Zheng Lang didn't want to talk about these three questions at first.

Zhao Zhen must not be clear now. Even if he said it, Zhao Zhen may not accept it. Even if he adopts it, the ministers may not agree. Even if he is an emperor, he will not be able to do so. Zhao Zhen is kind, but compared with Song Shenzong, he lacks courage. Compared with the later Xining reforms, he does not have the status of Wang Anshi.

However, Zhao Zhen was heartbroken, and Zheng Lang finally couldn't help but say it.

Then he said, "Empress Li, let's do this. I will write a memorial and report my opinion to His Majesty."

The first is three.

The first one is that the general is from the middle, which is not the original meaning of Zhao Kuangyin, but it is related to Zhao Kuangyin. Zhao Kuangyin was a genius conductor and ordered the general to go to the army. He would give some brief instructions and warnings before the general sets off.

Zhao Kuangyi learned archery and horses since he was a child, and had nothing to do with Zhao Kuangyin. The Zhao family was originally a family of small martial arts generals. Zhao Kuangyin's son also went to the battlefield and repeatedly fought with thieves. The thieves fell down due to strings. He was a warrior, but in order to justify his reputation, he deliberately seemed to be more skillful than his brother everywhere, including imperial examinations, sacrifices, systems and military affairs, and even the zither had to be changed to nine-string zither.

So he carried forward his brother's behavior, not only did he give instructions and warnings every time the general went to war, but he was also very complicated, even gave formation maps, allowing soldiers to set up formation maps in front of him. The same was true for Emperor Zhenzong of Song.

Sun Tzu's Art of War requires the way to be a general, and his wisdom, trustworthiness, benevolence, courage and strictness were required. Emperor Zhenzong of Song also personally organized seven systems to cultivate himself and have some rules; he must not overstep his post and invade civil affairs; he must all pacify his soldiers and have no selfish party; he teaches soldiers and practices martial arts diligently; he can appease soldiers and have the same kind of sweet and bitterness as he controls soldiers and has no infringement on the ban.

The most important strategy and courage are gone.

Completely form the ancestral legal system from Zhongyu!

Important officials such as Tian Xi, Wang Yuxi, and later Yue Fei all expressed their opposition and did not achieve results.

During the Zhao Zhen Dynasty, some ministers, including Zheng Lang, made suggestions one after another. In particular, the young Zheng Lang talked with Zhao Zhen in the palace, talking about the disadvantages of the Chanzhou Alliance, which left a deep impression on Zhao Zhen. Therefore, Zhao Zhen did not interfere too much in the command of the generals in front, nor did he give any tips or formation maps before leaving.

But the policy of defence remains.

This is not the emperor, but the civil officials commanded in the front-line base camp, such as Fan Yong.

Sitting in a safe state city, he told the generals how you do it. Han Qi also did similar things, which led to Ren Fu's defeat.

However, the battlefield changes a lot. Often, a sudden gust of strong wind, a blizzard, and a heavy snow. The battle situation changes immediately. Therefore, many generals of grandsons say that soldiers are inconsistent. Some famous generals even do not read military tactics at all. Because even if you read it, it is impossible to copy them all.

Originally, the civil officials were not good at military affairs, and they used the policy of generals to control the situation. Therefore, although the soldiers of the Song army were brave, it was difficult to win a great victory. However, these great victory was all due to the power of commanding the front line, including Tong Guan. Even the imperial edict of Emperor Huizong of Song was not listened to, so he obtained it.

Why did this strange national policy come into being?

The reason is very simple. There are all kinds of strange ideas to control the soldiers, otherwise it would be detrimental to the court after thinking about it.

The war generals who fought had very little power, but lacked imagination and were completely a puppet in command. How could they fight this battle? For example, if Di Qing had not killed Yang Ting and followed Yu Jing's arrangement, can he still win the Kunlun Pass?

We will control the policies from this to make the harm of military generals infinitely weaken, but don’t expect to win the battle.

The passive defense policy was entirely caused by Zhao Kuangyi. The failure of the Gaoliang River Battle is not a big deal. Victory and defeat are common in military affairs, but Zhao Kuangyi was afraid. Digging ponds and planting crops and trees, including Yang Yanlang's three passes, is also a product of this policy, only defense, not attack.

This policy has endless troubles. For example, Zheng Lang set up a bus in the north of Yanzhou City. The troops in and outside the city require at least 20,000 troops. This is just one place. From Hebei to Qinfeng Road, how long is the border of the Song Dynasty? It is just a bus, and it requires at least 2 million troops!

Moreover, the dispersed forces and the advantage of speed often make the enemy fight less. Zhang Shi said that if the troops gather, the success will be achieved, and if the troops are divided, the disaster will be gathered. The principle of victory or defeat is clear. As long as this policy is implemented, victory or defeat will be doomed.

Zheng Lang was not too much. It was a helpless move to set up a bus, but he knew that he would concentrate his troops into a limited village, keeping each village's troops reaching more than one thousand people, and having certain defense capabilities. Because not far behind are Yanzhou City and Baoan Army, as well as Qingjian City, Jinming Village, and Qiaozigu Village, which can be connected with each other. But looking at the distribution of the villages in the Song Dynasty, the troops were divided, and they were divided in endlessly. Some villages only had one or two hundred garrisons. The defense was not defended, the attack was not attacked, and the army could not be mobilized in time. If you don't fight, you will be defeated in one battle.

You can set up villages and place them cleverly. You should set up a sky net that seems to be very big but thick, rather than some weak and dense nets that seem to be tight and even the little fish cannot trap them.

The other is courage. Frontline command does not have the motivation to expand territory. If it cannot be opened, it means that it is immediately replaced by others to prevent the master from being too strong.

Of course, it is better than a government that only conducts protests and deceives the people, but this policy also hinders the possibility of victory on the front line.

The peace talks about Gou'an still had nothing to do with Zhao Kuangyin. Although he swung the golden axe on the Dadu River, there were actually many reasons. Going west and south, most of them were ethnic minorities, and they did not get much benefit. They even needed continuous support from the court and distributed troops.

There were Southern Tang in the south, and the Later Han and Khitans in the rear. The main enemy was the powerful Khitan, and he could not focus his energy on the remote south, so he swung this axe.

After Zhao Kuangyi was defeated by Gao Lianghe, he was tired of military affairs. So he said that the way of purity and tranquility was to cultivate virtue and think about the distant nature. The four barbarians should be taken out of it. External worries were only border affairs, and all of them could be predicted, but the evil was not ruthless. If it was an internal trouble, it would be deeply feared.

Whether it was Khitan, Tubo or Dangxiang, the disaster was just the people on the border and would not destroy the country. The turmoil caused from the country and the disaster was endless. The Song Dynasty emphasized literature and abandoned military affairs, and the policy of internal governance was formed. As a result, under the city of Chanyuan, Yang Yanlang offered suggestions that he would take advantage of the power to seize the states such as Yi You, and not only seize the sixteen states of Youyun when the Khitan troops were empty, but also force the Khitan to withdraw its troops and ambush the middle. This was a plan to surround Wei and save Zhao. Emperor Zhenzong of Song did not listen and wanted to discuss peace. After the alliance, he pretended to be a god and ghost to resolve the situation. The king and minister of a country were crazy.

If you want to win a battle, Zhao Zhen must prepare for his ideological work. He will defeat his father and grandfather first.

Zheng Lang wrote down most of the disadvantages and the negative impacts caused by the formation. Finally, he said something. He could defend against the Anshi Rebellion and the separatist rule of the feudal states, but he should not overcorrect it.

Zheng Lang had a short time to reform these three systems, and he did not expect Zhao Zhen to reform them.

I wrote the following again.

The Song Dynasty attached great importance to military law. Those who had no master ordered the team to leave first. The thief army was far away from the formation and the bow was not as strong as shooting, and the arrows were not as strong as shooting. The arrows were not as good as the soldiers, and they were not as good as the ones who had escaped. The whole team was killed. The women and women who had lost their flags and drums were killed. Those who had been killed when the thief army came to surrender were killed, those who were worried about the people were killed, and so on. If all were implemented, even the military discipline of the Yue family army was not as good as that.

But when it comes to doing one thing, Wang Quanbin did what he did after defeating Shu, he did not kill him. Huang Dehe's death had nothing to do with Ganquan's plunder, and women were not allowed to enter the camp. They had long been thrown into Europe, and almost all the troops of the Song army had military prostitutes.

Therefore, it is better to re-format military laws than to be simple than to be complex, and it is better to be easy than to be difficult. There should not be too high requirements. There are too many military laws and too difficult to be enforced. After re-modification of military laws, the entire army must implement these military laws.

Of course, the Song army is better than the Xixia army. This is also the reason why it has been defeated several times, which is not the kind of shameful defeat. It is almost the only place where the Song army can resist the Xixia army. But it can be done a little better.

The lenient attitude of greedy and mediocre generals was executed by Li Wen during the Han Dynasty. No matter how defeated the Song Dynasty, there was no punishment. Therefore, the generals were not afraid of failure, but tried every means to save their lives. They often took the lead in escaping when they were not defeated, causing great defeat.

The private sergeant regarded his subordinates as his servants, built houses, cut firewood and burned charcoal, planted vegetable crops, weaved jokes and sat on beds, worked as puppet showmen, embroidered music, and caused serious financial waste and damaged combat effectiveness. The army was even more chaotic and loose military discipline.

The bad weapons of soldiers were mostly caused by carving and stripping the soldiers of money, food, clothes, privately liberating the army's debts, and buying workers. Zhang Zonghui said that most of the bad weapons were caused by this. Not only did the army, but the weapons were made in the capital, but also because of the greed of ink, or because of the exploitation of workshop workers and robbing workers, the weapons they made were not exquisite. Some arrows in Yanzhou City were even roughly made of iron and could not wear a layer of armor.

The first three points target national policies, and these three points target current shortcomings in the military.

If you want to fight, you don’t have a clear national policy and a strong army, no matter how good the strategy is, it will not work.

This is the strategy.

Some time ago, including Chen Zhizhong and others, also wrote a letter to me, and the content was empty and unrealistic. Only Wu Yu offered a strategy, which was a little more useful, and connected with the Tubo Uighurs and launched a war of attacks against the Western Xia. However, the Uighurs and Tubo had various problems, and they could be connected, but they could not count on how much effect they would have. At this time, Yuanhao's founding was stable. It was not because of the past few years that the Tubo people in the Tubo family were unable to open up the Southern Silk Road due to the civil strife between the Silk Road of the Silk Road.

The increase in rural soldiers is one step further than Han Qi.

But it was not Xia Shu's strategy. Xia Shu had regarded the village soldiers as regular troops, which would cause many concerns.

These rural soldiers were permanently appointed, farming in their spare time, training in slack farming, going out to fight in wartime, exempting them from taxes and service, and giving them a slight subsidy.

Then the border ministers would not be allowed to be tyrannical, the enemy would not invade, and the power to collect, so there would not be an Anshi Rebellion. Now Zheng Lang wanted to vomit when he mentioned these four words. An Lushan and Shi Siming were indeed very powerful. Without analyzing the Song Dynasty, he would not know what impact these two people had on China.

The village soldiers have been in Shaanxi for a long time and are familiar with the local environment, climate and terrain.

When local recruitment is conducted, soldiers do not leave their hometowns and depart from their territory, so soldiers will not complain.

Even if the taxes are removed and a little subsidy is enough for a village soldier a year, and it is only about one million guan. If all the soldiers are replaced by imprisons, Shaanxi will have to arrange at least 300,000 troops. This army can only deal with defense, but not attack. A imprisons spend 50 guan a year, and only one guan is stationed, which will reach more than 10 million guan.

But Zheng Lang also said that all rural soldiers cannot be used, but rural soldiers and impeachment soldiers must be used so that there will be permanent troops and smart troops. They will also save a lot of expenditure and reduce tax service and labor force for the people.

Long fight!

At this time, Xixia was Ding Jie's army, with a minimum force of more than 500,000. It is impossible to annihilate it immediately. Don't make such a plan.

Be prepared for a long battle, build a village on the front line, and approach the Xixia step by step. The Xixia army leaves and defends the village. The city is also the strength of the Song army. The Xixia army evacuated. The Xixia army can counter-harasse the Xixia people, just like Gao Jilong. The Xixia tribes cannot survive on the border. Then approach the village and erode them step by step to Hengshan and Liupanshan.

This method is disgusting.

That is Fan Zhongyan's plan, but Fan Zhongyan did not do it well.

However, it cannot be densely packed villages, only villages are set up at traffic fortresses, and there is a big village to serve as a side response.

Then, strengthen the walls and clear the fields on the front line.

If Yuanhao's army attacks, he will let him attack. As long as there are many large camp guards, he will be brave enough to go deeper. Otherwise, he will cut off the back path.

The defeat of Fan Yong and Li Shibin was because of the lack of information and the scouts were widely distributed. The elite soldiers were selected as raids and were scattered on the front line day and night to check the enemy's troops without surprise attacks.

Long-term suspension of the matter.

The Xixia really traded with the Song Dynasty, and the Xixia suffered a great loss. However, the Xixia people had no money, so the Song Dynasty became an imported country.

It doesn’t matter if the war horses are mainly private salt.

Xixia green salt was very famous in the Song Dynasty. It used to be sold for more than 60 cents per pound, which was equivalent to the best rice dump, with a purchasing power of more than 30 yuan. Since the war, it has increased to more than 100 cents.

This money did not all enter Yuanhao's pocket. There was private salt in Xixia. Some women even took advantage of their wealth to seek benefits for private salt. There were also the loss of transportation and the greed of officials and soldiers of the Song Dynasty. However, it was also an important fiscal revenue for Xixia.

Not only Yuanhao was counting on Qingyan, but the Western Xia tribes also counting on Qingyan to exchange various supplies for the Song Dynasty.

As long as the ban is for twenty years, the Western Xia will collapse without fighting.

However, if the ban cannot be eliminated only on the front line, an edict must be issued. Anyone who eats the green salt of Xixia, those who smuggle the green salt will be killed, and the whole family will be charged into Lingnan.

Although the law is harsh, it must be harsh when it comes to the country. Moreover, the Song Dynasty did not have no salt, and the income did not need to be supported by the Xixia people. Fighting a trade war would be beneficial to the Song Dynasty without any harm.

If you have no results for a year, you will have no results as long as you persist for ten years.

Regarding war horses, Zhao Zhi issued an edict a few times ago to recruit various horses.

The lack of cavalry was a disadvantage of the Song Dynasty, but Zhao Zhen and many ministers ignored a problem. If it was not difficult to think that horses could be purchased from Tubo and the tribes on the border, or even from the Jurchens. But if there were war horses, where would they be raised? The Song Dynasty lacked pastures, and even if there were, it would not be able to raise a large number of war horses. If placed in Jiannan and Henan, the weather and other reasons, the horses would mutate for a long time and their running power would decrease.

As long as there are enough cavalry, you have to start with infantry, so you can't expect to build a powerful cavalry immediately.

You must be calm.

Khitan.

If you want to attack the island country, you have to consider another country. If you want to attack the Western Xia in this life, you have to consider the Khitan.

History is surprisingly similar.

Weak foreign policy, internal struggle, the gap between the rich and the poor, self-deception, and even wealth, morality, courage and corruption were less than that of the Song Dynasty.

The Khitan is also very similar to the Americans. It is a giant. The Americans are afraid of sacrifice, so the Khitan gradually loses its courage. But they have to pay attention that they can continue to support a batch of weapons from the sea. If you remember correctly, the mature Jurchens will rebel once this year. Once the Jurchens rebel repeatedly, they will restrain the Khitan.

But the Jurchens should not be truly powerful, then a tiger would replace a full wolf, which would be a serious harm.

Scouts infiltrated the Khitan threatened that the new Khitan emperor was weak. A few years ago, Yuan Hao imprisoned and abused the Khitan emperor's sister Princess Xingping and died. The Khitan emperor did not dare to say a word, and used this to mock the Khitan emperor, aroused the anger of the Khitan people and reduced the closeness of the Khitan people's joint efforts with the Western Xia.

As long as these are done well, the Western Xia will decline.

Moreover, the long-term war will hone a group of talents for the country. If possible, the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun...
To be continued...