In the early morning, with a rooster crowing, the city once again revives from the silence of the night. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoWhen people's words came from the alley, in the second-floor house facing the alley, a sleepy chagrin suddenly sounded.

"This damn alarm clock!"

Zhang Yu, who was woken up, looked at the alarm clock that had passed half past seven and there was no movement, and while complaining loudly, he hurriedly put on his clothes as if he was charging, just like the training non-commissioned officer roared loudly in the barracks when he was in the training camp.

Dressing, brushing teeth, and washing his face took only two minutes to complete all Zhang Yu, and immediately took the door and ran towards the alley.

"Wait until this weekend to check out the department store and change the alarm clock......"

Holding the fritters wrapped in oiled paper in his hand, Zhang Yu still couldn't help complaining, the alarm clock cost him 12 yuan, but the result was not very punctual, in fact, the current alarm clock is like this, either ten minutes in the morning or ten minutes in the evening.

"Why don't you go back and hire someone to call yourself......"

Thinking like this in my heart, I came to the public carriage station, the railroad public carriage used to be the characteristic of Wuchang, and now there are railroad public carriages in Changsha, Guangzhou and other places, and there are also trackless public carriages in many prefectures and counties. Compared with the trackless public carriage, which can only carry a dozen or twenty passengers, the railroad carriage is larger, and the carriage is made of iron and wood, with coachman's seats at both ends of the carriage and a canopy above the carriage. Two long wooden chairs are set up along the body of the car, and passengers sit opposite each other, and passengers without seats stand in the middle, and a handrail is provided above each seat for standing passengers. The carriage can carry about 40 passengers. There is a boarding and landing gate in the front and rear of the carriage, and there is a conductor in the carriage who is responsible for ticket sales and service.

Since it was put into use two years ago, it has been popular with the people, after all, not everyone can make a rickshaw. Although as a lieutenant Zhang Yu could afford to make rickshaws, he was still used to making public carriages because of their cheapness.

A few minutes later, the public carriage pulled by three Alden horses drove over, looking at the chestnut, thick limbs of the Alden horse, Zhang Yu knew very well that in the past few years, with the rise of Western-style carriages, first from the army began to introduce a large number of this kind of horses produced in France, and then the people were influenced by the army and also purchased a large number of horses, only this year has imported more than 10,000 horses, in the breeding farm in Nanyang, in addition to breeding this kind of heavy horses, is also using it to breed new heavy horses.

The reason why he knew this very well was because as a staff officer in the general staff, he had participated in the formulation of the wartime mobilization plan, and if it were not based on military considerations, how could the government give a subsidy of five yuan for every imported heavy horse, ostensibly for the development of civilian transportation, but in fact it was to meet the needs of the army in wartime.

The carriage came quickly, two for each stop as five copper dollars, and Zhang Yu paid three for ten copper dollars, and did not give it for free because he was a soldier, of course, if he refused to pay, it might bring him big trouble.

Ten minutes later, when it was five minutes to eight o'clock, Zhang Yu jumped down from the carriage at the station, and then walked briskly towards the governor's mansion, where the staff headquarters was located.

"Luckily I wasn't late......"

The moment Zhang Yu entered the office, the bell rang at eight o'clock.

"That's just a little bit!"

Looking at the classmates who had just entered the door, Li Yunshan said with a smile.

"Ten seconds late, no, five seconds, you're late again!"

Zhang Yu smiled and said, "No, it should be three seconds!" ”

Secretly rejoicing, he poured a cup of tea from the thermos, which seemed to him to be a miracle - it could keep the water warm for 24 hours, so that people could drink hot tea anytime, anywhere.

A bottle of bile is a dollar...... It's worth it!

Feeling the heat in the cup, Zhang Yu thought to himself.

While he was waiting for the tea to cool down, an order from the chief came from there.

"Everyone, Third Operations Map Room!"

The operational map room was their "battlefield" most of the time, where they conducted "war games" -- wargame deduction, and every cadet in the Army Military Academy was required to learn wargame deduction, which was an essential subject for military teaching and training. This was written by the Prussian court war adviser von ? The "game" was invented by Leswitz in 1811, which was introduced to the military academy by Linus, a military adviser at the military academy, and a new wargame textbook was written to make it more professional.

This was because Han Du believed that if the rebels were able to use war games skillfully, the outcome of the war would inevitably be different. After several years of development, the rebels can now use wargames to deduce wars in advance and optimize combat plans, and use them for the army's exercise training and combat plan evaluation, and all combat operations are supported by wargame deduction.

The primary wargames are all sand table simulations, which often require a series of relevant data, such as the restrictions and supply requirements of the terrain and landform, the combat capabilities of different arms and weapons, and the battle casualty data.

The sand table of wargame deduction is equipped with terrain scenes such as roads, deserts, jungles, and oceans; The chess pieces represent the actual participating units, such as companies, battalions, regiments, etc.; The rules of deduction include the restrictions and results of marching, formation, engagement, etc., and violations of the rules and restrictions can be judged as mistakes or failures.

It was precisely because of the requirements of the Han Governor, and the importance of military training and guidance for warfare through in-depth study and use of wargame deduction, that the wargames of the Righteous Army were now divided into tactical and strategic levels.

"The location is southern Anhui, the enemy Taiping Army, the enemy general Chen Yucheng, the enemy army has 75,000 troops......"

In the combat map room, Zhang Yu, Li Yunshan and others were all looking at all kinds of materials attentively, and they were now like commanding a battle, as the commander of the campaign, working hard for the victory of their side.

"Our army is the third task force, composed of the 17th, 18th, 21st, 23rd, 45th regiments and the 6th and 7th independent cavalry battalions, with a total strength of 20,000 ......."

With the order of the commander, a "fierce" war began, on the map, the temporary task force composed of five infantry regiments "quickly launched", attacking the enemy from many directions, and the enemy army was also unceremonious, on the one hand, they held on to the city, on the other hand, they sent troops to attack the logistics line of the task force, the complex mountainous terrain in southern Anhui, so that their attacks could always be easily successful, and in order to ensure the logistics line, the young staff officers had to use the only mobile forces in their hands - Two cavalry battalions were used to protect the logistics line.

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"The enemy mobilized an army of 25,000 men to attack the flank of our army......"

As the war games continued, Task Force 3, which was absolutely weak in terms of numbers, became extremely dangerous.

"Hmmm......"

Looking at the "progress" of the war, Zhu Yifeng's brows furrowed, he did not directly enter the combat map room, but obtained the combat progress in the next hall.

"Linus, it's impossible!"

Turning his head to look at Linus, Zhu Yifeng said.

"The Taiping army does not have this spirit of active attack at all, according to the deduction of Chen Yucheng's department, his 75,000 troops are completely elite, not worse than ours! If that's the case, how can this battle be fought? The General Staff is too biased in doing so! ”

Although as early as two years ago, the Righteous Army set up a staff department, and at the request of Zhu Yifeng, the staff department was given a lot of power, but there has always been no chief of staff in the staff department, as for Linus, he has always been Zhu Yifeng's military adviser, performing the duties of chief of staff.

The reason why it is mentioned is biased is that Chen Yucheng's Taiping army, which is judged in this war game, is a modern army, not a Chinese-style thief.

"According to the information currently available, among Chen Yucheng's 75,000 troops, no more than 15,000 have modern firearms, and their combat effectiveness is extremely poor, if it is in field conditions, let alone 25,000 people, even if it is 50,000 people, it will not be able to pose a threat to the flank of the Third Army, and then their attack on the logistics line, the Taiping Army has no such awareness at all!"

"It's true that the Taiping Army doesn't, but, Your Excellency, our enemies in the future have such a consciousness!"

Linus immediately argued.

"Speaking of your army in China, there will be no enemy who is your opponent, the Righteous Army is a modern army, and the Taiping Army is still stuck in a few centuries ago, even if they use rifled guns, they cannot change this essence, I believe that in field conditions, a bayonet charge can completely defeat them, and two cavalry battalions only need to wield a saber to chase and end the battle, but, Your Excellency, your enemy cannot always be the Taiping Army!"

As a military adviser to Hantu, it was only in the last year, with the addition of a number of retired Prussian officers, that Linus never left the military academy to play the role of chief of staff as an advisor.

Your enemy can't always be the Taipings!

Linus's reminder made Zhu Yifeng's eyebrows furrow, but he didn't interrupt him. Indeed, his enemy is not just the Taiping Army, in fact, even the Eight Banners Foreign Gun Team cannot pose a threat to itself at all, who will be China's enemy in the future?

Only the Western powers!

"As a great power in the East, once you complete the unification of the country, at that time, your army will need to face the British, the French, and not the European army, not this army of a mob, if your officer corps is accustomed to fighting in the same way as a mob, then what awaits them in the future will be a disaster! A devastating disaster! And they ...... They are the best graduates of the military academy and will be the core of the Army officer corps in the future, and if they are accustomed to seeing war the way they treat the mob, then congratulations! Defeat is not far away! ”

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