In history, Zong Ze guarded Kaifeng, Yue Fei repeatedly made military exploits under his command, and Zong Ze summoned him and awarded him a formation map. After watching the formation of Yue Fei, who had not received formal military training at that time, www.biquge.info the pen "Fun" pavilion, said a sentence: "After the battle, the art of war is constant; The use of wonder, in one mind. ”

This sentence is so famous that Xu Ping still remembers it clearly. But what this sentence meant, he couldn't say, he just felt that it was very powerful, although he didn't know it, but he felt it. After really watching the combat forms of this era again and again, and combining reality with history, Xu Ping felt the context of this sentence a little.

Of course, the formation map that Zong Ze gave to Yue Fei could not be a romance formation such as "a long snake with a word" and "eight doors unlocked", but could only be a regular army formation of the Song army that was born from the "Pingrong Wanquan Array".

War does not have so many bells and whistles, it has its own objective laws, even if the Song Taizong system "Pingrong Wanquan Array" is still in accordance with the objective laws of war. Of course, this formation map is an excellent method of arranging troops, there is no doubt about this, otherwise even if the emperor in the back is filial to him, it is impossible to make such a joke with the fate of the country. The only problem is that the formation according to the map is in accordance with the predetermined combat method, which is already rigid, and Taizong is too rigid and self-serving, and then sends a formation to make the supervising generals arrange the formation in strict accordance with the formation map, which will kill the last bit of flexibility of the army and become a dead formation.

It is an objective law that everything must be considered thoroughly, so that everything cannot be considered completely, and the main contradiction must be grasped in doing things. The "Pingrong Wanquan Formation" must take into account all the situations encountered on the battlefield and strive to be invincible no matter how the enemy comes to fight. As a result, this formation could only grow larger and larger, and it was not enough to line up to 100,000 troops. Such a large array has very harsh requirements for battlefield conditions, and the choice of battlefield in the direction of operation is very narrow.

If the Song army had laid out a complete "Pingrong Wanquan Army", the Khitan would have no choice, and it would be self-defeating to rush directly into battle. But war is a battle of wits and courage between the two sides, why should the enemy fight the way you envisioned it? Your big array is here, I can't fight, can't I go around? Such a large array lacked flexibility, and mobility was even more tragic, and it became a joke again and again in the face of the Khitan army, which already had the advantage of cavalry mobility.

In battle, you have to arrange the formation according to the map, and there are only a few places where the army can be laid according to the map, and the enemy who comes to attack will not go there, what should you do? Therefore, when it came to Shenzong in history, the consensus of the government and the opposition was that those famous generals in the Taizong period were born at the wrong time, and under this emperor, in addition to the mediocre and cowardly generals, the generals who could really fight would be even more tragic.

When the two sides fight, it is not possible to fight without arranging the army, and the unorganized will always be unable to fight the organized. It is not possible to line up the formation into a dead formation, the military formation must change at any time according to the actual situation of the battle, and deal with the rapidly changing situation on the battlefield, I am afraid that this is what Yue Fei meant.

Yue Fei is a rare military genius, and his ability to sense war is unmatched, Xu Ping has always felt that even if he has a thousand years of knowledge, he can bring the army to the level of the "Yue Family Army", which is already very powerful.

Ignoring dialectics and failing to understand that quantitative changes will cause qualitative changes, popularizing the method of leading one to command the army to the whole army, and rigidly pushing the method of fighting with 100 men to an army of hundreds of thousands was the greatest damage done to the army by Song Taizong. He may be able to bring a hundred or five hundred men with ease, but he is definitely not capable of bringing tens of thousands of men, and the biggest trouble with the military system he left behind is here. The system is seriously degraded, and there is a fault line in talents, even if Zhao Zhen is not a stubborn person and can listen to the advice, this army will have to go through decades of bloody battles to make up for what has been lost, and then it can be reborn. Historically, Zhao Zhen did not have such determination, nor did his ministers, and in the end these problems were left until the end.

Xu Ping asked the two sides to stop fighting, called Jia Kui over, and used a teacup to show the formation he had just now on the desk, and said: "The battle of the army formation is nothing more than a circle formation, a square formation, a wild goose formation, etc., in fact, they are all in the left, center, and right armies. Open to the left and right wings, it is a wild goose battle, the left and right armies are together, it is a circular array, and the front and back are distinct, it is a phalanx. The battle is often the art of war; The use of wonderful, with one heart, do not deceive me! And in order for this army formation to run freely, there must be someone in charge of the left and right armies to respond to the central army. The setting of the left and right Yu Hou is precisely to achieve this. Now that the forbidden army has only one commander, and the Marquis of Yu has no real name, this military array will lose its soul and become a dead corpse. ”

Sang Yi saw Xu Ping fiddling with a few tea bowls on the case, and muttered: "The festival marshal is reasonable, but this is the strategy of the imperial court-"

Xu Ping waved his hand: "Don't worry about that first, the army is for war, as long as you can win the battle, everything is easy to say!" In fact, where the two armies face each other, there are so many fancy, it is nothing more than to keep their own people and kill the enemy's people. In battle, it is the three steps of assault, defense, and movement, how to switch between them, how to cooperate, and how to achieve these cooperation, and how to make the transition quick and beneficial, is the purpose of using the military formation. Calculating how the enemy will attack and how I will defend it, in order to be foolproof, is not within the scope of consideration of the military formation. If you want to have no loopholes, you will be full of loopholes! ”

It was the first time for Jia Kui to participate in this kind of discussion, and he asked curiously and whispered: "Jie Shuai, how to defend and how to attack, and how to think about it?" The army does not take into account these things, but always arranges them in other places. ”

Xu Ping nodded at him: "You are right, of course you have to arrange it in other places." I have always said that the army is divided into compartments, armies, battalions, and capitals, and it is not simply a matter of different levels, because the commanders have different ranks and different people, but that each level must accomplish different tasks during combat. The focus of the battalion and the capital is on this military formation, which we call the battle, and according to the military order of the commander of the army, the yamen, lead the army to charge into the battle and complete the things required by the military order. At the military level, they do not lead troops, but in how to arrange, how to defend, how to attack, how to do, and who to do, they all have their ideas. ”

Jia Kui said: "Isn't it a military level to fight, so you won't set up a military formation?" ”

"Of course not, setting up a military formation is also a kind of arrangement, but it is not as simple as the military formation of the battalion and the capital. Although the general principle is the same, it is necessary to adapt to changes according to geography, weather, and the enemy faced, and this is what the commander-in-chief at the military level should do. -- Now is the time for employing people in the northwest, Jia Kui, you should make more military achievements and sit in this position earlier. ”

Jia Kui couldn't help laughing, and thanked Xu Parallel with his crossed hands.

Xu Ping said to Sang Yi: "Xiucai, I have some eyebrows about the formation of the army, you can refer to it in detail, think about it more in your spare time, and we will discuss it again." In both the battalion and the capital, there are four officers, one commander, one deputy commander, one left Yu Hou, and one right Yu Hou. According to the military system originally set by us, the chief and deputy commanders will command the rear army on the left and the front army on the right. I take the battalion as an example, the five subordinates are numbered separately, the right Yu Hou is unified and the second capital, the left Yu Hou is unified the third and fourth capitals, and the commander makes the fifth capital of the self-unification the Chinese army. Note that whether they are wartime or day-to-day, they are divided into front and rear armies, and their respective duties are also different. The right Yu Hou is under the command, and the left Yu Hou is under the deputy commander, and in the military array, he only obeys the orders of the commander of the army. If the two armies are fighting against each other, the commander dies in battle, then the right Yu Hou Quan is the commander of the envoy, the right Yu Hou is killed in battle, and the first capital takes over as the right Yu Hou. If the deputy commander dies in battle, Marquis Zuo Yu will take over his post, and so on, and the order of the left and right armies must not be confused. The battalion and all fight, the emphasis is on clear responsibilities and their own lives, so it is necessary to distinguish the order of left and right! When the battle is approaching, the chief general is killed in battle, and the officer of this order must take over his post, and he cannot be ranked according to the rank of the official. ”

In other words, the wartime commander will always lead the Chinese army to stick to the right army, and the right Yuhou is actually the vanguard. The deputy commander was with the Left Army and responded to the rear. Another reason is that there is a division of responsibilities between the two commanders, and no matter how close the relationship is, it is inevitable that they will not be familiar with each other's business, so as to prevent confusion.

As a tactical level, there is no commander's yamen at the battalion and capital levels, and there is no military adviser and assistant, which is fundamentally different from the operational level at the next level. Their organizational system requires simplicity, directness, and effectiveness, and the conditions do not allow for too complex systems. The chief and deputy commanders were divided into front and rear lines, and the former commanders were killed, so they could not run to the rear and call the deputy to the front.

Sang Yi listened to Xu Ping's words, nodded slowly, and wrote them down. As for the meaning contained in it, what are the advantages and disadvantages, we will discuss it slowly after we go back. This process of reflection is a process of further understanding of the problems we are facing. Having worked with Xu Ping for many years, Sang Yi has become accustomed to this way of doing things.

As for the number of people in the front, middle, and rear armies, of course, they will not be mechanically divided according to what Xu Ping said, but will be distributed according to the actual battle situation, and that is only a general principle.

By dividing military operations into three levels: strategic, campaign, and tactical, and clarifying the tasks facing each other, the framework for the military system has been decided. On the basis of this principle, it is necessary to refine it, take the guarantee of the fulfillment of tasks as the core, organize the army, and set up organs at all levels. It is necessary to sum up objective laws from practice, use laws to guide the practice of warfare, and ensure that everything has rules to follow.

The main task at the battalion and capital levels is to engage in simple tactical operations, and when the tasks are simple, their organizational structure is set, and the upper levels have a rough outline. In fact, the general guiding principles at all levels are not different, but because of the different tasks, there are different requirements, and it is enough to put these requirements back.

The three levels of strategy, campaign, and tactics are not simply divided according to the number of people, but also involve the division of tasks and command authority of generals and colonels at all levels.