Miyun County is still a small remote county town, located in the mountains and hills of Yanshan in the north of the capital. More than 20 miles north of the county seat, it is still a depression surrounded by mountains, the waterlogging is serious, and few people care about it, so after the farm of the unified investigation office is completed, it is okay to send a hand tie of the big housekeeper of the Qing Wangye's mansion to the county magistrate, and there are few families in the county who care, only the private residence of the powerful in the capital. Of course, the Miyun Reservoir has not yet been built (the reservoir was completed in September 1960. It covers an area of 180 square kilometers and has 200 kilometers around the Miyun Reservoir. With a capacity of 4 billion cubic meters and an average depth of 30 meters, the reservoir is the largest and only source of drinking water in the capital Beijing. The White River and the Chaohe River in Miyun also often flooded, and it became the flood storage area of the two rivers, the water resources were very abundant, and the rice and lotus root grown in the farm were quite popular in the capital, and then for a long time, the Miyun white lotus root became a major specialty of Miyun County.

However, no one could have imagined that an important meeting was being held in a study room in this farm to determine the future direction of the Chinese army, and the attendees were naturally the leaders of the Wuyi New Army. Decades after the founding of the People's Republic of China, these generals vaguely mentioned such a meeting in their memoirs, which determined the group combat mode and the echelon building system of the National Defense Force, making the Chinese army the first army in the world to consciously carry out three-dimensional coordinated operations, and also laying a theoretical foundation for the future National Defense Army's elite line and 10 million reserve army plan. However, these are the conclusions of future historians, and the generals here today do not have this awareness, but they feel that the boss seems to have a new idea, and it seems that there will be busy work in the future (of course, for the brothers of the Wuyi New Army, life is a toss).

Wu Chenxuan stood up and continued: "Under the guidance of this tactical theory, our town regiment tactics and company and platoon tactics should pay attention to the coordination and cooperation of all arms of the armed forces, and individual tactics should pay attention to group cooperation, information communication, and attention to preserving vital forces, instead of overemphasizing the 'spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice and forging ahead.'" ”

"How does this work?" He Laoba said without thinking about it: "If the soldiers don't pay attention to moving forward bravely, then how can they win the battle!" ”

"It's not that the soldiers aren't brave!" Wu Chenxuan said: "Of course, you must be brave when you are a soldier in battle, but bravery does not mean that you have to be brutal, only by preserving yourself can you better destroy the enemy, since you have the conditions to solve the problem with shells and bullets, don't use human lives to fight." ”

He Laoba couldn't help but be stunned, he always felt that it was wrong not to talk about the indomitable spirit, but now it seems to make sense from the perspective of the general seat, they are all flesh and blood born and raised by their parents, and it is not right to let anyone's children go to death, since they can save themselves by cooperating to destroy the enemy, why bother to play with their lives.

As a matter of fact, group operations in the modern sense are far more than a few arms of the armed forces, such as foot, artillery, cavalry, and flight, but also include new arms of the armed forces that have not yet come out, such as mechanized infantry, air defense and chemical defense, and electronic warfare. Moreover, in the future, it will not only be a multi-arm coordinated operation of the army, but will develop to the point where the navy, land, air force, and space are integrated. Of course, the current Wuyi New Army Air Force is still in its embryonic form, the Navy is simply blank, the Sky Force is still just a legend, and now even the coordination of the various arms of the Army has not been done well, and it is meaningless to think about all-round three-dimensional coordinated operations of the sea, land, air, and space, so what we should do now is to take the first step.

"But what about this first step?" Wu Chenxuan asked himself and said: "First of all, it is necessary to improve and improve the accountability system of commanders, and soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty, but they can never be squandered with soldiers' lives. If the commanders cannot accept this theory of coordination and still take the glory of brute force and fierce charge, then we must never tolerate it, and whoever wastes the life of a soldier will be punished by military law. ”

"Hmm!" Now everyone nodded, they are all people who lead the troops, if the soldiers are killed and injured because of their blind command, then it should also be military law.

"Secondly!" Wu Chenxuan continued: "We can start with the grass-roots units on a trial basis, for example, we can reduce the current standard (regimental) level establishment and change it to three to four infantry companies, an artillery company, a cavalry company, a baggage company, and an engineer company, and then let this mixed regiment carry out all kinds of training, exercises, and even actual combat. After discovering a problem, we will find a way to solve it, and after a long time, we will sum up the experience after all, and wait until the mixed regiment is relatively mature and has formed combat effectiveness, or after the combat effectiveness has been recognized and determined that this tactic is feasible, and then this tactic will be extended to all towns. ”

Wu Chenxuan knew one thing very clearly, that is, although the mixed regiment mentioned now is very similar to the composite troops of later generations in terms of establishment and other aspects, in fact, there is an essential difference, because it is only the existing coordinated operation of various arms of the armed forces, and without the participation of mechanized troops and army aviation, the assault strength cannot be fundamentally reflected. Although Wu Chenxuan, a modern person, knows that the army will develop in this direction in the future, the equipment conditions of this era do not allow it, and these officers and men may not have such a consciousness now, so it is better to take it step by step and be half a step ahead.

Moreover, the change of tactics is a big issue, and it is a big issue that has a bearing on the direction of the combat training of the entire army. Such a problem cannot be comprehensively promoted by Wu Chenxuan by talking about it or writing a theory on paper and making arguments, first of all, we must do the work of these generals, and secondly, we must have a real army and convincing combat effectiveness to be convincing.

"Why do you need an engineer unit?" Xiao Mingfeng couldn't help but ask when he heard Wu Chenxuan's plan: "Didn't you say that the infantry and artillery flew together?" ”

General Staff Officer Duan nodded at me and explained to me: "The troops still need to clear mines, build bridges, build fortifications and other work in actual combat, especially the artillery troops. ”

As a person who has seen the history of military development in the next hundred years, it is not surprising that Wu Chenxuan will understand this, but Duan Zhiquan is also so clear about this, which makes Wu Chenxuan can't help but be very proud of his vision, and I believe that Duan Zhiquan already has a considerable degree of understanding of this military reform.

But it's normal to think about it, if General Staff Duan is as confused and ignorant as other generals, then how can he clearly agree with this kind of reform at the meeting? It seems that after the concept of the base, Duan Zhiquan has adapted to the mode of multi-arm cooperative operations on the battlefield in the future, and from him, Wu Chenxuan found that he could not underestimate the receptivity of the generals of this era.

Later, Wu Chenxuan learned that the reason why General Staff Duan unconditionally supported his change was because he believed that Wu Chenxuan was not a person of this era in the first place, and he would not bring the new army of Wuyi into the ditch with the cheating weapon.

In the end, in order to persuade these generals to implement the idea of group cooperation, Wu Chenxuan took out his magic weapon - movie video, of course, it is the masterpiece of Du Niang's classmates. Through the editing of the military education films of later generations, coupled with an animation that simulates the joint operation of multiple arms, although the black and white film and asynchronous audio make the overall effect inferior to the quality of the home DV work, but the whole movie still makes the generals constantly gasp. It's okay to let these guys who think they are the strongest army in the Qing Dynasty pour some cold water and calm down through this kind of blockbuster.

"Xingcheng, you said that the imperial court's rise and fall this time is so obvious, do you also mean to attack my Beiyang." In the villa in Wudaokou, Tianjin, Yuan Datou was eating duck, and it was Yang Shiqi and Yang Damou who had breakfast with him. Recently, Xu Juren was transferred to the Ministry of Posts and Communications and left Tianjin, and Yang Shiqi became even more comfortable.

"It is inevitable that the court is not conducive to adults. After all, now Lafayette is probably difficult to govern, and the literati of the royalist party are still advocating the return of power to the monarch, and they don't know what is dead or alive. "Yang Shiqi looked down on the royalists very much, and later he didn't deal with Liang Qichao." Now dealing with Wu Chenxuan is picking soft persimmons and pinching, planning to break them one by one, and clean up all the Hanchen who can command the army in the court, this is probably Lafayette's last wish. ”

"Yes, the Queen Mother is also one of the few people who understands, if it weren't for the day and the year, she wouldn't have moved my little brother so much." Yuan Shikai put down the dishes and chopsticks and took a sip of tea with satisfaction, "But since Wu Chenxuan is in front of the knife, we don't have to fall into the ground." Explain the control of the towns in Beiyang, and they have all been restrained recently, and there must be no conflict with the Manchurians. ”

"Yes, sir." Yang Shiqi took the order and turned to leave, but when he walked to the door, he suddenly remembered a question: "Ming Gong, do you want me to probe on Hurd's side." ”

"No need, Heard and I are old friends." Yuan Shikai said with a smile, "The character of the English people is like that of a businessman, and they can't afford to be early. Don't worry about them at all. As long as we continue to recognize the interests of their British Empire, there is nothing to be afraid of. Yuan Shikai picked his teeth, and suddenly frowned and said: "It's Rizhiyi, where do you need to explore the direction of the wind, and the little nose is the most willing to mix with other people's things." ”

"Yes, sir." Yang Shiqi left the restaurant, Yuan Shikai was drinking tea alone, looking at the Colt double-barreled * shotgun from the United States sent by Wu Chenxuan last year hanging on the wall, reaching out to take off the gun, stroking the classical pattern on the gun, Yuan Shikai muttered to himself, "Brother, I didn't expect that this time my brother would witness you survive this catastrophe with his own eyes, it depends on whether it is a dragon or a worm." ”