Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 213 Handbook for Grassroots Officers
"Let's talk, how are things going?" Ian sat in his newly opened study room at the top of the pyramid, and received Celia who came to report on his work.

"Isn't my every move under your watch?" Celia asked back, and then raised the orange cat to her chest.

"But I don't know which problems you can solve by yourself, and which problems need my instructions." Ian stopped the pen in his hand, "so you'd better say it face to face."

"What are you writing?" Celia didn't rush to report, but became interested in the book in Ian's hand.

"Junior officer's handbook, written in Common and Valyrian. To be honest, sometimes I really doubt the maturity of High Valyrian. Many simple expressions in Chinese require a long sentence in Valyrian. Explain." Ian said while handing the unfinished manual to Celia.

After he threw all the work to Celia, most of his time was free.

Therefore, in the past half month, Ian basically either watched the training of the Gith slave soldiers in the camp of the Unsullied, or read the military works of the Gith people in the study. He will be in the Astapor library. All military books have been moved into his own study.

Although the military theory of this world is far behind compared to most military books Ian has read, it is always good to gain some understanding.

Ian believes that there are two sentences in the first chapter of Sun Tzu's Art of War, "The Beginning", which are very important for the cognition of reading military books. It is not the well-known "soldiers, tricks" but "powerful ones" , control power because of profit' and 'the victory of this military strategist should not be passed on first'.

The meanings of these two sentences are 'potential' respectively, which is to take different corresponding measures according to the specific situation according to the needs of our side to establish advantages and grasp the initiative in war. ' and 'These are the secrets of the military's victory with soldiers, which cannot be stipulated and explained in advance. '

Together, they point out one thing, that is, reading military books is not a process of copying formulas. If you read military books with the mentality of copying formulas, it is as outrageous as memorizing example questions to take the college entrance examination.

It is impossible for you to do an original question during the college entrance examination, and it is also impossible to encounter the exact same situation as in the book during the war. To be precise, the situation encountered during the war is far more complicated than the exam questions.

A test question, even the most difficult question, has only a few variables, but for war, the number of soldiers, weapons, training level, morale, exhaustion, hunger, general's ability, prestige, experience, terrain Kind, high or low. These are all variables.

Even the weather is a variable. There is a saying that the heavy rain that fell in Waterloo the night before June 1815, 6, a few drops more or less was the key to Napoleon's survival (the mud caused by the heavy rain seriously delayed The action of the French artillery forced Napoleon to postpone the general offensive many times, buying time for the reinforcements of the Allied forces to arrive).

Those who ignore some variables and copy the response in the book are as fatal as under-calculating a certain force when doing a mechanics problem.

Therefore, if war is also compared to the college entrance examination, Ian believes that reading military books is closer to brushing the questions.

It is impossible for you to meet the original questions during the exam, but you can always answer them more easily when faced with the question types that you have practiced many times.Faced with new question types that have never been seen before, those who have seen more question types tend to have a greater chance of answering them.

Observe and make appointments, accumulate thick and thin hair.

The art of using soldiers lies in change. The purpose of ordinary people's extensive reading of military books is to master the words "power through profit".

Of course, someone said at this time that although Li Jing, the military god of the Tang Dynasty, had read the textbooks and had done a lot of questions, he always went against the formula every time he took the exam. Isn't he also the number one in the college entrance examination?

Without him, Li Jing has grasped the essence of "controlling power because of profit" and dared to take various anti-routine actions boldly.

And in the end, Li Jing also wrote the art of war himself, and he became the questioner himself, turning the new questions he had seen into example questions for future generations to brush up.

At this time, someone will ask again, "Champion Hou" Huo Qubing not only doesn't brush the questions, he doesn't even read the textbooks, so if he just took the college entrance examination, isn't he still the champion?

Ian couldn't refute this, so he used the word "ordinary person" in front.

There are always some people in the world who can get high scores in the exam without studying the questions, and who can grasp the essence of "controlling power through profit" without reading the Art of War.

But in the vast history, how many talents like Huo Qubing are there that even the sky is jealous of?

Ian doesn't think he's a genius, so he chooses to be honest and read more military books and do more questions. Although he won't be able to become a peerless general, it's still very easy to abuse food in the world of ice and fire.

The book he is writing now is a handbook for lower-level officers that meets the conditions of the current era, which he has written based on the military books he has read before and the actual inspection situation in the Unsullied training camp recently.

The [-] Ghis Legion slaves promised by Astapor were not enough for Ian's ambitions. He also needed to train more other types of soldiers, so it was extremely important to train a group of his own junior officers.

The parts that Ian has completed so far are: pawn selection, formation and training.

The first step is the selection of soldiers, which basically follows Qi Jiguang’s experience in selecting civilian husbands, which kind of people are suitable for soldiers, which type of people are suitable for which kind of soldiers
Astapor's traditional method of buying all the slaves and then killing the eliminated ones during the training process was unacceptable to Ian.The resource of population is very important to Ian at this stage, and he is also short of people in the fields of industry and agriculture.

Therefore, his army needs to select carefully at the step of "pawn selection", and select as good a seedling as possible to invest in training resources in a targeted manner.

Whether it is his own new army or the githnu soldiers that Astapor is responsible for training, he will need to follow up Ian's order on 'pawn selection', and he will use the slaves eliminated in this step for other purposes.

The second step is formation. When Ian was a child, he often saw how famous generals lined up troops in various works. After reading a lot later, he realized that such things as setting up formations on the spot are basically nonsense.

How an army can be formed, in fact, has already been decided at the step of 'formation'.

Squads, squadrons, and brigades (for example) must be organized first, and then the soldiers can be drilled according to the teams and trained to obey the corresponding golden drum signal orders. Only when the generals can truly play the role of "command" on the battlefield.

If there are no such subjects at ordinary times, the general on the battlefield can only decide which arm to put where. When the two sides touch the enemy army, they will lose command.

This is far from the requirement of "all warriors, keep the righteousness and win with odds".

(ps: The odd here refers to the odd and even odd, the regular soldiers refer to the main fighting force, and the odd soldiers refer to the reserve team.)
In Ian's vision, his new army would be trained in small formations for use in complex terrain or urban street fighting.

The Ghis Legion trained by Astapor's workers needs to be improved in the form of the Swiss phalanx. Its core is to introduce the training and use of halberds, and use the mixed method of spears and halberds to gain greater strength when facing heavily armed enemies. lethality.

(End of this chapter)