"The soldiers will be separated?"

Hua Lao frowned when he heard this and interrupted before Chen Ze could finish his words: "Soldiers and generals have been separated since ancient times. What's wrong?"

"Are they really separated?"

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

"What's the meaning?"

Mr. Hua's frown deepened.

Chen Zedao: "Take Bo'an City as an example. Isn't the city lord Zheng Yuanyun, Master Zheng, training an army of 500,000 in it?"

"Hua Lao is the officer in charge of military aircraft in Bo'an City. I think he will have heard about this matter at least?"

Hua Lao was silent and had no interface.

Although he has not been in charge of much in recent years, the fat shopkeeper will also report all the major and minor matters of the Military Aircraft Department to him, so it is not a blind eye.

He had already heard about the fact that Zheng Yuanyun had been privately training the 500,000 elite soldiers in the barracks, but he had been too lazy 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 privately, but to say how bad it is, it is not actually bad.

After all, no matter how they are trained, the deployment of troops still belongs to the Military Aircraft Department. Once another general comes to borrow troops, the Military Aircraft Department is entirely likely to transfer soldiers with higher training levels to him.

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

Soldiers do not belong to generals but to the empire. This is a rule passed down from ancient times.

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

Even if everyone is defeated and killed, there will still be specialized intelligence personnel who will transmit the information back to the military aircraft for record keeping.

As for training, naturally there are instructors in the barracks who are responsible for it, and of course it is not the generals' turn to worry about it.

So if that's the case, why would Zheng Yuanyun bother to train the 500,000 soldiers alone?

And 500,000 yuan happened to be the maximum amount of troops that a counselor at the rank of general could command.

Hua Lao knew the reason for this.

It involves the issue of separation of soldiers and generals that Chen Ze mentioned.

Naturally, the soldiers who were seconded from the barracks did not always follow their commanders.

Different soldiers have different levels of combat effectiveness due to different levels of training, and their degree of implementation of orders issued by generals is also very different.

Correspondingly, even if the weather, time, location and other aspects of each battle are the same, the quality of the soldiers, that is, the final effect in terms of people and people, is also different.

Often in the same two battles, you can win the first one but lose the second one. This is the reason.

In fact, it is not that everyone is unclear about this. On the contrary, there are many people who have raised objections throughout the ages. Unfortunately, their endings will not be too good.

The empire needs to be stable and does not want to see a situation where the generals support their troops with self-respect.

After all, this world is different from Chen Ze's previous life. It has very relaxed restrictions on military talents and even provides many conveniences.

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 set foot on the battlefield for the rest of your life, the empire will provide you with a generous monthly salary to ensure your safety.

You will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life.

It is conceivable that under this welfare policy, there were so many generals under each of the four empires.

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

But what they don't want to see is that these elite generals they trained begin to disobey the empire's commands as their power gradually grows stronger.

This kind of thing has happened before. The most famous one is the Mulan Rebellion that happened in the Xuanjia Empire hundreds of years ago.

Mulan was the leading general of the Xuanjia Empire at that time, and his rise was very fast. After passing the examination to become a military general, it only took him just ten years to become the youngest general in the history of the Xuanjia Empire.

, the future is limitless.

But Mulan is an extremely ambitious person. He is not satisfied with just following orders from the empire. Instead, he secretly cultivates his own forces, including but not limited to cultivating his own private soldiers and recruiting various outstanding generals.

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

However, this attention has led to a big problem.

Before the Military Aircraft Headquarters had time to report the situation to the empire, Mulan suddenly launched an attack, taking control of the three major provinces of the Xuanjia Empire with lightning speed, and marched at the foot of Xuancang City, the capital of Xuanjia.

That battle was fought in darkness. Just when Xuancang City was about to be defeated, the other two generals of the Xuanjia Empire finally arrived with their armies. After a fierce fight, they finally defeated Mu Lan's army with their numerical superiority.

army and killed him on the spot.

Although the victory was a victory, the price was extremely high. The direct result of Mulan's rebellion was that the Xuanjia Empire lost countless middle- and high-level generals and about 20 million troops.

Even if this kind of loss is magnified to the imperial level, it is extremely traumatic, not to mention that because of Mulan's death, the generals who submitted to him fled to death, so that at least one-third of the country could not be saved.

The effective defense was taken advantage of by the other three empires.

After that battle, the Xuanjia Empire's vitality was severely damaged, and it has not fully recovered to this day, so that it ranks last among the four empires.

This incident not only affected the Xuanjia Empire, it was also used as a negative teaching material in the other three empires and was admonished for hundreds of years. Since then, the separation of soldiers and generals has been regarded as a consolidation by the other empires.

The only magic weapon for self-rule.

Going back to today, it is true that many high-ranking generals are privately training soldiers in the barracks attached to their respective cities, but that does not mean that they have the intention of rebellion, but they just want to have a team that can display their own style in wartime.

, the most powerful army.

As long as they don't have the same self-respect as Mulan did back then, and don't prevent these higher-quality soldiers from being seconded by other generals, the empire will turn a blind eye.

After all, one thing we have to admit is that soldiers who have more opportunities to run in with generals are indeed stronger than those who are temporarily transferred and can play a more effective role on the battlefield.

Private training of elite soldiers does have advantages, but there is a prerequisite, that is, it must not threaten the rule of the empire. In addition, this is a 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, he will not be able to have a large army that can obey his orders in a short period of time like Zheng Yuanyun did.
Chapter completed!