Chapter 485 Mansion Army System and Frontier Selection Strategy

Chapter 485 Mansion Army System and Frontier Selection Strategy

"disarmament?"

This word made Ma Su react instantly, and his expression suddenly became extremely serious.

The biggest problem plaguing the Han Dynasty's finances now is none other than the huge army.

After Liu Bei defeated Liu Zhang and successfully took control of Yizhou, Zhuge Liang was ordered to start reforms. Yizhou became a huge war machine under Zhuge Liang's two years of changes, with most of its resources serving the Northern Expedition.

Under such a system, Ji Han's army has always been at the limit of support. Especially during the rapid expansion of the Han Dynasty in recent years, a large number of descended troops were incorporated, causing the Han Dynasty's military strength to expand rapidly.

Before the Northern Expedition, the Han Dynasty had already mobilized 200,000 troops. After conquering Guanzhong this time, 30,000 Guanzhong Wei troops surrendered to the Han army in an organized manner. Including the prisoners who were defeated and surrendered in various places, once digested, the Han army's strength can approach the 300,000 mark.

This is good military news, proving that Ji Han's military power is one step closer to Cao Wei. But from a financial point of view, Jiang Wan and Fei Yi are probably going to be scolded.

Obviously, the dilapidated and depopulated Kansai and Yizhou, which are basically at the limit of war, cannot support an army of 300,000. Even if all the soldiers and horses were converted into military camps, it would be impossible to support them.

Unless we follow the example of Cao Wei, it is feasible to turn a large number of people into serfs to work in the fields. But for this option, let alone Zhuge Liang, even Li Yan said he lacked great virtue.

So in this regard, Zhuge Liang felt that the only option was to disarm. Dividing some soldiers into land can reduce financial pressure and release a large number of strong men back to the land.

This is a standard agenda to increase expenditures and reduce resources, and it is also a relatively helpless choice. Zhuge Liang called Ma Su over just to discuss this matter.

However, Ma Su's first reaction was to object.

"Prime Minister! The world is not unified yet, so I'm afraid we can't support disarmament." Ma Di waved his hand and immediately reported to Zhuge Liang,

"And now the army is basically composed of veterans who are good at fighting. They are very precious. If they are allowed to go back to farming due to the disarmament, it will have a big impact on the combat effectiveness of the Han army."

"Don't tell me about this. Go tell Gong Yan and see if he will fight you." Zhuge Liang smiled and couldn't help but joke.

"Prime Minister, in this case, it is better to implement the military government system I have in Longyou. Establish military government offices in the counties in Weibei and organize a large number of soldiers into the military government offices to organize farming wars." Ma Su pondered for a moment and immediately recommended the military government system. Gave it to Zhuge Liang.

The government army system was proposed by Ma Su when he was the governor of Longxi, and he asked Li Mu to promote it and experiment with it in Longyou for several years. When Fei Yi was in charge of Longyou, the military headquarters expanded from Longxi County to the entire five counties of Longyou. This was a system that had been implemented for a long time.

According to Ji Han's current situation, it is obvious that implementing the government army system is the best choice. Especially when there is a large amount of arable land in Guanzhong that is uncultivated and needs to be reclaimed.

The Fubing system can be said to be a relatively perfect system, and it is extremely superior when opening borders to the outside world. This system did not gradually collapse until Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and the reason for its collapse is quite interesting.

Because the territory of the Tang Dynasty was so large, the soldiers had to walk for half a year to garrison at the border. Tired of going back and forth and serving longer, the government soldiers began to be unwilling to guard the border, and this was replaced by the recruitment system.

But now Ji Han does not have this problem, and there is no problem at all in implementing the government army system.

"Did you set up a military mansion in Longyou before? The court probably doesn't have enough officials to take charge of this matter..." Zhuge Liang frowned and said thoughtfully.

"This matter does not require too many officials, and some military offices can even be directly staffed by grassroots officers." Ma Su said immediately, and explained the system to Zhuge Liang in detail.

"The second-line troops are organized into the military mansion, distributed farmland, and can also prepare their own armor and weapons. In this way, the Han army can maintain the maximum strength with lower expenditures, and its combat power will not be greatly weakened."

"As for the backbone of the army, I suggest that the northern soldiers be selected according to the strategy of selecting the front, so as to ensure that the front can go anywhere without any disadvantages!"

"Choose a forward?"

Zhuge Liang narrowed his eyes. This word was no stranger to him who was familiar with the art of war. So Zhuge Liang quickly regained his previous impression of Ma Su, and this guy seemed to be planning to give him some new tricks.

"Yes, it's just a strike strategy, but I combined it with the previous elite military strategy." Ma Di chuckled and immediately presented Zhuge Liang with his latest strategy.

The word "selecting the front" is mentioned in the "Six Tao" of the Art of War, which means selecting the elite. However, in traditional strategy, this kind of elite soldiers are generally used as sharp knives for large corps operations.

However, Ma Su made a series of changes to this, the first of which was to teach the selected warriors to read and read. While allowing elite soldiers to have greater subjective initiative (Wei Yan: don’t mention this word to me), it can also allow elite soldiers to have greater centripetal force.

In this way, the elite soldiers selected and trained intensively will have a new role at critical moments. That is, at critical moments, they can be polite to junior officers.

If one can read and write and is loyal enough, choose Fengbu. Even if there are only one or two thousand people, it can be quickly expanded into tens of thousands of troops at the right moment.

Especially for Ma Su, this kind of military design is a necessity. After all, many times it was because of the need to gather a large number of defeated troops that Ma Su missed the opportunity to pursue the enemy general.

If the capable army always prepares forward battalions, not only would there be no need to worry about retreating troops, but with luck, Ma Su might even be able to raise an army of ten thousand people behind enemy lines in a short time.

Ma Su's series of military tactics initially appeared in the late Northern and Southern Dynasties in history. And Ma Su used his eight years of experience to make him appear two hundred years in advance.

"You can always come up with some tricks for me. When it comes to the study of the art of war, I'm afraid I'm not as good as you." Zhuge Liang couldn't help laughing when he heard Ma Su's systematic art of war. He pointed at Ma Su with his feather fan and said with a smile.

"Since you have a plan, go ahead and put it into practice. After all, you are now the highest military attache in the army."

"But these changes need to be done quickly. It is best to deal with them within half a year."

"By next year's spring plowing time, you still have more important tasks."

As he spoke, Zhuge Liang pointed to the south, his expression suddenly becoming extremely serious.

“Jingzhou, it’s time to recover!”

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After finalizing a series of reforms with Zhuge Liang, a few days later, General Ma Su officially opened his government. Li Mu was appointed as the Chief of the General's Mansion, Liu Yin, Jiang Wei and others joined the mansion, and half of the Han army's military power was incorporated into the General's Mansion.

After completing these, the government army system and the strategy of selecting forwards were also implemented on a large scale in Guanzhong under the leadership of the Hussar General's Office.

However, during this period, Ma Su still had one important thing to do.

That is the treatment of the northern border, that is, the Hetao Plain.