Chapter 134 Huangpu of the Sui Dynasty

The so-called post-war summary meeting is divided into two levels. One is the post-war summary military meeting of officers from non-commissioned officers or above chaired by each battalion commander to battalion level, and the other is the post-war summary military meeting of officers from all senior officers from regiment level or above.

This was completely founded by Chen Kefu. First of all, there is no professional staff team in the Northeast Army. The various combat plans in the army are basically a group of people. Focusing on a strategic purpose, you say something, I say something, and finally everyone summarizes it as a combat plan.

There will definitely be many loopholes in such a combat plan summarized by a group of rough men. This final summary meeting is to review the original combat plan after the war.

Through the results of the war, we can test the entire combat plan, where it is right, what is wrong, and where it can be done better! First, we can enhance the military literacy of officers through such meetings, and second, we also want to change the past method of fighting that only knows how to act according to the above orders into a new combat method that is prepared for everything and can make combat plans in advance.

After all, now they have no professional strategists or professional staff teams. If everything is left to them to decide, it will be a painful and imperfect way. Three cobblers can still beat Zhuge Liang, and he hopes to improve the command model of the entire Northeast Army in this way.

The entire meeting was not too long, nor was it very short. In response to the problems that occurred in this ambush, all the officers participating in the meeting discussed them again and found some problems. Finally, everyone discussed the combat plan of the Liaohe ambush two days later and revised some details. The entire meeting was much less relaxed and cheerful than the previous military meetings, and there was a lot of heavy pressure. Chen Kefu certainly understood that this was all because of his reasons. During the entire meeting today, he deliberately had a stern face, and his whole face looked as if every person who attended the meeting owed him dozens of coins but had not paid back, and he had no good face to anyone.

Even Lu Shishen and Luo Lin, two hard-core confidants, wanted to tell a joke several times to ease the atmosphere, but they were scared by Chen Kefu's murderous stare, and he was so scared that he lowered his head and finished the meeting with his head down.

After the meeting, no one dared to delay for an extra minute, and they all hurried out of the hall as if they were reincarnated.

Mr. Li Benlei smiled, "Why do you want to scare them like this on purpose?"

Chen Kefu smiled, occasionally making the atmosphere a little nervous, which also made them all excited. As the next ambush is about to begin, the difficulty will be several times more difficult than today's ambush in the city. Today, he is also hoping that these generals can get into the state in advance.

"Old man, the situation in the army is worrying now. Through the second reorganization, the number of troops has increased. Moreover, after we temporarily reformed the military system and added military ranks, although some command problems can be temporarily solved. However, there are still big problems in the entire army. First, the problem of grassroots officers in the army is that more than 90% of the new lower-level officers do not know how to be a good squad leader and platoon leader."

"The second problem is that we are now driving the ducks on the shelves and rushing the original veterans of the Pojun camp to serve as squad leaders and platoon leaders. However, the training of the echelons of the lower-level officers behind is a big problem. The squad leaders themselves don't know how to serve as officers. It would be even more difficult to rely on them to train a new generation of reserve officers."

"For this third issue, although we have established positions such as chief of staff and combat staff, we still do not have a complete staff team. Not only the regiment and division-level staff teams have not been installed, but the staff teams in our headquarters have not been installed. All the officers are still waiting for the superiors to issue orders to them, which is inconsistent with our current situation."

"The fourth problem is that there are too many new recruits in the army, which is completely 9 to 1. It is easy to be defeated by the enemy in battle. Once it is defeated, there will be many soldiers in the army who are backbones and it is still useless. Our army must have some powerful troops, such as the heavy cavalry brigade, which are all composed of veterans, and troops that can play a supporting role in the critical moment."

Chen Kefu was not polite to the old man and talked about the current problems of the Northeast Army in one breath.

The old man nodded, and with 10,000 people as the backbone, he reorganized 80,000 people at once. This was originally an unreliable thing. If he could have two years of training and running in after the reorganization, his combat effectiveness would still be improved. But like now, once the reorganization is completed, he has to continue to support the war independently, which is an impossible thing.

The military training and marching are completely different things. For example, the training is carried out by Yingyang Mansions in various places. However, once the war is fought, it must be completely reorganized and coordinated and mixed combat between multiple arms.

For example, infantry also scores archers, crossbow soldiers, surprise soldiers, jumping and other corpses. However, the Northeast Army is limited to the army full of new recruits, so they can only separate and form a single corps. For example, the current light infantry regiment, heavy infantry brigade, and light infantry, archers, crossbow soldiers, and jumping are indistinguishable. The reason is that there are new recruits in the army now, and a single corps are easy to command. Once a mixed corps is used, these new recruits will not only not meet the requirements of mixed coordinated combat, but will instead reduce the combat effectiveness of the troops.

Although we know the current situation, there is no way for a while. If we want to conduct wartime marching and marching like the regular army of the Sui army, we must require that these soldiers and horses be well-trained, so that we can meet the command conditions after the marching.

"The problem of officers at all levels in the army will be impossible to solve for a while. A good officer must be one in a hundred miles or one in a thousand miles, and the time required is quite long. The current reform of the staff system by the Grand Marshal is not much different from the Sima Changshi in the past. However, if the staff team is really established in units above the regiment as the Grand Marshal said, it will have a great impact on the war. However, if the staff teams are set up above the regiment, it is afraid that the number of staff members needed will be huge, and it is also a good idea, but it is difficult to realize it."

For traditional soldiers like Mr. Li Benlei, it is the responsibility of the strategist to make suggestions, and the general's responsibility is to command and fight. This does not conflict with the staff system mentioned by Chen Kefu, but the key is that it is extremely difficult to find an excellent strategist. Chen Kefu actually plans to build a staff team, and there are staff teams above each regiment. This is a bit like daydreaming anyway."

"As for what the commander said, keeping the troops strong, I think this is indeed very important. Although there are many large troops, there are no troops that can lead the way. It is good to fight an ambush like today. If the battle is a field battle, once the battle situation fails, the morale of the new recruits will be very likely to be defeated. However, if there are elite troops like the Heavy Cavalry Brigade, it can change the situation when it is critical. However, our troops have been split out except for the military camp, and it is even more impossible to draw such a force again. Otherwise, changing orders and reorganizing the troops frequently will cause chaos in the army, which is not a good plan."

The problems raised by Chen Kefu are indeed issues that urgently need to be solved in the army. The old man, with his many years of experience in the army, pointed out some key parts of the problem at once. It can be said that basically things are in a dead end.

According to the current marching organization of the Sui army, a general led an army with about 20,000 troops and about 14,000 auxiliary soldiers. In the formal organization, the general led the army personally took charge of the military camp. There were about 4,000 people, and there were 1,000 cavalry. These 4,000 people were the elite troops in the entire army, the elite forces of the entire army and the reserve team of the entire army. They would not take action until the critical moment.

Now, although Chen Kefu has no central army in the temporary organization, the four units directly under the military headquarters are equivalent to the elite forces of the Central Army. It is unlikely that the troops below can also create such an elite force.

After pondering for a while, Chen Kefu hesitated to the old man, "Old man, I have a plan now. Can you see if it's OK?"

When the old man Li Benlei heard that Chen Kefu had a new plan, he slapped his forehead. He was now numb to this general who always had various new ideas. Anyway, the emperor was far away, and he was alone in the army, and he was the biggest in the army. He could change whatever he wanted, as long as it sounded reliable.

"At present, we have set up a Pojun martial arts lecture hall. In the past, our idea was to train officers so that they could all become qualified generals. But recently, we have been calling everyone here and a large group of people to discuss it. The rest of me also think this is not very effective. So I now have a new idea, which is to improve our original plan."

"Improve the Pojun Martial Arts Hall?" The old man said with some confusion. At first, he opposed this military officer training class. He believed that a general's growth had to be trained after repeated training, rather than being planted in a concentrated manner like growing vegetables. However, after being held for so long, he also believed that if he wanted to solve the problem of officers in the army in a short period of time, this military lecture hall was not a particularly good method, but it still had some effect. He didn't understand why Chen Kefu suddenly wanted to make some improvements.

"My idea is this. We have built a new non-commissioned military hall. As the name suggests, this non-commissioned military hall is a place that specializes in training non-commissioned officers. It is a college specially designed for many Northeast Army to train sergeants. We set the academic system for one year. Qualified soldiers can be drawn from the army, or directly recruited from the people of Sui. As long as those who are strong and over twenty-one years old, it is best to be literate, they can participate in the recruitment of students from our non-commissioned officer school. Anyone who has been recruited through the non-commissioned officer alley is equivalent to becoming a soldier of our Northeast Army. However, they do not have to go to the battlefield when they are studying, but after they are finished, they will be awarded the ranks of corporals to soldiers and will be assigned to the Northeast Army as deputy squad leaders and squad leaders. It is stipulated that each student must serve for five years after graduation."

"This non-commissioned military school is a one-year course, which is divided into stages, cavalry, and engineering. The school mainly learns infantry to fight, and cavalry to fight. The engineering department mainly learns engineering civil engineering, including the operation and maintenance of various large-scale siege equipment and crossbow beds in the army, and the operation and maintenance of catapults. After learning, they will be assigned to the engineering battalion in the army, and during the war they are responsible for digging moats, digging tunnels, paving bridges, building roads, setting up camps, and operating large-scale siege equipment. In addition to various military training, all students' courses in school should also include tactics; war history; military system (organization); weapons science; cavalrying and shooting science; city building science (engineering); drawing communications; medical science; basic Chinese science, and basic arithmetic science. In general, these people are the cornerstones of the army in the future, and they will also become higher-level officers in the future."

Chen Kefu thought that since he wanted to do it, he would do it better and get it done in one step. Taking advantage of the moment, he was still a general of the Sui Dynasty and had time, so he would create a Sui Dynasty version of the Whampoa Military Academy. Although the army urgently needed officers, if he relied on non-commissioned schools for training, it would definitely not be able to relieve his near-thirst.

He did this just to take this opportunity to start the martial arts lecture hall first. The purpose is not the present, but the future. Through such an opportunity, he used the non-commissioned military lecture hall to quickly train grassroots command officers in the army.

In the coming chaotic times, soldiers are easy to make. If you break a city, you can even have thousands of young and strong men. But it is not possible to have soldiers but not generals.

This non-commissioned officer martial arts hall is a place where a large number of grassroots officers can be trained in the shortest time and the fastest time. Since ancient times, officers have grown up in the army and have learned the methods of fighting from the dead with one blow.

When the Sui Dynasty collapses and the army rises from all over the country, these officers will become the key to restricting the strength of the army. To get a group of qualified officers, it is nothing more than the ones who grew up in their own army and recruit and win over officers who capture other forces.

However, according to the old method, it is somewhat unreliable for the Pojun camp without any foundation. However, those who recruited and won over prisoners were no longer loyal and reliable than those who were not cultivated by themselves!

Loyalty and reliable, and capable, this is the ultimate goal of Chen Kefu's intention to set up a non-commissioned military lecture hall.

Mr. Li Benlei heard Chen Kefu talk for a long time, and after a long time, he said in confusion, "What kind of non-commissioned officer martial arts school do you run? Are you planning to train reserve non-commissioned officers in the army or to train imperial examinations? This ordinary soldier actually requires literacy and to learn so many courses. This is really just to train the squad leader in the army, not the lieutenant, the Lang general?"
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