"Your Excellency, congratulations! Defeat is not far away! ”

This congratulations seemed extremely harsh and sarcastic, and if it were someone else, maybe it would have been annoyed and angry at this time. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But for Zhu Yifeng, his biggest advantage is that he is good at accepting advice, to be precise, modern education tells him - "professional things are left to professional people to do." As a layman, you must be good at listening to the opinions of professionals, otherwise the cost is extremely heavy.

A century and a half later, the development of information made Zhu Yifeng see the mistakes made by too many laymen commanding insiders, and there were many mistakes that were disastrous. Even irretrievable.

It is precisely because of this that for a long time, in the eyes of the military officials in the context of the Governor's Office, the lord has the most basic element of the Ming monarch throughout the ages, "good at admonishment", and he treats his subordinates with great respect, and it is precisely because of this that the officials in the palace will have the idea of "the soldier dies for his confidant".

Compared with those officials who were moved to tears because of the lord's "good admonition" and "respect" influenced by tradition. Linus felt this way, after all, in the West, kings also needed to maintain basic respect for nobles and officers.

But fortunately, there are no outsiders here, otherwise his congratulations in exchange for fear will be reprimanded by others, the conflict between Chinese and Western civilizations is reflected in all aspects, one of the biggest characteristics is that when he was in charge of the teaching affairs of the military academy, most of the best graduates were proud of their talents, at least in the eyes of Lin Yuqing, Liu Jian, Li Yuanji and other military elders.

Zhu Yifeng, who looked at those young staff officers, knowing that they were the future of the army, nodded slightly after a moment of silence.

"Do you mean their thinking will freeze?"

"It's not just the solidification of thoughts!"

Faced with Handu's question, Linus suggested the reason why he set it this way.

"It's that they don't look at war with a real war perspective, they will habitually think that their enemies are a mob collective, and forget that the army in front of them is a European army, so we have to instill in them a sense of urgency through constant war games that their enemies are powerful and need to be taken seriously, and if they don't do anything wrong, they will be wiped out!"

In fact, this was the reason for his ostracism in Turkey - the Turks would not accept his views at all - the view that the enemy was far more powerful than themselves, and that the Turks would always find reasons and excuses for themselves despite the strength of the enemies they faced.

For example, my cavalry is stronger than theirs, for example, my soldiers are braver, such as ...... In short, they will first assume their own superiority, and then expand the enemy's inferiority, such a wargame deduction is completely meaningless.

"Maybe now they are just a group of ensigns, lieutenants or captains, but in a few years, they will become lieutenant colonels, or even colonels, and in a dozen years, many of them will become generals, Your Excellency, if they can't learn to be cautious with every enemy, then, one day, this arrogance of theirs will lead to their fiasco, and as army commanders, their fiasco may even lead to the demise of the country, at least thousands, tens of thousands of soldiers will die for their stupidity."

After that, Zhu Yifeng didn't pay much attention to the results of this military chess exercise, in fact, he came to the staff this time for other things, after all, he knew very well that the enemy in the country was not a threat to the rebel army at all. Otherwise, Linus would not have taken such pains to increase the enemy's strength.

The reason for coming is for another thing.

After leaving the combat map room, Zhu Yifeng asked:

"Linus, remember the "Typhoon Plan" I asked you to make? ”

"Your Excellency, you mean ......"

Linus remembered the plan, of course, and he immediately asked excitedly.

"Are you ready to implement it?"

Nodding, Zhu Yifeng's tone was extremely calm.

"Time is ripe, and if everything goes well, it will be implemented next year or the year after......"

The so-called "Typhoon Plan" is actually the Northern Expedition plan of the Righteous Army, which will be the last battle against the Qing Army, and the Righteous Army will mobilize more than 300,000 troops to launch a fatal blow to the Qing Army from multiple directions. The aim of the campaign was to completely overthrow the Manchu rule.

"I wonder what is the biggest problem right now?"

Turning his head to look at Linus, Zhu Yifeng asked with concern.

He didn't even bother to ask about another battle plan, because he knew very well the outcome of that battle and the problems he faced.

"Your Excellency, the biggest problem of the rebel army now is in the establishment!"

Once again, Linus offered his opinion.

"Now there are 54 regiments in the Rebel Army, and we are planning to expand 7 regiments, mainly recruiting new recruits in the Henan region, when the Rebel Army will have 61 regiments, and the total strength of the army, including the military police, is about 270,000. The reason why I think that the establishment is the biggest problem is because the largest combat unit of the Rebel Army is the regiment. ”

The regiment is already the largest combat unit, because of the adversary it faces, and in fact for domestic operations, the regimental combat unit is sufficient to meet the requirements - because the enemy he is facing is too weak.

"It is true that as far as the current combat mission is concerned, the regiment-level units can meet the needs, but if the 'Typhoon Plan', including the 'Dawn Plan', is implemented, there is a problem that needs to be faced, that is, the parallel command of the temporary dispatch army is too complicated, and in fact, each regiment is almost in a state of fighting on its own, and when the corps is fighting, this state of fighting separately is very likely to have an impact on the campaign......

Linus reminded Zhu Yifeng of the Qing army in another time and space, the largest establishment of the Qing army is the battalion, in the First Sino-Japanese War, on land, although the Qing army faced by the Japanese army claimed to be tens of thousands, in fact, there were as few as a dozen or more than dozens of semi-independent battalions, not a division or army that was forbidden.

"Therefore, I hope that before the launch of the "Dawning Plan", some of these regiments will be integrated into divisions, at least brigade-level combat units, and after the "Dawning Plan" is over, the various combat units will be integrated in a targeted manner, with divisions as the basic combat units, and when the "Typhoon Plan" is launched, three to four corps will be used as the main force, instead of more than 100 regiments! Even if you kill a chicken with a knife......"

In the face of Linus's inquiry, Zhu Yifeng's brows furrowed slightly, and he mentioned a practical problem.

"I know that our combat units are too small now, although they can meet the current combat needs, but when we fought in Henan, we have already exposed the weakness and inadequacy of fighting separately between regiments, but you know, if we expand the combat units, do we have all the senior officers!"

This is the most fundamental reason -- there are no qualified senior officers, and the military education of the rebel army began with the "training class" in Huangzhou three years ago; although in the past three years, all the officers in the training class have entered the military academy and received re-education, but they are still a group of inexperienced officers, and in a short period of three years, many of them have become regimental commanders, which in itself is a kind of pulling out seedlings and boosting them, and more importantly, many of them have no regimental combat experience.

It was the problem of officers that limited the establishment of the Righteous Army, and until now there has not been a single general in the Righteous Army, only Lin Yuqing was temporarily awarded the rank of Major General, and after the Guangzhou Incident, he was reverted to the rank of colonel. Now there are only about 80 colonels in the rebel army, and now they suddenly want to promote some of these colonels to generals, not to mention whether they have the ability to command divisional or brigade-level units, how to choose is a problem in itself.

"Equip them with a group of staff officers!"

Linus pulled out a plan he had drawn up from his desk.

"My idea is to equip them with 15 to 20 staff officers in addition to the chief of staff, and they will work together to draw up a battle plan, so that they should be able to make up for their lack of experience to the greatest extent."

Perhaps Linus's suggestion is the only choice at present, and it is only now that Zhu Yifeng has really faced the reality of the rebel army for the first time, and the seemingly strong rebel army is actually a deformed freak - there is no general who can stand alone.

Famous generals are beaten, but what about the rebels?

Since the establishment of the Rebel Army, how many battles have been fought? In addition to the quality of the generals themselves, the more important reason is selfishness, in which the regimental commanders can never pose a threat to themselves, and as a result, the reality that although the rebels have five fingers, they cannot be turned into a fist.

"I think it can!"

Nodding, Zhu Yifeng pondered for a moment and said.

"I think it's okay, first organize into four divisions, each division has two brigades, four infantry regiments, well, as a strategic unit, you can also equip them with a cavalry regiment, an artillery regiment, plus the corresponding baggage troops, a division can be between 28,000 and 32,000 troops......"

"Your Excellency, I think that this establishment is too large, and no one in the military generals can command such a large team now! I think it can be organized into four or five brigades at the moment,"

Compared with Zhu Yifeng's radicalism, there is no doubt that Linus has long understood a complete set of plans.

"During the "Dawning Campaign", if they show the qualities they should have, then next time they can be expanded into divisions in your mouth, and as for other units, their outstanding ones will be organized into brigades, so that after the "Dawning Campaign" is over, our army will have four to five divisions as the main force, and another 10 to 15 brigades as supplementary forces, and these four to five divisions can be used as the main force of the "Typhoon Campaign." ”

For such a safe plan, Zhu Yifeng naturally would not object, he nodded and said.

"Okay, you take it out first, and I'll draw up a list of brigade commanders when I go back!"

After his suggestion was approved, Linus asked tentatively.

"Your Excellency, when did you say that the timing was there?"

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