The official title of Privy Councillor was established during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang, but the Privy Councillor of the Tang Dynasty was only responsible for managing military intelligence, confidential intelligence, etc., and was also held by eunuchs until the Five Dynasties. In order to eliminate the hidden dangers of warlord separatism, the establishment of Privy Councillor could weaken the power of the prime minister and was also an important measure to strengthen the imperial power.

Therefore, after the Yuanfeng restructuring, the Privy Council was still preserved, but the relationship between the Privy Council of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Central Secretariat was extremely abnormal. People at that time said: The Privy Council of the Privy Council reported on the affairs of the court, and did not know each other one after another, so they often became suspicious. Although the Privy Council officials said they were in charge of the military, they also served as prime ministers. Teng Dadao, the censor of the Song Shenzong, also said that the Central Secretariat was the main policy of the war and the Privy Council was the main policy, and the Privy Council was the main policy. How could they win in this way? It clearly pointed out the disadvantages of the major policies caused by this mutual restraint that were almost incorrect in the military and national affairs.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Emperor Gaozong accepted this lesson. In order to deal with the frequent foreign wars, he had to implement the unity of military and government and set up the official title of "Pingzhang Military and National Important Affairs". In the following period, this measure of unity of military and government did play a role in stabilizing the situation. However, with the growth of the imperial guards, the disadvantage of excessive power of the military generals reappeared again, and even mutiny broke out to oust Emperor Gaozong, so he tried to collect the power of the generals to lead the army and serve as the prime minister as the Privy Councilor.

However, after the migration of the south, wars continued, and emperors of all dynasties could only set up governors to guard the front line, so they had to control the army by delegating power, collecting power, and even frequently changing futures. However, they still failed to prevent the formation and expansion of military groups, resulting in a large-scale situation. After their respective interests were damaged, they surrendered regardless of national interests, which led to the collapse of the entire defense line and helped the evil to become the main force in destroying the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Bing knew that if he wanted to completely solve the problem, he could only pass the system, not the rule of man. But he knew that he was just a porter of history, so there was no problem in making him a good craftsman, but it was really not good to deal with such a military and national affairs, and he had no experience in this area in his previous life. It was really unfounded to preside over and make such a large organizational adjustment.

However, Zhao Bing also understood that if this problem cannot be solved, his status will eventually become unstable. The current dynasty is still in chaos and initial establishment periods, and the forces of various factions are relatively weak and they have to rely on themselves to survive. Therefore, it is also the best time to adjust the institutions. Once this window period is missed, it will be even more difficult. Therefore, he decided that even if there are unreasonable aspects of this innovation, he must continue to do it resolutely, set the basic principles and gradually improve it. Besides, in the face of the wisdom of the Chinese people, the system is always available to learn...

The main responsibilities of the Privy Council after Zhao Bing's reform were similar to those of the modern General Staff. Its main responsibilities were expressed in one word: fighting and formulating the country's highest military strategy; deciding the allocation and use of human and material resources during wartime; providing military decision-making plans to the emperor and the Secretariat. As the "most important military adviser", the Privy Council includes formulating military strategies, guiding national defense budgets, combat and joint exercise plans, sharing some of the powers of the Ministry of War, and can directly state its claims to the emperor.

In terms of power, the Privy Council lost its military and political power, but in terms of power, its chief officer was held by a military man, avoiding the elbow of the scholars. Moreover, the Privy Councilor could express his opinions directly to the emperor without having to be limited to the imagination of the literati as before, and formulate some combat plans mixed with water, which were subject to the authority of the prime minister.

To improve the status of warriors, Zhao Bing not only talked about it from the mouth, but also set the rank of the Privy Councilor as the first rank in organizational structure. You should know that the Supreme Military Chief of the Song Dynasty was the second rank official. In this way, although the status of the Privy Councilor was lower than that of the left and right prime ministers, it was also higher than that of the Chief of the General Secretary of the General and the Secretary of the First Order. In order to reflect this status, the deputy positions of the Privy Councilor were all second ranks, and the chief officials of the subordinate first-level departments were all second-rank officials at the same level as the Minister of War. Not to mention that the salary was at least a little higher, and they had to stand in front when scheduling in the palace.

Zhao Bing planned to set up a headquarters, Military Intelligence Department, Military Command and Assistant Judges Department, Office Department, Senate Department and Governor Department in the Privy Council.

The headquarters corresponds to the Ministry of War Department, with four commands: infantry, cavalry, water and artillery, which are responsible for formulating combat plans, combat command, remediation, approval and other matters of each branch of the military. The Military Intelligence Department is the original in charge of the Ministry of War's Intelligence Department, whose functions have not changed, and it has changed to a modern name; the Military Forces Department is responsible for formulating the use and configuration plans for the armored weapons, the research and development and promotion of new weapons, and the study of tactical and tactical applications. In addition, it also commands the engineering troops of the baggage army during wartime to guide the construction of cities and construction of fortifications.

The Assistant Judges Office is a permanent institution, responsible for the daily work of the Privy Council, which is equivalent to a modern comprehensive office; the Office Department comes from the Ministry of War and is still responsible for map drawing and topographic survey; the Senate Department is a place for talent reserves, which is equivalent to a modern military committee. Their role is mainly to assist the Privy Council on weekdays to formulate strategies, combat strategies, and provide opinions on combat plans. In wartime, the Generals and Governors Office can only set up spaces in order to command and manage the preparations of various war zones.

As for the readjustment and demarcation of the war zone, Zhao Bing has not yet thought that there is only Qiongzhou, and there is no need to divide it. In the future, he will face the entire occupied area, not only with vast geographical areas, but also with complex situations. Even if he put aside the concept of geographical areas and divides it according to the direction of possible future wars, the war he faces has the characteristics of a large width and a large depth. A large-scale local war breaks out, which may require the mobilization of military-related institutions in half of the country, so it still needs to be carefully planned...

Once the brain of the military organs is present, the body will involve the issue of the army's organization. After Zhao Bing came to this world, he had a headache about the official system of the Song Dynasty at first. Many official names were different from modern times, and some of the functions were not related to the original intention, which made him work a lot to figure out what was going on. Although the army was a little concise, it also subverted many inherent concepts in the past, making it difficult for him to adapt.

In modern army, division, brigade, regiment, battalion, company, platoon, and squad organization sequences have long been deeply rooted in the mind and become inertia. You don’t have to think about the size of the organization. When you come to this world, you are confused. In fact, these names have existed in ancient times, but they are not the same as modern times and even the present. The corresponding military positions are ever-changing, and you can’t figure out what’s going on without putting some effort.

The military organization was formed in China since the early Xia Dynasty. Due to the changes in the social and political system, the improvement of productivity levels and the long-term continuous war, the military system was extremely rich. Modern military organization is generally unified, and the organization is basically the same in peacetime and wartime. If it is to be mobilized, it is also a system of mobilization. However, ancient Chinese troops often had two types of organization, one was the organization of training in daily life, and the other was the organization of combat troops. When forming troops participating in the war, the original organization needs to be broken and the soldiers were reorganized into a new combat organization.

The basic organizational units of ancient Chinese army were the "Shiwu" system. In addition, when military combat was launched in ancient times, they were often arranged into two left, right or three left, middle and right lines, which affected the army's organization to adopt a binary or three-way or multiples.

The Shang Dynasty had already formed a soldier organization of "Shi", and the ten were commanded by centurions; the ten were organized into large corpses, commanded by thousands of corpses; during combat, they were used to arrange their formations according to one large corps on the left, middle and right. The three large corpses that were put into battle were called "Shi", which was the most basic strategic unit of the Shang Dynasty. In the Zhou Dynasty, the "Shi" was still used as the basic unit, and it was more chaotic in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Each country was different, but the system was still used as the base.

The Han Dynasty infantry was organized into a corps, commanded by the commander of the sergeant; the five corps were organized into "two" and commanded by the two Simas; four corps were divided into soldiers, commanded by the commander of the soldiers; five brigades were organized into divisions, commanded by the commander of the brigade; five brigades were organized into divisions, commanded by the commander of the division; five divisions were organized into troops, commanded by the generals of the army. The Sui and Tang Dynasties inherited the system of the government troops, and Zhechong Prefectures were established in various places, which were organized and trained, and the Zhechong Prefectures were established in charge of 800 to 100 troops, and the Zhechong Prefectures were established, and the deputy was the two Guoyi Prefectures. The prefectures were under several regiments, with 200 soldiers in each regiment, and the school captain was established as the main officer; the regiment was under the jurisdiction of the second brigade, with 100 soldiers in each brigade, and the brigade commander was established as the main officer; the brigade was under the jurisdiction of the second brigade, with 50 soldiers in each brigade, and the team was established as the main officer; the team was under the jurisdiction of the five fires, with 10 soldiers in each fire, and the fire chief was established.

By the Later Zhou Dynasty, a basic combat force was formed: a hundred people were one capital, and there were all the Du Heads; the Five Du was organized into a battalion, and the battalion had commands; the Five Battalion was organized into an army, and the army had a commander or a commander, or directly called the military commander; the Ten Army was organized into a wing, and there were commanders of the Du Heads, or directly called the military commander; the left and right sides formed into a strategic direction, generally about 50,000 people, and the commander was commanded by the emperor.

The system of the Later Zhou Dynasty was fully adopted by the Song Dynasty. The standard battalion of the Song army of 500 people was generally called "command". As the basic unit, the number of troops was counted to calculate the number of commands. The mobilization group was also based on command as the unit, and it was generally not broken up. The battalion had a capital of a hundred people, and there were a capital of the capital; the organization below the capital was a system of army heads, ten generals and other non-commissioned officers. The organization of the foreign soldiers varies from clan to tribe, nature, clan, or clan, standard, team, and unified command and capital organization until the time of Shenzong. Therefore, the organization of the Song army was divided into three levels: army, command, and capital.

Later there were changes. The organization of the "generals" was divided into large and small, with the number of soldiers ranging from 8,000 to 10,000. After the southward transition, the organization was even more chaotic, and the company was like Li Yunlong's independent regiment. For example, Han Shizhong was the former guardian, and organized defense with Chuzhou as the center, with eleven commanders under the center, with thirteen commanders under the center, with 63 generals under the center, with about 80,000 troops; Liu Guangshi was the left guardian, with ten troops under the base, with about 50,000 troops under the base, with about 50,000 troops under the center, with about 50,000 troops under the center, with about 10 troops under the center, with about 50,000 troops under the center, with 99 generals under the center, with about 80,000 troops under the center, with about 80,000 troops under the base; Yue Fei was the rear guardian, with one of Ezhou as the center, with twelve troops under the center.

Until now, Zhao Bing is very glad that when he formed the General Administration Army, there were only a few thousand people. At best, he was only equivalent to the commander of a modern B division. At least he could fiddle with it. If he really gave him tens of thousands of people at once, he would not understand it even if he was a science student. He would have adopted a stupid method in the future. Anyway, I had only so many pre-set ranks, and I couldn't afford to support them if I had enough 500 people. Then I gradually expanded the ranks based on the original five battalions, and then I would have been fooled into Qiongzhou.

After arriving in Yazhou, Zhao Bing was very confused for a while. Because the various troops who were traveling to the court came to support, he gathered all the defeated troops, the imperial guards and the wing army. The volunteers made him foolishly understand. The imperial guards with the imperial guard numbers in front of the hall actually had tens of thousands of people, and when they were few, there were only 20,000 people; during the heyday of the Huai Army, hundreds of thousands of soldiers, but Zhang Shijie only had thousands of people; there were dozens of people who claimed to be one commander, and thousands of volunteers were also organized into one commander.

Anyway, it was just a confusing account. When it comes to any army, Zhao Bing had to think about how many people they had, how many commanders they had, and how many commanders they had. After he moved to Qiong, he immediately adapted the departments according to his own stupid methods, and the number of people was laid off and the number of people was small. However, the structure of this organization was still unreasonable, and it was easy to say that the following camps were all complete.

Then he jumped to the level of "general" and was managed by a commander. The interval between the middle layers was too large, which was very inconvenient in management and exposed considerable flaws during the war. In this battle of defense in Qiongzhou, the highest military commander Zhang Shijie was actually in command. Zhao Mengjin, as the commander, had to be deported to a certain aspect to direct command directly. The commander directly commanded the battalion, and even crossed the level to the capital. At critical moments, he had to leave the command position and go to the forefront, which made the command system extremely chaotic. Of course, Zhao Bing also made great contributions to this chaos. He, as an emperor, directly faced the enemy, and the people below dared not to fight bravely!

Although the navy was not as chaotic as the infantry in the command system, its organization was not perfect. Of course, this was inseparable from Zhao Bing. One was because he lacked an intuitive understanding of the forms of water warfare in ancient times; the other was that he was in a state of confusion about the composition of warship personnel, and he was only assigned sailors based on his intuition and the suggestions of naval generals such as Liu Zhu; the third was that as the highest commander of the navy, he was only a village head, managing more than a dozen warships of all sizes, and also lacked the experience of large formations to fight.
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