Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms period refers to the country led by Cao Cao, one of the separatist regimes in the Three Kingdoms period, and it is also the most powerful country in the Three Kingdoms. Later historians often called Cao Wei, and since the later Northern Wei was called "the post-Wei", Cao Wei was also called "the pre-Wei" or "the pre-Wei". Cao Wei was the earliest country established in the Three Kingdoms period, with the strongest military strength, and had its own set of management methods for military management. So, what was the military system of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period? Let's have a look.
During the Three Kingdoms period, the military system of Cao Wei was divided into power organs, central army and local army.
The first is the power organ: The Three Kingdoms is a period of war, and the army has brought everything to a great extent, so often the people with the highest power directly control the power of the army. Therefore, the supreme military commander of Wei has always been the highest authority of the country. For example, in Cao Cao's era, his generals, shogunate, Xiangfu and Wang Fu had always been institutions with complete military and political power, with himself as the supreme commander. It has successively set up positions in charge of military affairs, such as commanding, protecting the army, offering wine strategist and Sima. In the era of Cao Pi, because he had proclaimed himself emperor, he appointed the imperial clan minister as the general in charge of military affairs. Such as Xia Houdun, Coss and later Cao Shuang. There are generals and officials of the captaincy's warships out there leading troops to fight.
Followed by the central army: Wei's central army is divided into the central army and the garrison troops stationed abroad, all of which are under the jurisdiction of the ministers appointed as generals, Fu and other domestic and foreign military officials.
Zhong Jun: This part of the army is stationed in the capital, and it is the elite of the national army, which was developed by Cao Cao's pro-army butch riding. As the imperial army, this unit is responsible for the defense and accommodation of the capital; But also the strategic mobile force of the whole country and the main force to go out to fight. It is equipped with a China leader and a China Protection Army as its commander-in-chief. It is divided into five battalions: Tachileik, Zhong Ling, Hu Zhong, Zhong Jian and Zhong Lei. Among them, Wu was in charge of the imperial guard, and its early leader was the tiger general. In addition, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the five school battalions of the North Army, such as Changshui and Tunqi, were still nominally retained, but only governed hundreds of people.
Garrison abroad: it is also directly controlled by the imperial court, but it is stationed in other places for the needs of war. There was a dispute between the three countries at that time. In order to guard against ethnic minorities in the north, Wei stationed heavy troops in various border States, appointed generals as commanders, and awarded them to generals such as Zheng, Zhen, Ping and An. Such as Coss and Zhang Liao. In order to avoid the power conflict between these generals and the state and county pastoralists, they developed into a combination of civil and military affairs, or the state and county pastoralists and generals were combined into one, or the generals of other towns held the post of guarding Mu Zhi. This system became more and more common in the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, which led to frequent rebellions by generals who had mastered military power for hundreds of years. It was not until the Song Dynasty that fundamental reforms were carried out. But it also became one of the reasons for the low combat effectiveness of the army in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Local Army: At that time, there were many shepherds all over the country, and some troops were recruited by some counties. Wei also implemented the guest-giving system, and some people turned the wasteland households into a trilogy. In addition, local officials and generals are in charge of military power and control the central foreign garrison, which makes local power very strong.
"Military System of Past Dynasties": "In the third year of the Emperor, he was appointed as the full-time commander of the state army, and added the rank of general of four towns, and appointed the general as the commander of Chinese and foreign armies."
The commander-in-chief of Cao Wei's state army is a military chief stationed in various places on behalf of the central government, and leads the central army, which is different from the soldiers in the state and county. The so-called four towns refer to the titles of General Zheng Dong, General Cheung Nam, General Zheng and General Zheng Bei, General Zheng Dong, General Cheung Nam, General Zheng and General Zheng Bei. Except for the title of General Si Ping, these are not fixed military posts, but temporary titles.
From these titles, we can also know that the generals who are in charge of the military affairs of each state represent the central government to conquer and suppress. Chinese and foreign armies, that is, the China army and foreign armies, "put the general in charge of the Chinese and foreign armies", and the general commanded the Central Army of the whole country, and became the supreme military commander of Cao Wei. It was the Cao Wei regime that was established, not the Eastern Han Dynasty. At first, Qiu was still the highest military and political chief. After the general was replaced, the most important power of Qiu was divided up, so the general was "in the position of Qiu"