Both the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty were emperors of the old Liu family, but due to the different basic plates and mobilization systems of the two dynasties, the strength of the two dynasties was very different, and the most conservative estimate was that the strength of the Western Han Dynasty was four times that of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The Western Han Dynasty was a dynasty established by the heroes at the end of the Qin Dynasty, and the Eastern Han Dynasty was a dynasty established by powerful landlords, and this difference determined that the military systems of the two dynasties were completely different. Liu Bang's core cadres of the Western Han Dynasty came from his fellow villagers and followers in the Fengpei and Dangjun areas, and everyone was a hero who didn't have much money in the past. Liu Bang rewarded more than 280,000 households to the meritorious group, and also rewarded the soldiers with the title of duke with five horses, two oxen, two ox carts, a set of houses and 500 acres of land.
The Western Han Dynasty rewarded a large number of soldiers with land, and they also had to go to the people of the whole country to serve in the military according to the standard of at least two people in a "family of five" ("no less than two people served"). Adult men in the Western Han Dynasty have to serve in the county for one year after the age of 20 (they have to pay additional taxes in the year they don't go), and serve in the capital and the border for one year, and the Western Han Dynasty can maintain a million-level army all year round. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the number of county soldiers in the Western Han Dynasty was between 420,000 and 700,000. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the southern Lou boat soldiers of the Western Han Dynasty once dispatched more than 200,000 expeditions to South Vietnam, and the Western Han Dynasty also had the ability to "repel 600,000 soldiers to conquer the fields" on the newly seized land in the northwest. The strength of Chang'an, the capital of the Western Han Dynasty, was more than 45,000 guards (commanded by Wei Wei), and tens of thousands of horses and horses in the entire Sanfu region were handed over to the lieutenants. The number of standing troops in the entire Western Han Dynasty definitely exceeded one million, and the cavalry could dispatch up to 240,000 people at a time.
The people of the Western Han Dynasty have crossbow arrows in their homes (this is a rare situation in history), civilians have to practice when they are idle (by the way, they can also hunt), and every autumn the military and political chief of the Western Han Dynasty will also conduct a ** assessment of the people under their management, and the assessment content is the crossbow arrows, and the men of the Western Han Dynasty should use crossbow arrows of six stones to shoot at a distance of 120 steps, and shoot 12 arrows to hit the target with six arrows. The Western Han Dynasty served in the military for the whole people, and the whole people were assessed, and the mobilization ability was very scary.
The Eastern Han Dynasty was completely different, and the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty regime was the Haoqiang of Nanyang and Hebei. Ma Yuan has three elder brothers who have been 2,000 stones, and Ma Yuan himself is also a strong man called by "hundreds" of guests, and the entire Ma Yuan family is one of the best local tyrants in the northwest. Liu Xiu did not complete the inventory of the land in the whole country during his lifetime, and he was not worried about the people in various places, so the Eastern Han Dynasty canceled the capital examination and assessment system in the Western Han Dynasty, and did not carry out the general mobilization of the whole people. Each of the 36 counties of the Eastern Han Dynasty theoretically had 4,000 troops, which was ten times less than that of the Western Han Dynasty. What if there are not enough troops? The policy of the Eastern Han Dynasty is to let the Taishou recruit the ranger swordsmen in the area to join the army, and the Eastern Han Dynasty also has more than 20 subject countries, which can recruit heroes of all ethnic groups to join the army, and the strength of the Eastern Han Dynasty can also reach 300,000.
The strength of Luoyang City in the Eastern Han Dynasty was only more than 10,000 people, Luoyang's Tiger Ben Army had 1,500 people, Yulin Army had 1,700 people, the five battalions had 3,500 people, and the guards and gate guards under the Wei Wei had more than 2,600 people. In addition, the general also has his own troops and men, and the entire Luoyang City is more than 10,000 people, which is only a quarter of Chang'an in the Western Han Dynasty. The Eastern Han Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty had different systems, and the military strength was naturally different, and the Western Han Dynasty's military strength was conservatively estimated to be four times that of the Eastern Han Dynasty.