And after Zhu Dadian learned of the Huainan victory of the Runing Army, he immediately counted the army and rushed to the Huainan section of the Huai River. When they arrived, they were immediately shocked by the corpses that were all over the river and the ground. What kind of strong army does it take to achieve such results?

But after the shock, there was great joy, although the body was partially washed away by the river, but there were nearly 30,000 left, which were all given to them by Wu Shigong, who they thought was bragging!

So he immediately began the work of cutting off the head and burying the body, and then a sprinkling Huainan victory was also concocted and completed under Zhu Dadian's personal pen.

And the actions of Zhu Dadian's department also brought great panic to the peasant rebels under the city of Luzhou. They thought that Zhu Dadian had come to the aid with heavy troops. Therefore, the situation at this time was extremely unfavorable to the peasant rebel army, and the peasant rebel army could only give up attacking Luzhou, so on the morning of the third day of February, Zhang Xianzhong ordered the troops to withdraw from the siege and attack Chaoxian instead.

At this time, the morale of Zhang Xianzhong's troops, who had been defeated again and again, was a little low. But Zhang Xianzhong retreated from Luzhou and turned to the Jiangbei area, but conquered Chaoxian in one fell swoop.

Chao County is located in the northern part of Anhui Province, far from Fengyang. Zhang Xianzhong arrived unexpectedly, at this time it was Yan Kuan who was the magistrate of the county, and someone reported to him that there were thieves coming, and he did not think twice about ordering the messenger to be whipped. Soon, he learned again that the rebels had arrived in the city, and he was so frightened that he fled in a sedan chair, but as soon as he arrived at the north gate of the city, he happened to encounter the peasant rebels and immediately became a prisoner.

The peasant rebel army entered the city, killed the magistrate Yan Kuan, seized the big seal of the magistrate, opened the prison, and released more than 200 people who were imprisoned in the prison, all who were willing to join the peasant rebel army. They gave them clothes and weapons.

Then the peasant rebel army went to Shucheng, Wuwei, Liuhe, Qianshan, Taihu, Susong and other places, and won successes one after another. Zhang Xianzhong's troops also received a large amount of supplies, and expanded a large number of soldiers, and the whole team expanded to more than 100,000 like balloons. This peasant rebel army was completely alive again.

At this time, the imperial court's edict also reached the Zhu Dadian Department of the Ming army. Zhu Dadian was transferred to the governor of Fengyang. So he led Yan Dingshan and other Cao soldiers to return to Fengyang to take office.

And Gonggong Luo was dismissed from the errand of guarding the eunuch in Nanjing, and he was facing a cold palace career, and Nanjing Jingying would also return to Nanjing. As for Zuo Liangyu and other Ming troops, they will join the encirclement and suppression army of Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces.

However, all this will not affect Wu Shigong for the time being, because the current war zone is also far away from the control area of the Runing Army. As for Wu Shigong, who returned to the headquarters of the Runing Army, the first task he had to do was to straighten out the command system of the Runing Army.

In the self-summary of this campaign, Wu Shigong believes that the Runing Army is not only grasping the fighter plane, but also commanding on the spot; It is still good to choose tactics and use soldiers' combat skills. Even the discipline, style and bravery are also worthy of praise. There are even some aspects that are quite good.

The only problem that arose was that the highest command system of the Runing Army was somewhat flawed. In other words, Wu Shigong discovered that the current Runing Army has some developed limbs and simple minds.

Instead of achieving a decisive victory in the battle against the peasant rebels, Weishenme's Runing Army, which performed so well, was exhausted by the mobilization of the peasant rebels, and even its own Runan and Guide were brutalized. Zuihou has led to the fall of Fengyang, the capital of China?

There is a reason why the peasant rebel army is indeed powerful and the Runing army is insufficient; There are also reasons for the lack of intelligence and the inaction of friendly forces. But Wu Shigong is not a person who likes to shirk responsibility. He is about finding out the shortcomings in himself and making up for them.

Go back to the source. Wu Shigong found that the passivity of this campaign was because he had misjudged the offensive line of the peasant rebels. Although this kind of self-blame is a bit harsh, because the gods could not have imagined that the peasant rebels would adopt a three-way strategy. However, Wu Shigong still thinks that his Runing Army has great shortcomings.

If the Runing Army had worked out all possible operational scenarios before the war, even if Wu Shigong had misjudged it, those local troops would have been able to respond in time according to the operational situation, at least not as big as now. It can even nip the signs of danger in the bud.

Therefore, the first task of Wu Shigong's return this time was to set up an organization similar to the General Staff Headquarters in later generations, and all the operational affairs of the Runing Army were handled by this organization. Don't let Wu Shigong take on the highest command task alone, and work together, with the advice of a large group of staff officers. Perfect all combat jihua.

To be sure, Wu Shigong is indeed a very strong learner, and he is indeed able to gain experience from each experience and grow rapidly.

Wu Shigong can be regarded as touching the threshold of modern warfare. Because Germany, as the initiator of modern warfare, was marked by the establishment of the famous German General Staff.

In addition to being responsible for all affairs in the army, the General Staff of the German Army played two major roles:

One point is the formulation of combat jihua. For example, the famous Schlieffen Jihua in World War I. Although a German general once jokingly said: on the first day of any military jihua, you will find that his arguments are wrong.

However, as long as there is Jihua, it will always be able to control the course of the war, and as long as it can give full play to the strengths of its own army, it will always be able to achieve its own strategic goals.

Another point is the training of the officer corps. In the German army, the best military cadets produced by military schools were not assigned to combat units. They will all go to the General Staff and serve as orderlies for senior generals.

Although they also had to do some trivial work of delivering water and pouring tea, these orderly soldiers were able to learn a lot of valuable experience from the words and deeds of those high-ranking officers, which could not be learned in books.

It was only after some time that these orderlies were sent to the German army as junior officers. When the junior officers competed with each other and the outstanding ones appeared again, the Germans would once again send these officers to the General Staff as staff officers.

In this way, these officers were trained back and forth from the grassroots level to the headquarters, resulting in these officers not only having rich experience in leading troops, but also being able to look at strategic issues from the perspective of the overall situation of the country, so in the first and second Shijie Wars, the German army established this Shijie powerful army that is second to none. And the officer corps trained by the General Staff of the German Army also contributed to this.

Therefore, many military experts believe that in the second shijie, the best military general of the German army was not Rommel, since he never entered the general staff of the German army. Although the author disagrees with this view, I have to admit that Rommel's strategic vision is indeed somewhat lacking.

According to the author, there are two outstanding German generals in the second shijie, not Guderian and Manstein, but Air Marshal Kesselring and Field Marshal Moder.

Not many people know about these two well-known marshals, but compared to their military exploits, they are really a bit of a pearl. As for their lives, those who are interested in books can take a look at it, and you will suddenly find that so many famous battles were actually commanded by them. And these two marshals are precisely the best trained by the German General Staff.

In fact, it turned out that in Wu Shigong's personal army, there was also a prototype of the German General Staff training officers. Although Wu Shigong does not have any military knowledge in modern times, in the information society, he can always obtain some military information in various media, intentionally or unintentionally, so it is not at all surprising that he has the idea of establishing such a command system similar to that of the modern army.

What's even more gratifying is that Wu Shigong also decided to take this step, so the war machine of the Runing Army was finally installed with a brain.

Since we have decided to establish such an organization, let's start with a name. It is certainly not possible to use the modern term "General Staff", otherwise, Wu Shigong will waste a lot of spit explaining to others.

So Wu Shigong came up with a decent name - the Military Orders Department. However, compared to Wu Shigong's painful naming level, giving such a name is already his super-level performance.

As for the director of the Military Orders Department, it must be Xue Yongli. In the previous Runing Army, although Xue Yongli and Zhou Xun were the chief and deputy commanders, and they seemed to have a lot of power, neither of them actually controlled the army.

When the Runing Army was fighting, it was often Wu Shigong who personally recruited, and they also appeared as Wu Shigong's deputies in many cases. So it's a bit of a waste of these two talents.

And this time to straighten out the command system of the Runing Army, Wu Shigong also decided to put Xue Yongli and Zhou Xun in the right position.

Then it's time to choose a deputy for Xue Yongli. Wu Shigong is interested in four people, namely Zug, Shumo, Gonzalez and Xue Cunyi.

Zug has a more flexible brain; Shumo is good at offensive and defensive warfare; Gonzalez had experience with artillery and sailors; Xue Cunyi, on the other hand, will become the head of the army's independent intelligence department.

This time, Wu Shigong also found that the Shan Chuan Division had done too much in intelligence work, which led to the late news that the Runing Army had come to attack the peasant rebels on the North Road. Therefore, this time, we simply set up an independent intelligence agency for the armed forces, and then assign the departments and personnel of the Yamakawa Division to draw maps, which will be more efficient, and will also be able to form competition and mutual supervision among intelligence agencies.

Of course, Wu Shigong also has good intentions for this staffing. Because except for Xue Cunyi, the other three deputy directors are not from the original Xue Mansion guards.

In addition, three other divisions will be established in the Military Orders Division. one is in charge of logistics; One is responsible for the management of medical care, including physicians and veterinarians; One is responsible for armament. And how these three departments will be equipped will also wait until the establishment of the Military Command Department. (To be continued......)