"How's the troll?" Zhao Pu asked.

To guard Xiangyang, the navy is very important, and a strong navy is the foundation of guarding Xiangyang.

"There are three ships in the navy, hundreds on the warship, and there are hundreds of water sentry horses, victories, ten wings, big flying, flag jie, sand control, water flying horses, etc., a total of hundreds!" At this time, it was Fan Zongyin, the squire of the military department, who answered.

Zhao Pu took a deep breath and said, "To be specific, how many are hundreds?" ”

Two or three hundred ships are also hundreds, and seven or eight hundred ships are also hundreds, and the gap is big? Don't come to the time of war, you don't even know how many warships?

"I don't know this Weichen?" Fan Zongyin's face unconsciously broke out with sweat.

Zhao Pu shook his head and said, "Next time, remember, the numbers should be accurate, don't be so vague!" ”

"Yes!"

"Xiangyang hangs alone in the north of the Yangtze River, which is not easy to guard, but it can only be stubbornly resisted!" Zhao Pu said, "If Xiangyang is broken, the battle line will be cut in half halfway, then the west can be surrounded by two roads, and the east can go down the river and smash Suzhou and Hangzhou, this battle can not be retreated!" ”

The ministers of the DPRK and China could only agree, and His Majesty the Emperor was determined to defend Xiangyang, and put the strategic focus on Xiangyang and the middle road.

"The northern plains are the mainstay, the emphasis is on the cavalry, and whoever controls the cavalry controls the initiative in the war; In the south, the river network is dense, and the emphasis is on the boats, and whoever controls the powerful naval army will have the initiative in the war! Zhao Pu said, "Guarding Xiangyang, focusing on the navy, only a strong navy can ensure that the advance can be attacked, the retreat can be defended, and the initiative of the war can be guaranteed!" ”

"This battle is heavy on a delay, dragged on for a year and a half, dragged the Jin army's financial resources to dry up, the troops were exhausted, and the Jin army had to retreat, and our army was victorious. But you can't defend passively. Be active in defense; The offense can't be risky either, but a safe one! ”

Zhao Pu gave the keynote of this military meeting.

Looking at the civil and military forces present, Zhao Pu sighed slightly, the civil and military at this time is still a little naïve, still immature, if you want to grow up quickly, you must pay "tuition", but I just hope that the tuition is not too expensive.

"I'm going to set up a military department!" Zhao Pu said.

"What is the military department?" The civil and military people present immediately had questions in their hearts.

Zhao Pu explained: "The way of war lies in the temple calculation, and the more you win. Less wins. Our dynasty lacks strong soldiers, there are no famous generals, no strong soldiers of the Han and Tang Dynasties, no generals of Sun Wu, Bai Qi, and Han Xin, which is the plan of the day. Only by clumsy ingenuity can we gather the wisdom of all people. Make a battle plan together! ”

Army. It is equivalent to the staff of later generations.

In the Privy Council of the Great Song Dynasty, it also plays a part of the role of the General Staff, but it is a pity that it really plays a very small role, and most of the time, it plays a negative role.

At this time. The military academy has not yet cultivated too many high-quality talents, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are not competitive, and what is more serious is that the party struggle is extremely fierce, so the military department can only be established. Plays a staff role.

After describing the responsibilities of the military department, Zhao Pu said: "The military department is not in the establishment of the imperial court, it is only a temporary establishment, and the personnel are appointed by me personally, mainly responsible for formulating the battle plan and the long-term strategy of our army. The battle plan must be detailed and appropriate, and it must be flexible in terms of specific commands, but on some key issues, it must be extremely detailed! ”

Temporary establishment, on the other hand, means that it can be dissolved at any time; It does not belong to the imperial court organs, and it is easy to control, and there is less party strife.

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Some institutions are not incorporated into the imperial court and are private institutions, and it is difficult for the ministers of the court to interfere and restrain them. The characteristics of these institutions are often very low-grade, or even non-grade, but they are responsible for some private matters, influencing the emperor's decision-making in terms of general policies.

For example, the internal guard, which is specially responsible for security and intelligence, mainly to monitor the ministers of the DPRK and China, and to probe the privacy of the ministers of the imperial court. This institution is naturally disliked by the ministers, and naturally opposed by the ministers. It can't be formally established at all, it can only exist in private, in the form of a private guard.

And the same is true of the military department!

In the Great Song Dynasty, the Ministry of War, the Privy Council, and the various armies restrained each other. The Privy Council has the power to transfer troops, but not the right to command troops; The Ministry of War has the right to command troops, but it does not have the right to transfer troops; And the armies of the various ministries are not allowed to be mobilized at all without orders from above. In short, the three of them restrained each other and cooperated with each other to hold the military power in their hands to the greatest extent and avoid the warlord separation.

But between the three, there is a lack of a brain-like existence that coordinates with each other.

So, Zhao Pu thought of the General Staff Department and founded the Military Department.

The main purpose of setting up a military department is to concentrate thinking, make all-out efforts to formulate a rational military battle plan, reduce party strife, and reduce internal friction.

It's just that when the military department was set up, Zhao Pu did not plan to set him up as a court institution, in order to prevent the expansion of the military department's power. As the war continues, the power of the military will expand, even overpowering many imperial institutions, which will destabilize the court and cause a series of terrible consequences.

All of you here are shrewd people, and they immediately understood where the military headquarters was.

If you talk about the cabinet, it is the head of the civil ministers; And the military department, this is the head of the army. In the war in the coming years, the military department will inevitably occupy an important position. And if it can occupy a place, it also means the expansion of the right to speak.

"Your Majesty, how many people are in the military department?" Zhao Ding was the first to ask.

"Those who enter the military department must know the soldiers. Enter the military headquarters. The number of people is determined according to the specific situation, temporarily eight people, if the situation changes, it can be appropriately increased or decreased! Zhao Pu said vaguely. In his vision, the main members of the military department will be mainly the students of the military academy, with the main generals of the eight-character army as the framework, forming a whole.

Then, Zhao Pu gave a general account of the staff functions of the military department.

China had the idea of temple calculations very early, and in the Song Dynasty there was a simple staff system, but from the beginning to the end, it did not degenerate into a real staff organization.

Fighting a war depends more on the experience of military generals.

If the generals are experienced, grasp the enemy's flaws, and defeat the enemy, they will be victorious; On the contrary, if the generals have less experience, they will be defeated by the enemy and annihilated. In the command of major battles, it is often relied on the marshal, the battle that is taken for granted, or some dog-headed military divisions, you say a word, and the marshal finally makes a multiple-choice question, and if he chooses the right one, he will win; If you choose the wrong one, you will lose your pants and you will not have any pants.

At this time, war is more of an art, and it all depends on the level of the two sides.

Zhao Pu, on the other hand, wants to turn the war into mathematics, obtain accurate information, know the pros and cons of both sides, and deduce various data to make the various variables of the war determinable!

The role of the military department is to turn this art into mathematics.

This kind of transformation may suppress the talent of some famous generals and may reduce the appearance of some great victories, but it will also reduce the mistakes of some generals and reduce the occurrence of big defeats. (To be continued......)

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