1, English

In addition to the twelve guards leading the government soldiers (the imperial army of South Asia) to defend the capital, there is also a separate imperial army of North Asia to guard the palace. The imperial army in North Asia was originally the imperial army of the Yuan Dynasty, and later it belonged to the Wei Dynasty. Make up or recruit scholars. Taizong camped around Xuanwu Gate, which was called "Flying Ride" in history. Among them, Hundred Shooters and Xiao Jian were selected as "Hundred Rides", Wuhou was expanded to "Thousand Rides" and Zhongzong was renamed "Ten Rides". Emperor Gaozong and Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty established the Left and Right Feather Army and the Left and Right Dragon Wu Jun respectively, with the same officials and names as Zhu Wei. From then on, Su Zong took control of SHEN WOO's army. History books refer to Yu Lin, longwu and SHEN WOO as the Sixth Army.

2. Border guards

Border military institutions are divided into garrison troops, garrison areas, towns and garrison areas under the jurisdiction of the army. Among them, the town garrison is divided into three levels: 500 people in the town, 300 people in the town, and less than 300 people in the town; 50 people are on the garrison, 30 people are on the garrison, and less than 30 people are on the garrison. Each town and garrison shall have one town general, one deputy town general, one garrison chief and one deputy garrison chief respectively. Since Emperor Gaozong, the number of troops and guards has gradually increased.

Each ambassador and deputy ambassador led more troops than towns and garrison troops. With the extension of the border defense line and frequent wars, our special envoy was appointed as the supreme commander in the border area. In the second year of Jingyun (7 1 1), Hebayens was first appointed as our envoy to Hexi, that is, the fixed commander of the military region. By the ninth year of Tianbao, there were nine Chinese envoys in Anxi, Beiting, Hexi, Shuofang, Hedong, Fanyang, Pinglu, Longyou, Jiannan and Lingnan. Our times make the border defense system of the army, garrison, town and E more complete.

3. Joint forces

Earth regiment, also known as regiment training, is a local armed force that has not been divorced from production for a long time and is controlled by the state secretariat. In 696, in the first year of Tian Tong's long live, in order to defend the Khitan, troops were set up in the surrounding states of Shandong. In the first year of the Gregorian calendar (698), armed cavalry regiments were formed in Henan and Hebei to guard against Turks: one horse was recruited for every 150 households 15 people. In 777, the twelfth year of the reign of Emperor Zongli, it was stipulated that regiment soldiers should return to agriculture in spring and summer, gather in autumn and winter, and be given food and pickles during their service. The number of recruits in various places is also increasing. Soldiers who are incorporated into the army do not enter the army, but generally defend themselves in their own territory or should be transferred to cooperate with the battle, and return to their hometowns to farm after the military mission.

4. The army in the late Tang Dynasty

Mainly Ce Shen's six armies and soldiers of the buffer region. The Shence Army was originally a border guard in Zhou Tao, Longyou. Starting from the Anshi Rebellion, more than 1,000 Ce Shen troops went to the Central Plains to counter the rebellion, stationed in Shaanxi, and later entered Chang 'an Forbidden Garden and were promoted to the imperial army. In the 12th year of Zhenyuan (796), the Shence Army was divided into the left and right armies, and eunuchs Dou Wenchang and Huo Xianming were appointed as the guards of the left and right Ce Shen, thus creating a fixed system for eunuchs to command the Shence Army.

Eunuchs further controlled one of the few left and right feather forests, left and right longwu and left and right SHEN WOO. Under the command of eunuchs, the Shence Army was rewarded handsomely, and officials were promoted far beyond other armies. In its heyday, it grew to more than 6.5438+0.8 million people, stationed in the capital and the northwest towns of Beijing respectively, which played an important role in defending the Tang Dynasty and pacifying local unrest. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, after being attacked by the Huang Chao Uprising Army and punished by Zhu Wen, the whole army was wiped out and eventually dissolved.

Extended data

Military system in Tang dynasty;

In the early Tang dynasty, the army followed the "officer system". On the basis of the farmers' land equalization system, 634 military offices will be established in all provinces, prefectures and counties in the world, collectively known as passbook houses, which are divided into upper, middle and lower levels according to the size of the establishment. The chief administrative officer is the surname (level 4), and the deputy chief administrative officer is the left and right. The regiment consists of a regiment (also known as a battalion), an officer, a captain and a team. Five teams in each battalion, three teams in each team, five captains in each team and ten captains in each team. Battalion is the basic unit.

According to the functions and equipment of the service, it can also be divided into base, chariot riding, shooting, leaping riding, stepping and long water. The official ranks of its subordinate officials are: don't drive, long history, six Cao Wei, and join the army. In charge of the garrison and military households in various places, the government is divided into three levels according to the scale. Military service takes turns five times a year, about 1, 000-4000 people. At its peak, there were more than 600 governments and more than 700,000 soldiers. Keep one-third in service all the year round.

Sixteen generals' yamen were set up in the central government to take charge of the world's military horses, that is, left and right guards, left and right guards, left and right guards, left and right guards, and left and right guards. In addition to the left and right guards and the left and right guards, the guards also led more than 300 government soldiers in the customs.

There are basically no generals at the highest level, with the generals in charge of the Guards and the officers of the 16th Guards as the given generals, as well as corps commanders, corps commanders, left and right corps commanders, and clerks, Cang Cao, Bing Cao, Cao Qi and Cao Zhou joining the army. Each guard maintains 25,000-40,000 guards, led by a standing army. The establishment of the grass-roots battalion of the guards is slightly higher than that of the government soldiers, and it is customarily called Wei. Battalion-level officers are mostly brigade commanders, and the chief is Angelababy Lang Jiang, whose rank is higher than that of government soldier Guo Yi. There are about two or three hundred thousand standing army horses. (formerly known as Chang Cong Su Wei, also known as Cong Qi).

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