Water Margin: I, Wang Lun, will have many children and many blessings in Liangshan.

Zhao Ji must have known that the imperial guards in the capital were useless.

Otherwise, when the Jin army first marched south, there were only 20,000 or 30,000 people. What could such a small number of people do?

Not to mention the elite imperial guards of the early Song Dynasty, even if it was ordinary imperial guards, as long as the tens of thousands of people in the account book really existed and had basic equipment and training, Zhao Ji would not have hurriedly passed on the throne and fled with his confidants.

This Emperor Daojun knew it very well.

Over the past hundred years, countless nobles and noble families have taken up the vacancies of the imperial guards, occupied the service, and then occupied the toilet without doing anything. There is no management of the equipment and training of the imperial guards.

A large number of registered imperial guards are not trained at all, and the military equipment bureau does not provide them with equipment... If they are provided, they will be stolen and sold by these guys.

These so-called imperial guards can't even farm, and they don't do any work that requires physical effort.

They stood guard for the nobles, served as servants, or did all kinds of "zero-nine-seven" sales. With the connections left by their ancestors, they were better than ordinary people in doing things.

The developed economy of the citizens in the capital also gave these Tokyo local snakes room to survive.

They were quick-witted and slick-tongued. They were best at making a living in the market. They would never work hard in the military camp, wear armor and train, and bleed for the Zhao emperor.

Even if they kept their status as imperial guards, they could still receive more than ten strings of basic money and food a year. And when the Qianqiu Festival, the Wanshou Festival, the new emperor ascended the throne, and the empress and the prince were canonized, they would be rewarded as usual.

At least a dozen strings a year, at most dozens of strings, and they also had houses left by their ancestors. Their lives were much more comfortable than some small officials from outside the capital.

Over the past hundred years, their bones have been softened by the gentleness of Tokyo City. Not to mention training and fighting, even when it was time to pay salaries, they would not carry their own food and grain, but would hire porters to carry their military pay.

The notes of officials at that time recorded that on the day of paying salaries, the camp of the imperial guards in and outside the Beijing camp was full of hired porters, and the imperial guards were in groups of three or five, laughing and joking. How could they still look like soldiers?

How could Zhao Ji not know these things?

If he didn't know, why did he run away when 20,000 Jin soldiers came?

Kaifeng's city defense was strengthened during the Five Dynasties period, and the water transportation was developed. It was not afraid of food shortages or blockades. With food and water, plus 200,000 imperial guards and squads, why did he run away?

There were also soldiers who needed to be rescued outside, 300,000 imperial guards from the northwest, Hebei, Jingdong, and Jingxi, and many volunteer societies, which could mobilize hundreds of thousands of volunteers to serve the king at any time.

The only truth is that Zhao Ji knew that the imperial guards were useless, and Ban Zhi was also useless!

Even Zhao Gou at this time was also clear in his mind that the imperial guards in the capital were useless.

There were at least a hundred imperial guards on the list under their command, who could only run around and be used as slaves.

To put it bluntly, even if there was a group fight, these imperial guards might not be able to beat those brave slaves.

Not to mention He RuThe blood-drinking and extremely brave Jin people went to fight.

Which family of kings, nobles, generals, even officials and wealthy merchants did not have imperial guards?

Zhao Gou knew it well.

Seeing that Princess Roufu was puzzled, Zhao Gou had to explain: "This matter was not caused by the emperor's tenure, but a century of accumulated problems..."

"Since the emperor knows, why don't you get rid of the accumulated problems?"

"How easy is that..." Zhao Gou smiled bitterly.

Princess Roufu said anxiously: "It's a matter of life and death, so why don't you do it if it's not easy?"

The little girl was puzzled.

Zhao Gou could only smile bitterly.

The imperial guards were neglected in training and military discipline was lax, which had been going on for at least several decades.

In fact, it was sorted out once during the reign of Emperor Shenzong.

The original military system was changed, and the name was consistent with the reality, and the soldiers and generals were united.

During the reign of Emperor Shenzong, Wang Anshi proposed a major proposal. He advocated that the army should be disarmed first, and those over fifty or weak should be dismissed.

Then the Baojia Law and the Jiangbing Law were implemented to train the militia, form a large number of associations, and cancel the Gengsuo Law established in the early Northern Song Dynasty. Wang Anshi reorganized the garrisons of various routes and divided them into several units. Each unit established a chief general and a deputy general, who were responsible for the training of the troops of the unit to improve the quality of the army.

The Gengsuo Law formulated by Zhao Kuangyin allowed a general to garrison in one place, and the soldiers were stationed back and forth. This could avoid the generals and soldiers from colluding with each other, but the impact was that the generals did not know the soldiers, and the soldiers did not know the generals. The army lacked cohesion and combat effectiveness.

In the early Song Dynasty, the best soldiers in the world returned to Tokyo. The Northern Song Dynasty's imperial army and Zhao Da and Zhao Er could toss as much as they wanted. The combat effectiveness of the Song army was not weak and could compete head-on with the Liao army.

By the time of Zhenzong and Renzong, several decades had passed, the army had changed two generations, and it had become a weakling.

The impression that the Song army had poor combat effectiveness mainly came from this period 0 ..

The purpose of Wang Anshi's reform was to fix the generals and soldiers, which was equivalent to correcting Zhao Kuangyin's overly radical policies and returning the military to the right path.

When Wang Anshi took the initiative to resign as prime minister and lived in seclusion in Jiangning, in the ninth year of Xining, his reform decrees were successively abolished by conservatives and the reform failed. But the method of strengthening the army was retained. The strength of the Western Army is inseparable from the military method.

In the seventh year of Xining, the emperor first ordered the generals and deputy generals of Kaifeng Prefecture, Jingdongxi, and Hebei Road.

Starting from Hebei, there are 17 generals from the first general down, in four routes of Hebei;

There are 7 generals from the 18th general down, in the capital;

There are 9 generals from the 25th general down, in Jingdong; (To read the novel of Baoshuang, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

There are 4 generals from the 34th general down, in the west of Jing, a total of 37.

And Fuyan, Huanqing, Jingyuan, Qinfeng, and Xihe are also listed. There are 9 in Fuyan, 11 in Jingyuan, 8 in Huanqing, 5 in Qinfeng, and 9 in Xihe, a total of 42.

In the eighth year, the emperor ordered to add 13 cavalry commanders, divided into the east and west routes.

Ten loyal and fruitful soldiers were recruited to train and reviewCommand, in the west of the capital, each with 500 people, 6 in Tang and Deng, 4 in Cai and Ru.

In the second year of Yuanfeng, two more local soldiers were added to the west of the capital, each with 400 people, Tangzhou Fangcheng was the eleventh on the right, and Ruzhou Xiangcheng was the twelfth on the left. There were thirteen commanders of the cavalry, and twelve commanders of the loyal and local troops.

In the fourth year, the emperor ordered the unity of the troops in the southeast route in the same way as in the capital, with a total of thirteen 2.3 generals:

Starting from Huainan, the East Route was the first, the West Route was the second, the Liangzhe West Route was the third, the East Route was the fourth, the Jiangnan East Route was the fifth, the West Route was the sixth, the Jinghu North Route was the seventh, the South Route Tanzhou was the eighth, Quan, Shao, and Yongzhou to support Guangxi were the ninth, Fujian Route was the tenth, Guangnan East Route was the eleventh, the West Route Guizhou was the twelfth, and Yongzhou was the thirteenth. There were ninety-two generals in the world.

There are also Han and Tibetan archers in the five routes of Fuyan, and they are also attached to the generals and divided into different groups. All the generals of each route have one deputy, and the southeast has only one general for less than 3,000 soldiers.

All generals and deputies are selected from the inner palace Chongban and above, who have experienced battles and are close to the people, and the imperial edict is issued to the supervisors. In addition, according to the number of soldiers under their command, the division generals, team generals, and team escorts are appointed.

There are also training officers to rank among the generals and assistants. In spring and autumn, the capital will test and select warriors. Ten people are selected from every thousand people. They are all famous and wait for the emperor's order to release them. Those who wish to stay in their hometowns should not be forced to send them.

This is the method of commanding soldiers. .