"Some people may say that, as the name suggests, a staff officer is a person who gives advice." Speaking of this, Wang Sirui paused, observed the expressions of the students below, and then continued: "This kind of understanding is not right or not! ”

"For modern warfare, the staff officer is a complete system, a system that is free from the military system, second only to the army commander-in-chief, and this system will play an extremely important role in future wars, and even, if necessary, this system can temporarily replace the army commander-in-chief.

The complete staff system is top-down, and there is not much gap between it and the current system of the armed forces, but there is a big gap. At each level of the army, there will be a commander of the army and an adjutant of the army. But at every level of the army, there is a whole team of staff.

For example, if our military department establishes a general staff in the future, then this general staff department will have a chief of general staff, one or two deputy chiefs of the general staff, and under these three, there will be a staff team of no less than 20 people.

In the same way, the same is true of the staff officers of the division headquarters, and the number of them may be a little larger than that of the staff of the military headquarters. Staff officers are generally only deployed to battalion-level units, and when they arrive here, the number of staff officers will drop dramatically, with a battalion chief of staff, a deputy chief of staff, and two battalion staff officers, a staff group of four people.

This is my positioning for the establishment of the staff system, so let's talk about the responsibilities of the staff officer. Wang Sirui looked at the students who listened carefully below, as well as the thoughtful Wang Shizhen, and was very satisfied.

Although he does not belong to the staff system in later generations, he still has some understanding of the staff system, so there is no problem in telling these people the responsibilities of the staff officers, as for the specific methods in the later period, this depends on Wang Shizhen's training, Wang Sirui can't always stay here to give lectures.

"To give a simple example, for example, I am a regiment commander, and I ordered my troops to occupy Liulichang, because the geographical location here is more important, if we occupy this place, our army can drive straight in, and thus occupy the entire capital. On the contrary, the offensive of our army will be blocked.

Then, under normal circumstances, some good officers will figure out how to attack to take this place, so as to minimize the casualties of the troops. If it is a mediocre officer, I am afraid that he will wave his hand and directly order the troops to charge, as for how many people die, it is not his control, as long as he takes here.

An excellent staff officer is of great help to the army. Then, after the regiment commander gave the order to enter the palace, the order at this time was not given priority to the troops, but first to the chief of staff of the regiment headquarters, and then the regimental staff officers were gathered together to discuss how to fight this battle.

For example, if a battalion has suffered too many casualties in the previous battle to continue the attack, then at this time it should be considered to let the other battalions take the main attack, and the first battalion should temporarily rest and be used as a reserve.

And the second battalion has too many recruits to fight this kind of hard battle, then the second battalion should go to the task of echoing the side, if in the end you find that all the troops are not suitable for the main attack, then order the battalion that is in a better situation at the moment to serve as the main attack.

At the same time, the staff officers also had to allocate different ammunition to each battalion according to the different tasks of their respective units, and if necessary, even temporarily transfer the heavy firepower of several other battalions to the battalion of the main attack to increase the firepower. If the regimental ammunition reserves are insufficient, the chief of staff needs to go to the top to react and ask the higher authorities to replenish the ammunition.

In addition, the regimental staff officers also need to make emergency plans, for example, what should the main attack battalion do if it encounters difficulties? Is it to transfer another force to continue the offensive? Or take a break for now? This needs to be judged according to the enemy's situation at that time, but no matter what the outcome of the battle will be, before issuing the order to attack, the regimental staff must have a complete set of combat plans here.

Including the attack blocked, the attack failed, the attack went smoothly, the attack was successful, and a series of possible scenarios were planned.

The duties of the regimental staff officer are basically the same here, and at this time, the task should be assigned to the battalions.

At this time, the staff officers of each battalion need to formulate a specific offensive plan for their battalion according to their different tasks.

The general content is similar to what I said before, and I need to analyze which company is suitable for attacking? How is the ammunition configured? Where are the firing points arranged? Attacking from any direction, this is the responsibility of the battalion staff.

When the battalion staff officer makes a specific plan, the battalion commander needs to choose the plan at this time, and most of the time, there are many kinds of plans that can be selected by the troops.

You need to list the possible consequences of each plan, including success or failure, casualties, etc.

The battalion commander then determines which set of plans to use, and once the plan is selected, the task is assigned to each company, and the company commander is responsible for the specific implementation.

Speaking of which, perhaps everyone will think that what I said is a bit redundant, since everything has been done by the staff officers, then what do you want the commander of the army to do? Wouldn't it be enough to just let the staff officer replace the chief officer? ”

Speaking of this, the people below instantly burst into laughter, Wang Sirui just said what was on their minds, almost everyone felt that if the staff officer was so important, then what else did the chief officer do?

Especially those officers above the regimental level, they are already in important positions, and they also know their positions very well, if according to Wang Sirui said, then their role will be infinitely reduced, rather than being a chief officer, it is better to be a staff officer.

Among all of them, Wang Shizhen was the only one who nodded secretly, with a slight hint of shock on his face.

He didn't expect that Wang Sirui would have such a thorough understanding of the position of staff officer, and after listening to Wang Sirui's explanation, Wang Shizhen suddenly felt that he had been a military staff officer for several years, and it seemed that he was less than half of the real staff officer.

In Yuan Shikai's Wuwei Army, he is just a person who is responsible for making plans, and there are special quartermasters in logistics and supply, he only needs to know a general number, how to supply, and there are quartermasters to supply according to the regulations.

Although the method mentioned by Wang Sirui will add tremendous pressure to the staff officers, this method seems to be very useful, and it can help the troops win, at least in terms of firepower deployment and logistics distribution.

"In fact, a good commander is to choose a plan that has the least loss among the many options given to you by the staff officers, but can maximize the results, if these plans do not satisfy you, then you can directly veto them and let the staff officers reformulate other plans.

An excellent boss can pick out the most suitable plan from countless plans, and an incompetent boss can choose the worst plan by denying countless excellent plans.

So, don't underestimate the role of the staff officer, a good staff team can help the chief officer minimize the risk, because they will tell you how many troops will be lost in the end.

Of course, everything is not absolute, and the commander-in-chief can tell his opinion to the staff officers, and then everyone will discuss the plan together.

And an excellent staff team will come up with the most reliable plan in the shortest possible time, so as not to delay the fighter. In wartime, the most feared thing is to make a wrong decision, or to delay the fighter because it takes too long to come up with a plan, or to delay the best time to retreat. ”

'Bang Bang ......'

When the hundreds of students in the audience were still in a daze, and they still didn't understand Wang Sirui's explanation, Wang Shizhen took the lead in standing up and applauding.

Wang Sirui gave him the most complete understanding of staff officers, and Wang Shizhen did this, so he immediately had a lot of ideas in his heart, but he didn't know if this idea was reliable.

But since Wang Sirui can put forward these things, he must also be able to solve those doubts in his heart for himself.

Wang Sirui's first class at the Army Staff College ended like this, and he not only told these future staff officers the importance of staff officers, but also told those officers who were already in important positions not to ignore the importance of staff officers, let alone to look down on them.

After the end of the class, Wang Sirui was pulled into his temporary dormitory by Wang Shizhen, and told the doubts in his heart one by one, and Wang Sirui also answered them one by one, although Wang Sirui's answer was not detailed, but the overall direction was still correct.

And Wang Sirui also took out a complete set of staff outlines and handed them to Wang Shizhen, which contained detailed staff personnel at all levels, personnel responsibilities and so on.

This is written by Wang Sirui who stayed up late in the past few days, and there are even a few detailed cases in it, all of which are real situations on different battlefields, but some details have been changed to make it more in line with this era.

When Wang Sirui left Liulichang, it was nearly eleven o'clock in the middle of the night. It wasn't until he left there that Wang Sirui remembered that he hadn't eaten dinner yet.

Subsequently, Wang Sirui instructed the guards to return to Liulichang, asked people to arrange dinner for Wang Shizhen, and ordered him to watch Wang Shizhen eat dinner before going back.

In this way, after being almost forced to eat dinner by Wang Sirui's guards with guns, Wang Shizhen immediately locked himself in the dormitory, and even lit two oil lamps to make the room as bright as possible.

This night, the lights in Wang Shizhen's house never disappeared, until the next day, Wang Shizhen gave a morning lesson to the students with two big panda eyes, and then took advantage of the lunch time to rest for an hour.

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