At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the military composition and military generals were set up in an orderly military system
The Ming army was mainly composed of three major divisions: the Guards Army, the Border Guards and the Beijing Battalion, which were mainly responsible for the defense of the whole country; Border guards are stationed in nine major cities and are responsible for border defense, while the Kyo camp is stationed in and around the capital and is responsible for the security of the capital. The military organization of the Ming Dynasty was actually based on the guard system, while the Beijing camp and the border army evolved from the guard system, which was actually an adaptation of the local guard station.
Clinic. The Great Wall Guards were an important armed force in the Ming Dynasty, and their highest command body was the Commander of the Five Armies. It consists of the General Military Office, the Command Department, the Celebrant and the Guard Division, and has jurisdiction over the five armies, 1,000 households, 100 households, general camps, small battalions and other units, with a total strength of 5,600 people.
1. The Five Military Offices: That is, the five military offices are set up in the center, left, right, first and last, to manage the Beijing division and local health posts. Each province has a left and right governor, first-class; Knowledge, first-class; Both are commanding envoys, second class. The five officers are the judges of the military chief's lawsuit. None of the above positions have permanent official positions.
Second Command (Executive Command): a second-level command; two secondary commands; Four ** commands.
3. Wei: It has jurisdiction over 5,000 households and a total of 5,600 people. There are 1 third-class commander, 2 third-class commanders, 1 fourth-class deputy commander, and 2 fifth-class town clerks.
4.1,100 households: located in major counties and districts, responsible for 10 1,120 offices. There is one governor of Wupin, two county magistrates of Wupin, and two judges of Liupin City.
500th Regiment: in military fortifications and districts, subordinate to two general staffs, a total of 112 people.
6th General Battalion: 5 small battalions with a total of 50 people. A seven-pin flag.
A seventh-level small flag.
Border guards. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, there were nine race kings who ruled the Monan Guard. After Yongle, the Monan Guard was gradually revoked or relocated, and after Hongxi, nine border towns of Liaodong, Jizhou, Xuanfu, Datong, Shanxi, Yansui, Ningxia, Guyuan, and Gansu were established. During the Ming Dynasty, these nine border towns were important garrisons for front-line defense units and Mongol outposts.
In the second year of Hongwu (1369), the establishment of the rank of general, usually lord or local governor, began to be established, with no fixed position or title. In February of the first year of Hongxi (1425), the general seals began to be issued to frontier generals, four of whom were soldiers and four were generals in charge of the frontier army, but did not have any official titles or fixed titles. Among them, the generals who guard Jizhen are not allowed to appoint themselves generals and are not allowed to hang seals.
The problem changes when the general becomes the supreme military authority, guarding the space; The generals who exercise it cannot start a war, and the generals who start a war disdain to exercise it, and this increases the combat effectiveness of the army to a certain extent, and the generals have the possibility of dominating and owning the army. Therefore, in the event of war, the imperial court had to send governors who were involved in the management of the army, thus weakening the power of the generals.
In addition, there are adjutant generals, partisan generals, battalion officers, guardsmen, generals and marshals in the border guards, but they do not seem to have corresponding ranks.
Countries. The Ming Dynasty Beijing Battalion, also known as the Three Battalions, consisted of five military battalions, three thousand battalions and the Shenji Battalion, which was the main military force to defend the security inside and outside the capital.
1. Five military camps. The Chinese army is divided into left and right posts and left and right posts, mainly stationed in the guard post and the squad army of Shandong, Henan, and the three Wei Governor's Mansions, and the 12 battalions of the horse team, the straight knife and fork hand battalion and the siege hand battalion of the guard infantry army, and the Minzhuang and Volunteer army battalions of petty officials.
2.Three thousand battalions. Named after three thousand cavalry (actually more), it was divided into five companies and was responsible for managing the emperor's banner, the shrine's **, weapons, golden drums, and imperial treasures.
The third battalion of the Shenji Battalion. The battalion was armed with firearms, named after him, and was also divided into corps, left and right armor and left and right grades. The army was divided into four divisions, each of which was further divided into three divisions, which were responsible for firearms such as muskets and rifles. In addition, 5,000 battalions were responsible for firearms drills and cavalry escorts.
Each of the three barracks has a commander, an officer and a commander in charge of the military horn. Each corps and division has its own officers, generals, sergeants, warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and officers in charge of **.
Nanjing's peculiarity lies in the fact that, as a companion capital, it also has a guardhouse. There lived a second-rank guard chief, a third-rank deputy guard chief, and two third-rank Tongzhi.