Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

After Zhu Dadian learned of the Huainan victory of the Runing Army, he immediately counted the army and rushed to the Huainan section of the Huaihe River.When they arrived, they were immediately shocked by the corpses all over the river and the ground.What a powerful army it takes to achieve such a result?

But after being shocked, they were overjoyed. Although part of the body was washed away by the river, there were nearly [-] people left behind. These were all given to them by Wu Shigong, who they thought was a braggart!

So the work of cutting off the heads and burying the corpses began immediately, and then a lavish memorial to the Huainan Great Victory was completed under Zhu Dadian's own pen.

The actions of Zhu Dadian's department also brought great panic to the peasant rebel army under the city of Luzhou.They thought that Zhu Dadian came to help with heavy troops.Therefore, the situation at this time was extremely unfavorable to the peasant rebel army. Forced to have no choice but to give up attacking Luzhou, Zhang Xianzhong ordered the troops to withdraw from the siege and attack Chao County on the morning of the third day of February.

At this time, the morale of Zhang Xianzhong, who had been defeated repeatedly, was a little low.But Zhang Xianzhong retreated from Luzhou and turned to the Jiangbei area, but conquered Chao County in one fell swoop.

Chao County is located in the north of Anhui, far away from Fengyang.Zhang Xianzhong arrived quietly and unexpectedly. At this time, Yan Kuan was the magistrate here. Someone reported to him that there were bandits coming.Soon, he learned the truth that the rebel army had arrived at the city again. He was so frightened that he fled in a sedan chair, but when he arrived at the north gate of the city, he happened to meet the peasant rebel army and became a prisoner immediately.

The peasant rebel army entered the city, killed the magistrate Yan Kuan, seized the magistrate's seal, opened the prison, and released more than [-] people who were detained in the prison. Anyone who was willing to join the peasant rebel army.They were given clothes and weapons.

Then the peasant rebel army fought in Shucheng, Wuwei, Tiananmen, Qianshan, Taihu, Susong and other places, winning successively.Zhang Xianzhong's troops also received a large amount of supplies, and expanded a large number of soldiers, and the entire team expanded to over one hundred thousand like blowing up balloons.This peasant rebel army came alive again.

At this time, the imperial decree also reached the Zhu Dadian Department of the Ming Army.Zhu Dadian was transferred to be the governor of Fengyang.So he led Yan Dingshan and other Cao soldiers back to Fengyang to take office.

However, Eunuch Luo was relieved of his job as an eunuch guarding Nanjing. He will face a life in the cold palace, and the Nanjing Jingying will also return to Nanjing City.As for the Ming army such as Zuo Liangyu, they will join the encirclement and suppression army of Hong Chengchou, governor of the five provinces.

But all of this will not affect Wu Shigong for the time being, because the current war zone is also far away from the control area of ​​the Runing Army.As for Wu Shigong, who returned to the headquarters of the Runing Army, the first thing he has to do is to straighten out the command system of the Runing Army.

In the self-summary of this campaign, Wu Shigong believes that the Runing Army has done a good job in grasping fighter opportunities, commanding on the spot, choosing tactics, and using soldiers' combat skills.Even discipline, demeanor and bravery are worthy of praise.Even some aspects are quite good.

The only problem that arises is that the highest command system of the Runing Army is somewhat deficient.In other words, Wu Shigong discovered that the current Runing Army has well-developed limbs and simple minds.

Why did the Runing Army, which performed so well, not only failed to achieve a decisive victory in the battle with the peasant rebel army, but was mobilized by the peasant rebel army to exhaustion, and even their own Runan and Guide were killed.In the end, did it lead to the fall of Fengyang, the capital of Zhongdu?

There are reasons for the fact that the peasant rebel army is indeed powerful and the Runing Army is insufficient; there are also reasons for the lack of intelligence and the inaction of friendly troops.But Wu Shigong is not a person who likes to shirk responsibility.He just wants to find out the shortcomings in himself and make up for them.

trace back to the source.Wu Shigong found that the passiveness of this campaign was because he misjudged the offensive route of the peasant rebel army.Although this kind of self-blame is a bit harsh, because the gods did not expect that the peasant rebel army would adopt a three-pronged attack strategy.But Wu Shigong still thinks that his Runing Army has a lot of shortcomings.

If the Runing Army had made a battle plan for all possible situations before the battle, even if Wu Shigong made a mistake in his judgment, those local troops could respond in time according to the battle plan, at least they would not have suffered such a large loss.It can even nip the signs of danger in the bud.

Therefore, the first task of Wu Shigong's return this time is to set up an organization similar to the general staff of later generations, and assign all the combat affairs of the Runing Army to this organization to handle.Don't let Wu Shigong take on the highest command task alone, but also work together, under the advice of a large group of staff.Complete all battle plans.

What is worthy of recognition is that Wu Shigong is indeed a person with a strong learning ability. He can indeed gain experience from every experience and grow rapidly.

Wu Shigong has touched the threshold of modern warfare.Because Germany, the instigator of modern warfare, was marked by the establishment of the famous German General Staff.

In addition to being responsible for all affairs in the army, the General Staff of the German Army has two biggest roles:

One point is the formulation of a battle plan.For example, the famous Schlieffen plan in World War I.Although a German general once said jokingly: On the first day of any military plan, you will find that his arguments are wrong.

But as long as you have a plan, you can always control the course of the war, and as long as you can use the strengths of your army, you can always achieve your strategic goals.

Another point is the training of the officer corps.In the German army, the best military cadets trained in military academies were not assigned to combat units.They will all go to the General Staff Headquarters as orderlies for senior generals.

Although they also have to do some trivial things like delivering water and pouring tea, these orderlies can learn a lot of valuable experience that cannot be learned in books from the precepts and deeds of those senior officers.

After a period of time, these orderlies were transferred to the German army as junior officers.When those low-level officers compete with each other and outstanding individuals appear again, the German army will send these officers to the General Staff as staff officers again.

This repeated training from the grassroots to the headquarters led to these officers not only having rich experience in leading troops, but also being able to look at strategic issues from the perspective of the overall situation of the country. Therefore, in the First and Second World Wars, the German army established this world The most powerful army in the world.The officer corps trained by the German General Staff also contributed a lot to it.

Therefore, many military experts believe that in the Second World, the most outstanding military general of the German army is not Rommel, because he has never entered the general staff of the German army.Although the author somewhat disagrees with this point of view, I have to admit that Rommel's strategic vision is indeed somewhat lacking.

According to the author, there are two most outstanding German generals in the Second World, not Guderian and Manstein, but Air Marshal Kesselring and Field Marshal Model.

Not many people know about these two little-known marshals, but compared to their military exploits, they are really some secrets.As for their biography, book friends who are interested can read their mothers, and you will suddenly find that so many famous battles were actually commanded by them.And these two marshals are precisely the best trained by the German General Staff.

In fact, it turned out that in Wu Shigong's personal army, there was also the rudiment of the training of officers by the German General Staff.Although Wu Shigong does not have much military knowledge in modern times, in the information society, he can always obtain some military information intentionally or unintentionally from various media, so he has the idea of ​​establishing this kind of command system similar to the modern army, which is also fundamental. Not unexpected.

What is even more gratifying is that Wu Shigong decided to take this step. Therefore, the war machine of the Runing Army was finally equipped with a brain.

Now that we have decided to establish such an institution, let's come up with a name first.It is absolutely impossible to continue to use the modern term "General Staff Headquarters", otherwise, Wu Shigong will waste a lot of saliva explaining to others.

So Wu Shigong came up with a well-regulated name-Military Commander.However, compared to Wu Shigong's painful naming level, he has already performed beyond his level in naming such a name.

As for the director of the military commander, it must be Xue Yongli.In the former Runing Army, although Xue Yongli and Zhou Xun were the chief and deputy commanders and seemed to have great power, neither of them actually controlled the army.

And when the Runing Army was fighting, Wu Shigong was often the one who conquered it himself, and they both appeared as Wu Shigong's deputy in many cases.So some of these two talents were wasted.

And this time to straighten out the command system of the Runing Army, Wu Shigong also decided to put Xue Yongli and Zhou Xun in appropriate positions.

Then it was time to choose a deputy for Xue Yongli.Wu Shigong is interested in four people, namely Chu Ge, Shu Mo, Gonzalez and Xue Cunyi.

Zug has a more flexible mind; Shumo is good at offensive and defensive warfare; Gonzalez has experience in artillery and navy; and Xue Cunyi will become the head of the army's independent intelligence department.

This time Wu Shigong also discovered that the Shanchuan Division had done too much in intelligence work, which caused the Runing Army to get the news of the invasion of the North Road Peasant Rebel Army late.So this time, simply establishing an independent intelligence agency for the military, and then assigning the map-drawing departments and personnel in the Shanchuan Division, will be more efficient, and will form competition and mutual supervision among intelligence agencies.

Of course, Wu Shigong also worked hard for this staffing.Because apart from Xue Cunyi, none of the other three deputy chiefs came from the previous guards of the Xue residence.

In addition, the military commander will also establish three other departments.One is responsible for logistics; one is responsible for medical care, including the management of doctors and veterinarians; one is responsible for weapons and equipment.And how these three departments will be equipped will wait until the establishment of the military commander. (To be continued..)