Liu Jian was in charge of recruiting An Fanluo, and the three Xinbo clans in Gangu were medium-sized tribes, so they didn't need to report to Xu Ping. Pen & fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but a few days ago Shuai Fu just said that he wanted to build a fortress there, and he forced and tempted Yu Zang, and he came to Xu Ping as soon as he got the news.

Xu Ping was stunned for a moment before he said to Sang Yi and Gao Daquan: "The three Xinbo clans are now attached, do you think it's a good thing or a bad thing?" ”

Gao Daquan said: "Where can I say it now?" Originally, if they did not belong to them, we could deliberately contradict them and make it impossible for the city to be built. Now that the three clans have returned, this excuse is no longer needed. I have already sent my subordinates Yang Wenguang and Jia Kuimi to the Gangu area to meet the terrain, and I will not know what to do until they come back. ”

Xu Ping said: "Then we have to wait for the two of them to come back, we will discuss it again, the return of the Tibetan Ministry cannot be refused, this is the established strategy of the imperial court, and it cannot be shaken in the slightest." No matter what the trouble, let's just think of a way. ”

According to recent discussions, the strategy of facing Yuzang Hua Ma Da was to be led by Sang Yi to lead the Xuanwei army at the mouth of the Sandu River Valley as their front, and Gao Daquan's army secretly infiltrated the Gangu area and the downstream areas to divide and encircle, and the place where the city was built was the pocket mouth of the pocket array. Yu Zanghua Ma came to attack, and the city building troops fled to the mountain camp set up in advance, and waited until the battle broke out to intercept the enemy's retreat. According to this arrangement, the troops building the city in Gangu are very crucial, and before the war, they must be able to lure and paralyze Yu and hide the hemp, and the retreat to the camp in the mountains before the battle requires that the organization and discipline must not be bad, and the fight must be resolutely blocked.

The generals that Xu Ping was familiar with, Sang Yi and Gao Daquan were already the masters of the first army, and according to the command level of the Qinzhou military system, they could no longer carry out such a task. Another familiar general is only Yang Wenguang, who has heard the name in his previous life. Of course, Xu Ping didn't know that in history, the Song Dynasty had built Gangu City there, and it was Yang Wenguang who built the city.

The command of the armed forces, according to the scale of the war and the level of command, is generally divided into three levels: strategy, campaign, and tactics, and accordingly it is necessary to demarcate strategic groups, campaign groups, and tactical groups, corresponding to the three levels of war, campaign, and battle. In Xu Ping's planning, Sang Yi and Gao Daquan are all battle-level troops, and only below them are the ones who go out to fight.

According to the different levels of command, the command organs of the armies at all levels are also different, although the current reality of war does not need to be as complex as the command level of Xu Ping's previous life, but the three levels of strategic, campaign, and tactical command still need to be divided. This is also the question of which level of the bureaucrats and assistant officials that Xu Ping asked the army to discuss during the Guanshan exercise, the commander yamen is the command headquarters, and the lowest level he set up is the basic campaign corps, and then the lower organization is greatly simplified.

Xu Ping's own marshal's mansion is naturally a strategic-level command organization for Qin Fenglu's strategy to the Fan Department, Sang Yi and Gao Daquan are the two campaign corps, and the garrison forbidden army and the Xiang army, township soldiers, and Fan soldiers in Qinzhou and other states are auxiliary troops. However, Xu Ping did not know how to draw under the two armies, so he had to find out a general direction through the usual training and large-scale exercises in the Guanshan grassland. In the end, the tactical level was set at the battalion and capital levels.

One of the ills in the army that officials of the Song Dynasty often talked about in history was that "the generals do not know the soldiers, and the soldiers do not know the generals". From Song Liguo, the forbidden army was based on the command, that is, the battalion, and they lived, trained, and fought together, and the commander did not have a problem with the soldiers under him.

The drawback of the military system of the Song Dynasty lies in the fact that only the two combat levels of battalion and capital are basically complete, and the army and compartment are not permanent, and the command structure and battalion are basically the same. In other words, from the institutional point of view, the Song army only has the ability to conduct tactical-level battles, and the organizations and institutions at the campaign level are blank. At the strategic level, there are all kinds of marshals' mansions, which are basically complete. There is a natural deficiency in the system between the marshal and the command.

"The generals don't know the soldiers, and the soldiers don't know the generals", which is talking about the inadequacy of the campaign level. Although the people of this era will not summarize in detail as Xu Ping in his previous life, war follows objective laws, and they can always find this from practice. The battalion and capital levels are not sufficient to carry out campaign tasks, and the generals do not know what they are talking about when they are carrying out campaign tasks, so the essence of the "art of war" is to make up for the deficiencies in the system at the campaign level, although it is still too brief.

In Xu Ping's feeling, just setting Sang Yi and Gao Daquan as the campaign corps, the command level is still too simple. Depending on the scale of the battle, it is not always possible to send tens of thousands of troops from every direction of attack, and it is better to set up another level in the middle as a supplement. In other words, as long as we really think about the military system and make efforts, the "art of war" will come to the fore.

Wang Anshi's "art of war" when he changed the law did not fall from the sky, let alone the whim of a genius, but was summed up from practice in the course of a long war with the party. Now there have been some preliminary discussions, Xu Ping can see from the side generals playing the imperial court, of course, in history, it was really summed up by Fan Zhongyan, and it was promoted on a large scale when Xining changed the law.

There are many problems involved in such a change in the system, and the most basic is that the military law in the imperial court system and the set rewards at all levels must be changed accordingly, and the details have not yet been completed, and the army has not implemented them. Now the forbidden army in Qinzhou is still in the process of reform, reforming while training, and reforming while fighting.

The generals of the campaign are responsible for the command of the campaign, and in principle, they are not allowed to go directly into battle to fight, and the reins of the prancing horse are the business of the lower-level battalions and commanders. Gangu building a city is a tactical operation, it is too inappropriate to send Gao Daquan to the level, it is too low to send Yang Wenguang to the level, and the command structure is not complete, which is also a little inappropriate. Xu Ping has been thinking about whether to send Jingtai to serve as a temporary commander in the past, as an expedient measure, but he has not yet made up his mind. Without an officer of Jingtai's level, the decisions to be made when returning to an emergency may be beyond the scope of Yang Wenguang's authority.

In essence, the reform of the military system is to make the organizational structure of the armed forces more suited to the objective laws of war and to be able to accomplish all kinds of war tasks. As for the use of control over the army, the prevention of rebellion, and so on, it is not guaranteed by the organizational structure.

Sang Yi and Gao Daquan knew that Xu Ping was still dissatisfied with the current military system of the two armies, and now they were beginning to be able to feel the vein of Xu Ping's thoughts, but they had not yet risen from perceptual understanding to rational understanding, and they were still a little vague.

Seeing that Liu Jian had been standing aside, waiting for a reply, Xu Ping thought for a while and said, "When the Ministry of Tibet returns, of course it is necessary to agree. In this way, you go and promise them to make their leader the leader of your clan, and the seal ribbon can be cast by Qinzhou to them first. Afterwards, we will go to the court and send them an official notice. It can be paid monthly from the time the ribbon is issued. ”

Liu Lian promised and went in a hurry. This is a matter within the purview of the Marshal of Qinzhou, although the official seal is given by the official court of the capital in principle, but the right to act cheaply, Qinzhou can issue it on behalf of him.

Watching Liu Lian leave, Xu Ping felt more and more that his preparations for Yu Zang's attack were still insufficient, and it was necessary to concentrate the strength of the whole army, conduct another training discussion, and make the plan as detailed as possible.