Listening to Zhao Xu's words, even if these four people were big fools, they also heard the irony in Zhao Xu's words, and frightened the four of them Jia Ye for a while, and knelt down heavily in front of Zhao Xu in great fear, and said in a trembling voice: "The ministers are guilty." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"I'm very curious, the four of you can tell me, what it's like to put these thousands of pounds of field heavy artillery on those not too big inland river warships under your command, isn't it particularly majestic, you haven't fired a single cannon, and when you go back, you will try to see what kind of state the loach ship will be in after the field heavy artillery is activated." There are also cavalry artillery, those used for rapid towing and movement on the plains and grasslands, for quickly stabilizing positions and for quickly expanding the battle line while the enemy is unprepared, since the four of you are used as shore defense artillery, it is really hehe......" Zhao Xu looked at the four people and kept shaking his head and said

Looking at the four leading generals kneeling under the dragon case and trembling like chaff, Zhao Xu said to them very helplessly: "Get up, whenever there is a very powerful new weapon, it will always be accompanied by the users who blindly respect and compete for equipment for these weapons, and it is also because of the huge and incomparable power that all blind users will forget how to quickly integrate it into the existing military force, which is my fault. I have not given you a real understanding of the true meaning of the use of artillery, and the ways and means of practical application. In this way, just because I am talking in this empty language, you may have a mustard in your heart, or you may not be convinced, so let's have a sand table deduction, the same troops, the same equipment, the staff officers at all levels of the General Staff serve as the invaders of the enemy country, and you are the generals who defend the territory, and fight a war without gunpowder on the sand table you are familiar with, Xiaodouzi. ”

"The slave is here."

"Set up the General Staff."

"Yes, Your Majesty." After receiving the order, Xiaodouzi sang and said loudly: "Your Majesty has a decree, set up the General Staff-"

In the General Staff, Zhou Tong and Lu Ci have led all the nearly 100 imperial combat staff officers of the General Staff to wait here, a huge area of the country's detailed topographic sand table has been completely placed in the center of the General Staff Hall, two colors of all kinds of small flags, arrows, soldier ornaments, artillery ornaments, chariot ornaments, etc., all the props used for the war deduction on the sand table, all have been placed on both sides of the sand table, quietly waiting for the arrival of the deduction personnel on both sides

"The purpose of today's exercise is to test the many reactions of the leading generals of our army in dealing with the war, as well as the handling of many unexpected situations during the war, such as the ability to adapt to changes when you encounter a surprise attack, the practical application ability of various combat capabilities in positional warfare when facing the enemy, and the different tactics displayed due to the addition of various artillery pieces in our (country) army. The combat capability of the generals under various environmental and geographical conditions was comprehensively assessed, and it was deduced that the two sides had the same strength, with a total of 300,000 soldiers on each side, the same weapons and equipment and military branches, and the same quality of soldiers, and the staff officers of the General Staff Headquarters were the attacking side, with a total strength of more than 100,000 troops arriving on the south bank of the Yangtze River or occupying 10 state capitals, and the attacker surrendered or the defending side destroyed all the enemy's living forces. The outbreak of the war was from late August to mid-September, and the entire Jiangnan area was in the rainy season, and Guangnan East Road, Fujian Road, and Jiangnan West Road were affected by typhoons. Alright, you all start preparing. After speaking, Zhao Xu sat on the chair next to the sand table, slowly drank the big tea leaves, and quietly watched the formation of the two sides at the beginning

Although it is a sand table deduction, but the contest between the two sides is extremely fierce, these officers who came back from the southern Xinjiang front line to report on their work are some military generals who have really experienced the war of blood and fire, their combat experience is all unusually rich, and the method of using soldiers is very tricky and difficult, the way of using troops is almost ruthless, attacking the enemy must be saved, directly hitting the enemy's vital points, and even in several key deduction battles, Zhou Dong and Lu Ci and other imperial staff officers were forced into an extremely unfavorable passive place, but, After several large-scale battles on the sand table, the defenders were unable to defend themselves due to the lack of ammunition of the artillery, and due to the improper protection of the artillery, the battle loss rate and the destruction rate of the artillery had been high, so in the middle and late stages of the sand table deduction war, the generals on the defending side fell into an extremely passive situation, and it could even be said that they were beaten everywhere, and finally assisted by the bombardment of the attacker with great artillery superiority. The generals on the defending side were eventually defeated with hatred

However, just this defeat on the sand table, these operational staff officers of the Imperial General Staff did not seem to completely convince these arrogant generals from the front line of the southern frontier of the Empire.

"Your Majesty, the ministers are not convinced, and the ministers think that this is just a defeat on the sand table, and it does not prove the lack of ability of the ministers, so the ministers think that we should conduct a few more sand table deductions, otherwise how can you know more about the strength of the ministers, Your Majesty!" Zhu Huaqing, the general of the Chengdu Fulu Unified Army Division, stood up and said to Zhao Xu with a fist

"You're done?" Zhao Xu said expressionlessly

"I'm done." Zhu Huaqing replied to Zhao Xu's words

How could Zhao Xu let these guys talk more, he directly said to them: "Are you not convinced? Why are you not convinced? If this war is true, half of the rivers and mountains south of the Yangtze River in my country have almost become enemies, and you still have the face to tell me here that you are not convinced, you are all generals who have unified the army for many years, do you still think that war is really like this game of sand table deduction, and you can do it again if you are not convinced? , Don't you have the idea of summing up the lessons after you lost, General Zhu Huaqing, you shouldn't be resentful of your own disobedience now, you should be grateful that this is just a deduction on the sand table, not true, otherwise, this group of people you present, after the washing of this war, there are still a few pieces of material left, and you still have the face to tell me that you are not convinced? ”

"Minister, minister is guilty." When Zhu Huaqing said that he was not convinced, he really didn't consider what the outcome of the war would be if this deduction was real, so as soon as he heard Zhao Xu's words, he was shocked into a cold sweat on the spot, and knelt down in front of Zhao Xu to plead guilty, the reason is very simple, if the leading generals of the Song Dynasty are defeated, they will be killed (to be continued). )