Chapter 28 Change
On the tree-lined avenue, Yu Wenwen looked at the various teaching facilities on the roadside playground, and looked at his own efforts, and his heart was full of expectations.
A new round of war chess has begun. Yuwen Wen has added "new soldiers" - the new army. How will students use this kind of chess piece to win? Yuwen Wen is not in a hurry to know.
He just wanted to see the military academies he created, the classrooms and playgrounds, the students who were undergoing physical training, feel the vigorous spirit and imagine a bright future.
What is the future?
There are two types of troops in the Zhou army under the dual military system. One is the army whose source of troops is recruiting soldiers (domestic soldiers), and the other is the army whose source of troops is professional soldiers (recruiting soldiers).
The government soldiers are responsible for defending the country and are considered public security forces, and professional soldiers are responsible for large-scale foreign operations, and are considered field forces.
This is a long-term military strategic plan formulated by Yuwen Wen after considering reality. We must slowly implement military system reforms and ensure that the court has enough troops to eliminate border troubles and expand territory without overdrawing national strength.
Buy a broader space for development for the Central Plains.
Although a country is big, it will perish if it is wary, and forget about war will become dangerous. Frequent large-scale foreign wars will inevitably lead to domestic public grievances. However, if swords and guns are put into the warehouse, and horses are put into the south mountain, national security will not be guaranteed, and it will also be over.
How to have both fish and bear's paws is something that Yuwen Wen has been thinking about. "Since ancient times", the Central Plains have had too many regrets on the issue of territory. He wants to make up for these regrets, rather than having a daily life of drunkenness and dreams and opening a feast for the sea and sky.
However, large-scale foreign wars that ignore reality and do not care about the people's strength can easily repeat the mistakes of Emperor Yang of Sui. Yuwen Wen always reminds himself that he must take it as a warning.
Therefore, he made bold plans, implemented them carefully, and implemented military system changes in light of actual conditions to ensure that his plan was not a silly scene.
The military academy is a "factory" that Yu Wen Wen realized his dream. The military chess deduction accompanied by it is a "stone from other mountains" used to "grabbing jade".
Wargame deduction is a product that will inevitably appear after the development of military science to a certain extent, but in this era, it is simply unrealistic to make wargame deduction have the power to "destroy and destroy".
The economic foundation determines the superstructure. Yuwen Wen felt that with the low technology, productivity, and weak economic foundation of this era, it was impossible to have a constitutional monarchy politically and a general staff system militarily.
Now, we will build a "General Staff" and the effect will not be much better.
The General Staff plans and decisions for war, replaces personal wisdom with collective wisdom, prepares war before the war, conducts strategic command of war during wartime, and is responsible for formulating military affairs plans and regulations and organizing war preparations on weekdays. It is indeed a powerful weapon for war.
According to the popular routine, when time travelers change the "ancient" military system, military academy and staff are the inevitable option. Then, in just a few years, their military power has undergone a complete transformation.
Under the command of the General Staff, a million new troops, with military academy graduates as the backbone, attacked everywhere, swept across the Eurasian continent and established the Eurasian Empire.
This dream is intoxicating. Yuwen Wen has done it before, but dreams are always dreams and will always wake up.
The Mongolian cavalry swept across the Eurasian continent without the General Staff and artillery.
Thinking of this, Yuwen Wen stopped and sat down on the bench on the side of the road. The guards accompanied him were waiting, not daring to disturb him.
Benches are high-footed seats set in public places and have been widely promoted in military academies. Just like Hushu (Maza), it brings convenience to soldiers (military academies students) while not causing too much "shock" from public opinion.
In this era, sitting down in public is extremely rude, but it is an exception in the army. It is of course more convenient for generals wearing armor to sit on a Hu bed when discussing matters.
Yuwen Wen sat on the bench, leaning against the backrest, looking at the tree canopy above his head, thinking about his grand plan.
The emperor, the strong soldiers and horses, did it, so he never forgot to firmly grasp the military power.
But as the king of a country, he was busy with all kinds of things and could not seize military power at all costs. Just as he had to rely on the civil servant group to help him govern the country, he had to rely on the military officer group to assist him in managing the army.
In order to prevent rebellion and to prevent mutiny, Yuwen Wen has already arranged the checks and balances that should be used. At present, at least the system has blocked the rebellion of the main official army such as the "Anshi Rebellion".
But if he wants to implement a dual military system, he cannot be content with the status quo. Therefore, in addition to the current military command and management system, a new small system has been set up as a seed to prepare for future military system changes.
This small system is the new army that is popular, including a series of supporting systems, and military academy is one of them.
The key to the new army is the word "new". The difference between Yuwen Wen's new army and the existing official army is that many things are new.
Military organization, military posts, and uniforms (army uniforms), are all superficial, and it is boring to make a fuss about it. The "new" of the new army is not just "new".
Yuwen Wen would not name the new army "The Royal Universe Army of the Great Zhou Empire" for the sake of his good reputation, and then he organized the divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, companies, platoons, and other popular divisions, brigades, regiments, and military ranks.
He formed a new army to serve the real interests and needed a handy tool, not a beautiful vase.
Since he has tried his best to train the new army, the new army will of course be different from the existing army. Yuwen Wen hopes that his new army will be completely different from the "old-style army".
What's the difference?
Organizational discipline, combat core, and combat methods.
Strict organization and strict discipline are the first characteristics of the new army. When the commander puts the new army on the battlefield, he can clearly know the actual number of troops and actual combat capabilities of the army.
Knowing that the new army can fight tough battles, they will not escape; knowing that the new army's orders are prohibited, they will not attack without permission without obtaining the order, nor will they see that the situation of the war is not good, and they will leave the central army and turn around and run away.
The four simple words of organization, discipline, and simple are really difficult for the army, but this is the characteristic of the new army.
The core of the combat effectiveness of the new army is the hot weapon - artillery, and the tactics of the new army are all revolving around artillery (field artillery).
The most important point is that in the new army, generals of all levels will not have private soldiers accompanying each other, but will be replaced by guards and orderly soldiers. The members and generals only have superiors and subordinates, and no personal dependence.
If someone else made such a request for the establishment of an army, it would inevitably be a laughing joke, because in this era, the combat effectiveness of an army actually comes from the combat effectiveness of the main general's troops. Ordinary soldiers are just "soldier A and soldier B" to make up for the number.
If a general does not have a private army as a helper, he will not even be able to lead the soldiers well, and various small groups of soldiers, soldiers, and soldiers can make the lonely superiors dying.
Generals rely on troops to fight, and in the Ming Dynasty, they rely on servants. No matter what the name is, in "ancient times", if generals did not have their own personal armed forces as assistants, they would not be able to lead troops at all, let alone win battles.
But Yuwen Wen had the confidence to make such a request, because his Hulin Army was an army with generals at all levels without private soldiers.
The brilliant achievements of the Hulin Army over the past ten years have proved that an army with complete organizational structure and strict discipline does not need to rely on private soldiers of generals of all sizes, and can also fight tough battles and win battles.
Therefore, Yuwen Wen's new army was actually expanded with the Hulin Army as a "model". There are ready-made "homework" to copy and ready-made instructors to use, and the army is built very quickly.
But the price is not lacking, that is "expensive".
Good treatment, diet, training, equipment, all cost a lot of money and food. The price of forming a new army made Yuwen Wen, who was the emperor, feels short of money.
It is precisely because of financial issues that the number of new troops in the first stage was only three.
The emerging military academies require enough time to train qualified middle and lower-level officers for the new army. After graduation, these military academies still have to go through training to combine theory and practice.
Just like learning to swim, if you only practice movements on land, no matter how beautiful the movements are, no matter how good theories are, it will be useless if you don’t go into the water. If you fall into the water, you will end up struggling for a moment and drowning for the end.
Thinking of this, Yuwen Wen felt that the road ahead was still long, and it would not take him overnight to realize his ambitions.
But so what?
I'm still very young!
Military system changes will not work for ten years, but it will be done for twenty years, right?
Chapter completed!