The Era of Generals

Chapter 207   Intolerable Changes

"The soldiers will be separated?"

Elder Hua frowned when he heard this, and interrupted before Chen Ze finished speaking: "Soldiers and generals have been separated since ancient times, what's wrong?"

"Is it really separated?"

Chen Ze shook his head, "I don't think so?"

"What's the meaning?"

Hua Lao frowned even deeper.

Chen Zedao: "Let's take Bo'an City as an example. The city lord, Mr. Zheng Yuanyun, isn't he training the 500,000 troops in it?"

"Hua Lao is the chief officer of the military aircraft in Bo'an City. I think he has heard about this incident to some extent?"

Elder Hua was silent and had no interface.

Although he has not been in charge these years, the big and small matters of the Military Aircraft Department will be reported to him by the fat shopkeeper, so it is not a blind eye.

He had already heard about the fact that Zheng Yuanyun had been training the half a million elite soldiers in the barracks in private, but he just didn't bother to pay attention to it.

As far as the Military Aircraft Department is concerned, it is not a good thing for generals to train troops in private, but it is not really bad if you want to say how bad it is.

After all, no matter how you train, the deployment of troops is still owned by the Military Aircraft Department. Once other generals come to borrow troops, the Military Aircraft Department may transfer soldiers with higher training levels to him.

In this way, Zheng Yuanyun was making wedding clothes for others.

Soldiers do not belong to the generals but to the empire. This has been a rule since ancient times.

Generals only have command over soldiers during wartime. When the war is over, no matter how many seconded soldiers are left, they need to be returned to the barracks.

Even if everyone dies in a defeated battle, special intelligence personnel will send the information back to the military aircraft for record.

As for the training, there is naturally a coach in charge of the barracks, and of course it is not the generals' turn to worry about it.

So if this is the case, why did Zheng Yuanyun bother to train the 500,000 soldiers alone?

And 500,000, just happened to be stuck in the maximum force that a general-level advisor like him could command.

Hua Lao knew what it was for.

It is related to the separation of soldiers and generals that Chen Ze mentioned.

Naturally, the soldiers seconded from the barracks did not follow him all the time.

Different soldiers, because of their different levels of training, have high or low levels of combat power, and the degree of implementation of the orders issued by the generals is also very different.

Corresponding to this, even if the circumstances of each battle are the same, the quality of the soldiers, that is, the final effect in terms of people and harmony is also different.

Often in the same two battles, the first one was won, but the latter was lost because of this reason.

In fact, everyone is not clear about this point. On the contrary, there are not a few people who have raised objections throughout the ages. Unfortunately, their fate will not be very good.

The empire needs to be stable, and I don't want to see a situation where generals support themselves.

After all, this world is different from Chen Ze's previous life. The restrictions on military talents are relaxed, and many conveniences are even provided.

As long as you have that ability and can pass the assessment to become a military general or counselor, then it is equivalent to having an iron rice bowl. Even if you never step into the battlefield for the rest of your life, the empire will provide you with a considerable salary on a monthly basis to keep you safe. You have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life.

It is conceivable that under this kind of welfare policy, the four major empires have many generals under their respective command.

The more people there are, the higher the probability of cultivating elites will be, which is what the empire is happy to see.

But what they don't want to see is that these elite generals trained by them will start to disobey the command of the empire after their power gradually becomes stronger.

This kind of thing has not happened before, the most famous one is the Mulan rebellion that happened in the Xuanjia Empire hundreds of years ago.

Mu Lan was the leading general in the Xuanjia Empire back then, and her rise was very fast. Since she passed the examination and became a general, it took only ten years to become the youngest general in the history of the Xuanjia Empire. , the future is limitless.

But Mu Lan is a very ambitious person. He is not satisfied with just taking orders from the empire, but is secretly cultivating his own forces, including but not limited to cultivating his own private soldiers and recruiting various outstanding generals.

Due to Mu Lan's own influence, although the Xuanjia Military Aircraft Headquarters at that time was aware of this, they did not dare to offend Mu Lan too much, and just chose to pay attention to it for the time being.

This focus, however, presents a big problem.

Before the Military Aircraft Headquarters had time to report the situation to the empire, Mu Lan made a sudden attack and took control of the three major provinces of the Xuanjia Empire with lightning speed, and approached the city of Xuancang, the capital of Xuanjia.

That battle was fought in darkness, and at the moment when Xuancang City was about to be broken, the other two generals of the Xuanjia Empire finally arrived with a large army. After a fierce fight, they finally defeated Mu Lan's army by virtue of their superiority in numbers. army and killed him on the spot.

Although the victory was a victory, the price was extremely high. As a direct consequence of Mulan's rebellion, the Xuanjia Empire lost countless mid-to-high-ranking generals and about 20 million troops.

Even if this kind of loss is magnified to the empire level, it is extremely traumatic, not to mention that when Mu Lan died, those generals who surrendered to him fled to death, so that at least one-third of the land could not be obtained. The effective defense was divided up by the other three empires.

After that battle, the Xuanjia Empire was severely injured, and it has not fully recovered until today, so that it is the last among the four great empires.

This incident not only affected the Xuanjia Empire, it was also used as a negative lesson for hundreds of years in the other three empires, and since then, the separation of soldiers and generals has been regarded as a consolidation by the major empires. The only magic weapon for self-rule.

Besides, nowadays, there are indeed many high-ranking generals who train soldiers in the attached barracks of their respective cities in private, but it does not mean that they have the intention of rebellion, but just want to have a team that can show their own style in wartime. , the most powerful army.

As long as they don't support themselves like Mu Lan back then, and don't prevent these soldiers with higher quality from being seconded by other generals, the empire will turn a blind eye.

After all, one thing that has to be admitted is that soldiers who have more chances to get in touch with generals are indeed stronger than temporarily transferred soldiers and can play a role on the battlefield.

Privately training elite soldiers does have advantages, but there is a premise that it must not threaten the rule of the empire. In addition, this is the treatment that only high-ranking generals can enjoy.

With Chen Ze's current military rank, even if there is a rapid promotion after handing over the mission, it is impossible for him to have a large army that can obey his orders in a short period of time like Zheng Yuanyun.

This is Chen Ze's ultimate goal.