Research On Songshenzong's Military Idea

From 1067 to 1085 was the period of Song Shen zong reigned when a series of enhance national strength was executed in order to resolve the "San wasting", "more poor" and "more weak".The target of SongShenzong was revenge and wanted to set up the prestige of Song and resolved the military pressure of Liao and Xixia. He also wanted to complete Song Taizu's strategy of "from south to North". The center of Shenzong's military idea was to broaden territory and enhance the army's combat effectiveness.In order to achieve the goal, Song Shenzong had drawn up a military strategy of "from West to North " at the Northern area, hoping to break off Xixia's army by assaulting Xihe. and then attack Xixia. After occupation of Xixia, he wanted to send troops to Liao dynasty, then to regain the places of You yun. At the same time, in order to end the rebellion of Jimi counties, Song Shenzong also wanted to dominate the counties directly, therefore, he launched a number of the wars at Jinghu. Sichuan, Guang Nan and other places. In the South. Song Shenzong also developed the military strategy of hoping to regain Jiaozhi. However, to this series of military targets. Shenzong was lack of co-ordinate policy, and waged wars from all the sides. All of these phenomenon, which unfit Song's social reality of "poor" and "weak", increased Song's military and economic pressure. with the exception of Xihe war, most of the wars ended in failure of Song. However, such strategic thinking of Shenzong lasted in the late Northern Song Dynasty and had affected Song Zhezong and Song Qinzong.Song Shenzong implemented a series of acts to strengthen the combat effectiveness of Song. Song Shenzong did not rigidly adhere to a long-term strategy that Wenchen led the army, but appoint of generals bravely. Of course, the strategy, which had a positive meaning to military system of Song Dynasty, can explore a wide range of talents. But Song Shenzong ignored to regulate internal contradictions between generals. So as to resolve the problem of redundant soldiers. Song Shenzong made the policy of downsizing and restructuring, and carried out the policy of Bao Jia for achieving the purpose of all the people were soldiers. Besides, Shenzong reformed the Acts of weapons production and purchase of horses. To a certain extent, all the thoughts of Song Shenzong enhanced the combat effectiveness of the Song's military.However, in the period of Xi Feng. Song Shenzong did not achieve even greater success in the military. This was caused by a variety of reasons, first of all, the social reality of being "poor"and "weak" restricted to improve combat effectiveness of the Song's army in the short term. The second. Song Shenzong did not send the right generals and paid no attention to coordinate the conflicts between generals. Moreover, Song's army was lack of a comprehensive and rational military act. All of the above limited to play the greatest degree of Song's military power.