnel lies with the Grand Marshal's Office.

After Bai Xi reorganized the somewhat chaotic border military divisions, Daxia established twelve upper, middle and lower military governorships on the border.

That is, the Jibei Military Governorate, Taiyuan Military Governorate, Korea Military Governorate, Qingxin Military Governorate, Lingxia Military Governorate, and Fengxiang Military Governorate;

Chengdu Military Governorate, Fuqian Military Governorate, Southern Yunnan Military Governorate, Jiangling Military Governorate, Yingcai Military Governorate, and Xusu Military Governorate.

Each governor's district had several guards under it. The smallest one was the Qingxin Governor's District, which was only a lower governor's district. It only had Dengzhou Guard and Haizhou Guard under its jurisdiction and was mainly responsible for the naval division.

According to statistics, there are now 150,000 imperial guards in Kaifeng, excluding those sent to various important places to assist local governors in garrisoning them.

Most of these imperial guards were carefully selected and recruited from the military governors of various places. A considerable number of them were recruited from the various martial arts places in front of the imperial court's military department.

As for their officers, most of them were warriors who passed the annual Kaifeng military examination and the military examinations in various military governorships.

Just like the literati had the right to serve as officials, they also enjoyed the privilege of entering the army as officers.

Even the lowest-ranking general flags and small flags needed to pass the internal examination of the Governor's Office before they could take up the position, which was about the same difficulty as the civil service examination.

As for officials with certain ranks such as Dutou and Baihu, they had to pass a military examination before they could take up the position.

Therefore, this time, the letter requesting assistance from Qian Wang Bai Yu was urgently sent to Beijing via the Southern Yunnan Governor's Office.

After Daxia recovered Shu, Qian State, which had been forced into a desperate situation by the Southeast Asian countries Dachanghe, immediately opened up connections with the mainland.

Finally, after receiving material assistance from Shu, the last city - Kunzhou - was stabilized.

Even more fortunately, chaos began to arise within Dachanghe.

In just a few years, Dachanghe became Datianxing, then became Dayining, and finally became the Dali Kingdom.

Duan Siping, a Bai ethnic minority who was the former governor of Tonghai in Dayining State, joined forces with the 37 Black Cuan barbarian tribes including the nobles Gao Fang and Dong Jialuo in the Erhai area, invaded the capital of Dayining State, Yangzhumie City, captured the King of Dayining State, Yang Ganzhen, and established the Dali Kingdom.

The Yangzhumie City was renamed "Dali City", the reign title "Wen De" was established, and Dali was made the capital.

Shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Duan Siping brazenly led his troops to invade Kunzhou. The governor of southern Yunnan and King of Qian, Bai Yu, had few soldiers and weak strength, so he hurriedly sent people to Kaifeng for help.

Since the chaotic times at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the roads between Yunnan and Sichuan have been blocked. The Qiannan Army, the original overlord of Qiannan, could not get any help from the Central Plains and its situation became worse and worse.

Even if he proclaimed himself king and established the Kingdom of Qian, he was unable to prevent the various tribes from defecting.

At this time, Dachanghe in the southwest rose up and continued to erode the territory of Qian State, and even many Qian people went there to surrender.

As a result, the State of Qian could only hold on to its capital, Kunzhou, and lost the strategic location of Erhai Lake.

After obtaining the rich Erhai Lake, Dachanghe's national strength increased greatly. He fought wars in the south and the north, and took advantage of the civil strife in Tubo to seize the Hengduan tribes. The territory was greatly expanded, and he became the overlord of Southeast Asia.

If it weren't for the constant chaos they created, the Qian King's line would probably never have waited for the Central Plains to come, and would have become vassals of Da Changhe and the leaders of the local Bai tribe.

Now that Dali's ruler Duan Siping has sent tens of thousands of troops to attack Kunzhou City, the King of Qian's letter for help cannot be ignored.

After discussion among the ministers, it was decided to send Chen Hong, the commander-in-chief of the Chengdu Military Governor's Office, and Bai Xuan, the assistant minister of the Ministry of War, to lead the Chengdu Left Guard, Chengdu Right Guard, Luzhou Guard, Rongzhou Guard, and Yazhou Guard, totaling 12,000 people, to Yunnan to help in the war.

He also ordered Su Wenjun, the governor of Yunnan and Qiannan Road, to supervise the money and grain of the three departments (the Provincial Administration Department, the Ministry of Revenue, and the Ministry of Military Affairs) of the two routes (Jiannan West Road and Yunnan and Qiannan Road) and serve as the logistics officer of the army. He also ordered to transport money and grain to Kunzhou to help Bai Yu fight the enemy.

(At the beginning of this year, the imperial court issued an edict to change Kunzhou Road to Dianqiannan Road, Qianzhou Road to Dianqianbei Road, and Yuzhou Road to Kuiyu Road)
November 28

When the Xia army arrived in Kunzhou, the Dali army, which had been besieging Kunzhou city for two months, saw the enemy reinforcements arriving and decided to defeat the reinforcements before continuing to besiege Kunzhou.

When the two armies first met, the Daxia garrison soldiers, who had experienced the chaos in the Central Plains and had been trained for many years and were fully equipped with weapons and armor, defeated the Dali army and beheaded more than 500 people.

The Dali army was no match for the enemy, and Dali ruler Duan Siping fled back to Dali city.

On this side, although Bai Yu now had a large number of elite soldiers in his hands, he was not prepared to recover the lost territory immediately.

Because the court is currently in mourning, it does not have the extra energy to pay attention to the war in the southwest.

Moreover, Chen Hong and others came to support in a hurry, and the logistics were not sufficient.

Therefore, Bai Yu, Chen Hong, Bai Xuan and others decided to suspend the fighting temporarily, and wait until the next year when there is sufficient food and grass, and the emperor shows filial piety, and then report to the court before making any further arrangements.

So they left behind two thousand men from the Luzhou Guard, which was closest to Kunzhou, and fifteen hundred of the Prince of Qian's personal guards, to garrison Kunzhou, while the rest returned to the Jiannan West Road.

(End of this chapter)