Northern Dynasties

Chapter 763 Theft of the Arsenal
As the capital of the Western Wei Dynasty, Chang'an had the second largest number of troops stationed in Huazhou City, second only to Huazhou City, where Bafu was located.

These armored soldiers include the Chang'an Forbidden Army and the imperial soldiers in Yongzhou. They are mainly distributed in several military cities around Chang'an, including the Chang'an Imperial City itself, which is also a military city.

The Forbidden Army of Chang'an City was originally composed of the Liufang people who followed Xiaowu to move west. As so many years passed, battle losses and natural deaths eliminated a considerable number of the Liufang people, but the rest still belong to The absolute backbone of the Chang'an Forbidden Army.

For example, in the early years of the Unification, Li Hu and others led the army to attack Caoni in Lingzhou. After pacifying Lingzhou, they moved many local chieftains in Lingzhou to settle near Xianyang.This part of the clan of powerful chiefs was gradually added to Chang'an's imperial guard and city guard systems in the following years.

In addition, some other powerful armed forces who were interested in the Western Wei royal family also took the initiative to attach themselves to the Gyeonggi region and joined the garrison in the region.

In the past few years, Yuwentai Bafu has been promoting and strengthening the construction of fubing troops, reorganizing the powerful troops in Kansai into fubing armies affiliated with Bafu.

However, there was no systematic reorganization of the garrison in Chang'an. For example, Li Hu, who had been responsible for the dispatch of the garrison around Chang'an, was probably the only person who still actually held military power after assuming the post of Zhu Guo, and he was also the first to die among the six Zhu Guo. The person's special existence did not last too long.

The garrison in Chang'an City, especially the Forbidden Army as the core force, has the personnel structure of the upper level of the Fubing. For example, King Yuankuo of Qi, Wang Yuanyu of Huai'an, etc. all belong to the sequence of the Twelve Generals, and they were also temporarily restrained at the beginning of the formation of the Fubing. He commanded the troops in Gyeonggi Province.

But in fact, the military status of the troops stationed in Chang'an City does not belong to the Chinese and Foreign Governments, especially the Chang'an Forbidden Army, which still has its own internal system and management.Therefore, even Yu Wentai could not accept them all with the six-pillar state and the twelve generals system. He still needed to control the Chang'an Forbidden Army by appointing leaders, left and right guards, and generals of the armed guards.

The current Chang'an Forbidden Army is an armed force independent of the government army system.

At the beginning of the year, when Yu Chijiong sent out troops to conquer Shu, a considerable number of people from the Sixth Forbidden Army participated. They were not dispatched by the Chinese and Foreign Governments, but through recruitment. Those Forbidden Army soldiers actively responded to the recruitment and were able to join. Come out with the army.

It is obvious that Yuwentai used his own power to conquer foreign countries, and used his military exploits and the seizure of trophies to induce these people from the Sixth Square to actively fall into his arms.

Since many Forbidden Army soldiers went to Bashu, this also greatly affected the normal arrangement of Chang'an's guards.If you want to meet the demand for guards to protect the imperial city and palaces, you can only dispatch elite troops from elsewhere to supplement the imperial army.

Therefore, from the first half of the year until now, Chang'an's imperial guards have been making frequent personnel arrangements.And these personnel arrangements contain a lot of intrigues.

Guarding the Forbidden Army was originally a job that required a lot of meticulousness. It involved complex personnel changes and it was even more careless. But now it is mixed with many conspiracies and tricks with ulterior motives, so mistakes are inevitable.

The time has entered October, and the imperial army system in Beijing has begun to compile the list and schedule details of the personnel who will join the Rigel Guard in the twelfth lunar month.

There are roughly 1 guards in the Chang'an Forbidden Army. Every thousand people form one team and are divided into twelve divisions a year. Each guard army needs to participate in three divisions every year, which is three months.The number of Imperial City Guards is usually kept at 3000, and more will be added when there are grand ceremonial tasks. Every month, a team of [-] people will complete the Guards task, and will be supplemented by another team.

In addition to participating in the guard, these Forbidden Army teams are stationed in military cities around Chang'an on a daily basis to conduct various military training.Of course, these Forbidden Army soldiers rarely complete their training tasks in full. When they are not guarding Rigel, they often run rampant in the capital and bully men and women, so they are called the tyrants in the capital.

The dormitory guard regulations are like this, so the monthly dormitory guard personnel arrangements are made two months ago.In this way, even if any personnel accidents occur, adjustments can be made in advance.

Due to the huge changes in the personnel of the Imperial Guard this year, many military units exist in name only. Therefore, it is very troublesome to compile the list of residential guards. It is necessary to confirm the camp personnel, arsenal equipment, etc. several times to ensure that no errors occur.

On this day, Wu Wei General Yu Yi took the list of people drawn up by the Right Guard Military Mansion. He first went into the camp to inspect the soldiers who had entered the Rigel Guard in the twelfth lunar month, but found that there were more than [-] vacancies.

There is not enough personnel to enter the Rigel Guard, let alone a shortage of more than 300 people.If this was not corrected, outsiders might be able to walk into the palace grounds casually.

So Yu Yi traveled back and forth between the military mansions and the military city, spending a whole day until late at night before allocating the full number of personnel.But his task was not completed yet. He still had to go to an arsenal on the north bank of the Weishui River to check the armor.When he arrived at the Weibei arsenal, it was already early in the morning. Accompanied by the arsenal managers, he inspected the ordnance in the arsenal that needed to be issued in the twelfth lunar month.

After a lot of busy work, it was already dawn, so Yu Yi stayed here for the time being and returned to the military mansion after dawn.

At dawn, Yu Yi was awakened by the soldiers. After washing and eating for a while, he was about to leave for the south immediately, but after thinking about it, he still said: "The lights were dim last night and the inspection was not detailed enough. Let's do another inventory today."

The managers of the arsenal were naturally a little unhappy after hearing this, but they did not dare to speak out against it, so they could only open the arsenal through various procedures reluctantly.

Yu Yi held the treasury books, the military government manual and the list of guard equipment presented by the treasurer, and compared the actual weapons and equipment in detail. After confirming again that they were correct, he felt relieved.

Just when he was about to leave the arsenal, he suddenly looked around the arsenal, frowned and asked, "There should be three hundred horn bows in the arsenal here. Why can't I see any of them?"

After hearing this, the treasurer looked a little confused at first, then panicked, and hurriedly lowered his head and said: "I was just demoted from the Dasi Nong Mansion to the Weibei Warehouse at the beginning of the month. I was busy building and collecting goods, and doing inventory at the end of the month." The time has not yet come, and I really don’t know what happened before..."

Yu Yi originally just asked casually, after all, this was not within his jurisdiction, but after hearing what the treasurer said, his face couldn't help but change, and he immediately withdrew from the arsenal and ordered the accompanying soldiers to quickly attack him. The arsenal and the storage books here were all sealed up, and then the officials reported to the Youwei Military Mansion to send people to take stock of the treasures.

Soon the right guard general and city builder Wang Yuanding led a group of armored soldiers from the south bank straight to the Weibei arsenal. Three hundred horn bows were not much, but if they were lost in the Kinei arsenal, the consequences would be huge. It's too small.

Although Yuan Ding was a member of the Yuan and Wei clan, he had been on the front line of Hedong for a long time. It was only in the middle of the year that he was recommended by Zhongshan Gongyu Wenhu to return to the court as a right-guard general, so he did not dare to be careless about his duties.

The results of the investigation soon came out. The three hundred horn bows including bow strings and other accessories in the warehouse were indeed missing, and there was no record of their departure from the warehouse at all.

When such a big mistake occurred, Yuan Ding would of course have to investigate it rigorously, but after some interrogation, the treasury officials just kept complaining and could not provide any useful clues.

This is also a helpless matter, because this year there have been many regulatory loopholes in various management related to the Imperial Guard, making it difficult to trace. If coupled with the deliberate concealment of intentional people, the truth may never be exposed.

"There are three arsenals in the government in Weibei, which are under unified supervision. Since it is difficult to check here, it is better to go to other warehouses to check, maybe we can get more clues."

Seeing that the matter was at an impasse, Yu Yi immediately suggested it.

Although he was only a subordinate, he was both the son of Zhu Guo Yu Jin and the son-in-law of Taishi Yu Wentai. Yuan Ding did not dare to neglect his opinions. After thinking for a while, he nodded and agreed.

So they temporarily left a group of armored soldiers to seal off the arsenal and personnel here, and then went to other arsenals to conduct an inventory.

This check doesn't matter. In addition to the [-] horn bows missing from the arsenal here, there are also many missing ordnances in other arsenals. Although it does not reach hundreds of thousands, the cumulative quantity is quite considerable, and the quality is not low. , even including ten sets of heavy armor!
If it were just instruments such as bows and knives, the situation would not be too serious, but now even fine armor has been lost. This is by no means a trivial matter.

When Yu Yi and Yuan Ding saw the compiled list of lost ordnance, their faces turned pale. They knew that this matter could not be covered up casually, otherwise they might not be able to expose it somewhere. Withstand it.

So they could only continue to report this situation to Yuchi Gang, the boss of the Forbidden Army who succeeded his brother as the leading general. After learning about the incident, Yuchi Gang suddenly became nervous and directly ordered to temporarily block the news, and then transferred his cronies , start a serious and thorough investigation within the Forbidden Army system.

(End of this chapter)