A "wicker-edged" wall is a natural barrier and a legal boundary. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 For more than 200 years, since the Manchu Qing Dynasty set the border outside the border as the land of Longxing, the wicker side has been demarcated, and I don't know how many men who have "broken through the Guandong" for their livelihood are buried inside and outside the side wall. That is, in the erosion of these years, the "wicker edge" slowly dilapidated, and even together with the word "breaking through the Kanto", with the lifting of the ban in the Kanto region, it lost its original color, especially after the establishment of the Northeast Province, the large-scale, government-organized immigration, which made the original "breaking through the Kanto" a common thing.

Although "breaking through the eastern part of the country" has become a thing of the past, the broken wicker side wall still stands in northern Liaoning. Only the meter-high earthen fortress and the ancient willows in the sky are left, silently telling people about the past.

After more than 200 years of reproduction, the former "wicker edge" has become a rare forest on the grassland, not only overgrown with giant willows, such as birch, elm, and pine trees have somehow grown on this grassland, forming a forest that stretches for hundreds of miles. The wind on the steppe swayed the weeping branches of the great willow, under which a group of horsemen were each holding a map or note, and an officer with a Prussian beard was discussing something.

If anyone notices the style of military uniforms on their bodies, they will be shocked, the military uniforms on their bodies are not the German style of the Beiyang New Army, the military uniform with two pockets on the chest is a typical Northeast Army style, but where is this? This is nearly 100 miles deep into the realm of Zhili!

How did they get here?

In fact, this group of cavalry was just a routine "summer staff trip" at the Shenyang Army Military Academy, and the Rehe area was used as the Zhili salient. Naturally, it was a must-go place for these future army officers on staff trips.

For the domestic military academy, "staff travel" is something they don't have. The same is true for other countries in Europe and the United States. It is a German patent, a kind of field trip invented by Moltke. The former is just like now, a group of people riding tall horses, wearing military uniforms and carrying weapons, conducting battlefield investigations, collecting battlefield intelligence, and explaining tactics to the terrain. The latter, on the other hand, is disguised as a civilian, and is more focused on battlefield investigation and intelligence gathering than the former's learning nature.

In fact, as soon as this cavalry team of dozens of horsemen crossed the forest formed by the "wicker side", which stretched for hundreds of miles but was only a few miles wide, and entered the territory of Zhili, it attracted the attention of the defenders stationed there, and the same cavalry team watched these people from a distance, but did not make any resistance.

The cooperation between the two sides seems to be quite tacit, although this cavalry team in the northeast has penetrated more than ten miles into the territory of Zhili, but it has not shown the intention of continuing to advance. As for the cavalrymen in their uniforms, they only looked at these people from afar.

As the president of the Army Military Academy "Summer Staff Trip". Hidekyo Tojo is an expert in tactics in the school, even if he is not inferior to those German instructors, and it is precisely for this reason that he will serve as the president of the "Southern Staff Corps", and the school's staff tour group is now divided into two routes, all the way to the north and all the way to the south, the north is to inspect the defensive operations against Russia, and the south is to investigate the attack on the Kannai. Through field trips, the tactical quality of the trainees is improved.

Today, Hidekyo Tojo led these staff students to this is a mountainous plain, except for the undulating hills, there is an endless grassland, if you say that the hidden things are probably only the waist-length grassland and this wicker forest.

"What if a battalion of enemy cavalry pops up on the mountain path while our army is on the march?"

As soon as the words of Hidekyo Tojo, who was the president, fell, the words of the cadets immediately sounded around them, what platoon guns were shooting, what shrapnel was attacking, and even what was saying that the bayonet wall was used to block the enemy troops.

"Now the artillery at hand is only three companies of field artillery. Where should it be placed! ”

If the president asks such questions one after another, if the answer is not satisfactory, he will be severely reprimanded, reconsidered, and then move on to the next battle hypothesis. The situation on the battlefield and the actual situation of the war are constantly changing, and Moltke's invention of the staff trip as a combat training is indeed a very clever invention.

"In this kind of open area, we need to pay more attention to the dispatch of spearheads, as we see now......"

Riding on a horse, raising the whip in his hand, and pointing at the Beiyang cavalry in the distance, Hideyo Tojo taught in stiff Chinese,

"It seems to be open here, but in fact, under the influence of grasslands and rolling hills, the maximum line of sight distance is not more than 1.5 kilometers, and the nearest is not more than 500 meters, so it is undoubtedly inappropriate to send sharp soldiers in a plain state, once they encounter the enemy cavalry, the infantry has no power to resist at all, therefore, in this terrain, we should pay more attention to sending sharp soldiers and increase the search distance......

In the combat plan of the army school, the future southward battlefield is set in the Rehe area, where on the surface it seems to be mountainous terrain, but the undulating area of the "false plain" is also very easy to be overlooked, just like the "false plain" they are facing now, which will undoubtedly make people relax their vigilance.

Theoretically, staff travel should be a course that should only be set up in the army university for training senior officers, but the Shenyang Army Military Academy, which mainly trains officers, has set up this course, and to a certain extent, this may be exactly what the Governor's Office expects from the cadets -- the first of them may become senior generals.

"Actually, you don't understand anything, you can only be a platoon commander at most now, but ......"

In the face of the instructor's instructions, although Sun Jiayue was reluctant to admit it, he still honestly admitted it in his heart, indeed, such a sentence could not but be said to be a blow to him and his classmates who had been studying in the army school for a year, but they had to face this reality.

"You will all be division commanders and brigade commanders in the future......"

Although he has been in China for more than half a year, Tojo Hidekyo is still accustomed to using Japanese-style military titles, and he continued to look at these dark-faced and energetic young officers around him.

"If you can't even master these things, how can you be a staff officer of a division, a brigade, or a regiment in the future, and if you can't even be a staff officer, how can you command combat troops!"

Although there is a serious shortage of officers in the Northeast Army, this does not prevent the army from acting as if there are enough officers, so that the cadets who have just graduated from the military academy will enter the staff officers of the division and regiment headquarters after completing the company probation, and first serve as staff members to be comprehensive, and then go down to the army to become the chief officer. This makes it more proactive on the battlefield.

The president's reprimand only made everyone's faces red, and at this time, Yu Xiaobao, who had been staying on the periphery and trying to do so, heard the president's order,

"Yu Xiaobao, you are the director of the military station."

The military station refers to the organization that ensures the supply of --- ammunition, rations, clothing, horses, and other --- combat materials in the rear, and sends them to the front line of operations according to actual combat needs.

Although the Northeast Army has only fought once, in the course of the campaign, it can be said that the importance of logistics is quite understandable, from before the outbreak of the war to after the outbreak of war, it is better to say that it is fighting, but rather to compete in logistics, battlefield logistics is not just to let ships and vehicles transport some military rations between battlefields. In fact, most of the military rations were solved by local requisition, but even so, after the end of the campaign, logistics support was still one of the biggest problems exposed in the campaign.

Although the army school subsequently hired instructors from the military stations from Germany, according to the establishment of the divisional and regimental staff organs, the staff members were in charge of personnel, the second in charge of intelligence, the third in charge of operations, and the fourth in charge of logistics.

"What is the station director?"

As an officer trainee, he is even inferior to these cadets in some aspects, after all, most of these cadets have experienced half a year of study, and naturally have a certain understanding of the work of the logistics station, but for Xiaobao, a former battalion commander who has just entered the training class and can only go on a staff trip with a group of freshmen, he has no brains at all about the logistics station.

"Hey, brother, what is this station director for?"

smashed Li Ziyuan beside him with his elbow, this guy who was transferred from the Marine Corps for training, Yu Xiaobao asked softly, this guy has been to Hawaii, and people who have been abroad must know what the director of the military station is.

"It's just military rations, just collect some forage or something, and as for ammunition or something, isn't there a baggage team!"

Obviously, this time Yu Xiaobao asked the right person, for Li Ziyuan, he also didn't know about the military station, and felt that the military station was no different from the baggage, so at Li Ziyuan's suggestion, Yu Xiaobao went to prepare like this. As a result, they could naturally meet, and they were naturally reprimanded by Tojo Hidekyo roaringly, and even looked at the forage that Yu Xiaobao had collected with great effort that night, and loudly reprimanded it as a straw bag.

Although for the officers of the Northeast Army, they have a more or less intellectual understanding of the scale and quality of advanced modern warfare in Europe, but in actual operation, it is still beyond their imagination, and even many things are unthinkable to them, and in this case, learning has naturally become their only choice. (To be continued.) )