The Change Of Military Defense In The Southern Song

Huai Dong(????)was an important part of Jianghuai theater which is one of the three theaters in the Southern Song Dynasty(??),located between the Yangtze River(??)and the Huai River(??).In the early Southern Song Dynasty,it is the main place of the war between Song and Jin Dynasties,so here is the heavily fortified place.After the Long xing peace treaty was signed,Song and Jin Dynasties(???) entered a period of prolonged stalemate.The government worried about the border forces which leadership rendered ineffectual by recalcitrant subordinates and gradually transferred to the Yangtze River,resulting in Chuzhou's troops sharply dropped.In thirteenth Century,the Song,Jin and Mongolia Dynastyies' the strength of the contrast has changed,one important consequence is that a large number of "loyal army" moved to South,gathering in the vicinity of Chuzhou,which leaded to Chuzhou was divorced from the actual reign of Southern Song Dynasty,becoming an "independent fortress" between the Song,Jin and Mongolia.Huai Dong area as the Southern Song military deployment area,Han Shizhong's(???)soldiers mainly stationed and supplemented by the new army and mountain villagers,which military forces constituted the Huai Dong area's defense system.The Southern Song government in order to fully deployed Chuzhou,not only stationed massive forces,but also attaching great attention to the civil such as actively recruiting candidates,implementing the policy of reclamation,building water conservancy projects,which greatly promoted the recovery of agriculture in the Huainan and Huai Bei area,provided a powerful guarantee for the military deployment.Chuzhou also acted as an important role in the protection of Huai Salt,which is the main source of Huai Dong military expenditure.Chuzhou in the early Southern Song Dynasty was repeatedly attacked by Jin Dynasty's soldiers,with Zhao Li(??) stationed in Chuzhou during the battle of the most intense,which reflects the importance of Chuzhou.The late Southern Song Dynasty,government gradually lost control of Chuzhou,which gradually disappeared from the defense system which the Southern Song Dynasty established in the Huainan and Huai Bei area and was actually controlled by northern "loyalty army",becoming the court's regardless of the land.Chuzhou's Wufeng Jun(???)was founded in the early Xiaozong(??)Dynasty,and the purpose was to restore the great cause and long stationed in Chuzhou.With the relaxation of the relationship between Song and Jin Dynasties,government made adjustments to Wufeng Jun,which started scattered into other places.Wufeng Jun as a local army,as it established,there was subordinate relationship uncertainties,soldiers fill the source of chaos,military sources of instability and other issues,end of Xiaozong Dynasty,in order to prevent the leadership rendered ineffectual by recalcitrant subordinates,which moved to Yangzhou stationed.Wufeng Jun was changed from station army into recruited troops,when Chuzhou happened turmoil,which cannot provide enough troops to suppress,resulting in Chuzhou become "Jimi state",at the same time Wufeng Jun also moved towards fading.