Law of the Devil Chapter 534: [Talking on paper]
Chapter 534 [Talking on the Paper]
Du Wei is clear that he is still far from being a qualified soldier. In the northwest, he really lived too leisurely. He didn't stay in the army for a day, he didn't really lead soldiers, he didn't really march to fight. Even if he had experienced two actual battles: the defense of the city of Giliat, he only had less than a thousand troops, which was a small cavalry raid, and there was not much marching experience in it. Moreover, the one who actually commanded the army It was a two hundred and fifty-two Gaida, an apprentice of the two hundred and fifty generals.
During the second Northwest Army annihilation battle, Du Wei was sitting in overall planning.
So, when confronted directly with these young people drawn from military camps across the mainland, Du Wei was careful to avoid weaknesses.
He is a dean, but he does n’t take the course of the real basic march. Camisiro cannot give all courses to Du Wei, after all, Du Wei is the Duke of Tulips! You can't expect to use a duke as a coolie.
So, all the military courses of the Roland Empire ’s army, such as marching, combat, infantry cavalry operations, camps, encounters, etc. These basic courses have been transferred to the military command Experienced veteran officers to teach.
What Du Wei has to do is to offer a special course separately. This course was dubbed by Dewey as a "reduction class."
He asked his people to create several huge sandboxes. The first set was his own city of Giliat. He made a scaled-down model exactly according to the terrain around Gilliat, and then moved to the classroom. For more than one hundred students, they told the details of the original battlefield defense of Gilliat.
But Du Wei only explained the comparison of the military strength of the two sides, as well as the defense force of the city. The number of prairie cavalry below the city, the location, distribution of camps, and morale, etc ...
However, Du Wei doesn't talk about how the battle process is completed!
"Everyone can use their brains. Imagine if you were the commander in chief, how would you complete this war! Everyone must think about it! Count all the resources you have. Then make a deduction!"
Even, Du Wei does not restrict these officers to play only the role of the Imperial Army when deducing! He even specially selected half of them and asked them to think as the commander of the steppe cavalry!
In the classroom, the officers' interest suddenly increased!
After all, in peacetime, most of these officers did not experience real war, but were trained in the local army. Exercise ... no real war, no experience. And this way, using "simulation" to have fun, everyone is still very interested.
As a result, there were 108 officers in groups of two. Each plays the tulip family army and the prairie army on both sides of the defense of Giliat City. Every day, everyone will be familiar with all the information and the terrain on the sand table. Then made a deduction ...
This process is wonderful!
In fact, Dewey was able to win in the battle for the defense of the city of Giliat. It ’s really a fluke! From the comparison of military strength and the combat effectiveness of the two sides, there is no doubt that the Tulip family is absolutely inferior!
The only winning factor is that he has a Decepticon team that surpasses this era! That was also the first Decepticon squadron to appear on the mainland, and it was also the first time for the "Air Force" to appear on the mainland!
The world's first "air and ground cooperative warfare"! !! And also used a "hot powder" hot weapon!
During this derivation, Du Wei deliberately did not assume this condition in the beginning. That is. The officer who plays the command of the Tulip family must be completed without air power and gunpowder ...
As a result, the process of pushing performances is strange!
According to the comparison of the military strengths of the two sides, as well as the grain, supplies, morale, etc., they are fully considered. These officers came up with strange ways to fight. For example, some officers beat the defense of the city of Giliat for a prolonged battle against the walls. Almost all the soldiers in the city were used on the wall to rely on the wall and the other side to consume troops.
Finally, the slaves in the city were also organized to fight against the city. Reliance on the results of arbitration and calculation of loss ratios by several officers. A conclusion was drawn: the city of Giliat could not be kept! The opponent has 20,000 troops, and there are less than a thousand people in the Tulip Family City! And most slaves. There is no combat experience at all! Picking up slaves with weapons is hardly a threat to the soldiers on the prairie.
Some officers simply put forward the idea: Since the prairie people are raids, they must not be able to consume them for a long time, they can only spend time with them!
In the end it even developed: abandon the walls, take advantage of the complex terrain in Gilliat City, and fight against each other! During street fighting, the cavalry of the prairie lost their wide terrain and could not carry out the advantage of the group charge, and 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 the Dewey outside the city! Some officers even come up with all kinds of strange cavalry harassment tactics! Divide hundreds of cavalry outside the city into many squads and harass the prairie people below the city! The meaning of this claim is very clear: anyway, our cavalry has only a few hundred people, and a few hundred people launch an assault on 20,000 people, and they have no effect at all. Then simply spread out, use harassment tactics, and use the cavalry's motive force to harass the prairie, such as pretending to attack on a day and night basis, exhausting the enemy, poisoning the water, attacking the scout of the other side, etc ...
There are opponents too!
Someone immediately pointed out the mistake of this method! Because if it is better than the cavalry, the prairie's iron rider is stronger than the imperial army in this respect! Dispersing hundreds of cavalry to play harassment tactics? The prairie cavalry can also easily disperse several teams, and then destroy each of these harassing squads!
Because everyone thinks that the grassland cavalry is more powerful than the Empire Cavalry!
Others have fantasised that Du Wei couldn't help but laugh when the practice of "breaking food" was introduced.
Obviously, these officers have a good foundation. They have read a lot of military books and operational regulations of this era, and they have enough imagination, but the biggest flaw is ... not pragmatic! In other words, no actual combat experience!
Du Wei immediately pointed out that the practice of cutting out food is simply impossible! Because the prairie people's 20,000 iron rides, there is no such thing as a "food road"!
They don't have a food delivery team! When the grassland people and the army were fighting, they carried rations with them for about fifteen days! The only nuisance is the small amount of forage they carry. This is almost the only heavy burden on the prairie army (because the war horse cannot only eat grass in the wild, the war horse must eat hay, otherwise it will lose its combat power very quickly). The prairie people's fighting methods have always been very brutal: carrying a small amount of soldiers' rations and a small amount of hay to maintain the power of the army's assault aircraft. When supplies are needed, they simply "supply in place", the so-called on-site supply. Just burn and plunder! !!
Of course, if the grassland people ’s army is on a large-scale expedition, there will be no “food path”. They are used to driving a large group of cattle and sheep directly behind the army! This is the weight they carry!
The deduction took place for three days, and almost all the officers who played the side of the Tulip family. In the deduction, they were completely lost to the party who played the prairie. Among them, being able to persevere for more than ten days in a deduction battle is already a leader.
In the first round, the best performer was the Yaroll Cavaliers!
Although he is also a junior officer, after all, he is not the same as those who are visiting doctors on paper. He has actual combat experience, and he has personally experienced the city of Giliat. Moreover, he also has courage and imagination!
When playing the commander of the tulip family army, he played a lot of tricks. He did not form a slave formation on the wall, but symbolically allowed the army in his hand to resist the wall for three days, then he completely withdrew the army to the city and gave the wall to the other party!
He cleverly arranged a street fight and attrition war, using all the buildings and facilities in the city. Moreover, the troops he arranged were very reasonable, almost exhausting the opponent ’s forces one by one, making the opponent ’s advancing speed slower and slower! And he used most of the slave formations in the street fighting in the city! His reasoning is good: if you go to the front of the city wall to defend, a slave with a weapon will definitely not defeat the enemy's elite soldier!
But if it is street fighting, the slave will have the advantage of being familiar with the terrain! This advantage can at least pull into some gaps in combat effectiveness between the two sides! Although this advantage is small, it is in combat. As commander of the disadvantaged side. You must make full use of all the favorable conditions you have!
Moreover, he did not blindly allow hundreds of cavalry reinforcements outside the city to conduct pure harassment. Instead, they concentrated their forces on the prairie people to attack one after another! Not tangling with each other every time. Each time he will use the courage of a strong man to break his wrist. After leaving a team to break off, this method of making most cavalry quickly leave the battlefield will make his cavalry less and less, but successfully delay the opponent's time!
"The enemy has occupied the city walls and needs to send troops to guard them! In street fighting, they have occupied streets and important buildings one by one. They also need to send guards! So the more they move forward, the more mobile troops they have in their hands. Less! I will not stand by every place, but will deliberately relax a few places for the opponent to occupy, but it can achieve the effect of dispersing the opponent's power! "
Yalor said so at the final conclusion, although he failed in the end. But he successfully dragged the prairie people for 18 days! This is the best result in this deduction!
Of course, from Du Wei's point of view, under normal circumstances, if the garrison can drag on for 18 days, then it can almost be considered a success because the prairie is an assault! Eighteen days later, enough imperial troops in the rear were mobilized to send a large number of reinforcements.
However, in that Giliat's defense battle, the Northwestern Army sieged Loulan City, making it impossible for Dewey to mobilize all his troops to aid Giliat! So Dewey still judged Yalor defeated!
The same group of officers who confronted Yalor suffered from Yalor's hardships in the deduction, but in the end, the captain appointed by Du Wei finally received the approval of many players.
It is worth mentioning that Gabri's results are also good. As a family of Wu Xun, he received a good education from an early age, and ... he also worked as an apprentice with the old fox in Blue Ocean for a while!
What makes Dewey's eyes bright is that Gabrielle is even making full use of the climate factor in his deduction!
He also cleverly used a condition: night! !!
After all, this era is not the advanced science and technology era of Dewey ’s past. The production level and living conditions of this era are not good enough. From the perspective of physical fitness, most people can only eat enough. But from the aspect of nutrient intake, most people are extremely unscientific in nutrition. After all, this is the standard of living. It is good to be full!
But this has 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! !!
Gabri made full use of this condition and succeeded in delaying for a few days.
In general, officers and trainees are full of interest in this kind of deduction, and they are very excited about this kind of command and control operation.