Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - Were there special names for infantry, cavalry, and archers in the Jin dynasty

Were there special names for infantry, cavalry, and archers in the Jin dynasty

The Jin Dynasty in the female real tribe within the implementation of the military and administrative system is the fierce An Mouke system. Jin Taizu, unified provisions of three hundred households for a Mouke, Mouke that is the centurion; ten Mouke for a fierce An, fierce An that is the thousand chief. Mangan, Mouke is both the administrator, but also the military chief. Jin Xizong unification of the national administrative division, still retains the fierce An Mouke as a female true local regional organization, so that it has become a military, economic, administrative trinity of feudalization of grass-roots organizations.

"Jin Shi - soldiers" record of the beginning of the female real, "its minister said Marco Sumire, line of battle is said to be fierce An, Mouk, from its more or less than the number. Mangan, a thousand long; seeker, a hundred long also". They are the late primitive society due to the need for plundering, hunting and military leaders, and then developed into a fixed military organization, fierce An Mouke as the military establishment unit, the number of people actually more or less indeterminate.

The Jin army can be roughly divided into the army of the clan, the army of other clans, the state and county soldiers and the army of the vassal state. The first two are the main force, and the latter two are the auxiliary wings. Jin army also to cavalry, infantry second. Cavalrymen had many horses per soldier and were accustomed to wearing heavy armor. --- Ancient military knowledge.