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Chapter 54

Liu Huan was responsible for recruiting An Fanluo. The three Xinbo tribes in Gangu were middle-class tribes and did not need to report to Xu Ping. But a few days ago, the General Mansion had just said that he would build a fortress there. He forced and tempted Yu Zang Sima, and as soon as he got the news, he came to Xu Ping.

Xu Ping was stunned for a while before he said to Sang Yi and Gao Daquan: "The three clans of Xinbo are now accepting each other. Do you think it is a good or a bad thing?"

Gao Daquan said: "How can we say it now? If they didn't submit to each other, we would have deliberately made conflicts with them and the city could not be built. Now that the three tribes are coming back, this excuse will not be used. I have sent Yang Wenguang and Jia Kui to the Gangu area to compare the terrain and wait for them to come back to know what to do."

Xu Ping said: "Then we have to wait until the two of them come back and we will discuss it. The foreign tribes cannot refuse to return. This is the established strategy of the court and cannot be shaken at all. No matter what troubles are there, we should not think of a solution."

According to recent discussions, the strategy of fighting Yu Zang Huamada was that Sang Yi led Xuanwei army to the front of their front at the mouth of Chuangu, Sandu, and Gao Daquan's army secretly sneaked into the Gangu area and downstream areas to divide and encircle the city. The place where the city was built was the bag mouth of the pocket array. When Yu Zang Huama attacked, the city-building troops fled to the mountain camp set up in advance, and when the war broke out, the retreat of the enemy was intercepted. According to this arrangement, the troops building the city in Gangu were very critical. Before the war, they should be able to lure and paralyze Yu Zang Huama. They should withdraw to the mountain camp before the battle, and they should not be poor in organizational discipline, and they should resolutely block there when fighting.

The generals that Xu Ping, Sang Yi and Gao Daquan, were already the leader of the army. According to the command level of the Qinzhou military system, they could no longer perform such tasks. In addition, the familiar generals were Yang Wenguang, who had heard of the name in his previous life. Of course, Xu Ping did not know that in history, the Song Dynasty once built Gangu City there, and it was Yang Wenguang who built the city.

The command of the army is generally divided into three levels: strategy, battle and tactics, depending on the scale of the war and the command level. The corresponding one must define strategic groups, battle groups and tactical groups, corresponding to three levels: war, battle and battle. In Xu Ping's plan, Sang Yi and Gao Daquan are all troops at the battle level, and their subordinates are going out to fight.

Depending on the command level, the command agencies of the army at all levels are different. Although the current war reality does not need to be as complex as Xu Ping's previous life, the three-level command of strategy, campaign and tactical must be divided. This is the question of which level Xu Ping asked the military to set up the officials discussed in the Guanshan exercise. The commander's yamen is the command center, and the lowest level he sets is the basic combat corps, and the following institutions are greatly simplified.

Xu Ping's own commander's mansion was naturally the strategic command organization for Qin Fenglu to the foreign division. Sang Yi and Gao Daquan were two combat corpses. Qinzhou and other states were the imperial guards, the wing troops, the township soldiers, and the foreign troops were auxiliary troops. However, Xu Ping was not sure how to draw under the two armies, so he had to find a general direction through daily training and large-scale drills on the Guanshan Grassland. In the end, the tactical level was set at the first level of the camp and the first level.

One of the problems in the military that officials of the Song Dynasty often talked about in history was that "generals do not know the soldiers, and soldiers do not know the generals." Later generations also learned to say this, but they did not understand the meaning, and they often deviated from the topic. From the founding of the Song Dynasty, the imperial guards used command, that is, battalions as units. They lived, trained, and fought together, and the commander did not have any unfamiliarity with their subordinates.

The disadvantage of the Song Dynasty military system was that only the two-level combat levels of battalions and capital were basically complete, and the upward military and wings were not permanent, and the command and battalions were basically the same. In other words, from a system perspective, the Song army had only the ability to carry out tactical combat, and the combat-level organizations and institutions were blank. The upward strategic level was that the various generals' offices were basically complete. There were natural shortcomings in the system between the generals' offices and commands.

"A general does not know the soldiers, and the soldiers do not know the general" talks about the incompleteness of the battle level. Although people in this era did not summarize as carefully as Xu Ping's previous life, war follows objective laws, and they can always find this in practice. The battalion level is not enough to perform combat tasks, and soldiers and generals do not know how to discuss the situation when performing combat tasks. Therefore, the essence of "general military strategy" is to make up for the institutional shortcomings of the battle level, although it is still too simple.

In Xu Ping's sense, the command level is still too simple to set Sang Yi and Gao Daquan as a combat legion. Depending on the scale of the war, it is impossible to send tens of thousands of troops to each attack direction, and it is best to set up another level in the middle as a supplement. In other words, as long as you really think about the military system and work hard, the "smartial arts" will be about to emerge.

Wang Anshi's "mastery of military affairs" during the reform did not fall from the sky, nor did he have an idea from a talented figure, but was summarized from practice during a long war with Dangxiang. Now there are some preliminary discussions, and Xu Ping can see it from the memorials of the generals on the sidelines. Of course, it was truly summarized by Fan Zhongyan in history and promoted on a large scale during the reform of Xining.

Such a system change involves many problems. The most basic thing is that the military law setting in the court system must be changed accordingly. The details of Xu Ping has not been completed and the army has not been implemented. Now the imperial guards in Qinzhou are still in the reform, practicing and fighting and changing.

The generals of the battle were responsible for the command of the battle, and in principle, they were not allowed to go directly to fight. The horse-reinforced field was a matter for the lower-level battalions and commanders. Building a city in Gangu was a tactical action. It was not appropriate to send Gao Daquan to the level to be too high and Yang Wenguang to the level to be too low, and the command organization was not fully linked, which was also somewhat inappropriate. Xu Ping had been thinking about whether to send Jingtai to serve as a commander for the time being as a stopgap measure, but he had not made up his mind yet. Without Jingtai's level officers, the decisions they had to make in urgent need may be beyond Yang Wenguang's power.

Military system reform is essentially to make the organizational structure of the army more suitable for the objective laws of war and to complete various war tasks. As for the use of controlling the army, preventing chaos, etc., it is not guaranteed by the organizational structure.

Sang Yi and Gao Daquan knew that Xu Ping was still not satisfied with the current military system of the two armies, and now they were able to understand the context of Xu Ping's thoughts, but they had not yet risen from perceptual knowledge to rational knowledge, and they were still a little confused.

Seeing that Liu Huan was standing aside and waiting for a reply, Xu Ping thought for a while and said, "Of the foreign tribes come back, of course they have to agree. This way, you go and promise them that their leader is the leader of their clan. The seals and ribbons can be cast to them first. We will submit the court to the court and send them official reports. The salary can be calculated from the time the seals and ribbons are issued and distributed every month."

Liu Huan responded to the promise and hurriedly left. This was within the scope of the Qinzhou General's Office. Although the official seal was given by the official court in the capital, the power of doing things was cheap and Qinzhou could issue it on his behalf.
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