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It does exist, but these 800,000 forbidden troops are all composed of hooligans and have no combat effectiveness.

In the early days of the Song Dynasty, there were indeed 800,000 forbidden troops, and as time went by, there were a large number of empty salaries in the imperial court. In addition, the imperial court has long emphasized literature and light military force, and in the long run, the combat effectiveness of the army can be imagined, and it is normal to defeat the battle.

The Song Dynasty really had 800,000 forbidden troops, but they were distributed all over the country, and the people of the Song Dynasty lived a peaceful life for decades, so they thought that there was no crisis. And it is the strategic mistakes of the rulers that are the most fatal.

During the Song Dynasty, it was impossible to have 800,000 forbidden troops, it was just a kind of army that claimed to have 800,000 forbidden troops, and the forbidden army was just a force to protect the security of the royal family, if there were 800,000 forbidden troops, then other troops would be more, and the Song Dynasty at that time did not have so many troops.

There were indeed 800,000 forbidden troops on the register, but many people reported empty names and military salaries, which were actually only about 100,000, and the forbidden army at that time was already decadent and had no combat effectiveness at all.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, there was indeed a forbidden army, although there were many of them, but the forbidden army was not as strong as imagined, and the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army was very low on the contrary, and it was powerless to resist in the face of the Jin army.

This is mainly related to the policy at that time, the Song Dynasty at that time attached importance to civil officials and did not pay attention to the facial features, and the emperor's constraints on the army were particularly large, so it was difficult for Wang Wang to beat Jin Yuan to a certain extent.

The Song Dynasty (960-1279) was a dynasty in Chinese history that inherited the five dynasties and ten kingdoms of the Qiyuan Dynasty, divided into two stages, the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, with a total of 18 emperors and 319 years of reign. In 960, the Later Zhou generals launched the Chenqiao Mutiny, supported the return of Song Prefecture to the German army, made Zhao Kuangyin the emperor, and established the Song Dynasty. In order to avoid the chaos of the division of the late Tang Dynasty and the dictatorship of the eunuchs, Zhao Kuangyin adopted the policy of emphasizing literature and suppressing the military, strengthened the centralization of power, and deprived the military generals of their military rights.

After Song Taizong succeeded to the throne, he unified the whole country, and Song Zhenzong and the Liao State gradually entered into the world after concluding the alliance of Lingshan Yuan. In 1125, the Jin State invaded the south, resulting in the disgrace of Jingkang and the destruction of the Northern Song Dynasty. King Kang Zhao Gou ascended the throne in Yingtianfu in Nanjing and established the Southern Song Dynasty.

After the peace conference of Shaoxing and the Jin State with the Qinling-Huai River as the boundary, in 1234 the Union and Mongolia destroyed the Jin, in 1235 the Song and Yuan Wars broke out, in 1276 the Yuan Dynasty captured Lin'an, after the Battle of Yashan, the Southern Song Dynasty perished.

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.