The three old men in front of him seemed very interested in their proposals for military reform, but Zhao Bing understood that it was not easy for them to do this. The reason why they did not raise objections was more because their plans did not violate the interests of scholars, and seemed to have increased their power over civil officials and suppressed the military officials. Therefore, it is difficult for them to fully support themselves based on this point alone. If they want to achieve their goal, they should come up with something real.

Zhao Bing first starts with the current situation. Qiongzhou faces more and more powerful enemies, and more and more. If you want to restore the country, you cannot do it without an elite soldier. The Song army can still rely on powerful firearms at present. This is obvious to all. But now the army still mainly uses cold weapons such as swords, guns, bows and crossbows. Therefore, the military reform is to replace old equipment as soon as possible through methods such as layoffs, reductions, and other methods.

At the same time, we have to train each army through the change of clothes and establish command and organization for related matters. It is not necessary to say that the role of the navy in several battles is the case, but it is not without improvement. Due to the large-scale application of firearms on warships, the form of combat has undergone many changes, from the past counterattacks to long-distance attacks, so many warships equipped on the warships have become optional "fish bass", but many warships seized in the water camp can only be idle.

The infantry also has this problem. In the battle for the beach, the number of roundabouts and rocket launchers equipped by the infantry is small, resulting in insufficient firepower and exposing the weakness of being difficult to suppress the enemy's intensive charge. If the infantry had not occupied the geographical advantage and restricted the dispatch of the enemy and the gathering of troops, the victory or defeat was unknown. Strengthening the configuration of infantry and arms and increasing the organization of artillery will also become the top priority, otherwise it will be in an unfavorable situation in future land battles.

In the three hundred years of foreign war, the Song army lost the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun and could not obtain excellent war horses, and could only use the infantry as the main force, thus falling into the dilemma of "not being able to catch up if you win, and not being able to escape if you lose." They gradually changed from strategic offense to strategic defense, but they were facing the Mongols, who were mainly cavalry, and it was difficult to win if they lost their mobility in the war, and only saying that the country was restored would eventually become a bubble.

Therefore, Zhao Bing believes that the focus of the establishment of the army is not only to expand the scale, but to strengthen training and change clothes, and to establish a group of matters. It requires the focus of strengthening the combat troops and strengthening a considerable number of non-combatants out of the military organization sequence. Therefore, the spare number of troops and the saved military expenditure will be used to strengthen the combat troops, and new weapons and equipment will be equipped to promote the development of the troops' organization in a fulfilling, synthesis, multi-energy and flexible direction.

In particular, we must re-dividate the military, refine the military branches, improve the proportion of military branches, establish a reasonable proportion of combatants and non-combatants, and enhance the combat effectiveness of the military. This means that there are still many old equipment in the military's weapons and equipment, which urgently need to be replaced, so as to gradually compress the number of old equipment, reduce the production of conventional cold weapons, increase the production of firearms, re-train the officers and soldiers, and prepare for the replacement of new weapons...

Zhao Bing's remarks made Ying Jieyan and others nodded repeatedly. They did not expect that this battle would reveal so many problems. What the young emperor said was not a false statement. If he wanted to improve the existing combat effectiveness of each army, this was the only way to do so. He was also a wink. What he said just now was just starting from the underlying design. Seeing that they had no objection, he turned to the design of the organizational structure.

Since the founding of the State of the People's Republic of China, in order to prevent the resurgence of separatist vassal states, the military deployment of strong, weak and weak branches was adopted. Most of the imperial guards were concentrated near the capital. Only the wing troops in local prefectures maintained public order, and the border defense adopted the imperial guards' system. In the event of major wars, temporary generals were drawn from the imperial guards to command the army, which formed the so-called "the soldiers do not know the generals, and the generals do not know the soldiers."

However, this system collapsed at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. In order to cope with the new situation, Zhao Gou had to delegate power to lead generals, thus forming a situation where the generals were in charge of military and political affairs in the area. After the situation eased, Zhao Gou wanted to regain military power and rebuild the imperial guard system, and successively seized the military power of Han Shizhong, Yue Fei, Zhang Jun and others. It is said that Yue Fei's death is also related to this.

However, the frequent Jin army went south, which made Zhao Gou's idea of ​​restoring the old system not completely successful. He had to set up several military towns on the front line to guard the army, and led the troops with civil servants, and continued this system until the end of the Song Dynasty. Finally, it collapsed again after the Lu family group surrendered to the enemy, resulting in the loss of the entire Jinghu defense line and the destruction of the entire Jiangnan. When he arrived at Zhao Bing, it can be said that the new and old military systems of the Song Dynasty had expired. Although the numbers of the imperial guards and the guards in front of the palace were restored, it was beyond recognition and urgently needed to be rebuilt.

There are also debates between the court at present, but there is no distinction between frontline and rear in this small place, and either method is discussed in a nonsense. However, it cannot be said that the problem does not exist. Once the battle to restore the country is launched, a combat direction will not be chosen, especially after the recovery of some territory, the troops must be divided to guard, which may form a new phenomenon of warlord separatism, but this is also the most reasonable and effective combat method at present.

However, doing so will also cause disputes within the court. Wen Tianxiang went to Jiannan Kaifu to be the only one in his first court. When he made a fortune, he had actually laid the root of being rejected from the court several times in the future. He accumulated strength in Jiannan, made a great momentum and established prestige. People in the court began to suspect that Wen Tianxiang had other plans, worried that he would usurp power and control the government after returning to the court, and finally pushed him to a dead end. Therefore, Zhao Bing felt that the opposition to rebuilding the military system in this way would be very loud, and it would be very troublesome to clean up later. Maybe the scene of killing the heroes would be repeated.

Based on the reality and the needs of combat, Zhao Bing felt that it would be better to disperse all the gangs. The entire command system of the imperial guards in front of the palace and the guards' personal army was abolished, and the entire army was organized into independent units based on the current army or division. In normal times, each army was managed, and each army was trained, and the Privy Council organized joint exercises of each army. In wartime, each army was drawn according to the needs of the task, and the division was organized into a group army or corps, and the imperial court selected generals to command the operation, which was similar to modern modular marshals. If successful, it would be natural to form a war zone in the future.

An army must have its own administrative management system, but if this system is to manage administration and combat, it is probably too busy. In the past, the General Administration was the center of administrative management and the highest command organization of the government army, thus forming a structure with the army as the main body and assisted by other institutions. Since then, this style of military-run social work has been brought into the armies. In fact, the army belonging to the court is not much better, and they all need to recruit soldiers and horses, collect food and pay, and undertake what the court should do.

This formed a situation where the army was "big and complete". A military chief had to undertake all kinds of work from food, accommodation, transportation to training, management and combat. At that time, Zhao Bing had only a group of defeated soldiers and defeated soldiers, the elderly, weak, sick and disabled, and once the power was dispersed, they could not survive. Therefore, they had to concentrate their strength and uniformly dispatch, which was also a helpless move. However, after moving to Qiong, the biggest change was that the management departments were sound, the functional departments were enriched, and specific affairs were managed. Now they had the conditions to separate out the daily management functions of the army.

In this way, functional division of labor can be carried out in the future, highlighting the combat functions of the command organization; each army can also change from focusing only on the local interests of the unit and the department to enhancing the overall concept, and "one game" of the entire army and the battlefield; change the relatively closed military construction management of various units and departments that have been formed to open division of labor and cooperation and perform their responsibilities; at the same time, the past military single-handed forces are single, running society, and social security of military integration. The army does not have to do everything like running society, and there are some military facilities and institutions, and the non-combatant personnel can be simplified to improve efficiency and combat effectiveness...

Zhao Bing then separated the non-functional departments in the army, transferred to the Ministry of War and other relevant departments to manage the military and political affairs, and separate military orders. He naturally knew that the upper-level command system was transformed. If the conditions were not met, or if there was a certain legal and institutional foundation, and the political foundation and military management level were not met, blindly following the separation of military and political orders would lead to chaos in the construction of the army, chaos in management and command, which would be detrimental to the management and combat of the army.

However, the current system of the literati in the Song Dynasty was inconsistent with the modern state system. Zhao Bing had the opportunity to implement military reforms close to the modern military, but he still took a lot of effort to take this problem. When talking about this problem, he also thought of an American, who could be said to have made great contributions to shaping the system of the US military and improving its combat efficiency. However, the less well-known person was not from a purely brand soldier, but to be precise, a businessman.

This person is McNamara, the former boss of General Motors. After he served as the US Secretary of Defense, he brought the advanced management model and cost accounting methods of American companies into the US military, which greatly changed the appearance of the army, saved a lot of funds, and greatly improved efficiency. Although Americans also criticized this, some people believe that after being transformed by McNamara, the US military was more like a commercial company and not like an army, but it did greatly promote the scientific management of the US military.

In McNamara's eyes, in fact, the army and the local government, except for the different products, are very similar in essence. They are all issues of input-output. They must consider the input-output ratio, and in the end they must talk about cost and efficiency. There is no essential difference between the army and the enterprise. His idea of ​​managing the army coincides with Zhao Bing. Of course, he was forced to passively use the management method of managing enterprises to coordinate the management of the entire Zhengfu for the sake of the situation, but due to the limitations of time, he did not do it thoroughly, but now he can use it as a reference.

Zhao Bing knew that no matter what method he adopted to carry out military reform, first of all, it was to ensure the efficiency of the core command system, establish a scientific and efficient leadership and management system, reflect the military and political system in the organizational structure, and separate military orders. First, the administrative affairs of some military forces were entrusted to the government to take on, and the role of the court and the Ministry of War were played by them, and they were responsible for the organization and implementation; first, the reform of the military's own management system, and some military command institutions assumed administrative management functions and handed over to another special agency.

According to the main policy of the theater of war and the main construction of the military, on the one hand, the combat command power controlled by various branches and other agencies is transferred to the combat command organization, and on the other hand, the military administrative functions controlled by the combat command organization are transferred to the military and other agencies. Later, the combat command organization is responsible for combat command, as well as the organization and implementation of large-scale joint military exercises, and the military training and political work of the various branches of the military shall be responsible for the leadership of each branch of the military, and the military and military orders shall perform their duties to complete the management and command of the army.

After the transfer is completed, the military and political system is responsible for the "pragmatic" parts such as military exercises and weapon development, and the military order system is responsible for "private" work such as tactical thinking. This will enable the separation of military training, management of township soldiers, logistics and technical support, military service, war mobilization and battlefield construction from the army, and even administrative affairs such as promotion and welfare of military officers are ignored, and all are handed over to the military and political system. After the soldiers are trained, they will return to the army, and the promotion should be promoted, and there should be benefits.

When the war begins, the two are "virtual" and "real" in exchange, and the generals of the military order system are unified in command, mobilizing all forces, and all military branches are fully cooperative. This approach can achieve centralized and unified command. At the same time, the scale of the upper level of the military region can be relatively small, focusing resources on combat troops, so that the army can concentrate on combat without distraction, without being hindered by other departments and affairs...

Ying Jieyan and the other three heard the little emperor talk about the plan to reshape the Great Song military system. For two consecutive hours, they did not even have a sip of tea to moisten their throats. It was obvious that they had a long-term thought and had a long-term abstinence. However, their thoughts were as meticulous as before, and there were no major loopholes, and they were very operational. Therefore, they concluded that His Majesty had planned it long ago, not a temporary whim.

Since Your Majesty has revealed what he wants today, then the three people also know that the young emperor treats them as his confidants, which is giving hints to them in order to seek support for themselves. But the more you do this, the more cautious they know that they should be. The military system is a major event of the country and the foundation of a country. They blindly accept it and are extremely irresponsible to Your Majesty and the Song Dynasty, so they still need to consider in order to check the vacancy and avoid future troubles. Therefore, they only agreed with reservations, but did not have a clear attitude.
Chapter completed!