Chapter 149: The Plan for the Armageddon

Zhu Xiongying couldn't understand it at all, in his opinion, this was simply the babbling of a madman. Who has ever seen such a scattered division of forces? In this way, wouldn't Fu Youde just concentrate his forces and eat all the way. Can they be broken individually?

It's just nonsense.

Zhu Xiongying didn't have much confidence in Ye Shen. I don't have confidence anymore at the moment.

So he didn't ask Ye Shen at all, but asked He Xi.

Seeing this, He Xi said, "I probably understand what Ye Shen meant. Or I'll do it for him."

Zhu Xiongying said, "Okay."

He Xi said: "First of all, Ye Shen demonstrated these changes to His Majesty, in fact, he wanted to tell His Majesty two things, in fact, the three columns of the horizontal formation can be compared to the frontal firepower of the previous battalion. And a battalion had four or five hundred musketeers. He was able to arrange a horizontal array of more than a hundred people. That's probably fifty or sixty paces away. One guard five battalions. More than 300 steps in one mile, a guard spreads out a horizontal line, that is, about one mile. Now we have a million-strong army. The infantry alone is about seven or eight hundred thousand. That is, one hundred and forty or fifty guards. If all these guards are deployed in a horizontal formation, how big a battlefield will it take."

Zhu Xiongying said a number that he didn't believe: "Two hundred miles."

He Xi said, "That's good. But everyone knows that this is actually impossible. Because no one can command such a large battlefield. And the horizontal formation is not without its drawbacks. That is, the horizontal formation is much thinner, and it is impossible to withstand the impact of cavalry. Just change the formation. It becomes a phalanx. Or a hollow phalanx. in order to withstand the onslaught of cavalry. Now the speed of the army's change of formation is also quite good. In other words, a cavalry charge, as long as it is not an ambush, has a limited impact on the foot soldiers."

"If the army gathers together, it is like before, gnawing hard bones. Even if there are forces, they can't be used. But across two hundred miles of offensive front. But Fu Youde can't stop it."

Zhu Xiongying said: "Could it be that Fu Youde can't attack one section with the main force and encircle and annihilate it."

Ye Shen said, "Impossible. First of all, I distributed the army as a unit, and the distance between the two armies was not more than a dozen miles. In the event of an attack, the sound of gunfire can be heard, and it is only a day or two to get close to each other. I don't believe that the Southern Army has the ability to eat 30,000 of my men in one day."

Firearms are good for defense and bad for offense.

Not to mention, are there any villages to settle down on this road. Even if they didn't, in the fields, the soldiers of the Northern Army could dig out the fortifications themselves. When the time comes, see how the Southern Army attacks. You can't win without playing for a few days. And after a few days of hard work, the armies of all walks of life have arrived. You can start a roundabout fortification and besiege Fu Youde here. Even if he didn't attack, Fu Youde couldn't bear the siege for a long time.

Zhu Xiongying said, "What if Fu Youde retreats? Will you be able to catch up?"

Ye Shen said, "Why chase? If he retreats, the south of the river and Texas will be ours. Why chase it?"

Zhu Xiongying was stunned, he didn't seem to be able to find fault with this plan. He thought for a long time and said, "The cavalry of the Southern Army, what should we do if we pass through the battlefield and attack our army's logistics?"

A wide surface of 200 miles cannot be exhaustive. Naturally, there is room for battlefields to intersperse.

Ye Shen said, "Your Majesty, we also have cavalry. It can even be said that the combat effectiveness of our cavalry is above the opposite side. If maneuvering along the canal, the cavalry was of little use. But if Fu Youde breaks away from the canal operation. Whether we hit their logistics line or whether they hit our logistics county will only know after we have fought it."

"Your Majesty, the most critical issue here is that the same army, with one guard post, can save a mile of attack surface. And the Southern Army has a guard post. At most, it is only a hundred steps, which is one-third of ours. This allows us to take a detour when we play against each other. If the other side wants to resist, it must use more troops than us. And Fu Youde didn't. It can't be, that's the key to our success."

Beijing has mobilized the whole country, known as a million-strong army, and there will not be so many that are really put on the battlefield. But there will be no less of them. Under such circumstances, it is simply impossible for Fu Youde to use more than three times the number of troops in Beijing.

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Shen understood the hint He Xi gave him.

His changes improved the efficiency of the use of soldiers and horses without increasing the number of troops.

That's the real core issue.

But it was not something that Zhu Xiongying could think of. Ye Shen saw that Zhu Xiongying didn't understand, so he said it directly.

Zhu Xiongying frowned slightly when he saw this, and he said, "Uncle, what do you think of this plan?"

He felt that this plan was unreliable, but he did not understand the secret. I can only ask what is the day.

He Xi said, "You have a problem with this. That's the question of command, I ask you, according to you, one army, according to three guards. His front stretched for three or four miles, how should he command? When the two armies are about ten miles apart on the battlefield, how can they change their command? And the logistics you're using to do so are amazing, how do you organize the logistics?"

After Zhu Xiongying heard this, he frowned secretly, and he secretly said in his heart, "Is this releasing water for Ye Shen?"

He felt that He Xi didn't ask the point at all. Because these command and logistics problems are not the basic skills of generals? What is there to ask.

Ye Shen pondered for a while and said, "Please give me advice."

Zhu Xiongying did not think that military reform would affect all aspects. It's not just a firepower rollout. People are separated from each other. The entire 200 li is actually a big battlefield.

In order to facilitate command, Ye Shen divided the big battlefield into small battlefields. But in fact, the small battlefield is not small. The battle of tens of thousands of people, the battle line stretches for several miles, and if there is such and such terrain in the middle, it is possible for these ten miles.

Command on the battlefield, all rely on military music, drums and so on. But these voices are also difficult to travel ten miles away. The military music system can't cover the battlefield.

Previously, the battlefield was a single battlefield. Today, the battlefield is even more complicated. The problems that need to be dealt with are multiplied exponentially.

Logistical issues are also important.

What kind of logistical disaster is the million-strong army, gathered on a wide surface of one or two hundred miles, just look at Emperor Yang of Sui's expedition to Goryeo.

The Huaihai Campaign had millions of people to support the front, so as to ensure the smooth progress of the war. It's the same today.

Of course, the consumption of firearms in this era is not so terrifying.

After a battle, a soldier fights more than 100 points, and there are many bullets. But that doesn't mean that the logistics are any better.

The previous army was hoarded together, just like the previous battle of Anlingpu, where the army was piled up on the canal. Convenient logistics. But that's no longer the case. The battlefield is scattered, and the logistics supply must keep up, not to mention how well the logistics are prepared, it is a very difficult problem to keep up with the army step by step.

The whole difficulty is not the same as the previous war.

Ye Shen has really commanded the war. He hadn't thought about this before, he was immersed in his grand Armageddon idea, and he didn't think about it at all. This is no longer the case. It was a little bit of what he was. He thought about it and immediately knew how hard it would be to do it.

He Xi also pondered for a while and said, "Open Mansion."

Zhu Xiongying was taken aback and said, "The shogunate."

The so-called shogunate is also different from the shogunate in Japan. The shogunate of the Han Dynasty was able to set up its own bureaucratic system.

It's just that why can't it be done later. There's a lot of hard stuff to say. So Zhu Xiongying exclaimed.

When He Xi heard this, he also understood Zhu Yingying's thoughts, and said with a smile indifferently, "It can't be regarded as a shogunate, because it's a staff department."

The staff department set up in the center before He Xi was actually different from that of later generations, and it played more of a role in overturning the checks and balances of power, and the role of staff officers was not much. But now, it doesn't work. Because of the military reform, various affairs grew geometrically. One person simply can't handle it. There must be a strong staff team. And this powerful staff team cannot belong to individuals. If it belongs to an individual, don't say that Zhu Xiongying can't sleep, and neither does He Xi.