Lijiazhuang, military academy. Zhang Liao has to say that he has a great talent for military affairs, and it is very difficult for many middle-level officers to learn some staff work, because they need to sum up a lot of data that they think is useful from a large amount of data, and then turn the abstract war into a concrete mathematical model of war. They now have a lot of problems, and if they can solve most of their problems, they feel that this kind of thing is acceptable.

In the Republican Army, staff officers are not ordinary people can serve, first of all, staff officers must have a lot of energy, because they need a lot of details, meticulous processing, and at the same time diligent thinking, unlike commanders, who get some ideas, suggestions, and make choices according to what they need to consider. Staff officers can't, they have to take into account all kinds of situations, and then make specific behaviors to change according to different situations, which is an extremely unbearable situation. Many officers who have been promoted from the bottom of the IRA can hardly bear the pressure of such work, the reason is very simple, they need to think about many, many problems, and there are many problems that they have never encountered before, and even after training, it still takes a lot of energy to do such things, which is obviously not something they can do in such a situation. This is extremely difficult.

Secondly, staff officers need a large amount of knowledge reserves, which requires great learning ability and adaptability, and it is difficult for ordinary officers to adapt to such work.

Finally, staff officers also need to consider problems from a certain macro perspective, and at the same time, they must complete certain decisions in details and bear some pressure. More than 90 percent of the Republican Army officers could not do it, so this determined that there were very few staff officers. Good commanders can be elected, but there are too few good staff officers.

Most of the current staff members of the IRA are just substandard products, and they need many people to accomplish a lot of things, otherwise it will be really difficult for them to complete such a huge plan.

But Zhang Liao is different, he belongs to an outlier, he has good energy, and at the same time has his own unique views on the war, it can be said that he is a person who was born specifically for the war, otherwise he participated in the war, it would be a kind of torture.

Zhang Liao felt very lucky, because Zhang Liao began to feel that he would enter a new height, what is this height, that is, they will enter a new level. To this extent, he began to think about war in more other ways. At the same time, the textbook "Total War" had a great impact on him, and this was the first time that Zhang Liao felt that war is a country's affair, and its economic model will affect the mobilization and combat mode of war.

Shang Wu is now conducted in this way, he knows what kind of impact the general war will bring, a large amount of material mobilization capacity, and various troop mobilization conditions, all of which have a lot to do with the country's comprehensive national strength. But the IRA is currently facing a big problem, that is, its economic mobilization capacity is not very large, and it can even be described as very weak.

If a general war is carried out, the huge consumption of materials and the loss of various troops will drain the economic strength of the entire republican army, which is very detrimental to the unification of the country. In such an atmosphere, Shangwu demanded that the army be able to fight under a wartime economic track, and this mode of warfare was so large that it could not be easily carried out. Because that would mobilize quite a lot of troops to do something like this.

As for peacetime operations, they have decided to drastically reduce their strategic plans and then form various ways to reduce them, so that they will have greater development, and this space for development will be built on a solid economic foundation. And the IRA needs to accumulate such a solid economic foundation. This is the idea of the current operation of the Republican Army. It is also in such a situation. Zhang Liao realized the direction of the future development of the Republican Army, which is a new height, a new height to solve such problems.

Zhang Liao read the relevant military materials hungrily, because these materials will be of great help to him, without such help, many things really cannot be done.

Li Jiazhuang, inside the War Department.

"Don't you think our War Department is a little bloated?" Shang Wu said as he drank boiled water. In this era, there is no coffee, but there is tea, however, people still don't seem to know how tea is used, Shangwu doesn't like tea very much, and naturally no one has improved in this area, for Shangwu, these are just details, details of things. There is no shortage of people enjoying themselves in the IRA-controlled areas, but they don't seem to have risen to a state of enjoyment.

"I guess, what do you mean?" Jia Xu asked Shangwu in confusion.

"There are a lot of staff members in the War Department, and they are busy when they have combat missions, and they are also busy when they are not on combat missions, and there are a lot of personnel, and this is very troublesome for the work of secrecy; if the command headquarters maintains such a large number of personnel to conduct operations, I think our command efficiency may not be too high, and I think we should reorganize the War Department." Shang Wu said.

"I agree to do that, I just don't know how we're going to do it. In addition, there is also a part of the management of government affairs within the War Department. If we were separated, I think we would probably have a lot of divisions. Jia Xu said.

"My initial proposal is to divide the Ministry of Defense, the General Staff, and the Cabinet into departments that deal with other related matters, but at the moment we don't have more of that, and in many places, we have too few people to do that. For example, the Department of Defense, he needs to deal with related logistics, as well as intelligence, and even small-scale combat tasks, which need to meet all kinds of tedious things that we need to deal with, and such things need to be handled by us to get a lot of things done. Shang Wu said.

"And such a department, which is somewhere between politics and the military, must still be a civilian who can calm the discontent of the military leaders, but now it seems that we obviously lack such people, we do not have such people on hand." Shang Wu said.

Jia Xu shook his head, saying that he couldn't do anything about it, after all, such a thing could not be solved at once, Jia Xu was not a matter that could be decided too actively, and he could see the key to some problems. But let Jia Xu himself serve as a minister, he felt that he was still too tired.

"We can take our time, we don't have to rush too much, you know, we have to wait until most of the actual problems are solved before we can solve such a thing." Shang Wu said.

The biggest challenge for the IRA at the moment is to solve the security of the flanks of their advance into the Loop Plain and annex the state. They are making corresponding military adjustments to the annexed states, if there is military chaos at this time, the result can be imagined, and it will even bring great trouble to Amen, they don't want such a problem, after all, such a problem is too difficult for them.

"We also need to set up a cabinet, we have to include all ministers in such a system, and at the same time set up a staff department, to create more and more things for those military leaders to solve such a series of problems, the war department, can no longer meet our more command, and coordination matters." Shang Wu said.

"We can start to make these adjustments now, but it will take some time to get some of these things done." Jia Xu said.

"I personally agree with that, but there are many more things that we have to face as a result." Shang Wu said.

"But at present, for the merger of states, I think, we still need to re-understand the mess of merging states, the current situation is that the merger state army has not left. But the people's hearts have been scattered, the guerrillas, the landlords are strong, and the forces of all sides are intertwined, and the state army is whether we beat them all at once, let them scatter, and cannot exit in an orderly manner, or let them leave safely, and at the same time, how do we bring the whole chaotic state together, this is an extremely difficult thing for us, this is a difficult thing for us to accomplish, if such a thing is difficult to complete, this is a disaster for us. Jia Xu said.

Shang Wu nodded, the problem that Jia Xu considered was very practical, and it was also very clear, and even something that could be solved after it needed to be clearly solved in many cases.

"We seem to have to pay attention to this issue, but do you have any specific opinions?" Shang Wu asked.

"The specific view is that if we can win some of them, we will win over some of the landlords, after all, they can provide us with a stable foundation, they can enter the parliament, and stabilize the local situation, I believe that there are still some landlords who need stability." Jia Xu said.

"As for the guerrillas, we should actively avoid colliding with them, and as for the rest, I personally think that we should focus on attacking, but we should strive for all forces to join, for example, local bandits, and even the integration of some White Polish troops." Jia Xu said.

Shang Wu nodded in agreement with this approach, as it was the best option.