The huge strategic sand table is placed on the train car, and the terrain of the area where northern Jiangsu and Shandong meet at a glance is clear, and these map information are from Zhao Weiguo. And cooperate with the scouts to cooperate with the field trips, and form an information map.

Ren Di looked at the high and short ravines on the strategic sand table. At present, the army of the Republican Army is gradually becoming professionalized, and its tasks and responsibilities are constantly refined, and this army is not a general, nor is it a weapon to support strong combat effectiveness, but a comprehensive system of cooperation. If you call yourself a famous general, I am afraid that no officer, including Ren Di, will dare to admit it. They are all born with mud legs, and everyone understands each other. All were concentrating on learning about war. Refine the tasks of the army in the study of war. The clearer the refinement of the military task, the simpler the task each person receives, and the more they can concentrate on the task well. The whole army is like a machine that runs in motion.

Just like now, Ren Di's responsibility as a commander-in-chief does not have a say in front-line combat tactics. Ren Di's current military command mission is not as mysterious as in the biographies of famous generals in the past. According to the map and the information brought by the scout. Make a military plan to ensure that your army's supply lines are not threatened, and at the same time find the enemy's vulnerabilities as much as possible.

Ren Di thought far less than the Imperial Army officer opposite. There is no need to worry about the so-called pressure of public opinion. Concentrate on how to defeat your opponent. This war is a group of attentive men against an army of sheep led by the general of the Imperial Army, the Lion.

Now, according to the current situation on the sand table, the arrangement of the three legions of the Imperial Army is very interesting and belongs to the top-heavy type. In the direction of Huaibei, the three army corps in front of them marched side by side, and a long snake formation was formed. The large army was assembled on a front line. There is a problem with this formation, quite a problem.

The officer next to Ren Di looked at Ren Di and didn't speak, and interjected: "So confident in facing your own combat power? Can we try interspersing. Ren Di replied: "The other side is cowardice." "Cowardice?" The staff officers were a little puzzled and waited for Ren Di's answer.

Ren Di said: "The performance of the large corps of the group army in Huaibei that was touted as a jungle tiger is something we didn't expect, and it was also something that the Ming Empire didn't expect, and now the people in the southern capital of the Ming Empire are afraid, very afraid, this group of people feels the danger, so they transfer the pressure to the generals of the three group armies in front of us." This is likely to have a political impact on their military deployments. ”

Ren Di pointed to the wide military offensive side of the imperial army and said, "This formation is an offensive formation. Sun Tzu said in the Art of War that when attacking, it must be like fire and cannot be contained. Since we want to launch a military offensive with this strategic array, we must attack and attack at the offensive, and we must fight all the way when we encounter the enemy, and sweep them all in unison. But now, according to our investigation, the three legions are a bit like three people, all encouraging each other to go first. He hesitated to march into the army, and walked like a big girl walking, looking left and right three times, and was not at ease with the friendly forces on the left and right. ”

Ren Di looked at the officers around him and said, "These waste snacks on the other side are scared, and they put up an offensive poss, but they don't have the determination to attack." "As for putting an offensive poss, what effect does it have if it doesn't move? Ren Di originally had a classic case in the plane.

At the beginning of the Soviet-German war, the Soviet Union formulated a big thunderstorm plan, and the size and quality of the Soviet military forces deployed on the Soviet-German border far exceeded that of Germany: the number of troops, the Soviet army was 1.6 times that of the German army, and the aircraft and tanks were not inferior to Germany, and it can be seen from the maximum range of the T34 that the road was 450 kilometers and the cross-country was 375 kilometers. On June 22, 1941, the Soviet troops, who had deployed offensive formations at home and were preparing to mobilize supplies, waited for a mustache blitzkrieg. The plan for a heavy thunderstorm that was on the offensive line but did not start was pierced by the Germans in its place. Then divide the encirclement. As a result, the Soviet troops in the early days of the Soviet-German war were beaten out of mustaches and suffered amazing losses.

When the officers of the Red Republican Army were thoughtful about Ren Di's words, Ren Di said with a smile: "Of course, the above is my guess, and sometimes my guess is not accurate. We have to grasp the reality, and now the reality is that the other side has made mistakes, and we have to review whether they have any problems before they make up for it, and then give them a treat. ”

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In fact, Ren Di did guess those things in politics. Moreover, the problems of the three major armies of the empire are now worse than Ren Di guessed. Under the urging of several telegrams a day from a group of old men who did not understand military affairs in the Southern Metropolitan Council, the newspapers bombarded with panic every day. The generals of the three armies of the Imperial Army had to give an explanation to Nandu. Therefore, an offensive formation was put up, but because the three group armies were very poorly running-in, they did not trust each other, and they were afraid that they would be hit by one more step, and as a result, when they commented on their merits after the war, they were scolded as incompetent generals who lost their troops and lost generals. Therefore, the three armies, urging each other, began to move forward slowly.

It can be seen here that the military system of the Ming Empire is very problematic, and the Ming Empire has no experience in fighting with a large corps of more than 100,000 people, and it still stays at the level of the Napoleonic Wars, the level of 20,000 or 30,000 people. To judge whether a battle is fought well or not, then it is necessary to judge from the total number of enemies destroyed by this group army and its own losses. They still look at the war with 30,000 people per unit.

We all know that special forces operations, a special forces unit is divided into several squads to perform tasks, a squad climbs upstairs to sniper fire to pinn down, and a squad kicks the door head-on. The casualties and casualties of the two teams in the end are different, but can we say that the special squad with fewer kills and more casualties is incompetent? No, it was precisely this special squad that endured high casualties and completed the most difficult tasks that made the whole operation successful.

The same is true for the operation of a large corps, where a corps is assigned offensive tasks, interspersed tasks, and defensive tasks, all with the smooth implementation of the strategy of the commander of the large corps as the highest purpose. Merit is also judged on the difficulty of the mission received by the legion and the standard for completing the mission, rather than unilaterally by the degree of decapitation and army losses.

Therefore, although the opposite side has a strength of 8# 90,000, it is a force of 30,000 people in the army system. Ren Di now has a total strength of 80,000 troops, but he is a large corps under the unified command of a single headquarters. However, these half-baked military commentators in the southern capital, who were also obsessed with the glorious victories of the empire's past battles, did not know it.

The military system does not apply to the evaluation of merit in large corps, the old men who control the military in the rear do not understand and dare to speak, and the officers of the imperial army have not yet recognized the type of opponent they have encountered. The most important reason that prevented the Imperial Army from carrying out the operation of large corps was the geographical reason of the soldiers.

At this time, the three imperial armies that Ren Di faced came from three places, one was a group army from Liao Province in the northeast, one was from Shaanxi Province, and the other was a group army from Shanxi, Shandong, and Hebei. Each group army has a strong regional color. However, these regional colors have caused differences between the three major group armies. Assign people from a region to a place to form a legion, in the influence of Ren Di, the British Empire played the most slippery, the Indian battalion, the Australian infantry battalion, the Huayong battalion, and the Gurkha battalion that was beaten by the Qing army once in the 18th century but was highly valued by the British Empire. Only the reactionary army put its own army in front of the territory, and made a distinction between the Huai army and the Hunan army. ”

In Jinan City, the officers of the Shaanxi Army and the Liao Army had a headache when they looked at the chaotic scene in front of them, and the large group of hundreds of people beat them, the cause was a bitch in the brothel, and finally it evolved into "What do you see" "Eh, it's up to you, I want to beat you, what's wrong." "The soldiers of the two barracks began to fight. This is also a tradition left over from the training of the Hai Song army, when soldiers from two different armies fight, a battalion of soldiers watching from the side will be punished more severely than participating in the fight if they do not go to help. But now on the soldiers in the two areas, there is almost no direct shooting. As a result, where in China can people fight the most laurels, whether it is the fierce style of the people in the northwest, or the refreshing fist of the sandbag in the northeast. There was a total contest. As a result, both sides lost. The officers of the two armies with gloomy faces, who fell more, because the army was facing a strong enemy, the commanders of the two armies did not want to provoke this contradiction again. refused to release official data on the specific outcome of this group fight, which side fell and how many people fell.

But the minions of both armies spread the word that their side had won a great victory and that the opposite side would not be fought. The feelings of mutual geographical contempt between the two sides were intense. The soldiers of the other Imperial Army took this as a joke and mocked in every possible way, "Try it again." As a result, the Northeast Group Army ushered in contemptuous titles such as "the nephew of the coward". The degree of blackness of its territory is no less than that of the stickers in the naming of the northern provinces of Ren Di's plane.

In order to prevent this from happening, the Imperial Army officers of the two armies consciously staggered the soldiers on both sides in time and space. We must guard against further serious developments. Of course, such a separation, the close cooperation of the friendly forces of the three armies, or something, is naturally impossible. This was true not only for the officers, but also among several Imperial Legion commanders, who were skeptical of whether this friendly army could be trusted.

For these reasons, the mistakes made by the officers of the Imperial Army are too obvious, so obvious that the General Staff of the Republican Army, which has just studied military command for less than a year, was surprised to find that "the level of the other side does not seem to be high" is so strategic, graduated from several famous military academies, has a prominent family history, and is a family of military generals. Porous. So much so that Ren Di's staff officers felt that the other side was not deliberately arranging some conspiracy.

In fact, it is not to blame the officers of the Imperial Army, but that Ren Di's army has grown too fast in practice. Each battle is one step at a time, movement, fire coordination. The classic tactics of this era could not keep up with the era promoted by the Red Republican Army, and due to the problems of the modern army system on the opposite side, the officers of the Imperial Army did not yet have a concrete understanding of what had changed in the situation of the war in the past year.

Strategically to defy the enemy, Ren Di's baton waved on the sand table, and the Red Republican Army, which represented the red on the map of the Northern War, moved.