These staff officers are different from those who have joined the army before doing ideological work. Joining the army is equivalent to political commissar + supervising the army + deputy military chief + military judge. The staff officer is the military division + deputy military commander + the person who transmits and supervises the implementation of the orders of the military commander + intelligence analyst + clerk + secretary +

Well, to put it back to people, a staff officer is an officer who participates in the planning of military aircraft, assists the military commander in formulating battle plans, directs troop movements, and manages and trains troops. There is a saying in the German army: "A smart and lazy person is suitable to be a commander, a smart and diligent person is suitable to be a chief of staff, a stupid and lazy person can be used at his disposal, and a stupid and diligent person can only be told to fuck off."

Therefore, after the staff officer system is in place, the military chief officer is very comfortable, he only needs to put forward the operational plan and the general direction, and the formulation of specific operational plans and the specific arrangements for personnel, logistics, materials, and so on all need to be decided by the staff officers, and the chief of staff is a general person in charge, and all the ideas of the military chief need to be completed by the chief of staff and his staff officers for the military commander.

After returning to the meeting site, I saw that the young staff officer Zhang Bin gave a salute to the officials in the tent and began to introduce the combat situation during this period.

During this time, the armies of both sides were basically not moving, and the two warring sides were scouts. The main force of the first division was infantry, and they couldn't catch up with the Xianbei cavalry at all, and it was just an outing when they went out of the city, and it was impossible to find the enemy's main force for a decisive battle, so they were stationed in Jinyang City to rest during this time.

Of course, Zhang Bao can't be idle like this, he sent all the cavalry out as scouts, isn't there a saying: Is it only the cavalry that can deal with the cavalry? Therefore, Zhang Bao gathered all the horses in the army, and all the people who could ride horses among the generals were also singled out to form a cavalry team of about 1,000 people.

These cavalrymen marched in groups of thirty, that is, in a platoon, and patrolled around a hundred miles outside the city. It seems that a thousand cavalry seems to be a lot, but in fact it is pitifully few, because as a scout, someone must patrol outside the city for twelve hours, so the thousand men have to be divided into three shifts, and the system of three shifts is carried out.

In other words, there are only more than 300 scouts dispatched each time, and for a radius of 100 miles, this point of people can't even splash a little wave. Fortunately, there were few people, so they did not attract enough attention from the Xianbei people, and did not send a large army to encircle and suppress.

When these scout teams encountered the Xianbei people of the team, they went up to fight, and when they encountered the men and horses of the team, they fled decisively. Of course, the Xianbei people actually think the same way, so both sides are extremely slippery, the tactics are the same, and the battle is often touched and gone, and the results are naturally pitiful.

However, in general, the results of the 1st Division were much larger than those of Xianbei, which was due to the advantage of equipment. The long-range weapons of the scouts of the first division include horse crossbows, cavalry bows, etc., medium-range weapons, which are also group killing weapons such as thunderbolts, and melee weapons such as sabers, three~edges~stabs, etc. Defensive equipment includes helmets, plate armor, etc.

These helmets and plate armor are not rattan armor, but are high-quality goods stamped out of steel. With the research, development and utilization of hydraulic power by the "Ministry of Industry", a very practical and powerful hydraulic stamping machine has been made, which can stamping and forming plate armor at one time. This greatly improved the equipment production efficiency of Shu.

Now elite troops like scouts in the army can be equipped with steel plate armor. Of course, this kind of plate armor is not a full-body plate armor, but only a half-body armor, to put it bluntly, it is a few thin steel plates that have been stamped into a shape suitable for certain parts of the human body.

These thin steel plates have small holes in the edges, and by passing through them with cow tendons, they can be connected to each other to form a complete piece of armor, and then tied or hung on the body.

If you look at a scout from top to bottom, the first thing that catches your eye is a helmet, which can also be called a hood, which is similar in shape to the military steel helmet of later generations, but it is made of thin steel plates, which is much thinner than the steel helmet that can block bullets in later generations, because the enemies of the Hong army in this era all use cold weapons, and they do not need to use them to block bullets.

There are two holes on each side of the lower edge of the helmet, and the strap is made into a strap by passing through these holes, and then the strap is tied under the jaw to fix the helmet on the head well. The structure of this helmet is simple and easy to make, but the protection effect is very good.

In addition to being used to save their lives in battle, the soldiers also found that the helmet had a "side effect", that is, it was reversed and used as an iron pot to boil water and rice. In fact, some people have done that. In particular, when the scouts were dispatched, they brought dry food, and sometimes they couldn't eat a hot meal for several days because of their missions. Some people have tried to boil hot water with a helmet to drink, or even heat dry food to eat when they are resting.

However, it must be very uncomfortable to put such a hard ~ Bang ~ Bang thing on the head like this, so a smart soldier will put a few layers of linen cloth inside it as a cushioning material.

Further down are the two shoulder pads, which are stamped into a semi-oval shape, just enough to buckle on the shoulders on both sides, if you were cut to the shoulder by the enemy before, it is very likely that you will be unloaded with an arm, but now if you are lucky, nothing happens, at most the shoulder is red and swollen for a few days, and the bruise is a piece.

Even if there is an enemy who has the strength to cut through the steel plate, because most of the strength has been removed, and the knife will be stuck in the steel plate, so generally speaking, the knife will not penetrate the flesh very deeply, and he is not afraid that he will become a one-armed man like Yang Guo.

Below the shoulders, the front is a curved breastplate, and the back is a dorsal armor, and the two are tied together with several cow tendons through small holes in the edges, so that the whole chest and back are as if they are being packed in an iron bucket, which is very safe. The cuirass is relatively long and can cover the upper abdomen.

There is no iron armor from the abdomen down, just ordinary leather armor. Because the abdomen and waist often have to move, if you also wear the iron armor of the hard ~ Bang ~ Bang will seriously affect the activity, and you can't even bend over. This seriously affected the flexibility of the cavalry's movements during combat, which was not conducive to combat.

Moreover, by saving this part of the iron armor, the weight can also be reduced and the cost of the armor can be saved. The ordnance manufacturing department specially counted the parts of the cavalry wounded, and found that most of the injuries were in the upper limbs, shoulders, chest ~ and upper abdomen, and very few were wounded in the lower abdomen.

So, after weighing the input and output, they chose to abandon the iron armor on the abdomen and waist and use leather armor instead.

Due to the superiority of these equipment, in the initial engagement, the scouts of the 1st Division achieved good results. After the scouts of the two sides meet, they often shoot bows and crossbows at each other first, and the Xianbei people are indeed good at riding and shooting, but no matter how good they are at riding and shooting, the rate of fire is not as fast as that of horse crossbows.

The horse crossbow is a metamorphosis weapon that can fire fifty arrows in a row, and it is fired with a horse crossbow and a cavalry bow in the same way that a submachine gun and a pistol are fired. In addition, the armor on the scouts of the first division is also deformed~, and the arrows shot by the Xianbei people ~ onto the plate armor on their bodies are similar to tickling, so the battle situation is usually one-sided.