Chapter 3298 The First Staff Committee of the Great Song Dynasty

The words that the literati talked about together were all ancient languages recorded more than 1,000 years ago, and these ancient languages were called "Jingyi" in the Song Dynasty, which ordinary people could not understand. As soon as Jiang Zhiqi and Wang Shiru left, Cao Yu and Zhang Dunli breathed a sigh of relief. They were relieved, and suddenly heard Zhao Xing's loud sigh----It turns out that this Jinshi is not used to this kind of sour conversation!"

Cao Yu gave a thumbs up and praised: "Xiao Zhao, you are a good person." I originally thought that the disciple of Master Su would babble and talk non-stop when he encountered such a sour Confucian, but I didn't expect it...... You are my stomach

In fact, Cao Yu is not a few years older than Zhao Xing, although Cao Yu is the leader of the hairpin family and the leader of the generals, but his official quality is lower than Zhao Xing, he calls Zhao Xing "Xiao Zhao", which is inappropriate from the officialdom etiquette, but this title shows that the Jiangmen has officially accepted Zhao Xing and regards him as the same kind, so he will not be called by the size of the official product.

Zhao Xing didn't say anything after hearing this compliment, Shuai Fan copied his hand and interjected coldly: "Whether the interpretation of the ancient text is correct or not is not beneficial to the improvement of the army's combat effectiveness, and there is no gain to the revenue of the local finance...... My family would not do such a boring thing, he proposed that Neo-Confucianism was just to guide the development of commerce and trade on Guangnan East Road, and then he left it behind for others to comment.

With that debate, it's better to do something practical and have a cup of tea. Life is short, if I spend my energy debating with Sour Confucianism, how can I have Guangnan today. ”

After that, Shuai Fan clasped his hands and asked Zhao Xing with a straight face: "My lord, the deduction is ready, can we start now?" ”

After Shuai Fan's interruption, Zhao Xing's affectionate words prepared to close the distance could not be spoken, he rolled his eyes, turned around and greeted Cao Yu and Zhang Dunli: "Two horses, the staff officers of our army have prepared some things, and they plan to re-study the strength of the Liao people." The two are here, it is better to go. ”

What is the strength of the Liao State, and what is Zhao Xing's fight in Wuqing, this is also what the two children of the hairpin family want to know the most.

Jiang Zhiqi is a literati, he participated in the war with the army, and although the war report he wrote back was splendid. Extremely good to render, but the two generals couldn't get any "effective information" from it, this kind of information was at a loss to make the little emperor who had just ascended the throne a little at a loss, now, Zhao Xing's invitation was too timely, Cao and Zhang glanced at each other, and replied in unison: "I just want to listen to it, I'm tired!" ”

Shuai Fan glanced at the two generals reluctantly, and Zhao Xing nodded lightly unobtrusively. Shuai Fan had no choice but to have a cold face and led everyone into the house where Zhao Xing borrowed the apartment.

Zhao Xing's house was originally the house where the eldest son of Shunbao Zhai lived. The owner of Shunbao Zhai is in order to welcome Zhao Xing, the captain of the dynasty. specially vacated his eldest son's house to settle Zhao Xing. And Zhao Xing unceremoniously occupied this lobby house. for a few days. It's heavily guarded. Cao and Zhang also entered the hall for the first time. They were stunned by the scene in the hall.

This hall is a small second-floor living room. Now. The hall on the first floor has been vacated. A huge floor table was placed. On the table is a map of mountains and rivers. This river map uses mud, sand and gravel to pile up the entire mountainous terrain of Hebei. Thereinto. Wuqing County. Anci Prefecture is on it. There is also the Xijing Mansion on the Nanjing Road in the Liao Kingdom......

This picture is huge. Fills the entire space on the ground floor. Just in the pitiful gap between the table and the wall. Some staff members with long bamboo poles were erected. These staff members have strange appearances. It seems to be a happy man, a Persian. Only a few of the boys belonged to the Song people.

There is not enough space on the ground floor. Shuai Fan took everyone directly to the second floor. At the escalator in the corridor on the second floor. They are condescending. Looking down at the map placed in the lobby on the first floor. Zhang Dunli vaguely remembers the image of this map. He asked, "This picture is a bit of a calm style." I remember that he used to carve mountains and rivers out of wood. It is made into a wooden chariot diagram. How. Did you switch to sand and gravel for this map? ”

"This is a topographic map of the north bank of the Yellow River. I call it a sandbox diagram. Take a look. But what's wrong with that? Zhao Xingbian said. While observing the sand table in the lobby on the first floor.

Cao Yu grinned: "You are the only one north of the Yellow River who has been there." I can't say anything. ”

Shuai Fan took a long wooden pole from the man's hand, stretched out the stairs, pointed to a few subtleties on the map on the first floor, and said casually: "I have checked most of the terrain, only these few places, the proportion of the width and narrowness of the river, and the proportion of the height of the mountains and rivers are slightly different...... But the general terrain comes out, and this difference may be negligible. ”

Zhao Xingyi waved his hand: "Then let's discuss the rules first." ”

Hearing the word "rules", Cao Yu and Zhang Dunli glanced at each other. Previously, the two of them vaguely heard part of the content of Guangdong Xinxue, which emphasized the establishment of rules and the maintenance of rules. It is said that Zhao Xing said: Before doing anything, we must first set up an outline, establish a rule, and then gradually implement it according to the rules and plan, so as to ensure the realization of the goal.

In recent years, with Zhao Xing's fabulous victory in the south, although the people of Bianliang, Tokyo have their own views on Guangdong Xinxue, but Zhao Xing's reputation for advocating "wisdom" has spread far and wide, and everyone has vaguely heard that Zhao Xing has mastered a "technique of the emperor and the art of governance" called the pinnacle of wisdom--- this legend gradually became clearer with the chapter scrolling away Zhao Xing's "Jingshi Jimin".

Literati have a habit of gossiping, and the more Zhang treats those books as treasures, and tightly seals the news of Zhao Xing's writings, the more everyone can't resist their curiosity. Most of the Song people did not have a sense of secrecy, so the "strict sealing" mentioned in this chapter was just not talked about in public, but he never hid it from his staff, and several close staff members were fortunate enough to turn over the book, and it is said that they all admired the set, thinking that what was said in it opened their own minds. The Song people still have the habit of copying, and several staff members immediately went home to write it down silently after reading Zhao Xing's book, and passed it on to their descendants as a treasure, which was used to teach the children of the clan, and specifically explained that the Cheng clan in Huangzhou rose because of this. As soon as they said so, their friends and relatives continued to transcribe the contents...... As a result, there was a secret topic quietly circulating in the political arena of the Great Song Dynasty---- Zhao Liren's fight was exhausted, and he was invincible in a hundred battles, because of that local reason, and legend has it that this guy learned the art of the emperor. Good at managing forces, good at using the power of heaven and earth, good at using people's hearts......

In the past, this kind of legend was often heard by the disciples of Jiangmen, and Zhang Dunli once asked his brother Zhang Yong privately, but Zhang Yong worked with Zhao Xing. Zhao Xing's set did not appear.

After Zhang Tian returned to Beijing victoriously, he was also subjected to the same cross-examination, and they learned from Zhang Tian's mouth that this book did exist, but the content of it was some financial management methods, which were very capable of inspiring people's intelligence, however, when Zhang Tian was in Guangxi, the local civil affairs were not handled by him. So he didn't get on this book

Zhang Tiandi's answer did not reassure the disciples of Jiangmen, in their opinion, Zhang Tian's guy might be the same as Zhang. I obtained the authenticity of this book, but because the knowledge in it was too terrifying, Zhang Tian kept it secret, and specially kept it to teach his children.

In this case, a few fresh words that Zhao Xing accidentally mentioned immediately made Cao and Zhang prick up their ears---- and then, they watched in amazement as Shuai Fan was dazzled and showed them a complete set of methodologies for dealing with military issues, that is, the legendary "on paper" method......

Cao and Zhang didn't know that what they saw at that time was the "First (Field) Staff Meeting of the Great Song Dynasty". After that, under the vigorous implementation of Cao and Zhang, the staff system was gradually implemented in the forbidden army, and thus extended to the whole army. Therefore, later generations also called the four people who participated in the meeting at that time the "four ancestors of the staff officers".

"Let's first agree that the cavalry is ten times faster than the infantry, do you have any objection to this?" Shuai Fan asked.

"It's not good---- although the cavalry is ten times faster than the infantry in a short sprint, it involves the problem of supply, and the problem of horsepower after a long-distance run...... I think it's best to fold your stat in half: set the cavalry speed to five times that of the infantry. That's a reasonable criterion. Zhao Xing replied.

"So, then for every square that the infantry moves, the cavalry moves five squares, this agreement should be fine?" Shuai Fan waved his hand and ordered a local official to write down this rule.

Hearing the "moving grid", the two generals found that the huge sand table under their feet was full of grids, and the longitude and latitude of the sand table were marked with the heavenly stems and earthly branches.

"We agreed that the ground hit rate of musketeers was 30%, and this data is in line with the actual combat effect. As for the rate of damage to muskets. Let's not mention this. ”

"Yes!" Zhao Xing agreed. When the clerk heard this answer, he immediately wrote it down.

"According to the on-site inspection. Thirty percent of those who were shot with muskets lost the ability to charge, while those who were shot three times basically lost their ability to charge completely. Another set of comparative data believes that those who are hit by an arrow in the body are not enough to make the soldiers lose the ability to charge, and those who are hit by twenty arrows in the body still have a charge**, this data should be no problem", Shuai Fan continued to set.

Zhao Xingyi waved his hand: "I won't talk about the effect of the cannon for the time being---- we are also about to eliminate this kind of artillery, so it is better not to discuss the effect of artillery this time." ”

After this actual combat test, Zhao Xing found that the artillery was not like the legend that "one cannon can hit dozens of miles of erosion", and the marching small cannon could not even penetrate the plank at a distance of 100 meters. As for the muskets, the penetration was even worse. This reminded him of a mystery movie he had watched, in which it was said that the shell could only be loaded normally if it was smaller than the muzzle, but because of this, the shell had to collide in the chamber when the gun was fired, which was the main factor affecting the accuracy of shooting. Moreover, because of this, gunpowder gases can leak through the gap between the shell and the barrel, affecting the thrust of the shell.

It seems that the Spaniards finally figured out a solution: add a wooden wedge to the back of the shell. This greatly improved the ground penetration of the shell, and the bullet was invented by the "copper armor lead bullet", which solved the problem of gunpowder gas leakage. At present, the technical strength of the Quang Nam musket has not yet reached this level, so the power of the shells has not yet increased, and Xing is already planning to go back and update his artillery, so it is recommended that the artillery issue be put aside in this discussion.

"Yes! Well, we'll be confined to the musketeers and the cavalry this time," Shuai Fan agreed, and a happy record officer around him worked hard.

"As for the probability---- we can't completely control the accident, so we might as well use the dice roll to decide! Luck is in the day, and this approximate luck should reflect the actual effect. ”

Shuai Fan thought for a moment and replied: "It is impossible for the dice to be zero, and the army often cancels one of the plans due to unexpected circumstances, in this case, the movement speed of the infantry should be zero...... Never mind. Most often, the infantry was able to complete our tasks as planned.

Let's set only two numbers on the dice this time, zero and one, one means that the plan can be completed as expected, and zero means that there is an accident. ”

Zhao Xing nodded: "Then use three dice, or five dice." When the number of dice is greater than the mean, we think the plan can be completed on time, and vice versa, there is an accident. ”

Shuai Fan nodded in agreement, and discussed some settings with Zhao Xing, Zhao Xing took the long bamboo pole from the hands of the staff, pointed to the sand table diagram, and continued: "Now that the settings are finished, can I add another setting." I have the right to choose a battlefield location, can I choose a preset battlefield by myself? ”

Shuai Fan thought for a moment and replied: "Let the Liao soldiers enter the preset battlefield." That should be another planning, in which the success rate is still to be deduced...... That's it, according to the intelligence gap between the adults and the Liao, I assume that the adults can fight the Liaos on the preset battlefield, but I don't know where the adults choose as the preset battlefield? ”

The bamboo pole in Zhao Xing's hand crossed the sand table map, pointed to several terrains, and said one by one: "We will conduct three deductions today." Two were the places where we had fought, the ferry on the north bank of the Yellow River and the outside of Wuqing City, and the other, please allow me to choose a preset battlefield. ”

Shuai Fan then added: "So, please play the Liao soldiers, and I will play the Song soldiers---- these soldiers are all trained by me, presumably I will be able to give full play to their full efficiency if I replace the command of the adults?" ”

Cao Yu and Zhang Dunli were still a little puzzled when they first came in, but now they suddenly realized. It turned out that Zhao Xing and Shuai Fan were reflecting on that battle, and using this to speculate on the strength of the Liao State, and in the process of display, the two would involuntarily use the previous battle examples, so that the battle on the north shore of the land shrouded in a cloud of fog was completely displayed in front of them.

Not only that, but it is also possible that the two generals know the mistakes and successes of the two on the battlefield......

"Fresh, in the past, Zhao Kuo talked on paper and was ridiculed through the ages. Today, the two of them can reenact that great battle on paper. It's exciting to think about," Cao Yu patted the railing of the staircase on the second floor. I can't help but applaud.

Zhang Dunli suddenly thought of one thing and blurted out: "Li Gonglin and Mi Fu once talked about the anecdote of the brother of the people, and I heard that the brother of the people once declared: everything in the world can be measured; All beauty is measured with a ruler!

It turns out that the setting you just discussed is also intended to use terminology to measure the freshness of the war---- it is really fresh, it is really fresh, and it is amazing that the war can evolve into dry numbers, and you can calculate the victory or defeat of the war on paper. ”

As soon as the words came out, Zhang Dunli suddenly realized what he had said, he jumped up with a bang, and recounted what he had just said with his mouth open: "Can you calculate the victory or defeat of the war on paper?" ”

Cao Yu was also taken aback by this sentence, and he couldn't help but repeat the sentence like a dream: "You can actually calculate the victory or defeat of the war on paper---- the art of war: the temple counts the winner, the more wins and the less the defeat, the temple counts the unwinning, and the more defeats and fewer wins......

The so-called temple calculation in the Art of War turned out to be like this, I used to read the Art of War, and I always thought that this temple calculation was a strategy for living in the land, but it turned out that the real temple calculation turned out to be like this, it turned out to be like this! ”

When he came to his senses, Cao Yu also jumped up and told his own soldiers: "Hurry up, call my clerk...... No, order the attendants to add another layer of sentry outside the door. ”

Zhang Dunli was still confused, and Cao Yu's words of temple calculation made him slap his thigh: "Temple calculation, it turned out to be temple calculation, Sun Tzu's art of war is incomplete, and what people get today is fragments...... Come, send me another layer of sentry, and call my clerk as well. ”

After saying this, Zhang Dunli slapped his chest at Zhao Xing: "Brother Zhao, don't worry, your family has learned about this matter, thank you for looking up to your brother, so that your brother can also hear your family knowledge...... Don't worry, I won't say anything about this today. It's just that the brother is cheeky, and he will also call to record a copy and pass it on to his descendants. ”

Zhao Xing was a little desperate, he called Cao and Zhang, originally wanting to influence the important ministers in the army by showing the specific battle situation. And then imperceptibly implement his military reform, but I didn't expect that the first thing the two ancients thought of was to keep this knowledge secret, and then converted it into their own "ancestral secrets" and taught them to their children in private.

The thinking of the ancients is indeed unreasonable, Zhao Xing shook his head helplessly, Shuai Fan seemed to have expected this kind of outcome. He said in an unsentimental tone: "At the beginning, I used six chess pieces, each chess piece is equivalent to a full command, five hundred people, just in line with the military system of the Song Army. Please start the battle with the same number of cavalry. ”

Zhao Xing picked up six chess pieces, walked to the other end of the corridor, laid six chess pieces on the chessboard, and then arched his hand and said, "Start, since you have robbed Song Bing of the role." Please preset the battlefield. ”

Cao Yu hurriedly raised his hand and shouted: "Wait, wait for my people." ”

Shuai Fan ignored it. After taking six chess pieces, he placed them on the north bank of the Yellow River, walked to the other end of the corridor, and faced Zhao Xing from afar, shouting loudly: "Start the first battle of ----, the defense of the landing site on the south bank." ”

Cao Yu and Zhang Dunli stomped their feet in a hurry, but fortunately, the two of them were not far away, and they didn't delay much, and the small building was tightly surrounded by a three-story encirclement. Not even a single fly can fly into the building until it can be identified between male and female. Among these three layers of encirclement, the innermost layer is Zhao Xing's personal guard, the middle is surrounded by Zhang Dunli's generals, and the outermost layer is the Japanese soldiers transferred by Cao Yu.

For Zhao Xing and Shuai Fan, the hall was too small to fully display the attack and defense between the cavalry and the infantry; But for Cao Yu and Zhang Dunli, the hall seemed too big, Zhao Xing was pondering at one end of the corridor, and Shuai Fan was thinking at the other end. Cao Yu and Zhang Dunli both wanted to know Zhao Xing's strategy. I wanted to know Shuai Fan's response, and as a result, the two of them ran to the east and west, panting tiredly, and even with them, the two bookkeepers couldn't stand this rush.

In the end, it was impossible to say which official had an idea, Cao Yu and Zhang Dunli split into two groups, one squatting at Shuai Fan. What I heard was Shuai Fan's complete defensive warfare ideas. A group squatted at Zhao Xing's place and heard the complete offensive strategy. Afterwards, the two combined these coping strategies to form a complete weapon deduction diagram---- which was later regarded as a secret of the Great Song Dynasty. After this was completed, only Zhao Xing's name was mentioned in the article, and as a handsome model for dealing with the wonderful in the defensive battle, he became a supporting role.

Zhao Xing did not completely reproduce Han Zirang's attack methods in the cavalry attack battle, he combined some modern memories, and boldly used cavalry interspersed, detours, outflanking, raiding, and luring the enemy...... and other means, although Shuai Fan's defense was also wonderful, but in the end it had to be declared a failure. Afterwards, he dropped the bamboo pole in his hand and said with emotion: "This battle can't be fought, every time the cavalry moves, it is four squares more than us, and two moves are eight squares more." The longer the time drags on, the more unrestrained the cavalry becomes, fortunately, Han Zirang does not have one-tenth of Lord Zhao's intelligence, otherwise, none of our soldiers who landed on the north shore this time would want to come back.

I finally understood why the adults stopped in a hurry, it turned out that we had taken such a big advantage in this battle. ”

In the second battle, the choice was to encounter the battle under the city of Wuqing, although the war was actually won by the Song soldiers, however, when the cavalry arrived in the hands of Zhao Xing, they no longer chose the reckless frontal impact, but used the Mongolian cavalry to fight and retreat, and the method of resisting layer by layer to delay time, and wait for the outflanking troops to complete the strategic goal, and then suddenly inserted from the rear position of the Song army...... As a result, unsurprisingly, the Song soldiers were defeated.

Shuai Fan raised the bamboo pole in his hand for the second time, and said with a sigh: "Cavalry! Why is it so difficult for the cavalry in the era of cold weapons to deal with, but we have obviously reached the age of firearms, and firearms have not been able to defeat the cavalry. ”

Cao Yu and Zhang Dunli were not completely calm in this weapon exercise, considering the battle with a calm eye, they watched the battle, unconsciously put themselves in the position of the Song soldiers, imagining that if they were the generals of the Song army, how to deal with Zhao Xing's various attacks. But the frequent defeats of the Song army during the exercise made the two of them look defeated, and they muttered to themselves: "But we obviously won this battle, why is this happening, can't we really recover Youyan?" ”

Zhao Xing waved his hand and said to Shuai Fan: "Now, let's swap positions, I will play the role of Song Jun and choose the preset battlefield ......"

Shuai Fan's eyes lit up: "Preset battlefield?!" By the way, I understand that firearms, the formation that allows firearms troops to exert their maximum power is a trapezoidal battlefield, that is, they are on a hillside---- right, a hillside.

Where are the slopes, and where are the slopes in the Hebei Plain? Bows and arrows cannot be extremely far, so they do not have specific terrain requirements, but on the plains, it is best to be able to spread out the formation, and our muskets, each time they shoot at the ground, not only the first row can hit the enemy, if according to the terrain of the hillside, to achieve the maximum output of firepower, it should not be a problem to deal with cavalry. ”

Zhao Xing and Shuai Fan switched directions, and said leisurely: "There is no hillside, let's make a hillside, as long as there is a height difference, it is enough---- houses, vans, trenches, as long as a height difference is created, layer upon layer of firepower, you can create a hillside effect of firearms." ”

Hearing the word "hillside effect", Cao Yu couldn't hold back any longer, and he couldn't help but interject: "You just mentioned the probability rate, what does this word mean?" I've heard you say accidents many times, but do you mean the rate of accidents? ”

Shuai Fan was in good spirits, and he replied excitedly: "You are right, when you really get to the battlefield, the troops that are fighting are not ready to withdraw at any time, and there is an accident, and the army may be lost in the middle of the march, may go in the wrong direction, may be broken and impassable, this is an accident, and it will make the purpose of your deployment of troops not achieve the expected effect."

There is no pattern to this kind of contingency, and we become probability, and now we measure it by the same, irregularity of the dice rolling event......

Okay, to get started, I'm looking forward to Song Jun being able to surprise me. ”

Cao Yu nodded silently: "Everything can be measured---- things that cannot be measured, and using an equally immeasurable thing to blur the measurement is also a means of measurement!" I see, it turns out that this is how it can be done on paper! Fabulous, simply fabulous. ”

Zhang Dunli frowned, stared at Shuai Fan and said: "Brother, your mood is not right, you hope that the Song army will win, I am afraid that you will not do your best in the attack, and you will not be able to really show the means of the Liao soldiers, it is better to ......"

Shuai Fan shook his head: "You are wrong, this set of measurement methods we use completely eliminates the feeling of ** color, no matter whether I have a bias or not, the results measured by numbers are the same, how many casualties I have in each attack, how many people can continue to move forward, these are all cold numbers, and they have nothing to do with my personal feelings......"

Zhao Xing spoke at the other end of the stairs: "If you set up positions in echelons, my one-time firepower output is enough to paralyze most of your troops, so don't use the means of the whole army, Han Zirang used this method, hoping to rely on speed to rush into our position, but he failed." We have learned that we should try other methods. ”

Shuai Fan nodded in agreement: "Yes, I personally experienced the techniques you used just now, and I have dealt with all the difficulties, so let me report it to you this time." Right now, my biggest headache was the speed of propulsion, and I think you're going to have a hard time with that.

Although the preset position can make you helpless in defensive battles, but you always have to advance, I see what you can do when you move? ”

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