Chapter 57: Exercises
"I said Major Brorens, I don't think they're slowing down! Don't really rush into my camp, if you trample a few unlucky people to death, we won't be able to explain it to the military headquarters!" Mingo asked the young major with some concern. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Your Excellency, rest assured, Colonel Sylvester has led this cavalry for many years, he is very measured, and he will not be able to escape the blame for what happened. ā
"That's good! That's good!" General Mingo received Broren's promise, and his heart was relieved, and he immediately focused his attention on observing the reactions of his men.
General Mingo was a new general, and he did not have a good reputation in military circles, not because of his incompetence, but because he really had little opportunity to perform. He has many advantages, otherwise he would not be the first general among all his classmates, and being able to adopt different opinions is one of his advantages. Since the last time he discussed some views on army building with Liang Ke, he was deeply inspired, and many suggestions were made for him to practice in this new army, and the results were very good. Among them, the simulated military confrontation between the two armies is also his key training subject, but due to the short time and the fact that everyone in the army knows each other well, and does not regard this confrontation as a life-and-death struggle, the results achieved have not yet met his expectations.
A few days before the team started, he thought about whether he could conduct a sudden exercise, which would not only review the effect of the training, but also help to discover the problems existing in the team, and at the same time, let his new army experience the atmosphere of the battlefield, killing three birds with one stone. But ideas are good ideas, but they are not easy to implement. Spending money to hire mercenaries or thieves to beat themselves? That's, if you don't get used by someone with a heart, you will be put on the hat of collaborator, external force is definitely not feasible, and using your own people will not achieve the effect, so Minggo remembered Major Brorens, a staff officer of the military department, don't look at his low rank, but he is a representative of the military department, in this special period, he has a lot of power in his hands. General Minggo found an opportunity to say his thoughts implicitly, but he didn't expect that this arrogant liaison officer was also a crazy man who had the courage to innovate, he was very supportive of Mingo's idea, and offered to help Minggo contact the garrisons along the way to conduct what he called a 'real combat exercise'. General Mingo was overjoyed, and his impression of Brorens changed dramatically.
In fact, there is a reason why Brorens supported him in this exercise, and he was recently working on a book under the arrangement of his family about the study of peacetime military training methods. In peacetime, in order to rise to the top in the military system, academic research and fame are a political technique that the sons of lords are accustomed to using. If this novel idea proposed by Minggo is first summarized into a set of theories by him, and then promoted by the family and let the wise majesty know, then he will be added to the rank and knighthood just around the corner. So, Brorens hit the road early, found his distant relative, Colonel Sylvester, who was stationed in Rakki County, and asked him to cooperate with two thousand light cavalry for an exercise.
At first, Sylvester did not agree to his request, not to mention mobilizing troops to attack friendly forces without military orders in the Empire, that is, you want to pull the team out and run in a circle, and if you don't do it, you will be attacked by political enemies. Florence persuaded him with good words, saying that he would only let him mobilize the army and wipe the perimeter of the "Little Steel Hat" division at the speed of a rapid march, and would not do a real hand-to-hand encounter, and he was not afraid of criticism from others as a liaison officer. The cautious Sylvester still disagreed, and in the end, Brolens gritted his teeth and promised to sign his name when the book was published in the future, and Colonel Sylvester reluctantly agreed to cooperate, even so, he still asked Brolens to get a military order for the relocation of the station.
The speed of the two thousand red-tailed fangs has been raised to the extreme, the soldiers' armor rubs against the weapons to make a tooth-squeaking sound, and the long cavalry spears hang with piercing screeches, and the number of cavalry is small, but the formation is spread out, and the momentum is overwhelming.
The soldiers who were still drinking and eating meat in the barracks just now did not know what was happening, but the shouts of "enemy attack!" wafted everywhere in the barracks, so frightened that they instinctively grabbed the weapons at hand, looking for their own team and the commander, and those who found the commander formed a sparse defensive formation under the order, and those who did not find their own team hid nearby behind the rejection of the horse and erected their spears, ready to do a dying struggle. Some of the timid ones were so frightened that they hid in their tents like guinea pigs, and it wasn't long before they were dragged out of their tents by the Warlords, and they were armed with their swords and cried.
Herman is a veteran, he once served in the "Lion" Legion, known as the strongest army in the north, experienced two orc "spring hunts", he is forty-two years old this year, after leaving the army, he found a woman with a fat waist and a big hip in his hometown of Binuk, and the woman gave birth to a lovely little son. Herman usually had a very quiet errand in the tax department, and he did not intend to live this kind of life that frightened his family, but the conditions given by General Mingo were really tempting, not only gave him the rank of major squadron leader, but also kept the positions and benefits of these veterans in the tax department until they returned alive. This is equivalent to having two incomes at the same time, looking at his young son who asks for candy every day, Herman still persuaded his wife to join this new army and bring those recruits who are like little sheep.
"Don't panic, stabilize Lao Tzu. The sword cuts at the faint of heart, and if you stare at the arrows that are flying towards you, you will have a chance to dodge, but if you turn your head backwards, those arrows will pierce the back of your head like a blood-sucking devil. ā
Herman was doing simple pre-war mobilization in his own way, and at the same time mobilizing the number of troops at hand.
"Ott! go and bring your men to push all the carts that pull the supplies of the Lao army, and grab as many as they can, and put them all on the back of the rejected horses, and use the wheels to resist the upper edge of the rejected horses. If you stragglers who have not found the team want to live, let me obediently hide behind those carts, and the cavalry who rush in have weapons on them, and you will bite them to death even if you bite them with your teeth, and then take up your arms and resist the rejection.
Camilla, you guys go and carry those cauldrons into the cauldrons, and throw all the charcoal for me outside the gaps, and be careful, but don't burn your brothers, throw them as far as you can, by the way, don't want the cauldrons with charcoal, throw them together, whoever steps on them will be unlucky.
What are you rabbits doing standing stupidly? Put out those campfires, put up your shields, poke your spears out, and stand in a defensive formation according to the requirements of your usual training, and quickly! Lao Tzu is here to watch, and if the tip of the spear is not stained with blood, Lao Tzu will be the first to cut him. Are you stupid people who don't have weapons? Go and bring those big fire hammers for roasting sheep, you really can't use torches! Damn, what are you doing? At this time, your god will not care if you are dead or alive, hurry up and pick up your weapon and hide behind the rejection horse. Herman slapped the soldier who was kneeling on the ground and praying out of the way, and then, with a round shield in his hand, raised his spear, and stepped on the beam of the rejecting horse, his eyes unblinkingly at the hussars approaching at high speed. I couldn't stop cursing in my heart, and I didn't know which idiot it was, but he actually said that he was afraid that the bow and arrow would lose its pull when it returned, so he collected it in one go, and now he can only rely on his own thick skin to resist the cavalry's three-meter cavalry spear.
The recruits trembled with fear, anxiety, and despair permeated the barracks, and few brigades could organize even what appeared to be a systematic defense. Just when everyone thought that they were about to face a catastrophe, the two light cavalry brigades suddenly turned to the left a stone's throw away, drew a graceful arc to the east, and disappeared into the night in the blink of an eye, leaving only a chaotic hoof print and countless happy and incomprehensible glances.
At midnight, the exercise summary meeting was being carried out intensively. General Mingo's face was flat, and he couldn't tell whether he was happy or worried. According to the agenda, the military commanders reported on their own movements and deployments of the army and the reaction of the soldiers after receiving the police, including Liang Ke, the leader of the ordnance maintenance team. When they knew that this was an "exercise," they immediately guessed that General must have mastered the entire process of the exercise, so they thoroughly analyzed their own performance and the problems exposed by their subordinates. When Liang Ke finished his last report, General Mingge smiled slightly and threw him an approving look.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this exercise is of great significance to us!" Mingo paused, looked around at all the officers, and then continued: "I want to thank one person, and I think we should all be grateful to him! Because the idea of this exercise first came from him, and that is the captain of our ordnance maintenance team, Lieutenant Colonel Aragon!" Mingo waved his hand at Liang Ke, stopping his humility.
"We should be thankful that we have had the opportunity to appreciate the pressure that war puts on us peacetime professional soldiers before we face real war. To be honest, I'd only read about the war in books before that, but it wasn't intuitive enough. Let's imagine together, if those 2,000 cavalrymen were to march into the barracks with their rifles in hand, would we be able to sit here tonight and talk about war?"
Mingo looked at the officers who were staring down at the teacups and didn't dare to make a sound, his eyes were flat.
"I! I have to review first. As soon as Ming Ge spoke, all the officers raised their heads in surprise and looked at their generals, the shame in their eyes deepened, and Liang Ke looked at Ming Ge with a little more admiration.
"As a military commander, I obviously lack experience in dealing with this kind of encounter or ambush warfare, and after grasping accurate information in the follow-up, I did not give full play to the superiority of troops, and failed to mobilize the rear army in time to rush to the front army, resulting in a weak force in the contact area, and the enemy will rush into the enemy's superior cavalry with limited infantry, which is the first mistake I made; second, our cavalry is scattered in five brigades, all of which are independent squadrons, and there is no unified dispatch during the war. If I can give the order in time to gather them in the center, we can launch a counter-charge, and after the infantry on the periphery has slowed down the enemy's charge, our cavalry will have a great speed advantage, and in this case, even if we are a new army, we can make up for the lack of experience with speed. In addition, the location of our station was also based on the assumption that it would not be attacked by the enemy, so we chose an open field, which made it possible for us to be attacked on all sides. This is certainly a good intention of Raki County, but it also exposes our lack of vigilance and rigor in doing things. In addition, we lack an important strategic unit in this new army, that is, the mage team, we face the high-speed approaching light cavalry, there is no means to delay the opponent and disrupt the opponent's formation, although after we arrive at the destination, the military department will allocate the corresponding mage to us, but the cooperation of the army needs to be run-in, and we don't know what their ability is. ā
Ming Ge picked up the water glass, drank half a glass of water, and continued: "I said before the meeting just now, today's meeting we only analyze the problem and find a solution, but we don't ask responsibility, don't remember mistakes, if I don't control my emotions during the process of speaking, please don't take it to heart." Registrar, don't record what I criticize people. ā
"Yes, Your Excellency. ā
"Okay, I'm going to talk about what I've seen on the watchtower and some of my opinions. As I said earlier, at the beginning of the attack, we were not on the alert, our sergeants were immersed in the joy of wine and meat, and the ranger scouts who should have been sent out were all hastily dealt with, and the first to find out that the enemy was actually the scouts of the ordnance maintenance team, which worried me. As Imperial soldiers, vigilance and sensitivity at all times are the basic qualities we should have, and we ...... Forget about the roots. ā