Xinshun 1730

Chapter 72 Staff
The old things in Liaodong are not far away. Jiaolaobutu has read books and understands the consequences of being unable to fight in the field and can only defend the city.

"Doesn't that mean...as long as there's a quarrel, these places of the Raksha people will be ours sooner or later?"

"Yes and no."

An ambiguous answer made it difficult for Jiaolao Butu, who looked like a gangster but was actually very honest, to understand what he meant.

"It's good to reconcile early now, and we will fight again in the future. If one day there is a road and a car that can carry hundreds of thousands of catties of people and goods, it will come rumblingly. As long as the Raksha people repair it Before building the road, let’s fix the road to the northeast first, and that will be ours.”

"Hahahahahaha... Your lord's joke is not funny at all. I'm afraid that such a heavy car should use Duke Lu Ai's unicorn and Daode Tianzun's green bull?"

Liu Yu smiled and didn't answer, thinking that Sun Wukong is so good, and the stick is only 100 catties, and it's not easy to lift it up if he finds a graduate from Lan Xiang.It can only be said that technology limits your imagination. This thing will come out in at most [-] years. If you have a son and live longer, maybe you can see it.

Now that the imperial court wants to reconcile earlier, as long as the Northeast Railway is built earlier than the Siberia Railway in the future, reconciliation and discord will have little meaning to the Northeast.

In the final analysis, the matter of the outer northeast depends on the future internal strength.

To cultivate internal strength, the southeast must be used as the second vein of Ren Du.

Things in the Northeast are actually not things in the Northeast.

In the end, it depends on the southeast coast to solve it.

As for now, the earth will not explode in a few decades. As long as the railway is built earlier than Tsarist Russia in the future, the Outer Northeast will be delivered.

And sooner or later the railway will be built, it depends on the opening policy of the southeast coast; the opening policy of the southeast coast depends on Chen Liang's sentence "Yao's capital, Shun's land, Yu's feudalism. There should be one and a half shameful ministers How to interpret "Rong".

Accompanied by the coming Dashun Prohibition.

Is it extremely conservative, turned into Confucianism Waha, Bi?

Or is it open and inclusive, distinguishing between dross and tradition?

At the beginning, Dashun chose Ye Shi and Chen Liang's school of meritorious service as the official ideology after King Wenxuan was downgraded to Duke Xuanni, and as the cornerstone to fight against the words of Yansheng that "after the reincarnation of the heavens, the gold has virtue and take it". We have to pay the price for this post-"Jingkang Shame" ideology.

If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight.

The ideas of Chen Liang and Ye Shi in the Southern Song Dynasty that "doing a career is better than empty talk and nonsense, the debate between righteousness and benefit must be reconsidered, and the debate between Hua and Barbarians must be ignored" has become an official ideology, and it always needs a It not only distinguishes between Yi and Di, but also concentrates on learning the explanation of Western learning.

In the past, whether it was Mongolia or the Later Jin Dynasty, the Chinese culture was always better than the barbarians.

But now, facing the unprecedented changes in 2000, the biggest difference lies in the way of the barbarians...in some respects it surpassed the Celestial Dynasty.

In the Han and Tang Dynasties, if you lose, you lose.The emperor is useless and the military general is brainless. If you change the emperor and change the general, you will win in the end.Everyone believes it, it's that simple.

If you lose now and then, how confident you were before will be how inferior you will be in the future.

This is the real problem to be faced with the unprecedented changes in 2000.

Liu Yu also didn't want to criticize the court's realistic strategy, and hadn't had much contact with those great Confucians of the Eastern Zhejiang School for the time being, so he just thought he told a bad joke.

After the general map was drawn and the nearby soil mountains and rivers were inspected, the group returned along the marks left by the original road.

The imperial court's mighty [-]-strong army has also arrived at the Hailar River line. The Khalkha Mongolian tribes are jealous of this temporarily unavailable grassland, and they also hope that Dashun can win.

They winked at Tsarist Russia, but Tsarist Russia slapped them in the face with Yasak tax and compulsory conscription.

Along the way, the emperor was bargaining with the Mongolian nobles, but now Dashun's bargaining chip and deterrence were not enough, and the emperor was not too anxious.

After returning, the emperor summoned Liu Yu and asked how sure Liu Yu was.

"I don't know what your Majesty is going to do? If it is a forced surrender, I am [-]% sure that it will be resolved within fifteen days."

Li Gan directly vetoed the idea of ​​forcing a surrender.

"Don't force surrender."

"I want the Khalkha Mongols to see that I, the son of the Heavenly Dynasty, bravely ascended the city, with the flag flying. I also want them to see that the Raksha Kingdom, which they are powerless to stop, is vulnerable to the front of the Heavenly Dynasty's soldiers. Don't be defeated. Like Rijiwei, I know what you said is right, the battle was actually pretty good, but the Khalkha Mongols don’t understand bastions, what they saw was that our army captured a small fort and lost more than a thousand.”

The emperor's request was not high. Liu Yu considered the situation of the court and announced a date.

"25 days. Within 25 days, the city must be destroyed. And the destruction is so shocking that the people of Khalkha are terrified."

"There are no jokes in the army."

"No joke."

Liu Yu readily agreed.

He has basically figured out the situation of the court's main field force.

In the battle at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Hou Jin relied on cannons to attack the city and fight in the field, but what he learned were all naval guns from the Ming Dynasty, and there were no field gun mounts and threaded jacks, so the field battle power was not strong.

On the whole, Dashun's practical experience, after winning gold, the surrounding area is full of weak chickens without field artillery.And experience comes from practice.

The formation is still the same as the 30 Years' War, with dense formations, mixed hot and cold weapons, and large formations for field battles.

There are no artillery around, but there are many cavalry.

Such a thick formation is indeed inexhaustible to the reality that there are fewer cannons and more riders.

Compared with Western Europe at this time, it must be the wrong way.

Thinner lines and more ferocious field artillery can break Dashun's dense formation at this time.

But it is enough to deal with the Cossacks of Tsarist Russia.

The Cossacks had few guns.The enemy has no artillery advantage, so they arrange phalanxes casually.

Cossack cavalry is one of the best light cavalry, but Cossacks have always been the most aggressive in stealing credits, the fastest in escape, robbed one and two, and I slipped first in field battles.

As for attacking the fort, Dashun has a greater advantage.

There are still many elite cold weapons. Compared with Cossacks, artillery has a great advantage.

Wude Palace has been forced to learn geometry and surveying out of Taizong's legacy. Although the formal logic of the true essence of geometry needs to be cultivated slowly, the artillery surveying that can be used is not bad.

This time, Dashun also went all out, mobilized a lot of cannons, and transported them all the way from the capital and Liaodong. The food supplies consumed were enough to fight a decisive battle with the Qing Dynasty.

The emperor wanted to fight beautifully, with few deaths, and shockingly, so the artillery could be used vigorously.

Since the emperor wanted to gain prestige in the army, Liu Yu retreated behind the scenes, wrote a detailed siege plan, and regarded himself as a tactical staff officer.

What if the enemy goes out of the city to harass?
What if reinforcements arrive?
What if the enemy flees?
What if the first wave of attacks doesn't go well?
What if the Raksha people hid their artillery and waited until the end to use it?
List out all kinds of situations that may be encountered one by one, each item indicates several alternative plans, so that the emperor does not need to know tactics himself, and can encounter accidents without panic. Come up with the plan and call it below Execution is.

Relying on the relationship of his cheap father, Liu Yu can talk to the nobles who accompanied the royal family.Just ask what you don't understand, and those old honorables who want to know probably guessed what the emperor meant, and they answered very frankly.

When we were about to reach the Ergun River, the staff report was finally finished.

Including camp deployment, mobilization of various ministries, emergency response, objectives of each battalion, logistics distribution, etc.

When they were delivered to Li Gan, the hot air balloons, French military uniforms, royal flags, etc. that Liu Yu asked for were also rushed over by the post station.

He went to the front line to raise a hot air balloon to observe the situation inside the castle, while Li Gan carefully read the report written by Liu Yu in the big tent.

At the first glance, I just felt the details, but didn't taste the taste.

After seeing the back, Li Gan finally tasted something.

When Jinshuiqiao asked the right question, Liu Yu said something.The matter of the General Staff was also mentioned afterwards.

At first, Li Gan felt that this staff department was like the military adviser's office back then, where he came up with ideas and served as a staff member, but he couldn't understand the real purpose of it.

It wasn't until the release of the first staff report that Li Gan realized that the staff department that Liu Yu had been talking about was not the same as the military division he understood.

The staff department, like the military division, does not need to have military power.But unlike military advisers, what the general staff needs is not a military adviser who shakes a feather fan lightly and counts all strategies, but a group of experienced veterans leading a group of young officers.

It's a bit like the Privy Council in the Song Dynasty, but its powers and responsibilities seem to be much smaller than those of the Privy Council.

It seems that they don't care about promotion or military system. They just make strategic plans before the war and make campaign plans during the war.

In this way, some veterans can be transferred from the military power, while some cutting-edge young people can be placed.

The emperor can serve as the head of this staff department, and use the plan of the staff department in the name of the emperor to give some guidance on the campaign strategy.

In this way, some veterans of the military power faction can be stripped away, and secondly, the emperor can always maintain a high enough prestige in the army.

Cooperating with Liu Yu's idea of ​​"standardized line fusiliers and bayonet corps" that day in front of the Jinshui Bridge, the emperor can gradually take back the military power completely to the hands of the staff.

As for whether it can be controlled in the future, that is another matter.

You can even learn something similar to the former cabinet bachelors. The staff department relies on veterans to support the appearance and a group of young people without roots as the cornerstone.

Of course, logistics supplies must still be in the hands of civilian officials other than military officers, and check and balance each other, but it seems that there is indeed a way.

It's just that it's definitely useless now.

Firstly, there is no special military academy that Liu Yu suggested before; secondly, only Liu Yu knows how to make this thing.

For the siege of a small castle, Liu Yu spent many days writing a thick report.

As for directing a battle, let alone how big the workload is, it simply cannot be supported by a few people.

These are Li Gan's understandings, and many things are wrong, but he seems to have grasped some key points.

This seems to be trying to transfer the command of the campaign from the individual commander to the hands of the staff department, which is easy to divide and control due to the large number of people.

If this staff department is really formed, it will definitely seize power.

At the very least, the power of the Ministry of Military Affairs must be in hand, so that we can draw maps, inspect foreign military forces, and formulate countermeasures for external border troubles; the powers and responsibilities of the Ministry of Treasury must be divided; , seems to have to divide some...

Once the northwest frontier is pacified, the country will definitely want to suppress the military and cultivate the culture.

If you don't go well, you will easily follow the path of the Song Dynasty, with redundant officials and staff, with more than enough checks and balances, but it is difficult to gather strength, and it is difficult to say if there is another war in the future.

Li Gan felt that this matter had to be considered slowly, after all, this might be a drastic reform.

For the time being, it is better not to move, at least wait until the Northwest is finished.

And many details still need to be considered.

The redistribution of powers and responsibilities, the merger of parts of the civil and military systems, future checks and balances, and so on, cannot be decided at a stroke of the head.

Moreover, Li Gan felt that Liu Yu's thoughts and actions were completely different.

Just like the things he was tossing about in the east, he relied on the old wisdom of military tactics and acted according to circumstances; the staff department seemed to be only suitable for large-scale battles and decisive battles, and it was not suitable for small-scale battles on the front line or sudden encounters.

Thinking about some things that Liu Yu has always been obsessed with, Li Gan seems to understand Liu Yu's true intentions.

This thing, it sounds, is easy to use.

But a useful premise...

It is the reform of the military system, the conscription system, the redistribution of powers and responsibilities, the establishment of an officer corps, the construction of military academies, the reform of the tax system, the reform of learning, and the change of customs...

Among them, the simplest one is to eliminate the cold and hot mixed phalanx and use what Liu Yu said to be a flintlock with a bayonet to form a standard army.

Even for the simplest item, it cannot be decided with a single tap of the head.

Where does the money come from?Who is taxed?Where are the officers from?To whom does the prestige of training officers belong?Who will train new army officers?Is it useful to raise such a new army?Will there be a large-scale land war after the country pacifies the Northwest?
Either item will involve changes in vested interest groups.

At the end of the circle, it seems to have returned to the words Liu Yu said at the beginning:

Knowing Chinese and Western, in order to surpass victory.

The courage required for this kind of change is really too great.

Li Gan hoped that he would catch up with the Han Dynasty and surpass the Tang Dynasty and make his name in history, but for the time being, he didn't have the guts to carry out such radical reforms.

After roughly estimating the true thoughts of Liu Yu, the Xunwei whom the emperor was least familiar with, and the path he insisted on, Li Gan decided to wait and see.

Since Liu Yu has an idea, let Liu Yu do it and see what he will do next.At least for now, Li Gan feels that he can't see through Liu Yu.

I thought to myself, I pretend not to know your thoughts, but I want to see where you are going next.

(End of this chapter)