Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

The armor of the Ming battalion soldiers was rotten, the weapons were poor, and the horses were emaciated or even dead. They were all learned.

Zhang Shouren thinks that Zhu Yuanzhang expects everyone to be a saint, and the idea that Zhu Yuanzhang expects everyone to be a sage and live a hard life is really nonsensical. He is very generous to his son. According to the standards of the early Ming Dynasty, the imperial clan was not weaker than the highest first-rank dynasty. Such a huge injustice directly led to the fact that there were no officials and no corruption in the Ming Dynasty. Unspoken rules prevailed. Not to mention the corruption of officials, the combat effectiveness of the army is not mentioned. It is very sad. .

Later generations always think that the Han and Tang Dynasties are strong, the Song Dynasty is weak, and the territory of the Ming and Qing Dynasties is not small.

In fact, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the end of feudalism, everything was boring. Except for the mobilized peasants and soldiers with an army size of 50 in the early Ming Dynasty, that is, guard soldiers, by the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the entire country was no longer good.

Mainly due to financial bankruptcy, military households fleeing, and lack of mobilization ability. The guards have to farm the land in peacetime, and they have to bring their own weapons to fight in wartime.It is strange that such an army has combat effectiveness. [

From the beginning of civil engineering changes to the Altan Khan who made the capital of the capital during the Jiajing period, the Mongols were so poor that they almost had no iron bows and arrows, and they also set off waves of offensives in the northern border defense of the Ming Dynasty.If it hadn't been for the hard work in the middle of the Ming Dynasty and the start of recruiting frontier troops, I am afraid that they would not be able to hold on long ago, and they would be beaten to the feet of the capital frequently.

Take the current jubilant Manchu Qing Dynasty as an example. It started as a small tribe with less than [-] soldiers in the whole banner, less than [-] real soldiers, and less than [-] armored soldiers. It was the Tang Dynasty, a prefect of the border county could handle them, but the Ming Dynasty was defeated again and again after mobilizing the army. From the time when the Tungus tribe rebelled, until now, the Ming Dynasty lost hundreds of thousands of troops on the Liaodong battlefield. In the army, the generals at the commander-in-chief level alone died in battle. In addition to the loss of horses, food, armor and weapons, there were also thousands of cannons, tens of millions of taels of silver, and millions of people were slaughtered !

A so-called powerful and huge empire, the western defense line has never left Gansu, and I have never seen what the Western Regions are like from beginning to end. The Mongols in the northern grasslands have always refused to accept it. The country, called Vietnam independent from then on, is no longer owned by China.

In terms of force, the Ming Dynasty was really a failed dynasty. From financial support to the treatment of officers and soldiers, there was nothing to recommend.

The control of generals also shows the failure of this military system. The feudal system of generals and the family military system led to the inability to check and balance the generals at the end of the dynasty. Once the financial power was lost, the generals quickly became de facto vassals.

This kind of problem, in the Song Dynasty, successfully solved the shortcomings of the Tang Fanzhen, but in the Ming Dynasty, it was even worse than the Song Dynasty.

At least during Song Gaozong's time, a general like Yue Fei used various methods to firmly control the army. Unable to control it, Gao Jie and Huang Degong fought each other in Yangzhou, killing and injuring countless people, and then the court issued an order, Gao Jie pointed at the nose of the envoy and said: "Zhao Zhizhi, do you know that there are people running horses in the Huangji Palace now!"

It's a pity that a country's imperial court still has financial and manpower and controls half of the territory, and its army generals dare to do this. What a shame, what kind of martial arts is there!