After dinner on October 10, 2022, Yu Dao hurriedly washed the dishes and chopsticks, picked up his second-hand smartphone, and sent a text message to Mr. Zhang Wenkai, "Professor Zhang, are you free?" I'll look for you in your office."

Dingdong, after 1 minute, Yudao received a reply text message from Professor Zhang, the text message was very short, "I'm in the office at 7 o'clock". Yu Dao hurriedly replied, "Okay, arrive on time."

Yu Dao looked at his watch, there were still 40 minutes, and there was still plenty of money, so he walked slowly along the school's trail to Professor Zhang's office building, and when he arrived at the office building, he looked at the time, there were still 20 minutes, he didn't knock on the door immediately, but waited quietly in the corridor, thinking, Professor Zhang is usually rigorous in his studies, and treats his classmates equally, unless his classmates take the initiative to find him, he rarely takes the initiative to talk to his classmates, and he is not a class cadre, and his biggest official position is the leader of an interest group in the command department, There didn't seem to be anything that could catch Professor Zhang's attention, so why did he suddenly call himself to the office?

Yu Dao thought to himself: Hey, it doesn't matter, if you come, you will be safe. Anyway, I don't have the ability to predict the future, so I still don't want to.

But Yu Dao never imagined that this conversation with Professor Zhang would change his life.

At 6:59, Yu Dao knocked on Professor Zhang's office door on time and shouted, report. Please come in, Professor Zhang's voice came from inside. Yu Dao gently pushed open Professor Zhang's door, looking at Professor Zhang sitting behind the desk, Professor Zhang was putting a watch on the counter, it seemed that Professor Zhang was also looking to see if the student he was concerned about was as rigorous as him.

Yu Dao greeted softly, hello teacher. Well, Professor Zhang replied briefly with one word, and then said, sit down. Then he got up and walked towards the water dispenser, and took out a beautifully packaged box of tea leaves from the cabinet and brewed tea.

Taking advantage of Professor Zhang's efforts to make tea, Yu Dao looked around the office he arrived at for the first time, the office is nearly 30 square meters, an office desk, a group of three-person sofas are placed opposite, the sofa leather has cracks, behind the desk is a whole row of filing cabinets, which neatly visit all kinds of books, and on the right hand side of the door is a white version wall, on which a huge battlefield battle situation map and a number of sub-maps are drawn by hand, and a large number of annotations and explanations are made with neat different color words next to it. Two 34-inch monitors on the desk are placed side by side. On the countertop are neatly arranged sticky notes, a large pencil case, a printer on the right-hand side, and a large pile of neatly arranged books. After looking around for a week, Yu Dao retracted his gaze and thought to himself, Professor Zhang really organized his office in such an orderly manner as in class, at least at the moment it was the most neat office he had ever seen.

Yu Dao, come and drink water, Professor Zhang handed the water cup to Yu Dao and said. Thank you, Mr. Zhang, Yu Dao got up and took the water cup, then sat down on the sofa slowly, put the water cup on the coffee table, and put his two hands on his knees.

Professor Zhang also did it on the sofa diagonally opposite, waved his hand and said: Yudao, don't be so restrained, I came to you just to chat, there is no special topic, you know, the leaders of our institute have the task of exchanging ideas with students every year, so there is no need to be restrained.

Professor Zhang said: How about Yudao, how do you feel about the two-year study at the Command College? A seemingly ordinary inquiry may be a deep test in military academies.

Mr. Zhang, it's not been a long time, and I haven't had much of it, but through this period of study, I still have a little understanding of conducting, but I don't know if it's right. Yu Dao said.

Oh, yes, let's hear it, Professor Zhang said meaningfully.

Well, then I'll get the axe in front of you, and I think as a commander, you should do the following.

First, as a commander who is ordered to command his own team, he must first understand and study clearly what the task is and what kind of campaign and tactical objectives he wants to achieve.

Second, it is necessary to draw up a strict tactical plan in accordance with the orders of the higher authorities, dismantle the plan into regiments, battalions, and companies, and demand that combat units at all levels dismantle the tactical plan down to the combat units at the most basic level.

Third, due to the development of modern science and technology, an information-based synthetic brigade is composed of a number of technical units, such as the machine infantry battalion, the unmanned aerial vehicle battalion, the tank battalion, the missile battalion, etc., the science and technology of each basic combat unit is not comparable to the previous war, it can be said that even the soldiers are armed to the teeth, and the guns and equipment of just one squad are divided into stunner guns, machine guns, automatic rifles, pistols, grenades, drone grenades, various telescopes, communication equipment, vehicles, small tactical drones, various types of radars, etc. Sometimes, more special equipment is equipped for tactical needs, and even exoskeletons are used. Not to mention the fact that all kinds of large-scale weapons and information systems are gradually being added to the higher levels, this requires our commanders to have a clear understanding of the characteristics of the equipment of the entire system, so that we can give full play to the power of modern science and technology and reduce casualties.

Fourth, now the war is already an informationized and systematic war, and the systematic brain is informationization; as a commander, in addition to understanding the use of informationized equipment, we should also understand the informationized information acquisition and information suppression, such as the right to control electromagnetism, the right to control optoelectronics, and the right to control links.

Fifth, it is to play the role of people, no matter how good the equipment, are used by people, people's technical ability, collaboration ability, execution, understanding ability, team cohesion, etc. play a vital role in the implementation of tactics, so a good commander should be a good team leader, can be recognized, admired, followed, so as to better implement the commander's command ideas and get effective order execution.

Hahaha, yes, come and drink tea, Professor Zhang said with a smile. I can't see it, you're only a sophomore, and you can understand command so deeply, and at least you're already thinking about war at the synthetic brigade level, which is already very good, you know? With the progress of science and technology, the scale and scope of campaign-level battles are getting larger and larger, but the personnel invested are getting smaller and smaller, and the brigade level was only a tactical unit 50 years ago, but in modern warfare, a war in which an information-based synthetic brigade participates can already be regarded as a campaign level. With the informatization and unmanned development in the future, future wars may be completed with only the number of people at the regimental level.

You're right, but I'll give you something to add.

Teacher, you said, Yu Dao said respectfully.

Well, that's a good point, I'll give you three more points.

First, when carrying out orders, it is necessary not only to disassemble and deploy tactical campaign orders, but also to pay more attention to the flexibility of tactical units in the process of executing orders; the battlefield situation is changing rapidly, and an accident may lead to a reversal of the entire war's trend, such as the command system being terminated, and equipment and communications failures may lead to changes in the trend of campaign tactics. This requires our tactical units to be flexible in carrying out orders. Our goal is only one "to win the war", and everything revolves around winning the war, "without victory, there will be no dignity, no truth, and no living space". This is consistent with what you said about playing the role of people. It is necessary to maintain tactical flexibility in order to win the battle while strictly enforcing orders, and of course, for the overall campaign, there are some deliberately arranged tactical failures, and it is necessary to advance by retreating and luring the enemy into depth.

Second, we should pay more attention to unmanned warfare, the development of science and technology is changing with each passing day, and the previous change of outfit was in units of 10-20 years, but now it can basically be shortened to 5-10 years. In recent years, a large number of unmanned equipment has entered the army, I call it a puppet soldier, including unmanned wingman, all kinds of multi-purpose drones, unmanned vehicles, functional exoskeletons, accompanying robots, etc., these equipment has greatly expanded the eyes and siblings of the soldiers, and will also completely change the form of future warfare.

Third, it is necessary to pay more attention to intelligence warfare, so that only by fighting well can the war be stopped, and the best policy is to surrender without a fight. It is the royal way to make the enemy dare not fight, cannot fight, and cannot fight through intelligence gathering and cooperation with political, economic, and public opinion means. Therefore, in addition to studying the military command course well, it is also necessary to pay more attention to the knowledge of politics, economy, information, public opinion, and culture; only by solving problems outside of the problem and solving wars outside of war can we truly prevent wars and let our nation stand tall forever.

Well, thank you, teacher, you reminded me and pointed out the direction of my future study, especially to solve the war outside of the war, which I really didn't think about before, Yu Dao replied respectfully.

Yes, Yu Dao, you can think so much at a young age, compared to your peers, you have matured a lot, this is the basic requirement of a commander, as a commander to always be calm, calm, meticulous, agile, only in this way, you can firmly grasp the direction of the war, not to be crushed by defeat, not to be carried away by victory. I have carefully studied the wargames of the academy in the past few times, and your performance is very good, and I hope that you can guard against arrogance and rashness, continue to work hard, and become an excellent commander in the army as soon as possible; the more excellent commanders in our army, the more chances we will have to win the war.

Yes, teacher, I will study hard and live up to your expectations, Yu Dao said to Professor Zhang from the bottom of his heart.

Okay, Yu Dao, it's not too early, this time I called you to talk, not only to understand the situation of each classmate, but also to tell you one thing, this chat is also a small assessment.

Oh, teacher, assessment? Is it to be counted in the study portfolio? Yu Dao asked

Haha, that's not it. In order to better apply what they have learned and to let the cadets of the military academy feel and integrate into the military service of the future as soon as possible, the leaders at the higher level have decided that starting next year, students who are in the second year of college and above can select some students who are excellent in character and learning and have a good future in training. Professor Zhang explained. You know that in the northwest we have a training base, where long-term stationed in the Blue Army mixed brigade troops that have not spoken of martial arts, early next year they will be in the southeast and southwest of the country two newly redressed synthetic brigades for a live confrontation, our college gave 10 indicators of observation, this conversation is also an inspection of the observation of the students, you performed well, I will put you into the list of recommenders, if there is no accident, you will be able to get in touch with the feeling of real confrontation in advance, real confrontation than war games to experience the atmosphere of actual combat. Originally, your academic performance was not the best, but after a few wargames, your performance was still relatively eye-catching, which is why you can enter my eyes.

Hahaha, Professor Zhang smiled heartily.

Thank you, teacher, I will work hard to strive for and cherish this opportunity, Yu Dao bowed and said.

Okay, it's not too early, and my inspection for today is over, so go back and prepare well.

Yes, salute, Yu Dao expressed his gratitude with a standard military salute.