Everyone wanted to find some information from the Supreme Commander about next year's fighting, but what was destined to disappoint them was how they could see such a matter of military security...... Moreover, the theme of today's meeting is the need for logistical support rather than the meeting on operational direction and thinking, so Deng Shifeng naturally cannot give them a twisted talk.

"Hey, don't spy on the military here, I haven't copied enough of the secret manual, have you...... When I go back, everyone copies it three times and sends it to me!! ”

For this kind of thing, without Deng Shifeng's departure, Luo Dan, the top military commander and regiment commander, had to remind these subordinates in time, and after hearing Luo Dan's reminder, the commanders of all large and small battalions realized that it was indeed inappropriate for them to spy on the battle plan in this way, and the content of the meeting was ...... It is back to the logistics support......

However, in terms of logistical needs, these front-line commanders do not have much long-term vision, they only reflect how compressed biscuits are unpalatable, vegetables are difficult to solve, similar to diesel gas lamps, marching tent lights, too many odd items are not conducive to marching, lack of horses and animal power to pull these practical problems; For these problems, the trainee staff officers have recorded them one by one, some of which need the help of the industrial department, and some of which require more effective work and efficiency of their logistics department.

The meeting lasted for more than two hours before it ended, but the big meeting was over, and there was still a small meeting, that is, a small meeting between Deng Shifeng and Luo Dan, the top commanders of several battalions and regiments, and the trainee staff officers. If it is said that the big meeting just now is to improve the details of the entire logistics, then this small meeting is a big decision on the development of the overall direction of logistics, and how much capacity the logistics can have is actually an important basis for determining the direction of Deng Shifeng's next operation.

"Teacher, have you really decided to fight across provinces instead of continuing to expand our territory in Guangxi?"

Seeing that there were no outsiders, the awl asked Deng Shifeng curiously, as a battalion commander, he was not qualified to know Deng Shifeng's next military plan as early as Luo Dan, so not only him, but also several other battalion commanders also had curious looks.

"What do you think is most lacking in our strategy right now?"

Deng Shifeng did not answer the question of the awl, but asked instead. The awl that was asked could not answer such a question from a strategic level, land? Grain? Industrial? Although these things were lacking, they didn't seem to be the most important, and the awl, who couldn't find an answer, turned his head to look around at the other commanders around him for help, but all he could get was the same shaking his head.

"Don't think about it, what we strategically lack the most is population!"

Deng Shifeng walked to the map wall and put away the national map scroll, revealing the map of Guangxi behind it.

"At present, the military guards set up by the Ming Dynasty in the central, eastern and part of the south of Guangxi have been knocked out by us, especially after the guests brought a granary in Guangxi to be controlled by us, the grain has been relatively sufficiently guaranteed. But you see, in the areas we control now, except for the prefectures and counties around Liuzhou City, which are relatively populated areas, most of the territory belongs to the mountainous areas with sparse population, why can we only expand the scale of six or seven thousand people this year, and we can overcome the practical difficulties of insufficient basic non-commissioned officers, but more importantly, we don't have so many young people of school-age and young people with primary education for us to recruit......

Looking at the whole Guangxi, the more densely populated area of Guilin Mansion is the first, followed by Liuzhou in the middle and Wuzhou in the east, and there are only a lot of people in the south after Nanning to Longzhou, and the other places are left in the Taiping Mansion in the southwest of Guangxi. Not only are these places far from our base camp, but the local Tusi have been operating here for many years, and it is difficult for us to quickly control the people at the bottom after destroying their military forces as we are now, so it is completely thankless to launch a deeper plunder war to the south. ”

"Not to mention the west, the areas bordering Guizhou and Yunnan are sparsely populated and mostly ethnic minorities, and most of them are still in a semi-primitive state of slash-and-burn cultivation...... Let's wash and sleep......"

"So now the remaining options for us are to go north and east, Guilin Mansion in the north, Wuzhou Mansion and Pingle Mansion in the east are all more populated areas, and it seems that you can get at least 200,000 people by taking these lands, but you can see for yourself how big this land is, after taking these lands, we need to garrison at least more than 4,000 troops on these lands, and at least 1,000 people need to control these lands...... If I were given three to five years or so to digest it, I would choose to play these turf, but for now, ......"

Although Deng Shifeng did not say the next words, several officers could clearly know what the latter half of the words were. And Deng Shifeng explained this, everyone can basically know the ultimate intention of this cross-provincial jump operation, such a battle is not to actually control the territory as the main purpose, but to establish a combat bridgehead and plunder the population!

"The Art of War is good: those who have been soldiers for a long time and the country will benefit from it, and there is nothing to be done. Therefore, those who do not fully understand the harm of using troops cannot fully understand the benefits of using soldiers. The meaning is clear, I have never seen that the longer the war is fought, the better it is for the country. Therefore, people who do not know how much harm a war can bring will not understand how much benefit a war can bring. ”

"Every time we fight abroad, although we harvest a lot of territory and various materials every time, but the consumption is also huge, you may not have felt much when you were a platoon commander and company commander before, but each of you is now a battalion commander, a battalion of four main infantry companies is nearly 900 people, plus there is also a battalion artillery company and guard communication reinforcement platoon in the battalion, the combat strength alone exceeds more than 1,000 people! If you include the Heavy Civilian Strong Company, as well as the team with temporary embedded configuration in battle, the number is much higher......"

"And we also have to count the logistics support teams of the water battalion, a battalion fighting outside, in the rear needs at least the same number of direct personnel to carry out logistics work, this is still the convenience of taking advantage of the ship transportation by water, if it is by land, the logistics personnel will be doubled...... With so many people going out to fight, people eating horses and chewing on take-out ammunition consumed, if there is not enough income to support it, I can't think of any reason for me to send troops! ”

If you don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, the list of various materials consumed in each battle in the mountain village is enough to make Deng Shifeng and Qin Er feel a pain in their hearts...... It's all a little money! Moreover, many materials have a certain reserve and base after long-term accumulation and production...... Wood has birds......

Seeing that several senior commanders were basically enlightened, Deng Shifeng did not continue to reveal more strategic intentions, but turned to tactical needs and told these battalion-level officers:

"You don't have to worry about where to reduce our consumption, this is not your specialty, these things are decided by our high-level management, what you have to do is to train good soldiers and cultivate more excellent seedlings to maintain combat effectiveness! I know that you haven't met any decent opponents in the past two years now, and you have nowhere to go, so don't worry, until next year...... Yes, you guys fight!! ”

Getting Deng Shifeng's promise made the officers burn a fire in their hearts, as a soldier, what they are most afraid of is not the rain of bullets but the absence of war, especially these senior generals who have been slowly trained from the grassroots level, have grown up through large and small battles, and no war will make their hearts empty.

After determining the operational intent and purpose, all that remains is for these commanders to conduct combat exercises in order to determine the ratio of the best troop strength to the personnel with their own baggage in different combat modes. In fact, this kind of deduction should be the work of the trainee staff officers, but the trainee staff officers are extremely lacking in actual combat experience, and what they have learned is only a theoretical consumption figure, so at present this kind of deduction work is still carried out by the commanders of each battalion.

Because everyone has come up from the grass-roots commanders step by step, and they have a good understanding of their own combat methods and the enemy's combat capabilities, and there are many crooked tactics in small units, the process of deduction is very intense, and all kinds of tricks and tricks are frequent, and various means such as poisoning in the water, night raids, and disturbing warfare emerge one after another......

However, because of the knowledge of the roots, although everyone's deduction is fierce, there is no good way to directly decide the surname.

Don't think about the means of cutting off the logistics supply line, everyone is looking at their own lifeline, and although the four-two compressed dry food is really not very delicious, but it is really urgent to see that this thing can withstand a day of low-intensity consumption with a pack, if you don't use the method of heavy siege and clear the wall, as long as they are given the opportunity to send small troops to wander around to collect food, it is difficult for you to starve the soldiers with food such things.

And under heavy siege, the forward troops will definitely ask for help from the rear, as long as you can't take advantage of the reinforcements to arrive to conquer the bridgehead, what awaits you is a counterattack massacre after the defenders and reinforcements join forces. However, in terms of attack, the defenders will not lie on the chopping board and let you slaughter it, and under the cover of various light and heavy firepower and the fortification system of the bridgehead, how many corpses are you going to fill this hole with?

After a long time of deduction, the commanders gave several combat plans are not too satisfactory, the more stable plan requires too many troops and consumes too much, and the troops are too small, although the flexible surname is strong, the results may not be too much, after all, everyone is going for the population and material resources, and it is better not to send troops if they can't get anything...... (To be continued.) )