There were 800,000 forbidden troops in Tokyo in the Northern Song Dynasty, why couldn t they resist

It is recorded in an article that there were 800,000 forbidden troops in the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, but in the end they still could not resist the Jurchen iron cavalry, and the "shame of Jingkang" is still a pain in the hearts of every Chinese son. The main reason for this situation is that when the Jin people attacked, there were no such many troops in Tokyo at all, and the 800,000 forbidden troops were just a gimmick. And the forbidden army has shrunk so seriously and it is inseparable from Wang Anshi, it is precisely because of Wang Anshi's changes that the forbidden army has a serious deficit, and a large amount of military salaries have gone into the emperor's pocket, without money, then the army will definitely not be able to feed, and without the army, then the face of the Jin people will definitely not be able to beat.

The forbidden army is a ** army established by the Northern Song Dynasty to defend the capital, and he founded this army when Zhao Kuangyin established the Northern Song Dynasty. In order to prevent future generations from repeating the mistakes of the Five Dynasties period, Zhao Kuangyin implemented a strict selection system when forming the forbidden army, which made the actual combat ability of the forbidden army particularly strong. But as time passed, the emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty gradually gave up this cumbersome selection system, as long as they were in good shape.

Without restraint, the number of forbidden troops soared, reaching a staggering 820,000 by the time of Song Renzong. <>

Since there was really a so-called 800,000 forbidden army during the Northern Song Dynasty, the question arises as to why such a large number of troops could not withstand the Jin State, which was far inferior in number to itself. Through the analysis of historical books, the main reason why the Northern Song Dynasty lost was because during the reign of Song Huizong, the number of troops in Tokyo had been seriously reduced, and there was no so-called 800,000 forbidden army. When the Jin people attacked, the number of forbidden troops in the capital was very small, and they had little combat effectiveness, and they had no resistance in the face of the menacing Jin people.

The reason why the forbidden army of the Northern Song Dynasty shrank so seriously was mainly related to Wang Anshi's changes, Wang Anshi took most of the military salary originally used for the army through a series of measures and put it into the emperor's pocket. Without the military salary as a guarantee, the country simply could not afford to support so many forbidden troops, so unconsciously, the number of forbidden troops became smaller and smaller. Coupled with the perennial laziness of the soldiers, it is not a strange thing to lose to the Jin people in the end.

Because there was no such a huge army at all, the situation of the Northern Song Dynasty army eating empty salaries was particularly serious, and the establishment was not full at any time, and many army establishments were replaced by militiamen, and there was no combat effectiveness at all.

Because the DPRK and China were divided into two factions at that time, one faction was to seek peace, and the other faction was to go to war, so the Northern Song Dynasty was not very united at that time, which was also an important reason why the Northern Song Dynasty could not resist the Jin people.

This is just a trap of the Northern Song Dynasty, in fact, the Northern Song Dynasty did not have 800,000 troops, just to attract the 150,000 troops of the Jin State, and then break through it in one fell swoop.

This is because the military strength of the Northern Song Dynasty was relatively weak, and it was related to the emperor's rule, because the emperor was mediocre and incompetent, so this situation occurred.

Yes, after Song Renzong succeeded to the throne, the army of the Northern Song Dynasty at that time had 1,259,000 people, including 826,000 soldiers and horses, and 826,000 infantry troops, which is the origin of the 800,000 forbidden army; It is because after Wang Anshi changed the law, in order to save military spending, the Jin army was cut, and the Northern Song Dynasty army was popular in the empty salary and false reporting of the number of people, which led to the huge amount of water in the later recitation of the number of forbidden troops, plus the Song Dynasty conscripts were all ruffians and hooligans, scoundrels in the market, and even hungry people and criminals.

It's real, but these people can't. Because these people lack combat experience, they can't beat each other without rigorous training.

It really exists, because the leader of the forbidden army is very unreliable, and Gao Yu is very suitable for playing Keju, but leading the forbidden army is not qualified.

Haven't the short-sighted, stupid, and untrustworthy Jin people been wiped out?

Because the 800,000 forbidden army is useless, without any strength, it is just a show, and it is useless in front of the Jin State.

Because there were no generals who dared to come forward in the Northern Song Dynasty, all the generals who dared to come forward were killed, and the so-called 800,000 forbidden troops were actually very few, and they were all old, weak, sick and disabled.

Lin Chong, the head of the leopard, is very familiar to everyone, before going to Liangshan, he was the head of the 800,000 forbidden army of the Song Dynasty, and he can be regarded as a senior executive. In fact, the number of soldiers in the Song Dynasty was very large, and there were several feats of disarmament in the Song Dynasty, from which it can be seen that the number of troops is really huge. But here's the problem, there are so many forbidden troops, when the Jin State attacked the Song Dynasty, they all went to **?

Here, we must first clarify a problem: in the Song Dynasty, the forbidden army and the imperial forest army were not a system, and they were not the same thing. **This part is mainly responsible for the security of the imperial capital and the safety and stability of the royal family, and most of the local forbidden troops have to run around to participate in the battle, as if to say so, when the Jin State attacks, the forbidden army will have a reason:

Then we will still be fighting bloody outside, and we are not in the capital, how can we help?

Some scholars believe that although the forbidden army is numerous, but the quality is really not good, the training mainly depends on fooling, strict discipline or anything has nothing to do with the forbidden army, the ordinary people fight the forbidden army as if they are playing, there is almost no combat effectiveness, to put it bluntly, it is also the role of sending people to the battlefield.

Another way to say it was when the Song Dynasty called it a corruption! From the court to the people, the atmosphere has long been broken, and the army naturally can't escape, and the Jin soldiers attack on this point, otherwise they wouldn't dare to be so presumptuous!

How was the forbidden army slapped in the face later?

Jin Bing said that we will first have a small group of people and try the water, and as a result, hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops have become dead souls under the sword, not because the combat power of Jin Bing is too high, but because the forbidden army is too weak! When the Jin soldiers crossed the Yellow River, it was like entering a no-man's land, and the forbidden army became an audience in a blink of an eye, watching the Jin soldiers enter the imperial capital, although there were still a large number of forbidden troops outside who did not come, but it is estimated that the result is the same, I am afraid that the rout is inevitable.

I thought that there were many people, even if they used crowd tactics, they could drive the Jin soldiers back to their hometowns, but one was not careful, and the Song Dynasty became a defeated country, the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty was really not flattering, coupled with the various contradictions within the Song Dynasty at that time, the faces of the hundred officials and the heart were not in harmony, the main and faction did not know how many times more than the main battle faction, and those who had courage and strategy were almost squeezed out, political corruption, economic backwardness, I am sorry for you if you don't fight!

In this way, 1127 became the last year of the Song Dynasty, and the Jin soldiers only paid an unexpected price to force the Song Dynasty to beg for mercy and peace, lose money, cut land, and give people, the same can not be less, and in the end it failed to keep the country, and the strength of the army was actually dragged down by the inaction of the imperial court, otherwise how could there be a Liangshan uprising? A hopelessly corrupt dynasty naturally cannot last long, even if there are many armies, it is in vain, defeat may not be the original intention of the forbidden army, but the result cannot be changed, this is a historical failure, but also a shame for the Song Dynasty.

At the time of Jingkang's disgrace, the Song Dynasty Emperor Huiqin Erzong ordered that the forbidden army should not be allowed to act rashly, hoping to solve the problem by peaceful means, so the Song Dynasty army at that time did not act.

Because there were not so many forbidden troops at that time, in addition, the 800,000 forbidden troops were written in the Water Margin, and the Water Margin was only **, how could there really be 800,000, and the real history recorded that there were only 200,000 at that time.

Qin Hui didn't let it, Qin Hui was in power there, and the forbidden army was like his private army, he was reluctant to go into battle to kill the enemy, he just wanted these forbidden troops to protect themselves and fight for more power for themselves.