Volume 2: The Eighth Route Army's Envoy - Chapter 16: The Root of the State (4)
…… Infantry, cavalry, and crossbow men are largely the same in their main modes of combat, which can be divided into two categories: long-range projection combat and hand-to-hand white-edged combat. All battles are ultimately made up of these two most basic modes of combat. The unconventional combat modes described in the Art of War, such as fire attack and flooding, can only play a supporting role, and a unit with sophisticated projection tools, superb projection skills, and rich experience in white-knuckle combat only needs the corresponding courage and morale to grasp the initiative on the battlefield in most situations. Specifically at the level of military strategy and tactical command, the lack of a clear division of labor is the most urgent problem to be solved at present. Based on the lessons learned from the two Luziguan Guard Operations and the Battle of Yinzhou, it can be basically made clear that the regimental-level combat sequence is a watershed in the evolution of the army's combat mode. At this level, the subjective factors of the individual commanders at the battalion level under the condition of cold weapons are higher than the army's overall intelligence analysis and overall planning ability, while the combat experience of officers at the Shiwu level directly determines the combat effectiveness of the troops. Only when the size of the troops reaches the regimental level or even above the regimental level will the mode of military operations be fundamentally changed. If the so-called strategy of this era is divided into two links, then the only reasonable division mode is to divide the process of war into two levels: marching and operation, the march is mainly decided by the military commander at and above the regimental level, and the combat is mainly commanded by battalion-level officers, and the real hand-to-hand combat relies on the most basic Shiwu-level officers.
At present, after half a year of trial operation, the defects and drawbacks of the Eighth Route Army have become relatively clear. Although the two-five-style compilation system created by the ancients seems to be primitive, it now seems to be supported by a solid practical foundation, and most of the so-called improvements of later generations do not conform to objective laws. Under the conditions of backward cold weapons and means of communication, it is necessary for actual combat to carry out multiple settings at the command level, and what is really lacking in this era is the setup of military command organs and the division of functions; there is no systematic intelligence collection, sorting, and analysis organ, no full-time staff organ for drawing up operational plans and deploying exercises, still less is there a permanent logistics supply department and specialized functional troops; these are the main reasons why the military system cannot be further optimized and the combat effectiveness of the troops cannot be further integrated and improved.
To sum up, it seems that the Cao Ke organ system currently being piloted by local governments is also applicable to the military. From the central to the local. In the future, a four-level bureaucratic system should be established, namely, ministries (monasteries), departments, Cao, and sections, and this system can be temporarily tried out in the localities and the military. Units formed at and above the regimental level should beware of setting up organs with corresponding three functions, which are divided into three functions: formulating operational plans, administering military law and military discipline, and dispatching logistics and supplies. In a regiment-level combat unit, there should be a Yuhou Section, a Supervisor Section, and a Box Soldier Section; In the higher command establishment of the troops, there are Yu Hou Cao, supervisor Cao, and Xiang Bing Cao; Further up, there are Du Yu Hou Division, Du Supervisor Division, and Du Xiang Bing Division; At the central level, there should be relevant ministries (temples) corresponding to it.
At present, the military system must be adjusted accordingly, and the ancient system of the 25th Five-Year Plan must be restored, and the restructured army will still take the team as the most basic unit, and the standard military rank of the team will still be the captain of the Zhengjiu Pinren Yong. At present, the preliminary idea is that the command system of the Eighth Route Army will have a total of nine levels from the bottom up: corps, corps, corps, capital, battalion, regiment, association, town, and army. Five people are one team, two teams are one team, five teams are one team, two teams are one capital, and five are one battalion. The two battalions are one regiment, the five regiments are one association, and the two associations are one town. In the future, the corresponding numbers of all units in pairs should be named in the left and right columns, while all units in the fifth and fifth formations should be named in the left and right columns. It should be very prudent to name an army after a place or mission. Unless there is a special meritorious service, in principle, the general town level and the local troops are not allowed to use place names or other nouns for naming. For example, the current Yan'an regiment may be expanded to Yan'an Town in the future. And the full name of one of the teams should be 'Eighth Route Army Yan'an Town, Right Association, Left Regiment, Right Battalion, Qiandu Squadron'.
In this reform of the military system, the establishment of operational establishments at the metropolitan level is extremely crucial. One capital has two teams and a strength of 100 people. The original structure of the troops at the prefectural battalion level has obviously not adapted to the actual battlefield environment in several combat campaigns in the past. There were only fifty men in one team. Both offensive and defensive operations alone are slightly insufficient. A battalion of two hundred and fifty to three hundred men. There are too many combat forces at the tactical level to be fully engaged or deployed, and the maximum combat efficiency cannot be brought into play. However, when conducting strategic-level operations, the strength of troops is slightly thin and cannot achieve a larger strategic objective, and there is a lack of reserves for individual operations in a relatively large operational area in the future. After the establishment of the metropolitan contingent system, the strength of a battalion will be increased to 500 troops, and under the conditions of cold weapons, such a force will be enough to undertake offensive or defensive operations in all or a certain main direction on the battlefield, and the increase in command levels will further enrich and strengthen the command intensity at the grassroots level. This is extremely necessary when the means of information transmission are still limited......"
Li Wenge held a quill made of crow feathers in his hand, and wrote intermittently on hemp paper while dipping it in ink.
After the emperor's summons was completed, theoretically most of Li Wenge's official itinerary to Beijing had been completed, and now he only needs to wait for Zhongshu and Honglu Temple to arrange the date of His Majesty's resignation, and the emperor will be promoted to the Zhongchao in the Qianyuan Palace, and Li Wenge will complete the final procedure of resigning from the emperor before returning home. Therefore, Li Wenge, who was idle, had nothing to do at the moment, so he simply began to record some of his experiences on military affairs that he had been thinking about along the way, accompanied by Luo Yiniang's service. These are all experiences summed up by Li Wenge on the basis of his own knowledge of military science and the characteristics of military warfare in this era. At the beginning, he wanted to implement the four-level system of divisions, regiments, battalions, and companies in the new military town, but this was due to the limitations of Li Wenge's own vision, and after experiencing several actual battles, especially the Battle of Yinzhou, Li Wenge finally woke up to the essential difference between this era and his own era.
In the Battle of Yinzhou, if Shen Chen asked Li Wenge for instructions before deploying, then it is likely that Li Wenge would directly veto his attack plan, and wait until Li Wenge himself and the brigade arrived in Yinzhou to personally inspect the enemy situation before deploying, although the final result will not change much, but Tuoba Guangyan will definitely catch up with all the troops in the city to the city wall for defense, and even have enough
Arm the civilians of the city to assist in the defense of the city. In this case, there will be relatively large casualties.
In Li Wenge's era, of course, there would be no such problem, and reconnaissance satellites and unmanned reconnaissance machines would transmit real-time reports on the enemy situation in Yinzhou City to the attacking headquarters' headquarters on an hourly basis, and even if none of these were available, as long as there was radio, Shen Chen could complete the work of making a detailed report on the enemy situation and requesting instructions from Li Wenge within an hour.
None of that, however. From front to rear, the fastest horse can run for three to four hours. In this era when the time of war is calculated in months, the vast majority of Li Wenge's military knowledge is not used, and the wars in the 21 st century are basically calculated in hours and days, from the war in Afghanistan to the war in Iraq, and even more so in the years when Li Wenge traveled through the war, the war between Russia and Georgia was even more so, and the offensive of the Georgian army, the initiator of the war, lasted only five hours. However, there was only a short 20 minutes between the Kremlin's decision to counterattack and the Russian army marching into the core area of the war thousands of miles away, and it took only 140 minutes for the 58th Army's huge strength of more than 70,000 troops to start assembling and completing operational preparations and starting to march to the theater. The Russian army of the twenty-first century is not yet the most technologically advanced army, and this is already the case. In the era of Li Wenge, more than 1,000 people of the Yan'an regiment gathered near Fenglin Mountain. It also takes a day from giving orders to assembling and preparing for march or battle, and if it is a long-distance march or attack, and needs the support of the troops to maintain the supply line, the preliminary work must be at least four to six days. And this. It is already far from being matched by other armies of this era.
For example, although the whole army is in one place, it is itself in a state of assembly, and the quality of its soldiers is also higher than that of the Yan'an Regiment. However, due to the lack of an auxiliary force in the form of a van army. It would take at least nearly two hours for the troops to get up and start the camp alone, and it would take a lot of physical strength for the combat troops to get up at six o'clock in the morning. By the time the whole army left the place, it would be at least ten o'clock. Li Wenge summed up the military operations of this era into two types: marching and combat, which is very scientific. The mode of war is progressive or not. It is fully manifested in the absolute time variation and relative time ratio of these two.
In the wars of this era, most of the time was spent on the march. The time actually used for combat is not too long. The ratio of marching time and combat time is inverted only in the long-term tug-of-war city attack and defense war, because the city attack and defense are the most brutal mode of warfare in this era.
In this case, everything must be reported to the police, and basically there is no need to fight.
The purpose of reforming the military system is to further unleash the enthusiasm and subjective initiative of officers at the grassroots level, unleash the productive forces of war, ultimately improve combat efficiency, and reduce the consumption and waste of war resources as much as possible.
When he was in Yanzhou, he was busy with some transactional work every day, and he had no time to think about it. He decided to write these things down, these years of war and chaos are still full of infectious diseases, no one can be sure when he will hang up, although Li Wenge is from the future, this body is a local product of this era, and there are no antibiotics and vaccines in the body. Therefore, Li Wenge has been writing a lot of things whenever he has time recently, and without revealing his origins, he wants to write down everything he remembers about the advanced ideas and technologies of his time compared to this era.
He spent his energy to envelop the Ye couple, and this is precisely the reason.
Whether he admits it or not, in fact, Li Wenge understands very well that as a traverser, his main role is neither a general nor a scientist, but a prophet and a saint. Sometimes he often thinks that the most important profession of a time-traveler should be to write books and lectures, and pass on the progress of a thousand years to this backward era. Whether you are a general or an emperor, the purpose is only to speed up the speed and intensity of this inheritance.
The only thing he is depressed about is that his brush characters are really ordinary, and traditional Chinese characters are also very headaches, which is one thing that he has not been able to adapt to this era so far.
So he made a quillish pen for himself, an advanced writing instrument that had become popular in the West during this era.
Of course, the effect of writing on hemp paper with a quill pen is worse, but compared with practicing calligraphy with a brush, Li Wenge still decided to ignore this little discomfort.
Yiniang was interested in three things: quills, simplified characters, and Li Wenge's left-to-right format.
"The concubine can be regarded as recognizing a few words and reading a few books, but this is the first time I have seen an adult write like this!"
Yiniang said with a smile while gently grinding the ink.
Li Wenge looked up at her and said with a smile: "What, it's ugly, right?" ”
Yiniang shook her head: "It's ugly, but it's not good-looking, although the adult's words are not written with a brush, there is some regular script style in the pen holder." It's just too thin and tough, not like the brushstrokes of a great general. ”
Li Wenge couldn't help but smile, in this era, Song style and imitation Song style have not yet come out, Yiniang naturally can't distinguish her own words, but at this time, she heard Yiniang say again: "There are many rare words in the adult's article, the concubine doesn't know it, and the writing style from left to right is also weird, and it looks awkward." Adults practice calligraphy from an early age. Is that how you practice? ”
Li Wenge smiled, put down his pen, stood up and did a few chest expansion exercises, took a deep breath and said, "I have been writing like this since I was a child. To be honest, looking at those poetry books written from right to left and from top to bottom, I also feel awkward! ”
Yiniang said: "The format of the adult's article is also very strange, and it is not a four-four rule. It's not a four-six law, it's very white at a rough glance, but there are many fresh and never-before-seen words and phrases, which make people half-understandable. Adults write like this. Can the people see it? ”
Li Wenge slowly paced back to the bookcase, reached out and picked up a piece of paper, and replied while examining it: "This thing is not written for them to see." When you need to show them. I'll find a couple of copywriters and literary ghostwriters. Even personally dictated in the most plain words, these things were written. Now it's mainly for me to show the land. ”
"For your own sake?" Yiniang stopped her hand in confusion and looked up at Li Wenge, she really didn't care
There are still people who write things for themselves.
"yes!" Li Wenge nodded, "I have a lot of things in my head, and I'm afraid I'll forget them after a long time, so write them down now, and even if I forget them in the future, it's easy ......to look them up."
Yiniang was still confused, but she was extremely smart, and she knew that if she asked more, she might involve some secrets, so she smiled and said: "When adults write these things in the future, if it is inconvenient, the concubine will avoid it!" ”
Li Wenge raised his head and asked in confusion, "Why?" ”
Yiniang said: "These are all major military events, the concubine is an irrelevant woman, isn't it inappropriate to see too many of these things?" ”
Li Wenge laughed: "It's okay, these are not military secrets. I'll naturally tell you to avoid things that are really confidential, and besides, I've never dealt with military affairs in private homes. I won't bring back confidential documents privately, there are regulations in the barracks, and this regulation is above everyone, even me. ”
Yiniang smiled: "This is fresh, is it possible that there are still people in the Yanzhou army who can punish adults?" ”
Li Wenge became serious: "The effectiveness of the law lies in the integration of the upper and lower levels, if the military law of the land is not obeyed by the family, then the people below will naturally not be serious." All cases of corruption of military discipline and laxity in the ranks generally begin with unfair military law. ”
He immediately smiled: "You have been with me for a long time, and you are used to these things!" ”
Immediately, he stopped talking about the topic and said, "Just rest, I have something to give you!" ”
So saying, he walked to a box in the corner of the room, reached out and opened it, and took out from it something that seemed strange to Yi Niang's eyes, with a long handle and a wide bottom, and the upper part was in the shape of a curved dragon head, with three string wedges inserted horizontally.
"Is this the six-stringed piano of Tibet? How did you come to be so weird? It's like a big gourd......" the aunt asked puzzled.
What Li Wenge came up with is a local instrument that should never appear in this era - the guitar.
This guitar is made of the Tubo six-stringed piano, and the following speaker is carefully built by the best carpenter in the capital, with the most high-end varnish of this era, and the handle is still the original handle, and the thickness of the strings is similar to that of the guitar of later generations, so it has not been changed. Li Wenge gently stroked the new instrument and said with emotion: "This is called the guitar, and it was an instrument from my hometown when I was a child. ”
Yiniang was very surprised: "Guitar...... This name is weird......
Then she covered her mouth: "It's as weird as an adult......"
Li Wenge smiled and was about to speak, when Yiniang asked again: "How can these six strings be played?" The concubine has never heard of Hu Le, so I'm afraid I won't be able to learn it for a while......"
Li Wenge thought about it, took out a marching Hu bed from the side of the couch, opened it, sat down on it with his legs crossed, held the guitar in his hand, gently tried a few notes, and adjusted the tightness of the strings one by one, until he was familiar with the finger feeling, then plucked the strings and began to play a tune that he had been listening to and singing for thirty years since he was a child.
Although this piece is played on the guitar, but because of its high-pitched and far-reaching key, it sounds quite impassioned, Li Wenge chose the first piece, one because he is the most familiar and good at this piece, and because the rhythm of this piece is relatively slow, it is more suitable for playing for ancient people.
This song, which is close to the feeling of opera, is already obsessed with listening to it......
After a while, the woman reacted from her astonishment, and her gaze at Li Wenge was completely different, with a little surprise in her reverence, a little joy, and a little bit of shame. opened his mouth, but he couldn't speak, and calmed down for a while before saying, "My lord is hiding his secrets...... Such a celestial skill has always been hidden inside, and the concubine body is ...... It's the first time for the concubine to hear such a strange but so shocking and blood-boiling tune, each note seems to be shouted from the bottom of my heart with all my strength, word by word, clear and clear, although there is no lingering and soft other tunes in it, but the sound hits people's hearts, not a hero in the army, I can't play such a song with the magnificent feelings of Jin Ge Iron Horse, whose song is this, is there any lyrics? ”
Li Wenge pondered immediately, and finally decided to sing the original lyrics with a slight variation, this song he sang tens of thousands of times before the crossing, and he had already deeply imprinted every note and every word in his mind, and now in order to keep it a secret, he has not sung it in front of people for several years, and he himself has been aggrieved for a long time.
The sound of the guitar sounded again, accompanied by the melodious and heroic sound, Li Wenge slowly let go of his throat and sang softly in a low and slightly hoarse voice......
"The red sun shines all over the eastern ......"
"The God of Liberty is singing ......"
"Look at the mountains...... Impregnable ...... The flames of the fierce battle burned on Fenglin Mountain...... Arrogant ......"
"Listen, my mother told my son to fight the party, and my wife sent my husband to the battlefield......"
"We are on the Fenglin Mountain...... We ...... on the mountain of Fenglim."
"The mountains are high and the forests are dense, the soldiers are strong and the horses are ......"
"Wherever the enemy attacks, we want him to perish......
"We are on the Fenglin Mountain...... We ...... on the mountain of Fenglim."
"The mountains are high and the forests are dense, the soldiers are strong and the horses are ......"
"Wherever the enemy attacks, we want him to perish......
At the end of the song, there was no sound inside and outside, although Luo Yiniang was stupid and couldn't make a sound, even the soldiers in charge of the guard and patrol inside and outside the pavilion also held their breath one by one, lest there were still tunes and words behind that had not been played and sung......
In the middle of the night, several extremely faint high-fives came from outside, and a hearty and clear male voice sounded: "But make Longcheng Feijiang, don't teach Hu Ma to do Yin Mountain...... The general's voice is full of heroic man's true character, if it weren't for the beheading and bloodless son of the army, he wouldn't be able to play such a repertoire, and he couldn't sing and sing with such momentum......"
This voice seemed to be unfamiliar and familiar, Li Wenge was stunned for a moment, and then heard Kang Shi cough lightly, and signed up outside the door: "Lord Yu, the Taifu of the school, the envoy of the Zhenning Army, the history of the assassin of Lanzhou, and the Pingzhang of the Tongzhong Shumen, Guo Gongrong, came to pay homage to the lord......"