"Brother Zhang, I want to know how the General Staff System established by King Qi acts." After Lin Fengxiang saw Zhang Yingchen, he asked questions straight to the point.

Zhang Yingchen was stunned, "Why does Brother Lin want to know this?" ”

Lin Fengxiang said very seriously: "The most capable of fighting in our Heavenly Kingdom is the King of Qi, before the King of Qi left the Heavenly Kingdom, I had seen him, and the King of Qi said that he relied on the General Staff System. Now that King Qi is gone, Brother Zhang is the only one in the Kingdom who understands this general staff system, so I also ask Brother Zhang to teach me this general staff system. ”

"Huh!" Zhang Yingchen smiled bitterly, "Does Brother Mo Feilin want the Heavenly Kingdom to implement the General Staff system?" ”

"Well......" was pointed out by Zhang Yingchen, Lin Fengxiang hesitated, but still admitted, "I do have this intention." ”

"Brother Lin, please take a seat!" Zhang Yingchen first invited Lin Fengxiang to sit down, poured tea again, and then began to tell, "All army generals have staff, and the general staff system seems to use a lot of staff, but in fact, it is not. In other people's armies, it is the generals who have the final say, but in the general staff system, the chief of staff is no less powerful than the generals. And the generals are all in charge of the General Staff. If Brother Lin wants to implement the General Staff system in the Kingdom of Heaven, then I'm afraid that no one will listen to you? ”

"Why?" Lin Fengxiang didn't expect Zhang Yingchen to be so pessimistic, he was strange.

Zhang Yingchen sighed, "Brother Lin, the appointment and dismissal of the generals of the various armies under the command of King Qi are all formulated by the staff department at a higher level. Who do you think will listen to this one thing? ”

"Huh?" Lin Fengxiang was stunned, "Brother Zhang, what you said is clearer." I don't get it. ”

Zhang Yingchen thought for a while before continuing: "Brother Lin, for example, the military commander under your direct command, if it is now, whoever you let be the military commander can be the military commander. However, under the General Staff system, the appointment and dismissal of personnel is a matter for the chief of staff at the same level as you. In the General Staff, there is the Personnel Department at the highest level, and the Personnel Section at the lower level. They are in charge of the appointment and dismissal of personnel. Even if you are strong enough, the General Staff will not dare to disobey you. But the General Staff has another trick, they pick out people for you to choose. They may not be willing to pick the person you want to choose. ”

Now Lin Fengxiang finally understood, it turned out that the General Staff had a higher status than the supervising army. There are also prison troops in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but the supervisors have great authority, but they are easily restrained by the local lords. Once the General Staff was saved, the General Staff divided the authority of the generals.

Even so, Lin Fengxiang did not give up, and he asked Zhang Yingchen to explain in detail the composition of the General Staff. Although Lin Fengxiang is also a well-informed hero, the more he listens, the more frightened he becomes.

The General Staff established by Weeser was a vertical system, and the General Staff was not at all constrained by the generals. Personnel power, command power, logistics supply, the General Staff is a handful of grasps. Not only do the generals not have access to the General Staff, but the generals themselves are under the jurisdiction of the General Staff. Every once in a while, the General Staff has to carry out personnel transfers. The generals returned to the military academies run by the General Staff to study, and were subject to the General Staff's examination of their work during this period. According to the audit, the generals will be assigned to work in the general staff, and they will be the staff officers first. Some of the staff officers who were recognized by the General Staff served as generals of the same rank.

After listening to this, Lin Fengxiang understood why Zhang Yingchen was so pessimistic about the implementation of the General Staff system in the Taiping Army. Not to mention anything else, Yiwang Shi Dakai will definitely not accept the management of the General Staff. If the Kingdom of Heaven had built a general staff system, Shi Dakai would have lost his command over the army.

But Lin Fengxiang still didn't give up, he asked: "Why can King Qi use the General Staff and still win the battle?" ”

"King Qi...... hehe...... Zhang Yingchen suddenly laughed, "Brother Lin, the General Staff is not a supervising army, he is a whole set of things that our heavenly kingdom may not be willing to accept." ”

Lin Fengxiang no longer dared to underestimate Zhang Yingchen in the slightest, he said seriously: "Please inform Brother Zhang!" ”

Zhang Yingchen explained to Lin Fengxiang how Wei Ze established a complete set of general staff system, and in terms of culture, physical fitness, medical care, and logistics, Wei Ze did rely on his position in the army that no one dared to disobey to start implementing the general staff system, but every system proposed by Wei Ze has proved its effectiveness in practice.

For example, Wei Changrong, as Wei Ze's own nephew, is a real "national emperor" in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. However, Wei Changrong's influence in the army was established by his appointment as the chief of the combat training department, on the various trainings he formulated, and on his almost hand-in-hand teaching everyone knowledge. "Sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in wartime." Such slogans appeared on every training ground, and every soldier involved in the training had to learn to read and write, and in addition to being able to recognize the ten words and two punctuation marks, he also had to understand the meaning of these two sentences.

"Brother Lin, King Qi can conquer everything and be invincible, but it's not a matter of the past two years, since we were in Yong'an, he has started to do this. Now, if you want to implement the general staff system in the kingdom of heaven, and each army must first hand over the military power in its hands, who do you think is willing? It's not that you change the title of a person in your army to a staff officer, this is the system of the General Staff. The General Staff system is a whole set of things. It took Zhang Yingchen nearly two hours to give a preliminary explanation of the General Staff system, and he was exhausted. I didn't want to talk for a while.

The person who speaks is tired enough, and the person who listens is even more tired. In order to be able to keep up with Zhang Yingchen's train of thought, Lin Fengxiang also sold his old life and determined that it was impossible for him to establish a comprehensive general staff system within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Lin Fengxiang asked quite tiredly: "Brother Zhang, what if the general staff system is established in various armies?" Let these staff departments unite ......"

Zhang Yingchen shook his head, "If each army establishes its own staff department, then it is not a general staff system, but only the staff headquarters of each army. In the staff department of King Qi's army, he served as the chief of the general staff, and even if he later let someone else act as the chief of staff, the appointment and dismissal power of the chief of staff was completely in the hands of King Qi. Brother Lin, King Qi entered Tianjing City, and he was able to take away the brother I brought before with an order, precisely because the army's staff was still there. Even if I went to my former brothers at that time, they would only follow King Qi. Because systematically, as long as the East King is gone, the General Staff will only listen to the Chief of the General Staff. Do you think that if there is a nominal general staff above the general staff of each army, all armies will be able to listen to this general staff? ”

Lin Fengxiang repeatedly considered all kinds of things in the General Staff, although there are extremely difficult levels to cross, but the advantages of the General Staff are undoubtedly too great. The training of the troops alone, all kinds of unified training, had already made Lin Fengxiang fully understand why Wei Ze's army could be so strong. The General Staff is not only a system of officers, but also a system that makes it mandatory for officers to change their identities between staff officers and commanders. In addition, through guò training, they are forced to receive training in the latest military ideas and combat techniques. This kind of training is not a gust of wind in the past, but a continuous self-summary, self-education, and self-improvement. Just as Zhang Yingchen said, in the past three years, seven or eight different versions of the manual for marching troops have been launched, and each version has been greatly adjusted, and the results are getting better and better. Lin Fengxiang's time to lead the troops was no shorter than Wei Ze's, and no military training in his troops was professional, let alone standardized.

Thinking of this, Lin Fengxiang said: "Brother Zhang, are you willing to come to me, if you are willing to come, I will definitely entrust you with great power." ”

Seeing Lin Fengxiang's sincere tone, Zhang Yingchen smiled bitterly: "Brother Lin, you are a hero, the staff system I learned from King Qi is indeed useful." Brother Lin, you can afford me, and I should know each other too. However, I, Zhang Yingchen, had bad luck and offended the king of the east and the king of Qi. It stands to reason that I don't have much face to talk about at this point. But at this time, I don't want to lose the face that I didn't have in the first place. Now the king of heaven is willing to use me, dare to use me. I can only follow the path of the king to the dark. Brother Lin, I appreciate your kindness. I can't go to you though. ”

Lin Fengxiang still wanted to regain power, but Zhang Yingchen said: "Brother Lin, it's getting late today, and I'm tired, please go back first!" ”

Seeing that Zhang Yingchen had given an eviction order and understood Zhang Yingchen's position, Lin Fengxiang could only get up and leave. Back at his mansion, Lin Fengxiang lay on the bed tossing and turning. Originally, he thought that the General Staff Headquarters was just a way to summon more staff members and make more effective use of them to enhance combat effectiveness, but he never expected that this would be a completely new model for organizing the army. The superiority of this model naturally does not need to be argued, Wei Ze actually did not have many Guangxi brothers, but Wei Ze soon became the most brave and good at fighting among the armies. Lin Fengxiang decided not only to implement this system in his own troops, but also to try his best to implement this system in the army in Anhui and even Yangzhou.

Zhang Yingchen is right, such a system will indeed eventually lead to a unified military command organization that completely dominates the situation. If the central government of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could not implement this system in the short term, then Lin Fengxiang would first establish a general staff system to unify Anhui and unify the command of the army corps north of the Yangtze River. And looking at Zhang Yingchen's troops, he must have implemented this system in his own troops. On that day, after the two armies in Beijing and north of the Yangtze River implemented the general staff system, there was still a great chance of merging.

If Lin Fengxiang can obtain the combat effectiveness of Wei Ze through the guò system, he still has a great chance of gradually gaining the command of other armies when other troops are in trouble. Wei Ze raised his arms and shouted, he could take away tens of thousands of troops, and this example made Lin Fengxiang see the power of the General Staff.

In the next two days, representatives of the old brothers from all over the country arrived in Tianjing City one after another. Lin Qirong on the Jiujiang side sent not only a representative, but also a person asking for help. Zeng Guofan carried out a comprehensive siege war against Jiujiang, and although he could not break the defense system of Jiujiang City, he was able to block the supply of grain and grass in Jiujiang City. Shi Dakai was always unwilling to fight a decisive battle with Zeng Guofan's Hunan army and break the encirclement outside Jiujiang City. Lin Qirong had no other way than to ask Tianjing City for help.

Soon, the brothers all asked the Winged King to rule over the affairs of the kingdom of heaven. Hong Xiuquan's gaze fell on Lin Fengxiang.

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