Chapter 572 Chapter 534: Talking on paper

Du Wei is very clear that he is still far from being a qualified soldier.In the northwest, he really lived too leisurely. He never spent a day in the army, never really led soldiers, never really marched and fought.Even in the two actual battles he experienced: the defense of Gilliad City, he only had less than a thousand troops under him, which was just a small cavalry raid, and he didn't have much marching experience in it. Besides, the time he really commanded the army It is Erbaiwu Gaida, the apprentice of Erbai General. In the second Northwest Corps extermination battle, Du Wei even took the lead in coordinating the overall situation.

Therefore, when directly facing these young people drawn from military camps all over the mainland, Du Wei was very careful to use his strengths and avoid his weaknesses. He is named as the dean, but he doesn't take the real basic marching and fighting courses-Camisiro can't give all the courses to Du Wei to complete, after all, Du Wei is the Duke of Tulip!You can't expect to use a duke like a coolie. Therefore, regarding the military courses of all the troops of the Roland Empire, such as marching, combat, infantry and cavalry skills, camping, encountering the enemy, etc., these basic courses, the military command has transferred some experienced The old army officers came to teach.

What Du Wei has to do is to set up a special course separately.This course is called "deduction class" by Du Wei. He asked his own people to make several sets of huge sand tables. The first set was his own Gilliad City. He made a scaled-down model completely according to the terrain around Gilliat City, and then moved it to the classroom. More than a hundred students gave a complete account of the details of the defense of Gilliat City. However, Du Wei only explained the comparison of the strength of the two sides, as well as the city's defense force, the number of prairie cavalry under the city, the location, distribution, and morale of the camp, etc...

However, Du Wei just didn't talk about how the fighting process was completed! "Everyone can use their brains and imagine, if you were the commander, how would you complete this war! Everyone has to think about it! Count all the resources you have, and then make a deduction!" Even Du Wei did not restrict these officers to only play the role of the imperial army during the deduction!He even specially selected half of them to pretend to be the commander-in-chief of the prairie cavalry to think! In the classroom, the officers' interest suddenly increased! After all, in times of peace, most of these officers had never experienced real wars. They were only trained and performed in the local army... none of them had any experience in real wars.And this way of "simulation" to enjoy the fun, everyone is still very interested.

As a result, one hundred and eight officers, each in groups of two, each played the role of the Tulip family army and the grassland army on both sides of the battle to defend Gilliad City.Everyone has one day to be familiar with and understand all the materials and the terrain on the sand table.Then made a deduction... The process is wonderful! In fact, in the defense of Gilliat City that Du Wei experienced at the beginning, it was really a fluke that he was able to win!From the comparison of military strength and the combat effectiveness of both sides, there is no doubt that the Tulip family is absolutely inferior!

The only winning factor is that he has a Decepticon team beyond this era!That was also the first time a Decepticon team appeared on the mainland, and it was also the first time the "air force" appeared on the mainland! The world's first "air and ground coordinated combat"! !And also used the hot weapon of "gunpowder"! In this deduction, Du Wei deliberately did not assume this condition in the beginning.In other words, the officer who plays the role of the commander-in-chief of the Tulip family must complete it without air power and without gunpowder... As a result, the deduction process is full of strange things!

According to the comparison of the military strength of the two sides, as well as the food, supplies, morale, etc., etc. factors have been fully considered.These officers came up with all kinds of strange ways of fighting.For example, some officers turned the defense of Gilliat into a protracted battle to defend the city wall.Almost all the soldiers in the city were used on the city wall to rely on the city wall and consume troops from the opponent. In the end, the slaves in the city were also organized into the city to resist, relying on the results of several officers to make arbitrations and calculate the loss ratio, etc., and came to a conclusion: Gilliat City must not be defended!The opponent has 20,000 troops, but the Tulip family has less than 1,000 people in the city!And most of the slaves don't have any combat experience at all!It is difficult for a slave who takes up arms to pose much threat to the elite soldiers of the grassland.

Some officers simply put forward the idea: since the prairie people are a surprise attack, they must not be able to spend it for a long time, they can only spend time with them! It even finally developed: abandon the city wall, use the complex terrain in Gilliat City, and fight street battles with the opponent!During the street fighting, the cavalry of the prairie people lost their wide terrain and could not launch a group charge advantage, while the soldiers of the Tulip family could rely on the houses, streets, buildings, etc. in the city to resist and harass. Other officers made full use of the hundreds of cavalry reinforcements led by Du Wei outside the city!Some officers even came up with all kinds of weird cavalry harassment tactics!Divide hundreds of cavalry outside the city into many small groups, and harass the prairie people below the city!The meaning of this claim is very clear: anyway, our cavalry only has a few hundred people, and a few hundred people charge against 20,000 people will not have any effect at all.Then simply spread out, use harassment tactics, and use the mobility of cavalry to harass the grassland people, such as pretending to attack day and night to make the enemy tired, poisoning the water source, sneak attacking the opponent's scouts, etc...

But there are also opposing parties! Someone immediately and unceremoniously pointed out the error of this method!Because if it is more mobile than the cavalry, the cavalry of the prairie people is stronger than the imperial army in this respect!Disperse hundreds of cavalry to play harassment tactics?The cavalry of the prairie people can also easily disperse into several groups, and then wipe out these harassing squads one by one! Because everyone believes that the cavalry of the prairie people is more mobile than the cavalry of the empire! There are also people who fantasize about "cutting off food" - Du Wei couldn't help laughing when this approach was brought up.

Obviously, these officers have a good background. They have read a lot of military books and combat regulations of this era, and they also have enough imagination, but the biggest flaw is...not pragmatic!In other words, no actual combat experience! Du Wei immediately pointed out that it is impossible to cut off food!Because the 20,000 cavalry of the prairie people have no so-called "grain road" at all! They don't have food teams!When the grassland people's army was fighting, they always carried about fifteen days' rations with them!The only encumbrance is the small amount of fodder they carry, which is almost the only encumbrance of the grassland army (because war horses cannot only eat grass in the wild, war horses must eat hay, otherwise they will quickly lose their combat effectiveness).The fighting methods of the prairie people have always been very barbaric: carry a small amount of rations for soldiers, a small amount of hay, and maintain the force of the army's assault maneuvers. When supplies are needed, they simply "supply on the spot". ! !

Of course, if the army of the prairie people goes out on a large scale, there will be no "food road". They are used to driving a large herd of cattle and sheep directly behind the army!This is the baggage they carry! The deduction went on for three days, and as a result, almost all the officers who played the role of the Tulip family completely lost to the side who played the prairie people during the deduction.Among them, being able to keep one's side alive for more than ten days in the deduction battle is already considered the best. In the first round, the one with the best score was Yalor Knight! Although he is also a low-level officer, he is different from those paper-visiting classmates after all. He has actual combat experience, and he has personally experienced the Gilliad City.And, he's not lacking in courage and imagination! When playing the role of the commander of the Tulip family army, he played a lot of tricks.He didn't send the slave formation up the city wall, but symbolically let the army in his hand resist on the city wall for three days, then withdrew all the troops back to the city and gave up the city wall to the other party! He cleverly arranged a street battle and a war of attrition, using all the buildings and facilities in the city, and the troops he deployed were very reasonable, almost consuming the opponent's troops layer by layer, allowing the opponent to advance faster and faster. slow!And he used most of the slave formations in the street fighting in the city!His reason is very good: if you go to the frontal defense of the city wall, a slave with a weapon will definitely not be able to beat the enemy's elite soldiers! But if it is street fighting, slaves will have the advantage of being familiar with the terrain!This advantage can at least close some of the gap in combat power between the two sides!Although this advantage is very small - but in battle, as the commander of the disadvantaged side, he must make full use of all the advantages he has! Moreover, he did not blindly let the hundreds of cavalry reinforcements outside the city carry out simple harassment.Instead, concentrate their forces to launch feint attacks on the prairie people one after another!Every time he doesn't get entangled with the opponent, he will use the courage of a strong man to cut his wrists every time, and leave a group of people to cut off, so that most of the cavalry quickly leave the battlefield-this method makes his cavalry less and less, but it successfully delays the battle. The opponent's time! "The enemy has occupied the city wall and needs to send troops to guard it! During the street fighting, they have occupied the streets and important buildings one by one, and they also need to send people to guard them!! In this way, the further they advance, the less mobile forces they have! I They will not stick to every place, but deliberately relax a few places to let the opponent occupy, but it can achieve the effect of dispersing the strength of the opponent!" Yalor said so in the final summary-although he also failed in the end.However, he successfully dragged the prairie man for eighteen days!This is the best result in this deduction! Of course, in Du Wei's view, under normal circumstances, if the defenders can last for eighteen days, it can almost be regarded as a success - because the prairie people are assaulting!In eighteen days, it was enough for the imperial army in the rear to mobilize a large number of reinforcements. However, during the defense of Gilliad, the Northwest Legion besieged Loulan City, making it impossible for Du Wei to mobilize all his troops to aid Gilliad City!So Du Wei still judged Yalor as a failure! The same group of officers who confronted Yalore suffered a lot from Yalore during the deduction, but in the end, the captain appointed by Du Wei finally got the approval of many team members. Worth mentioning: Gabriel also had good grades.As a member of a martial arts family, he has received a good education since he was a child, and... he even served as an apprentice to that old fox in Lan Hai for a while! What made Du Wei's eyes brighten was that Gabriel even made full use of the climate factor in the deduction! He also cleverly used a condition: night! ! After all, this era is not the era of advanced science and technology in Du Wei's previous life. The production level and people's living conditions in this era are not good. From the perspective of human physique, most people can only eat enough, but from the perspective of nutrition In terms of food intake, most people are extremely unscientific in nutrition—after all, the standard of living is like this, and it is good to be full! But this caused a subtle factor: due to malnutrition, most people in this era have night blindness!In other words, at night, more than half of the soldiers will be invisible! ! Gabriel made full use of this condition and succeeded in delaying it for a few more days. Generally speaking, the officers and students are full of interest in this kind of deduction, and they are very excited about this kind of addictive command and combat.