The Bingzhou army came quickly, it was a sneak attack, and they were all elites. After one night, more than 5 people were massacred in the Xiongnu camp in Xihenan.
In the end, Liu Bao failed to break out of the encirclement of the Bingzhou Army and became a ghost under the sword. He could not even look at the Princess Hejian whom he cherished until his death.
"Liu Bao, I didn't expect you to be able to hide."
Liu Han also didn't expect that this encirclement and suppression of Meiji would bring such great results.
"Oh, I don't want to kill you either, but you gave my Yan'er nightmares, so I can only kill you."
In the original history, Liu Bao lived an unusually long life, living to 279 years. Now he was killed by Liu Han in 186 years.
"I'll feel refreshed after I kill you!"
In this battle, the Bingzhou Army suffered nearly 2000 casualties. Liu Han felt a little distressed when he looked at the numbers.
The first batch of soldiers who followed him have been with him for almost eight years. Most of them have passed their prime age as soldiers, but their combat experience is very valuable.
The Eastern Han Dynasty implemented a recruitment system. Once you became a soldier under the princes, as long as you were paid, you would be a soldier for life. In the Zhuge Northern Expedition of the Shu Han Dynasty, there were actually many 40-year-old veterans in the army.
There is a line in Yuefu poems: "You join the army at the age of fifteen and return home at the age of eighty." In the Western Jin Dynasty, the retirement age was 60 years old. "Book of Jin": "Every soldier who is over sixty years old is ordered to return home." The retirement age of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty was also very high, reaching 70 years old.
The conscription system was changed to a recruitment system, which successfully solved three problems.
First, due to land annexation, people's exile, and the protection of wealthy families, the state has fewer and fewer households, and the conscription system has become increasingly difficult to meet military , the military recruitment system and the private military system came into being to allow some residents to be separated from production and serve for a long time.
Second, the conscripts were recruited from households and had only received one year of training before serving as garrison soldiers. During the war, the problems of insufficient training and unfamiliarity with their opponents were recruited soldiers and the world's soldiers have higher combat effectiveness due to their improved professionalism. Moreover, the recruited soldiers and the world's soldiers have been fighting for a long time, and their combat experience far exceeds that of the soldiers.
Third, the government of the Western Han Dynasty excessively conscripted households into the army, causing the people to abandon their fields and become unable to serve and to flee and join the a result, the Eastern Han Dynasty regime "disposed of light chariots, knights, military officials, building ships and military officials, and ordered them to return to civilian service" and canceled the one-year training of regular soldiers. The garrison in the capital and various important places basically relied on long-term service personnel. Recruiting soldiers and world soldiers.
But there are also many more problems.
During the Eastern Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, due to the division of civil and military occupations, the literati controlled the government, and the military as a whole was discriminated Emperor Guangwu "retired meritorious officials and joined civil servants", most lower-level soldiers have been severely exploited, resulting in soldiers often fleeing or rebelling.
Recruitment targets are mostly idle members of society, unemployed vagrants and even criminals.
This intensified the world's contempt, disgust and disgust towards soldiers, especially in the Song Dynasty.
The result of the prevalence of the military recruitment system is that the country recruits soldiers with money, which increases the financial burden; a group of farmers have been away from the land for a long time, affecting the development of agricultural production; the personal dependence of the recruits on the generals has intensified, evolving into private tribes, causing the expansion of local power, and The formation of warlords provided convenience.
Nowadays, with the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the shackles of the party have been lifted, and there are many forts. A large number of peasants have been occupied by the powerful nobles and have become tribes dependent on them. Many strong men have become their soldiers. The Wei family in Hedong is the most typical example.
"It seems that the issue of military construction needs to be carefully considered."
Liu Han did not want to waste such a large number of elite soldiers in vain, but the replacement of old and new troops was inevitable.
Veterans are the backbone of management and technology and the main force in military work. After several years of military life, they have accumulated certain experience in military management, military business training, cultural learning, personal growth, and conduct themselves. They have gained insights into made some , with the retirement of a large number of veterans, it will inevitably lead to a great weakening of combat effectiveness and the loss of technical management backbones.
How to arrange for veterans to retire? How to arrange the window period for veterans to retire from the army? How to avoid the army's inactivity after retirement, which will lead to a decline in the army's combat effectiveness, are all issues Liu Han needs to consider.
"The military system..." Although Liu Han has vigorously strengthened the construction of the military system over the years, the soldiers he recruited are not just Qiuba who only know how to fight. They have also studied in the army for many years. Even if they retire, they can find their own identity in their future lives. a place.
"Invite Tian Feng, Ju Shou, Duan Qiao, Xi Zhong, Dong Zhao, Cheng Yu, Jia Xu, Guo Jia, and Xu Rong to discuss matters in Jinyang ten days later."
"Here."
# The day is coming in a flash.
During these ten days, Liu Han also made many revisions to the "Replacement Plan for Veterans and Army Construction Plan" that he created.
Although he was newlywed, Cai Yan was very sensible and did not disturb him these days, except for telling him to eat on time every day.
Seeing everyone coming, Liu Han ordered Dian Wei to lead the Yulin Guards to surround the small courtyard. No one was allowed to approach within [-] steps. If there was anything that needed to be communicated by Dian Wei himself.
"I called you here today because of the blood renewal of the army."
As a direct minister, Tian Feng was the first to ask, "My lord, don't members of the conscripted army retire only when they are old?"
Everyone also understood this. The military system of the Han Dynasty was like this. It was difficult for the recruited soldiers to leave the army in their lifetime.
"I, the Han Dynasty, first implemented a conscription system, but this resulted in all the people becoming soldiers. Ordinary people's children quit the army within two years, and the army's combat effectiveness was insufficient."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Similarly, the recruitment system also has many problems, so I combined the advantages of the two systems and came up with a new way of building the army."
Liu Han circulated his ideas to everyone one by one. The general meaning is as follows:
35. The army still implements the recruitment system, but ordinary soldiers must retire when they reach 40. If lower-level non-commissioned officers cannot be promoted, they will retire at the age of [-]. Middle-level colonel officers will retire at the age of [-]. Retirement for generals and generals above is left to the individual's decision.
40. In order to prevent the military from being out of service and reducing combat effectiveness after veterans retire, it is decided that veterans with outstanding performance at the grassroots level who do not want to retire when approaching the retirement age can enter the instructor camp in Gaoshun to serve as instructors of the new army, but they must retire when they are [-] years old. .
[-]. After retired veterans leave, the issue of job succession is that junior officers are appointed by the colonel, while officers at the colonel level and above are appointed and dismissed by the orphans.
[-]. The issue of resettlement of retired soldiers. [-]. The issue of severance pay for retired soldiers ……
[-]. The issue of demobilization of retired soldiers...
After all, Liu Han listed ten questions, and everyone considered them one by one.
"These are all the thoughts of the lord alone?"
As a veteran, Duan Yan certainly saw the advancement of the plan listed by Liu Han. It not only ensured the mobility of the army, that is, the army would not become someone or even a family's private branch, but also ensured that even if the veterans retire, The military's combat effectiveness will not decline seriously.
"My work, there are still many immature places in it. I hope you can work with me to find out and fill in the gaps."
"..." (end of this chapter)