Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 3420
Above the officialdom, where does so much grievance and hatred come from?The so-called "the ass determines the head, and the interests determine the position" has never been the same in ancient and modern China and abroad.

All the generals had some ominous premonitions in their hearts. If Ping Rang City was really captured by the navy, the country would be overthrown, and all the merits of the Eastern Expedition would be taken into their hands, that would be absolutely unacceptable...

Seeing Li Ji's silence, Yu Chigong couldn't help but said, "Your Majesty, the military law will never tolerate such behaviors like the navy's disobedience to the superior order and self-righteousness! Otherwise, everyone in the future will follow suit and be eccentric from top to bottom. Do you want more?"

The captain of the navy who came to report the news had been holding back his silence, but seeing everyone in the room condemning the navy for disrespecting the general order, he couldn't help but cupped his hands and said, "Duke E probably forgot something? Our royal navy belongs to the royal family and was created by the Duke of Yue. It only obeys His Majesty’s will and is not part of the imperial army at all. The British Duke’s order to the navy is already an act beyond the distance. How can there be any order for the navy? What about qualifications?"

Everyone in the room was silent for a moment.

This is one of the reasons why everyone rejects the navy. It is difficult for anyone to intervene in this increasingly large military system that stretches across the sea.The growing benefits it created are only in the hands of His Majesty and Fang Jun, and the rest of the family, even if they have business dealings with them, are all dominated by the navy.

Even if you are the general who commands the world's soldiers and horses, you can't assign dispatches to the navy.

I am not afraid that you will dominate the system, but I am afraid that you will be outside the system...

Qiu Xiaozhong was dissatisfied, and shouted: "This is unreasonable! Even if you are not in the imperial order, you should take the overall situation into consideration and obey the command and dispatch of the commander. If you act like this and act recklessly, once you destroy the plan of the Eastern Expedition, can you take responsibility?"

The lieutenant looked innocent, and spread his hands and said, "I'm just a small lieutenant, how can I bear the responsibility of destroying the plan of the Eastern Expedition? You have to go and tell our captain, or wait until the future The Duke of Yue is returning to Beijing, so you go and question him in front of his old man."

"Mother!"

Qiu Xiaozhong was furious: "How dare you use Fang Er to suppress me?"

Although his face was flushed with anger, he didn't dare to say other unpleasant words.Fang Er's stick doesn't matter who Qiu Xiaozhong is, if he dares to say something bad about Fang Jun here today, if it is passed into Fang Jun's ears the next day, that servant will dare to beat his house.

Even Changsun Wuji had no choice but to bear with Fang Jun. How could he, Qiu Xiaozhong, be considered a ball?
Li Ji glanced at Qiu Xiaozhong, who was blushing with anger and had a thick neck but didn't dare to speak harshly, waved his hands, and said to the captain of the navy: "Go back and report to your commander, and say that I know about it."

Then, he raised his head and swept across the faces of the generals in front of him, and finally landed on the faces of Xue Wanche and Ashina Simo, and said slowly: "The navy is attacking the city at this moment, we must be careful of the enemy cavalry who are chasing us back. You The two led their troops to entangle with the enemy cavalry. They don't want to kill the number of enemies. As long as they can't return to Ping Rang City, it is considered a great achievement. Remember, the two of you can find the opportunity by yourself, I won't say too much , but if the enemy troops return to Ping Rang City after the loss of soldiers and generals, forming a pincer attack on the navy, then you two will be the most unforgivable!"

"Here!"

"Here!"

Xue Wanche and Ashina Simo hurriedly got up, their nails clanging, and they promised loudly, and then withdrew together with the captain of the navy, assembled the troops under their command, and immediately turned their heads to attack the Goguryeo cavalry who were chasing behind them.

Inside the house, Li Ji rubbed his brows, and slowly said to everyone: "The matter has come to this point, all we have to do is to stabilize the situation, and must rush back to Chang'an in time to help protect the country. Otherwise, if the war in Guanzhong is allowed, We are all sinners of the empire!"

Everyone understood what he meant, and I really remind everyone not to think about anything wrong at this time, to escort His Majesty's coffin back to Chang'an, and to stabilize the situation in Chang'an.

Quickly stood up together: "Don't worry, the British public, we know the seriousness!"

Li Ji nodded, and said: "Order to light a fire and cook food, rest overnight in Bocao City tonight, and set off camp in the early morning of tomorrow!"

"Here!"

When the generals dispersed, Li Ji sat alone in the room and meditated for a long time, then slowly got up, and came to a yard guarded by the elite "Hundred Knights".

Here, the dragon body of His Majesty Li Er is temporarily parked, except for Li Ji, no one can wait to enter, and those who disobey the order will be beheaded.

Standing outside a house, Zhu Suiliang saw Li Ji entering, went up to greet him, and then accompanied Li Ji into the house...

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In ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, war has never left the history of mankind.Whether it is a change of dynasty or a fight for power and profit, the shadow of war will always cover the heads of human beings. It is like a lingering haze that will accompany the progress of human civilization until the end of destruction.

The initiation of war depends on the army.

In the history of China, there are two main military systems, the recruitment system and the government military system.

The two military systems have their own advantages and disadvantages, and most of them are adapted to local conditions. One of them is selected according to the social environment and national foundation at that time, or one is selected at the beginning of the dynasty, and the other is replaced with social changes.

The "fubing system" first appeared in the Southern and Northern Dynasties during the period of Yu Wentai, a powerful minister of the Western Wei Dynasty.At that time, the north was dominated by the Xianbei people, who were very repulsive to the Han people, and ethnic discrimination was particularly serious. As a result, the Northern Wei Dynasty was split and the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Western Wei Dynasty were established.After Yu Wentai ascended the throne, in order to prevent similar incidents from happening again, he took measures to combine the "Hu and Han culture", which was the beginning of the "fubing system".

The "fubing system" is a hereditary military system, which divides the peasants of the world into three, six, and nine ranks according to the wealth of their families, and those above the sixth rank join the army.Its core is that soldiers have separate military registrations, serve as soldiers from generation to generation, and prepare their own food and equipment. In exchange, the government provides them with land and exempts them from other corvees.The land that military households serve for the country, as part of the equal land, is directly given by the emperor and cannot be bought and sold at will.

The emergence of the Fubing system can be said to have effectively solved political and economic problems and social crises, resolved the military's economic conflicts, and laid the foundation for the military prosperity of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

However, the shortcomings of the Fubing system are also very obvious. Apart from the gradual loss of military households and the difficulty of replenishing soldiers with the development of the society, the most important thing is the lack of professionalism. The soldiers have not undergone strict training and their combat effectiveness is low.

Professionalization and regularization are the advantages of the recruitment system.

Of course, the disadvantages of the recruitment system are also obvious, that is, the country's military expenditure has skyrocketed, and even the dynasties with extremely wealthy economies such as the Song Dynasty were eventually affected by it.

It can be said that the transition from the government military system to the recruitment system was the result of social development. Although the recruitment system was costly and huge, it eventually became the most perfect military system.

The Royal Navy was the first recruiting army in the Tang Dynasty.

The soldiers in the army are all selected and recruited, and they have monthly military pay, and can be promoted to the rank of nobles for meritorious service, but what they need to pay is cruel training day and night.

The combat power of the navy soldiers is the best in the Tang Dynasty, which makes the Goguryeo soldiers they encounter completely dumbfounded when they charged with all their strength after blasting the city gate.

Previously, the Goguryeo army and the Tang army fought from Liaodong City to Pingrang City, and lost more than half of Goguryeo. Now they have fought fiercely around the city for more than two months, and they are well aware of the combat power of the Tang army.Who ever expected that the navy that launched the siege suddenly, regardless of individual combat power or teamwork, was superior to the previous Tang army?
Where is this sailor?A strong army on land is nothing more than that!
And since the elite of Goguryeo's army went north to pursue the Tang army, how could the old, weak, sick and disabled in the city be the opponents of the navy soldiers?

With just two charges, the defenders who were blocked inside the city gate were dispersed. Zhen Tianlei opened the way, and the heavy infantry in heavy armor and holding a horizontal knife rushed in like a wall, killing a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood. Wade out a passage.Behind him, countless sailors and soldiers poured into the city from the city gate like a tide.

Not long after entering the city, the defenders who had begun to break up suddenly stepped up their offensive. It turned out that the private soldiers and servants of various families in the city were organized and moved forward to help defend the city.As a result, it was one step too late, and the city gate had already been blasted open, so they could only try to rush into the Tang army's formation to fight fiercely and kill the Tang army.

But how can the navy let the enemy get close?The heavy infantry led the way, followed by the soldiers, and the muskets crackled like beans, and puffs of gunpowder smoke spewed out from the muzzle of the guns, and the enemy troops in front of them fell down one by one.

The open area inside the city gate became the flesh and blood mill of the Goguryeo defenders. This kind of close-range and large-scale shooting maximized the power of the original muskets, which was a unilateral massacre at all.

(End of this chapter)