If we look at it from the point of view of the artistry of war, the development of the level of productive forces and the artistry of war are reversed. [Full text reading]

The foundation of artistry is complexity and change. However, the higher the level of productive forces and the higher the level of social civilization, the whole process of war will become simpler and more homogeneous.

Even in the war of the era of industrial civilization, there are still many specific battles and details that can fully reflect the artistry of war, but from a macro point of view, war is a confrontation of the comprehensive strength of both sides of the war, and the manifestation of this fact is becoming more and more obvious.

Unlike in the era of agricultural civilization, where the victory or defeat of war was largely influenced by specific generals, in the era of industrial civilization, the role of the general's personal quality in war became smaller and smaller. The comparison of the number of artillery pieces on both sides, the comparison of the mobilization capabilities of the two countries, the comparison of the affordability of the national strength of the two sides, the comparison of the scientific and technological levels of the two sides, and so on, as the elements of hard power, have become the main factors that determine the outcome of the war in the era of industrial civilization.

Specifically, in the case of the Baath Party in 1632, from the point of view of later generations, the battle between the First Army of the Ludong Military Region and the Shandong New Army and the Tianxiong Army of Sun Yuanhua and Lu Xiangsheng was a very tedious process.

Because of the lack of time accumulation, coupled with the Baath Party's factory-based indoctrination method for cultivating talents, this led to a textbook mechanical style of the Baath Army in the course of fighting.

After 10 years of development, under the rule of the Baath Party, there are hundreds of thousands of regular troops with comprehensive military training, more than one million reserve troops with second-class military training, and nearly 10 million people with basic military training.

Anyone who is under the rule of the Ba'ath Party, whether it is an ordinary housewife, a child who has just started school, or even an elderly person receiving government subsidies, as long as the people under the rule of the Ba'ath Party, almost everyone is receiving basic military training on time for a long time, and they can say the content of the "seven-step" basic combat principle of the Ba'ath Army without difficulty.

The so-called "seven-step" combat principle is the basic combat step summed up by Wang Shuhui, a military blind soldier, in accordance with his own understanding. Although the content of the current military education of the Renaissance Army is much more sophisticated and comprehensive than this, the seven steps of "reconnaissance of the enemy's situation," "setting up the battlefield," "long-range strike," "melee killing," "treating the wounded," "preventing the epidemic and clearing the field," and "summing up experience" still guide all the battles of the Renaissance Army.

Let's take the "Cangzhou Campaign" conducted by the First Army Corps of the Ludong Military Region and the troops of Sun Yuanhua and Lu Xiangsheng. After the information of the scouts was sent to the corps staff, the corps staff officers began to perform calculations based on the data provided by the intelligence officers and using calculation tools such as an abacus and a hand-cranked mechanical computer.

After the calculation was completed, the General Staff began to formulate the corresponding battle plan according to the calculation results.

The No. 1 plan formulated by the Staff Headquarters of the First Army Corps of the Ludong Military Region is: Relying on the supply advantages of our army, the city of Cangzhou, which can still support logistics supplies for up to three to seven days (because the data is not accurate enough, can only give such vague results), will comprehensively weaken the enemy's combat capability. If an effective propaganda offensive can be launched against Cangzhou City, it may finally be possible to achieve a peaceful reception of Cangzhou City and the enemy forces in Cangzhou City.

According to the system of the Ba'ath Army, the General Staff is responsible for the daily military training and the development of combat plans on the battlefield according to the situation. As for the specific operational command work, it is undertaken by commanders at all levels, that is, military commanders at all levels.

Under normal circumstances, commanders have the freedom to choose a combat plan and do not have the power to formulate a combat plan. The General Staff, on the other hand, has the power to draw up combat plans and does not have the freedom to choose combat plans.

Therefore, the General Staff Headquarters of the First Army Corps of the Ludong Military Region has drawn up three operational plans for commanders to choose from in accordance with the current information. Of course, as Plan No. 1, the General Staff considered it the most reasonable and effective.

Li Mingde, deputy commander-in-chief and commander of the First Army Corps of the Ludong Military Region, did not like this No. 1 plan, which lacked aggression and appeared very "conservative."

As for Li Mingde, who hopes to achieve real combat exploits in the plan to go north and to raise the combat effectiveness ranking of the entire Ludong Military Region in the Fuxing Army, if he is like the "peddlers" of the General Staff Department, who always cares about the material conditions of his own side and the enemy, and always works tirelessly to keep down his own combat costs, the various units of the Ludong Military Region under his leadership will gain a "conservative" and "passive" reputation in the Fuxing Army.

Zhao Yuanzhi, commander-in-chief and political commissar of the First Army Corps of the Ludong Military Region, is a person with a calm personality. From his point of view, he recognized the plan number one offered by the General Staff.

As a veteran political worker, Zhao Yuanzhi was more concerned about how to better receive and transform the enemy's troops after the battle. According to his experience, after a military strike on the enemy in a siege war, it is generally more difficult to receive and transform the surrendered enemy troops.

You must know that a prisoner who has been bombarded by artillery and bazooka and baptized with grenades and machine guns and a prisoner who has not been bombarded by artillery and rockets and has not been baptized by grenades and machine guns are two completely different states.

Although the powerful firepower of the Renaissance Army can indeed profoundly shock and deter the prisoners, the strong firepower of the Renaissance Army will not only cause huge combat attrition to the enemy, but also most of the prisoners who are shocked and deterred by the strong firepower of the Renaissance Army will suffer serious mental damage, thus affecting the progress of their transformation and education.

Especially from the perspective of follow-up work, after the revival army has carried out large-scale fire coverage of the enemy, it will greatly increase the work pressure of the military medical department.

At present, the Ludong region is carrying out the work of building a medical system in the base areas, which is burdened with heavy burdens, because the military has to provide direct support and assistance to the base areas that are under military control, so the pressure on the military to build its own medical system is already very great. Once a large-scale attack on Cangzhou City was launched, the logistics system of the First Army Corps of the Provisional Formation would not only have to treat the prisoners of the Ming army, but also treat a large number of people who had been accidentally injured in Cangzhou City.

In this way, on the one hand, it is necessary to further increase the work pressure of the health care system, and on the other hand, it is not only difficult to do the ideological work of the Ming army prisoners, but also to increase the political work pressure of the political work system on the people in Cangzhou City.

The masses of the people were accidentally injured by artillery shells and rockets, and they would have a big problem with the Baath Army as the attacking side.

However, also for institutional reasons, in principle, the political commissar, who is the first person in the unit, can only express his opinion in the discussion, just like the chief of staff. In the end, the choice of how to fight and which set of plans to use is still in the hands of the commander who commands the specific battle. In other words, Li Mingde's opinion is in the first place in this regard.

Of course, it is impossible for Li Mingde not to have considered this aspect of the problem, but for him, this aspect of the problem can only be ranked third. The first is, of course, to take into account the ranking of the various units of the Ludong Military Region in the revival army. But on the bright side, the second factor that Li Mingde said is also very convincing.

During the discussion, Li Mingde pointed out to the political commissar and chief of staff a very important problem: Since the establishment of the Ludong Military Region four years ago, it has long lacked experience in actual combat operations. Increasing the combat experience of the troops should be in the first place.

The final outcome of the discussion was that both sides took a step back. According to the No. 2 plan formulated by the General Staff, the Shandong New Army and the Tianxiong Army in Cangzhou City were first besieged and harassed for two days, and then a full-scale and formal military attack was launched on Cangzhou City on the third day.

Unlike the situation in the Fuxing Army, the atmosphere in Cangzhou City is very depressing.

As the leaders of the Ming army, Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Yuanhua, who were standing on the city wall, were two people with completely different personalities. The young Lu Xiangsheng has a relatively positive and enterprising spirit, so this spirit is reflected in the battle, and the fighting style of the Tianxiong Army is relatively active.

Sun Yuanhua, who was older and believed in Catholicism, was a relatively negative and conservative person in his thinking. This character trait of his made the Shandong New Army form a kind of characteristic of defending first and then attacking step by step.

But whether it is Sun Yuanhua or Lu Xiangsheng, when facing the revival army that they almost don't know at all and can't figure out the background of the background, both of them are very cautious.

After all, even from the perspective of appearance alone, the Renaissance Army is very difficult to mess with.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the government of the Ming Dynasty, which had fallen into a comprehensive predicament economically, was no longer able to equip its troops with relatively uniform military uniforms.

Whether it is the Shandong New Army or the Tianxiong Army, they are the kind of troops that bring their own clothes. In addition to the fact that officers at all levels can wear armor and drapes with relatively uniform styles, ordinary soldiers are dressed in a variety of ways. So much so that in the process of melee with the Chuang army, in order to be able to distinguish between friend and foe, the Ming soldiers had to tie a red cloth belt around their arms.

The revival army outside Cangzhou is completely different, with a unified style of black helmets, a unified style of blue military uniforms, a unified style of black cotton boots, a unified style of wrapping straps, and a unified style of guns and ordnance. This unity, coupled with the unity of pace displayed by the Baxing Army because of its high degree of discipline and organization, made the Baath Army, which was quiet except for some sharp whistles and passwords, and could only hear the neat sounds of different frequencies, which showed a very great deterrent effect.

Especially when more than 30,000 troops quickly surrounded Cangzhou City, and quickly completed the construction of fortifications composed of low walls and barbed wire while some troops were guarding the city, Sun Yuanhua and Lu Xiangsheng, who were watching from the city wall, suddenly felt a shudder in their hearts.

After carefully observing the fortifications of the Renaissance Army, the pale-faced Lu Xiangsheng swallowed his saliva and said to Sun Yuanhua, who was pale:

"My lord, you must go out of the city to test the opponent's combat strength."

Sun Yuanhua, who has a deep background in "Western studies", is not the same as Lu Xiangsheng. Sun Yuanhua, who had studied a lot of "Western firearms" and "Nanyang firearms", was already in his heart when he saw that the hundreds of artillery pieces arranged by the Fuxing Army on the side of the city were pushed forward and quickly set up gun positions.

In today's China, perhaps apart from the Baath Party, only Sun Yuanhua has the most direct understanding of the power of artillery. Zeng Dezhao once demonstrated the "terrifying" power of the flowering iron cannon (a smoothbore cannon that fires S timed flowering shells) for Sun Yuanhua. However, at that time, Sun Yuanhua couldn't afford the high price of flowering iron cannons and flowering shells, so he did not purchase the kind of equipment that seemed to be a little "advanced" from Zeng Dezhao, but equipped the troops with relatively unreliable Ming standard Furlong machine guns.

Now seeing that hundreds of Revival Army guns (Krupp 75-mm mountain guns) were arranged in one direction, which were obviously very advanced and powerful, Sun Yuanhua only wanted to pray to God that these guns would not be as powerful as he had speculated.

The placement of machine gun and rocket launcher positions at the city gate was one of the basic actions of the Baath Army in siege warfare. In addition to the tactical necessity, the reason for this is to demonstrate the strong combat effectiveness of the Renaissance Army to the enemy, and to deter the enemy ideologically.

But unfortunately, there is no need for artillery at all, when the revival army appeared outside Cangzhou City, under the fierce fire of the revival army, the Ming army fled back to Cangzhou city in a hurry, under the leadership of Lu Xiangsheng's most brave generals and a team of personal soldiers, rushed out of the south gate of Cangzhou City, and attacked the machine gun and rocket launcher defense positions of the Fuxing Army outside the south gate, a scene that subverted everyone in this era of agricultural civilization appeared.

More than 40 rockets followed an almost straight trajectory and directly covered the S of the four or five hundred people. The battlefield, which had just become war-like because of the shouts of these hundreds of people, was immediately suppressed by the sound of a huge explosion.

After the smoke and dust from the rocket explosion were quickly blown away by the north wind a few minutes later, the position of the hundreds of Ming troops who were bravely charging showed a potholed ground composed of a large number of human and horse corpses.

Sun Yuanhua and Lu Xiangsheng, who were observing the battlefield from the city tower, felt as if their stomachs had been hit hard at the same time, and a strong feeling of nausea quickly rose down their stomachs to their chests.

Unlike Sun Yuanhua and Lu Xiangsheng, who were able to hide their performance well and habitually control their physiological reactions, several Fuxing Army soldiers in the South City Gate fortifications who participated in the actual battle for the first time immediately vomited in the breastwork after seeing the scene on the battlefield. The Ming soldiers, who saw the terrifying scene on the battlefield more directly on the city wall near the south city gate, let out an irrational howl.

This howl, which greatly demoralized the soldiers of the Ming army, who were already in a panic, gave Sun Yuanhua a wake-up call.

Sun Yuanhua, who had completed the comparison of the Ming army's long-range weapons with the rocket range of the Fuxing Army in an instant, immediately issued an order for all the defenders on the city walls to be vigilant and dodge rocket attacks.

When Sun Yuanhua ordered Lu Xiangsheng's personal soldiers to pull Lu Xiangsheng off the city wall, he could only hear Lu Xiangsheng, who had fallen into a sluggish state, repeating meaninglessly the nonsense of "invincible, invincible".

Sun Yuanhua, who quickly escaped from the city wall under the protection of his personal guards, looked at Lu Xiangsheng, who was almost collapsing beside him, and subconsciously shook the cuffs of his official uniform.

There, there was a pill that Sun Yuanhua had prepared a long time ago that could help him be "loyal" to the Ming Dynasty.