In ancient China, and before the Napoleonic era in Europe, there were not no people in the army who advised the commander-in-chief. While most of the people in the West were appointed by aristocrats, the ancient Chinese were slightly different.

In the pre-Qin wars, there were divination questions to heaven and earth, ghosts and gods, such as many records of oracle bone inscriptions, and there were also consultations with scholars, such as Cao Di's polemics. After that, most of them were military officers or civilian staff members who planned for the commander-in-chief, such as when Tong Guan was on the Northern Expedition to Yanyun, Ma Kuo and Zhao Liangsi were both praised, because Tong Guan was the Xuanfu envoy, so it was referred to as Xuanzan. In the Ming Dynasty, there were also military positions in the army, such as praise and painting generals, guerrillas, and capital divisions, or civilian staff members, or military officers.

However, before the advent of the chief of staff system, officers and staff members generally made suggestions to deal with changes based on their personal experience in military affairs, which was an appendage of the commander-in-chief, and there was nothing the commander could do if he did not ask or did not want to listen.

In later generations, staff officers would conduct scientific analysis and research on a series of factors that would affect the outcome of the war, such as the difference in weather, wind direction, and terrain, the differences in the location, military supplies, and equipment of the two sides, as well as the enemy's trajectory and general intentions, and formulate battle plans, so as to serve the war rather than simply serve the commander-in-chief.

The biggest difference between the two is that one is passive, purely based on the experience of predecessors and themselves, and completely subordinate to the manager; The other is an active, scientific analysis that serves the entire army or the country, not just the commander.

The chief of staff system was something that Chen Wen wanted to come up with a long time ago, but at that time, the scale of the army was very small, and there were surprisingly few officers who could read and write, and there were surprisingly few officers who could read and count, and he was still under the command of civilian officials and supervising the army, so it was inconvenient to take out these things that were different from the times. It's just that the explanation of Sun Tzu's Art of War is to emphasize the importance of intelligence analysis for warfare several times, and that's it.

Before setting out from Tiantai Mountain, Chen Wen and his officer corps conducted a systematic analysis of sneaking, luring the enemy, disguise in battle, and possible unexpected situations. The Ming army benefited a lot from this battle, so Chen Wen decided to take this out at the moment when the war was over to prepare for future wars.

It's just that for these generals and staff in front of Chen Wen, the concept of military affairs is still stuck in this era - no soldiers and no power, and only exists as an accessory of the commander. Far inferior to the generals who lead the troops. Even if Chen Wen strictly forbade officers to enslave soldiers, and did not allow them to interfere in military law and military supplies, it was far more powerful than this praise painting.

When Chen Wen said that Lou Jiye was appointed as the chief of general staff of Jinhua Town, everyone present under his eyes showed a look of shock, and Lou Jiye's face was full of anger and grievances. At least in their opinion, Lou Jiye has been following Chen Wen for more than a year, not to mention his hard work and complaints, and he has also made many achievements in army building and operational command, so why was he thrown into the "cold palace".

Could it be because the number of descendants of the old Qi family army in the army is a little too much? So as the coach, Chen Wen plans to refrigerate Lou Jiye, the highest-ranking among them, for a period of time? Or is it because Lou Jiye's use of troops during the battle of Xiaoshun Town was disliked by Chen Wen? Or is it ......

Just when these officers and staff members were thinking about it, Chen Wenquan didn't see it, but just continued to talk about it.

"The chief of staff set up by this commander is different from the praise paintings in the army in the past, and the workload of this position is very large, not only to give advice to the commander-in-chief, but to constantly deduce the opponent's intentions according to the changes on the battlefield, and put forward reasonable opinions and suggestions to deal with the changing situation."

"In this way, it is necessary for staff officers to learn how to draw maps, make sand tables, and analyze intelligence. He is familiar with the war books and the tactics used by the kings and the Tartars, and knows how to deal with them. This requires systematic learning by staff officers. Instead of looking at the kind of literati maps, or imagining them out of thin air without even looking at the map. ”

Sand table, in ancient China, was not something that had never been imported before. It is said that as early as when Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, Qin Shi Huang personally piled up and studied the geographical situation of various countries in order to facilitate the deployment of troops, and even in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, there was a national geographical topographic model piled up. Mercury is used to simulate rivers and seas.

And according to the Southern Dynasty Song Fan Ye's "Book of the Later Han Dynasty? It is recorded in the "Biography of Ma Yuan": In the eighth year of Jianwu of the Han Dynasty, when Emperor Guangwu conquered Tianshui and Wudu, the general Ma Yuan "gathered rice for the valley and pointed to the situation", and Emperor Guangwu sighed "captured in my eyes". This can be called the earliest sand table operation.

However, before Chen Wen could explain the concepts in the sand table and his words that needed to be positioned according to his understanding, these officers and staff members had already focused on the meaning of the new military position of chief of staff. Because this newly established chief of staff is far from being as simple as praising the staff, but as the brain of this army, especially when I think of what Chen Wen said, the chief of the general staff of the town is holding the rank of assistant chief of staff, not the rank of praise and painting, and the meaning may be even more far-reaching.

It's just that they don't know that the chief of staff system that Chen Wen came up with is still subordinate to the commander in a certain sense, and the main purpose is to fulfill the will of the commander, which is quite different from the chief of staff system of some military powers in later generations.

"Since learning is mentioned, the commander has decided to completely rebuild the Jinhua Shouyu Qianhu Office in Jiufang Lane and the patrol according to the imperial history line into the Jinhua Town Martial Arts School, and all the officers above the sentry commander must go here for rotation training and study, and all the officers of our department will go through the corresponding study in the future, and they can only be officially promoted after the assessment is reasonable."

Chen Wen's words, the patrol press of the Imperial History Xingtai and the Jinhua Shouyu Thousand Households completed the merger two hundred years ahead of schedule, but from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's palace to the so-called Jinhua Town Martial Arts School.

But when they heard this, everyone was stunned for a moment, and then everyone was different.

The bitter water in the hearts of the semi-literate Yin Yue and the quasi-illiterate Li Ruixin can probably seep out of their faces, but Wu Dengke, who was originally 100% illiterate, can rely on more than a year of study to learn the art of war with Lou Jiye, who has been enlightened since he was a child, and his face is as usual, Gu Shouli was stunned after hearing this, obviously shocked, and Qi Xiufeng directly said what he thought in his heart. 、

"Dashuai, set up a private martial arts, and still want to occupy and rebuild the patrol of the Imperial History Xingtai and the Jinhua Shouyu Thousand Households, how should the imperial court explain?"

Hand over?

Chen Wen has never thought about this question, not that he has not thought of it. It's that there is no need to think about it at all.

At present, Lu Jianguo is nowhere to be found, but if nothing else, he will soon go to Xiamen to be a duke. As for the next Yongli court, there is no need to worry. Yongli Tianzi, who is in the southwest, has the energy to get back some rights from Sun Kewang, or he is trying to get Li Dingguo back to King Qin, as for Zhejiang, which is located on the southeast coast, it is too late to win over the title. Such a small thing, even if you know it, you can't see it, who let the great tomorrow still rely on Chen Wen and their military leaders to rebuild the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Chen Wen just smiled slightly, and then said, "The court doesn't have the time to pay attention to such trivial matters", and then moved on to the next topic, and the tone sounded as if this matter was as ordinary as eating and drinking, and it was not worth making a fuss about at all.

"The detailed rules of the martial arts school in Jinhua Town have been formulated, and it has been the New Year. After the specific building layout is determined, troops can be sent to monitor the construction of those troops that need to be reformed through labor. In addition, there are some departments and new systems such as the Ordnance Department, the Military Medical Department, and the Military Training Department in Jinhua Town, which will be improved one by one during the Chinese New Year. ”

The affairs of Jinhua Town came to an end, and the establishment of Jinhuawei, another component of the Zhejiang Ming army under Chen Wen, must also begin.

"Jinhuawei commanded the envoy department to be responsible for the management of the military tun and the registered military households in Jinhua Mansion, and directly accepted the leadership of the commander. Jin Huawei's command envoy will be set up in a piece of military land outside the barracks where we are, and the chief officer will be the commander of Jin Huawei's palm print, and the following commanders will be assisted by the commander and the commander. Each county has 1,000 households, and the county has 100 households in accordance with the region. As for the tuntian and military households. Ben Shuai has his own way. ”

"Marshal, is this Jin Huawei only responsible for tuntian, camp drills and army inspection?"

Lou Jiye's problem does exist, according to the Ming system, the guard is a military unit, and it is also an administrative unit similar to a prefecture and county under the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and the matter that the guard is responsible for is not just as simple as tuntian, camp drills and army inspections. Such as transportation, preparation, patrolling, outposting, guarding, garrisoning, ordnance and other affairs must also be responsible, not as simple as Tuntian.

It's just that Chen Wen doesn't plan to completely rebuild the guard system, but only intends to use it as a management department similar to the Ministry of People's Armed Forces and Tuntian, while other tasks are handed over to various departments in Jinhua Town, so as to realize the re-separation of the military town and the guard post in a certain sense.

"Nope. The Jinhua Wei Command Department is only responsible for tuntian and camp drills, and the military training department of Jinhua Town is responsible for the inspection of the army. The military households were in the township tuntian, practicing their skills, and were led by the officer in charge of Jinhuawei, while the military training department was responsible for the inspection of the army. If the non-commissioned officers trained by the guard cannot meet the supplementary standards for recruits, then the officers of the guard post will be responsible, and if the military households that are supplemented are not qualified, they will directly ask the relevant personnel of the military training department. ”

"Gentlemen, my emperor Ming Taizu Emperor Gao established the guard system, and achieved the brilliant achievement of raising millions of soldiers without spending a meter on the land of China, which had been ruined for nearly a hundred years by Meng Yuan, but time has passed, and the guard system has been completely corrupted, and now the suppression system is also corrupted with the emergence of the family system, and the army has completely fallen into the private property of military leaders at all levels, rather than the state."

"Therefore, Ben Shuai decided to improve the military system of Emperor Chengzu, and separate the guard and the military town to prevent the recurrence of the phenomenon of soldiers as generals, so as to strengthen the cohesion and combat effectiveness of the royal division."

As a matter of fact, Chen Wen's so-called phenomenon of preventing soldiers from becoming generals is only to prevent subordinates from gaining greater power, resulting in internal overthrow and infiltration of the army by external forces. In fact, under this system, Jinhua Town and Jinhuawei were all under his leadership, and the entire army of Jinhua Mansion was controlled by Chen Wen, rather than Yongli, Lu Jianguo, or the civilian group of the imperial court, which clearly completed his institutionalized centralization of this army in the process of removing feudalization.

It's just that for these officers and staff, Chen Wen has always completely controlled military power and financial power, and his ensuing system has indeed effectively improved the cohesion and combat effectiveness of the army. Although this point has indeed damaged their feudal rights and interests, but at present, the great enemy is on the side, and Chen Wen's reward for them has always been rich, so naturally no one will jump out to fight for anything.

The military town and the guard station were the basis for Chen Wen to rely on this newly recovered ruined land to fight against the Qing army in the whole of Zhejiang, and even in the south of the Yangtze River, and the specific details were weighed and considered by him since he was on Tiantai Mountain, and it was not until recently that it was generally completed, but it remains to be seen how effective the specific effect will be.

After studying for a day, it was not until late at night that the rules and regulations of the newly established departments and troops were formulated, and the officers and staff went back to rest, preparing to start the corresponding preparations after this sleepless night, while he took out the plan he had made before and reviewed it again, so that he could discuss it with Sun Yu tomorrow. (To be continued.) )